[PJ-Comix]

We already know that Mario Cuomo, Jim Hightower, Sam Donaldson, and Bill O'Reilly really suck as talk radio hosts.

[anniegetyourgun]

Conservatives love a good argument. Problem is, Leftists never bring one to the talk radio forum.

[CPT Clay]

When liberals try talk radio it becomes "Hate"!!!!!!!!

[garv]

If they think leftists hate Rush they should check out the threads on here anytime he criticizes Bush.

[concerned about politics]

Basic indisputable truth follows. Leftists don't like talk radio. They don't just dislike talk radio a little – they hate it. Left-wingers hate talk radio with a blue-steam, Grade A, unadulterated blinding passion. They know without a doubt that their loss of control in Washington in 1994 was due generally to talk radio and specifically to the influence of The Godfather, Rush Limbaugh.

You should have read the "hate Rush" posts from the BushBots. They just didn't get it. Rush is good. He's very good.
They're playing right into the liberal hands. Boycotts and everything. No kidding!

(Liberals are little people with a Napolian complex.)

[sheik yerbouty]

If the Jaxcobin left can't take a joke..FM!

[Freebird Forever]

One has to look no further then the statements these socialist perverts make about Dr. Laura.

[3AngelaD]

Instead the Leftists have NPR, and we're all paying for it. You would not believe what is said on the local Washington, D.C. NPR chat shows. The distance they manage to maintain from reality is shocking.

[r9etb]

Boortz is off-base with this.

The people who already listen to talk radio are already aware of and immune to the left's "hate" tactic which, despite its ineffectiveness, has been in wide use for decades now.

People who dislike talk radio -- and there are many such -- are also not greatly influenced when the Left affixes the "hate" label, primarily because it's now used so casually that they ignore it.

The only people for whom "hate" is effective are leftists or other disaffected folks, most of whom are not going to listen to -- much less be influenced by -- talk radio anyway.

With this column Boortz is demonstrating something that is damaging to conservatives and to talk radio: the declaration that the other side is "the enemy," whereby political differences are no longer something to be discussed and dismissed, but where instead "the left" is accused of a nefarious plot against talk radio.

In addition to being silly, this shifts the debate away from the real issues, where leftists invariably lose, to the leftists themselves. Ironically, Boortz has tilted the battle the left's favor, as their expertise in victimology allows them to apply the "hate" label.

When Boortz begins making these wild-eyed personal accusations, I begin to feel sorry for the poor schmuck who has to clean the spit off his microphone. That's the sort of thing the left can use to make the "hate" label stick.

[techcor]

"Fairness Doctrine."

I'm pretty sure they tried this when Rush started getting popular. It was the "Hush Rush" idea. I remember Katy Couric on the edge of her seat , desperately trying to convince someone that it was only "fair" to make radio station give liberals enough time to convince everyone not to be conservative. That only helped prove to me how biased the media was. I never trusted her (or the others) even a little bit after that.

[warchild9]

Radio is for thinking people; television is the natural environment of boobs, who always vote for liberals.

[glc1173@aol.com]

The problem the commies have with this campaign is that any controversial radio or TV show is already radioactive to potential advertisers - ever since the gays and lesbians destroyed Dr. Laura's TV show with threats of boycotts of advertisers.

Now, no issue-oriented show can get Fortune 500 sponsors. Rush has a huge audience - but crappy sponsors. Dr. Laura still has a huge radio audience - but her former Fortune 500 sponsors are all gone.

The Left is now a victim of its earlier success!

[billbears]

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[Maelstrom]

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[RooRoobird14]

There are organized campaigns to convince advertisers that they don't really want their advertisements running next to a hate-filled diatribe from some hate-filled talk show host on some hate radio station, do they now?

The problem for the lefties trying to kill advertising on talk radio: The typical "right wing hate radio" listener is better educated, has a better job and makes more money than the average citizen. The radio stations know this.

A KFYI advertising salesperson for for KFYI(Phoenix)told my husband about 3 years ago that the advertising dollars for Rush's show alone paid the station's bills. KFYI was also making good cash off advertising for the Dr. Laura show (no longer on the air). The rest of the advertising dollars were considered icing on the cake.

[finnman69]

There is an AOL chatroom for the fans of Rush limbaugh that follows the show each day. (Keyword: NEWSCHAT and then Rush Radio Fans) Let's just say each day there are fans and then the rabid leftists come in to disrupt the room because they DETEST Rush and other talk radio show like his. Of course the room is hosted and when liberals get off topic or out of line they get gagged. LOL. I would invite anyone with AOL to come enjoy the room.

[TexasRepublic]

Jim Hightower really is a puke, isn't he?

[GSWarrior]

I hate hate. /end sarcasm

[patriot_wes]

appropo quote....from Rush!

"Truth Refutes Liberalism Everytime!"

[friendly]

Several months ago I read a Democratic National Committee press release from Terry McAulifee about his plans for a broad-based attack on free speech in what he called the "Take Back the Airways" campaign. This attack was to be directed specifically at talk radio.

Do any posters track the Democrat websites? (I cannot tolerate to read them) What is the status of the campaign? I presume that they will become more aggressive as election day approaches.

[handk]

The entire socialist/commie mind set (the useful idiots that is), can be summed up in this line heard in a movie, spoken with great venom and hate:

"World peace mother f____r!!!"