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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:21 AM
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heads-up: Rush giving live statement NOW
on my local EIB network, he's speaking to AIB or something like that, association of broadcasters--sorry, I don't get cable but was eavesdropping on my local wingnut radio station to hear what they were saying
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Caution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:24 AM
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1. please keep us updated!
I'm dying to hear what he's got to say!
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:26 AM
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2. The radio DJ here just said...
He thinks Rush 'fell on the sword' to keep Treasongate out of the headlines today. I agree.
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:44 AM
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10. that's an especially lame conspiracy
Rush might be a suck-up but he wouldn't end it all to blow up one news cycle. It can seem that way on the internet, but life goes on without regard to our incisive analysis.

So who do you suppose gave this story to the Kerry campaign?
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farmbo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:26 AM
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3. Let me guess.."My friends...this was CLINTON'S FAULT"
eom
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:27 AM
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4. so far: summarizing his start in broadcasting
just wanted to be in radio, to "attract largest audience I could"
could be myself "without a lot of coaching sessions"
indirectly patting self on back for growth of (RW) radio/TV--"radio has become very powerful" over last 15 yrs.--Al Gore et al. "think they don't have a channel of their own" (WTF?)--radio "relevant, powerful, taken seriously"--"scrutiny on radio like there never has been"--basically: have a responsibility to respect power of radio--
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:39 AM
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9. Cute
(whipping out the old Rush/English - English/Rush dictionary)

Rush: "I just wanted to be in radio, to attract largest audience I could"

English: "I am high right now. I am taking drugs."

Rush: "I just want to be myself without a lot of coaching sessions"

English: "Black men are too dumb to be quarterbacks."

Rush: "There is scrutiny on radio like there never has been before"

English: If I start to eat all this crow right now, I'll get fat again. Please love me, mommy.
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molly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:46 AM
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12. Too funny!
his driving ambition is about MONEY - enough to keep himself high. He does not give a hoot about his audience or what he says - as long as he keeps himself employed.
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:32 AM
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5. must understand our role in what is happening in world around us
also "that audience is yours"--no pictures, talk format, so active participation on part of listener, profound bond betw commentator, audience--this can be used well, or misused--greater the self-respect we have, in terms of actual communication sense, greater ability to inform the public

so far, hype of power of radio and how peoples' reality is shaped by it--

"liberals think they've lost control of media because of radio"

"starting their own liberal network. . . . this is astounding to me! . . . actually think they are trailing us in this"

HA HA he's gone off on a rant about the "LIBERAL MEDIA"
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:34 AM
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6. It appears he is gonna blame his shortcomings on the "liberal media"...
Never, never, never take responsibility...
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:34 AM
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7. Listen to it on the web here
http://www.wgst.com/stream.html
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revcarol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:52 AM
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15. What are you trying to do--
make us suicide ourselves?
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:38 AM
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8. dissing idea of "starting at the top and working down"
re creation of a "liberal station"--"trying to be on par with us from Day One"--"let em come, fascinating to watch, have no understanding of the relationship with audience"--people will choose who they want, this will cement our audience (implying that of course the people will choose "us" over "them")

rambling again about "dawning" of radio, its "power to move product"
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:46 AM
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11. Oh, God... If he ever gets to the point....
will someone let us know?
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:49 AM
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13. really . . . I have been lulled into complete NONlistening
sorry, my mind really started wandering and I totally forgot he was talking--it was just solid white noise in the background
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dkamin Donating Member (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:50 AM
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14. Rush the Drug Addict?
I saw this headline on the way to work that was saying Rush Limbaugh was rumored to be a prescription drug addict and under investigation, i think it was the Daily News (NY).
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:57 AM
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16. the descriptions posted here
sound more like rush is resigning from more than just espn. hhmmmmmm...
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:57 AM
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17. BWAHAHAHAHA! Local station just turned him off!!


announcer said (paraphrase), well, that was Rush Limbaugh speaking live to the Natl Assn of Broadcasters, well he was kind of getting into the broadcasting nuts & bolts--some listeners might find this interesting but we'll keep monitoring to see if he addresses the news about his decision to leave ESPN . . . (I don't think he mentioned the drug thing)
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:00 AM
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18. oh no, now Bores is coming up
please god, please please please let a scandal hit him too :eyes:
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