This article has eclipsed Pravda’s crop reports from the Soviet era for accuracy.
First, the idea that Clear Channel is “sinking” or “imploding” is false on its face. Even the source material Boehlert linked to shows that Clear Channel is in solid financial shape, while a more intense investigation of their latest financial disclosures shows a profitable company with very manageable debt.
http://www.clearchannel.com/Investors/Documents/315.pdf
Second, trying to link Clear Channel’s non-existent financial problems to their deal with Rush Limbaugh strains Boehlert’s non-existent credibility. Media Matters apparently doesn’t even understand the arrangement between Limbaugh and Clear Channel, missing Rush’s income by half.
Clear Channel’s 8 year contract pays Limbaugh’s EIB network 38 million per year plus a 100 million signing bonus. Added together, the 50 million per year is the only income Media Matters picks up on. What they fail to mention is that the Clear Channel contract allows 5 minutes per hour (out of the total 20 minutes per hour advertising time) to remain the property of EIB. These 5 minutes are sold by EIB to national advertisers in two formats. One is straight commercials and the other is personalized commercials in which Limbaugh adds his touch and endorsements to the product.
Because demographically Rush Limbaugh listeners are well educated, affluent and informed (Pew Research), the advertising rates for this time (especially the personalized commercials) are higher than any other on radio. Industry estimates have placed the total for these independent sales at 50 million per year.
Due to the recent change by Arbitron to accurate recording devises as opposed to diaries, the Limbaugh audience has been found to be much larger than previously estimated. Recalculating rates using these new audience figures will increase not only Clear Channel’s income, but Limbaugh’s personal take as well.
You should know better than to take a Media Matters article as fact. As with most liberal sources, the claims made won’t hold up to even a cursory check of the source material. How embarrassing it must be to quote foolish items like this in the company of people who know actual facts. Let’s hope that in the future, you perform the proper editorial function of learning the truth prior to publishing.
I'm sure Doxie, that if we were neighbors, just down the street from you. That your house would look better than mine. That yours would look the more concerned about the neighborhood. From what I read of you. You're a good citizen through and through. You've shown the effort on your street.
Now with politics, both our parties seem to be messing up a lot. Speaker Hastert didn't drive the GOP's car in the same direction that saw our uptick in 1994. Way too many earmarks, favors for the few and not enough care given to the public's purse strings. We had that Abramoff junk and now we're seeing this PMA stuff in your party. Seems these politicians get to DC and forget about the little guy's. You and me, they don't seem to hear us too well. Those K Street people get more attention, we get lip service at election time. Ethics reform, true reform is needed. That piece of crap from a year or two ago was just watered down nothing.
The other thing we need is non gerrymandered voting districts. We need a fairer way to draw the lines. The people's intent is not being heard in DC. Safe districts mean there's no competition for the electorate. Allows them to take us for granted. They allow us not to be involved. We have no stake in the outcome. We aren't getting the best government. We are getting the government we deserve by our participation. I think we both can agree on this. America can be better, much better, but that will only happen with more of our involvement, our investment in our government.
Somehow, we need better drawn lines that force the politico's to listen to their electorate.
Posted by peter at May 7, 2009 10:04 AMRush will likely never go away anyway, living on in some clanking sad form...
As we witness two ru$h listeners come to his defense.
From a recent article by radio writer Bill Mann.
Ever wonder why Rush "Boss" Limbaugh's syndicated radio show is all over the place like the proverbial cheap suit?If you do much driving in rural areas -- e.g. between cities -- "Boss" Limbaugh's bloviations are often the only thing you can pick up on a car radio. Hey, that's what CD players are for.
Did Rush accrue hundreds of local radio affiliates across the country because his political views are mainstream? That's obviously not it. OK, so why IS his show so "popular?" Why do hundreds of stations around the country carry his show, the most widely syndicated talkfest in the country?
Glad you asked.
The real story is not generally well-known. The only reason I know is through my covering the business of radio for years for several major daily newspapers and also, for industry trade magazines like Radio World.
It's because -- ready for this? -- Rush's show was, and presumably still is, given away for free to many local radio stations.
This shocker is because of a little-known practice in broadcast syndication called a "barter deal." (Barter deals were briefly mentioned in Michael Wolff's first-rate recent piece on Rush in Vanity Fair).
Here's how a barter deal works: To launch the show, Limbaugh's syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks -- the same folks who syndicate wingnut du jour Glen Beck -- gave Limbaugh's three hours away -- that's right, no cash -- to local radio stations, mostly in medium and smaller markets, back in the early 1990's.
So, a local talk station got Rush's show for zilch. In exchange, Premiere took for itself much of the local station's available advertising time (roughly 15 minutes an hour) and packed the show with national ads it had already pre-sold.
Think Gold Bond Medicated Powder.
It's a very sweet deal for local radio station owners, explained Bill Exline a respected radio broker (he helped people buy and sell local stations). "Not only does the local station get three hours of free programming," Exline explained, "but that's one less local talk-show host on staff they need. It makes small- and medium-market radio properties more profitable and attractive by cutting down staff expenses."
Shocking, isn't it, that Limbaugh would allow jobs to be cut to advance his dubious career? Not to mention helping to make small radio stations far less local?
Major-market right-wing talk stations, like San Francisco's KSFO-AM ("Reichstag Radio") have to pay actual money, of course, to carry Boss Limbaugh's daily proclamation-a-thon. (Note: KSFO, which I referred to as "Sieg Heil on Your Dial" in my column when it first switched to righty talk, is the same station that gave hatemonger Michael Savage his first radio megaphone).
Radio sources say that small- and medium-market stations still get Limbaugh's show for free, or pay only a token amount of cash for it. I asked Michael Harrison, editor of radio-syndicator-friendly Talkers magazine about this, and he claimed he didn't know how many Limbaugh affiliates still barter. .
So, when you hear Rush bellowing as you're passing through Birdseed Junction, Beanblossom, or Pyrite, just remember: The radio station's getting what it paid for. Or, more accurately, DIDN'T pay for.
Yep, that ru$h is true hero to capitalism, helping squash local radio personalities for almost 20 years now!
just imagine, the first 2 comments drawn out by a post on the noxious, disgusting, drug addict lush rimbaugh are from the long departed jwest and our premminent cockroach shit-fer-brains pete.
Something about pigs like lush attract scum, evidently.
west media matters is and always will be far more accurate than any drivel or propaganda favored by you fascists. And no one has missed hou and your bullshit,,,
shitbrain pete gerrymander your delusional, psychotic ass, cockroach...
Posted by headxray at May 7, 2009 11:00 AMSoS, Headcase,
What is with all the anger? Why not just say “Thank you, Jwest, for giving me correct information so that I don’t sound like a fucking buffoon while discussing this subject”?
This isn’t a left/right policy debate. This is a series of facts arranged in an informative manner.
• Fact - Clear Channel is not in financial trouble.
• Fact - Limbaugh makes double what Media Matter said.
Although these facts may not sit well with some here, isn’t it good to have the truth and be informed rather than be filled with lies and remain ignorant?
If you want to argue opinion, let’s have at it, but for god’s sake, at least acknowledge facts for facts.
Exactly, SoS. I'm glad Limbaugh's now the leader of the GOP - number one, more people are hearing and seeing what he actually has been saying all these years, and it's turned the voters in droves back to the Dems. Number two, watching their congress people bow down like slaves to the bloviating drug addled dork is a no-no for the GOP sheep - they want their daddies to act like macho guys, not pussies begging forgiveness from that pile of shit. How humiliating to watch their reps kneeling (even if it is to their de facto leader)? Again, the 10 percenters are going for the short term thrill of artificially enhanced ratings only to be done in by the long term damage clinging to ignorance, hate and bigotry Limbaugh demands of the party. They're not going to win anything anytime soon, because they can't jettison the fringe-dwellers, since those are the only voters the GOP has left. What fun it is to watch the contortions of these trolls when they say "I never liked Rush" yet he's their leader. There's really no good way out for them! Heehee! I'm loving it!
headxray - the reason they hate Media Matters is they can't stand to hear their leaders' own words recited back to them, or to the public. It's easy to laugh off someone saying "O'Reilly lied." Once people hear exactly what the right wing gasbags are saying, normal people are repulsed. It took a long time, but normal people are finally realizing what scum the GOP is. Yippee.
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 11:21 AMhmmm why would one have anger? about delusional asswipes that support fascists such as lush rimbaugh and spew bullshit in the form of "information"....
if you don't know the answer to that, asshole there is absolutely no hope or help for you..
again no one missed your precious "commentary" or "opinions", indeed you break your "word" appearing here again..
so much for the "word" of a lush supporter....
Posted by headxray at May 7, 2009 11:32 AMTwinky don't you love the way olielly, the other head gasbag hates Media Matters?
When you get down to it with the changing demographics, particularly in age, the criminal, fascist party is done for good...
good riddance, eh?
Headcase,
Apparently, you are ungrateful of receiving facts on this subject. That’s OK with me if you want to wallow in your ignorance.
I’m certain that paradox is properly ashamed of repeating lies from Media Matters and of the non-existent fact checking that brought this unfortunate matter to the forefront.
Even though this is a liberal website, there are people who value having facts even if those facts are painful to their position. In order for them to be taken seriously in their opinions, it’s important for them to be able to cite statistics without being laughed at. For these few liberals, I took the time and trouble to correct Boehlert’s foolish drivel.
You’re welcome.
That's the thing, headxray - Media Matters does nothing but replay their exact words and show how the gasbags are wrong. It's always funny to hear about O'reilly getting bent out of shape as if he'd never heard of recording devices. He's such a little baby, it's hilarious!
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 11:51 AMgood riddance, eh?
Exactly. It was a long time coming, but that just makes their fall from a national party to a regional one all that much more sweet. Watching the flailings of the GOP's deadenders like the joker above use worn out devices like "angry left" and even "pravda," which I haven't heard for years, is so entertaining! I mean, they're down to trying to change the meaning of words like "truth!" How pathetic is that?
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 11:56 AMFact - In Jan. 2009, multiple business journals report Clear Channel going for cost saving move of 400 million and laying off thousands of workers.
Fact - WSJ reports in 2008 ru$h getting a 400 million contract with Clear Channel. Is it only coincidence that Clear Channel had make a 400 million cost cutting move just 7-8 months later?
Although these facts may not sit well with some right wing trolls here, isn’t it good to have the truth, with links and be informed rather than be filled with lies and remain ignorant?
If you want to argue opinion, like ru$h being a right wing hate merchant and tool for the GOP, let’s have at it, but for god’s sake, at least acknowledge facts for facts.
Where is the Fairness Doctrine when we need it? Limburger wouldn't even be allowed to have a license!
Twinky considering the right's attempt to legitimize "newspeak" and their penchant for "creating reality" not much is surprising coming from this bunch of looneytoons...
I doubt the troll knows the difference between "pravda" and "prada", actually..
Regional party? Wait til this batch of deadenders die off..I doubt if the entirety of their progeny embrace the timeless values of racism and xenophobia..you know what those are don't you west? Values you fascists embrace...
west you wouldn't know a "fact" if it bit you on the ass and didn't let go...cherrypicking bullshit to support your "positon" is so 90's...
Apparently the mean age of the criminal party is about 65..they shouldn't last too long on that steady diet of bile and hate...
Posted by headxray at May 7, 2009 12:25 PMThanks for demonstrating the way it should be done 7of6...
Posted by headxray at May 7, 2009 12:30 PMbut for god’s sake, at least acknowledge facts for facts.
Heehee! But but but facts have a liberal bias!
But you have to have at least a two party system, otherwise you'll end up in the same boat as with the GOP in charge. Maybe Independents will rise as more moderate conservatives decide they just can't be with the fringe dwellers, but can't bring themselves to be Dems. As for the Fairness doctrine, I don't care about that one. Let the oldsters keep pouring money into old technology like radio - yet another sign of the GOP's obsolescence. And after 8 years of an Obama administration, the rules will have all changed, anyhow, so this last ditch effort will be long forgotten.
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 12:44 PMAs for the Fairness doctrine, I don't care about that one.
Let me see if I can help convince you of that one Twinky. This is from RFK Jr's famous Sierra Club speech in 2005: (my highlights)
There is nothing wrong with having businesspeople in government. It's a good thing, if your objective is to recruit competence and expertise. But in all of these cases, these individuals, as I show in my book, have entered government service not to benefit the public interest but rather to subvert the very laws they're now charged with enforcing -- in order to enrich the President's corporate paymasters.They have imposed an enormous diminution in quality of life in this country. The problem is most Americans don't know about it. They don't see the connection, and the reason for that is because we have a negligent and indolent media and press in this country which has absolutely let down American democracy. [applause] All this rightwing propaganda, which is planned and organized and has dominated this country, the political debate for so many years is talking about a liberal media. Well, you know and I know that there is no such thing as a liberal media in the United States of America. There is a rightwing media, and if you look for where most Americans are now getting their news, that's where they're getting it.
According to Pew, 30 percent of Americans now say that their primary news source is talk radio, which is 90 percent dominated by the right. Twenty-two percent say their primary news source is Fox News, MSNBC, or CNBC, all dominated by the right, and another 10 percent, Sinclair Network, which is the most rightwing of all. That's the largest television network in our country. It's run by a former pornographer who requires that all 75 of his affiliate television stations -- and this is where Midwesterners get their news, where red-state people get their news -- that all of them have to take a pledge not to report critically about this President or about the war in Iraq.
Then the rest of us -- the majority of Americans -- are still getting our news from electronic media, and it's the corporate-owned media, which has no ideology except for filling its pocketbooks. Many of them are run by big polluters. All of them are run by giant corporations that have all kinds of deals with the government and are not going to offend public officials. This all started in 1988 when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine said that the airwaves belong to the public. They were public-trust assets, just like our air and water, and broadcasters could be licensed to use them but only with the proviso that they use them to promote the public interest and to advance American democracy. They had to inform the public of issues of public import. They had to have the news hours. (None of those networks wanted to show the news, because it's expensive, and they lose money on it.) They had to avoid corporate consolidation. They had to have local control and diversity of control. That had been the requirement of the law since 1928.
Today, as a result of the abolishment of that doctrine, six giant multinational corporations now control all 14,000 radio stations in our country, almost all 6,000 TV stations, 80 percent of our newspapers, all of our billboards, and now most of the Internet information services. So you have six guys who dictate what Americans have as information and what we see as news. The news departments have become corporate profit centers. They no longer have any obligation to benefit the public interest; their only obligation is to their shareholders, and they fulfill that obligation by increasing viewership.
How do you do that? Not by reporting the news that we need to hear to make rational decisions in our democracy but, rather, by entertaining us, by appealing to the prurient interests that all of us have in the reptilian core of our brain for sex and celebrity gossip. [applause] So they give us Laci Peterson and Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant, and today we're the best-entertained and the least-informed people on the face of the earth. This is a real threat to American democracy.
I do 40 speeches a year in red states, and there is no difference between how Republican audiences and Democratic audiences react when they hear what this White House and this Congress are doing. There is no difference except that the Republicans come up afterward and say, "Why haven't we ever heard of this before?" I say to them, "It's because you're watching Fox News and listening to Rush." Eighty percent of Republicans are just Democrats who don't know what's going on.
Hope this helps explain why I feel the Fairness Doctrine is important.
Posted by Seven of Six at May 7, 2009 01:03 PMHow is Air America doing?
Regards,
Bagley
Posted by My 2 Cents at May 7, 2009 01:52 PMHope this helps explain why I feel the Fairness Doctrine is important.
Thanks, SoS.
But despite the megaphone for the right, Obama still won handily and is still popular as hell. I understand the problem of trying to sort out what's true and what's propaganda, and I don't think it's right that only 6 companies have control of all the megaphones, but if someone is interested, they can find the real truth out there. My feeling is that most people just want to hear the weather, and a brief overview of current events before they turn to American Idol or some such. If ISPs are blocking content to private 'net users, then it's time to jump down their throats, fer sure. I guess FD is not high on my list of priorities right now. But thanks for the link and the post; I'll try to get better acquainted with the details, though.
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 02:00 PMHow is Air America doing?
As soon as the MN courts are through, Air America will have its first alumni as a U.S. Senator.
Posted by Seven of Six at May 7, 2009 02:43 PMAir America will have its first alumni as a U.S. Senator.
Not to mention, two others have their own shows on the tv. Didn't Rush get kicked off the tv after one day? I remember something like that a while back.
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 02:51 PM"As soon as the MN courts are through, Air America will have its first alumni as a U.S. Senator."
Yeah, the same guy who has been pictured (lying on the floor) wearing diapers and hugging a large stuffed animal: you must be so proud.
But on the bright side, Frankin is a tax cheat and, as such, should fit in well with the rest of the Democrats on Capitol Hill. (Perhaps The Obama will appoint him to a cabinet position.)
"Not to mention, two others have their own shows on the tv."
And both shows are tanking: have you seen the recent ratings for MSNBC and Fox (I do think that even The Weather Channel has higher ratings that The Ed Show.)
Regards,
Bagley
Posted by My 2 Cents at May 7, 2009 03:11 PMTwinky, You're right, Obama was never worried about the Fairness Doctrine and it is low on the priority list. He knew getting elected would come from hard work and hitting the pavement.
I just want it as tool to teach kids proper civics, invesigative journalism and to help stop all the hate on the radio. Which in turn will help stop some of the right wing extremism.
So let the right continue with the lies and propaganda... most people are hip to it and know the blowhards when they see 'em.
Posted by Seven of Six at May 7, 2009 03:11 PMYeah, the same guy who has been pictured (lying on the floor) wearing diapers and hugging a large stuffed animal: you must be so proud.
Right, he was a member of the cast of Saturday Night Live as well. He is a former comedian.
Unlike republi-con diaper wearing Senators, such as David Vitter, who wears them while visiting hookers: Larry Craig, trolling for gay sex in Airport rest rooms: You must be so proud.
Don't care for Shultz myself, Thom Hartmann would have been a much better choice.
Posted by Seven of Six at May 7, 2009 03:21 PMYeah, the same guy who has been pictured (lying on the floor) wearing diapers and hugging a large stuffed animal: you must be so proud.
Aw, you silly! Vitter's a Republican!
I just want it as tool to teach kids proper civics, invesigative journalism and to help stop all the hate on the radio.
I can understand that. The thing is, though, our kids are so tech savvy now than we'll ever be, and when they're older, methods of communication will be vastly different. I'm a tech-y type, and I can't keep up.
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 03:26 PM"Unlike republi-con diaper wearing Senators, such as David Vitter, who wears them while visiting hookers..."
I do not recall this being reported in the press.
Well, you must have heard about it on Air America.
How is Air America doing?
"..trolling for gay sex in Airport rest rooms.."
Now, now, do not be picking on teh gay. It is very intolerant.
"Intolerant." Air America says so: by-the-way, how is Air America doing?
Thom Hartmann?
He would tank as well.
Is he on Air America?
Seven beat me to the punch on the Mann article. I think that explains everything about Rush and his alleged excellence in broadcasting. Gives new meaning to "free" enterprise.
Posted by gtash at May 7, 2009 04:11 PMThom Hartmann would have been a much better choice.
You're right about that! I'm not much of a Schultz fan, either, he's not nearly as well read as Hartmann and Maddow, but they're both brilliant. Still, a nice, down-home progressive voice will appeal to the simpler folk, I think, so Schultz is valuable in that respect.
Posted by Twinky P* at May 7, 2009 04:27 PMHere are some facts on the "health" of Clear Channel:
1. Clear Channel has lost 75% of its share value since July '08, thus under-performing the market by an additional 50%.
2. Their financials are public information and can be found here:
http://www.google.com/finance?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GZHZ_enUS232US233&q=clear%20channel&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=we
Financial highlights:
A. They lost over THREE BILLION last quarter.
B. That loss was over ten times the size of the previous year's profit.
C. The market cap is just over one-half of the book cap. That can mean the market thinks the Company is going to slide and it will have to burn through assets to survive.
D. The Company's retained earnings, prior to this year's loss, were about $400 million. They now have a deficit in retained earnings of $3 billion.
E. They generated a deferred tax liability of $1 billion. That means, despite losing money for GAAP, there are some timing differences between tax and GAAP accounting that must be accounted for. Those differences, sometime in the future, will come due and they'll owe money. And a lot of it.
The $3 billion loss for the quarter represents one-half of the equity of the company, which increased substantially during the year with a $5+ billion capital contribution (APIC). We're saying, from the results of operation, the book value of Clear Channel has dropped by 50% from $6 billion to $3 billion.
So, you can tout Rush and Clear Channel all you want. It doesn't bother me and if it works for you, what ever floats your boat...
But you don't get your own reality where Clear Channel is "just doing fine." It's not. In ONE-QUARTER they lost 50% of their worth and burned through cash faster than they made it (though all that loss wasn't directly cash, but write-downs -- GAAP accounting is complex, I'm not going to even attempt to get it through your thick heads).
Hence the layoffs and cost-cutting.
The first quarter is probably worse in some areas regarding cash-flows, but the numbers haven't been released.
Posted by MosesZD at May 7, 2009 04:55 PMNow, now, do not be picking on teh gay. It is very intolerant.
You're right, I have low tolerance for gay Senators who have low tolerance for themselves. He doesn't admit he's gay or vote for gay rights... even though he was busted for cruising for gay sex in airport restrooms.
What's this? Another Air America Alumni doing well.
On April 23, 2009, Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications announced the addition of Randi Rhodes to their syndicated lineup with her show returning to airways across the country May 11, 2009.Premiere syndicates some of the most famous names in American broadcasting, including Rush Limbaugh, Coast to Coast AM, Bob Costas, Dan Patrick, Dr. Laura, Leo Laporte and Glenn Beck. Premiere programs are carried on over 5000 radio stations worldwide, primarily in the United States and in Canada.
OMG, they are going to add a liberal talk show... now they really are going for some entertainment.
Posted by Seven of Six at May 7, 2009 05:32 PM"OMG, they are going to add a liberal talk show... now they really are going for some entertainment."
No, they are just losing money.
In San Diego we have a radio station that is independent of external control. With a great program director, halloran. He has been making great radio in sd SINCE AROUND 1983 : 91x, KUPR, something else, then/now 94.9. Excellent.
Just ask tbogg.
Ha-ha, after years of silence in the face of conservative catastrophy, jwest climbs out of his spider pit to belittle Media Matters and "defend" Grand Wizard Rushbo Limpbone's filthy lucre, of all things.
It's great to see that a shoe-string organization like Media Matters is such a burr under the saddle of the massive Repub Noise Machine. What could a large, professional, independent arm of journalism accomplish if they decided to actually report on the corrupt underbelly of the financing of the loathsome "conservative" movement? What kind of insects and disease-carrying conservative vermin reside under all those rocks? The mind boggles!
By the way, jwest, pointing out that Rush is actually screwing Clear Channel by much, much more that Media Matters reported he was hardly destroys MM's credibility on that point. For those that can think, anyway. In other words, the "facts" of Rushbo's scamming are even WORSE than MM reported! Thanks for pointin' that out......
But of course "conservatives" have a different "reality", being from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda....as for old TLC professional troll jwest, he should shave his head, retire to a Buddhist monastery, clean the toilets and contemplate the eons of bad karma he built from his enthusiastic eating and spreading of putrid conservative sewage so assiduously, for so long. "Facts" indeed.
Posted by euzoius at May 8, 2009 06:55 AMhe should shave his head, retire to a Buddhist monastery, clean the toilets
Sorry, no room at the inn.
Posted by Buddha at May 8, 2009 07:12 AMWhat is with all the anger? Why not just say “Thank you, Jwest, for giving me correct information so that I don’t sound like a fucking buffoon while discussing this subject”?
Posted by jwest at May 7, 2009 11:15 AM
Because we don't thank Republican't Putsch fellating trolls for publishing Republican't propaganda points and then trying to pretend that their blatant lies have some basis in reality.
We do laugh at them when they call others a fucking buffoon while simultaneously being a fucking buffoon themselves, though. Thanks for the chuckle! Remember, we're not laughing with you - we're laughing at you!
pants pissing peter and the Republican't bagman don't even deserve a response to their unmitigated drivel. How's Rush's career as a sports analyst doing these days, bagboy? Funny how you never heard about diaper david vitter whilst imbibing hate radio 24/7. Amazing that they would never mention a sitting Republican't congresscritter who regularly hired prostitutes and engaged in adulterous relationships with someone who was not his wife. I guess it doesn't have the panache of getting a blow job from someone in a blue dress with the Hannity and Limbaugh set...
Smarter Reich wing Republican't morans, please!d
Posted by (: Tom :) at May 8, 2009 09:20 AMSmarter Reich wing Republican't morans, please!
Sorry, Tom, but this is pretty much all they have! Lucky for the Dems, eh?
Posted by Twinky P* at May 8, 2009 09:29 AMTom, the troll formerly known as "pants pissing pete" has respectfully requested that we address him as "shit-fer-brains petie", thanks for your kind attention to his wishes...
Posted by headxray at May 8, 2009 11:35 AMI'm sorry to have to doubt you, headxray, but I find it hard to believe that pants pissing peter has ever respectfully requested anything around here.
And I wouldn't want to insult any kind of excrement by comparing it to a vile, disgusting bedwetting chickenhawk like peter.
Posted by (: Tom :) at May 8, 2009 03:43 PMAs someone who voted for the guy twice, I hate to point out that the Telecommunications Act that Clinton pushed through and signed is also very much the villain here. This was the legislation that allowed companies like Clear Channel to own more than one station in a particular market. One of the more immediate effects of the Act was the extinction of local station ownership. Radio has sucked ever since.
Posted by Zak44 at May 8, 2009 09:24 PMWell, to me, it's good riddance to Clear Channel. I want disk jockeys back again, so radio isn't so darn boring! One week, I woke up to the radio playing the very same song 5 days in a row at the very same time. When I called over to the station, all I got was bunkum about how this station had one of the biggest record collections in the nation. If only they would use it... with real people playing them! I think their whole premise of rigid, limited playlists without disk jockeys is what has lost them more market share. I certainly stopped listening to any of their stations.
Posted by Mary at May 10, 2009 01:17 PM