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Huckabee Stars in RINO Radio
Who are the Dickey brothers and why do they hate the conservative movement?
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Startlingly, it means Cumulus intends to gamble investor millions on yanking Rush and substituting RINO radio in his place. Or, as it was put this way in the Reuters story:
“I can guarantee you that the minute Cumulus’ contract with Rush expires in New York, they will replace him with Huckabee,” said Joel Hollander, the former CEO of CBS Radio now running private investment firm 264 Echo Place Partners.
Who is the “we” in this amazingly naïve venture, kemosabe?
“We” in this instance are the owners of Cumulus. The Dickey brothers, Lew and John Dickey by name. It is brother John Dickey who gushes such amazingly politically naïve bravado about “eating our own cooking.” One can only gape in wonder that whatever their business chops, the Brothers Dickey seem to have wandered onto the American political scene (guiding investors in this venture, no less) with all the extraordinary bright-eyed innocence of a toddler in a mine field.
Have the Dickeys no understanding that sending the signal to America’s conservatives that they are plotting to substitute someone who is seen by the conservative talk radio base as just another dime-a-dozen Republican moderate ex-governor for… yes indeed… Mr. Conservative Talk Radio Himself… is a sure-fire way to send conservatives fleeing this peculiar Cumulus venture before it even gets off the ground?
Do the Dickeys not understand that the very idea of this — fairly or unfairly — smacks of a couple of corporatists trying to force a top down change on America’s conservative talk radio audience? For no other reason than that the Dickeys’ own personal tastes in politics apparently runs to RINOism?
Apparently not.
Let’s go through what’s being said here. Radio being a communications business, what exactly is being communicated by Cumulus and the Dickeys in all these bizarre public statements?
• The slogan for this Dickey brothers venture is: “More conversation, less confrontation.”
What message does this slogan communicate to conservatives? In the words of then former Governor Ronald Reagan (to the New York Times in December 1976) after the moderate Gerald Ford went down to defeat, “a political party is not a fraternal order.” The Dickey brothers’ slogan in essence is a red flag — or is that a white flag? — signaling that they want to replace Rush Limbaugh’s Reagan conservatism with the radio version of precisely the “fraternal order” politics Reagan himself not only famously objected to but decisively defeated. In other words: can’t we all just get along?
There was, of course, a serious political reason for Reagan’s objection, and he had stated it back in 1975 in his famous speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee. The real goal of those who advocated “fraternal order” politics, Reagan said, was “to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.” This is, based on what the Dickeys themselves are saying in repeated interviews, precisely the goal of Cumulus, Huckabee, and their venture in RINO Radio.
This latest war on conservatism, radio-version, is cloaked in the language of radio. Brother Lew Dickey tells the Times that “We haven’t seen the 25-54 results with the stable of talent that’s out there today. We think we can improve on that with this approach.”
This is, of course, a reference to the 25-54 demographic that is considered radio audience gold. And in addition to the RINOism of Mike Huckabee that they believe will somehow appeal to conservatives, the Dickeys have signed up… Geraldo Rivera and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
This is firing up the conservative radio base of the future?
• John Dickey says, “We are in favor of eating our own cooking.”
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Drek| 4.3.12 @ 7:26AM
Bigger question: Why does Huckabee go along with this?
Jack in Wi.| 4.3.12 @ 8:02AM
Huckabee and Limbaugh as both big government chickenhawk rinos. They both kiss the ass of the Israeli Lobby any chance they can. Limbaugh ran cover for Bush. That makes him a rino. One thing I can say about Limbaugh is that at least he has some talent. On the other hand Huckabee hasn't had more then one wife or is a recovering drug addict. If course Huck has those 2 massively fat dog killing sons. Frankly it is time that they both just went away.
Carol| 4.3.12 @ 8:20AM
Why do you Jew haters have to infest yourselves upon every thread?
Take your Jew hatred over to Al Jazeera - Hitlery's favorite station.
Jack in Wi.| 4.3.12 @ 8:26AM
Frankly you zionists remnd me of vampires. You love to suck blood and hate the crucifix. Limbaugh and Huckabee are both ass kissers of the Israeli Lobby. That is the truth. They are sellouts, not conservatives. They are both chickenhawks way past their buy sell date. If the future of conservatism in these 2 guys, forget about it.
Dick Nome| 4.3.12 @ 9:42AM
You are a pompous arrogant jerk. Ego is no substitute for common sense. Yours is so in flayed it has displaced whatever brain you may have once had.
WL| 4.3.12 @ 10:26AM
Carol and Mr. Nome...
Try not to get too worked up with Jack in Wi.
It's better for the blood pressure if you just ignore them for the most part; Of course, it is impossible not to react to their (as in Him, Clint, and a few others) garbage. These people have such deep hatred for the Jews it isn't funny. If you go deeper than the surface, they actually have a whole lot in common with liberals, insomuch that they possess an "elite" type of mentality and alternate reality where they are the betters. See, in Liberal-land these type of people think that they are our "betters" because they drive electric cars, recycle more, have energy efficient appliances, are more evolved than us Bible thumpers etc.... In Ron Paul land (not all of them) these types are our betters because they see the "truth" about how the Jews are duping us all, they love the constitution more, they want to protect Liberty more, they are louder and more confrontational than we are, etc etc etc...It all translates into their pea-brains telling them that they are BETTER...
It's actually an mental defect that has been around for many moons....
So next time you start to get upset with these ranting lunatics and abject fools...stop...take a deep breath....and have a chuckle at their idiocy...
Robert Gage| 4.3.12 @ 11:09AM
I think they call it some kind of paranoid psychosis. This pathetic dufus thinks he's so self important that the isrealis(like the isrealis don't have better things to do than follow some self-important, self ego massaging psychotic jackass around) are actively trying to squelch him on message boards. And WL, you hit it right on the head. Bingo!
Dick Nome| 4.3.12 @ 1:08PM
I don't get worked up, just fed up. Screw'em.
Clint| 4.3.12 @ 5:35PM
The Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot,WL Is All Atwitter Because Tea Party Clint Wants An Open Convention.
Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot Crybaby, WL.
http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/.....people.jpg
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 9:46PM
What are you ranting senslessly about?? Take your Valium Clint before your head explodes.
jothepro| 4.3.12 @ 11:01AM
Why so much hate Jack? Did the Jews hurt your business? What policies did Rush push to make you think he is not conservative? What cover did Rush provide for Bush? I have never met or known of a perfect human being other than Jesus. Has your life been a perfect one? The Rush I have known these past 20 some years has always been on the side of the conservative movement. How many people in your lifetime have you brought into the consevative movement?
Robert Gage| 4.3.12 @ 11:13AM
"Frankly you zionists remnd me of vampires. You love to suck blood and hate the crucifix."
All this coming from an individual who thinks he is ON the crucifix. By the way learn how to spell Jethro, that 6th grade education is showing again.
PaulC| 4.3.12 @ 12:55PM
Is it your aim to subvert the conservative movement by associating it with your bizarre ranting? If so, you're seriously undermining your objective by turning into a self-parody. Go practice your Nazi salute in front of the mirror, jerk.
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 7:49PM
And you, Jack-boot, are an apologist for Hitler and all National Socialists.
As Pope Pius XI famously said, "No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist."
Go to confession, Jack-boot, and confess your hatred for the Jewish people. You'll feel better.
BarocheDique | 4.8.12 @ 2:06PM
You are no conservative, Jack. You are a petty, small-minded, bigot; you are just the rino that this article spoke about. You should enjoy huckabee very much. Troll.
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 12:12PM
My advice: ignore Jacksh*t in Wi.
I don't know if he's a Muslim or a blue collar ethnic a la Demjanjuk but his mission is to spew anti-Jew talk regardles of the issue at hand.
Just ignore him, he has no value.
Seek| 4.3.12 @ 4:10PM
Jack actually is an angry old man. In a previous post a few months ago , he dated himself by stating he'd known Bill Buckley from 40 years or more before.
The Bruce| 4.3.12 @ 5:21PM
And it seems his biggest regret in life is that he didn't get to personally herd a few million Jews into the showers.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 9:48PM
He may have met WFB, but he didn't know him.
Alan Brooks| 4.3.12 @ 6:51PM
"Take your Jew hatred over to Al Jazeera - Hitlery's favorite station."
When Israel ends conscription, then I'll listen. From now on one fights his own wars.
Radioman777| 4.3.12 @ 11:30AM
Now that I've read your post, I can safely say I've read the most ignorant, idiotic thing I'll read all week. Even BHO might have a tough time coming up with something more stupid and hateful. When you finish polishing your jackboots, maybe a straight arm towards the ole swastika might be in order.
Conservative Not Republican| 4.3.12 @ 11:31AM
Lord, Lord. When you say Conservative, you mean the Republican Party. Frankly, I don't see a dime's bit of difference between the GOP and Dems. You and Limbaugh don't know a thing about real, traditional Conservatism. You are nothing but libertarians in sheep's clothing. Read some Viereck, Kirk, Nisbet and Weaver and then come talk to us.
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 6:12PM
Read the 1st grade primer on math and learn to count to 270. Then look at an electoral map and figure how to get to 270. You won't find answers in Nisbet or Weaver-try Machievelli-or better yet the Godfather and watch the movies-you learn more there than your conservative philosphers will ever know. We are fighting evil, evil. The dem party is a criminal syndicate. That is why for 60 years they've attacked Hoover-he had their number.
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 7:51PM
Hoover was a loser, Gearjammer.
Just as O'Romney will be.
gearjammer| 4.5.12 @ 9:03AM
J not Herby.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 7:28AM
Any radio that plays this Huckaphoney needs to have a clock with snooze alarm so it can wake you up every few minutes. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Carol| 4.3.12 @ 7:54AM
Again Jeffrey, thanks.
The Dickey Bros. own cooking is a crap sandwich.
If I wanted to listen to Huckabee, I'd want to listen to NPR.
I am a conservative who loves confrontation. I live for it. Rush is the master of teaching while dishing out the truth that liberals do not want to hear. That is my kind of radio.
Rush is a gift on loan from God and we only have so long to listen to the master. The Dickey Bros. must have lots of cash to waste because I would turn off the radio before listening to a snore fest.
Steve| 4.3.12 @ 8:05AM
The Huckabee program will be dead on arrival. And good riddance; this country needs more confrontation, not less.
SC Mike| 4.3.12 @ 8:22AM
Huckabee’s biggest fan and greatest admirer is Mike Huckabee. There’s nothing wrong with being a legend in one’s own mind, look how far that’s gotten Obama. But when it’s time to perform, time to git ‘er done, that’s when we see the action and can gauge success. Obama’s failed, the Huckster will too.
Had Huckabee a bit of wit, an ounce of common sense, or a teeny, tiny sliver of consistency, he’d do okay. But he has nothing compelling to say, never has. Did you ever see a collection of his speeches for sale? Do you recall anything about his last political campaign, other than the fact that he washed out? Didn’t think so.
Radio station managers do not advance by falling on their swords. No matter who owns the station, the objective is to make money and they can do that with Rush. Few are going to drop him to pick up a loser.
R Martin| 4.3.12 @ 9:15AM
Spot on here, Mike. There is a lot of similarity between Huckabee and Obama. Both are vapid, empty vessels who have achieved some success with hustle and self promotion. Fox, which seems to be on a slippery slope these days with its choice of on air talent, should be criticized for giving Huckabee a platform.
There is a colossal business opportunity here for whomever wants to syndicate Rush after Cumulus bumps him, and I suspect Rush himself will seize that opportunity.
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 12:15PM
Fox gives air time to so many questionable characters. I don't watch Fox very much anymore and I certainly do NOT watch Hucksterberry.
DG in GA| 4.3.12 @ 12:54PM
I think FOX, in an effort to appease the left, has added more and more RINOS to their lineup, and Huck is one of them. I used to like him, back in 2008, but the more I learn about him, the less I like him. I guess his show gets good enough ratings that FOX isn't canceling him, but I don't know anyone who watches him, and my politically astute conservative friends refer to him as "Lawrence Welk."
I doubt that Rush is cowering in the corner worried that Huck is going to drive him off the airwaves. I imagine Rush's reaction would be "bring it on!" He knows that there is no way Huck could EVER get the kind of ratings Rush gets, and if the Dickeys want to shoot themselves in the foot by replacing Rush with Huck on their radio stations, well, it's their funeral. Other competing stations would LOVE to pick up Rush's show.
I have a friend who is the advertising manager for a small radio station that carries Rush's show. She has a waiting list of advertisers who want ads in that time slot. She said that Rush is their bread-and-butter show, and the ads they sell during Rush pay for the rest of their programming. Nobody but a terrible businessperson would want to kill the golden goose.
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 6:33PM
So how do you learn new things ? Expand your mind ? Clearly listening to conservative radio and blogs is not your only input ?
martin j smith| 4.3.12 @ 8:32AM
You can bet I will not buy RINO garbage. I will bet that Rush will increase his ratings several fold and as for the Dickey Bros. They will not compete.
The American Hitman| 4.3.12 @ 8:36AM
No biggie, Mr. Lord. They will fail. And their failure will strengthen conservatives and damage RINOs. Which is a good thing.
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 9:24AM
Define what it takes not to considered a Rino. I think alot of people who say they are conservative in polls you'd label a Rino. You and your ilk are not a majority of anything.
The American Hitman| 4.3.12 @ 9:47AM
RINO = people who say things like "you and your ilk"
and of course progressives and libs who claim to be severely conservative. Sound familiar?
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 10:56AM
Gee you did not answer the question. Not sureprised you and your ilk are emotional fool incapable of reason and the ability to engage in honest debate. Like Rushy-when is the last time he shared the mic and went back and forth with somebody and had to answer tough questions. You all just attack-nobody is good enough for you. You all put ya selves up on some mountain top-you are the ultimate philospher kings. What horse shit. You ignorore the unsettling and iron fisted truth that in this democracy your ideas are not acceptable to a huge majority-CONSERRRRRRRRRRVATIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSMM. Just what the bleep do you fanatics actually want ? You are utopians-the great Levin has a blind spot thinking only screwball utopians are on the left. You envision some righty paradise if only=only what ? President Santo ? Fools-fools. It is about raw power and money-in combat you can't always choose who is gonna have your back. For a couple of years Scott Brown had your back whether you like it or not-YOU NEEDED HIM. Ungrateful freeloading punks-you think it was easy winning in MA and being 41st Senator for GOP ? Nasty rude angry punks-all of you !
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 12:16PM
May I ask, what is your point?
Boar Hunter| 4.3.12 @ 2:02PM
I thought he illustrated his point beautifully!
Like all liberals , gearjammer's idea of debate is fashioned after a thirteen year old girl with hormone issues. Facts? Aside from the incorrect information he claimed as fact, it seemed to me his posting was simply an emotional tirade based the lies he has emotionally invested himself in.
Perfectly demonstrating himself to be the "emotional fool" he accuses others of being. Anyone can see that, once again, it is he and others of his "ilk" who are neither willing or capable of engaging in any debate "honest" or otherwise.
With that said, I would ask; Why try and talk to someone whose idea of debate is centered on emotion and name calling? With an "iron fisted" grip on delusion, gearjammer makes it clear that he is willfully ignorant, devoid of reason and incapable of entertaining any facts that conflict with the non-reality of the fantasy world he lives in.
To gearjammer, "reason" means that that anyone who disagrees with him is, not just wrong, but stupid. If you actually present facts to him that abrade the cocoon he has ensconced himself in, then you are just a bunch of "rude angry punks." Like all liberal hypocrites, gearjammer fails to see that by expanding the insult to include "all of you" he shows himself to be the epitome of a a true bigot.
But, as is always the case with angry, hateful, bitter liberals, I am certain the humor of his hypocrisy will be lost on him.
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 6:19PM
I askede a simple question-what do women-I mean macho conservvvvvvvvvvatives want ? What is it you want ? You were sheading tears of joy when Brown-less than 50 days later you wanted to chop his head off-why ? What is your problem ? You must wake up-you are not gonna ever get some conservative version of Ameritopia. It never existed for one thing.
Boar Hunter| 4.3.12 @ 10:35PM
People like you are my problem. People too stupid to feed themselves or survive on their own that are allowed to vote
It's A Cunning Plan, Actually| 4.3.12 @ 1:40PM
Michael Smerconish, is that really you? Your gears are jammed as usual. You should change your screen name to No Labels.
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 6:37PM
I have a funny last name but not that funny.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 9:57PM
The Smerc is a different kind of goof than gjr. The Smerc thinks he is the most reasonable, moderate, sensible guy in the room and loves telling about it himself. He is also a slip and fall lawyer and one of Snarlin' Arlen Specter's partners. His other favorite pol is Fast Eddy Spendell. What does that tell you??
The American Hitman| 4.3.12 @ 10:13PM
could easily be gear jammer.
The American Hitman| 4.3.12 @ 10:06PM
This gearjammner nitwit is the Romney troll assigned to this particular blog. You can always tell the Rombots--they cannot conceal their contempt for conservatives.
Von Mises Jr.| 4.3.12 @ 8:38AM
Buy XM Sirius stock. Perhaps we can listen to Levin and Hannity there as well before long.
This is why we are in a financial mess nationally. Politicians know jack shit about business, unless it is a crony capitalist deal. Most would not be politicians if they had the talent for business.
BTW, I will be making calls for a TEA Party/AFP conservative challenging a local RINO. We can only stand for Republicans selling us out so long with TARP and debt ceiling increases. So we shall retire them like Bennett and Charlie Crist.
Old Soldier| 4.3.12 @ 12:05PM
Levin and Hannity are already on satellite radio.
Von Mises Jr.| 4.3.12 @ 12:40PM
Thank you Old Soldier. I listen to Rush and sometimes Levin. But usually Rush fills us in well on politics, so I watch Cavuto and Dobbs to find out what is happening on Wall Street.
One must keep a close eye on the financail situation. The markets are doing fairly well right now with the expectation that Obama can be defeated and the tax increases on income, dividends and health care avoided. But analyst are talking of a second half drop of perhaps 20% due to the threat of taxes soaring in 2013.
Mike W| 4.3.12 @ 8:45AM
The fat creep from Arkansas replacing Rush or even reducing his stations? Sounds like a late April Fools joke.
Mike W| 4.3.12 @ 8:49AM
A good torture method for terrorists - skip the waterboarding, make them watch non-stop,Huck's show on Fox . Almost rises to the level of a war crime.
The American Hitman| 4.3.12 @ 9:49AM
I tried watching Huck's show once. Couldn't make it through. But my, that studio audience of 35 sure was excited!
WL| 4.3.12 @ 10:39AM
HA!!!!! I thought I was the only one who noticed that!! My favorite was one of the first and few shows I tried to watch ...Huckadummy had Bill Maher and another crank actor whose name I can't remember on....they were hamming it up about how reasonable they were...Maher and the other idiot HAD TO BE HIGH, you could just tell...and ol Combover Huckafool was laying it on thick...
But you guys have to admit...seeing HuckaTool with that base guitar and dumb hamster look on his face
WAS PRICELESS!!!
Yips| 4.3.12 @ 11:10AM
WL, in all seriousness, please: Did Mike Huckabee host on his Fox TV show Bill Maher (not sure on that last name spelling), the HBO wannabe political commenter who is so often obscene and distasteful. That Bill M.? (the one who donated the $1 million to Obama's campaign) If so, please tell us approximately when this show took place. Thank you.
WL| 4.3.12 @ 2:41PM
Oh yes, he sure did. It was several years ago, right after the Huckster started his show. Of course, I can't remember the exact date...but I'm sure if you search youtube for it, you could find it pretty easily. NOW, in all fairness, Huckabee did not agree with the things Maher was trying to spew...but they sure did swim in the mutual love about it all...and Maher was sure adament about how Huckabee was the ONLY reasonable conservative he had spoken to.
I still can't remember the other guys name...he has blonde hair and is usually in those movies that only Hollywood watches or knows about but somehow win all of the awards...
cc | 4.3.12 @ 9:32PM
Richard Dreyfus was the other Liberal Hollywood (sorry, redundant) actor on his show.
It was nauseating to watch how Huck the Squirrel Killer
pandered to Maher and Dreyfus,
who both were openly and arrogantly touting their Liberal views
while the faux "Conservative" audience smiled and clapped.
Indy| 4.3.12 @ 8:51AM
Huckabee is a moderate, anyone that believes the Federal Government has a role is saying what Americans can eat is no conservative. Go ahead and test the market, dump RUSH and add Huck, you may pick up some advertisers at the onset but the ratings will drop. Some advertisers may hold on but others will drop and chase the one who can generate the ratings, it will not be Huck.
Gary B| 4.3.12 @ 9:05AM
Looks like the Dickey brothers are attempting to buy their way into the incestuous, beautiful-people cocktail circuit. They must lust after getting high fives when they enter the room.
hardcard| 4.3.12 @ 9:05AM
huckebee is nelson rockefeller on the cheap.
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 12:20PM
Good one, hardcard.
Hucksterberry had better be careful--Nelson dropped dead of a heart attack while he was on top of his mistress. Huckster has been packing on the pounds lately. Not good for the heart.
Drunken Sailor| 4.3.12 @ 10:04AM
No worries. Liberal talk radio has already proven it's a bad business model. Huckabee's show will go the way of Air Radio.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 4.3.12 @ 10:06AM
MR Dickey said, "We are in favor of eating our own cooking,", but I think what he really meant to say was, we are in favor of eating our own ratings!! Good luck with your stupid plan Dick, Huckabee is unwatchable, and I'm sure he's unlistenable too!! It's a lot of fun to go from first to worst in the ratings, and you're about to find out how much fun it is!! Dumbass!!
Marco2| 4.3.12 @ 10:13AM
The incessant Romney-bashing and goofball-boosting by Limbaugh and Levin has left this former longtime listener open to alternatives. I don't think it's Huckabee, but there is room for new blood on the right with a higher interest than their own money-making niche.
WL| 4.3.12 @ 10:29AM
Then start your own show...idiot.
jothepro| 4.3.12 @ 11:07AM
Turn the dial Marco.
Dick Nome| 4.3.12 @ 1:07PM
You are full of baloney Marco. You don't listen to either, at least not regularly.
Renaissance Nerd | 4.3.12 @ 7:49PM
I'm none too pleased with the turn many conservatives have taken in this cycle, especially the self-proclaimed deciders of who is conservative and who is RINO/CINO. Doesn't change the fact that Rush is indispensable and Levin has done yeomanly work in many areas especially his last book. I really don't much like all this invective and infighting. All the pretend Reaganites should remember his 11th commandment and quit with all the Spanish Inquisition act.
WL| 4.3.12 @ 10:34AM
Huck-a-fool has been a phony from the word go. Whoever didn't sense that from the beginning is not very sharp. In my opinion, Huckabee, Coburn, Ponuru and the Gang at NRO, some of the writers here, and the newly included Ann Coulter are more of a menace to our cause than any Democrat ever could be....They are almost like sleeper cells that turn on us at the critical points. We should learn to have longer memories for keeping track of which of these people have stabbed Conservatives in the back when the rubber met the road.
It won't be long...Huckabee and Frum will be starting No Labels Generation 2.
MarkR| 4.3.12 @ 1:03PM
I couldnt agree more. Coulter's particularly vile friendship with Maher and dissing of Other than Romney conservatives was and is particularly disgusting . Rush, Levin, Hannity and a few others seem to be the most listened to for a very big reason-they RESONATE. To see that Huckleberry is hit upside the head by the convicts on MSNBC is all you need to know about the resonation of him.
Bob K.| 4.3.12 @ 10:50AM
If our local Radio Talk Station replaced Rush with Huck it would have to switch over to Top 40 Hits in 6 months to survive. He and Michael Savage are the only reason to turn it on. More so since they gave Michael "The Smirk" Smerconish a 2 hour show after 10PM.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 10:06PM
Wherever your area is, at that hour The Smerc will surely cure insomnia. Especially if he starts yakking about his book club. He took the Hannity spot 3-6 and 1 more hour to 7 in Philuffya, but nobody listens to him anymore.
albert constantine jr.| 4.4.12 @ 12:14AM
If you can get Wilmington 1450 AM, it still has Hannity from 3pm to 6 pm. As a Clear Channel station, though, the signal is kind of weak.
Crassus| 4.3.12 @ 11:00AM
Rush has already buried Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly, and Fred Thompson when they went head to head with him. Why does Hucklebuck think he'll be any different?
Yips| 4.3.12 @ 11:03AM
The end of the line for me was when Hucklebee hosted his FOX TV show and featured the CEO of Hooters.
Yes, that chain called Hooters.
Here a self-proclaimed Baptist who loves to bask in the adulation of evangelicals, Hucklebee praised and advocated for Hooters and its CEO in a long segment on his TV show.
Who remembers when that edition aired? Surely for anyone who has not seen it there might be a way through FOX TV archives.
Seems Huckleberry had seen that reality TV show where a CEO goes from the board room to acting like a new hire in his own company. From executive at the top to flipping burgers, taking out the trash, driving deliveries, washing dishes or taking out the trash. All while having to be schooled on the ins and outs of the organization by a low level supervisor. Hucks was so enamored with the Hooters CEO that he just had to have him on his FOX TV show so the Hooters CEO could tell his story.
Wouldn't the CEOs of Chick Filet or Hobby Lobby have been better? (Much more decent adults to serve as good spokespeople for entrepreneurship, hard work, great ethic, solid values, care for employees)
No self-respecting and Bible respecting Christian would ever advocate for Hooters.
NEVER!
That, to me, spells F - R - A - U - D. Loud & clear.
For me, Huckleberry is pure fraud.
Huckabee's show close-out music at the end of his TV program is usually atrocious. Just the lyrics alone are not congruent with faith, values, middle America's values, something redeeming.
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 8:10PM
Yips,
I agree, completely. I didn't see that particular show, though.
The Huckster has only been interested in career advancement. And, running for president is the easiest way to achieve this, at this point in history. He now has a New York apartment and a show nobody watches.
What a country!
Bill| 4.3.12 @ 11:17AM
R-Resolute
O-Organized
M-Money
N-Natural
E-Energetic
Y-Young
What is "ROMNEY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's A Cunning Plan, Actually| 4.3.12 @ 2:06PM
R-RINO
O-Obamacare (architect of)
M-Massachusetts type "conservative"
N-"Next RINO In Line"
E-Enabler of liberalism
Y-Yawn!
THIS is ROMNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill| 4.3.12 @ 3:55PM
And he's gonna beat Obama.
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 8:24PM
Brilliant!
Boar Hunter| 4.3.12 @ 5:02PM
LOL you are hilarious! Resolute? Romney? I don't think that word means what you think it does.
At least you got the organized money part right. As to the rest, what a joke.
I heard Romney is practicing to be able to eat the Excrement sandwich Obama is gonna feed him and convincingly tell everyone how it's does not taste that bad once you get past the smell.
I personally will vote for the next president of the United States when we run one who is not afraid to call a spade a spade. A man of any race or religion who is willing to show he has the strength of his conservative convictions and is willing to stand up and defend them.
Romney will not receive my vote.
Nick| 4.3.12 @ 8:05PM
"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403
You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!
Bill| 4.3.12 @ 8:53PM
You're a moron and a racist, Bigot NICK.
GO AWAY!
Nick| 4.4.12 @ 2:11AM
Aren't you capable of telling the truth, Billy the Bigot? What a sad, little man you truly are.
If you can't live with your racist rants, GO AWAY!
astorian| 4.3.12 @ 11:19AM
I found it hilarious, a few weeks ago, when David Frum wrote a big piece for Newsweek about how Rush Limbaugh was toast, and that Mike Huckabeee was about to drive Rush off the air.
Now, first and foremost, Rush Limbaugh is in Show Biz, as even he'd be quick to admit. And in Show Biz, sooner or later, practically EVERY act peters out and disappears. So, who knows? MAYBE Rush Limbaugh will come to the end of the line one day soon.
But what could be more preposterous than NEWSWEEK (which has been circling the drain for years) and DAVID FRUM (whose Frum Forum has been on life support since Day One) gleefully gloating over Rush's supposedly imminent demise?
Even if Rush is BOUND to go off the air some day, it's an absurdly safe bet that he'l still have a nationwide radio audience long after Newsweek has gone under and long after David Frum has gone to work for the Huffington Post ful time.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 10:10PM
Frum is just bitter because nobody takes him seriously. When he tries to claim conservative creds everyone knows he's full of...well, himself.
REM| 4.3.12 @ 11:22AM
Mr. Lord, thank you for reminding us all of the murders of those four police officers in Washington State by the convicted murderer then Arkansas governor Huckabee set free.
An absolute disgrace.
Mike Huckabee should never NEVER be included in anything conservative or faith based. He seems completely inauthentic (despite some moments where one agrees with him, to be sure) but terribly inconsistent.
JDavenport| 4.3.12 @ 11:32AM
I think Mr. Lord is trying to warn that two brothers are going to take Rush off their stations for political reasons not business. Rush could and will beat Huckabee in a free market but losing a '180?' stations up front, leaves Rush with row to hoe. And for a lot listeners, it will be Huckabee by default because the choice has been made for them not...by them...for them...get it.
JDavenport| 4.3.12 @ 11:34AM
correction " leaves Rush with a tough row to hoe," sorry all.
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 12:24PM
Rather than listen to Hucksterberry listeners will subscribe to Sirius.
The phoney is unlistenable and unwatchable.
skedaddle| 4.3.12 @ 11:33AM
Huckabee seems to like taking people out - first Fred Thompson and now Rush. Doesn't seem consistent with his folksy image and Baptist minister background. There are plenty of bible verse applicable to someone like Huck and he should know them all by heart.
Radioman777| 4.3.12 @ 11:34AM
I don't know who the Dickey brothers are, but they seem like they might be from the shallow end of the gene pool. I have no personal animus toward Mike Huckabee, but don't particularly care for his brand of politics. He has some good qualities, but is a left of center Republican, which is sort of the same thing as the old Southern Democrat. Actually, I believe Zell Miller (D-GA) is to the right of him.
Les| 4.3.12 @ 12:03PM
I actually have grown tired of Rush. Won't listen to Huck though. Now I mostly listen to either Dennis Prager or Dennis miller.
Dick Nome| 4.3.12 @ 1:05PM
Suit yourself.
cantanz| 4.3.12 @ 12:16PM
Stupid is as stupid does.
Rurik| 4.3.12 @ 12:33PM
Cumulus? How appropriate. Named after a big, dark storm cloud; threatening, but eventually it passes and yields to the sunlight. And they're going for the Huckster? Again, it fits. The social engineer who tried to pimp Christianity as part of his social engineering shtick. (Bleep) the Huck!
More converasation and less confrontation? Churchmonger Huck will be real good for that. Let's gossip about Aunt Emma's famous Dishwater-and-Wax-Bean-Soup recipe, and then shut up and eat some because congenial Uncle Huck tells us its good for us.
Brought to you by the Head Dickey Brothers? You can imagine the jokes for yourself. This project should start not in New York but San Francisco.
Ira| 4.3.12 @ 12:36PM
I remember Huck supporting Moochell's obesity crusade when she/it appeared on his show. He also recently came out for anti-bullying legislation. He's a nanny state/pro-amnesty Lonesome Rhodes/Elmer Gantry.
JimP| 4.3.12 @ 6:11PM
Except Lonesome and Elmer were actually entertaining. Huck is a monumental bore.
Aces and Eights| 4.3.12 @ 12:48PM
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the local #1 Talk Radio Station was bought by Cumulus, and has since dropped the #1 morning host AND sidekick, and dropped El Rushbo. This formerly #1 station is now languishing in the ratings cellar. The Left Wing considers this good business.
MarkR| 4.3.12 @ 12:52PM
You know what, Sandra Fluke talked just like A slut. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and acts like one its a duck. Rush called it as objectively true based on what the "lady" said. For today's PC culture he was TOO honest and upfront and his comments were too replete with the old fashioned (something Huckabee loves to languish in) bluntness that made it easy to disarm immoral ideas of the left to extend their immoral legistlative agendas. Fluke was every bit saying she basically needed the money for the contraception to have sex out of wedlock- we used to call that slutty behavior.---So Rush repents and the media wants his head. But the real hypocrite is Huckabee who paints himself as the moral beacon and acts the uppity stalwart on all levels. The idea that he or Geraldo would draw an audience comparable to Limbaugh is not only laughable- but the very definition of insane. RINOS WANT to be liked by the left and are incapable of being cutting edge. Sure Limbaugh called her a slut NOT out of the blue- NOT made up out of whole cloth-NOT without a reason-NOT because he just arbitrarily wanted to harm someone (a la Palin) and the left's misogyny without a reason beyond her politics. No Rush called her out because she was advocating a lifestyle at the peoples expense that most Americans STILL consider slutty. She put herself in the situation and of course our feel good culture and victims forever leftists had a fit. Rush recanted and now this. But the best thing about this is it wont work. The left cant win when it comes to ideas- thats why they need a dictator (Obama) to run around legistlative acts- to the courts and with executive orders. The people hate the ideas of the left and the left hates the people. Rush knows that. Thats his greatness.
Unger| 4.3.12 @ 2:11PM
I still ask the question: How insane is it for a Georgetown law school coed to be whining about bills?
If Fluke is in her third year of law school, then she has, in all liklihood, a job lined up for June or July. Very few top ten national law school third year students do not.
These third years, you see, are sweating real bullets in September and October of their third year of law school if they do not have a job.
And, it is true, Georgetown law students average $140 - $150,000 as a starting salary....
Why should anyone have any sympathy for a piece of scum like this?
And, yes, publicly admitting in a public forum that you're having so much sex than you cannot afford the contraception does define one as a wayward slut.
Mike Hawk| 4.3.12 @ 10:17PM
Remember, Fluke (rhymns with f##k) is 30 years old and a seasoned left feminist activist. Somebody is paying her way. BTW , I wouldn't be suprised if it came out she prefers girls to men. Where all the guys she led us were playing pokeymon with her?
Petronius| 4.3.12 @ 1:01PM
The RINO's will kill the King if they have to buy every frequency on the dial. The Teaparty and the Constitutional Absolutism for which it stands scares them to death because they are fixers and political parasites of the stripe that views government as a vehicle for fattening their portfolios as opposed to the Liberals who use it to persecute anyone and everyone who will not join their despotic mob. And they will purge Conservatism not only from the radio waves, but from the public sphere entirely, because it commands honest behavior. The strongest desire of most modern americans is to emulate the Clintons. They want "to get away with it."
MarkR| 4.3.12 @ 1:05PM
Hope your wrong. I still have hope Americans arent that jaded. I still think the left and the RINOS are overplaying their hand.
Dick Nome| 4.3.12 @ 1:05PM
Suit youself.
Anneke| 4.3.12 @ 1:07PM
I first subscribed to Rush via his website (and listen to the livestream) on 9/12/2001. I have never regretted the expense. When cutting our budget, the Rush subscription has never been on the table. Best investment I ever made.
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, our talk radio stations recently went through an upheaval. Low and behold, what resulted was "Diversity" radio with a mix of Conservatives and Libs on each channel. I can listen to Glenn Beck on one station in the am and nasty ultra-lib Norman Goldman in the pm. I wouldn't be surprised if the Rush affiliate here is the first to migrate to RINO radio.
Robert Brennan| 4.3.12 @ 2:27PM
In the grand scheme of things, if this were television in the 1960s, Rush is Johnny Carson and Gov. Huckabee is Joey Bishop.
Petronius| 4.3.12 @ 2:54PM
Or gonadless O'Brien
Clemmie| 4.3.12 @ 2:29PM
It's all in the ratings. As soon as KSFO dumped Rush, I stopped listening to it. And so did most of the friends.
Anneke| 4.6.12 @ 5:38PM
It didn't take long Clemmie: "KSFO is proud to announce that Mike Huckabee will be joining our weekday line up from 9:00AM to 12:00PM."
JimP| 4.3.12 @ 2:32PM
Mike Huckabee is an attention slut. I too had a Southern upbringing. The difference being that there are some things for which there is only one word and honesty must prevail. Huck's primary impulse is to be on stage. Any stage. Doing any of a multitude of things. Just so long as HE is the center of attention. Only a few months ago he was reportedly working up an act to be put on stage in Branson, MO. I was so hopeful when reading of this that Huck would be hugely successful in Branson and we'd never hear of or from him again. Now this. Darn. I've never ascribed to Huck's 'Jesus was a big government socialist' schtick. Huck used Christianty to advance himself economically from what I can tell and he sure does love money. Beneath that faux nice guy persona is a very unseemly character.
Glad to hear that a show about convicts beats him in ratings. ROTFL That pretty much says it all.
loulou| 4.3.12 @ 2:51PM
Well, if the slut goes to radio, will Fox cancel him, at least?
JimP| 4.3.12 @ 5:59PM
We can hope.
Petronius| 4.3.12 @ 3:02PM
JP
Being brought up in a satrap state like Arkansas will have that effect. The mixture of dirt poor populism and graft is not easily outgrown.
JimP| 4.3.12 @ 6:01PM
You may be right. I'm not from Arkansas. However, I know folks who are and they are as embarrassed by Huck as they were about Clinton. I guess those two do say something about the general population there. Sad.
Controse| 4.3.12 @ 3:20PM
RINO parody radio. Now that is an idea that might just work. RINO's sure supply a lot of material.
Casey Abell| 4.3.12 @ 3:30PM
Jeffrey Lord can get his knickers in a twist about almost anything. I think he's been infected with Quin Hillyer disease. Symptoms include screeching, sweating, eyes popping, and blood pressure exploding. The disease seems endemic around the Spectator website.
But now we're supposed to get all hot and bothered about a little extra competition for Limbaugh? Hasn't Limbaugh endured a bit of competition in the past, like from everybody who could make audible noises in front of a talk radio microphone?
There are lots of things to worry about in this worrisome world. But a smidge more competition for Limbaugh? I'm not too concerned.
randyinrocklin| 4.3.12 @ 3:37PM
Another great article by Mr. Lord, right on. I used to listen to KSFO when Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan hosted the morning show prior to Rush. First they got rid of Melanie Morgan, then Lee Rodgers and replaced him with Brian Sussman. They got rid of Lee becuase he used to rant about the Islamo-fascists, it was owned by Citadel then. They still do Sean and Mark, but I think their days maybe numbered. They took off Levin at the 6 pm timeslot on KTKZ, which is owned by Salem Communications.
JimP| 4.3.12 @ 4:12PM
Is that the same Salem Communications that owns Hot Air and Townhall blogs? If so it explains getting Levin off the air. Salem Comm is a RINO organization from what I can tell. Read their blogs if you doubt me. They love Mitt Romney. Especially the teenagers who write at Townhall. They seem to have toned down the Rah, Rah Romney blog posts of late. Maybe due to criticisms of the Hi Skrool sounding bloggers, maybe because of low blog hits due to the Hi Skroolers' boring, inept "analyses" or perhaps they just ran out of BS to say about Mitt being such a wonderful 'severe' conservative. Hot Air isn't much better. It reflects North Eastern 'conservative' points of view and Midwest prairie populist points of view [ie: very middle of the road but tending left at times. Not rock ribbed conservative] Anyway, that Salem would ax Levin is not surprising to me after reading their sites, but not as much as in the past. In fact it's infrequent now.
sirbourbon| 4.3.12 @ 3:38PM
And Rush isn't a RINO? He is the epitome of the RINO.
If Lord's analysis of the radio war is accurate, Mike Huckabee will emerge from the cloud of dust as the latest of the upcoming radio stars that set their table with flashy rhetoric and serve the usual neocon dish - cold duck soup a la Huck
That Lord recognizes Huck for a fraud is good. At least he admits that liberals like Huck try to pass themselves off as something they are not; that there is a con being played on conservatives.
I have news for addicts to conservative talk: the world doeth not dependeth upon "talk radio" for the sun to rise in the morrow!
I will admit that there are few "tell them like it is" conservatives on radio. Some better than others in style and appeal. But insofar as talk show hosts that play to huge conservative audiences the fake ones will dominate because a fake conservative is basically a liberal.
Will conservatives never tire of being served the same old cold, nutritionless slop by "conservative" talk radio entertainers?
Dick Nome| 4.3.12 @ 3:54PM
It's obvious you are not a listener to Rush or any other Conservative. Keith Olberdork is available, maybe you can team up with him and start a Lunatic network and bring in Huckaphoney.
BackToBasics| 4.3.12 @ 4:09PM
Mike Huckabee, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore have this in common; they are now or were in the past all Southern Baptists.
Evangelicals who trust in Huckabee have been had. I remember in 1984 when the Southern Baptist Convention almost split into 2 large seperate denominations, one being liberal and the other conservative. A conservative SB Pastor, Charles Stanley, was elected the president of the convention that year and helped keep the 2 factions together. He should have let the liberal faction split away en masse.
Huckabee has all the characteristics of the left-leaning Southern Baptist including a mushy-soft liberal slant and big government solutions to problems. And while these same types, Southern Baptists or not, if they reside in the Republican Party, always talk about how strong they are concerning conservative social issues such as abortion. Yet if they get into power they invariably choose or want to choose fairly liberal judges, unless coerced politically as seen in Bush II's first inclination which was his weak-stomach choice of Harriet Meyers. He did this even though had she been nominated, it would have thrown away the 5-4 conservative-leaning Supreme Court that had existed prior to her nomination. These left-leaning "evangelicals" do not have the strength to stick with Biblical principles and one outcome of this is that they also do not have the strength inside to really "rock the boat" politically. Huckabee's liberalism is even worse than Bush II's in this regard.
I speak as a FORMER Southern Baptist attendee, although not a member, myself. I was deceived too for many years and slowly and sometimes painfully learned the truth of just how pervasive the infiltration into the evangelical church is this liberal slant; and it is not just in the Southern Baptist Convention. Some of the liberals in the church are freemasons, others are just sheep-sheerers. At the congregant level, most evangelicals are sincere Christians who love the Lord Jesus Christ. But I know from experience that a good percentage of leaders at the top are wolves in sheep's clothing; just as the Apostle Peter mentioned in 2nd Peter 2:3, "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
As for Huckabee replacing Limbaugh, no chance.
Seek| 4.3.12 @ 4:13PM
I'll say this for Mike Huckabee: He's a pretty decent bassist. Okay, not in the class of Phil Lesh, Paul McCartney, Paul Barker or John Entwhistle, but passable. His talk show isn't so hot, though.
George Collins| 4.3.12 @ 5:16PM
How could you mention bassists without noting the great William "Bootsy" Collins? Very strange.
Claudia| 4.3.12 @ 4:50PM
I cannot stomach Mike Huckabee. There has never been a more self-serving individual than this man - whose true identity is hidden behind his dopey smile and so-called Christian beliefs. Let me remind you of the real Mike Huckabee. I spend half of the year in the Seattle area. While Governor of Arkansas, The Huck pardoned hundreds of dangerous criminals. One of them was Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons was given a 95-year prison sentence in Arkansas in 1989 for robberies, burglaries, thefts and bringing a gun to school, assaulting a police officer, and rape of a child. His sentence was commuted in 2000 by then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Because of his status as a free man, Clemmons calmly walked into a restaurant outside of Seattle and executed four police officers while they were having coffee. The real reason that Huckabee never ran for President the 2nd time was that he knew he would be justifiably and mercilessly attacked for this decision - among other careless clemencies. So, I laugh out loud when Cumulus Media Networks declares that Huckabee would provide a "non-dangerous" alternative to Rush Limbaugh. Mike Huckabee and his hundreds of pardons to murderers and low-lifes have made this world a much more dangerous place. Just ask the survivors of the four police officers executed by child-rapist Maurice Clemmons. Shockingly, in an interview Huckabee once did on a radio station he said that his belief in redemption was partially responsible for his clemency decisions. Redemption is the sole decision by God. But, Huckabee's ego, masked with a howdy-doody "charm" allows him to think he is God.
BackToBasics| 4.3.12 @ 6:01PM
I agree Claudia. His sickeningly-sweet, aw-shucks, howdy-doody "charm" belies a weakness inside. He'd be worse than Jimmy Carter if he were ever elected. About the only thing I can say positively about John MCCain is that at least he prevented Huckabee from winning the nomination in 2008. Evangelicals have got to learn not to follow the heart-string pulling huckster-preachers who show only a soft "Christianity" and have zero grit and strength and no tough-love aspect to their personalities, such as Jesus Christ displayed and has and will show when He returns as a King to judge the world of sin.
Claudia| 4.3.12 @ 6:41PM
Thank you. People forget his pardons as Governor including the writers here at NRO - apparently. Huckabee is a media and attention-seeker. I can't tolerate him for one second. "Non-dangerous" alternative to Rush. That's a joke. Rush Limbaugh's decisions have not killed a single soul.
George Collins| 4.3.12 @ 5:03PM
Mr. Lord:
You're writing style has changed dramatically, and I wonder why. You're essays read like a text message from my 21 year old daughter after a couple of beers on Magazine Street: "There's two parts..." There are choppy half sentences, and breathless pauses... Are these the signs of a mid-life crisis or have you fired your editors? I appreciate the points made, but you make it a difficult read.
All the best,
George Collins
Jeffrey Lord| 4.3.12 @ 8:15PM
George....
You mean you didn't know I was 21?
In truth, as the column has evolved, it comes in two forms. Investigative pieces and opinion. This, and a number recently, are of the first type. The nature of the two is very different. In today's world, if one has news to impart...in this high-tech age people want it upfront, ASAP. So the style is blunter...choppier....short and to the point.
The others...with room to run...the sure sign I'm not really 21!
Best.
To.
You.
Right.
Now.
Or....
Four score and seven years ago, our editors brought forth on these cyberpages, a new column conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that you would appreciate points made without a couple of beers and breathless pauses.
Thanks!
jstwndring| 4.3.12 @ 5:58PM
Apparently, these morons haven't heard of the internet. If New Yorkers want to listen to Rush, and can no longer get him on local radio, they can find him online for free. I listen to him online when the radio station isn't coming in to clearly. Libs must love throwing money away. Go for it.
jstwndring| 4.3.12 @ 6:01PM
edit:
"too" clearly........
Liberal Soup n Crackers| 4.3.12 @ 6:20PM
I will NOT under any circumstances start listening to RINO radio. One of our local talk radio stations has just signed up to run the RINO against Rush from 12 - 3 PM. Doomed to fail.
Shaboe Delucks| 4.3.12 @ 6:21PM
You seriously don't know what eating our cooking means? Granted, it's a rephrasing of a more common phrase, but I mean, come on. (Here's more than a clue: eating our own dogfood.) By the way, could I see the certificate entitling you to define conservative for the rest of us?
gearjammer| 4.3.12 @ 6:25PM
The war on our 5 SJC justices has commenced. You are gonna see all out war by June. You saw what they did to Cain-the whole Libby scam-Thomas back in the day. And, you are concerned
about this ? Seems like you're afraid of free market competition for old Rushbo ? Can the king be topped ?
The American Hitman| 4.3.12 @ 10:09PM
what do you mean "our 5?" You guys have 4. Unless Elena Kagan counts as 2.
gearjammer| 4.4.12 @ 9:47AM
Good Rinos like McCain and old Arlen did alot to get our 5 on the court. You ungateful dope. Once again, there is an actual conservative party-you belong there.
Ken| 4.3.12 @ 6:53PM
It seems to me that the Dickey brothers are attempting to do what the RINO elite of the GOP is trying. Per the latter, that is shoving the moderately liberal Romney down our throats.
If Rush is taken off my local talk radio station then I'm either going to switch stations or turn the radio off. Similarly, if the GOP elite forces Romney on us then it's third party time for me or not voting at all.
therealguyfaux| 4.3.12 @ 7:09PM
The Dickeys believe they have found a niche audience not currently served, apparently, to their way of thinking. Does this niche truly exist? Maybe, maybe not. The ratings will tell. But it seems rather strange that the same people who think that El Gasbaggo is being ganged up on for the purposes of silencing his contribution to the political discourse are the same people who say that Mike Hucklebuck is a phoney who doesn't deserve the airtime he's going to get, which would of course silence HIS contribution to the political discourse. They might not actually want to yank him, except insofar as his show would replace Bull Rush's on a particular station, but they would certainly like to see him fail, since in their eyes he doesn't "measure up."
I have a somewhat different take: Suppose someone fairly new to political talk radio were to start listening to Hucklebuck and say, "I like some of what he says, so far as it goes, but he leaves me cold in certain other respects." Someone like this might find the Limburger Cheese a bit more to their taste, even though they may have originally been put off by the smell of he controversy surrounding the gentleman with talent never to be repaid to God even though he says it's only a loan. Perhaps Hoaxabee will become a gateway drug-- I'm sure El Gordo Mongo knows a little something in that field.
Conserdude| 4.3.12 @ 10:34PM
Dream on, Huckabee. Rush is by far the best in the radio business and he will bury Huckabee without breaking a sweat.
Norm Klevens| 4.3.12 @ 11:39PM
By less confrontational it means guy who will not tell the truth and not put up a defense for Conservatives and Liberty. 1 . Bill Clinton Light says he dd not raise taxes in AR - that is a bold face lie. 2. He is partially the reason we gt stuck with Obama as he and Johnny got together to squeeze Romney out [good or bad depending on what we know about the latter today as opposed to 2008 & individual opinion] Personally Romney would have done away with the jobless recession. 3 Uckabee's joke only sell in AR. 4 Bring it on Cumulus; guess you are making too much money.
Norm Klevens| 4.3.12 @ 11:40PM
Forgot - Mega Didos
Brian| 4.4.12 @ 7:04AM
RINO radio will work if it gets a few billion in tax breaks like MSNBC. One need not please costomers if government is your patron. One should note that ABC which carries Rush also gets Billions in tax expenditures.
Brian Richard Allen | 4.4.12 @ 1:16PM
.... Who can forget Air America? America, that's who ....
Got the sheet-music for the Bass part of that?
I'd like to send it to Mister Huckabee Finn.
Maybe he can use it for a bumper on his Sunday afternoon loss-leader?
Irate Nate| 4.9.12 @ 9:43PM
What amazes me is how many people speak of the GOP and conservatism as if they were one in the same. Far from it, the Old Guard GOP is nothing but New England RINOs who could care less about anything but keeping things just as they are.
Teemail| 4.10.12 @ 8:50PM
Hahahahahahhaha! The Dickey Bros and Hukabee brining Rush down? What a hoot! I am in the radio biz and the only one it will hurt will be the people who work at the stations losing Limbaugh and of course all the share holders. A competitor in every market that the Rhino boys dump Rush in will pick him up, and every listener, with in seconds. It will be like the "Gold Rush" of old, pun intended. I hope I am one of them.
messup| 4.20.12 @ 2:53PM
If one accepts the formula: We The People vs. We The Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC (MSM, DNC, RNC, and WALL STREET) as valid, then Mr. Huckabee's positioning with RINO broadcasting is totally logical. See FOXNEWS is RINO territory, too. Mr. Huckabee's position there as host and commentator meets with RINO Priebus's philosophy, too. Simple! Welcome to the fold!
As far as choosing a broadcast host, Rush is We The People and Huckabee is We The Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC. Repudiated once, and now again. Destined to go by way of Air America. God Bless America. Amen.