the division in the U.S. His spewed hatred knows no bounds.

terribly ill. Fortunately for him he can afford the best of care, making tons of money deriding the less fortunate. Crazy, isn't it?

equally responsible for the shooting and murder of people in Arizona and the horrendous wounding of Gabbie Gifford's. Sarah put the target up and rush fanned the flames. Disgusting/

Giffords shooting, as well as dozens of others. Rush, Beck and scores of other RW talk hosts speak to a core audience that is highly suseptable to suggestion and violence, have limited capacity for free thought and are extremely provincial, jingoistic, xenophobic and, at their core, racist.

Wow. That must really chafe.

wonder why the election is close? Willard literally owns the media in this country.

Not so much Willard owning the media as the LDS in general, especially in the west. Seems to me there was something about media monopolies that changed a while back that allowed this to happen. And now it is legal to use propaganda on our own people, hmmm, it all just falls into place doesn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_International

Draft dodger Limbaugh has repeatedly demonstrated that he will do anything, likely to keep the megabucks rolling into his Swiss Bank accounts, and Cayman Island tax dodges...

'Bain owned' Rush Limbaugh 'Bain owned' Sean Hannity 'Bain owned' Glen Beck anytime I mention them (especially on Facebook).

It doesn't really seem to be catching on.

What weapons systems are manufactured by the corporations that own the networks?

Tie the networks pro-war stance to the financial benefit they receive from war.

going on a Mormon mission.

Dump the festering pile of putrid bile.

If I had 10 bucks every time I heard over the last 20 years about how Pigboy was going down, I'd have as much money as he does. He's still on every day, still preaching treason and sedition to our troops, and still brainwashing millions of idiots (Dittiots). Not gonna happen, period

just in case there was a picture of Rush "going down."

Good to know I'm not the only one with a twisted mind.

Urp.

and it was objective then...short, but informative. Corporate sponsoring our news, it becomes a reality show for ratings...not informative.

I remember back to the early 1950s and there were always commericals during the news.

the media is a powerful tool, especially in a society where citizens believe in the sanctity of the system.
we also believe we are ruggedly individual while we jump on every bandwagon that passes.

Yep...Rushbo could be in a bit of trouble. Radio...especially hate radio remains in a very depressed state. Revenues remain flat and the value of stations continue to fall making them bigger economic drains on their owners. The medium has lost virutally its entire audience under age 40 and AM is on its last legs. Hate radio has drive many listeners and now advertisers from the cesspool, but that's just part of what's happening here.

Cumulus recently devoured Citadel Broadcasting and is going after Clear Channel for the shrinking radio revenues that are still out there. They want to jetison programming from Premiere/Clear Channel and replace Rushbo with their own midday blowhard: Mike Hucklenutz. Just the other day Cheap Channel purchased WOR in New York in anticipation of Rushbo being dumped from WABC and rumors are they will also buy WGN in Chicago when Rushbo gets dumped by WLS.

One last point...revenues, while important, are not the driving force behind these corporates. It's stock prices and the ability to refinance debt. Bain/Clear Channel is at least 14 billion in the hole and I suspect if Willard loses in November then we'll see Bain lose interest in the company and begin to do its dismantiling game to try to recoup their money...

Shrivel and die, Clear Channel. Shrivel - and die.

Can't happen soon enough for me.

Very interesting. Here's a clip from the website "The Deal Pipeline." It's old--Feb. of this year--but all I could find with just a quick search:

Clear Channel has close to $20 billion in long-term debt. The San Antonio company faces particularly large payments in 2014 and 2016, with maturities of $2.87 billion and $12.25 billion, respectively.


Cher

I listen to a lot of talk radio. I think it's important to know what these blowhard are up to. I have to drive with a large bottle of Pepto, but I manage.

I agree, these radio hosts are toxic. They divide our nation and if you follow the money/power trail--they are funded by corporatists. The Koch Brothers are big, big fans of Beck. In my opinion--Beck is the worst. He is a serial liar and a dry drunk drama queen. I've never heard anyone misrepresent liberals like Beck. He has convinced his audience that we are inhuman objects who want to destroy the world. He's a hater, just like Limbaugh and Hannity.

I will say this though, some of these right-wing hate jockeys are good communicators. Just like Hitler. They are charismatic, entertaining and they are good at what they do. That's what makes them so dangerous. Ignorant people are drawn in by their crafty manipulations.

I've listened to Huckabee and his show is like listening to oatmeal cool down. He is NOT a good communicator and the show is so bland and boring. He will not last.

I really hope that DUers are right--that this hate fest is fading. I think these people do significant damage to our country and it's good news to hear that their toxic programs may be losing popularity.

I was there at the beginnings in the 80s...when FM surpassed AM as the most popular radio band and AM turned to talk to hang on to its dwindling audience. Hate radio grabbed hold as there was a void in programming as "deregulation" encouraged the corporate invasion of the public airwaves and the destruction of local radio. Hate radio evolved to cater to the older predominately male audience that still hung onto their AM radios (sports talk was another format that also has flourished). All a station had to do was plug into the satellite and let rushbo spew venom...whatever change they made from local advertisers went right into their pockets and it kept the band viable throughout the last 20 years but times and the medium have changed.

You are right...the hate mongers, especially rushbo, are good communicators. Look what audience they're reaching out to...mostly loners and those who use hate radio as a daily affirmation about their own frustrated lives. They get daily affirmations that all that's wrong in the world is someone elses fault and to hate or fear those who threaten their little bubble...especially those with facts. Conspiracies run amok as well as they also attract a steady stream of listeners in a medium whose audience and revenues are a fraction of what they once were.

Hucklenutz is part of a bigger "radio war" that is taking place between Clear Channel and Cumulus. Rushbo's show is produced by Premiere that is owned by Clear Channel while Hucklenutz show is distributed by Cumulus and both air during the midday hours. Right now Cumulus is paying Clear Channel to carry rushbo or splitting revenues with them and they want all the money and ratings to themselves. Since Cumulus represents some of Rushbo's most powerful outlets the dumping of Rush on some of these stations could be a very big blow to his fortunes as well as Clear Channel.

Hate radio is dying...as is its audience. Few hate stations draw well with listeners under 40...and its just a matter of time when the genre fades into financial obscurity. With the rise of internet and satellite radio the old clunker AM and FM stations are being replaced and the Clear Channels and Cumulus (who overpaid for hundreds of stations) now face huge debts with shrinking revenue bases. Sucks to be them.

Cheers...

that new cars (haven't bought one so I don't know) don't even have AM radios anymore....over the long run that would certainly put a dent in AM radio revenues, wouldn't it?

Fortunately I drive a ten-year-old car so I can still get Thom Hartmann et al.

always a matter of time.

The switched Stephanie Miller to the evening so that a-hole could pollute the airwaves from 6 - 9 am. The ratings have tanked, but Beck keeps spewing over the airwaves.

The big blubber should disappear.

I have been hoping for the crash and burn of the bag-o-lard for 20 years. Everytime a think his demise is near......it just never happens.

sell my employer some useless product (probably for some kickback) and I was tasked with helping him unload it. The salesman had one of those Liberal Hunting Permit stickers on his truck-I gave the paunchy, muscle less doughboy my crazy eyed stare and said "I'm a liberal-you want to try me?" He twittered nervously and said it was just a joke. I said, "That's not what I asked. DO YOU WANT TO TRY ME?" I could have dropped him like a bad habit and he knew it. I've never seen him since.

'Human hunting licenses.' Because that's what the blatant message is that these guys have gotten away with for so long. They support, and it's not a joke really, as I'm sure you've noted from recent events reported here, the elimination of anyone that does not agree with them.

The list is pretty long and those people have done nothing to them. In another era, they would have used the n-word or the pejorative Jew. The hatred toward liberals is out of context and irrational. The hostility is designed to shut people up.

It's a philosophy of government, not serial killers. Thanks for standing up to the guy. Hope he takes his hateful sticker off the car now. I get sickened every time I see one, and know that threatening anyone else's life is not a joke. Never.

Gay rights are in 'fashion'. Rush Limbaugh is toxic. The GOP is self-destructing.

We are seeing 30 years of Republican bullshit come to a close. It's just the start, I know, but I see it happening.

those who describe themselves as "lincoln republicans" are dying off and the new republicans are so despicable that few want to be associated with such a group.
it is why corporate america has invested so much in infiltrating the democratic party.

off the Armed Forces Network, I'm going back to church. Kpete can chose the denomination for bringing this good news to me. K&R

But here is their lineup of talkers
Neal Boortz,
Bill Press,
Michael Smerconish,
Thom Hartmann,
Ed Schultz,
Clark Howard,
Stephanie Miller

Not sure what Limbaugh has to do with their failing business.

Clear channel has always had its critics. Most of the criticism I've seen of the company is less about the talk they carry and more about they way they format their music stations (same boring crap, over and over, from coast to coast).

is carried on Arms Services Radio and broadcast all around the world.

--how much money he loses.

are u kidding ? really? short of his death nothing will ever happen in your lifetime!!!

you there?

don't you ever get so emotional you can't hold your tongue??? kpete is always above it all, ever notice that?

NEVER gonna happen with all these stupid fucks, and there are so many of them. Rush Limbaugh going down, I wish, good luck with that!! kpete what is your story ? Do you work for du or what??

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

I'm not entirely surprised.

But what keeps me sane is that ONE DAY, he'll be facing his own personal "death panel" in those negotiations for his FUTURE contracts.

I thought you were going to show a picture of him boarding a plane to the Dominican Republic.

He was surely toast after he was abusing drugs and was surely toast after he lost sponsors in the Sandra Fluke thing.

And yet there he still is. His listeners would jump off of a bridge if he told them to.

The day of the jackal is over.

An entire generation. His 24/7/365 for over 20 years of influence has destroyed political dialogue in this country. It has reignited racial, sexual and every other kind of bigotry and intolerance in this nation and given a pass to rape, killings and every thing else we've seen since he's been on the air. He's worked hand in hand with the most reactionary forces in the country and been a major player in installing GOP majorities in statehouses and the Congress. He was a leading influence to get Gingrich in office with the fear tactics that the Tea Party believes because they've heard it all their lives, the younger ones, and it validated the twisted, hateful beliefs of the older ones. He's cheering every atrocity that is commited. No, they won't let him go, there is nothing free market about it.

young people laugh at his shit now.