Posted on 07/11/2008 8:52:22 AM PDT by rface
Dear Mr. Limbaugh,
The Associated Press reports your new contract with Premiere Radio Networks will enrich you with at least $38 million a year over the next eight years. You are making this money on the public property of the American people for which you pay no rent.
You, Rush Limbaugh, are on welfare.
As you know, the public airwaves belong to the American people. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to be our trustee in managing this property. The people are the landlords and the radio and TV stations and affiliated companies are the tenants.
The problem is that since the Radio Act of 1927 these corporate tenants have been massively more powerful in Washington, DC than the tens of millions of listeners and viewers. The result has been no payment of rent by the stations for the value of their license to broadcast. You and your company are using the public's valuable property for free. This freeloading on the backs of the American people is called corporate welfare.
It is way past due for the super-rich capitalist--Rush Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau, Missouri--to get himself off big time welfare. It is way past due for Rush Limbaugh as the Kingboy of corporatist radio to set a capitalist example for his peers and pay rent to the American people for the very lucrative use of their property.
You need not wait for the broadcast industry-indentured FCC and Congress to do the right thing. You can lead by paying a voluntary rent--determined by a reputable appraisal organization--for the time you use on the hundreds of stations that carry your words each weekday.
Payment of rent for the use of public airwaves owned by the American people is the conservative position. Real conservatives oppose corporate welfare. Real corporatists feed voraciously from hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare gushing out of Washington, DC yearly.
Whose side are you on? Freeloading? Or paying rent for the public property you have been using free for many years?
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely yours,
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an idiot.
Rush should pay rent when ABC, NBC, CBS and NPR pay rent.
OK, I’ll admit that I read this twice and yet couldn’t understand the gist of Nader’s argument.
Free? How much do stations pay for broadcast licensing and the spectrum they use?
Marxism 101
Same here. It’s not the goverment/FCC that pays the salary.
Ralph sure is a snippy little socialist.
I presume Ralph’s eyes are brown, because he’s so full of it.
Dear Mr. Nader,
Get off the crack.
Sincerely,
Your Brain
Twisted Mind - wants us to pay the government for air use.
When I see things like this, it makes me want to scream. I can’t believe someone could be such a complete moron.
Actually, I have no objection to knocking Limbaugh off the air, so long as we also shut down the liberal networks while we’re at it. They are even bigger “welfare” recipients than Limbaugh.
Hey, Ralph, you’re too old to care. Why don’t you go on Social Security and STFU!
Do you want your air back?
I fart in your general direction.
Yours Truly,
Rush Limbaugh
The gist is that somewhere along the way supposedly the American people are paying for Rush. The are, but not the way that RN proposes - we pay for Limbaugh by buying products that pay for ad time during his program or on his site.
NADAR wants FREE publicity on RUSH’s show, thus also looking for his own welfare. What a kook.
Oh, to Rush, don’t bother mentioning this stupid letter, Nadar wants attention and let’s not give him any.
Ralph who?
You want to talk about welfare?
Ever created anything out of nothing?
Produced anything?
Living off government or government-funded entities is really a shaky pulpit from which to preach anything!
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