Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Limbaugh,Hannity, Beck, Savage, Etc.)

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/bain-capital-owns-clear-channel-rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity ^ | 1-12-12 | Staff

[VinL]

Sounds interesting. Curious? How do you feel this controversy is breaking for Newt?

[hwkbeer]

“Hmmm...I’ve watched the decline of FR since about four years ago when it became a haven for birthers, conspiracy theorists and self appointed ideological “guardians” of conservatism. This post is just another nail in the coffin.”

Well PDS’r if you don't like Free Republic,Scoot your butt outta here.

[Finny]

As to whether it will hurt Rush or not, interesting theory.

I think there's a high liklihood that it will hurt Rush's profits. I've been a Rush fan since the early 1990s, and I am a FR junkie. I've seen folks get ticked at Rush before, but never even close to the magnitude that I've seen in the past few days. Anecdotal? Perhaps ... but more likely is that the FReeper Rush/former Rush fans here are matched by many non-FReeper Rush/former Rush fans.

We're not the only ones who feel betrayed.

[sgtyork]

Yeah. Becusae the DNC woulda never come up with that one /s
^^^^^^^

But now they will have adds with Newt’s face saying “even the evil Newt says...”

[meadsjn]

Romney left Bain in 1992.

Ahhh, you make joke!

Romney 2008 Top 20 contributors	Amount
Goldman Sachs	$367,200
Credit Suisse Group	$203,750
Morgan Stanley	$199,800
HIG Capital	$186,500
Barclays	$157,750
Kirkland & Ellis	$132,100
Bank of America	$126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers	$118,250
EMC Corp	$117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co	$112,250
The Villages	$97,500
Vivint Inc	$80,750
Marriott International	$79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell	$79,250
Bain Capital	$74,500
UBS AG	$73,750
Wells Fargo	$61,500
Blackstone Group	$59,800
Citigroup Inc	$57,050
Bain & Co	$52,500

Obama 2008 Top 20 contributor list	Amount
University of California	$1,648,685
Goldman Sachs	$1,013,091
Harvard University	$878,164
Microsoft Corp	$852,167
Google Inc	$814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co	$808,799
Citigroup Inc	$736,771
Time Warner	$624,618
Sidley Austin LLP	$600,298
Stanford University	$595,716
National Amusements Inc	$563,798
WilmerHale LLP	$550,668
Columbia University	$547,852
Skadden, Arps et al	$543,539
UBS AG	$532,674
IBM Corp	$532,372
General Electric	$529,855
US Government	$513,308
Morgan Stanley	$512,232
Latham & Watkins	$503,295

Romney 2012 Top 20 contributor list:	Amount
Goldman Sachs	$367,200
Credit Suisse Group	$203,750
Morgan Stanley	$199,800
HIG Capital	$186,500
Barclays	$157,750
Kirkland & Ellis	$132,100
Bank of America	$126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers	$118,250
EMC Corp	$117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co	$112,250
The Villages	$97,500
Vivint Inc	$80,750
Marriott International	$79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell	$79,250
Bain Capital	$74,500
UBS AG	$73,750
Wells Fargo	$61,500
Blackstone Group	$59,800
Citigroup Inc	$57,050
Bain & Co	$52,500

Obama 2012 Top 20 contributors list:	Amount
Microsoft Corp	$171,573
Comcast Corp	$113,800
University of California	$107,501
Harvard University	$99,975
Google Inc	$95,066
DLA Piper	$75,375
Skadden, Arps et al	$69,374
Chopper Trading	$64,815
Stanford University	$62,928
Time Warner	$62,600
Ballard, Spahr et al	$62,300
National Amusements Inc	$62,100
Arnold & Porter	$54,700
Goldman Sachs	$50,124
Columbia University	$49,347
Latham & Watkins	$49,082
Exelon Corp	$48,625
US Dept of State	$48,077
Mayer Brown LLP	$47,700
Sidley Austin LLP	$44,825

Check it out at opensecrets.org !

[moehoward]

"He brings in the revenue, so the whole idea that he is towing the corporate line does not line up with follow the money."

They'll tolerate that for only so long. If you think the suits wont step in after their corporate moniker is getting drug through the mud at the level Bain's is, you are kidding yourself.

[Parley Baer]

I have been listening to Rush since 1990. This is one of those rare times after listening to him today that a little red flag went up. As to Glenn Beck he has gone nuts. I can’t listen to him anymore. Levin and Hannity still seem on the up and up.

[terycarl]

And while I’m at it, I think that the time and resources of “conservatives” would be much better spent making videos that attack Obama rather than Romney-—and they’d have a much easier time.

AMEN..AMEN..AMEN.. I have been preaching that since these idiots started throwing rocks at each oyher....We are not the enemy...Obama is, wake up!!!!

[C. Edmund Wright]

You have absolutely no clue about where the leverage is in this situation, and I cannot convince you otherwise. Good evening.

[Antoninus]

If Romney is the Republican nominee, we deserve to lose.

[moehoward]

"The Stern issue is totally different."

How so? He is the reason his stations were successful, still they fired him. And it's not Mitts name that is of concern, it's Bains.

[SatinDoll]

LOLOLOLOL!!

[JohnG45]

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.

I agree 100%!!

And add that other phony Mark Levin as well. The self-described defender of the Constitution who has hid under his bed with respect to this issue. Some defender of the Constitution.

[Antoninus]

DUmmies are having a good chuckle at the naïveté and self-detruction going on here.

Working to defeat Mitt Romney is self-preservation, not self-destruction, jackwagon.

[wintertime]

And add that other phony Mark Levin as well. The self-described defender of the Constitution who has hid under his bed with respect to this issue. Some defender of the Constitution.

I agree. The "Constitutional Expert". A phony.

[Publius6961]

First thing that popped into my mind when I started to read this thread : Projection.
Second thing : George Soros, and his several hundred financially connected propaganda outlets, Media Matters and other extreme left groups.

Yes, I am presently wearing my tinfoil hat as I type this.

[Finny]

Um, hello?

These are the PRIMARIES. We all know that Obama is ultimately the bad guy. I know that every single one of the Republican candidates is against Obama and I even know WHAT they're going to criticize Obama for. BIG DEAL! It accomplishes ZERO in the primaries, and informs me and thee of NOTHING.

The primaries are when we have to pick the best guy to further the cause of conservatism. Romney IS A STATIST. Statism is the enemy of conservatism. If his Republican opponents in the primaries have to "go negative" to point that out, that's life in the big city. AND IT IS NECESSARY.

I want to see a lot of rocks thrown at Romney because he is as much "the enemy" as Obama and he needs to be taken down DURING THE PRIMARIES. Anytime after that will be too late.

[moehoward]

Which is only a problem if Newt is not the nominee.
Otherwise they have footage of McCain as well, and quote’s on the subject from just about every GOP candidate from 08. So in the end, it ain’t much of a magic bullet.

[Finny]

Working to defeat Mitt Romney is self-preservation, not self-destruction, jackwagon.

Well said!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Stern was employee and was paid way above what his show produced as I understand it.

Limbaugh is involved in the profit equation of his show as owner of his show.