• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Is Rush Limbaugh loosing it?

B

Bill-in-CT

You have to admit that Limbaugh's comparison of Bain Capital and the new Batman villain is absurd. Sounds like he's grasping for straws in order to fill three hours. Also, Limbaugh's inflections do not sound like he is a confident man in control.
 
Bill1820 said:
You have to admit that Limbaugh's comparison of Bain Capital and the new Batman villain is absurd. Sounds like he's grasping for straws in order to fill three hours. Also, Limbaugh's inflections do not sound like he is a confident man in control.
Click to expand...

Oh boy.

I'm sitting this one out...lol.
 
The Obama campaign is making that very comparison about Bane / Bain.

In Phoenix, the local NBC affiliate dutifully parroted the Obama campaign and actually used the Bane / Bain angle as the lead local story on their 10 pm cast Tuesday night.

The media are bonkers.
 
Why is it news when a radio host or a political campaign use pop culture references to make points? I know you guys like bashing Rush on every single thing he says, but he didn't exactly invent co-opting pop culture to make a rhetorical point. It happened with the last Batman movie. Happened with Star Wars. Reagan used "Born in the USA" as a campaign song, much to the chagrin of Springsteen. Nixon was on Laugh In. This is nothing new.
 
I am guessing there is not a football, baseball or basketball game to use as a sign, so one is being made up out of Batman?
 
buster2 said:
The Obama campaign is making that very comparison about Bane / Bain.

In Phoenix, the local NBC affiliate dutifully parroted the Obama campaign and actually used the Bane / Bain angle as the lead local story on their 10 pm cast Tuesday night.

The media are bonkers.
Click to expand...

Dutifully? Really?

So what do you call it when these media outlets also report things that are NOT good for the Obama administration, because they do plenty of THAT considering they're just mouthpieces for the WH. ::)
 
Yes. Dutifully, and really. I'm not even being political.

If events in the news reflect well on Obama's policies, report it. If events reflect poorly on his policies, report that as well. My point is that the TV story I referenced about Bane / Bain IS NOT NEWS AT ALL but a bit of political campaign theater.

For this TV station in particular to merely parrot the political points being made by a campaign and masquerading them as news shows either an appalling lack of news judgment, a willingness to blithely promote one political campaign's taking points, or both. It should be fodder for SNL or The Daily Show. I guess the local news guys are auditioning for those kinds of gigs now.
 
buster2 said:
Yes. Dutifully, and really. I'm not even being political.

If events in the news reflect well on Obama's policies, report it. If events reflect poorly on his policies, report that as well. My point is that the TV story I referenced about Bane / Bain IS NOT NEWS AT ALL but a bit of political campaign theater.

For this TV station in particular to merely parrot the political points being made by a campaign and masquerading them as news shows either an appalling lack of news judgment, a willingness to blithely promote one political campaign's taking points, or both. It should be fodder for SNL or The Daily Show. I guess the local news guys are auditioning for those kinds of gigs now.
Click to expand...

OK, you may be right...as I didn't see the report you're referencing.

I was just reacting to what I thought was the typical "oh the liberal MSM is at it again" nonsense, since there is plenty negative that is reported, but somehow not noticed by the MSCM.
 
nine posts.....still not taken outside.

Congratulations, People, a New Record!
 
...how long was this movie in pre-production before anybody even heard of Bain? Limbaugh ripped off his original schtick from Larry Lujack; now he's pilfering from Bill O'Reilly (last year Billo tried the same gag about The Lorax)...
 
The truth is, Rush's audience is a very small audience of ultra-pro Republican government listeners. They don't care that Republicans in office want to take away our constitution, they don't care that these leaders want to gut government funding of domestic initiatives in order to declare more wars for the biggest bankers, and they don't care that our conservative candidates are being funded by corrupt banks; they just want A Republican in office no matter how corrupt he may be. This is Rush's audience.
 
josh said:
The truth is, Rush's audience is a very small audience of ultra-pro Republican government listeners. They don't care that Republicans in office want to take away our constitution, they don't care that these leaders want to gut government funding of domestic initiatives in order to declare more wars for the biggest bankers, and they don't care that our conservative candidates are being funded by corrupt banks; they just want A Republican in office no matter how corrupt he may be. This is Rush's audience.
Click to expand...

Anybody who idolizes an ideologue is a moron.
 
You are absolutely wrong- Rush is number one in talk radio, and Michael Savage is number two. These two hosts have main stream views, and most people in the United States agree with what they have to say. Why else would they be numbers one and two?


hmmm................!

josh said:
The truth is, Rush's audience is a very small audience of ultra-pro Republican government listeners. They don't care that Republicans in office want to take away our constitution, they don't care that these leaders want to gut government funding of domestic initiatives in order to declare more wars for the biggest bankers, and they don't care that our conservative candidates are being funded by corrupt banks; they just want A Republican in office no matter how corrupt he may be. This is Rush's audience.
Click to expand...
 
In the best case scenario, these right wing shows only pull a 4 share out of a very low cume in most markets. 92% of the population doesn't care or listen. That is hardly mainstream. Most of that cume is 60+ and a bunch of angry and grumpy male listenership. Hardly mainstream.

Probably the worst thing that can happen is a Republican win this fall. What will these windbags complain about then? The AM band will be filled with nothing but real boring pablum, just like it is now but even worse.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom