Article

2004-05-28 Home Front: WoT

Liberals Want Limbaugh Booted Off Armed Forces Radio

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-28 12:48:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

A liberal group that monitors conservative media "misinformation"

There's no goddam conservative news in the "media," let along misinformation.

These clowns remind me of Goebbels - tell a lie big enough and often enough and people will believe it.

Particularly if the liars control the media.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-28 12:55:26 AM|| 2004-05-28 12:55:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, there's a whole bunch of misinfo here, and it ain't Rush's.
First, there was a vicious battle in the mid-90s about whether or not to even put Rush on AFN. It ended when (I think) the SecDef insisted that no one wanted to listen to him, and Rush wheeled out thousands of letters and e-mails stating otherwise. The people who fought hardest against it were liberal 'media monitoring' organizations who insisted that the ONLY opinion that US service members out to be able to hear is NPRs Morning Edition and All Things Considered - which, by the way, cost the taxpayer more to put on AFN than Rush does. Rush doesn't make a dime from his show being on AFN - Metromedia Broadcasting, which owns the show, makes all the money, and they just charge a very nominal syndication license fee. NPR hits AFN up for everything they legally can. My guess is they claim poverty. Finally, AFN doesnt even run all of Rush's show - unless this has drastically chnaged, they only ran an hour or at most two. NPR of course, gets to run all of their shows.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-05-28 1:28:10 AM|| 2004-05-28 1:28:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Blogs over Limboghead like pundits:
http://ojr.org/ojr/ethics/1085527295.php

I ain't no neo-conman; ergo I ain't desperate:
http://www.chronwatch.com/

Hiroshima: thank you USAF; do it again in Fallujah.

Posted by Dog Bites Trolls 2004-05-28 2:05:36 AM|| 2004-05-28 2:05:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Do the liberals really think that access to Rush Limbaugh is what makes the military patriotic?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-28 2:11:41 AM|| 2004-05-28 2:11:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 DBT: try a class in English, logic, and history. It does a body good...

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-05-28 2:14:13 AM|| 2004-05-28 2:14:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The 'liberal' Leftists in the mainline Media hate Rush, Fox and anyone else who is effective and gains far more ratings.

The true nature of the enemy within is displayed once again.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-28 2:44:44 AM|| [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/3/181819.shtml] 2004-05-28 2:44:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Why are the taxpayers footing the bill for NPR ?

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-28 2:45:44 AM|| [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/3/181819.shtml] 2004-05-28 2:45:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Mark don't worry about it. It's a good place to dump the hippies who are still on the waiting list for rehab. Keeps them off the street so only the studio smells like urine.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-28 2:52:44 AM|| 2004-05-28 2:52:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mark don't worry about it. It's a good place to dump the hippies who are still on the waiting list for rehab. Keeps them off the street so only the studio smells like urine.

NPR is a critical outlet of information of what the left is thinking. I would love to shut NPR down too, except then we would have little idea of the next socialist Big Idea/Big Lie they will launch into.

However, having said that, it makes little sense to force AFN to rebroadcast defeatist radio, especially in time of war.

Posted by badanov 2004-05-28 7:17:49 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-05-28 7:17:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hold the phone, folks. I just googled David Brock, the 'CEO' of the group that wants Rush off AFN.

This is the ex-leftist who claimed he lied about Bill Clinton and a number of others. I may have my facts mangled here, but lies are the essence of what Brock is about.

Boy, you talk about a gaping maw in credibility, I give you David Brock.

Here is what was said about him two years ago.

Posted by badanov 2004-05-28 7:30:49 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-05-28 7:30:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 http://mediamatters.org/

This is David Brock's website where he "monitors" talk radio, Fox news, and anything else that might make liberals wet their pants.

Posted by joey 2004-05-28 8:24:20 AM|| [http://www.cabalofdoom.com] 2004-05-28 8:24:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Liberals spent $2 million to set up mediamatters.org. My site hosting cost $4.95 a month for 200 mb storage and 6 gig a month transfer. I certainly would like to get in on this privatized liberal welfare.

Posted by joey 2004-05-28 8:32:31 AM|| [http://www.cabalofdoom.com] 2004-05-28 8:32:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Whatever did not actually get spent on the website probably went to partying, or maybe found its way into Al Qaeda's bank accounts.

Posted by badanov 2004-05-28 9:13:20 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-05-28 9:13:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 David Brock's staff at Media Matters is a gallery of political hangers on, leftists and folks who have no claim to ever having a real job.

David Brock has it in for Rush. Easily 80 percent of the entries in his site are about Limbaugh.

The staff:
Katie Barge

David S. Bennahum -- author Slate, The Economist, New York magazine, and The New York Times

David Brock -- 2002 New York Times best-selling political memoir in which he chronicled his years as a conservative media insider

Nicole Casta -- National Organization for Women (NOW) and The National Partnership for Women and Families

Amanda Fazzone -- author The New Republic Salon, Slate, Spin, TimeOut

Jamison Research -- Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for the 2002 cycle

Marcia Kuntz -- Alliance for Justiceâs Judicial Selection Project legislative counsel to Representative Barney Frank (D-MA)

Shant Mesrobian

Kevin Nix

Andrew Seifter -- Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the State PIRGs

Melissa Salmanowitz

Naomi Seligman -- Violence Policy Center (VPC)

Brian Szymanski -- technologist and independent media activist. He has been actively involved in computer recycling, independent radio, Free software, and anti-war and human rights activism.

Gabriel Wildau -- policy analyst for General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clarkâs presidential campaign

Oliver Willis -- profiled in The Boston Globe, in Baseline magazine, and on PBS

Posted by badanov 2004-05-28 9:28:21 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-05-28 9:28:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 With the increased access to streaming internet, and the potential of independent short wave broadcasts, do the Leftist Totalitarian Facists think thay can silence his "Dittoness" talking to the troops?

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-28 12:45:54 PM|| 2004-05-28 12:45:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 A liberal group that monitors conservative media wants Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remove radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh from the American Forces Radio and Television Services, formerly known as Armed Forces Radio.

"Free speech for me, but not for thee."

If it was a liberal talk show host that was the target of "removal", does anybody doubt that there would be the loudest howls of censorship emanating from the lefty camp?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-28 5:28:52 PM|| 2004-05-28 5:28:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 How do you pronounce Marcia's name? lol

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-28 5:51:57 PM|| 2004-05-28 5:51:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#18
Picture the likes of NPR's leftwing, hippy dippy 'news' programmes during the years 1941-1945?

One can not even begin to fathom the United States government, while engaged in a two fronted world war, actual paying sell-outs with tax funds, to bash America's war efforts & side with the Japan & Nazi Germany, while rationing was being rigorously enforced on the home-front, in order to save every dime to support our troops in battle.

A bill must be submitted to the House regarding this mammoth act of fraud & deceit on the U.S. taxpayers.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-28 7:43:15 PM|| [http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed022698b.cfm] 2004-05-28 7:43:15 PM|| Front Page Top

16:18 eLarson
16:18 eLarson
16:17 eLarson
16:17 eLarson
07:44 Outraged
07:01 Outraged
07:43 Outraged
07:43 Outraged
01:26 MrGrumpyDrawers
01:09 MrGrumpyDrawers
14:41 .com
14:38 Frank G
14:22 Mr. Davis
01:56 Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)
01:39 Mike Sylwester
01:28 Mike Sylwester
00:55 Phil Fraering
00:13 Mr. Davis
00:10 Mark Espinola
00:09 Anonymous4617
23:57 Mark Espinola
23:15 Aris Katsaris
23:13 badanov
23:13 Anonymoose