This whole thing with talk radio has me totally perplexed.
I've never seen 80 percent of the so called conservative radio talkers get it wrong for so long.
Who was giving them the script.....Levin and Beck?
While the people understood it right off the bat. IMO there's a lot of pressure coming from somewhere (you can hear it Rush's voice).
I blame the entire conservative 'media' for not bringing up the FACT that Cruz and Rubio are INELIGIBLE for the office of POTUS. All this crap should have been nipped in the bud years ago.
Given his life, fact and fiction, its contradictions, mysteries and the dreams of his father, the reasons for a strict NBC definition didn't get any more blatant than with the Trojan horse Barry obama.
I thought Rush and the rest, especially the local hosts of the big city AM stations, would tear it up getting the truth out.
It started out that way, but those fires have been slowly stamped out. Only a few small flare-ups from still smoldering embers from time to time, but that's about it these days until "Ted Cruz for President" and here we go again.
Thing is, even at his level, Rush works for someone and those at that level have to obtain and maintain their station's/stations' FCC license(s), in addition to paying the bills and paying hosts from Limbaugh on down the food chain.
Radio is a tough business and stations get sold to people with an entirely different agenda than those Rush originally partnered with.
These are the people who like acquiring "Established Credibility" and then "flipping it", so to speak.
They then use that credibility to fundamentally transform bits and pieces of our beliefs and identity to make them and our thoughts fit their message/agenda, while the good name cred still says it's as worthy as it ever was.
This way the listener's guard is down, leaving him/her trusting and open to suggestions and redefinitions.
Any story, any caller or whatever that might confront and challenge the transformation is quickly shot down, so that their claims fall, crash and burn with them, letting the transformation slowly become solid enough to support the weight of public opinion.
When local hosts would bring obama's ineligibility up, they didn't last very long, especially those in the after Limbaugh, drive time spot from 3-6 PM.
The local CAIR reps would call in constantly with one host who was more open about his Christianity in addition to challenging obama's ineligibility.
I imagine the pressure on Rush, who has shown himself to be a very good dancer when he has to be, is intense and tailor-made to fit.
Some here have provided the "Follow the money" maps leading to who owns whom and where the seats of power are located and where one finds plausible answers and new and improved questions.