Investigate Limbaugh's role in encouraging and supporting the Trump insurrection

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/01/talk-radios-role-in-insurrection.html

[Under The Radar]

1. I am starting to doubt that he has cancer

Remember Rush TV that was derived from his popular radio show. That was the precursor to Fox News

[lees1975]

2. Yes, I remember

It was a flat failure

[Under The Radar]

3. Roger Ailes was right old white guys will believe anything

As long as the words are spoken by someone that looks like Megan Kelly.
That was Rush’s problem, he wasn’t very camera friendly

[Nitram]

5. Hey, I'm an old white guy, and I don't believe anything Limbaugh says. Why don't you make that

old conservative white guys?

[lees1975]

7. Agree. I'm an old white guy

and the first time I heard him I thought he was a right wing nut job. Of course, I wasn't old then.

[Nitram]

9. Because I was living overseas I never heard Limbaugh until I was in my 40s. I was shocked the first

time I heard him espousing radical right conspiracy theories and misinformation during the Clinton administration.

[Aristus]

12. Middle-aged white guy here, but I get you, and I agree.

I think most of us do, and we make the correction, "conservative old white guys" in our heads automatically.

[Karadeniz]

4. Get unprovable propaganda off the air!

[lees1975]

10. Constitutionally, this can be done.

When Michael Powell was in charge of the FCC under Dubya, he tried to crack down on the mainstream media with enforcement of policy that was already on the books. It didn't work because the mainstream media follows journalistic standards and is generally pretty accurate. But a good strong far left Democrat could devastate AM talk radio and Breitbart, Newsmax and Fox in a heartbeat.

[Karadeniz]

11. There was an article here recently about what the FCC can and cannot do...and it's kind of dumb.

The article said the FCC can control certain broadcasters, but not others, depending upon what technology is used. Apparently, they don't have authority over cable. Well, guess what! That's just a loophole and the public on the receiving end of lies is misled no matter what the technology. To have such a policy is just about to have no policy. On such a basis, we apparently can't now do anything about Fox, but the radical radio shows should fall under FCC authority.

In an article here lately, someone said that no freedom should be so broad that it can permit the destruction of the govt entitling it, which does sound like a crazy policy... but I think it's where we are.

[mdbl]

6. or force them to play a disclaimer every 5 or 10 mins

"The commentator to whom you are listening is prone to lie, misrepresent or omit facts, twist facts or pass off their opinion as fact when it has been proven otherwise. Listen at your own risk."

[Paladin]

8. Limbaugh isn't dying nearly quick enough to suit me.

While we're waiting around for that blessed event, let him be investigated for his part in the coup attempt.