Or do you think other lunatics will be replacing Rush and company?

and talk radio in general--the talk format is moving to fewer and smaller stations. So I think we will be spared country-wide lunacy at least...but look for even bigger whacks in some markets.

I've been in radio forty years and I can tell you that's true.

They can only thrive in the remaining pockets of ignorance, pockets that are becoming smaller and smaller.

but I'd thoroughly enjoy watching Limbaugh's empire collapse while he was still alive.

I do think it is dying out. It's too much overload.

The Blaze, Daily Caller, and of course, Faux News. Rush is old news.

that ANY rightwing misogynistic racist fucknut will be a target of boycott. Limbaugh has been the most effective target, but we can and will move on to other hate talkers if his ship goes down completely (Michael Savage -- watch out). We have the ability to quickly organize through social media and the advertisers should realize that.

For years, Rush would go on and on about Carbonite and how he uses it to back up all of his data and how it is the only service he would trust to do so. He would talk about it in a way that you didn't even think it was a commercial. He wouid just segue into talking about Carbonite and how great it is from his other ranting - there was no clear indication that it was a break for an ad. It seemed like he just used this service and wanted to tell folks how great it was.

Then magically one day, he stopped talking about Carbonite and now talks about iDrive and how he uses iDrive to back up all of his data and how that is the only service that one can trust to do so. And again he tries to make it seem like he is just talking about it naturally.
It's kind of funny.

All these RW talk show hosts do this (sports talk show hosts too) - where they just start talking about some product they use without a clear and distinct indication that they have shifted into a paid commercial.

Watched a DVD of old Jack Benny shows and the Lucky Strike commercials were integrated right into the action.

right into the radio script just like part of the program.

...when Grandpa was listening to Paul Harvey.

going through the bowels of the Republican party.

It was a painfully slow movement that started with Reagan.

it was accompanied by the sonorous thunder of Buchanan, Limbaugh and Coulter,

and it will end appropriately with a perfect asswipe, Donald Trump.

Especially the ass-wipe part.

If not the $$ then the €€, ££, ¥¥ and ₩₩ are running just as fast, if not faster.

Right wing talk in a few years will meet Air America in the radio afterlife.

Bigotry, misogyny and uninformed bombast just don't sell like they used to.

... the invisible hand of the marketplace give Rush the middle finger.

3 stations are a lot for 35K population, though I assume the reception extends outward.

ends for a while. It hurt a lot of good people. We must stop demonizing other people, especially the poor, women, minorities, people from other countries.

When was the last time that you can remember running into a die hard dittohead?

listen to that stupid crap. It all gets so DUH! Right-Wing Hate Radio is history past! Maybe they will get a life now. ... but doubtful.

Some guy stuck in the air conditioned cab of a giant harvester slowly and mindlessly going back and forth in an endless field of wheat. He had only four choices on the AM dial:

- Country and Western
- A fire and brimstone preacher
- Classical
- RW Talk starring Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity, Savage, Levin, Dr. Laura, etc.

That's the classic demographic they were shooting for to make "DemocRAT" a dirty word in the farmlands of America.

Then along came satellite radio and the monopoly to brainwash was OVER.

brainwashed too. They are parrots.

Joseph Goebbels is undoubtedly proud of RW talking stars Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Savage, Levin, Dr. Laura and the rest of the despicable herd.

He worked in the mail room with the radio on and he honestly believed he could be on the Board of Directors if the right person upstairs heard him parrot Rush.

Don't right wingers love that kind of thing?

Rush is a has been, no one cares to even get upset at what he says anymore.

Its time for him to retire.

Just nod and agree. They are going to implode.

Say, "No, i heard it was the UN." Now we'd see some implosion!

Have your girlfriend tell that to those right wingers who are freaking out. What's left of their brains will a-splode.

plenty of chances to spread hate there.

blaring 7x24 is beyond me. They are stupid sounding and boring IMO to any reasonably sane person. They serve up garbage 7x24 with nothing but hatred and ignorance.

Thankfully the whole concept of terrestrial radio seems to be in serious decline.

an Internet Radio, thousands and thousands of stations from around the world. I had no idea Internet Radio had advanced so far. I just did this recently, I was so fed up with local terrestrial radio.

I had thought of just using the PC, but the packaging/menuing with Internet Radio is phenomenal. I think I can post this here. I picked up this one that seems to be tops without going overboard in cost. Grace Radio Mondo https://gracedigital.com/shop/mondo/ I basically use it as a tuner on a great old restored antique radio I have ... brought the vintage radio screaming into the 21st century from 60 years ago! It's pretty cool!

Wife got it for me for christmas about 5 years ago. Best damned present I ever got.

oddly - I spent many years trying to organize folks to bring community radio to our town. Due to the wife's health problems I finally gave up, but another person took my place. It may be on the air in a couple of months and on the internet.

We hope it will be radio worth listening to.

We Muslim Kenyans just LOOOVE us some "Classic Country," and part of his ouster was contingent upon getting that form of music to grace the airwaves!!!

Town by town, city by city, we will do the bidding of our leader and distract listeners from their radios, even jamming the radio signal if necessary, so they switch to "All Things Considered" or that station that plays merengue music at top volume!! It's a plot, I tell you, a plot!! And I, as a stalwart soldier in the Muslim Kenyans 4 Obama Brigade, salute our fearless leader!!!! Soooooon, soooooon, the RUSH will be OVER!!!

It IS Obama's fault!!!!!!!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... (rub hands together gleefully) ......BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!




Always have to do this here .... for the humor - impaired.

How did I miss that in the Birther follies...?

"market forces" should dictate how all business is done in America, scream like howler monkeys when those precious market forces slay one of their sacred cows!

Admitting that it was market forces might cause them to question their belief that they represent the silent majority and that liberalism (defined as pretty much anything that isn't Tea Party fascism) is something imposed on America by alien elites.

..... to get the edge in debates with some of my right wing friends. It was amazing that most of them were repeating almost word for word what Rush said on his radio show earlier in the week. Not only did this make my friends very predictable in their arguments and vulnerable to good counter arguments, but it also left them open to implications that they weren't thinking for themselves and letting someone else do their thinking for them. It was an example of "you you know your enemies so you can defeat them".

Eventually I got to the point that it wasn't worth listening to that garbage and Rush's predictable arguments were easy enough to defeat on the fly. But my point is that a lot of people, even smart people listen to these talk show hosts for two reasons: 1. They like hearing someone "important" justify their own positions and 2. they want learn how to articulate effectively what they feel inside. I don't think those needs are going to go away if Rush was kicked off of all of the airways tomorrow.

Cuz, you know the ears bleeding and all that.

But, i do completely agree that when every talking point is two dimensional, it is not that hard to counter on the fly.

And that's a good thing.

Can't wait.

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Good thread.

they may not know it, and may be freaking out now, but that's just their ignorance talking. Without Rushbo to provide the slant, they may actually hear some reality every once in awhile. Of course, since most (I'm assuming) are Faux Snooze listeners, the improvement may not be what it otherwise would be.

... and try to get those on the air in some time slots, even if it is country.

A giant leap for the collective IQ level

All of Pres Obama's successes kind of expose the crapfest that passes for RW talk.

Shouldn't Republicans cheer for the free market taking action?