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Millennials Cut the Cord on ESPN
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 21, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/21/2015 1:51:46 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Considering most of us are struggling to live independently, cable is the last thing on our minds.

90% of ESPN is trash anyway, unless it’s an actual sporting event. I can’t wait for a la carte programming.

The Left sowed the seeds of their own destruction.


41 posted on 10/21/2015 2:59:00 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Everyone needs a break occasionally to just mindlessly unwind and I get that. But there’s a billion ways to do it without making monthly contributions directly to the very people trying to destroy everything you hold dear.

People get completely spazzed and start going off about “Well you own a PC and Microsoft does X.

Sure. And did anyone ever die from a lack of television? It’s 100% optional. Life in 2015 without a computer is a much harder proposition.

No one HAS to be a jihadist. There’s a lot of ways to defund the left and stop their propaganda. Shop smarter. Don’t by products from companies that push leftism TO THE GREATEST EXTENT YOU CAN. Thats really all there is to it.

The market works when you use it to your advantage and cable/Dish is a real easy thing to replace in ones life.


42 posted on 10/21/2015 2:59:58 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
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To: Kaslin

ESPN? The same channel that awarded Bruce Jenner for his bravery?

Hope the financial failure of this network is epic.


43 posted on 10/21/2015 3:05:08 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Pretty much every corporation gives to libs. Make your own clothes? Soap? Farm all your own food? Run your car on used cooking oil that McDonalds throws out? Good for you if you can, most people can’t hack that.


44 posted on 10/21/2015 3:14:44 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: chasio649
Rush must think his audience is stupid....I did not need his explanation....95% know what the problem is....

Holey socks, Casio649. We are SO grateful that you hang with us poor dummies on FR. Are you sure you want to belong here? The rest of us apparently do not know the things you know. We have to struggle and struggle to know stuff and learn new stuff. Wouldn't you be better off spending your time on the mathematics or philosophy or theology websites? I feel so privileged that you would want to interpret our world for us. You ARE the Paige Dineen of Free Republic.
45 posted on 10/21/2015 3:14:45 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Kaslin

We cut the cable earlier this year. Initially we missed it, but it didn’t take long to find there were other options than the pap that satellite has to offer.


46 posted on 10/21/2015 3:18:05 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Kaslin
The problem is, the cable companies control the Internet.

I cut cable 2 years ago, but obviously I still need Internet. And Time Warner's internet service is far better than AT&T.

So, sooner or later the cable companies are going to jack up the price for internet access, and that money will probably trickle down to the hated cable channels.

47 posted on 10/21/2015 3:23:00 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: righttackle44

as an honest question...What year did you start listening to Rush?...be dead honest.


48 posted on 10/21/2015 3:25:32 PM PDT by chasio649 (The GOPe can never seem to remember who brought them to the dance)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Real World was basically the model for liberals to go where they went. Once they found an audience of SJW mentality types, they quickly brought out the hit list of leftist causes to ‘eddress and deal with’. The gay soon followed. The right wing type was always the arsehole and so it went.

Then came the Hiltons and the Kardashians. All throughout it they bade everything bad and wrong into cool and good. They marginalized all dissent. they injected politics and pushed every liberal ideal as the correct thing and used the age old idea of peer pressure because lets face it. High school never ends. Adults worried about class reunions proves that.

And of course, ESPN was part of that. It’s a closed system. Propagandize the audience in the ways you wish then to think and behave, sell them products with ads that make it cool, get the ad revenue to profit and take the rubes money to the bank.

Josef would be proud.


49 posted on 10/21/2015 3:27:18 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
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To: Impy

Sure. Just give your cash to those that push the agenda least. Why is that objectionable to you?

You need clothes and soap. You don’t need TV.


50 posted on 10/21/2015 3:29:10 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
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To: T-Bird45
The a la carte choice to spend that $6 for the sports coverage they desire

The unbundled cost would probably have to be closer to $12/month for ESPN to maintain current revenues. I think they are going to have to face declining revenues either way.

51 posted on 10/21/2015 3:29:25 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Liberals support high taxes on alcohol, tobacco and wealth. And all for the same reason.)
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To: righttackle44

I had a similar reaction as you to posters comment. So many cranky people on here ;)


52 posted on 10/21/2015 3:29:43 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: righttackle44

Thanks for your post


53 posted on 10/21/2015 3:29:52 PM PDT by chasio649 (The GOPe can never seem to remember who brought them to the dance)
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To: RabidBartender
Why don’t they just sell more advertisement time to DraftKings and FanDuel? Their commercials are NEVER on.

Bwaaahaaahaaaa

That and Flo from Progressive.

54 posted on 10/21/2015 3:32:02 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Liberals support high taxes on alcohol, tobacco and wealth. And all for the same reason.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Exactly. Everything they haven’t been able to defeat in an open frontal assault, they’ve infiltrated to destroy from within. They began with academia and the media, and have steadily infiltrated until now they’re destroying the formerly most conservative of institutions, such as the military and the Christian church (however, Jesus has said that a remnant will always exist, true Christianity-not churchianity-will never be destroyed). I believe they’re also in the process of using this tactic on the so-called “opposition party”. There will not be an influential institution remaining to speak for conservatism and to oppose political correctness as defined by the left, when they’re done. I wonder, once they’ve destroyed every vestige of a conservative voice in larger society, how they plan to deal with the system which actually is all the things the left pretends that conservatism and Biblical Christianity are-Islam? Islam is successfully using the same tactics against the west, including the leftist portion of it (though they make common cause with them now as it suits their interests), that the left used in the Sixties until they entrenched themselves, such as freedom of speech (which they’re now trying to suppress, now that they possess most of the megaphones), making themselves out to be oppressed victims while actually oppressing others etc.


55 posted on 10/21/2015 3:38:06 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mrsmel

Just look to History. They deal with their victories at the point of a gun bu killing the useful idiots. No exceptions.

History repeats. No exceptions.


56 posted on 10/21/2015 3:40:13 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
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To: Kaslin

57 posted on 10/21/2015 3:41:36 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Norm Lenhart

True. There are some prophecy teachers who have made good points about the possibility of the antichrist coming from Islam or an Islamic background. They haven’t claimed to know that this will be so, but they have made good arguments for the possibility. More and more I can see their points.


58 posted on 10/21/2015 3:45:11 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Shadow44
>> I can’t wait for a la carte programming <<

I went with out cable for a couple of years. The only reason I have basic cable now is because my operator offered a bundle WITH OUT ESPN. The cost of the bundle is actually a little less than when I just had internet.
Don't forget to boycott ESPN radio too.
59 posted on 10/21/2015 3:46:16 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kaslin
I am considering cutting cable and just keeping my internet service and maybe getting something like Amazon Fire. Does anyone use Amazon Fire? Are there better options?

Also, I have a Sony Blu-Ray player that has lots of streaming video icons on it such as Amazon Instant video, Netfix, Hulu Plus and others. I've never tried using them but I'm wondering what the quality of the stream would be on my large-screen TV. Has anyone used the streaming services and how is the quality?

60 posted on 10/21/2015 3:49:32 PM PDT by rabidralph
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