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After 24 years, Limbaugh's influence continues to grow
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Posted on 08/06/2012 10:13:19 AM PDT by matt04
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:13:21 AM PDT
by
matt04
To: matt04
“as good as any to benchmark when the country began its journey into a deeply polarized political climate.”
In other words when the liberal media began to lose their monopoly on the news. Bwahahahahaha.
To: Parley Baer
Yes, until 1987, the other side could not make its views known.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:31:13 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: matt04
Speaking of ‘fairness’ - doctrine or not - I wonder what percentage of political stories written by the LA Times favor democrats? Half? LOL - they are such hypocrites...
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:33:33 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(...you can't reason somebody out of a position reason didn't get them in to... Freeper Uriah_lost)
To: RobbyS
I remember radio before 1987.
When I first heard Rush on the radio, it was as show someone had suddenly flooded the earth with oxygen. It didn’t seem real. I could not believe what I was hearing - and I was overjoyed.
Thank you, President Reagan!
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:33:54 AM PDT
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: matt04
He was helped by the 1987 demise of the Fairness Doctrine, the longstanding regulation that required broadcasters to present both sides of a issue in roughly equal measure. Correction: "He was helped by the 1987 demise of the Fairness Doctrine, the longstanding regulation that required broadcasters to present the leftist side only, or be thrown off the air.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:42:17 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: matt04
The famous Missourian was never going to amount to anything when he was fired by the Kansas City Royals in the mid- 1980’s. He and George Brett were buddies and Rush made sure George got home at night. Rush went out to be a sucess and the Royals have been horible since they fired Rush. Maybe Rush needs to buy the Royals from David Glass.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:46:38 AM PDT
by
ncfool
(OMG 2012)
To: matt04
I measure Rush’s success by how many retards scream that he’s losing ratings and that he’s just entertainment. The louder those voices get each year, the more powerful he’s becoming.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:51:28 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
(ABOs are Romneybot trolls. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
To: ncfool
Rush has never forgotten how Brett befriended him when he was a minor functionary for the Royals. I recall Rush telling the whole story on a broadcast 15 or 20 years ago.
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posted on
08/06/2012 10:51:48 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: matt04
As Rush says, Rush is showprep for the lamestream media. He and his topics are always the subject of their gossip.
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:00:20 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(History says our end is near.)
To: matt04
Why did you omit the name of the author?
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:15:38 AM PDT
by
Misterioso
(They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it. - Monk)
To: Misterioso
Just a guess, but it could be an unattributed editorial.
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:26:43 AM PDT
by
rwa265
("This is My Beloved Son, Listen to Him.")
To: matt04
That ‘golden bull’ of Wall Street is NOT going to save our Constitutional Republic, Romney's or Rush's wealth notwithstanding. Rush has become part of the GOP-e and only those with basic toilet training accomplishments will learn squat from his yack for $$$$$$!!!!
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posted on
08/06/2012 11:36:11 AM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: Persevero
As Rush has rightly explained it, millions of Americans suddenly their own opinions coming over the airways. Hither too, they had thought themselves oddballs. Now they found that tens of millions of others thought the same. It is like walls went down, and one felt himself in the company of like-minded friends, not a sect, but a multitude.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:28:36 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: Just mythoughts
You sound like a liberal. I dont always agree with Limbaugh, and yes, he is soft on his wealthy friends, but it helps that they know that people who generally think like him are not nuts. Today he shared an article by Charles Murray --whom we should adopt as our guru--in which it is said that man. many capitalists are made to feel ashamed of the system that has made them wealthy. They are made to feel that liberalism is the humane point of view, and that while they themselves have earned their wealth, many others are cheats and thieves. So they except themselves from the pack and support the liberal side.
IMHO, however, it is also those who realize that by getting as close to possible to government that they can save their own hides. I call this the Krupp approach, the way that the industrialists who sided with Hitler protected and enriched themselves. Many capitalists, on left and right, are corporatists. Corporatism is a form of collectivism, like Fascism and Nazism.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:40:44 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: RobbyS
You sound like a liberal. I dont always agree with Limbaugh, and yes, he is soft on his wealthy friends, but it helps that they know that people who generally think like him are not nuts. Today he shared an article by Charles Murray --whom we should adopt as our guru--in which it is said that man. many capitalists are made to feel ashamed of the system that has made them wealthy. They are made to feel that liberalism is the humane point of view, and that while they themselves have earned their wealth, many others are cheats and thieves. So they except themselves from the pack and support the liberal side. IMHO, however, it is also those who realize that by getting as close to possible to government that they can save their own hides. I call this the Krupp approach, the way that the industrialists who sided with Hitler protected and enriched themselves. Many capitalists, on left and right, are corporatists. Corporatism is a form of collectivism, like Fascism and Nazism. YOU sound like the linguine spine moderates. Rush has made is money HOW???? YACKING.... I lost all respect for him on bloody Thursday when he let his hirelings do his homework and decapitated NEWT in the Florida primary. SCREW Rush he is NOT going to take a dime of his vast wealth that he obsesses about when his flesh returns to the dust and his soul returns to the Maker that sent it. Conservatism is NOT just the worship of the 'golden bull' of Wall Street. And when Rush went limp on so many things, but in particular the influx of perversion because some of them are the best at what they do he caved to what you just accused me of being.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:51:53 PM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: Cicero
In the corrupt liberal media, there are 2 sides to any story. Liberal viewpoint and far left viewpoint.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:55:46 PM PDT
by
Newtoidaho
(Fight organized crime. Vote out all incumbent Democrats!)
To: RobbyS
You sound like a liberal. I dont always agree with Limbaugh, and yes, he is soft on his wealthy friends, but it helps that they know that people who generally think like him are not nuts. Today he shared an article by Charles Murray --whom we should adopt as our guru--in which it is said that man. many capitalists are made to feel ashamed of the system that has made them wealthy. They are made to feel that liberalism is the humane point of view, and that while they themselves have earned their wealth, many others are cheats and thieves. So they except themselves from the pack and support the liberal side. IMHO, however, it is also those who realize that by getting as close to possible to government that they can save their own hides. I call this the Krupp approach, the way that the industrialists who sided with Hitler protected and enriched themselves. Many capitalists, on left and right, are corporatists. Corporatism is a form of collectivism, like Fascism and Nazism. YOU sound like the linguine spine moderates. Rush has made is money HOW???? YACKING.... I lost all respect for him on bloody Thursday when he let his hirelings do his homework and decapitated NEWT in the Florida primary. SCREW Rush he is NOT going to take a dime of his vast wealth that he obsesses about when his flesh returns to the dust and his soul returns to the Maker that sent it. Conservatism is NOT just the worship of the 'golden bull' of Wall Street. And when Rush went limp on so many things, but in particular the influx of perversion because some of them are the best at what they do he caved to what you just accused me of being.
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posted on
08/06/2012 12:56:10 PM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: Persevero
***When I first heard Rush on the radio***
When I first heard that Rush was going to get a radio talk show, I thought....”Why would they give some guy who sells football tickets a talk show?” or whatever he did with football.
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posted on
08/06/2012 1:13:51 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Tyrannies demand immense sacrifices of their people to produce trifles.-Marquis de Custine)
To: matt04
***He was helped by the 1987 demise of the Fairness Doctrine.***
I remember the “fairness doctrine”. It did nothing but allow anti-gun rants while all pro-gunners were made to look like fools.
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posted on
08/06/2012 1:16:52 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Tyrannies demand immense sacrifices of their people to produce trifles.-Marquis de Custine)
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