Old Rush...........

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After reading all the posts on here I am being reminded of that drivel....I'm so glad I left all that talk radio behind. Savage? His yelling and insults can be funny, but not really intellectual. That's not even his real name. I do kinda like him for his theatrics though. He's a performer.
Hannity? Great American this, great American that...I don't know but it took me about a month of his broadcasts and I found it repetitive and overly patriotic. Every once in a while I used to listen to Michael Medved...but he's pretty much just a rock-solid supporter of all things republican.
No....I'll listen to old big-band music, classical, oldies, or Sinatra style crooners. Much more enjoyable. When I stopped listening to talk radio...my life improved.
 
Originally Posted By: SF0059
Originally Posted By: LazyPrizm
perpetually threatened and outraged/enraqed old white guys.


Doesn't that describe most BITOGers?
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Yes, sadly enough it does.
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(Myself and very few others are the exceptions on here.)
 
Rush is okay.I get tired of him repeating the same point over and over.I realize some people are slow on the uptake but [censored].His parody bits are very funny.

I was actually introduced to talk radio while on a road trip.I found a show called "For the People" ran by Chuck Harder.He was a cross between consumer advice,politics and paranormal stuff.He gave the Bushes and the Clintons a hard time.,basically he was for the little guy ,not for any particular party.He was investigated by the IRS for so long he had dedicated a room in his hotel for the auditors.Under both parties.He got up to 400+ stations.Sadly he is no longer on the air,thanks to pressure on his backers from the Clintons.

My next favorite was the libertarian Neal Boortz who is now retired.

Nowadays I skip between Glenn Beck and Herman Cain in the a.m. and Ground Zero and Coast to Coast and Red Eye radio in the evening/night.
 
I listen to a local guy, John Carlson on the way into work for 20 minutes. On the way home I listen to Ben Shapiro. My favorites are Michael Medved and Ben Shapiro. They actually offer solutions and are well reasoned.
 
Originally Posted By: andrewg
However, I must confess that after he got hooked on prescription drugs, I found it difficult to listen to him anymore. Mostly because he lied about it for a long time before he came clean. Not exactly a conservative virtue.


While there are many reasons that people might not like Rush, I don't believe that this should be one. I work on a regular basis with people battling addiction and the insidiousness is that the disease causes normal, upstanding people to do things that they normally wouldn't. I give anyone who overcomes addiction and makes right respect. This is not a liberal or conservative issue... I will readily recognize both Rush Limbaugh on the right and Russell Brand on the left as heroes for overcoming something more difficult than we will ever know.
 
Originally Posted By: SF0059
Originally Posted By: andrewg
However, I must confess that after he got hooked on prescription drugs, I found it difficult to listen to him anymore. Mostly because he lied about it for a long time before he came clean. Not exactly a conservative virtue.


While there are many reasons that people might not like Rush, I don't believe that this should be one. I work on a regular basis with people battling addiction and the insidiousness is that the disease causes normal, upstanding people to do things that they normally wouldn't. I give anyone who overcomes addiction and makes right respect. This is not a liberal or conservative issue... I will readily recognize both Rush Limbaugh on the right and Russell Brand on the left as heroes for overcoming something more difficult than we will ever know.

I understand where you are coming from. I just don't come to the same conclusion. Rush was an icon before that.....a beacon of sorts for the conservative cause. Addiction or not, he repeatedly lied his behind off. He lied to his millions of listeners as well as his own family. I'm not saying that because of his poor choices and his addiction that he is unworthy of forgiveness. But what I am saying is that for me, I lost a lot of respect for him and his position of importance in the conservative movement. I didn't expect him (or anybody) to be perfect. But from a complete honesty viewpoint, I will never think of him the same way as I did before he made those poor choices and them became addicted. It wouldn't matter if he was a lefty or on the right....but when one was in such an influential position as his...and was a complete liar....well, that really was a let down for me.
 
I've never made a habit of talk radio. Sometimes a local drive show, or when my wife's driving its NPR (which is a lot less entertaining than the old SNL spoof of NPR...)

One that I actually did enjoy a bit whenever I caught the show was Neil Boortz, but I haven't run across his show in years now.
 
Boortz retired last year and now is on the road with his wife in a Prevost motorhome.Once in a while he fills in for Herman Cain,who took over for Boortz.Herman is okay but I miss Boortz and his hardcore Libertarian views.Most amusing when he would give a liberal a hard time and then in the next call do the same to a conservative.

I used to listen to NPR a good bit and donate yearly.I stopped after I got really tired of NPR saying "Now here is a report from Cokie Roberts" she would do a short report and then editorialize for twice as long as the report.If you are going to do an opinion piece call it that.Otherwise you are dishonest,and will not get any of my money.
 
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The problem today in America is that people are not willing to consider both sides (or all sides) of an issue. There are guys here at bitgo who would probably not check out FOX News if you paid them. So how do they know what they may be missing? I know a woman who will not watch FOX News whatsoever (her husband does watch FOX News) and she, her husband, and her daughters often travel together with me, and I have to tell her all the time about stuff that NBC News apparently does not consider worth covering. And she watches the NBC News faithfully.

I think that Rush Limbaugh brings up some good points about a lot of different things. I don't listen to him on the radio but I do check his website. If somebody brings up good points about something I don't think it should matter if that person is liberal or conservative. I consider myself kind of center of the road. In my personal experience in life I have found that usually the most extreme points of view on any subject, either left or right, are usually wrong.

Rush Limbaugh's website is one of the websites I regularly visit, along with some others. I try to get news and information from several different sources. For news I usually watch FOX News and I am impressed how they will often have a liberal person and a conservative person on to debate various things. But sometimes I will watch CNN. It seems that in some major incidents CNN sometimes has better coverage. And when we had forest fires and flooding in Colorado last year the major news organizations seemed to not be interested in covering what were major events in my area. So I watched the local news including ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX.

People need to be willing to open their minds up to other points of view.
 
I have also tired of talk radio for the same reasons others have cited. The problem is that our mainstream media is so left biased that I have to turn it off as well. Here's an example....they were discussing how former Pres. Bush has taken up painting when they started with drivel about how former presidents usually spend their time trying to "solve world hunger, AIDS etc"...(an attack on Bush of course)...meanwhile the Clinton's and Obama's are treated with kid gloves.....they never bring up the fact that the Clinton's have and continue to make millions of dollars giving speeches...they have turned their 'public service' into a very lucrative cottage industry.... another example is the lovefest whenever Chelsea is in the news...they never mention that her father-in-law, former Democrat Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, spent 5 years in federal prison for numerous counts of fraud while 'serving' in Congress...do you think they would omit this if if he was the father-in-law of Jenna Bush (or any Republican)?

PS: For the poster who mentioned aggrieved old white guys...how do you justify government sponsored race and ethnic QUOTAS (which discriminate against whites and Asians) under the guise of 'Affirmative Action'? 'Equal Opportunity' has now become 'guaranteed results'.....
 
I think you have to get your news from multiple sources. I tend to go all over the spectrum from NPR and BBC World service to a local talk radio station and Fox News.

I have to admit I watch little news on the TV. It's mostly listening to the radio or reading stories on the web.

Just a few weeks ago, I was listening to someone on NPR talk about news bias and how it's not a bad thing, as long as you know the bias.

I think that's true. If you are looking to get an across the spectrum view, then you need to go to sources where you know how the editor leans.

Now there is a lot that passes for news and journalism that isn't. Look at how much speculation was passed off as news in the MH370 disappearance coverage.

Originally Posted By: Mystic
The problem today in America is that people are not willing to consider both sides (or all sides) of an issue. There are guys here at bitgo who would probably not check out FOX News if you paid them. So how do they know what they may be missing? I know a woman who will not watch FOX News whatsoever (her husband does watch FOX News) and she, her husband, and her daughters often travel together with me, and I have to tell her all the time about stuff that NBC News apparently does not consider worth covering. And she watches the NBC News faithfully.

I think that Rush Limbaugh brings up some good points about a lot of different things. I don't listen to him on the radio but I do check his website. If somebody brings up good points about something I don't think it should matter if that person is liberal or conservative. I consider myself kind of center of the road. In my personal experience in life I have found that usually the most extreme points of view on any subject, either left or right, are usually wrong.

Rush Limbaugh's website is one of the websites I regularly visit, along with some others. I try to get news and information from several different sources. For news I usually watch FOX News and I am impressed how they will often have a liberal person and a conservative person on to debate various things. But sometimes I will watch CNN. It seems that in some major incidents CNN sometimes has better coverage. And when we had forest fires and flooding in Colorado last year the major news organizations seemed to not be interested in covering what were major events in my area. So I watched the local news including ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX.

People need to be willing to open their minds up to other points of view.
 
Originally Posted By: pbm
I have also tired of talk radio for the same reasons others have cited. The problem is that our mainstream media is so left biased that I have to turn it off as well. Here's an example....they were discussing how former Pres. Bush has taken up painting when they started with drivel about how former presidents usually spend their time trying to "solve world hunger, AIDS etc"...(an attack on Bush of course)...meanwhile the Clinton's and Obama's are treated with kid gloves.....they never bring up the fact that the Clinton's have and continue to make millions of dollars giving speeches...they have turned their 'public service' into a very lucrative cottage industry.... another example is the lovefest whenever Chelsea is in the news...they never mention that her father-in-law, former Democrat Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, spent 5 years in federal prison for numerous counts of fraud while 'serving' in Congress...do you think they would omit this if if he was the father-in-law of Jenna Bush (or any Republican)?

PS: For the poster who mentioned aggrieved old white guys...how do you justify government sponsored race and ethnic QUOTAS (which discriminate against whites and Asians) under the guise of 'Affirmative Action'? 'Equal Opportunity' has now become 'guaranteed results'.....



All good points and the silence is deafening.

Todays ridiculously dramatic media require a person to have some diligence and get the story from several sources. A great example is the Rancher in Nevada. I can tell you who watches what by how they frame it when in discussions.

Most here and elsewhere simply eat what they are fed...
 
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Originally Posted By: pbm
I have also tired of talk radio for the same reasons others have cited. The problem is that our mainstream media is so left biased that I have to turn it off as well. Here's an example....they were discussing how former Pres. Bush has taken up painting when they started with drivel about how former presidents usually spend their time trying to "solve world hunger, AIDS etc"...(an attack on Bush of course)...meanwhile the Clinton's and Obama's are treated with kid gloves.....they never bring up the fact that the Clinton's have and continue to make millions of dollars giving speeches...they have turned their 'public service' into a very lucrative cottage industry.... another example is the lovefest whenever Chelsea is in the news...they never mention that her father-in-law, former Democrat Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, spent 5 years in federal prison for numerous counts of fraud while 'serving' in Congress...do you think they would omit this if if he was the father-in-law of Jenna Bush (or any Republican)?

PS: For the poster who mentioned aggrieved old white guys...how do you justify government sponsored race and ethnic QUOTAS (which discriminate against whites and Asians) under the guise of 'Affirmative Action'? 'Equal Opportunity' has now become 'guaranteed results'.....



All good points and the silence is deafening.

Todays ridiculously dramatic media require a person to have some diligence and get the story from several sources. A great example is the Rancher in Nevada. I can tell you who watches what by how they frame it when in discussions.

Most here and elsewhere simply eat what they are fed...



The latest 'spin' is that if you oppose Obama's programs..you are 'racist'....wouldn't that infer that if you are a minority and opposed Bush (Romney etc..) you too are racist? The Democrats are very good at 'divide and conquer'....

PS: I despise Obama's socialist, wealth redistributive programs....on the other hand my favorite Republican for 2016 would be Dr. Ben Carson who espouses education, hard work and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY as a means of success...Am I a 'racist'?

PS2: I do agree that the rich are getting richer while the middle class suffers (government programs seem to take care of the poor pretty well...) Getting rid of TAX LOOPHOLES is the answer to this, IMO.)

Do you think Soros, Buffet etc.. pay their 'fair share' or do they take advantage of every possible loophole while singing the praises of big government (do as I say not as I do)....
 
I was really impressed with Bush's artistic ability pbm! When I saw his artwork, and as far as I know he does not have a lot of training, it was pretty good! And If Obama took up painting after he is no longer president and if his artwork was good I would say the same thing!

People have to get past this silly major division in our culture today. The news media is supposed to be reporting the news accurately and truthfully to the people. It is not the job of the news media to be social engineers.

I think there is way too much love for the Clintons. I remember President Clinton flat out lying to the American people. Most of the media seems to have a liberal bias. Well, maybe you can say that FOX News has a conservative bias. But I still like the news coverage generally at FOX compared to the other networks.

But a person really does need to get their news from several sources today. And if I am unhappy with FOX News coverage for any reason I will watch CNN. FOX News does not own me. None of them own me. For example I liked CNN's coverage of the airliner crash in San Francisco better than FOX News. And when there were major events in my area (major forest fires and flooding) in my opinion NONE of the major news organizations covered those events. There were forest fires in Colorado every bit as bas as anything in California but California gets better coverage than Colorado.

Before I watched FOX News I used to watch CNN. If FOX News goes downhill hopefully there will be some other good quality news network. These media people do not own me. I will watch whatever network provides the best news coverage.
 
@Mystic: I think you've posted that same post twice in this thread, and one in the other one, and I've lost count of the number of times before this week. Here, I'll give you a TL;DR you can copy and save for future sameposting:

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I used to only watch CNN but now I only watch FOX. Except that one time I watched CNN again. My neighbor's wife watches CNN and doesn't know what's going on, because she doesn't watch FOX, like me. I know what's going on.


I don't get how people's reaction to biased media is to get all their news from one single source, like that makes it better. They must be pretty incorruptible over there in Murdoch-land. The same people who say "people hear what they want to hear" think it doesn't apply to themselves.
 
Originally Posted By: Mystic
Well, maybe you can say that FOX News has a conservative bias.


MAYBE??? Ya think??
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To me at least, BBC is the most unbiased reporter of the news currently available in this land, although I am SURE there are many on here who would STILL accuse even them of being part of the "liberal media", or 'socialist furners'.
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Originally Posted By: pbm
PS: For the poster who mentioned aggrieved old white guys...how do you justify government sponsored race and ethnic QUOTAS (which discriminate against whites and Asians) under the guise of 'Affirmative Action'? 'Equal Opportunity' has now become 'guaranteed results'.....


Just because one leans 'left of center' does not mean they MUST 'buy into' ALL, without exception, of the far left's principles/legislation.
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But the far right seems to DEMAND extreme right wing principle purism of it's legislators/'memebers'.
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