I hardly listen to Rush anymore, but it’s because I don’t feel I’m learning anything. In 1988, Rush was reading the news from all over, and it was impossible for most listeners to get most of it anywhere else. Rush has been overtaken by the internet. For many years, anyone who followed FR and some other websites would learn little or nothing by listening to Rush.
And Rush, Levin, Hannity, and most other radio hosts refuse to deal with what everyone in Washington knows: that Obama/Soetoro is almost certainly an illegal alien. And that his “birth certificate” is absolutely certainly a crude forgery.
They all offer the excuse: “We will never get him out of office with that stuff.”
How about this?-—Broadcast the truth, and the evidence, and let the chips fall where they may.
There are some “conservative” radio hosts who are themselves part of the dinosaur media, and are being overtaken by others for the same reason that the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes are dying.
Michael Alan Weiner, is that you? :-)
“I hardly listen to Rush anymore, but it’s because I don’t feel I’m learning anything. In 1988, Rush was reading the news from all over, and it was impossible for most listeners to get most of it anywhere else. Rush has been overtaken by the internet. For many years, anyone who followed FR and some other websites would learn little or nothing by listening to Rush.
And Rush, Levin, Hannity, and most other radio hosts refuse to deal with what everyone in Washington knows: that Obama/Soetoro is almost certainly an illegal alien. And that his “birth certificate” is absolutely certainly a crude forgery.
They all offer the excuse: “We will never get him out of office with that stuff.”
How about this?-—Broadcast the truth, and the evidence, and let the chips fall where they may.
There are some “conservative” radio hosts who are themselves part of the dinosaur media, and are being overtaken by others for the same reason that the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes are dying.”
I think a lot of people feel the same. Claims of being just one of those fringe “Birthers” has shut up people on the subject, as was the intention of the left, and that is cowardice on the part of the right IMHO. The evidence is not easily discounted without the stigma from the propaganda experts on the left.
“I hardly listen to Rush anymore”
That is quite obvious by the reading the rest of your post. Many here on FR are of the same stripe as you. He’s conservative, but not “your” kind of conservative.... You might learn something by listening to Limbaugh, instead of thinking you know everything.
Even Beck, who has had more courage than any of them, can’t really handle the Bundy situation. Imploring folks to non violence is probably the wrong answer with this enemy. The FCC would throw the switch on them in a heartbeat if they really dealt with this on air, hence time wasted with Colbert. Up next, flag burning, gay “marriage”, global warming, anything but “give me Liberty or give me Death”.
http://www.talkers.com/top-talk-radio-audiences/
There possibly may be some philosophical or other reason to think Rush is “on the way out”. But the traditional ratings organizations don’t think so.
Free Republic killed talk radio for me. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, I listened to talk radio constantly as it was my only source for "non-lamestream" media news.
Now I'm much better informed than just about any talk show host. In fact, it appears that many talk show hosts get their material and talking points right here on Free Republic.
They all offer the excuse: “We will never get him out of office with that stuff.”
How about this?-—Broadcast the truth, and the evidence, and let the chips fall where they may.
AMEN Brother!
I think you're on to something here. Rush has to sit on any breaking news or information until his 3-hour broadcast window arrives. Meanwhile, Drudge and everyone else has been talking about the story for as much as 21 hours. It's not that much different than how a newspaper operates.
Ditto! Rush is a dinosaur....but FR is full of dinos...Blast away.