Big Trouble in Limbaugh Land

[richardmyers]

Big Trouble in Limbaugh Land

Or, how Mitt Romney's former company steals elections
while enriching the few at the expense of the many.

In 2006, Mitt Romney officially announced his run for president of the United States.

Also in 2006, Clear Channel, the largest radio network in the world, announced that it was being purchased and taken private by Bain Capital, the one time (and perhaps still?) Mitt Romney-controlled private equity fund.

Clear Channel includes the subsidiary Premiere Networks, which maintains a stable of conservative talkers including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck. Other conservative talkers, including Michael Savage and Mark Levin, have been considered a part of the Clear Channel family, if not actually syndicated by Premiere Networks. Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Beck, and Levin, conservatives all, are the top five talkers in the country, measured by audience numbers.

According to Sue Wilson, "local talk radio hosts and their guests and callers [use] our public airwaves ... to exclusively promote GOP candidates." This issue became abundantly evident during the Recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/16/1144958/-Big-Trouble-in-Limbaugh-Land

[Hoyt]

1. Wish Bain would send limbaugh's "job" to China.

[renate]

2. this reminds me of Italy and Silvio Berlusconi

And look how well that worked out.

[HopeHoops]

3. Yeah, and 4 years ago our classic rock station (good except for being Clear Channel) was...

... flooded with PSA's about how we have to fight terrorism over "there" to keep it from coming "here". Sound familiar? It's actually a good station, but that bullshit really pissed me off.

[meow2u3]

4. The irony of it all

Limbaugh, a cheerleader for Rmoney and Bain, runs the risk of losing his job because Bain is busting out Clear Channel.