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Nader: Limbaugh Should Get Off Welfare
Hartford Courant ^ | 7.11.08 | Ralph Nader

Posted on 07/11/2008 8:52:22 AM PDT by rface

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To: rface

So. Nobody should ever make a profit from broadcasting of any kind.


21 posted on 07/11/2008 8:57:56 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals?)
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To: rface
Rush isn't using the public airwaves (well, maybe for his satellite feed), his affiliates are. They would have to pay this rent whether they broadcast Rush over the air or put some non-controversial gardening show like the advocates of the "Fairness" Doctrine will cause to be broadcast.

This is just another way to try to squeeze more blood from the taxpayers.

22 posted on 07/11/2008 8:58:05 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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To: indcons

I can’t find it anywhere in the Constitution where it says the government owns the sky. If Manny Ramirez hits a home run over the Wall at Fenway tonight does he have to pay for its flight path?


23 posted on 07/11/2008 8:58:16 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: indcons
OK, I’ll admit that I read this twice and yet couldn’t understand the gist of Nader’s argument.

Let me explain the arguement. The government owns everything, so breathing air is accepting government welfare.

24 posted on 07/11/2008 8:58:43 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: rface

Someone sounds just a wee bit jealous!


25 posted on 07/11/2008 8:59:02 AM PDT by ninergold3 (Don't like my attitude? Then get one of your own!)
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To: arderkrag

Thanks....this screed made NO sense to me.


26 posted on 07/11/2008 8:59:20 AM PDT by indcons (Rush Limbaugh to Indcons: "You're a perceptive person.")
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To: rface

Limbaugh’s “air” only has millions of $ value because Limbaugh is on it. HE is the source of value.

Think of how valuable (say) Al Franken’s airtime is. Nothing. Air America couldn’t get a single private advertiser IIRC.


27 posted on 07/11/2008 8:59:40 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: rface

As one of the ‘landlords of the airwaves’, Mr. Limbaugh, you may stay. And you, Mr. Nader, bite my a$$.


28 posted on 07/11/2008 8:59:44 AM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
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To: FortWorthPatriot

Nader is just a pathetic old man looking for attention.


29 posted on 07/11/2008 9:00:40 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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Neoliberals say the darndest things!

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30 posted on 07/11/2008 9:00:44 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: rface

June 20, 2000
Ralph Nader: Millionaire hypocrite?

Should we think any less of consumer advocate Ralph Nader when we find out he’s a multimillionaire? (snip)

Nader told the Post he believes he’s made between $13 million and $14 million over the course of his career; and according to his just-released financial disclosure statement he is worth at least $3.8 million. Even more striking, much of that wealth is invested in a small group of high-flying tech stocks such as Cisco Systems, Comcorp, Iomega and Ziff-Davis.

http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/06/20/nader/


31 posted on 07/11/2008 9:00:57 AM PDT by donna ( I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth. - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: rface

Ralphie boy Nadir (sic) is envious of the big paycheck Rush is making.

He’s hoping someday to buy his cheap, ugly, ill fitting suits someplace other than Sears or JC Penney’s.

He’s just itching to get out of that crummy Prius and into a big ass, honking Hummer and date Jessica Simpson.


32 posted on 07/11/2008 9:00:57 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: rface

If TV and Radio existed at the time of the founding and ratification of the Constitution does anyone reading this honestly believe that the founders would have considered the freqency/spectrum that they broadcast on to be “public property”? Hardly. And for Nader’s education, and others who believe the ‘public airways” nonsense, the FCC was established to protect broadcasters spectrum. To prevent the “bleeding” of other stations onto them, and the outright theft of the spectrum by illegally broadcasting on someone elses. That is it. No more, no less.


33 posted on 07/11/2008 9:01:03 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Always Right

Bingo - you distilled Nader’s page-long garbage into 2 sentences. His argument still makes no sense. What an attention-seeking maroon.


34 posted on 07/11/2008 9:01:09 AM PDT by indcons (Rush Limbaugh to Indcons: "You're a perceptive person.")
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To: FortWorthPatriot

Ralph, see what happens when you go off the meds?


35 posted on 07/11/2008 9:01:11 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: rface

Go Ralph go!

He can’t hurt Rush, but by attacking him, he might take some nutroot votes from Obambi. Rush should challenge Nader to a debate and lose on purpose as part of Chaos III.


36 posted on 07/11/2008 9:01:57 AM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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To: rface

Dear Ralph, Thank your letter. I want to express our gratitute towards you for taking enough votes away from Gore in Florida to give Bush the victory. The country is indebted to you.

Love, Rush.


37 posted on 07/11/2008 9:01:57 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: rface
So, Mr. Nader...

If COLDPINK, or ACORN, or whomever, pays me to go protest somebody,
I should have to pay RENT to that somebody for being on their property - and if it's public property (which it usually is) then I have to pay the government.


Nader has figured out how to tax the unemployed!
38 posted on 07/11/2008 9:02:25 AM PDT by davidlachnicht ("IF WE'RE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
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To: rface

I don’t understand what this moron is saying. I think he’s been sniffing more Corvair exhaust.


39 posted on 07/11/2008 9:02:30 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: rface
Or paying rent for the public property you have been using free for many years?

I suppose that Ralphie is volunteering to be the collection agent.

40 posted on 07/11/2008 9:02:31 AM PDT by thulldud (Congress does not want answers. They want scapegoats. (andy58-in-nh))
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