Comments on: Rush Job

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:42:53 +0000

I have program buttons in my car with about 6 AM stations and 7 FM stations. I’ve been working late of late and I listen to the “local talk talent after 1900″ on those AM stations and the interesting thing about them is that there is no talent there. The evening crowd on KFI suck as do the local talent on KOGO/KGO. I don’t mean that they’re bad. No, they’re worse than that. They are nauseatingly horrible and there is no dead cow that they can’t beat to death again and again and again and again and again. Yes, silence turns out to be the far better alternative.

Rush at least knows how to entertain.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:37:25 +0000

Uncle Mike,
I used to commute to the Bay Area from San Diego and to San Diego from the Bay Area. Yes, ridiculous but it went on for years. I would listen to Radio Pacifica as I left the Bay Area until I reached the giant lake off Blood Alley east of Gilroy where the reception finally faded out. They had the most amusing lineup of loonies who they would invite to speak to us about how cow farts were dooming not just mankind but Gaea herself! Since I was driving into the night I used to rage against the machine to stay alert while driving. After that, it was coast to coast with Art Bell. Usually this was good for a laugh but honestly the best one was when he played the 911 calls and the one about who got the deer had me laughing hysterically (Joe vs the deer). OK, and also the one from the woman that wanted to kill her cat. That was really good too.

By: JAS

JAS — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:15:42 +0000

“found it a little off-putting that the NFL could force Limbaugh out of his bid to purchase the team based largely on manufactured quotes, themselves a product of manufactured outrage. If there is, as Limbaugh’s detractors insist, sufficient evidence that he is a racist, why didn’t they use that?”

Could be that Rush wouldn’t have lasted as an owner anyways. Last time the Packers offered stock, the NFL inserted a condition into the purchase that bound the stockholder from ever making a comment that could be “construed” as negative about the NFL or its employees (as in referees etc.). The NFL was happy to block potential stockholders (who bothered to read the agreement before buying) with that teeny tiny little condition limiting first amendment rights. Ya think the NFL wouldn’t try to place the same kind of limitation on private owners that they place on the Packers’ public owners?

By: Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:18:42 +0000

daveg,

Finally a description of Olbermann that explains it all:

“. . . he’s the poster child for the dangers of untreated syphilis . . . .”

Priceless.

By: Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:11:23 +0000

Curtis,

Excellent point on Air America radio. Several years ago, I was making fairly regular runs up to the Bay Area on US 101. Would usually listen to NPR on FM or Rush on AM — depending on time of day and reception (sketchy between Salinas and San Jose on my ancient radio). A few times, the best reception north of Prunedale was the Air America station in Santa Cruz. I’d heard about the ‘network’ but it was not available locally (probably for good reason). Anyway, I gave it the old college try but could only listen for less than half an hour before deciding that silence was a better choice than listening to Al Franken in the morning (makes me wonder if he tortures the Senate with similar drivel or if they lap it up). I did this on at least three trips before giving up on it forever — totally pointless and boring.

A year or so after I quit making the runs, I read that the Santa Cruz Air America station was pulling the plug. Turns out that after giving it a three year or so try, they had NEVER sold an ad. Sounds like a great business plan to me.
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Mitch,

You summed it up perfectly.

By: Saltydog

Saltydog — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:11 +0000

And liberals call conservatives fascists. LOL
Forcible suppression of opposition? Tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control? Yes, that is the liberal left posing as intellectual thought now days. So long America….it was a neat experiment while it lasted.