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THU NOV 14, 2013 AT 01:22 PM PST
Radio Insider Reveals Devastating Impact of StopRush on Clear Channel
by ProgLegs
Rush Limbaugh's receptionist
Buried deep in the comments on a Wednesday blog article http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10372 about the cancellation of the Randi Rhodes Show, a radio industry insider revealed the devastating impact of the 18 month-old StopRush movement on Rush Limbaugh's advertising power. attribution: None Specified The station employee confirms that the siege by online activists https://www.facebook.com/groups/flushrush/ has left Premiere Radio unable to attract legitimate advertisers to what was once radio's most lucrative advertising platform:
Premier isn't where a progressive talker wants to be anyway. They're becoming the bane of radio's existence.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10372#comment-511339
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/14/1255490/-Radio-Insider-Reveals-Devastating-Impact-of-StopRush-on-Clear-Channel
She eats. I’m her mother. I let my daughter eat. Last night she was hungry and we had some peppers.
FROM: What it’s like to have your food stamps cut.
Slate: Do you and your daughter ever go hungry so the other one can eat?
Debra: She eats. I’m her mother. I let my daughter eat. Last night she was hungry and we had some peppers. I made her an omelet with eggs, lunch meat and peppers and I went to bed without eating. I could have made myself an omelet too, but that would have meant no eggs for the weekend. And I had been in Baltimore that day—I’d bought a corn beef sandwich for $4. I didn’t know what she had eaten all day, but I had food in my belly from lunch. So it came down to me feeding her and I went without. This morning, though, she didn’t have breakfast, and I had cereal.
way, way, more:
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/11/snap_reductions_food_stamp_cuts_impact_47_million_americans_here_s_one_of.html
Audience laughd at Ted Cruz for claiming he ‘didn’t want a shutdown’
The crowd made their opinion of this statement clear.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) faced howls of laughter from an audience in Washington, D.C. on Thursday when he claimed that he “didn’t want a shutdown” over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law.
At The Atlantic‘s Washington Ideas Forum, Fox News host Chris Wallace pointed out to the Texas Republican that many of his colleagues thought he hurt the party by forcing the government shutdown instead of letting Obamacare fail on its own.
“That ignores who I think was responsible for the shutdown,” Cruz replied. “I didn’t want a shutdown. Throughout the whole thing, I said we shouldn’t have a shutdown.”
That remark elicited laughter from the forum audience.
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VIDEO & MORE HERE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/14/watch-forum-audience-laugh-at-ted-cruz-for-claiming-he-didnt-want-a-shutdown/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-cracks-up-crowd-by-saying-he-didnt-want-government-shutdown/
Dear CBS News/60 Minutes, from: Edward R. Murrow
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."~ Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
And...
Edward R. Murrow at his desk The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
And...
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. The top management of the networks with a few notable exceptions, has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business. But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently they have neither the time nor the competence to do this.
And...
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
Good night and good luck with your credibility,
Edward R. Murrow
CBS News
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/commentary/hiddenagenda/murrow.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/14/1255280/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Thursday
Nailing Cohen
Richard Cohen: Worse Than Just Racist
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As a conventional middle class white girl married to a conventional middle class white dude, I resent the living hell out of being told that people raised the way I was, who look like I do, get to sit back and be shit-stupid scared of the world around us and that that fear is somehow normal. I resent my major so-called liberal media telling me I can take comfort in how awful I am, because it's the change taking place around me that's the problem, not me. I resent not being challenged, not being pushed, not being told to look harder and love more and draw the circle of people I care about wider and wider every day as the place I live does the same.
How does excusing me from my human responsibility help me in anyway? How does it help anyone else? Newsprint is not unlimited these days and Cohen is using up ink to tell us that the problem is what the world looks like to fraidy-cats, instead of telling us to be less scared, to get over ourselves, to get with the goddamn program.
A.
http://www.first-draft.com/2013/11/richard-cohen-worse-than-just-racist.html
Norquist: “I never drink water. Cheney tortures people with it, which gives it an awkward taste”
Norquist is a reliably droll interview and has won the "Funniest Celebrity in Washington" contest. At Clemons' urging, he opened with a few jokes including, "I never drink water. Dick Cheney tortures people with it, which gives it an awkward taste."
MORE (not funny):
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/grover-norquist-says-the-gop-learned-its-lesson-from-the-shutdown/281453/
Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking
Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking
By John Upton
13 Nov 2013 11:25 AM
The worldwide leader of the Catholic Church, none other than the motherfracking pope himself, has come out in opposition to the worldwide scourge of hydraulic fracturing.
OK, so Pope Francis didn’t exactly make a policy statement or a speech denouncing fracking. But hints have emerged that he might do so soon. And Twitter is afire with pictures of His Holiness holding up anti-fracking T-shirts. The pictures were taken Monday following meetings with Argentinians dealing with environmental issues:
Environmental filmmaker Fernando ‘Pino’ Solanas told elEconomista that the pope had indicated during a Monday meeting that he was working on a papal memo, known as an encyclical, that will address environmental issues.
MORE:
http://grist.org/news/divine-intervention-pope-opposes-fracking/
McConnell: "I prefer the news of that day to be what I’d like for it to be"
Mitch McConnell Wants Kentucky Senate Race to Focus on Obamacare Woes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
In a candid moment, McCOnnell told reporters that was all that he wanted to discuss at Tuesday's press conference even in the face of polling numbers that show his popularity waning and that the Kentucky race is tightening.
"I’m probably not going to be answering questions about anything else, but I’m happy to respond to questions about Obamacare," McConnell said. "As some of you have complained from time to time that I don’t do a stake out after every event and I’m not going to do a stake out after every event because as you can imagine I prefer the news of that day to be what I’d like for it to be rather than what you all may be interested in pursuing."
MORE:
http://wfpl.org/post/mitch-mcconnell-wants-kentucky-senate-race-focus-obamacare-woes
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