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Rush's beginning of the end

cyberdad said:
I also agree that Hannity comes off as the most sincere of the the right-wing talkers.
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Wow, I couldn't agree less.

I think Hannity is one of the most transparently one-sided partisan hacks on the air anywhere. Sean hasn't met a double standard he didn't like. Some of his little diatribes are nothing more than a bunch of partisan talking points and cliches strung together in sentence form. Lazy and boring.

Limbaugh, as predictable as he can be as well, is leagues ahead of Hannity in the entertainment department. I actually find numerous right wing talkers to be much more genuine than Hannity.

Let not your heart be troubled.....

...and pass the cheese.
 
Limbaugh gets involved in stupid products whenever he gets a new wife.

Remember the ties?

Remember the TV show?

What a loser. Crap tea, over priced and you have to wait for it to be shipped.
 
I tried to listen to Flushbo today (Friday) and he just sounded like a very OLD MAN that is disatisfied with everything. Had to turn it off. He definately fits the profile of the GOP... GRUMPY OLD PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!

How can anybody listen to that tripe???
 
cyberdad said:
I also agree that Hannity comes off as the most sincere of the the right-wing talkers. I'm an admirer of his work, as well. And, in fact, I've long held him in higher regard than Rush.
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I hope you didn't have to have major surgery to remove your tongue from your cheek after you posted that. ;D
 
radiowizard101 said:
I tried to listen to Flushbo today (Friday) and he just sounded like a very OLD MAN that is disatisfied with everything. Had to turn it off. He definately fits the profile of the GOP... GRUMPY OLD PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!

How can anybody listen to that tripe???
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Try again on Monday. He might actually be there. Then you can spiel with more credibility. ;D
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
cyberdad said:
I also agree that Hannity comes off as the most sincere of the the right-wing talkers. I'm an admirer of his work, as well. And, in fact, I've long held him in higher regard than Rush.
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I hope you didn't have to have major surgery to remove your tongue from your cheek after you posted that. ;D
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To clarify, all I was saying is that Hannity strikes me as sincerely believing in what he says. That's all. As opposed to Rush...who I suspect surely says some things just to be outrageous and stir up his tea bagger "base". And being an admirer of Hannity's work doesn't mean I necessarily agree with his views. I was referring to the fact that I admire a guy who's built up a following nearly as big as Rush's by taking (at least by comparison) a more "nice guy or non-bullying" higher road approach (again...at least by comparison).
 
Yeah, it was more like sometime this week I accidently heard Flushbo. Was kinda stuck on CSPAN on Friday so that I can get the real story on how our Politico's are acting on the budget ceiling issue. Now... that is pretty shocking.
 
Re: Never forget: It's A SHOW. And never-forget includes YOU Rush.

Holland Cooke said:
Disclaimer: I've not met Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
I do know Sean Hannity, one affable chap who's been extremely helpful and supportive of my affiliated client stations.
That said...

I believe that Sean Hannity believes what-we-hear-him-say.

I believe that Rush believes much-of what-we-hear-him-say. But it's A SHOW. He's a disc jockey, a gifted one. His narrative is SOURCE MATERIAL, "playing the hits." Lately, he seems to forget that. 'Actually seems to think he's influencing public policy...though the candidates he damns get elected and those he endorses don't (the gag being "Rush couldn't deliver a pizza"). But it's effective radio, especially in diary markets where name recognition mitigates the blah-blah-blah factor that's now punishing Limbaugh in PPM markets.

I don't believe Glenn Beck believes anything. It's ALL a show, and all-about-money. And keep-an-eye-on Beck, who's about to show us an innovative new business model for MAKING MONEY self-publishing online. Everybody thinks Beck is crazy, but nobody's calling him stupid.
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I would have to agree with all three points.

Let me add this: Hannity seems rough with liberal callers and guests, but at least he has them on.

I'm not sure what more to say about Rush these days. I think he really wants to be a pundit like his brother (who is very good at being a pundit) but any more he reminds me too much of Arthur Godfrey. (Now that is irony: Rush was a DJ at old WIXZ in McKeesport ... and we have mutual acquaintances ... and he's reminding me of someone who used to be heard on WEDO in McKeesport when it carried CBS, also many years ago.)

When Beck wants to be an entertainer, he's an entertainer. When he started sounding like Father Coughlin on his old 5 p.m. FNC show, he reminded me of why I found his radio show a good reason to avoid Pittsburgh's FM 104.7 from 10 a.m.-noon (or during that "lost hour" at night, which doesn't run much during the summer with the Pirates on WPGB).
 
cyberdad said:
To clarify, all I was saying is that Hannity strikes me as sincerely believing in what he says.
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You are probably right.

Along that line, the Tea Party people sincerely believe what they stand for... whether it makes sense or not.

Reminds me of the night my wife put her foot in her mouth at a church dinner. A spirited conversation was underway at our table about some of the finer points of Christian theology. My wife thought she was taking a middle-of-the-road stance when she said: "I think what really matters is whether you are sincere."

Sitting across the table from her was an old college friend of ours who was pretty much a non-nonsense student of such subjects. She had that "Ooops, I've been hit over the head with a 2 by 4 look" after he responded to her with: "Cannibals are sincere...... when they eat you."
 
Great point, Cowboy.

I think you and I are probably more on the same page than not. As an ex-broadcaster I admire the likes of Rush and Hannity for having reached the pinnacle of their profession. But the problem for me is that an all-too-large segment of the public mistakes these broadcasters for leaders and takes their opinions as gospel. I see them...and their peers on both right and left....as being somewhat analagous to influential newspaper columnists of the last century. The difference being those columnists were confined to the opinion opinion pages of the newspapers and their commentary was clearly labeled as such.
While they provided worthwhile commentary, no one mistook them for political leaders....including our actual elected officials.

Along these lines, I think the Brits are doing us a favor with their investigations of the Murdoch empire. My hope is that what comes out of this is that Fox News in the U.S. eventually emerges as being more widely understood as an organization dedicated to advancing a political point of view (or agenda), as opposed to a pure, straightforward news operation. I'm appalled when I see them pass off biased treatment of stories as straight news. (Example: always inserting the words "job killing" in front of budget or revenue proposals they don't like, etc.)

At minimum, IMHO, Fox either needs to get rid of the bogus "Fair and Balanced" tagline or actually live up to it. To be sure, I'd like to see news/agenda more clearly labeled elsewhere. MSNBC? At least they don't pretend to be unbiased...and frankly, I won't personally consider them to be a first-tier news outlet until if/when news 24/7.

BTW, I know a little something about this. I'm an ex-journalist and a national winner of a Sigma Delta Chi (Society of Professional Journalists) reporting award. I have nothing against those who report the news from any particular point of view....except when they pretend to be otherwise to the consumers of their product.
 
I wish he would bring back the "No Bounderies" neck ties.

Interestingly the Michael Savage family owns "Rockstar" which has to be worth multi-millions. When Quaker Oats bought Snapple they paid $1 billion for it, then ended up selling it for $330 million I think, to Dr. Pepper.

In a way, Savage might be the richest man in radio.

I'm not sure mail order tea is going to sell in this economy.
 
Rush's live-read spots are IRR-I-TATING!! I lunge for the button to change the station when I hear him segue into Lifelock, the Heritage Foundation, whatever he's shilling today (remember Allen Brothers steaks?)
 
When Limbaugh was in Sacramento I thought he was more interesting, dealing with other issues than Dem-Repub stuff.

However I guess it can be said if people can remember old sponsors, he did his job. Alan Brothers Steaks, Ug Boots, Snapple, etc.
 
I always found him entertaining, but the last time I tuned in a caller accused him of not being far enough to the right. He assured the man he was Tea Party conservative and Reagan was on the left.

I don't know. I suppose I could still enjoy him if there wasn't anything else on. Like when I drive home from the beach. The easy listening station from the beach goes much further when I'm driving down than when I'm driving home.
 
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