or go bankrupt supporting his hate speech and lies.
Either way America would be better off.

Rush doesn't own it.
In fact, any words or phrases used frequently by Limbaugh ought to be appropriated by non-Fox viewing Americans and used, correctly, often enough to lose the taint/stain left by Limbaugh's voice.

That fucker has ruined that song for me.

some phrase or song can ruin it (coat it with stench).
Once that is done it is hard to reclaim or want to reclaim anything.

Absolutely. May I offer my mega-dittos as well?

Then he'll only be on

ARMED SERVICES RADIO

Excellent post!

and finally remove Rush off AFP.

n/t

on military radio stations. Paid for by us.

If that's true, then I agree that it should stop.

Rush is permitted to spew his bile free of charge on the public's airwaves. If we had a viable FCC, there is no way 91% of the people's airwaves would be occupied by extreme right-wing ideology. This is a monopoly of the airwaves, and, mirrors what one would see in a totalitarian society.

If it hasn't already been coined....FLUSH RUSH!! Send him swirling.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon operated the craptascular Washington Times for years at a loss in order to get the conservadum message out. Let the syndicators of hate radio take the hit too if they insist on continuing to spew garbage.

and is a piss poor investment. His brand is damaged and I'm hoping it's irreversably damaged.

... it's all good.

... he'll be history unless he can find an owner (and I mean that) like Rupert Murdoch to underwrite his poison.

Look what they spent on the election.

No demand for your product = advertisers no longer interested

We're losing our 1090 AM in Seattle along with another progressive radio station in Oregon in January to sports, if you can believe that. Needless to say, I'm pretty upset. So hateful rhetoric designed to misinform and inflame the masses trumps facts and well thought out, reasoned dialogue. And yet this POS Rush not only continues to poison the airwaves with his lies, misogyny, xenophobia and racism, he and his ilk are given exclusive access to Armed Forces Radio. This is why I can't feel sorry for anyone who would willfully pay advertising fees to support this. F*ck them.

He should not be on Armed Forces Radio the way he brazen lies, just wrong. And then for US to be paying for it....

You don't enlist for wars based on lies and for the purpose of enriching military (unbid) contractors because you're the "brightest penny in the roll". Osama Bin Laden could have easily been gotten at Tora Bora with Special Forces, but no, corporate America needed a war.

is not in the business of giving a rat's ass what the "heroes" want. They get to listen to what the generals permit them to listen to just like they get to do what they're told.

Conservatives support Limbaugh partly on principle.

It's the way it is.

Beck on instead of Stephanie Miller in the AM. He gets 1/10 the listeners she did. The Republican owners of these syndicates kill liberal programming in spite of good ratings to spew their propaganda.

We don't get any radio because Clear Channel and the rest don't want any discordant notes among their propaganda symphony. Hartmann regularly gets dropped in markets in which he's trouncing Pig Boy in the ratings. You are parroting right wing spin.

Any program that makes money will stay on the air. Period.

God I love DU.

Hate talkers get propped up, by Murdoch and the like, on radio, and on TV while liberal talkers have been artificially limited in their markets, despite their performance.

But thank you for your concern.

of economic determinism may not hold. At the end of the 90s a station in Gainesville Fl area with a top listener rating (27 station market) was purchased by Clear Channel. Popular diverse format was junked in favor of RW stuff. Ratings dropped to near bottom and stayed there. Suited CC just fine. Other goals were being served.

That's it. When that changes, he is gone.

But Rush still has a contract--$50 million a year according to Lawrence O'Donnell.

XM for Air America and now continue with XM-Syrius because I can drive the distances in Texas that I do and not go insane with rw and pretend christian radio. Edited to add: or whiny country music.

they tried to listen to it where I used to work. Boy, the fit I had, turned them away from listening at work anyway. I don't like rush and his brand.

Clear Channel is the said the reasoning is that they were losing money so they decided to go with another sports station in already saturated market.

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-29441-kpoj_cancelling_political_talk_radio_on_monday.html

BS

all the pro football and baseball teams! (I don't listen to sports anyhoo, because there's way too much fascination with guys chasing balls for money. My golden retreiver would do it for free!) But I sure miss KPOJ, I could only faintly pick it out when on break while it was being talked over by dial neighbor 590 KUGN here in Eugene. You can only imagine how hard it is to listen to Sean Hannity blasting at you with the likes of Thom Hartman barely audible. I have wi-fi radio stations at work, but it's so frustrating to be in a "liberal" town and having 2 conservative BS stations and no progressive talk radio.
I'm surprised they waited til after the election to switch. I'll be surprised if there are any progressive stations left by 2016, unless the supposedly left wing media does something so support it. Or maybe some wealthy Hollywood entertainer could jump in and buy a network.

Lost air america a few years ago. I would drive to work slowly so I could listen to as much as I could. It was on Thursday. On Friday it was replaced by a Mexican music station. I was mad. Drove in silence rather than turn on Rush or Savage.

I listen to AM 1090 all the time in my car, especially Stephanie Miller and Thom Hartmann. I hadn't heard about the upcoming format switch. That is really disappointing. Well, at least there hasn't been any right-wing radio poisoning Seattle's airwaves since AM 570 changed its format last year (I think it was last year).

getting rid of it is going to require very radical treatment, along the lines of which will get another one of my posts hidden. It is a shame that we don't have the will to even discuss it, much less do anything about it.

Oh the dream of them and their ilk being off the air....

Now that Mitt isn't busy, I bet he could squeeze a few million out of them.

What do they expect when they bank on a bigot? Rush didn't turn into a misogynist overnight. He's been that way for decades. If those radio stations had refused to air his content from the beginning, they wouldn't be in the fix they're in now.

He has made them a lot of cash.

And the toilet papers along with him.

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If Pig Boy gets laid off, there will still be 1000 or so liars in his place.

panache with what he does, which is why he is so popular, has lasted so long and is so dangerous. Others who have tried to be Rush have failed or only have had modest success. To give you an example on the left, there is Keith Olbermann. Since Keith went off the air, there have been many who have tried to fill his shoes and just can't do it. We do need to bring Keith back somewhere. He is the anti-Rush.

The rest of the crew are just as dangerous. Hannity, O'Really, Beck, Liddy, Medved, and 1000s of local wannabes would carry on just fine without Pig Boy. I'll have to take your word for it on his "panache". I have found through the years that lots of self-identifying Dems are quite taken with him. It has to eat at your insides though, to be addicted to someone you know to be a liar, hate monger, and traitor.

Don't worry, I don't alert, but ooh boy.

I worked in a resort once years ago, when he was on TV. Part of my job was often knocking on the doors of cabins and trailers to deliver stuff or collect rent or such things. I learned the hard way to never come aknocking when Rush was atalking. The whole resort would suddenly button down to watch him in that hour. I finally decided to watch him myself since I couldn't get any work done at that time. Frankly, I was in shock at the blatant racism, sexism and just mean-spiritedness this man spouted, yet he reminded me much of how Reagan could pull you into his mindset with the right words and intonation. I think the guy is a genius in that respect. Too bad he sold his soul to the dark side. Imagine the good he could do if he were ours.

I hate the bastard, and would gleefully see him strung up from a tree, but he is very, very good at what he does. The kind of admiration this political science major has for Goebbles, sick bastard but brilliant, utterly manipulative, cognizant of the state of the art, brilliant at spinning a new fact that 'lesser' minds find inconvenient into part of a web of lies with the speed and grace of Arthur Ashe returning a serve or Willie Mays making a catch and throw to home; evil but like watching Reagan at a press conference, unflappable.

if you think they're hatred and ignorance is going to go away or even dissipate once Pig Boy OD's or eats himself to death, you're as deluded as the Limbeciles.

They love the likes of Ann Coulter, Glen Beck, Hannity Insanity, Billo....they are beyond hope.

I disagree.

will suddenly become liberals and/or shut up and stop bitching? Or even regain their rationality?

At this point the mere presence of Mr. Assboil has nearly no effect. The haters have thousands of outlets for their insanity.

I just don't think they'll forget him in two weeks. Many of them have been listening to him for 20 years. If he died, I'd expect some of them to float CTs that Obama killed him.

There may be plenty of people just as vile, but Rush has spent years building up a following - a cult, even.

There are plenty of reasons for knocking him off the air even if it's mostly symbolic. Symbolic victories can be demoralizing for the target (right wingers) and energizing for our "side".

that really demoralized the teabaggers

Our side has a really big problem facing reality of the depth of depravity we're trying to overcome. Limpballs losing his job will do absolutely nothing to stem the tide of hatred that his minions hold for us. It will probably make it worse. Face these facts. It will make winning it easier.

if Rush is off the air. I'm not. I'm saying it would be a good thing if he was and that is true. There are also many other problems to address.

And yes it will do something to stem the ride. Face it. Rush has a much larger and more dedicated cult of followers than Beck ever did.

hard up for something to type. No one is saying anything close to the stuff you are typing to argue against. No one but you is saying the ditto heads will vanish, stop being racists or go liberal.
When you find yourself having to rewrite what others say in order to agrue with it, it can be easier to log out and go shout at a mirror.

Please direct me to a post in which I declared that someone believes flushing Pig Boy will "solve all the problems". A lot of posters on this thread think that his eventual firing/removal from the public discourse is some sort of victory, and will demoralize the Limbeciles. That is preposterous, and that is my point. The lies and hate will carry on, and the Dittiots will within a few days find another liar and hater to brainwash them during that time slot.

Clear Channel (CC from here on out) was once the holder of some 1200+ radio stations in the US. But bad times have befallen them and good old Bain Capital has come to their ?rescue? as it were.
So all this consolidation brought about by the 1996 telecommunications act may be all undone thanks in no small part to Rushbo. Fitting ain't it?

I always bring myself back from insanity instantly after hearing him rant about nothing.

With a lack of progressive stations, political junkies will tune in the the blowhards like Rush, and it get's the dander up and get's you motivated to do something in retaliation. Freedom of speech has its benefits, but there needs to be balance, for sure. And NPR is obviously not the whole answer due to corporate sponsorship.

ASAP.

brainwashing, racist is on his way out.

Even stations in liberal markets like Green960 in San Francisco were replaced with programming featuring Glenn Beck, and now KPOJ in Portland was replaced with Fox Sports Talk in a market with other sports talk stations and good ratings for progressive talk, and now Seattle's progressive radio is also threatened. Even when they have good ratings and ad revenue.

Clear Channel and CBS are replacing progressive talk with more sports talk and hateful right wing programming.

Please sign this petition to restore balance in our public airwaves.

http://signon.org/sign/restore-the-airwaves.fb23?source=s.fb&r_by=512562

President Obama and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski: Initiate legislation or new rules that repeal the Communications Act of 1996 so "the public interest, convenience, and necessity" can be served on our airwaves.

Thanks for posting it. You should consider posting the petition as its own OP.

He's the ass that never ends. And never shuts up.

And all the mouths at Bain are watering. LOL

and get him removed. I mean that would make more sense than these idiots wanting to secede.

I was listening to Beck on local KVEC in SLO, Cal. just trying to list his sponsors, the usuals, Geiko, KSBY Radio, and...the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiters! what-the? somebody tell me how that happens...

Don't let anyone tell you boycotts do not work.

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Make your comments directly to Lew Dickey founder and now
CEO of Cumulus.

have Rush pay us all back for all of the advertisement money he's waisted.

Have Rush go to Afghanistan, while you're at it.

I hope Rush's hearing last long enough to hear his career being flushed down the toilet.

What a bloated waste of air time...

Send fried pork rinds to Rash Limbaugh at Excellence in Broadcasting. Pain Killers and bourbon whiskey too.

Everything about Rushbo is big.... I hope he goes over BOTH CLIFFS come Jan 1st for a reeeeeeeaaaaly big finish. But just as he has been on the air since 1989, it might take a while to phase him out. This looks like the necessary first step in the process. Thank you richardmyers for keeping us informed.

and a tweety tweet!

Kick Rush's ass!

when they were pushing the Telecommunications Act through. Half a dozen media companies own 98% of the broadcast stations. Half a dozen companies (most of them subsidiaries of the afore mentioned media companies) control the entire syndication market. and these companies have ALL THE MONEY in the industry.

It doesn't matter whether you like what they have or hate what they do, you have no choice. If you listen to radio, you listen to what they decide.

Let the stations go bankrupt.

Is there any chance either of these networks didn't know what kind of cretin Rush is before his "slut" comments? Nope, no chance. Rush is despicable, but they knew it and kept him on. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

they benefited by his poison, now they have to swallow same

Singular.

Rush should move to satellite radio.

We 'ought to tell the companies about the radio programs that we'd like to hear on the radio and list all the air america programs that got dropped because of lack of advertising.

Also, tell them that we like when there are local on air staff that can give us information and timely news about our area rather than the clear channel b/s with no local staff.

Remember, rushbo works for Cumulus' main competitor...Bain/Cheap Channel/Premier. Earlier this year Cumulus and Dial Global began a show with Hucklenutz to compete with rushbo. Many of rushbo's most powerful stations are Cumulus stations...inherited from former owners Citadel and ABC...and Cumulus has been quietly planning to dump rushbo on these stations. Surely there'll be an uproar when the rotund sound of Oxycontin vanishes from WABC or WLS or WJR and citing poor revenues makes a convenient excuse.

First, the cast of characters.

Premiere Radio Networks is the company that distributes Fats Lowbrow, Glenn Beck and others. They're a subsidiary of Clear Channel Media.

Cumulus Networks is the former ABC network. They are owned by Cumulus Broadcasting, which also owns stations such as WABC and WLS, both of which air Limbaugh. They distribute Sean Hannity (in partnership with Premiere), as well as Mark Levin and, as of last month, Michael Savage.

Dial Global is probably the biggest of the radio networks. Over the past few years, they've been swallowing other syndicators such as Jones Radio, Westwood One, CBS Radio and others. They deal in music, talk and sports (like the NFL). Their talk radio division handles a lot of progressive talk, including Miller, Schultz, Press and Hartmann. They do not own any radio stations, so therefore have very little interaction with Limbaugh.

Then there's the little guys like TRN and Salem. Both are hardcore right-wingers.

The problem is that Limbaugh's assholery is reflecting badly on all political talk, both left and right. It's cutting deeply into everyone's pies.

and they don't have to worry about Romney getting elected, maybe they'll put some progressives who actually make money (like Stephanie Miller) back on the air.

That fat gasbag deserves to go under

Glad to have each of you here! For years I have wished that the fat gasbag goes under. He has done more damage to this country and most of its people than even ronald reagan did.

...and into the back hills of this country, if we EVER expect to win the minds of the people living outside the major cities.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....we have to compete with rush and sean vannity and savage and beck and ingrahm..and the rest of these seditious animals if we EVER expect to see the color blue outside of the cities. The people live in a cave of fox-nonsense.

I've driven across the country numerous times in the past ten years...and once out of the cities...there is NO liberal or progressive voice. You can often get rush and sean and savage and the rest of the cult on as many as four or more stations from one location....BUT NO PROGRESSIVE VOICES!! How can we ever expect to drag our country out of ignorance if this continues???

I moved to the country a few years back from northern liberal Ohio & noticed the same dumbing down. There's nothing of import in the press or on the radio

First is a national or state/regional press service that gives the liberal voice, along with local news to people can give up subscriptions to the right-wing rags, get their local news, some national prospective, and liberal op-ed pages. I'm not up to snuff on distribution networks, but this is needed. Probably a money issue at root. Sort of a 'free-press' idea.

Second is hit em where they are: farming news sources - field conditions, crop yields, stock prices, and ECONOMICS. Every region has a well-respected journalistic source that publishes this info along with other events. This would be the most influential place to find the thinkers.
They're also at mud-bogs, auctions, gun-shows, and church events.

We have to develop a feel for these crowd sources and how to get a well-meaning, clean-cut message out. Think family, environment, self-sustaining.

Third, and probably the easiest at this point - the 2-yr colleges and tech schools. There are no universities in the outback, but there ARE tech schools and 2-yr schools. Get the kids. They're young enough to listen and pay attention.

Whether these ideas can piggyback on some outreach we have going or something new needs to come about, I can't say.

I'm up to my eyeballs in activism right now or I'd dig in. Working on space-based weaponry on a global scale & can't get spread too thin. Rush is an ass.

The reason for Rush's big ratings is because they literally give away the programing block! Rural and small stations are given Rush for free as long as local add insertion is limited during his show. This works out great as theses stations get a big name show and have to hire less. Miller and Ed can't compete with free.

What an insult they have all been to our country.

Make more than 3/4 the population of the US your enemy don't cry about losing listeners.

How is it that this shit mouthed garbage remains broadcasting?

Normally, if you can't support the show through advertising, the show is canceled. This defies all common sense.

Rush supplies the whole allotted time already set with his own commercials.

If he brings the ratings down, they may have to ask Rush to go. But, if the price is right, what would it matter to them. Making money is making money.

to broadcast lies, hate, and propaganda. Do you think all of the Nazi rags in Germany were turning a profit? Whatever it cost Schicklgruber to keep them churning out the propaganda was returned tenfold.

One thing about suing Clear Channel, this asshole hasn't been able to hold on to a job in radio ever since. I hope he looses this job too!

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