In fact there is no evidence whatsoever here.
Admonishments to "follow the money" leads in Levin's case to a nine year "lifetime" contract and puts the lie to any suggestion that he is getting payola.
More Trump sleaze.
Posted on 04/15/2016 7:41:03 PM PDT by usafa92
(Reality Check 753) Reality Check has already shown how “Neutral” Conservative News Websites Breitbart and The Daily Wire are actually fronts for the Ted Cruz Campaign. In our article “The $25 Million Dollar Trump Take Down” we clearly show that the owners of those sites donated over $25 Million Dollars to the Cruz Campaign and then use their websites to promote him. But is Talk Radio also on the take? Reality Check dug into Cruz FEC Filings and discovered the Cruz PACs paid a Talk Radio Insider over $8 Million Dollars, and the endorsements of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others quickly came in.
The FCC regulates the nation’s TV and Radio Stations because the signals they use are owned by the public. This is why you cannot use certain words on the radio, stations must have licenses, keep a public records file and make it available, etc.
One FCC rule is 47 U.S. Code § 317 or the Payola Rule. Simply put, Radio/TV Stations and their employees are not allowed to take money to put content in their programming, mention items, talk about candidates, etc. unless that sponsorship is disclosed.
In other words, if a Talk Show host like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt or others was paid money by a campaign to talk glowingly, defend or endorse a candidate, and not disclose that they were paid on-air to the audience, or the radio stations they are broadcast on, they’d be in violation of the law. The station could lose it’s license and the host could be jailed and fined.
Politico published an article in December called, “Talk Radio Rallies Around Ted Cruz” highlighting Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Erick Erickson, amongst others as hosts defending Cruz and bashing Donald Trump (to Cruz’s benefit).
(Excerpt) Read more at republicbroadcasting.org ...
Hi Rush!!
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This may or may not be true, I have no idea, but I never did like Levin or Beck...and a few others....No surprises here.
And can’t forget Hugh Blewitt!
I bet that they purchased a million bucks worth of Levin’s dads coloring book. That will net them at least another month of Cruz goodwill.
Who/what is ‘Talk Radio Insider’?
Yup. You nailed it.
Rush is sloppin it from that same trough too
Glad this has been brought to light
Yep—follow the money. And this is different from Trumps PAC “donating” money to Fla AG Bondi to drop her investigation of Trump University—how?
S. K. B.
Wait he’s saying trumpbart is cheerleading for Cruz....wow...you can stop reading right there
“Cruz PACs Paid Talk Radio Insider $8 Million Dollars – Was Money Illegally Used To Buy Talk Host Endorsements?”
That bitioch from Breitbart, maybe. Ain’t she the one who accused Trump’s right hand man of brusin her and pullin her down?
Beck and Levin’s programs have become unlistenable due to the constant harrangues for Cruz and against Trump
we were wondering just why these programs are SO EXTREMELY, WILDLY propagandizing for their candidate
I had not considered that the old adage of Follow The Money might apply, I always assumed Beck and Levin were somehow above that level
In fact there is no evidence whatsoever here.
Admonishments to "follow the money" leads in Levin's case to a nine year "lifetime" contract and puts the lie to any suggestion that he is getting payola.
More Trump sleaze.
Ah the Six Degrees of Separation Theory.
Is this the Kevin Bacon version?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
“As in most cases in life, follow the money. There’s not a smoking gun here per se, but the trail of money follows the usual suspects.”
So there is nothing illegal going on here. It’s just a post inserting famous radio hosts names in an attempt to smear them. Ok.
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