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Cancel Rush Limbaugh Or Lose Contract
Newsmax ^ | June 13,2007 | newsmax

Posted on 06/13/2007 12:11:13 PM PDT by OPS4

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:26 p.m. EDT Cancel Rush Limbaugh Or Lose Contract

The government in Broward County, Fla., is seeking to cut ties with a local radio station – because it also broadcasts Rush Limbaugh’s show.

Station WIOD AM-610 has been the official channel for emergency information from the county government for the past year. But the County Commission, made up of all Democrats, refused to renew the relationship on Tuesday.

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want the county to be linked to a station "that’s out of step with area politics,” the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

She cited talk shows hosted by conservatives Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD’s partnership with Fox News.

"They have every right to speak, but we don’t have to do business with them,” she said.

But Ken Charles, WIOD’s director of AM programming, told the Sun-Sentinel: "It’s a shame that people would let politics get in the way of saving lives in a hurricane.”

The county’s contract with the station was about to be rejected when commissioners decided to delay a final decision until next week.

© NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: browardcounty; censorship; democrats; dems; despotism; floriduh; freespeech; intimidation; liberals; limbaugh; rush; stalinisttactics; talkradio
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To: Doctor Raoul

And right here at the beginning of hurricane season, too.


101 posted on 06/13/2007 2:01:45 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: 3AngelaD; visualops; M. Thatcher
Can you belive the chutzpah? She's gonna hate it when Paul Shanklin gets a hold of this.

Let's see, what would some good songs be to rip off for her situation.....

102 posted on 06/13/2007 2:19:45 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: OPS4

Do we really need much more evidence that democrats are the new Stalinists?


103 posted on 06/13/2007 2:20:36 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: txflake

It’s a hard rain, gonna fall.


104 posted on 06/13/2007 2:24:34 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: 3AngelaD

Hey, that’s a good one.


105 posted on 06/13/2007 2:25:29 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: 3AngelaD

Or maybe ‘raindrops keep fallin on my head’.


106 posted on 06/13/2007 2:26:13 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: txflake

But that doesn’t mean WOID will soon be turnin’ RED.
Randy Rhodes is not for me.
etc etc


107 posted on 06/13/2007 2:27:48 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: ontap
What purpose does PBS serve that makes it necessary for the taxpayer to support it?

None whatsoever--unless you happen to be a socialist, and like having the government fund your propaganda.

108 posted on 06/13/2007 2:37:31 PM PDT by sourcery (Double Feature: "The Amnestyville Horror" and "Kill the Bill, Vol. 2")
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To: OPS4
Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want the county to be linked to a station "that’s out of step with area politics,”

Not according to the ratings.

Perhaps it's Ritter who is just plain lying.

109 posted on 06/13/2007 2:40:20 PM PDT by airborne (Airborne - Ranger - Vietnam veteran! Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: OPS4

these folks need to be re-educated....


110 posted on 06/13/2007 2:42:00 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: kitchen
Umm, shouldn't that be a jackass on a blue flag and armband - to make your point?

Oooo. My bad! I didn't see the elephant until too late.

These days, though, there's little difference.

111 posted on 06/13/2007 2:48:13 PM PDT by Spirochete
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To: theDentist
Thanks for the address. I sent this...

Ms. Ritter,

Would it not be advantageous to the your public at large that emergency broadcasts be aired to the largest possible audience? If political sensibilities are to be weighed in giving particular stations the responsibility of broadcasting emergency alerts and information, why not also contract with a local liberal station(s) or Air America (if their still around)? That way, you fulfill your duty of putting the citizen’s safety and well-being first and fulfill your personal political agenda of furthering your ideals. Look at it this way: 70% coverage with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the remaining 30% spread around the other station(s). With the added benefit of not being accused of censorship. Of course, to cancel contract with the station in question only proves Rush right when he avers that in the marketplace of ideas, no one is buying what you are selling.

On a final note, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela canceled now and forever the government contract (license) with an unabashed oppositional television station. With a little more power, you could the same. Isn’t it just a pity that you and yours have only a fraction of the power he does? I imagine you drooling at the thought, for after-all, your actions are but a paler shade...

...of green.

Sincerely,

112 posted on 06/13/2007 2:53:23 PM PDT by driveserve
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To: driveserve

Yeah, but now the typos make me look like an idiot...


113 posted on 06/13/2007 2:54:53 PM PDT by driveserve
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To: OPS4

Well. I guess our city will be next. We are 88% straight-ticket voter Democrats in this place. We have two talk-radio stations and Rush is King.


114 posted on 06/13/2007 2:55:47 PM PDT by FryingPan101 (Who will lead?)
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To: OPS4
"They have every right to speak, but we don’t have to do business with them,” she said.

It's one thing for station management to make such a statement. It is quite another for a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL to say the same.

115 posted on 06/13/2007 2:57:12 PM PDT by Lexinom (http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: visualops
They aren’t suppressing free speech

Sure they are. They're saying government information and money can't be broadcast on the largest station in the area because of it's political commentary.
116 posted on 06/13/2007 2:59:45 PM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: driveserve

Iwasn’t quite so polite...

It is beyond comprehension that you would put you Fascist agenda ahead of the safety of the citizens of Broward County.

Well, you have clearly showed your true colors, and now the whole world knows that Fascism is alive and well in Florida. May God help the people of Broward County.

Perhaps you could go a step further, so that when a real disaster occurs, you could demand proof of Democrat Party membership before rendering any assistance to anyone. Perhaps make all Republicans display a sign on their homes or wear a red cloth patch on their clothing?

That like-thinking, fellow National Socialist, Adolf Hitler, would have been proud of you.


117 posted on 06/13/2007 3:03:14 PM PDT by Wil H (So just who decided that the current global climate was optimum?)
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To: OPS4

Government censorship.

It’s comin’ folks......


118 posted on 06/13/2007 3:12:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup (.The Muzzies are hanging us with the rope we paid out to the leftists.)
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To: OPS4

>> “that’s out of step with area politics,”

Presumptuous and dictatorial.


119 posted on 06/13/2007 3:15:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: OPS4

btt


120 posted on 06/13/2007 3:39:49 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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