What Limbaugh said about OWS from WABC, Penn Station, NYC, and 600 other stations.

[certainot]

Here's what Limbaugh said in first hour this morning....

praphrasing Limbaugh:

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Bloomberg liberated Zuccotti Park.
lousy hippies thieves rapists purse snatchers
sexually transmitted diseases, murder, filth, gunfire, scabies
The protestors are so used to urinating and defecating in the streets so when they go back home to their parents they might need to be housebroken again. They’re going to have to put some newspaper down.
endless parade of human debris,
whining little wimps
looking for free meals free drugs free sex
it was never big, never any public support, not the backbone of America
white house wanted bloomberg to get them out because it was one big ad for the dem party.
'xxxxxx

WABC is a parent, or the parent station for Rush Limbaugh, and it is located near Penn Station, NYC. Maybe it needs some protests too. There is no bigger PC cop and sensor-by-threat in US media than Limbaugh. There is no louder supporter and excuser of Wall St. deregulation and corruption.

He starts the ball rolling on the daily output from the 1000 plus talk radio stations that dominate political talk in the US. By sheer unchallenged volume and ubiquity he and his radio imitators determine what is and isn't 'acceptable' in media and politics. If he can say it from 600 stations and no one can talk back in real time it must be OK for media and politicians all over the country. Team Limbaugh is a major enabler and excuser for the way local governments and police deal with OWS protests across the country.

What also makes their message acceptable is that many of the largest of those stations and their talkers are endorsed by our universities. Many of our major universities broadcast their football and basketball on those stations, contradicting their own 'mission statements' by associating with the daily global warming denial, racism, misogyny, and lies.

Together, the coordinated national and local right wing talkers have been able to eventually message over just about anything progressives have done. How many protestors is one right wing talker with a big microphone worth? And the left has no direct organized challenge for that giant megaphone, as it distorts and minimizes all OWS objectives and intimidates and enables and excuses local governments and police.

The OWS protests have been one of the few political entities/events the last 20 years that have been able to message over the think tank coordinated megaphone that is the right wing talk radio monopoly. But how much more effective would they be if the Left stopped giving the right wing talk radio monopoly a free speech free ride?

[geardaddy]

1. Here's Rush's hero broadcasting.

[Angry Dragon]

2. rush is the leader of the republican party

so get off his back
the people elected fairly

[vcc]

3. why does he want to make the Repukes look even worse?

How is this going to help his favorite Repub candidates on election day? It's like he's trying on purpose to cost them the votes of everybody who supports what OWS stands for, and make the Repubs look EVEN WORSE than they already do. i don't get these far right wingnuts at all and I don't trust any of them one bit.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. His anal cysts must be especially raw and lively this morning.

They inspire the moving speeches he gives from his ass.

[barbtries]

5. it's a chicken and egg question i guess.

i just don't agree that it's the fault of the left that media has been just about entirely co-opted by the right and all their money.

[certainot]

14. i would agree except in the case of talk radio, for which there is no organized challenge while

it short circuits normal democratic feedback mechanisms that democratic media depends on. the left ignores it because it is so distasteful to listen to, gives us headaches and makes thinking people puke. the perfect weapon. if there was a transcript database of the main talkers for the left media to read and search to get an idea where so much of the GOP's groundwork repetition is done it would be a whole different story the last 20 years. instead the left reacts after the buzz has already been created and the lies established. we wouldn't be in this mess. but it is basically invisible to the left- a perfect media weapon.

talk radio, because it is ubiquitous and so centralized and coordinated can create like no other medium. the rest of the media is more corporate in the sense that they omit important issues or facts. even fox has to pretend to show more than one side, be balanced. fox could not do the kind of misogyny used recently in defense of herman cain that limbaugh and others did in order to intimidate accusers. 1000 coordinated radio stations can and has been creating their own reality- that's where the tea party got most of it's material.

[barbtries]

20. you make good points.

but even in the case of talk radio, what gave rise to the proliferation of right wing talk radio and the exclusion of a balancing point of view? my understanding was that it was born in the repeal of the fairness doctrine. a move undertaken while reagan was president i believe. now i'm not checking my facts i'm at work so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

[certainot]

21. reagan killing the FD got it started but the left has basically given it pass for 20 yrs

and let the right have its way in dominating most media and political messaging because of it.

it wasn't some cyclical change in US politics that leaves us now with such a dysfunctional major political party - the party of limbaugh

[redqueen]

6. WTFingF is wrong with the people who actually listen to that clown?

:puke:

[abelenkpe]

7. My parents and brother love him

They ARE all high school drop outs so there you go.

[certainot]

13. most parts of the country there are no free alts for politics while driving or working

and a lot of the states where the talk radio monopoly dominates local politics have way too many senators per polpulation.

[GreenTea]

8. Who gives a fuck what the pigman has to say? The Pigman Republican Corporate Elitst Limbaugh

is what the word Fascist is defined - Pigman is a liar, a corporate republican shill. The pigman is one deaf, nearly-blind, bald, fat ugly, sick motherfucker!!

[certainot]

15. as point man for the radio monopoly he's been the single most powerful political force last 20 years

his trophy room is full of defeats for the left, from single payer to clarence thomas to bush and iraq, to wall st deregulation and global warming denial.

and most of it because the left hasn't found a way to study the effects of all that coordinated unchallenged repetition to 50 mil a week, endorsed by our major universities.

[JuniperLea]

17. I do...

I always want to know what the enemy is saying/doing, etc. No bad, no guilt, no wrong in that.

[Juneboarder]

9. "white house wanted bloomberg to get them out ..."

Yea, Rush? Are you saying there is federal involvement then? Maybe federal involvement isn't purely speculation at this point?

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Sounds like what rush looks for ...free meals free drugs and free sex.

Well anyway, illegal drug and sex. Pretty sure he gets free/comp. meals also.

[kestrel91316]

11. Wht makes you think we give a rat's ass about what Pigman thinks of us?

[certainot]

12. if a guy on the corner screams all day that you sister is a whore and you're a traitor

and you don't get in his face it eventually your neighbors might believe it. that's been going on on a national scale the last 20 years to all liberals and liberal ideals.

most political defeats for the democracy loving americans the last 20 years are to some degree and i'd say to a large degree the direct result of these think tank megaphones being able to dominate large areas of the country with coordinated unchallenged lies.

[JuniperLea]

16. Thieves? Rapists? Purse snatchers? STDs?

Free drugs and sex?

There he goes, talking about his ugly ass self again.

[lunatica]

18. I'm looking forward to the first time he gets a Mic Check.

And to every time after that. I hope he can't get away from having Mic Checks.

The use of the Mic Check on Scott Walker, Karl Rove and others is fucking brilliant!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. Oooooo...nice!

I love that! I think that is the perfect tool against such assholes -- mic check the shit out of them wherever they go. :D

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. Nothing shocking from the Fat Man

Usual drivel, and WABC is a den of hate between Pigman, Kid Diddler Hanitty, Imus and Bob Grant. Fuck them.

[certainot]

22. does WABC have any local talkers and what are they saying?

got a slow connection at the moment...