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Bad ratings news is rolling in for Rush Limbaugh as his show has
fallen to 22nd in New York and 37th in Los Angeles. Limbaugh’s ratings
are in a state of major decline.
Rush Limbaugh’s claim to radio fame has always been that he is a
right wing talker who brings big ratings to major markets in blue
states, but this isn’t the case anymore. Since he moved to Clear Channel
his ratings in the nation’s two largest markets have nosedived.
Rush Limbaugh went from having the number one talk show in Los Angeles
to falling down to 37th place in the ratings. In New York, Limbaugh has
dropped from fifth in the city to 22nd. His audience is now so small in
both markets that he is being outdrawn by Spanish language stations and
NPR.
It’s amazing that radio stations are paying this man who can’t draw
an audience any more millions of dollars to carry his program.
Limbaugh’s ratings collapse has been building for a long time. His
comments about Sandra Fluke tarnished him within the radio industry, but
the real problem has been a lingering boycott that has caused Fortune
500 advertisers to avoid Rush like the plague.
The signs have been visible for a couple of years. Conservative talk
radio is a dying genre. The audience is old, and getting older by the
day. More and more stations are switching from political talk radio to
sports talk radio.
As Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-centric Inside Music Media put it,
“We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio. The
genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers … Rush is at
the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he’s
getting himself into trouble he doesn’t need. So can you put Humpty
Dumpty back together again? They have been able to improve their
advertising picture, but they have not been able to come back.”
The answer for why Limbaugh’s show is dying can be found in
demographics. Rush’s average listener is 66 years old. Younger people
aren’t turning on their radios to listen to Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, and
Savage. Their audience mirrors that of the Republican Party. It’s
white, conservative, and male.
What’s happening is that Limbaugh’s listenership is starting to
directly mirror the Republican Party. Limbaugh remains strong in
conservative areas, but his days of dominating major markets in blue
states look like they are coming to an end.
The end is finally near for Limbaugh. He is on the downside of a career that will be coming to an end sooner rather than later.
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Christian ‘historian’: Allowing women to vote ‘hurts the entire culture and society’
RAW STORY
A so-called “historian” who Glenn Beck hired to teach at his online university insisted this week that women had originally been denied the right to vote “to keep the family together,” and for the good of “the entire culture and society.”
On the Thursday broadcast of Wallbuilders Live, David Barton explained that biblical principles — and not sexism — were behind not allowing women to vote prior to 1920.
“So family government precedes civil government and you watch that as colonists came to America, they voted by families,” he said. “And you have to remember back then, husband and wife, I mean the two were considered one. That is the biblical precept… That is a family, that is voting. And so the head of the family is traditionally considered to be the husband and even biblically still continues to be so.”
Barton argued that in the time since the women’s suffrage movement succeeded in the United States, “we’ve moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing.”
“[T]he bigotry we’re told they held back then, they didn’t hold,” he said. “And what they did was they put the family unit higher than the government unit and they tried to work hard to keep the family together.”
“And, as we can show in two or three hundred studies since then, the more you weaken the family, the more it hurts the entire culture and society.”
In conclusion, Barton asserted that denying women the right to vote was necessary for “a strong culture, a strong society, and it was based on a strong family that preceded government. And they crafted their policies to protect a strong family.”......................
A so-called “historian” who Glenn Beck hired to teach at his online university insisted this week that women had originally been denied the right to vote “to keep the family together,” and for the good of “the entire culture and society.”
On the Thursday broadcast of Wallbuilders Live, David Barton explained that biblical principles — and not sexism — were behind not allowing women to vote prior to 1920.
“So family government precedes civil government and you watch that as colonists came to America, they voted by families,” he said. “And you have to remember back then, husband and wife, I mean the two were considered one. That is the biblical precept… That is a family, that is voting. And so the head of the family is traditionally considered to be the husband and even biblically still continues to be so.”
Barton argued that in the time since the women’s suffrage movement succeeded in the United States, “we’ve moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing.”
“[T]he bigotry we’re told they held back then, they didn’t hold,” he said. “And what they did was they put the family unit higher than the government unit and they tried to work hard to keep the family together.”
“And, as we can show in two or three hundred studies since then, the more you weaken the family, the more it hurts the entire culture and society.”
In conclusion, Barton asserted that denying women the right to vote was necessary for “a strong culture, a strong society, and it was based on a strong family that preceded government. And they crafted their policies to protect a strong family.”......................
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Congressman: Bundy Militia Has Set Up Road 'Checkpoints' In Nevada
TPM
The militia, as reported by Horsford's constituents, "have set up checkpoints where residents are required to prove they live in the area before being allowed to pass," the letter said.
They have also maintained a presence, sometimes armed, along highways and roads, as well as community sites like churches and schools, the letter asserted.
Journalists on the scene at the height of the Bundy Ranch standoff estimated as many as 1,000 protesters had gathered earlier this month.
The militia, as reported by Horsford's constituents, "have set up checkpoints where residents are required to prove they live in the area before being allowed to pass," the letter said.
They have also maintained a presence, sometimes armed, along highways and roads, as well as community sites like churches and schools, the letter asserted.
Journalists on the scene at the height of the Bundy Ranch standoff estimated as many as 1,000 protesters had gathered earlier this month.
Horsford Letter ....
Monday, April 28, 2014
Texas student hides AK-47 in school bathroom for ‘committing violence’ if demands aren’t met
RAWSTORY
A student in Texas reportedly admitted to bringing multiple guns — including an AK-47 assault-style rifle — to school on Monday in a plan to commit violence if his demands were not met.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, the parents of the 17-year-old male student reported him as a runaway to the police when they woke up and determined that he was not at home. KSAT reported that the parents also found that three guns were missing in the home.
After the student was located at Madison High School, two of the loaded guns and a knife were found by searching his backpack. The teen admitted that an AK-47 had also been hidden in a trashcan in a school restroom.
“The student had said that he planned making some demands over the [public address system] announcements later today at Madison High School,” North East Independent School District spokesperson Aubrey Chancellor told KSAT. “He didn’t say specifically what those demands were, but he did says if those demands were not met, he had planned on committing violence.”
It was not immediately clear if the student had planned a mass shooting, but authorities said they would continue to talk with him.
The San Antonio Express-News reported that Texas school districts “lost millions in attendance revenue” in recent days after email threats warned of a mass shooting at a school.............
A student in Texas reportedly admitted to bringing multiple guns — including an AK-47 assault-style rifle — to school on Monday in a plan to commit violence if his demands were not met.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, the parents of the 17-year-old male student reported him as a runaway to the police when they woke up and determined that he was not at home. KSAT reported that the parents also found that three guns were missing in the home.
After the student was located at Madison High School, two of the loaded guns and a knife were found by searching his backpack. The teen admitted that an AK-47 had also been hidden in a trashcan in a school restroom.
“The student had said that he planned making some demands over the [public address system] announcements later today at Madison High School,” North East Independent School District spokesperson Aubrey Chancellor told KSAT. “He didn’t say specifically what those demands were, but he did says if those demands were not met, he had planned on committing violence.”
It was not immediately clear if the student had planned a mass shooting, but authorities said they would continue to talk with him.
The San Antonio Express-News reported that Texas school districts “lost millions in attendance revenue” in recent days after email threats warned of a mass shooting at a school.............
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Stephen Colbert Sings the 'Ballad of Cliven Bundy'
'My one regret is that I did not embrace Cliven Bundy sooner, like Sean Hannity.'
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Indiana youth pastor admits to posing as teen girl online to solicit nude photos from boys
RAW STORY
A former Campus Life Director for Youth for Christ from Huntington, Indiana pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he sexually exploited a minor.
Nathan Hasty used a fake Facebook page to solicit naked photographs from children, including ones who belonged to Youth for Christ. An FBI agent tasked to the case told WANE that Hasty established multiple Facebook accounts under false names in order to initiate conversations of a sexual nature with underage boys.
Eventually, he would attempt to coerce the boys into sending him nude photographs.
In the fake accounts, Hasty pretended to be a lascivious sixteen-year-old girl and struck up conversations with boys, mostly between the ages of 12 and 14. He would eventually ask them to send nude photographs, and even enticed some of them into webcam sessions in which he watched them masturbate while claiming he didn’t have a camera.
According to the FBI affidavit, Facebook cooperated with the investigation, providing authorities with the IP address of the accounts. Because the same IP address was used for all accounts, authorities believed they all originated from the same computer.
Hasty was suspended from Youth for Christ as soon as the organization learned of the FBI investigation.
Watch a report on Hasty’s arrest from INC News here.
A former Campus Life Director for Youth for Christ from Huntington, Indiana pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he sexually exploited a minor.
Nathan Hasty used a fake Facebook page to solicit naked photographs from children, including ones who belonged to Youth for Christ. An FBI agent tasked to the case told WANE that Hasty established multiple Facebook accounts under false names in order to initiate conversations of a sexual nature with underage boys.
Eventually, he would attempt to coerce the boys into sending him nude photographs.
In the fake accounts, Hasty pretended to be a lascivious sixteen-year-old girl and struck up conversations with boys, mostly between the ages of 12 and 14. He would eventually ask them to send nude photographs, and even enticed some of them into webcam sessions in which he watched them masturbate while claiming he didn’t have a camera.
According to the FBI affidavit, Facebook cooperated with the investigation, providing authorities with the IP address of the accounts. Because the same IP address was used for all accounts, authorities believed they all originated from the same computer.
Hasty was suspended from Youth for Christ as soon as the organization learned of the FBI investigation.
Watch a report on Hasty’s arrest from INC News here.
Texas pastor: Hoax Jewish registration flyers in Ukraine are sign of ‘blood moon’ apocalypse
RAW STORY
Pastor Matt Hagee, son of Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee, said this week that the Ukrainian flyers ordering Jews to register with the new Russian-allied government — now regarded as a hoax — are a sign that his father’s apocalyptic “blood moon” prophecy is coming true.
Right Wing Watch reported that during this week’s installment of his “Hagee Hotline” show, Matt Hagee compared the order for Jews to register with the Russian occupation government to the exclusion of Jews from Spain, which took place in 1492.
On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Spain in what is known as the Alhambra Decree. While the decree was by no means the origin of anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe, it ushered in one of the darkest periods of vicious religious persecution in the continent’s history.
According to Matthew Hagee, the Alhambra Decree was issued on the night of a so-called “blood moon” eclipse, in which four full lunar eclipses occur in a six month interval. The light of the sun shines through the Earth’s atmosphere at the moon, giving it a red color.
“What happened in 1492 happened again last week in the Ukraine,” he said, “on the first of four blood moons.”
John Hagee has published a new book called Blood Moons: Something is About to Change, in which he details an end times scenario in which, he said, “God is literally screaming at the world, ‘I’m coming soon.’”
John Hagee predicted that a “world-shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015.”
“God sends Planet Earth a signal that something big is about to happen!” said the pastor, who famously declared that Mormonism is not a Christian sect and therefore has no protections under the First Amendment. “He’s controlling the Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal, but the question is, are we getting it?”.........
Pastor Matt Hagee, son of Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee, said this week that the Ukrainian flyers ordering Jews to register with the new Russian-allied government — now regarded as a hoax — are a sign that his father’s apocalyptic “blood moon” prophecy is coming true.
Right Wing Watch reported that during this week’s installment of his “Hagee Hotline” show, Matt Hagee compared the order for Jews to register with the Russian occupation government to the exclusion of Jews from Spain, which took place in 1492.
On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Spain in what is known as the Alhambra Decree. While the decree was by no means the origin of anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe, it ushered in one of the darkest periods of vicious religious persecution in the continent’s history.
According to Matthew Hagee, the Alhambra Decree was issued on the night of a so-called “blood moon” eclipse, in which four full lunar eclipses occur in a six month interval. The light of the sun shines through the Earth’s atmosphere at the moon, giving it a red color.
“What happened in 1492 happened again last week in the Ukraine,” he said, “on the first of four blood moons.”
John Hagee has published a new book called Blood Moons: Something is About to Change, in which he details an end times scenario in which, he said, “God is literally screaming at the world, ‘I’m coming soon.’”
John Hagee predicted that a “world-shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015.”
“God sends Planet Earth a signal that something big is about to happen!” said the pastor, who famously declared that Mormonism is not a Christian sect and therefore has no protections under the First Amendment. “He’s controlling the Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal, but the question is, are we getting it?”.........
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