Posted on 02/21/2009 6:22:13 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
RUSH: Okay, I'm going to bow to pressure. I'm going to bow to popular demand and I'm going to share with you the op-ed today that I wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "Mr. President, Keep the Airwaves Free." It's an open letter to President Obama. (interruption) What are you mouthing at me? What are you...? (interruption) Well, it's tough to prove, Dawn, but it is strange. I submit -- by request, by the way. The Journal asked me for this, so I said, "Okay. I'll set something up and I'll get it to you on Wednesday night." Let's see. No, it's Tuesday night. "I'll have it for you by Tuesday night." I sent it out three times on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning, the guy I deal with, with the Journal who had asked me, sends me a note and says, "Are we still on? We really want to run this." I said, "I sent it to you three times." So I sent it from a different e-mail address. He got it, and said, "We're going to run it Friday," and I said, "Look, I don't want to tell you how to do your business, page and so forth, but you ought to run it Thursday so it's going to have some legs." "Well, we're not going to have time to edit it. It's going to run Friday. We got a lot of stuff planned for Thursday." I said, "Okay." So on Wednesday Obama sends a spokesman out to say he doesn't believe in the Fairness Doctrine, after of all this is in the pipeline. Well, we immediately began suspecting here, "Wait a second, now! This comes out of the blue. How does this come out of the blue?"
It could have been totally coincidence. We cannot prove it. I have not investigated whether there was a leak. It's just very coincidental, and when it happened, I sent my guy at the Journal a note. I said, "Don't fall for this. They're not going to call this the Fairness Doctrine. Obama didn't deny he wants to censor radio. He said he doesn't believe in the Fairness Doctrine."
Rush as always is brilliant.
I believe if Obama tries to squealch talk radio, there will be an outcry bigger than he could ever imagine.
They’re gonna have to try. I mean, look at the stimulus bill.
The more discoveries there were, the more people knew, the more support for it eroded.
It was like the amnesty bill a few years back.
The liberal media is always so trusting of big government, so happy to go along with the line and put a smiley face on whatever.
So if they want to do amnesty in the coming months, card check, or any of the other things we know they want to do, they’re first gonna have to shut off the lights.
That means not just radio, but also the internet.
And Fox news too. Any opposition will have to be silenced before the real stuff can begin.
Only a fool wants to mess with Rush.
Oh, the numbers may be going up at the moment, especially with the new administration. But the content?
I'm a throwback. I still have a Sony Walkman. It's great. AM radio takes little power, so a pair of batteries lasts me months. It's nice to have for walks to the store and around the neighborhood. And I can take a 10-15 minute walk and hear more commercial than content. The worst time to tune into WABC (and some other stations) is about 20 minutes after the hour. You'll get five minutes of commercials, the host will be on the air for less than two (and their might be an ad worked into his monologue) and then it's back to another five minunte commercial break.
Incredibly frustrating.
I was happy when B'OR was opposite Rush because in the latter half of the hour, I could flip stations during breaks and hear entire segments and flip back before the break was over.
I believe I read somewhere that it took Hitler 3 1/2 months to shut down all opposition to his propaganda. How much has Obama tried to eliminate in a month?
—————The funny thing is that you don’t need any legislation to kill talk radio. It’s dying on its own.—————————
You bought into the NYT’s propaganda article a few months back, didn’t you?
They only published that thing to scare you. That’s all. We’re not losing our media any time soon. It is still growing.
-————Oh, the numbers may be going up at the moment, especially with the new administration. But the content?—————
Content is king; content is what brings in new “numbers”.(customers)
successfully eliminated? None........ I don’t think?
I am telling you from experience. When your content reaches equal parts commercial and talk, you will start losing people. Maybe the big guys can hold on with their marketing, but some of the local shows are unlistenable, if only because there is nothing to listen to!
I shouldn't hear less than 2 minutes of content during a ten-minute walk. Maybe that was poor planning on the host's part in letting the soft break slide to close to the hard break, but it happens and it happens often.
If content is king, let me hear the frickin' "content". I know the ads pay the bills, but this isn't a newspaper or a magazine where you might expect half the thing to be ads, which can be perused at your leisure. For that matter, I'm getting sick of so-called "content" which is in reality another commerical for a data storage service or gold coin warehourse disguised as content -- the same content that the last host had, too.
—————When your content reaches equal parts commercial and talk, you will start losing people.———————
But you yourself even said that the customers are still rolling in.
And they are. They’ve been on the rise for 20 years.
-————Maybe the big guys can hold on with their marketing, but some of the local shows are unlistenable, if only because there is nothing to listen to!——————
You may have a point.
I’m sure the fact that talk radio has a monopoly on conservatism; there’s no place else you can get it delivered on a regular basis; might have something to do with it. The rest of the media is liberal. I mean, sure there’s fox. But not everybody has cable.
Also, I don’t know if I remember there being that little amount of content being discussed. Just curious, have you tried streaming a radio station from way outside of your area? It could just be the stations in your area.
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