Just cogitate on that for a few seconds.
It didn't hit me the first read, but eewwww...
Posted on 07/26/2008 4:24:46 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Since Mr. Limbaugh first flexed his tonsils two decades ago, Democrats have publicly worried about their lack of an answer to him and his imitators, who have proven so adept at motivating conservative Republicans to go to the polls, especially for President Bush.
Now it is Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, who has a harmonious chorus of broadcast supporters addressing a vital part of his coalition, feeding and reflecting the excitement blacks have for his candidacy in general. Mr. Obama is getting support from white liberal talk radio hosts as well, but the backing he is getting from black radio hosts could be especially helpful to his campaign’s efforts to increase black turnout and raise historically low voter registration enough to change the math of presidential elections in battlegrounds and traditionally Republican states like this one.
“Urban stations can be in ’08 what Rush Limbaugh delivered for conservatives a generation ago,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has a two-year-old radio program that is now syndicated on stations throughout the country, including in states like Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina.
Mr. Limbaugh and other conservative hosts generally support Mr. McCain, though perhaps with less enthusiasm than they displayed for the man he hopes to replace.
When it comes to criticism from black radio hosts like Mr. Ballentine, Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said, “John McCain believes every person is entitled to their opinion, no matter how outrageous.”
“But John McCain is an inclusive candidate,” Mr. Bounds added, “and he will be the president of all Americans.” (Mr. Ballentine was correct that Mr. McCain voted against the Martin Luther King holiday, in 1983 — but Mr. McCain later expressed regret and supported the holiday in his home state.)
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How much did these radio hosts have to pay the Al Qaeda Times to run this advertisement?
Just cogitate on that for a few seconds.
All the black talk show hosts combined don’t have even 1% of Limbaugh’s audience.
Just cogitate on that for a few seconds.
It didn't hit me the first read, but eewwww...
I believe Rush went national in 1988 so that hardly explains Nixon's two terms, not to mention Ronald Reagan.
New York Times profits = down over 80 percent
Rush Limbaugh profits = up, up and away!
Conclusion: NYT is bitter, bitter like sour grapes.
Looks good on ‘em.
The length of a generation in the "black community" is apparently much shorter than the length of normal generations.
With all due respect, you're being overly generous.
In other words they tout race based voting for Blacks. White radio hosts advocating something like that would be denounced.
NY Times is bitter and clinging to their sour grapes.
Personally, I’m cogitatin’ on some radio jock saying ‘Yo, dig me dawg? Word!” every 15 seconds.
Oh give me break. More PR
WhaAhmSayin.
Black radio will only succeed if it can bring in a white audience as well.
In the 1960s, a lot of walls between blacks and whites were broken down with music. Truly talented and innovative musicians crossed the color barrier, but much of that well has run dry. Today, “black” music is either entirely for black audiences, or it is a corporate sound from the music industry, stripped of innovation and treated as product.
And by becoming “wholly owned” by the political left, black America has had its agenda replaced with that of the left. Not only that, but even under the pretense that they are one in the same. So what is the black interest in $10/gal gasoline? Impoverishing blacks?
How about the left’s opposition to charter schooling and No Child Left Behind, that has shown to strongly improve the test scores of black children?
And the left’s embrace of abortion is downright murderous to blacks as a group. Were it not for abortion, would black Americans now be 15% of the population instead of 12%?
So what can black radio offer white people that will sell as well? Certainly not liberalism. Liberal radio doesn’t work because very few of any color want to listen to it. And it can’t exclusively be for a black audience, because that already exists where there is enough black audience to support it.
This leaves using either what worked, which means cultivating a new generation of talented and innovative musicians, or appealing to a conservative black audience. Selling black America conservatism as something that offers a lot more to them than liberalism.
Conservatives won’t offer black America the Moon and the stars, but they will give blacks jobs with real power, not just as figureheads, and real success, not just handouts and scraps. And conservatives won’t stand in their way if they want to reach the Moon and the stars themselves.
I'd imagine that Soros left "a little something" under Pinchy's pillow.
I must now ax you to stop making me laugh.
My ribs hurt.....:))
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