Posted on 08/18/2007 4:40:57 PM PDT by wagglebee
 Rush Limbaugh |
He's been the target of aggressive prosecutors.
He's been targeted by Customs officials.
And now Rush Limbaugh, the king of radio talk-show hosts, is being targeted by activist Ralph Nader who is asking the Federal Communications Commission to investigate claims General Motors "payola" is influencing him to say nice things about the U.S. automaker.
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Wow! Ralph is still alive?
I heard Rush say he got General Motors as a new advertiser.
In fact, he rather tongue-in-cheek took credit for a recent good report on GM, hinting the uptick was due to the sponsorship of his radio show.
Which could be, frankly.
I mean, how damn small can Ralph Nader be? No wait...here’s a used up has-been whose claim to fame was his “expose” of America’s unsafe auto industry, a big fat lie but at the time I was a pretty liberal lass and I thought Ralph Nader was a hero.
Now he runs for office, supported by a bunch of elderly kooks still thinking they can change the world.
What, it’s against the law to say something good about General Motors now?
Let this used condom of a human being keep up this stupid talk. He’ll be laughed out of town.
Too bad Ralph Nader is such a rusty old geezer that he can’t do to Hillary what he did to Gore.
As if he'd take the pay cut...
I have a feeling that Gore is going to do to Hillary what Nader did to Gore.
Well, duh, Rush got GM as a new sponsor. Like all new sponsors (e.g., Snapple), he gives plugs their products.
What would it take for Ralph bad mouth Nader to say something nice about someone or something other than himself??
A reporter asked him about this in 1967 with, “You know, Mr. Nader, I just talked to your broker and he said that you bought shares in Ford.” Ralph Nader’s explanation was, “Those shares weren’t for me. Those were my mother’s shares.”
Who is Ralph Nader?
Nader Scams College Kids [student fees]
Thursday, March 13, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80925,00.html
Ralph Nader: Millionaire hypocrite? [personal wealth]
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/06/20/nader/index.html
The test would be to see if Ralph can buy some influence with Rush and get him to complain about the Corvair.
It’s called a commercial, Ralph. jeeze, what a maroon.
Cool if he does!
If Algore and sKerry had a bit of sense, they would realize the obvious and that is that the Clintonistas did everything possible to ensure that they lost to Bush.
Is Ralph Nader Muslim or his heritage?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader
Ralph Nader: The Unchallenged Hero of Muslims
By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | 3/26/2004
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={7F00D11E-A9F3-4836-86D9-5A5AD1D3250D}
It’s none of Ralph’s business who Rush has for a client. Ralphie may not have noticed, but Sean H., Glenn Beck and several other conservative talk show hosts are advertising General Motors products, too. Is Ralph going after Tiger Woods for talking about Buicks?
We’re thinking about buying a new GM product soon...when the recession lets up.
I bet Rush is laughing at this. He’s not going to waste his time with Nader; IMO I think Rush respects Nader a little, since Nader is an old-school liberal and not the moonbat liberal that liberals are now.
I recall as a kid, listening to Arthur Godfrey bashing (sponsor) Lipton Chicken Noodle Soup, challenging listeners to find the chicken. It was the best advertising Lipton ever got.
He was also sponsored by Lipton Tea and praised them to the highest. Until he switched sponsors to another brand. I don’t recall which but perhaps Tetley??
Rush is going to have ALOT of fun with this on Monday.
Is it me or is the MSM doing more and more of this story dumping on Friday?
Hell, this eight year Bush recession has GMAC offering 0% APR again.
GASP! he is right!
I am buying a Cadilac BECAUSE of Rush!!!!!!!!!
“Nader charges this type of promotion may be against FCC laws requiring disclosure of payments for endorsements. “
I heard Rush was being sponsored by GM and he got some GM vehicles and the staff was enjoying them - I assumed he was getting compensated with vehicles and money. Did Nader assume he was pretending to do it for free? This is weird.
I’ve never understood why he went after GM when it was Ford that fired his sorry backside.
Fishtalk, you said it well.
I am amazed they haven’t gone after Hannity who also speaks of Caddies and other Ameriacan made cars.
I am amazed they haven’t gone after Hannity who also speaks of Caddies and other Ameriacan made cars.
From what Rush has said, I get the impression that he has given all of the free vehicles to employees of the show. He has mentioned that he has owned Escalades for a while, but I’m fairly certain that they are driven by the staff at his house, because he has always said that he personally doesn’t like driving SUVs. As far as I know, Rush’s personal car is a Daimler Maybach.
Is Ralph Nader egotistical and stupid enough to believe he can take on Rush Limbaugh, one of the most influential and successful media personalities in history? A man who understands politics and media spin better than perhaps anyone on the American scene today? As a buddy of mine used to say, looks like Ralph Nader is about to let his mouth overload his ass. IMHO
FWIW ,, I owned a 1964 Corvair for about 10 years , it was a great car... The “unsafe” aspect of the Corvair that Nader harped about was the fact that it had “swing axles” which in extreme circumstances could provoke an axle jacking event and a rollover... at the time no car except the Corvette and the Jaguar E:type had a true IRS setup ,,,, swing axles were used on all Mercedes and VW’s in addition to dozens of other European cars... Axle jacking is dangerous and every car with swing axles WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE Corvair was at risk ,,, The Corvair had EXTRA safety features to prevent axle over-extension (depending on the year ,, shock absorbers with travel limiters and/or a transverse leaf spring and on the turbo models a physical CHAIN to limit the axle drop!) ... The only Corvairs that were dangerous were the ones in which the shock absorbers had been replaced with ones that didn’t have the travel limiters built in ,,, unfortunately 1955-1957 Chevy big car shocks were identical except for the lack of the limiters and if you went to “Joes Muffler and undercar” that’s what they installed because they were in stock and about $2 less than the correct shock..
GM should have sued the dogs**t out of this commie dirtbag when they had the chance.
I've also heard Rush say nice things about Allen Brothers which sells meat products and by sheer coincidence also advertises on Rush's show.
Then there's a coffee company called Boca Java. Rush always talks about what great coffee they make and they also just happen to be an advertiser. Hmmmmmm....
Actually, now that I think about it. Maybe if Err America tried saying nice things about, Exxon, General Motors and Omaha Steaks and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals instead of trashing Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Food, and Big Drug they'd still be on the air.
But no-o-o-o-o-o......
Yo, Ralphie. Any compact fluorescents flickering on above your head?
Red Rose, maybe? I remember watching some show in the 50s with those annoying chimps dancing around while they mugged to that awful Red Rose Tea song...
Sheesh. That was about as obnoxious as watching Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi in a joint press conference.
Rush literally made Select Comfort beds the success they are today, it is a relatively big ticket item and nobody had ever heard of them before he started advertising for them. He also deserves a lot of credit for Snapple, but it’s a lot easier to sell a 99 cent bottle of tea than a $4000 air mattress.
Is that Limbaugh guy still alive?
AM radio is deadly, what with all the radiation and all.
Ralph is a paranoid kook and has been since the 1950s when he was a clerk in the US Labor Department. (He thought someone was tapping his phone.)
Standard "liberalism" - which is to say, "criticism, condemnation, and complaint.""It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - Theodore Roosevelt
Yes indeed. Oh, Boca Java also advertises on Randi Rhodes. How can that be?
Oh? Does Randi ever talk about it?
Drop dead, Nader. You wouldn’t know a Corvair from your ass.
I don't know that since I don't generally listen to Randi. But go to the Boca Java site and you will see that she is one of the radio hosts listed for the special deals.
Or maybe, just maybe, I'll call her and tell her what a great cup of coffee I think Boca Java makes and then ask her her opinion.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I remember him saying one of his sponsor’s products “tasted like ground-up elephants’ feet”. God, I must have been a very small child when I heard that.
Hey Rush; tell GM to hurry up and build the Camaro SS with a 550hp, supercharged LS3.
The old bucket of bolts has many very loyal collectors' clubs.
Snicker.
If Nader attacks a nobody, he gets no attention. If he attacks Limbaugh, he could become famous (again). That's hardly a disinterested position.
If Nader attacks a nobody, he gets no attention. If he attacks Limbaugh, he could become famous (again). That's hardly a disinterested position.
I was a pretty liberal lassI'll bet you're still a pretty lass.
What, it’s against the law to say something good about General Motors now?Sometimes you would think so around here.
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