How we should confront MAGAtts, GOPers, etc.

[Crowman2009]

Are there any interviews done with these awesome folks who confronted this jerk?

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended.

Speaking from personal experience, these people must be confronted and shamed.

[Fritz Walter]

2. "Calm down"?!?

Mr. Limpballs was handed his own (tiny, atrophied) genitalia by the audience members in this clip, and that goes a long way toward explaining why he hides in his West Palm Beach studio and a call-screener.

[ProudLib72]

3. They cleared the audience!

What happened to freedom of speech? Aren't the RWNJs always going on about being able to speak freely wherever and whenever they want? What a fucking snowflake!

[George II]

4. That was way before he got busted drug abuse and losing his hearing because of Oxycontin abuse.

[TrollBuster9090]

5. I remember when this rancid gadfly first appeared on the scene in the mid 1980s,

about the same time as Morton Downey started his show MIGHTY MOUTH, Donald Trump was pretending to be a PLAYER, and Howard Stern started creating a cult following.

I gave them all about the same amount of credence. Figured they were just shock-jock entertainers who were worth a chuckle, but not a second thought.

Well, Morton Downey has been off the air for decades, and Howard Stern is STILL an underground cult.

But who the hell ever thought the OTHER two clowns, TRUMP AND LIMBAUGH would be running the country!? The fact that they are is an utter disgrace, and one of the darkest stains on U.S. history.

I always wondered what it must have been like to have lived during:
--Slavery
--The McCarthy era
--The internment of Japanese Americans, and confiscation of their property

All those eras when Americans failed to live up to the heritage Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington left them; and just acted like ladies, idiots, and savages.

Well, now I know.

[certainot]

7. it starts with limbaugh and the few hundred wannabes on 1500 radio stations and then

liberals and democrats ignoring them for 30 years

But who the hell ever thought the OTHER two clowns, TRUMP AND LIMBAUGH would be running the country!?

trump needs a RUSH tatto on his forehead and it's incredibly irresponsible for media to keep ignoring the connection

and there's a good chance the kremlin has been using it/limbaugh for at least a decade. whether he knows it or not.

see below

[certainot]

6. there's circumstantial evidence russians have been using him since at least 2008

the emphasis on russian interference is centered on social media and internet but radio has a long successful history as a propaganda medium. voice of america VOA pissed off the russians for decades. it makes sense they'd figure out how to horn in on what had been so successful for the republicans for 30 years, invisible to liberals and democrats. and it would be stupid for the russian propaganda ops not to piggyback decades of repetition.

trump and limbaugh are neighbors, they play golf, and dine together.

limbaugh was essential to trump in the primaries. while trying not to look too friendly he made excuses for him constantly and attacked rubio and bush. he has lead the 2 years of 'deep state' bullshit that the republicans are relying on to defend trump.

Jerome Corsi, Roger Stone, Randy Credico are talk radio pros - not social media. pros., and they're all over this with wikileaks.

Limbaugh and Hannity may not know it's the Kremlin using them, but there's a good chance they're getting freelance money from someone for their favors.

and 260 limbaugh stations, some of the loudest in the country, depend on 88 major universities continuing to broadcast sports on them. many would fall apart if theior communities began to question the idiocy of those associations. what would the unis do if the KKK bought those stations? they basically did about 30 years ago. they need to be asked, and limbaugh would quickly be down to 100 stations and the internet, from 600 stations.

The Mueller Report includes a glossary of brief descriptions of individuals and entities referenced in the two volumes of the report.

Hannity is referenced 5 times, mostly in association with Fox and talk radio interviews and he probably should be there in the glossary between Rhona Graff and Johnathan Hawker.

There is a name there, in the small space where a name starting with ‘Ha’ would be. The name and brief two line description is redacted as Harm To Ongoing Matter. Some of the others listed in the glossary have fewer references.

The Mueller report isn’t about Stormy Daniels or AMI or David Pecker or Michael Cohen’s advice on personal troubles and real estate. There may be another reason or reasons to redact it or maybe his references are not deemed important enough to list in the glossary but one reason to redact Hannity’s name is if the Mueller team’s description after his name had to be completely redacted because it referred to ongoing coordination/collusion or obstruction investigations and Trump and/or Russian coordination with RW media.

Hopefully that’s about talk radio and/or Fox and Russian use of talk radio going back to 2008 and Manafort/McCain/Palin, 2009 and ‘Climategate’, 2011 and debt default (coming up again), Benghazi/emails, etc.

From “Operation Trump”, by Gabriel Sherman April 3, 2016, here’s a quote from Nunberg :

Throughout 2014, the three (Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, and Sam Nunberg) fed Trump strategy memos and political intelligence.

“I listened to thousands of hours of talk radio, and he was getting reports from me,” Nunberg recalled.

What those reports said was that the GOP base was frothing over a handful of issues including immigration, Obamacare, and Common Core. While Jeb Bush talked about crossing the border as an “act of love,” Trump was thinking about how high to build his wall. “We either have borders or we don’t,” Trump told the faithful who flocked to the annual CPAC conference in 2014.

That was the same year a Russian troll said he was given “a list of topics to write about” (Washington Post)

Hopefully Democratic investigations will take on Russian and Trump use of talk radio in this disaster and ask the kind of questions that will erode the ability of the talk radio gods to intimidate GOP politicians thinking about turning on Trump. Or exacerbating Trump-generated emergencies before the next elections — like using Limbaugh to push for a debt default.

Does Putin have kompromat on Limbaugh?

Is there any payola with Russian laundered money going on? Didn’t Hannity’s relationship with Cohen involve real estate?

Breitbart got started in about 2007, about the time Limbaugh started breaking with the ‘establishment’ GOP. Did the Kremlin take over the Breitbart blog as it started competing with MIC- friendly Drudge as a conduit to talk radio? Hello, Steve Bannon?

2008 Palin

Manafort was McCain campaign cochair. McCain was thinking about Pawlenty and even Lieberman. Limbaugh wouldn’t support McCain, a looming disaster for the GOP convention. Minutes before the start of the Limbaugh show on the Friday before the GOP convention McCain publicly chose Palin and Limbaugh used the announcement to finally support McCain. Did he have prior knowledge of it? At that time Alaska Gov Palin was being courted by Russians re oil and gas.

Tea Party

The Koch brothers gave them bus passes but talk radio and Fox played a big part giving them talking points, publicizing them, and coordinating them. Did the Kremlin use talk radio to help coordinate Tea Party and Republican obstruction and attacks during the Obama administration?

2009 Climategate from Russian-hacked emails

In 2009 Limbaugh started the “Climategate” hoax based on Russian-hacked emails. The hack was on a Thursday, wikileaks was making it public that weekend, and by Monday Limbaugh had emails taken out of context on his desk to spend the next week on it. It was an operation timed to sabotage Obama at the Copenhagen climate talks. Every year we delay on global warming is worth billions to Putin, not just the Kochs.

2011 Defaulting on the Debt

In 2011 Limbaugh spent 2 months trying to get Republicans to force the US to default, something Putin would enjoy more that any US billionaire.

2012 Benghazi

Many of the Trump/Russian-related material used in trolling re Hillary Clinton came out of the 2012 Benghazi ‘embassy’ attack. Talk radio did the heavy lifting repetition re emails, etc. that ties into all this crap we’re dealing with now.

One of the lies talk radio spread required head of PR for the US marines to make a public rebuttal. It was all over national and local talk radio — that Obama and Clinton had prohibited US marines guarding US embassies from carrying live ammo. They were basically encouraging attacks on US embassies. Did that come from the Drudge report, Breitbart, or the Russians?

The entire Hillary email issue related to her using a private server — she knew republicans would try to get her private emails and leak selected items to 1500 radio stations.

Kremlin callers?

Calls to national talkers can reach millions.

Since Republican radio has been shown to use paid callers, why not Kremlin callers instead of Heritage Foundation callers? Automated call screening software might be programmed to advance calls from GOP think tanks. That might be easy to hack but it wouldn’t be a surprise to find out that a Russian company makes good call screening software at a great price…..

Callers play an important part in keeping local talk radio hosts in line with Limbaugh, prompting topics, and suggesting lies, scandals, and violence.

Kremlin emailers?

When the shutdown started I heard the local blowhard read an email from a ‘listener’ who cheered the shutdown, saying government workers were lazy scammers.

How many other local blowhards in states all over the country read the same email, and did it come from the White House, a GOP think tank, or maybe even the Kremlin?

That is the problem of ignoring RW radio.

[ancianita]

8. + 1000 thanks!

Great review of right wing media involvement.

Much appreciated.