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Bill Mann On "Bloviator" Limbaugh

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

Bill Mann writes in today's MercuTimesTribReview about finding a 20-year-old framed letter from Rush Limbaugh among his souvenirs, which triggers a flood of thoughts about "The Bloviator":

At the time, Limbaugh's show was still on KNBR. It would soon move to Reichstag Radio, a.k.a. KSFO, a.k.a. "Sieg Heil On Your Dial." We keep hearing how many hundreds of radio stations carry Rush. There's a reason for that, and it's not his politics.

It's cheap. In fact, for many small stations, it's free.

The complete column may be eyeballed at:

http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_11898210

PS -- Is Radio-Info.com running slooooow for anybody else? I'm on a screamin' business-class cable line, and it takes two minutes to bring up a page here. Congrats to R-I if it's simply an abundance of traffic, but if not...
 
BossRadioDJ said:
It's cheap. In fact, for many small stations, it's free.
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Not to mention, radio programmers and management are notorious copycats. If something works, they clone it, hence 10 billion conservative talk show clones of Rush, and none of them are as good a broadcaster as he is.
 
Bill Mann isn't a very good writer, is he...and has not yet learned the more loaded and juvenile the descriptives, the less impact. Also, not terribly useful wallowing for those of us looking for a point. Ironically, the same could be said about his subject.
 
>>PS -- Is Radio-Info.com running slooooow for anybody else? I'm on a screamin' business-class cable line, and it takes two minutes to bring up a page here. Congrats to R-I if it's simply an abundance of traffic, but if not...>>

Yes, it has been running slow for me for weeks.
 
Rush is free for no one. This "writer"(?) is a moron.
 
Except for a few major markets, the show is syndicated for clearing the network commercials (5 minutes per hour.) This is pretty well true across the board in syndication. It's not free, but the station isn't out any CASH (except as mentioned above, in major markets, where substantial cash is paid to Premiere, but they don't generally have to clear the net spots.)
 
DeadAudicy said:
Bill Mann isn't a very good writer, is he...and has not yet learned the more loaded and juvenile the descriptives, the less impact. Also, not terribly useful wallowing for those of us looking for a point. Ironically, the same could be said about his subject.
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Doesn't he write for moveon.org? The styles seem similar.
 
SFStatic said:
Except for a few major markets, the show is syndicated for clearing the network commercials (5 minutes per hour.) This is pretty well true across the board in syndication. It's not free, but the station isn't out any CASH (except as mentioned above, in major markets, where substantial cash is paid to Premiere, but they don't generally have to clear the net spots.)
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Nothing in this statement is true. Rush is paid for with cash AND barter in even the smallest markets. The only exception is Clear Channel stations that run Rush, they don't pay for obvious reasons.

Hannity and Rush are cash+barter, everyone else is strictly barter.
 
The Ultimate Warrior said:
SFStatic said:
Except for a few major markets, the show is syndicated for clearing the network commercials (5 minutes per hour.) This is pretty well true across the board in syndication. It's not free, but the station isn't out any CASH (except as mentioned above, in major markets, where substantial cash is paid to Premiere, but they don't generally have to clear the net spots.)
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Nothing in this statement is true. Rush is paid for with cash AND barter in even the smallest markets. The only exception is Clear Channel stations that run Rush, they don't pay for obvious reasons.

Hannity and Rush are cash+barter, everyone else is strictly barter.
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This makes sense.
 
RadioStarOne said:
Delete all your temporary internet files from your computers. Amazing stuff happen when you do that!
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Sorry, Star ... I clear the temporary Internet files out on a regular basis, and this site still loads slowly and errors out often. This isn't the only website I visit, so it's obvious there's something bogging the site down. (Too much traffic? That's a problem I'd love to have!)
 
BossRadioDJ said:
RadioStarOne said:
Delete all your temporary internet files from your computers. Amazing stuff happen when you do that!
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Sorry, Star ... I clear the temporary Internet files out on a regular basis, and this site still loads slowly and errors out often. This isn't the only website I visit, so it's obvious there's something bogging the site down. (Too much traffic? That's a problem I'd love to have!)
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I've experienced the same slow loading on this site, and it seems to have gotten worse the last month or so.
 
Lkeller said:
BossRadioDJ said:
RadioStarOne said:
Delete all your temporary internet files from your computers. Amazing stuff happen when you do that!
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Sorry, Star ... I clear the temporary Internet files out on a regular basis, and this site still loads slowly and errors out often. This isn't the only website I visit, so it's obvious there's something bogging the site down. (Too much traffic? That's a problem I'd love to have!)
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I've experienced the same slow loading on this site, and it seems to have gotten worse the last month or so.
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This board has been very slow & I regularly cleanout my files.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
The complete column may be eyeballed at:

http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_11898210
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I bit my lip and read the column. Typical Bill Man: Overly insulting without much else going on. It's just fine to dislike Rush's politics. It's fine to call him a hypocrite; it's even perfectly okay to hate him personally. I'm sure many of us subscribe to 1, 2, or all 3, but as usual, Bill Mann goes overboard with the insults and not enough meat to the analysis.

PS -- Is Radio-Info.com running slooooow for anybody else? I'm on a screamin' business-class cable line, and it takes two minutes to bring up a page here. Congrats to R-I if it's simply an abundance of traffic, but if not...
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Ever since the latest rewrite I've had trouble. I wrote to radio-info but to no avail. I notice fewer posts around these parts, so I imagine other are having problems. When I run this on Internet Explorer or Opera I get 50% CPU times and sometimes hangs. When I run it on Firefox it doesn't hang or warm the CPU but sill takes unreasonably long to load.

Doesn't anybody at radio-info.com do testing before they launch their software on an innocent public?
 
DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
The complete column may be eyeballed at:

http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_11898210
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I bit my lip and read the column. Typical Bill Man: Overly insulting without much else going on. It's just fine to dislike Rush's politics. It's fine to call him a hypocrite; it's even perfectly okay to hate him personally. I'm sure many of us subscribe to 1, 2, or all 3, but as usual, Bill Mann goes overboard with the insults and not enough meat to the analysis.

PS -- Is Radio-Info.com running slooooow for anybody else? I'm on a screamin' business-class cable line, and it takes two minutes to bring up a page here. Congrats to R-I if it's simply an abundance of traffic, but if not...
Click to expand...

Ever since the latest rewrite I've had trouble. I wrote to radio-info but to no avail. I notice fewer posts around these parts, so I imagine other are having problems. When I run this on Internet Explorer or Opera I get 50% CPU times and sometimes hangs. When I run it on Firefox it doesn't hang or warm the CPU but sill takes unreasonably long to load.

Doesn't anybody at radio-info.com do testing before they launch their software on an innocent public?
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I wish they did because it has been running quite slow for weeks. Quite annoying.
 
DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
The complete column may be eyeballed at:

http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_11898210
Click to expand...

I bit my lip and read the column. Typical Bill Man: Overly insulting without much else going on. It's just fine to dislike Rush's politics. It's fine to call him a hypocrite; it's even perfectly okay to hate him personally. I'm sure many of us subscribe to 1, 2, or all 3, but as usual, Bill Mann goes overboard with the insults and not enough meat to the analysis.

PS -- Is Radio-Info.com running slooooow for anybody else? I'm on a screamin' business-class cable line, and it takes two minutes to bring up a page here. Congrats to R-I if it's simply an abundance of traffic, but if not...
Click to expand...

Ever since the latest rewrite I've had trouble. I wrote to radio-info but to no avail. I notice fewer posts around these parts, so I imagine other are having problems. When I run this on Internet Explorer or Opera I get 50% CPU times and sometimes hangs. When I run it on Firefox it doesn't hang or warm the CPU but sill takes unreasonably long to load.

Doesn't anybody at radio-info.com do testing before they launch their software on an innocent public?
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Maybe if two of us get into a fight and start hurling insults at each other, they'll pay attention to this thread. OK - David (whichever David) - you want a piece of me? Well, do ya?
 
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Hey, it worked. Uh, I mean...what about that Limbaugh...what a bloviating a**hole.

Actually, on the rare occasions I listen, I find Rush rather entertaining, though we hold none of the same political opinions. But he's no Lee Rodgers...Lee is my favorite right winger.

OK - we're back on topic. Please discuss...
 
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