posted on June 13, 2007 07:23:46 PM
Boy....so many examples lately of how liberals, who can't handle free speech, work to CENSOR the right everytime they believe they can get away with it.
So much for liberal tolerance. So much for having all sides heard. NOPE...if they don't agree with it CENSORSHIP is their goal.
tsk tsk tsk
And here, in this example, even at the EXPENSE of other citizens safety and their lives.
Appears they REALLY FEAR the right having their voices heard.
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Broward may cancel deal with radio station because it airs Rush Limbaugh
By Scott Wyman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
June 13, 2007, 1:19 PM EDT
Rush Limbaugh has long been a thorn in the side of liberals, but now, because of him, some Democratic politicians don't even want to join with a local radio station to broadcast hurricane information.
Radio station WIOD, AM 610, has been the official channel for emergency information from Broward County government for the past year. The County Commission, all Democrats, balked at renewing the deal Tuesday, unable to stomach the station also being home to Limbaugh's talk show.
Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want to support a station that's out of step with area politics. Ritter, a Democratic stalwart in the state Legislature before being elected to county office, cited talk shows hosted by Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD's partnership with Fox News.
"They have every right to speak, but we don't have to do business with them," she said.
Limbaugh responded to the commissioners Wednesday on his radio show. He said the county's qualms about WIOD are a sign of out-of-control partisanship in the nation. He quipped that if the county wanted him off the air, all that officials would need to do is schedule emergency press conferences during his broadcast from noon to 3 p.m.
"They are politicizing the delivery of emergency news, which is non-partisan," said Limbaugh, who lives in Palm Beach. "They are making weather a partisan issue."
Limbaugh has long been a fixture on WIOD, but no county official raised an issue about him or the other shows when the deal was approved for the first time a year ago.
The deal with WIOD would ensure that news conferences are broadcast start to finish live from the county Emergency Operations Center in Plantation. Emergency managers became concerned during hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 that radio and television stations preempted their announcements in favor of news out of Miami.
Ken Charles, WIOD's director of AM programming, said Tuesday the station's talk show lineup has no relationship with its news coverage and that the county should focus on the benefits of teaming with the station.
"It's a shame that people would let politics get in the way of saving lives in a hurricane," Charles said.
The contract with WIOD was on the verge of being rejected when commissioners instead delayed a decision until next week. They told their communications staff they want more information on why WIOD was recommended and what their options are.
Ritter's concerns were echoed by Commissioners Ken Keechl, a former president of the Dolphins gay Democratic club, and Suzanne Gunzburger, who served on the vote-tallying board that recounted the 2000 presidential election.
But Commissioner John Rodstrom, a one-time young Republican leader who later became a Democrat, said the county should not politicize emergency management.
"If we are going to start censoring what people write in the paper or speak on the radio or television, that's a slippery slope," Rodstrom said. "This is necessary. It's something we need to do for emergency response."
A county task force that looked into the response to Hurricane Wilma listed finding a radio partner among its recommendations last year.
Judy Sarver, the county's public communications director, said WFTL and WLRN also offered to take on the role, but that she and other emergency planners preferred WIOD because of its signal strength, numerous FM sister stations and willingness to give Broward top play.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on June 13, 2007 08:36:37 PM
The Republicans had no problem when the Florida state officials (ahem the Republicans) purged the voting records in Florida before the 2000 election. How many eligible voters were not able to vote because of what Katherine Harris did? That is the greater injustice.
I guess poor old Rush will have to find a new station to peddle his trash talk now. Besides who listens to AM radio these days.
I guess AM 610 can now say "If this had been an actual Republican emergency you would have been able to listen to Rush's trash talk, but since it was not, you are free to listen to programs that actually matter."
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 13, 2007 08:51:30 PM
Rush was probably removed because he is just another Republican hypocrite. It is a good thing Americans are waking up to lies and half truths these Republican talk show hosts keep reporting as facts.
On the June 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh criticized as "pure sexism" recent statements by Dan Rather regarding the CBS Evening News, in which Rather said that CBS was "try[ing] to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience." After airing this portion of Rather's response, Limbaugh said, "Now, when I saw this last night -- I was talking about this -- I said this is -- that's sexism. Dan Blather [sic], this is pure sexism -- dumb it down and tart it up." However, in the past, Limbaugh himself has complained about the number of women working in journalism and their adverse effect on the news media.
During a June 11 interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough asked Rather about CBS' purported decision to "soften the news," to which Rather responded: "I want to make very clear that I have nothing against [Evening News anchor] Katie Couric at all. She's a very nice person, and I have a lot of friends at CBS News. However, it was clear at the time -- and I think it's become even clearer -- that the mistake was to try to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience."
On his May 8 broadcast, Limbaugh discussed "the fact that newsrooms -- local and national newsrooms in television -- have been overrun with women" and lamented this so-called " 'chickification' of the news":
LIMBAUGH: [T]here's no denying that women have become more prevalent in editor-producer positions. And it -- we've call it the "chickification" of the news here. And one of the things that results from the chickification of the news is we have to have dialogue. We just have to have dialogue. We're going to have -- we're going to have dialogue. To hell with whether anything being discussed is properly built, is true, or any of this. And it's all about feeling good about ourselves. By the way, one -- and yes, we have to have closure after the dialogue. We must have closure.
During the same broadcast, Limbaugh went on to complain about the "feminization of America," describing men as having "linguini spines" and women as "pretty much taking over." Limbaugh then returned to women's effect on the news media:
LIMBAUGH: The chickification of the news is nothing more than you admit to me that men and women are different. Women look at things different. They have different interests, and they now have more positions of prominence in the news business than they used to have.
On the June 4 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh mocked an article by Associated Press staff writer David Bauder that addressed Couric's tenure as Evening News anchor. In the article, Bauder reported that Linda Mason, the standards chief for CBS' news division, had "speculated" that Couric's ratings have languished because "a tradition-bound audience was reluctant to get the day's news from a woman." Referring to the article, Limbaugh said:
LIMBAUGH: Do you know why Katie's ratings are the lowest that CBS has ever had in the evening? Do you know why? No, no. Nothing to do with her. It's not that she's not good at it. Well, it's something to do with her, but it's something she can't control. It's sexism, folks. It's pure bigotry. You people in the audience just will not watch a woman do the news. You just won't do it. It's your fault! That's the -- I mean, I could read the whole story to you here, but that pretty much sums it up. You people are a bunch of bigots. You'd rather watch a bunch of doddering old men, saliva dripping down the corners of their mouths than you would watch a babe or a woman do the news.
And, of course, what's absurd about this is that the chickification of the news in this country from local to national newsrooms and networks has been accomplished. They're all over the place. They're producing. They're reporting. They're anchoring. We've got anchorettes. We've got info babes. They're all over cable news. In fact, most of them are blonde. Where does this supply come from? There's an endless supply of them out there. One blonde goes, another blonde comes in. They're all over the place out there, and it hasn't hurt the cable network people at all in terms of the news.
From the June 11 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
SCARBOROUGH: You know, Dan, the thing that Chris Licht [executive producer of MSNBC's Scarborough Country] was talking about -- maybe you read in the Times, or I don't know where you read it -- but there was, seemed to me, this terrible miscalculation by Rome Hartman and a couple of CBS News execs that they were going to soften up the news, and that way they could expand their viewership. Yeah, I would think that if I'm sitting down at 6:30 to get the news, to see what's happened in the day, I don't want fluff stories. Do you think that's one of the problems that Katie Couric's had coming in -- that maybe they tried to re-brand the Evening News in a way that Americans just didn't want to accept?
RATHER: Well, I totally agree with you, Joe. That -- I want to make very clear that I have nothing against Katie Couric at all. She's a very nice person, and I have a lot of friends at CBS News. However, it was clear at the time -- and I think it's become even clearer -- that the mistake was to try to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience. And I just don't think people at 6:30 or 7 o'clock at night, or even 5:30 in the Central Time Zone or 6 o'clock when it's seen, that that's what they want. This is the continuation of a trend that we've talked about before, Joe and Mika [Brzezinski] and John [Ridley], and that is the combination of what I call the corporatizing of the news, has led to the trivializing the news.
From the May 8 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: And finally, before we go to break, from the BBC -- well, actually this is Daily Mail in the U.K. The BBC has been ruined by women producing terrible programs, according to Sir Patrick Moore. He's an astronomer. He's 84. He said the corporation needed to revert to the golden days when the news was presented by men with impeccable English.
We've talked about on this program before the subject of the fact that newsrooms -- local and national newsrooms in television -- have been overrun with women. And here's what he says. "He was asked if television had got better or worse. He says, 'Much worse. The trouble is the BBC is now run by women, and it shows -- soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays. You wouldn't have had that in the golden days.' Asked about female newsreaders, he said, 'There was one day in 2005 when BBC News went on strike. Then we had the headlines read by a man talking the Queen's English, reading the news impeccably. Oh, for the good old days.' "
That's a generational thing going on here, obviously, the man is 84 years old. And, you know, everybody that age looks back and thinks that the golden age was the era in which they lived. He may have a point here, but there's no denying that women have become more prevalent in editor-producer positions. And it -- we've call it the "chickification" of the news here. And one of the things that results from the chickification of the news is we have to have dialogue. We just have to have dialogue. We're going to have -- we're going to have dialogue. To hell with whether anything being discussed is properly built, is true, or any of this. And it's all about feeling good about ourselves. By the way, one -- and yes, we have to have closure after the dialogue. We must have closure.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 13, 2007 08:59:09 PM
t is a good thing Americans are waking up to lies and half truths these Republican talk show hosts keep reporting as facts.
Right, so explain why Rush is the most widely listened to of ALL talk show hosts and there are NO LIBERAL hosts who can come NEAR to Rush's popularity.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on June 13, 2007 09:09:03 PM
And this is typical of the people who oppose Rush:
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here's Karen in Springfield, Oregon. Hi, Karen, welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Good morning, sir.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I was going to be really snide, but I'm not going to be, okay?
RUSH: Aw, darn it. We were hoping you were going to be snide. I love snide callers.
CALLER: No you don't because you rag on us then. The only reason why I called was to tell you that --
RUSH: I don't rag on callers. Wait a second. What show did you think you called?
CALLER: I know what show.
RUSH: See, you got us all titillated here. What were you going to say? Just don't say it snidely.
CALLER: Mexicans are in fact Americans.
RUSH: You mean the way they're being treated?
CALLER: No. Geographically and physically, geophysically, they are in fact Americans. Canadians are Americans.
RUSH: Well, now, come on. North America, Central America, South America, Norte America, you can't --
CALLER: Exactly, but you have to be careful when you say stuff like that, because then people think, "Oh, no, they're not Americans." Yes, sir, they are Americans.
RUSH: They're not Americans. Mexicans are not Americans.
CALLER: Yes, they are.
RUSH: They are not.
CALLER: What are they?
RUSH: They're Mexicans. They're born in Mexico.
CALLER: Okay, Canada, the United States --
RUSH: They're Canadians.
CALLER: -- Mexico, how far do you want me to go before I stop naming Americans?
RUSH: Go to France.
CALLER: You're wrong. They are in fact Americans. They're Mexicans by nationality.
RUSH: What's the point?
CALLER: But geographically they are in fact America --
RUSH: Look it, I'm intrigued. I'm about to get snide here. What is the point?
CALLER: The point is you're wrong.
RUSH: About what?
CALLER: About saying that they're not Americans.
RUSH: You're defending Harry Reid, is that what you're doing? You're defending Harry Reid when he said undocumented Americans?
CALLER: No, he's wrong. He's wrong because in fact they are Americans. They're undocumented Americans. Is that or is that not true? Just say yes or no.
RUSH: I'll say no. This is absurd. This whole call is surreal.
CALLER: I knew it. I knew it. See, just because I'm right and you're wrong you're going to say, "Oh, what a dumb caller, blah, blah, blah."
RUSH: You can't pull that on me because we are not married and in this case you are wrong, and you are so wrong that it's funny. You're very cute.
CALLER: You don't think that --
RUSH: They're not Americans.
CALLER: -- Mexico is part of the Americas?
RUSH: Nobody would buy your argument. Nobody would be persuaded by it. Nobody would understand it.
CALLER: Well, you're going to have a whole lot of --
RUSH: You may as well have called here and tried to sell me a left-handed baseball bat. That's how absurd this is.
CALLER: That's probably what some of our great hitters are hitting with is left hand baseball bats.
RUSH: Well, what's left-handed about a left-handed baseball bat? If you think Mexicans are Americans, then you think there are left-handed baseball bats. I want to know what is left-handed about a baseball bat that's left-handed?
CALLER: Same people that use left-handed scarves, probably.
RUSH: No, I'll tell you, it's the handle is on the opposite end.
CALLER: (Laughing.)
RUSH: All right, Karen, this has been an experience.
CALLER: No, it should be illuminating and educational.
RUSH: Well, it has been but not in the ways that you think.
CALLER: Oh. I'm sorry for you if you don't think that.
RUSH: Oh, please, don't pity me. Don't pity me.
CALLER: It has been a pleasure, sort of.
RUSH: Thank you. It has been an experience for me. Wait, Karen, are you still there? Damn it, I wanted to ask her if she's a Hillary supporter, you know, based on the polling data that we got earlier in the program.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Well, here we are. We're going to violate one of the cardinal rules of this program: You never, ever take a caller twice in one day. Never take the same caller twice in one day. You try not to ever take the same caller ever again, but certainly not in the same day. Since I can do it because it's my show, we're going to make an exception to this rule. We have Karen from Springfield, Oregon, back, who I wanted to ask one more question, but she had hung up.
CALLER: But you only are doing this because I am, like, the most excellent caller.
RUSH: Er... Right.
CALLER: Thank you. (laughing)
RUSH: Okay, so the question -- this is the woman who said Mexicans are Americans, and --
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: -- Canadians are Americans --
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: -- and Costa Ricans are Americans. Brazilians are Americans. So I wanted to ask you, based on your thinking and your logic on this, "Are you by any chance supporting Hillary Clinton?"
CALLER: No.
RUSH: I'm wrong, then, on that tack.
CALLER: No.
RUSH: See, this will affect the opinion audit because my opinion was that you were right in there in the crop of women that were supporting Hillary.
CALLER: Ummm, no. There's also a lot of men that also support her.
RUSH: Not as many as you think.
CALLER: Wellll...
RUSH: There are too many bad memories there. She doesn't have the likability factor. She's got a likability problem. There's no question about it.
CALLER: Well, listen, I'm sitting here holding my left-handed bat as I'm sure you're holding your big cigar with your left hand, right?
RUSH: No, I never do, not during the show.
CALLER: (Laughing.)
RUSH: The cigar is in my right hand.
CALLER: Actually... no... I'm not going to. At this point, no, I'm not going to.
RUSH: Well, who are you supporting?
CALLER: If I had to vote for a Republican, it would probably be Ron Paul, right?
RUSH: Well! I was...
CALLER: (Laughing).
RUSH: Okay. The opinion audit will not be affected by this answer because you've fulfilled the reason that I offered the opinion. That's interesting.
CALLER: But, you know --
RUSH: Uh!
CALLER: -- I like Barack Obama. know --
RUSH: Uh!
CALLER: -- But it's way too early, isn't it?
RUSH: Not for the passionate.
CALLER: Well, for...the thoughtful and for the intelligent.
RUSH: You know, that's definitely you. You think, and the things you come up with sometimes (tapping desk). But you think. All right. I want to move on, Karen. I have to go. Thanks again. We got Mike in St. Cloud, Florida, who agrees with Karen. Thank you, Mr. Snerdley. Mike, welcome to the program.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush! I've been trying to call you for 20 years. I finally get through. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I tell you what, there's one thing that I gotta say, though, my first call I've gotta disagree with you on something because the lady is right. Spanish people from Mexico are Americans. [sic] They're Mexican Americans; they're just US citizens, and the thing that it is that we keep pushing it and pushing it and pushing it, we're going to drive that bloc of people away from our conservative thinking --
RUSH: Ugh.
CALLER: -- because the majority of those people are conservative.
RUSH: They are not, not the ones we're talking about!
CALLER: You know, but you're talking about a fraction of them, Rush, a fraction of them t hat aren't.
RUSH: No.
CALLER: I was born and raised in Texas, and most of -- the majority of -- those people that came over and raised their children American and are now American citizens, are conservative Republicans.
RUSH: History doesn't bear this out! Simpson-Mazzoli, '86, you track the political affiliation with those that became citizens and voted and registered, it doesn't track.
CALLER: You gotta look at it all the way back!
RUSH: Wait a second. We got 20 seconds.
CALLER: We've been having this argument since all the way back at the turn of the century --
RUSH: We got 20 seconds.
CALLER: -- in the 1900s.
RUSH: Besides all that, is it worth breaking the law and allowing the law to be broken and bringing in --
CALLER: No, I'm not saying that.
RUSH: -- undereducated people in order to get voters for your party?
CALLER: No I'm not saying that, either, Rush. I'm just saying we're picking on the wrong people.
RUSH: No! We're not "picking on" anybody! We're not picking on ANYBODY! This is not what this is about. We're trying to preserve the future of the country as we inherited it from our own parents.
END TRANSCRIPT
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on June 13, 2007 09:13:05 PMRight, so explain why Rush is the most widely listened to of ALL talk show hosts and there are NO LIBERAL hosts who can come NEAR to Rush's popularity.
I suppose it has nothing to do with the Democrats actually having to work for a living while the Republicans sit home and do nothing all day long except listen to trash talk on their AM radios and accept what they are hearing as fact.
And then you have the nerve to say there is a liberal bias in the news
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio show has an estimated audience of nearly 15 million weekly listeners. It is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications. Limbaugh also authored two books in collaborations with conservative writers: The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) with Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund and See, I Told You So (1993) with WorldNetDaily.com editor Joseph Farah.
Limbaugh regularly feeds his audience a diet of falsehoods, misstatements, distortions, invective, and childish put-downs in service of the conservative movement. During his long reign over the airwaves, Limbaugh has called abortion rights activists "feminazis", told an African-American caller to "take that bone out of your nose," referred to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib as "blow[ing] some steam off, " and declared that "what's good for Al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party." He touts his close connections to Republicans, claiming that he "[g]ot a big hug" from President George W. Bush during a 2004 White House visit.
In August 2005, Limbaugh asserted that Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who staged an anti-war protest outside President Bush's ranch in Texas, "is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents." Burkett is a retired Texas Air National Guard officer who provided CBS' 60 Minutes with unauthenticated documents regarding President Bush's National Guard record. After Media Matters for America documented this, he claimed that he was taken "out of context" by "little pimple-faced kids that are working at wannabe websites" -- even as the audio and text published by Media Matters proved otherwise. Limbaugh also claimed that Sheehan was "exploiting death."
Limbaugh has also spread numerous rumors and conspiracy theories about the Clinton family, alleging that Hillary Rodham Clinton was involved in the 1993 suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and peddling gay-baiting sexual innuendo about Clinton based on Edward Klein's error- and innuendo-filled book, The Truth About Hillary.
Limbaugh was forced to resign from his position as a football analyst on ESPN in 2003 after he claimed that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because "[t]he media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." The following season, McNabb led his team to the Super Bowl.
Based on Limbaugh's trivialization and enthusiasm for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Media Matters requested that he be removed from taxpayer-funded American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS), while Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) offered amendments to defense authorization bills in both the 108th and 109th Congress requiring political balance on AFRTS. The Senate unanimously passed a Sense of the Senate resolution calling for balance on AFRTS.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 13, 2007 09:40:45 PM
So.....ld agrees that Rush SHOULD BE CENSORED.
Isn't THAT a surprise? LOL LOL LOL NOT!!
Like I said....they can't handle having more than their OWN side presented....NO matter that people won't hear the hurricane warnings.
And they CLAIM they're conpassionate. But it's more important to censor a rightie than to protect people from incoming hurricanes.
Yep...that's the liberal mind think okay.
Twisted. very twisted, imo
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on June 13, 2007 09:53:21 PMSo.....ld agrees that Rush SHOULD BE CENSORED.
I see you are applying your twisted logic again Linda because I never said that. I can not help that you do not understand what is being posted around here.
If there is anyone that keeps complaining about censorship and how people's freedom of speech is violated it is you. I can not help that you and your fellow Republicans can not play by the rules.
Rush looses one radio station to broadcast his trash talk and you go bonkers. Suddenly it is censorship.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
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The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
[ edited by logansdad on Jun 14, 2007 06:47 AM ]
posted on June 14, 2007 05:39:22 AM
If ya didn't believe she was looney before then read this
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posted on June 13, 2007 09:40:45 PM
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So.....ld agrees that Rush SHOULD BE CENSORED.
Isn't THAT a surprise? LOL LOL LOL NOT!!
Like I said....they can't handle having more than their OWN side presented....NO matter that people won't hear the hurricane warnings.
And they CLAIM they're conpassionate. But it's more important to censor a rightie than to protect people from incoming hurricanes.
Yep...that's the liberal mind think okay.
Twisted. very twisted, imo"""
LOLOLOLOLOLOL! OH linduh! Do you ever READ your own posts ?? LOL
""Like I said....they can't handle having more than their OWN side presented....NO matter that people won't hear the hurricane warnings."""
OH HAHA OH those horrible PRO-HURRICANE liberals who are squashing free speech !
posted on June 14, 2007 08:04:53 AM
I suppose it has nothing to do with the Democrats actually having to work for a living while the Republicans sit home and do nothing all day long except listen to trash talk on their AM radios and accept what they are hearing as fact.
What? You mean that you dirty demos dont have radios in your cars?
Battered by criticism, Broward may keep deal with Rush Limbaugh radio station
By Scott Wyman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted June 14 2007
Radio station WIOD likely will remain Broward County's official channel for emergency information despite concerns it is also home to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
County commissioners said they were deluged with complaints from throughout the country Wednesday after they questioned whether to cut their ties with the station because of their dislike for Limbaugh. By the end of the day, a majority of commissioners vowed to renew WIOD's agreement next week.
LocalLinks
The deal with WIOD, AM 610, would ensure news conferences and other critical announcements are broadcast live during hurricanes and other emergencies.
Kristin Jacobs and Ilene Lieberman, commissioners who served as mayor during hurricanes in 2004 and 2005, came to the defense of WIOD. They were absent from Tuesday's meeting because they were in Tallahassee talking to state lawmakers about tax reform legislation.
"If your roof gets blown off, do you really care if the radio station that is giving you the information that you need also carries Rush Limbaugh?" Jacobs asked. "I don't think so. I don't agree with that man's philosophy and I don't listen to him, but I'm not going to not choose WIOD because of it."
Limbaugh responded to the commissioners Wednesday on his radio show, saying the qualms about WIOD were a sign of out-of-control partisanship in the nation.
"They are politicizing the delivery of emergency news, which is non-partisan," Limbaugh said.
The all-Democrat commission was on the verge of rejecting the WIOD contract when it instead delayed a decision to get more information about why its staff favored the station and what its other options are. The firestorm began when Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she didn't want to patronize the station because of Limbaugh and other conservative programming.
County communications administrators recommended WIOD over two other stations interested in the deal.
They said WIOD has a strong signal, sister FM stations that simulcast news during emergencies and was willing to guarantee live coverage.
Commissioner Ken Keechl initially said he shared Ritter's concerns, but said Wednesday that he will now support WIOD because of the staff's advice. Commissioners John Rodstrom and Lois Wexler earlier said they want WIOD. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on June 14, 2007 01:41:32 PM
Good....glad to hear there are still enough true American patriots who don't want FREE SPEECH censored by the wacko progressives, even if they don't like Rush/anyone.
And whom aren't willing to allow the progressives to take away their RIGHT to hear reports that WILL affect their own SAFETY.
"County commissioners said they were deluged with complaints from throughout the country Wednesday after they questioned whether to cut their ties with the station because of their dislike for Limbaugh. By the end of the day, a majority of commissioners vowed to renew WIOD's agreement next week."
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There's a case up before the USSC on free speech. Going to be interesting how they rule...but Alito recently gave a speech saying we need to be VERY, VERY careful before we start limiting/censoring/etc our constitutional RIGHT of free speech.
Thank God for conservative Justices that actually KNOW what the US Constitution actually says. Thank you President Bush for placing two more Constitutionalists on the bench.
Not that it matters to the left....they work towards this goal of CENSORING speech all the time.
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[ edited by Linda_K on Jun 14, 2007 01:45 PM ]
posted on June 14, 2007 03:07:24 PMWhat? You mean that you dirty demos dont have radios in your cars?
Stupid Bear most people do not spend their workday in the car listening to the radio.
Does your boss allow you to work in your car?
Most people go to an office to work, they don't work in their cars.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 14, 2007 03:45:43 PM
Business is business. A commercial radio station will make it's decisions based on it's best information of how it's paying customers feel. That's how it should be. I think the municipality in this case is wrong. If most of the people in the area depend on this station for emergency broadcasts, which could easily be determined by a simple poll, then that's the station they should stick with. If not, they should look elsewhere and politics should not enter into it. The station should do due diligence too, and decide if the municipality's emergency broadcasts garner more listeners than Limpbag, they should dump him. If not, tell the county to take a hike.
The fact that Rush is a fat, blowhard drug addled criminal gasbag shill for the neoconservative [bowel] movement should not enter into it one way or the other. Not that I give a crap one way or the other.
posted on June 15, 2007 08:29:38 AMAnd we only need to look at the dem party who REFUSED to debate on Fox News.
And here we have Linda believing people should be forced to debate. How un-American. Since when are we living in a dictatorship Linda. So much for the freedom of speech that Linda claims to believe in.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 15, 2007 11:02:14 AMSo I'm the stupid one?
That is obvious with your response to my comment.
And you've never heard of podcasting or internet audio?
What do these have to do with listening to the radio in your car? Podcasts and internet radio can not be heard using a car radio.
Why don't you just stick to your AM transistor radio anything else seems like it is out of your league and to complicated for you.
Get you head or your head out of your azz.
You should stop trying to inhale the exhaust from your car's tail pipe. It is starting to effect your intelligence.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 15, 2007 01:48:17 PM
Linda maybe you should put two and two together in order to figure out what your other personality actually says on your behalf.
No one is speaking falsely on your behalf, it is clear as day what you say.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 15, 2007 02:10:26 PM
You should stop trying to inhale the exhaust from your car's tail pipe. It is starting to effect your intelligence.
Well with all thats been stuffed up your tail pipe, you have proven where your intelligence is.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on June 15, 2007 02:17:32 PMWell with all thats been stuffed up your tail pipe, you have proven where your intelligence is.
And how would you know what has been stuffed up my tail pipe? Maybe you should have your doctor check your tail pipe the next time you go in for your prostate exam. I hope you don't get to excited during the exam.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 15, 2007 04:20:24 PM
Linda_K
posted on June 15, 2007 01:55:19 PM
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As with ALL your LIES, ld, ...you can never prove what you falsely claim. NEVER have been able to never will.""
linduh you have always called me a liar and NOT ONCE have you EVER shown proof.
linduh, ""You're nothing more than ANOTHER lying progressive, just copying mingo's MO for get my attention.
posted on June 18, 2007 11:41:56 PM
You SAY you don't want attention and then post new topic after new topic.....what?...hoping no one will notice?????
posted on June 19, 2007 11:53:59 AM
Helenjw
posted on January 1, 2007 03:56:17 PM
Oh, cut the crap, Mingo. Here, like at OTWA your clinging attention to Linda exacerbates the problem. If you want to continue it's certainly your prerogative to do so
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