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This is encouraging!
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/27/433117/rush-limbaugh-americas-least-favorite-news-personality/
Rush Limbaugh: Americas Least Favorite News Personality |
A new Harris Poll out today finds that conservative shock jock Rush Limbaugh is Americas least favorite news personality, with 46 percent of respondents picking him for the dubious honor. Runners-up Bill OReilly and Nancy Grace come in a distant second and third, at 31 percent and 23 percent, respectively. But more interestingly, Limbaugh is universally disliked. He is the only person whom Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike chose as among their top three their least favorite people. (HT: Dylan Byers)
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)"ZOMG!!1! HE'S NOT A NEWS PURSONALATEE, SO THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY BE RITE!!1!"
rurallib
(62,413 posts)While a Thom Hartmann or Stephanie Miller is barely visible.
edhopper
(33,576 posts)eliminate the equal time rule and allow corporations to own as much of the air ways as they want.
The result, Rush.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Dereg began under Raygun but it was Clinton who sent it into hyperspace when he pushed DeReg 96 that allowed corporates such as Cheap Channel (rushbo's bosses) and Cumulus to control a large number of the "public" airwaves.
BTW...rushbo wouldn't apply for "fairness doctrine" since his show is considered "entertainment" (thus why he calls himself an "entertainer" not a "news person" and wasn't covered under those rules...which only applied to public affairs programs...
edhopper
(33,576 posts)If the Fairness Doctrine still existed, I think someone would have a very good case that those stations that carry him would have to have balanced programming. Instead of Hannity et al.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)I worked radio in those days...talk shows were considered "entertainment" and news was also exempt from the "Fairness" doctrine. It was designed to give all candidates access to buying advertising time (the station couldn't discriminate in favor of one party or candidate over another) and for the then mandated public affairs programs. Those Public affairs requirements were also wiped out thanks to Telcom '96.
Stations avoided highly controversial hate spewers primarily since it wasn't good business...locally owned radio operations prefered to not piss off listeners and advertisers and tried to balance their programming...that's not the case now when one corporate owns upwards of 7 stations per market and they sell commercial time in bulk...local programming and advertising no longer matters.
edhopper
(33,576 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)He gets his money from advertising, the RNC, Shittoheads who pay to subscribe to his website and buy the
garbage he sells there and various RWingers who pay him to say a few good words in their favor on the air.
GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)gouge my eyes out with a spoon after seeing that image. Jabba the Hut is way SEXIER!!!
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt
spanone
(135,831 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)talk radio is on the decline. Majority of people seem to be in the middle. I stopped listening to talk radio many years ago.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Reminds me of a plate of tangy barbecue pork ribs and links. Mmmmm.
Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.
mick063
(2,424 posts)and remember.......110 million folks watched the Super Bowl this year.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1628539
Another Democratic candidate, Howard Dean, echoed Clark's sentiment to fire the conservative talk-show host.
"To imply that the success of African-American is an undeserved gift from a biased media is absurd and offensive," Dean said in a statement.
Before McNabb led the Eagles to a 23-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Limbaugh said on ESPN that he didn't think McNabb was as good as perceived from the start.
"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well," Limbaugh said. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
After the reaction surrounding his remarks started to heat up, Limbaugh was asked to appear on ESPN's SportsCenter on Wednesday night but declined. However, on his syndicated radio show Wednesday, he reiterated that he doesn't think McNabb is a bad player, just that he isn't as good as some media members think he is.
"This is such a mountain out of a molehill," he said. "There's no racism here, there's no racist intent whatsoever."
But that only seemed to fan the flames.
NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume suggested that if Limbaugh isn't fired, ESPN should at least provide an opposing point of view during the Sunday Countdown show.
"What's almost as bad as Limbaugh's comments is ESPN's feeble defense for putting him on the air," Mfume said in a statement. "If this is the future of ESPN, I think fair-minded fans, who tune in for sports news coverage, and not for racist views, should get their sports on other networks. It is appalling that ESPN has to go to this extent to try to increase viewership."
Neue Regel
(221 posts)That's quite an accomplishment!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Not much has changed then.
mick063
(2,424 posts)Are there any beer companys that would use him to market their product?
Kinda doubt it.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)It is encouraging to see that Americans, after years of demonstrating extreme stupidity and ignorance, finally seem to be getting it.
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)in a world where people haven't heard Mark Levine's radio show. He is and I am not exaggeration a 100x worse that Limbaugh to listen to
mick063
(2,424 posts)He wrote:
"A Conservative Manifesto Liberty and Tyranny"
A Conservative Manifesto[17] was released on March 24, 2009, and became a No. 1 New York Times best seller for eleven of twelve weeks,[18] as well as No. 1 on Nielsen's BookScan.[19] It comes in at No. 2 on Amazon.com's list of bestselling books of 2009.[20] The book includes discussion of a variety of issues that, according to Levin, need to be addressed in the United States. Liberty and Tyranny has sold over one million copies according to Threshold Editions, the book's publisher.[21] Former federal prosecutor and fellow National Review Online author Andrew C. McCarthy wrote of Liberty and Tyranny in The New Criterion:
We are in the high tide of Americas Leftist ascendancy: the Obama evisceration of individual freedom and installation of authoritarian collectivismat warp speed, driven by an ambition that would have made Woodrow Wilson and FDR blush. Against this tidal wave, Levin offers not so much a defense as a plan of attack, a clarion call to roll back the seas of Change.[22]
Taking a contrary view, Steve Almond of Salon wrote that
the tantalizing beauty of a Mark Levin's text resides precisely in this ability to attribute any crisis of State to its nefarious indulgences. The current economic meltdown, for instance, should not be blamed on the psychotic greed of Wall Street, but on the State's deranged need to throw money at the poor and undeserving.[23]
bongbong
(5,436 posts)A.P.D is great at propaganda, and lying to low-IQ dolts who hate African-Americans.
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)The only thing Anal Pimple Deferment is good for is to study the effects of massive illegal narcotics usage on a low-IQ dope.
Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)Stinkin up the airwaves