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Talk-Radio Owner Threatens to Fire Hosts Who Dispute Election Results
National Review ^ | January 11, 2021 | Zachary Evans

Posted on 01/11/2021 6:10:15 AM PST by Coronal

A media company that employs right wing talk-radio hosts, including Mark Levin, Dan Bongino, and Ben Shapiro, circulated a memo after the pro-Trump riots on Capitol Hill telling hosts to dial down allegations of election fraud, or else face termination.

Cumulus Media sent the internal memo to employees on Wednesday, according to Inside Music Media. The Atlanta-based company owns 416 radio stations throughout the country, many using a talk-radio format with local and national right-wing personalities.

“We need to help induce national calm NOW,” Cumulus’s executive vice president of content Brian Philips wrote in the memo. The company “will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable ‘paths.’”

Philips added, “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; cumulus; elonmusk; fascism; ivankatrump; ministryoftruth; redpill; twitter
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To: Coronal

Let the appeasements to the Left begin.

It won’t work. It never does. But the spineless cowards try it anyway.


41 posted on 01/11/2021 6:30:04 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: null and void

I know he’s not with Cumulus, but a thought occurred to me...

If the President wanted to get something out to us, there’s one way he could do it. If we’re gonna talk about radio, who has the biggest audience out there?

Rush Limbaugh.

Wouldn’t it be something if Rush (who I HOPE is going to be on the air today) opened with a ‘special guest’?


42 posted on 01/11/2021 6:30:12 AM PST by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: Carl Vehse

Crazy talk. The trustworthy fbi has already given them a pass on “Olympia Has Fallen” day. 🐂💩😤


43 posted on 01/11/2021 6:30:53 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from the inside? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed.)
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To: Coronal

Watch Rush gift EIB to Conservatives.


44 posted on 01/11/2021 6:31:00 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: Coronal

Lefties believe if you ignore the truth long enough it goes away. NYT believed this regarding the Holocaust. How did that turn out for everyone?


45 posted on 01/11/2021 6:31:28 AM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: DesertRhino

Shapiro is, in no particular order, a never-Trumper, a neo-Con and a kinetic war hawk that desires Israel to lead an all out destruction of the Middle East.

To quote a fascist, “by any means necessary”.


46 posted on 01/11/2021 6:31:35 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (If there be WAR in the offing, let it begin HERE. With ME.)
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To: billorites

Yes there is, a radio station Sales Manager.


47 posted on 01/11/2021 6:33:54 AM PST by Shady (WHO MURDERED ASHLI BABBITT? )
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To: AppyPappy

Yes, Beck was wise to separate himself, and if you remember they were on the verge of running him out of town too.

I expected this, and next the local stations that continue to carry conservative talk in large cities will be pressured to drop hosts or change formats. As crazy as it seems, we may find that only stations based outside of the US can speak freely.

Everyone should invest in a good quality AM/FM radio. We are facing a period where 75 million Americans are about to become suspected criminals.


48 posted on 01/11/2021 6:34:40 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: All
Biden will move the parameters of wrongdoing to declare severe penalties for:
<><> any and all criticisms of saintly Democrats;
<><> suggesting his "surviving" son Hunter is a wastrel;
<><> accusing Hunter of business deals that compromised US ntl security;
<><> suggesting there's a Biden Crime Family salivating in the wings for federal jobs and deals.
49 posted on 01/11/2021 6:36:05 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the oth er side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: rktman

Conservative voices will be moving to podcasts.

While an indexing system like Apple’s iTunes is nice, it’s not really necessary. As long as you have the link to the podcast, you can usually put it in directly in your podcast software and subscribe yourself to it.

And there are hundreds of good podcast players out there.


50 posted on 01/11/2021 6:37:08 AM PST by Brookhaven
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To: metmom
And it's not going to happen with the left hysterically pushing for a stalinesque crackdown on all dissent.

Speaking of which, didn't the old Soviet Union declare dissidents, i.e. anyone who disagreed with the regime were insane and had them forced into "mental institutions"?

OBVIOUSLY you'd have to be crazy to think Stalinist Communism is bad!

Isn't this exactly what this 25th Amendment push is all about? A page from the Stalinist playbook, by a woman who is quite, quite mad herself.

51 posted on 01/11/2021 6:37:20 AM PST by null and void (When the press doesn’t report something, it’s because the narrative would reflect badly on the Left)
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To: Coronal

The Nazis did something similar to the Jews. Threatened them but ultimately killed them


52 posted on 01/11/2021 6:37:32 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Fido969

People were concentrating on the actual votes and signatures - the states and courts did nothing about it, regardless of Sidney Powell or Lin Wood theories.

You could then also say the same things about President Trump - he said the Dominion machines were switching votes, also said they were using servers in foreign countries.


53 posted on 01/11/2021 6:37:51 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Coronal

Everyone be sure to get all rilled up now. Its not like this owner hasnt felt like this for the last 25 years.


54 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:15 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: Coronal
“We need to help induce national calm NOW,” Cumulus’s executive vice president of content Brian Philips wrote in the memo."

In other words, HEY AMERICA, SET DOWN, SHUT SHUT UP AND DO AS YOUR TOLD,!!!

55 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:21 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: G Larry

That was essentially exactly what I was going to post next.

GMTA


56 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:29 AM PST by null and void (When the press doesn’t report something, it’s because the narrative would reflect badly on the Left)
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To: Shady

57 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:33 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Lol. That’s concise. It should be his Twitter bio.


58 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:40 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Coronal

There was no riot, no looting, no burning, no riot.


59 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:40 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Coronal

Bongino tone it down? That would be something.


60 posted on 01/11/2021 6:38:49 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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