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CNN: Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Power ‘Diminishing’
NewsBusters.org ^ | 1/24/2008 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 01/24/2008 7:26:26 PM PST by Pyro7480

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To: Pyro7480

First, the premise is BS. No causal link between McCain and talk radio’s ‘declining influence’.

Second, they run this kind of story anytime they stir the tea leaves. They want to run this as cover for the huge democrat racial breakup occurring. They ignore that, but try to focus solely on the pubs’ problems.


61 posted on 01/24/2008 9:36:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: Pyro7480

The left is DESPERATE to diminish and minimalize the power of our voices, because they have NOTHING that can counbter it..

You’ve got to get with the Media’s action line, and the hyperbole regarding Right-Wing talk-radio...

Rush is “Hate-Radio” (Ever listened to Air America???)

“Conservatives” are evil, gun-toting, inbred and homophobic Nascar fans who drive pickups with Confederate flags, thumping Bibles while looking for blacks to kill for sport, when they aren’t having sex with thier kids, or tapping in bathrooms....

I Shiite you not, this is EXACTLY the hyperbole you will see at leftist websites, ALL OVER THE INTERNET, and it is parrotted by the wonks in the largely-gay media.

Remember what Geobbell’s said about Propoganda.

If you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

These are the tactics of minimalization, and they are designed to diminish the value of your oppenet in the eyes of others...

You can hear it nearly every day from even HILLARY CLINTON.


62 posted on 01/24/2008 9:40:42 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: tcrlaf; All

The left is DESPERATE to diminish and minimalize the power of our voices, because they have NOTHING that can counbter it..

You’ve got to get with the Media’s action line, and the hyperbole regarding Right-Wing talk-radio...

Rush is “Hate-Radio” (Ever listened to Air America???)

“Conservatives” are evil, gun-toting, inbred and homophobic Nascar fans who drive pickups with Confederate flags, thumping Bibles while looking for blacks to kill for sport, when they aren’t having sex with thier kids, or tapping in bathrooms....

I Shiite you not, this is EXACTLY the hyperbole you will see at leftist websites, ALL OVER THE INTERNET, and it is parrotted by the wonks in the largely-gay media.

Remember what Geobbell’s said about Propoganda.

If you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

These are the tactics of minimalization, and they are designed to diminish the value of your oppenet in the eyes of others...

You can hear it nearly every day from even HILLARY CLINTON.


63 posted on 01/24/2008 9:43:02 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: Pyro7480

Some of us work during Rush and are just too busy and cannot keep up with his daily discourse, however as an EIB University alumnus I can say that I am well armed and able to sort my way through the drive by media’s drivel without Father Rush holding my hand. I would think that he would be proud of those of us who can think on our own, have a solid moral foundation and can spot a RINO from 40 clicks. Wish I could be apart of the University a little more often, after all, none of us are graduates.


64 posted on 01/24/2008 9:46:25 PM PST by chiroman (Miss you Fred Thompson. Love Ya Alan Keys, Duncan Hunter deserved a better fate... GO MITT!)
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To: DennisR

There are about ~2200 talk stations now. Up from < 100; 20 years ago? Rush’s business model about syndication did it. Regular people calling in makes the shows work.


65 posted on 01/24/2008 9:50:23 PM PST by BobS
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To: Pyro7480

Carol’s “report” is a screaming example of total ignorance concerning conservative people & issues.


66 posted on 01/24/2008 10:00:13 PM PST by WVNan
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To: tcrlaf

There just has to be >70 million people listening to their favorite host. And the ads are not for Geritol or hemmorhoids. The ads are for tech, finance or expensive things. Check out what a Sleep Number Bed costs.


67 posted on 01/24/2008 10:02:46 PM PST by BobS
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To: chiroman
"Some of us work during Rush and are just too busy and cannot keep up with his daily discourse,..."

Get a new job. Like microwave engineering. I now have SIX radios in any particular area or range I must perform work in or on or around. It's your responsibility to train your employer. LOL!

68 posted on 01/24/2008 11:00:49 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS
He is, I was commenting on the info-babe who *reported* the story.

Cheers!

69 posted on 01/25/2008 4:10:20 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Pyro7480
Maybe Carol Costello can send Rush an autographed copy of her transcript. And, then, Rush can auction it on eBay.
70 posted on 01/25/2008 6:16:44 AM PST by syriacus (HUCKIAVELLIAN : (adj.) hypocritical; slick; glib; charming and, yet, sneakily nasty.)
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To: Pyro7480

Yawn.


71 posted on 01/25/2008 6:19:15 AM PST by JPJones
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To: syriacus
Maybe Carol Costello can send Rush an autographed copy of her transcript. And, then, Rush can auction it on eBay.

Rush is so big-hearted that he might use the proceeds from auctioning her autographed transcript to start the Foundation for Laid Off Press Personalities. [FLOPP]

72 posted on 01/25/2008 6:21:33 AM PST by syriacus (HUCKIAVELLIAN : (adj.) hypocritical; slick; glib; charming and, yet, sneakily nasty.)
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Rush is so big-hearted that he might use the proceeds from auctioning her autographed transcript to start the Foundation for Laid Off Press Personalities. [FLOPP]

He can open hostels for "excessed" newspeople, in major cities across the country. They would be known as

FLOPP houses

73 posted on 01/25/2008 6:27:52 AM PST by syriacus (HUCKIAVELLIAN : (adj.) hypocritical; slick; glib; charming and, yet, sneakily nasty.)
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To: Pyro7480

I think that they’re doing a lot of projecting.


74 posted on 01/25/2008 9:52:33 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: T. Buzzard Trueblood

LOL. Just ask Harry Reid.


75 posted on 01/25/2008 9:53:30 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: bluebeak

And because of open primaries.


76 posted on 01/25/2008 9:54:14 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: nmh
That’s a goo done!

Dr. Freud, your slip is showing! ;-P

77 posted on 01/25/2008 10:03:39 AM PST by MortMan (Have a pheasant plucking day!)
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To: Pyro7480

“...talk radio’s power diminishing...”

prairie pancakes, baloney, fiddlesticks, tall stories and b.s.


78 posted on 01/25/2008 12:28:02 PM PST by ripley
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To: Pyro7480

For an irrelevant guy, they sure do talk about him a lot.

Go Rush!


79 posted on 01/25/2008 12:29:57 PM PST by NeoCaveman (For an irrelevant guy, they sure do talk about him a lot.)
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To: NeoCaveman

and Rush also made the point about the Country Club Blue Bloods wanting to take over the party from the conservatives ... so, they can go back to the days of being the minority party.


80 posted on 01/25/2008 2:34:58 PM PST by bluebeak
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