Comments on: Rush is back

By: mr-lynne

mr-lynne — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:56:41 +0000

…freedoms, then yeah. We celebrate freedom of speech by criticizing speech. That’s how the marketplace of ideas work – he’s free to spew and we’re free to complain. Sponsor’s are free to keep paying for such speech or not, complaints or not. There’s no infringement of speech rights at all, get it?

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:23:00 +0000

…is what we call fighting free speech with more free speech, which is how the first amendment is supposed to work. The first amendment protects you from criminal prosecution, not from other social and economic consequences. Boycotting sponsors is also an example of how the free market works and conservatives claim to love the free market.

By: danfromwaltham

danfromwaltham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:19:47 +0000

With your letters and demonstrations.

By: danfromwaltham

danfromwaltham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:17:47 +0000

W. would never do this, worse than bowing and kissing his ring like Obama did.

By: mr-lynne

mr-lynne — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:57:15 +0000

WTF are you talking about? Letting people be free? How the hell do we increase freedom by taking away people’s ability to freely complain?

Free speech. I do not think it means what you think it means.

By: mike_cote

mike_cote — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:22:37 +0000

By: mike_cote

mike_cote — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:22:08 +0000

I am not “Don’t-Get-Cute”. Nor am I the program director of any Radio Station. I am the fool demanding that your write your own post about your psychotic need to see transcripts and admission records i.e. Dog Whistling.

STILL WAITING!!!

Please keep your mortal enemies distinct from each other.

By: danfromwaltham

danfromwaltham — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:57:55 +0000

Writing letters to sponsors is what I call nagging, or harassing people.

If I had to witness two adults kissing each other while my six year old and I enjoyed the best chicken sandwich by a food chain, then you can out up with people listening to Rush in the privacy do their own car. Oh wait, you want to take that away too, b/c of global warming.

By: mike_cote

mike_cote — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:24:16 +0000

How about just visiting another website???????? How about letting people think for themselves. Show me in the constitution where it says I have to pollute my ears with RL’s garbage.

WHERE?????????????????????????????????????????

Boycotting his show is turning to a different radio station.

By: danfromwaltham

danfromwaltham — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:44:58 +0000

Write letters, yell and scream, have people kiss, silence any dissenting point of view (except Bill Maher).

How about just turning on a different radio station??????? How about letting people be FREE!!!!!!!!! Celebrate the First Amendment for a change, you folks are such joy kills.

Ever see the movie They Live starring Roddy Rowdy Piper? Sorry, many of you remind me the the mind control the aliens had over their human victims.

By: SomervilleTom

SomervilleTom — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:14:34 +0000

The Boston Globe discovered decades ago that when they ran announcements of adult movie times, they could not sell advertising on the same page. People complained to advertisers, and the advertisers complained to the Globe, about being on the same page as “pornography”.

WRKO is scrabbling for revenue in a declining market (advertisers continue to shift from broadcast to on-line campaigns). Mr. Limbaugh is moving to WRKO from WTKK, so it’s not as though Mr. Rush has been missing from Boston airwave.

It only takes a few well-written letters or graciously worded phone calls to make a HUGE impact on an advertiser. If the advertiser is a public company, talking to their investor relations office can be very effective. The message is simple: “Your sponsorship of the hate-filled rubbish that Rush Limbaugh airs daily harms your stock price and therefore your investors”.

A public service we could perform here at BMG is to provide a list of local advertisers, together with their contact information. News reports say that the move happens on August 21 — stay tuned.

By: JHM

JHM — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:25:31 +0000

to get up this morning and tune into Goneril 1200 -- up to yesterday, my personal favorite among the Three Weird Sisters -- only to get some pair of bipartisan bozoes going about Easter Island (?!) instead of Jefferson Davis Katz interviewin' the twenty-third most important Republicanine operative in all of New Hampshire. Or maybe the second shapeliest frathouse babe over to The Boston Herald. Or . . . . "O woeful day, o day of woe," said he, "And woe is me who lived this day to see." Regan 680 must still be functionin' normally, however, when one can tune in for three seconds and hit the blessed reassurance of "... third or fourth generation leachin' off the government..." So ¿possibly there is hope? Happy days.

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:40:19 +0000

on Olbermann. Can’t stand the guy, myself.

By: lodger

lodger — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:36:21 +0000

Rush is a blowhard.
Olberman is a blowhard (I know…he’s not on radio).
Severin was an egomaniac blowhard.

I’ll take Michael Smerconish, if you haven’t heard him, WTKK afternoons.

By: dcsohl

dcsohl — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:36:22 +0000

My thoughts exactly. I never ever listen to RKO, so what is there I can do about this?

I guess we could wait and see who advertises in those slots and start boycotting them…

By: dcsohl

dcsohl — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:35:08 +0000

No, not the decision to bring him back. Rush himself. No-brainer.

By: charley-on-the-mta

charley-on-the-mta — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:56:03 +0000

Would love to hear his opinion of “Lush Rimbaugh”

By: whosmindingdemint

whosmindingdemint — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:27:57 +0000

hear from Menino on this?

By: mike_cote

mike_cote — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:56:12 +0000

I am already boycotting him. How can I boycott him more?

By: danfromwaltham

danfromwaltham — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:37:35 +0000

Was John Osterlind a/k/a Ozone. Him and Blute were a good pair, always made you laugh. Another good one was Jay Diamond, he would do nights on the weekends. Coast to Coast has not been the same since Art Bell left.