Posted on 01/30/2009 12:25:15 PM PST by Sub-Driver
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is an open letter to Rush Limbaugh from Ralph Nader:
Rush Limbaugh
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121
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.
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Shut up, Ralph.
How come everyone named Ralph I’ve ever met in my life has been a dweeb?
“the public property of the American people for which you pay no rent”
cuckoo!
Ralphie is now so desperate to be ‘relevant’ he requires Rush Limbaugh’s help...thats too rich.
Rush is not receiving free airwaves. The station licenses it ffrom the govt. Then they PAY PEOPLE for broadcast entertainment content...
Nader is getting senile
Ralph Nader is an idiot, the radio stations pay the FCC for broadcasting rights, thus, his entire point is moot. The difference is that Rush provides a service in which others are willing to invest (such as advertising dollars).. Welfare would be someone being paid for no providing of any product or service.
By Ralph’s logic all those people on TV are on welfare.
Missing the cameras again, are you? Looking for relevance?
Ralph has always had a pretty tenuous grip on the concept of free markets.
Who knew that Bell’s Palsy could make you retarded?
Gag me with a silver spoon. What a boob. Problem is, most idiots believe Nader. Wealth envy and stupidity knows no bounds.
Mind your own business Ralphy.
Don’t you have an auto industry to wreck or something, Ralph?
What a friggin idiot.
I hope Rush responds to his dribble, it ought to be fun to hear him explain things even this idiot could understand...
Did Ralphie boy send a similar letter to ABC, CBS, and NBC?
Um, Rush doesn’t use get the airwaves. He produces a show which airwave owners contract to broadcast on their airwave assignments. The radio station owners are those supposedly “on welfare”. Meanwhile, how much public funds does Mr. Nader use with his public interest groups and with his failed presidential campaigns?
YO Ralphie! You should run for President!
Try again here: Rush doesn’t use the airwaves.
Oh my God . . . what an idiot.
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