Concering re-organization of the media conglomerates…if you took all the money in the world, distributed it eqaully, in a few years you would be back to where we are now. The majority of rich people are hard working and self made. Class envy is an evil unto itself. For the most part, the rich are better people.

I too am a Christian. Your offensive, hateful comments simply reinforce the fact that you have nothing with which to debate facts other than to use character assination and to denigrate anyone who has an opposing view. May God Bless you all.

P.S. I’m a Christian. Lay off the attacks on us. For all your whining about how we’re hateful and intolerant, I don’t see much evidence to back those statements up. I don’t know many Christians who are hateful or intolerant. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met a group more loving, accepting, or tolerant of what other people believe than my youth group.

In other words let the governement regulate free speech.

Larry, I have to go to work and pay my taxes so the libs can give my money to give to those who don’t.

Bob, you’re working to pay the Chinese who are financing the Iraq Occupation. As your kids and grandkids will be working for the Chinese to pay back this $9 Trillion deficit Mr. Bush has run up. How do you like working for a Communist regime? Mr. Clinton had SURPLUSES.

All I can say is if you know so much about those stories then you obviously read about them somewhere and the news is getting out.

95% of those stories I listed I found on the internet. A bit came from Randi, Stephanie and Tom Hartman.

My car radio has 6 AM and 12 FM pre-sets and I have 3 programmed. Sport talk (primary), Conservative opinion AM(secondary) and NPR FM. It’s not that there aren’t dozens of other choices out there. But I made my choice and I just don’t care for Achey-Breaky Heart or Gangsta Rap or Air America.

I don’t want the Fairness Doctrine cutting my 3 channels down to one and a half.

Bob, will you champion a movement to give me three hours of equal time on Rush’s station to talk about the issues in my post #143? Since you’re not afraid of fair competition, right?

Doesn’t sound very progressive to me, or neo-Stalinist, or Leninist, or Marxist either.

Giving a free multi-million dollar valued license to Disney/Citadel every year without discussion or consideration sounds very elitist, corporatist and fascist to me. Especially when that station presents only programming that supports the administration that gave them that license (and massive tax cuts and deregulation).

And yes, I could program a successful station. I want MY FREE license. Disney had it for over a decade. Now its my turn damnit. And after a year or two I’ll be glad to give it to the next guy if the public deems I’m not using it fairly. I’m not scared of presenting all sides of an issue. I don’t need to silence those I don’t agree with. Disney/Citadel is.

Today he’s talking about this issue. He makes the point that in many markets he’s beating Rush & Sean. But the radio networks refuse to put him on hundreds of other stations. Why? He’s proven that when he’s on a radio signal of equal strength he can make money. But he’s limited to 50 or so stations because he runs up against a brick wall of ownership. While second tier talkers like Glenn Beck get rolled out on hundreds of stations before even proving themselves.

In the three largest radio markets in the country: New York, Chicago and Los Angeles the progressive radio station is a terrible signal that is almost impossible to receive. How can Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz etc, in the BLUEST of cities, compete with Rush and Sean when they’re on the 50,000 watt powerhouse stations?

If you put Rush on the radio stations with poor signals his ratings would be non-existent. If you put Ed Schultz on the powerhouse stations he’d bring in Rush’s ratings. There are just as many progressive listeners as republican. But even the few stations progressives have are TERRIBLE.

Larry from C was trying to convince me that Conservative Talk couldn’t compete with Progressive Talk (up in #145).

He said, “[Neo-cons] own AM talk radio 98% to 2%. They’re deathly afraid of having to give up even a single percent more. They know how powerful talk radio is. And they know that if the public were exposed to ideas, progressive ideas, that Rush’s ideas couldn’t compete. You see neo-cons know their ideas aren’t as good as ours. So they can only win when they prevent our ideas from being heard.

A comparable argument might be that the local bar owner sells beer 98% to 2% for juice. They’re deathly afraid of having to give up even a single percent more. They know how powerful the bar business is. And they know that if the public were exposed to juice, that beer couldn’t compete. You see bar owners know their beer isn’t as good as our juice. So they can only win when they prevent our product from being consumed.

Same argument, different product.
But some juice bars are very profitable, but they don’t sell much beer there. The juice bar or tavern owner don’t care if you buy beer or juice, they’ll sell you whatever you want. But introduce the Beverage Fairness Doctrine and pretty soon the health food store is losing money because they have to stop selling juice, since no one wants any beer. And the price of beer at the tavern has doubled because they have to give away a free glass of juice to be dumped on the floor with every beer sold.

Doesn’t sound very progressive to me, or neo-Stalinist, or Leninist, or Marxist either.