Posted on 01/12/2012 6:15:07 PM PST by VinL
For those outside the listening of the stations mentioned, the talk radio people on these stations have not been soft on Romney. They continually have said he was not their choice and have been boosting Bachman, Santorum and Perry. (They weren’t too big on Cain, especially when he came to Milwaukee and fluffed local issues with the city paper editorial board.)
So this major write up isn’t worth the time it took to cut and paste it.
“Rush is giving me ulcers and he certainly doesn’t need my $50a year.”
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I was also a Rush 24/7 subscriber, but then I discovered Dar.fm
I can program my computer to record any radio program
at any time, and it cost me nothing.
I am listening to today’s Rush as I type this.
endoftheamericandream.com. Must be an illegal alien website.
This is so stupid, to be laughable.
I just have to bump this
Wow, I thought it was just me. If fact, the Mrs. and I had quite a disagreement about Rush earlier today.
I have listened to Rush since the late 80's when he was a local guy on KFBK in Sacramento. He has picked me up many a time when I was ready to throw in the towel (politically speaking). But about two or three weeks ago I found myself starting to yell at the radio more and more as I noticed Rush soft-pedaling Romney and his moderate history.
Rush has made many parodies about moderates (my favorite being the guy getting in the elevator who can't decide which floor he wants and asks, "Where is everyone else getting off?").
Now, bit by bit (no pun) I'm somehow supposed to give up my conservative roots and "accept" Romney. Rush doesn't quite say Romney is a conservative, but has really blasted Newt while going pretty damn easy on Romney. I maintain that if you listed ALL of Romney's accomplishments while Governor of Massachusetts and said he had a "D" after his name, you would not be surprised. Yet now, Rush (and other "conservatives") are busy trying to convince us to ignore that and just beat Obama.
Well, I come full cycle and now take Rush at his word, "...follow the money!" Looks like Clear Channel/Bain Capital is where the money is.
The sway they have isn't editorial. It's wallet-sized. Think seriously now -- in your job, if you are an employee or an independent contractor for a company, would you openly and publicly criticize the very ethics of the company's owner and expect no retaliation? Really???
Hey -- THIS IS CAPITALISM AT WORK. You may not like it, but it is what it is.
I would have agreed heartily with you just one week ago, but Rush's inexplicable reluctance to call a spade a spade and act on it -- as in Thomas Sowell, who stated plainly and clearly that Newt Gingricy was obviously the superior choice over Romney -- and then for Rush to take actions such that for all intents and purposes help Romney at the expense of Newt, is starting to wake me up.
This is connecting dots that simply do not connect.
The most worrisome thing is that they do connect.
Don't let the screen door hit ya...
DUmmies are having a good chuckle at the naïveté and self-detruction going on here.
Bachman, Santorum and Perry are no threat to Mitt Romney - Newt Gingrich is the one who makes the establishment Republicans fill their panties.
Newt has said flat out he will change the way Washington, D.C., does busniness. Too many elitists see their bank accounts being impacted.
I cancelled Rush 24/7 and stopped listening in 2008. I am still ticked that he ignored Obama’s eligibility and Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. The man is a phony.
That Rush claims to love the Constitution and has an American Flag displayed in house (given to him by American pilots) makes my dinner churn. How many lives have been lost because a usurper, with insane foreign policies and rules of engagement, occupies the White House? What did we get from Rush? Silence, turned away calls from the screeners, and rejected e-mails.
Rush and others might be defenders of capitalism, but I don’t think that they are Mitt fans. Nor Newt fans at this point, but they all agree that they are going to back the nominee. I think it will be interesting to see who the spoiler will be. At this point nothing would surprise me. Maybe the “powers that be” will force Cain to run as an independent.
You rock AlexW!!!
Amen
Doing the political "math" is also good. Who do you think is going to be more inclined to grease the skids in terms of tax codes and financial regulation in favor of Bain -- Romney or Gingrich?
There's a reason Bain sends so much more money to liberal politicians than conservative ones.
You have no idea how the radio business works. Bain is not paying Rush - Rush’s profits are paying Bain and Clear Channel. Anyone investing in Clear Channel is investing in the chance to get a share of Clear Channel’s profits which are driven by their talk revenue, NOT the other way around.
You have it bass ackwards.
CEW, Newt is being regularly savaged for attacking “free enterprise”, “capitalism” and “open markets”— by a GOP/Dem Establishment that understands these terms solely as buzz words for political purposes. In practice, they practice socialism for the wealthy for the purpose of perpetuating their collective power.
Accordingly, to accuse Newt of undermining an “American system” that does not exist- is mere demagoguery and propaganda. That is the basis of my objection.
Well, I come full cycle and now take Rush at his word, "...follow the money!" Looks like Clear Channel/Bain Capital is where the money is.
WABC has never been owned by Clear Channel.
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