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Rhodes View of Why People Listen to Rush: 'He's on Every Radio Station - They Have No Choice'
Newsbusters ^ | April 6, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/06/2010 6:38:40 AM PDT by Rufus2007

It's a simple law of economics, right? If there's a demand for a certain service or good, that business has a strong shot at thriving. Since the now-defunct Air America shut down for the last time earlier this year, the casual observer must conclude that no one wanted to hear left-wing diatribes over the broadcast airwaves.

But that's not the case according to a panel on HLN's April 5 "The Joy Behar Show." This meeting of the minds, consisting of Behar, GQ's Ana Marie Cox and liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes, accused conservative talker Rush Limbaugh of playing victim in responding to an interview President Barack Obama conducted with CBS News in which the president mentioned Limbaugh and Glenn Beck by name - calling them "troublesome."

But why is this newsworthy, according to Rhodes? Limbaugh has huge audience where people are allegedly forced to listen to him because he is on "every station."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airamerica; joybehar; randirhodes; rushlimbaugh
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I guess people can't listen to NPR or Lady Gaga...
1 posted on 04/06/2010 6:38:41 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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Rhodes, who was once employed by Air America until a suspension resulted in her ultimate departure from the network, said that particular medium wasn't successful because it was run by the wrong kind of people.

Yeah--it was run by morons, for morons.

2 posted on 04/06/2010 6:41:30 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: Rufus2007

An insight into the leftist mind and how it fails to function. I believe Randi Rhodes actually believes the garbage she’s spewing. That’s scary.


3 posted on 04/06/2010 6:42:13 AM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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I guess people can't listen to NPR or Lady Gaga...

That'd be redundant

4 posted on 04/06/2010 6:42:17 AM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: Rufus2007

She got fired from Air America for going after candidate Hillary Clinton (so she says.) She is a complete nutjob, you have to hear her. I remember her comparing american troops to the Nazi SS and telling the enlisted to flee to Canada to avoid committing war crimes. She loves Obama so has backed off the the Nazi talk. She still has a program, although AA is dead.


5 posted on 04/06/2010 6:42:31 AM PDT by sickoflibs (( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=taxes delayed"))
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>snort<

I'm laughing so hard I just snorted coffee out my nose. What a waste of good coffee! Stupid effing liberal.

Obama,Democrats,liberals
6 posted on 04/06/2010 6:42:56 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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Randi Rhodes?

What bar did the drunk stumble out of this time?

7 posted on 04/06/2010 6:44:26 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Liberals just don’t get the concept of “FREE Market”.


8 posted on 04/06/2010 6:44:27 AM PDT by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
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Soooo these idiots can’t figure out how to walk away or turn off a radio?


9 posted on 04/06/2010 6:44:42 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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He’s on so many because people want to listen to him you dolt (not directed at you Rufus :)! Once again, a leftist that doesn’t understand supply, demand, and success that’s not artificially manufactured by the government.


10 posted on 04/06/2010 6:44:59 AM PDT by beaversmom
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37 stations in the Dayton, Ohio area. Two of them carry Rush. I guess the other 35 just don't count.
11 posted on 04/06/2010 6:45:20 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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Ever heard of the Internet?

Every Lib living in mom’s basement syphoning off her wifi has a radio show.

get a clue


12 posted on 04/06/2010 6:47:41 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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What an idiotic thing to say!
13 posted on 04/06/2010 6:48:50 AM PDT by Ditter
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he is on "every station."

We must try to be kinder to the ideologically challenged. Only someone who has no clue about free enterprise and competition for listeners among radio stations could imagine that Rush is on "every station".

When conservatives regain power, the kindest thing they could do would be to assign minders to these poor liberal naifs.
14 posted on 04/06/2010 6:49:23 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: PJ-Comix

Randi Rhodes Alert!


15 posted on 04/06/2010 6:51:25 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Comix and Henrickson, together again)
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Damn, how stupid. I guess it explains a lot about the liberal mindset.

“He’s popular because he’s on every radio station.”

No, dumbass, he’s on every radio station because he’s popular.

Conversely, “Air America wasn’t popular because it was on so few stations.”

No, dumbass, Air America was on few stations because it wasn’t popular.

I know where the mindset comes from. It’s the “distribution of assets” mindset, the top-down control mindset.
Radio time, like “wealth”, simply “exists” - it isn’t paid for or created by anyone, and it gets “distributed” by some entity that decides what is on and who gets what.


16 posted on 04/06/2010 6:51:41 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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We have two stations in my area that carry Rush: WPHT and WDEL. While I can get them at home, they’re AM stations and I’m finding that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to get a clear signal at work or in any of our vehicles. I’ve switched to streaming Rush over ShoutCast on my Palm Pre. I just have to remind myself to ignore the ads, since they’re from a thousand miles away.

So Ms. Fonda can kindly stuff it.


17 posted on 04/06/2010 6:52:53 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is is armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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That would be news to my local NPR and Sports Radio stations............


18 posted on 04/06/2010 6:53:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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uhh....Rush is on ONE radio station here in Pittsburgh, last time I checked. Can get him out of Wheeling or Youngstown if the wind is right. That leaves 26 other local stations to choose from, last time I checked...


19 posted on 04/06/2010 6:53:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I like Rush just fine but I seldom listen. I guess that means I should fill that time by listening to liberal vomit.


20 posted on 04/06/2010 6:55:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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