Don't listen to them. Turn them off. All the right-wing propagandists.

[Bouncy Ball]

If this thread even convinces one DUer to turn off the right-wing propagandists (we're not allowed to use the "w" word, right?) then it will have been worth every keystroke. I've said this before, but every few months or so, it bears repeating.

If you want to know what the "enemy" is saying and/or doing, check out http://www.mediamatters.org. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way, LOL.) They do a bang-up job keeping tabs on what those bugfuck insane idiots are saying and doing. And they give you an easy action item to take on the really heinous stuff. There are other progressive websites that keep up with such stuff, too.

If you just enjoy the drama of it all, read the threads here written by DUers who do still watch them. Or watch The Daily Show, where he skewers them all the time.

You know the shit they spew is just stupid. You know they are misdirected, ignorant, hateful assholes. You know your blood pressure goes up just listening to it.

So why do you listen and watch? Don't give me the train wreck explanation....go rent Faces of Death or something.

Their ratings/viewer numbers are dropping and you can HELP THEM DROP FASTER. Help them become an irrelevancy even faster.

I'll tell you a secret: I know their biggest fear. It's not being caught in a lie. It's not having a cream pie thrown in their face while they're giving a speech at some university.

It's a dead microphone. Crickets chirping outside. Their unsold books being dumped in a bin at the DOLLAR STORE. All that vitriol and no one listening.

THAT is their greatest fear, my fellow DUers. It strikes terror in their black little hearts. It means NO JOB, NO PAYCHECK.

Wanna really get 'em? Turn 'em off. Permanently.

Thank you.

[cssmall]

1. Hear, hear!

[terrya]

2. THANK YOU

Rush Limbaugh is going to spew the same lies, the same bullshit, day after day after day. Ditto O'Reilly. Ditto Hannity.

You mentioned Media Matters. David Brock deserves all of our thanks for creating this valuable resource...to expose the bullshit of the right-wingers.

Media Matters, as you said, is all we need.

And don't listen to the assholes anymore.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. Another good point.

Their bullshit is ALL THE SAME!! Why bother listening? Same shit, different day as they say. That goes doubly true for the right-wing propagandists, so why bother?

Yes, David Brock. How far he's come. And I'm very thankful.

[tjwash]

3. Hell no, I've been loving every second of RW talk radio today!!

Not the hosts, who listens to them anyway, it's the callers!! They are freakin' hilarious.

I've heard everything from "the state is doomed", to "I'm so depressed I just want to give up".:rofl:

Maybe some of them will go to somewhere more conservative then they are. Mordor or Geidi Prime perhaps?

[Bouncy Ball]

5. That's ok, you're just not one I'm able to save right now.

;-)

[bettyellen]

26. is that a who?

love it !

[rosesaylavee]

6. Ratings feed them and along with the angst

we spew when we finish watching them and listening to their lies. I'm with you BB, I read about them here, watch Jon STewart make them laughing stocks... and it's ok. I am not missing a thing.

Learned early on in grade school, bullies HATE to be ignored. Their greatest fear is that no one gives a damn about whatever they are hollering about. Their ratings are hitting the toilet anyway - let them sink further without us.

Here here!

[Bouncy Ball]

7. I love the analogy.

Yep, bullies hate nothing more than to be confronted or ignored.

Since we can't all go personally confront the right-wing propagandists (and it would actually feed their need for publicity), the best thing to do is ignore them cold.

I'm not kidding when I say it's the fear that wakes them up in a cold sweat at night. "What if everyone stops listening?"

[stepnw1f]

8. Good Post!

Let their ratings drop... I wonder how their investors will feel... awwwwwwwwww.

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Do you watch them?

I'm trying to find my one person who posts and says "you know what? Screw it, I'm NOT listening to them anymore!"

But I get the sense you already don't listen to them, right?

[stepnw1f]

13. No, But Others I Know Do

I hear about it, and read about it mainly.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. Kind of the same thing here.

I check mediamatters from time to time.

But I see an alarming number of threads here (not that it's not allowed, mind you) on what rush said or what o'lielly said, etc.

I mean my GOD, seriously. Those two are the most ball-less creatures that ever walked the earth.

Heck, just out of solidarity with the troops who can't get away from that drug addict rush, I'd not listen to him.

[stepnw1f]

30. That's Why I Call Rush, Limpballs

A rich cracka ass coward not man enough to fight a war he supports. No act with no shame, but their skeletons prove otherwise, so yes... they live in hell.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. Never listened to any of them

although I have caught Joe Scarborough by mistake once or twice. If I want to know what the RW is thinking, I'll just skim Malkin. I think she is a good touchstone and she doesn't make me feel sick like the others do.

Good point, though.

[Junkdrawer]

11. Funny you should mention it. While driving home this evening...

I passed a billboard advertising Rush & Hannity as figures on Mt. Rushmore. Both their expressions were so comically smug and unflattering, I thought:

"Is this advertising aimed at Dittoheads...or is it aimed at people like myself?"

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Do you watch/listen to them?

And uh, EWWWWWW. I would feel my lunch come back up if I saw that. Gross.

[Junkdrawer]

14. About 2 minutes/week or less (usually much less)...

In the 90's I would listen more often to get a handle on what I (correctly) perceived as a rising threat.

Now, they're just redundant and depressing.

[Bouncy Ball]

17. That's a bit too much, LOL.

Cut it down to zero minutes a week and make me happy and them just a smidge more irrelevant.

:batting eyes:

[morningglory]

20. Flipping through a magazine at the doctor's office, I saw a full page,

glossy adv with a big photo of Rush Limpballs looking svelte and prosperous. Big headline: "Americas anchor..." I whipped out my pen and wrote in big letters, "lying drug addict". Well, it felt good.

[raccoon]

47. Good going. nt

[Zomby Woof]

16. I used to post much the same years ago

I hope you have better luck than I did.

It IS all the same. Anyone who says "I gotta keep tabs on the enemy!" is bullshitting, or they lack listening comprehension skills, because if you can't GUESS what the enemy is going to say before they say it, you aren't listening, or have no imagination. Right-wing talking points follow a formula, and keeping tabs is not needed.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. Excellent points, my man!

VERY excellent!

Actually I think it's:

a) habit (which can be broken)

b) the drama (in which case I advise hooking into something else dramatic that isn't right-wing)

Every person I can peel off their viewership/listenership, I'm happy.

[Kukesa]

19. See, they should have listened to you, Woofy. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

21. I listen to what I want to, when I want to do it.

I don't disagree with your points. But I don't like the implication that I should or should not listen to anyone, no matter how big the a**holes they may be. Last time I looked, this corruption of the Republican Party you condemn controlled the House, the Senate and the White House. They got there somehow, and it is both intellectually fascinating and historically repelling. And so I listen (admittedly, as much as I can stand), and I will be that much stronger in 2006 for it. My blood pressure doesn't go up. My eyes narrow, and focus.

[Bouncy Ball]

22. And their viewership levels and ratings thank you.

I'm not holding a gun to your head. You want to keep their ratings up, go right ahead.

What does listening to them cause you to do? You said your eyes narrow and focus, and that makes me think maybe it motivates you to do something? I'm strictly asking this out of curiousity.

[Angry Girl]

23. Just don't look! Just don't look!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save earthquake victims before winter!

[KoKo]

24. NOooooooooo Nooooooooooo! We HAVE TO WATCH...We Have to

Watch...We have to watch......we have to...we do...

[Bouncy Ball]

25. Someone needs an intervention, do they?

:rofl:

[progressoid]

27. I have Fox news blocked from my TeeVee

:puke:

[Geek_Girl]

28. If everyone who hated Rush would turn him off

He would vanish. My husband listens to him sometimes in the car and then gets angry. Thank god we now have Air America in our area and he pretty much just listens to that now. But if everyone who disagreed with these idiots would just turn them off they would lose half their audience.

[garthranzz]

29. I stopped in the 90s when...

Rush, er, the OxyMoron got obscene during the Clinton feeding frenzy. Haven't listened to him since. If I'm a passenger, I ask the driver to turn him off. I listened to O'Reilly when he first came on in my city, then realized what he was about. Music, sports, Air America. Not necessarily in that order.

[kevinbgoode]

31. The last time someone mentioned Rush to me

I had to ask if the windbag drug addict was still on the air. . .hahaha...and then looked at the dude as if he was daffy for even paying attention to the lunatic.

[bunny planet]

32. I so totally agree with you, been saying this for awhile.

Hit them where it hurts, if they don't have the ratings from people watching, their networks will figure out that hate filled radio and teevee, and lying and shilling on the air does not have the support of the paying public.

But continue watching Keith Olbermann please.
:) and the Daily Show of course.

[stevedeshazer]

33. I'm on the late train here, but I have to tell you that you're quite right

Cut them off.

They're not relevant.

They will die.

[sendero]

34. I couldn't...

.... agree more.

Half of these pigfuckers don't believe a word they say. It is all a big game to them, just a paycheck and nothing more.

So what if you wreck a country to line your pockets? It's dog eat dog.

Turn them off, tune them out, deprive them of their oxygen, which is attention.

[YOY]

35. Also instead of watching Faux:

These guys usually do a bang-up job of watching it for you: http://www.newshounds.us/

Nominated

[autorank]

36. The instructions in this message are endoresed by me, autorank.

I completely approve of this message. FUCK THEM. I did this in 1998 when the Washington Post started up on Clinton's sex life and became the pornography central (until the House released the depo transcripts) of the world.

They don't like us, they would let us all die, they are useless.

TUNE OUT, TURN OFF, GET A DOSE OF THE REAL WORLD.

[Bouncy Ball]

50. With rare exception, the last time I regularly watched any

TV news was 1992. I don't even remember the exact reason I turned it off, probably just because I found it mind-numbing and lacking in the depth I wanted. I found print sources, and now internet sources, to be more accurate and in-depth.

The rare exceptions are: Democratic conventions and HUGE things like 9/11 and national elections, but even then, I try to restrict it.

[autorank]

53. That's about the right balance. You forgot 'end of the world.'

They'd reserve coverage for sweeps week;)

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. Parrot head here and I'll just say this,

"Turn off the TV, turn off the crap." :-)

[Kurovski]

38. I recall reading David Brock relate that many RW operations

have been propped up by outside money. The Washington Times had never turned a profit, stuff like that.

I've never listened to Rush, I won't go to FR, but I still tune into CNN from time to time.

[PassingFair]

39. I am proud to say that I haven't listened to RW radio since

AAR reared its beautiful head!
I used to listen to Limbaugh while driving once in a while because I like talk radio, and he got me SO angry I could only listen to him until my blood pressure started to take off.
Now that I can hear liberal talk, I haven't felt it necessary to here what the goons are saying.
NPR is as right wing as I go these days!

[Beam Me Up]

40. We do not NEED the Corporate Owned Media any more!

We can NOW define our OWN perception of what the REAL social world is. I just posted this to another thread but it is equally relevant here:

They have lost all credibility with me--as, indeed, has ALL of the CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA. It isn't just the lead up to the war. Yes, that is part of it. They tried to make me believe in a lie. I didn't BECAUSE I have too many different sources of RESPECTABLE information outside of the Corporate "main stream". Democratic Underground is one of them: A behive of cross-fertilized information going through constant checks and revisions as new information accrues.

Now we ALL know that the NYT lied. Even they know it. They won't come right out and say it, of course, because they remain HYPOCRITS. They may very well NOW turn all their eire upon the Bush Cabal and the neoCONS and try to get us to believe that THEY SERVE OUR INTERESTS AND NOT THOSE OF THEIR CORPORATE OWNERS.

It is another lie I will NEVER believe. EVER. If Bush goes, it will be because they now want him gone as much as we do. They put him in power, just like they put Sadam in power, and kept him there because that is what they wanted too at one time.

You understand what this means, Mr/Ms NEW YORK TIMES?

I know you do. You are beginning to learn that WITHOUT CREDIBILITY structures of social power and influence COLAPSE.

The world is changing very rapidly. The Old Republic is dead. You helped kill it and keep the corpse tarted up so, hopefully, no one would notice.

Meanwhile, all that is GOOD in humanity, all that is GOOD in the human species, all that is GOOD in the United States is moving on without you.

Get it: WE DO NOT NEED YOU ANY MORE. We're now going to shape our OWN perception of reality--and you are not invited.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5318019&mesg_id=5318241

[Zinfandel]

41. Shit, dude, you said it well-I've been saying and wondering the same thing

for years on DU...When I stopped watching all television media, a week before the invasion...I don't understand these fucks who continue to add to the ratings of these republican owned media...or hits on Drudge, Limbaugh, etc...to help add to helping them get ads dollars measured from how many hits on they get on their sites...It's pissed me off for years...And I'm sure as fuck happy others feel the same and are not contributing to the bullshit!!!

[Nostradammit]

42. Kicked and Recommended!!!

Exactly right! Go one further - Kill your television.

Do it for your country!

[EFerrari]

43. I did last January! And, my skin is much softer now!

:hi:

[Kickin_Donkey]

44. I haven't watched a broadcast or cable news program ...

since Selection 2000. There's absolutely no credibility. There's no point in watching except to raise you blood pressure. If someone by chance turns on a MSM news program while I'm around, it's just white noise.

F'em all. Blitzer, Tucker, Gwen Ifyll, Nancy Grace, Cokie, Russert, Tweety, Novak, O'Reilly, Cavuto, Brit Hume, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Judas Stephanopolous, Brooks, Jim Lehrer, Tommie Friedman, Morton Kondracke, Hitchens, Dennis Miller, Paula Zahn, Bob Scheiffer, Imus ... even the equivacators like Carville, Jeff Greenfield, Charlie Rose, Paul Begala. Whores all. I won't even get into the radio wingnuts or Ann the Mann.

Damn, I miss mediawhoresonline.

[Bouncy Ball]

51. I was in the airport recently and they had all these TVs turned to

CNN and I couldn't frigging GET AWAY FROM IT.

URG!

And what's weird is, when you don't normally watch it, it seems all that much more surreal when you do. When you are in the habit of watching it, it starts to seem....normal.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

45. I am newly hooked on audiobooks and it's the best thing that ever happened

My area is pathetic is terms of whats available on the radio and I drive a lot. I am fortunatly genetically unable to listen to Limbaugh or Hannity even when I try. Their voices cause uncontrollable spastic convulsions of my arms and hands as I paw at the receiver to change the station.

But anyway, now I have the greatest answer of all - audio books!! Interesting, varied, you can learn something or listen to a novel you don't have time to read. I forget I even have a radio now.

[bullwinkle428]

46. I made that decision a while back, and am much happier

for it today!! Local, national...they all do the same damn thing and I come away realizing I can't get that time back ever again. I've got Stephanie Miller on at the moment and she spends plenty of time playing snippets just to point out their utter ridiculousness, and I've got more than enough ammo for anyone who wants to challenge me by suggesting I'm "not willing to listen to both sides of an issue"!

[Catfight]

48. Amen to that! It's not even entertaining, it's like listening to racist

jokes and laughing along, a very distasteful thing. I don't find any use for the intolerance, hateful, vengeance speech on AM radio. I'm amazed it's even popular, I know people who listen to it I the kind of people that listen to it faithfully are big obese sissy white men that are outcast of society. They find comfort in other people like themselves, it's just the 21st century KKK.

Here's a challenge: I bet not one of those lame shows can go a day without mentioning Clinton, Hillary or liberal. Any takers? It's for people that don't think.

[Amonester]

49. Kick (& Recommend for Greatest Page)

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Bouncy Ball]

52. Well, I have to say congratulations DUers!

The last time I posted a thread like this, maybe three or four months ago, it did not get nearly this many people saying they DON'T watch or listen to that stuff.

So we're headed in the right direction. Make their on-air "deaths" even faster.