Radio Daze - Limbaugh, Beck use actors to call-in

Tablet Magazine ^ | 11 Feb 2011 | Liel Leibovitz

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Radio Daze - Limbaugh, Beck use actors to call-in"

Your title is misleading. In the article, the only thing it says in regards to Rush and Beck is that Clear Channel uses this service and that Rush and Beck are on Clear Channel. Now, there may be an inference there, but the article does not come out and say that Rush and Beck use actors to call into their shows and there is absolutely no proof that they do, other than guilty by association.

[re_nortex]

I’m with you... I was just pointing out the actual web page that may be the source of the controversy.

Thanks much. Readers of this thread might enjoy seeing and hearing Rush Limbaugh as he was in the early 70's. Here he is as Jeff Christie at WIXZ in McKeesport, PA:

And this KQV aircheck reveals that his distinctive style of today was even then before formed back in the early 1970's. Given the tight constraints imposed upon top 40 jocks, Limbaugh (Christie) was able to bend the format, allowing his personality to shine through.

[Sir_Ed]

He looks like Dwight Schrute!

Ed

[adorno]

They want to believe so BADLY that people don’t really believe in conservative values. A person would have to be a paid actor to actually believe that stuff, right?!

Well, aren't you being paid to post your totally unbelievable "right-wing nut job" comments in here? Doesn't Mr Robinson pay each and every one of us $10 for each post in which we sound very clueless about democrats and Obama and all things political? Same with Rush.

The people over at HuffPew and at DU and at MoveOn.org certainly do know what the truth is about everything and they wouldn't lie to us, would they? And their consciences wouldn't allow them to get paid for serving the public good.

[re_nortex]

Doesn't Mr. Robinson pay each and every one of us $10 for each post...

NOW YOU TELL ME!

I'm going to have to check my bank statements again. When I participate in the quarterly FReepathons, I always thought the money was going the other way. /S

[Billthedrill]

Doesn't Mr Robinson pay each and every one of us $10 for each post...

I got a baggie full of dead bugs one time.

[jimfree]

What did Rush say?

The actors are calling into or being called by shock jocks. Rush says that 20 years ago the FCC prohibited prank calls where the callee has not been informed in advance and consented. He gave examples of his prank calls from his early non-EIB days.

[adorno]

I'm going to have to check my bank statements again. When I participate in the quarterly FReepathons, I always thought the money was going the other way.

Sounds like you're doing it all wrong.

Instead of sending FR money, you're supposed to bill them for your services. /s

[momtothree]

Dang, ten dollars?! By now, we would be pretty wealthy, huh? I agree that the liberals know the truth, they are just very comfortable with lying. IMHO.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

So he didn’t say that he had actors posing as callers or knew that his syndicate was employing them. There would be enormous temptation for the suits to hire actors to ask provocative questions, especially El Rushbo knew they were coming and could swat them out of the ballpark.

[Cacique]

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