Michael Wolff of CNBC thinks Clear Channel's 8 year deal with Rush Limbaugh is a bad one, due to his reasoning that our country is heading more and more left.
If we are heading more left as a nation, then why the big losses at the Los Angeles Times? Those guys in LA, as well as all it's competitors, should be making money like crazy if we're heading more left. The leftie Air America should soon be stomping Rush and radio shows like his.
I doubt that will be happening.
-Colonel Steve
Yesterday morning, Bill Bennett voiced his own "top ten" list of concerns about Obama's political views. These have now been posted on National Review Online. Very well thought out, and I agree whole heartedly.
-Colonel Steve
I heard part of the Kathleen Parker interview this morning on Bill Bennett's Morning in America radio show. The interview is about her book Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
Sounded very interesting, but of course I'm biased. One interesting thing I heard from the interview was that Kathleen Parker considered herself a feminist until she had a baby that was a boy. That changed everything (as having babies usually does). A rather radical thought, considering that today's society is so anti-male.
What ever happened to that motto of the Rodney King era: "Why can't we get along?" A great society would be one that truly values diversity, both in it's masculine and feminine shades. But today's society says we've all got to be "equal", without differences.
What a loss.
-Colonel Steve
Interesting news....CNN has now signed up Tony Snow. Intriguing. Don't have much time to delve into this. Let's just say CNN may finally be getting more balanced (with Bill Bennett there too). Will they be more fair? Probably not. But at least more balanced.
(HT: Flopping Aces)
-Colonel Steve
The Courier-Journal reports today about WHAS dropping Joe Elliott and his 9pm-midnight show. He's being replaced by Michael Savage's "The Savage Nation" syndicated show.
I see this as one more local show being dropped for one of the big nationals, with WHAS losing more of it's local flavor.
I agree more with some of Savage's stands on issues like illegal immigration and English as the national language. However, what little I heard of Savage while he was on WGTK for awhile actually made me rather sick. His on-air personality has a lot to be desired in my opinion. Leaves me wondering how he's ranked third behind Rush and Sean Hannity.
Outside of Rush and Cards games, I rarely listen to WHAS anyway. So my opinions won't gain them a listener anyway.
-Colonel Steve
...and I was actually part of it. A paraphrase of Harry Reid's comments today (video here) about the Rush Limbaugh smear letter.
What an insult! Particularly to those who give willingly, such as Rush and the winning bidder, Betty Casey.
We're still waiting for Harry and his band of Forty to step up and give a little themselves. Then, "maybe", just maybe, he could then actually come close to using the "we" he used.
Also commented on by Captain's Quarters.
-Colonel Steve
I had heard Rush say earlier this week that he was going to do something special with that smear letter from 41 Senators to the CEO of Clear Channel. Now we know what that special thing is all about.
Rush has now placed the original up for auction on Ebay, with ALL of the proceeds going to the Marine Corps -- Law Enforcement Foundation. This foundation's mission is to provide "Scholarship assistance to children of Marines and Federal law enforcement personnel whose parent dies on duty."
The bid is now up to $25,800.
Way to go Rush! Excuse me, senators, but who really has the bigger concern for our troops?
(HT: Gina Cobb, IMAO, and Radio Equalizer).
Update: Here is video of his announcement:
-Colonel Steve
I'm a little late to the game on this one, but I'm glad to see this from our senator Mitch McConnell:
He may have moved from the wrong side to having a good vote when it came to the immigration bill. I hope he sticks to the right side with this one.
(HT: Dean Barnett at HughHewitt.com)
-Colonel Steve
As a XM Radio customer myself, I found today's announcement of their POTUS '08 channel rather interesting. It's plan is to be a mixture of C-SPAN plus content from "Non-traditional media outlets, such as bloggers and podcasters". I'm already wondering which bloggers they plan on including in their mix.
They are planning on previewing the channel next month (June 2007), with an official run from September 2007 through November 2008. Those with a xm radio can tune in on channel 130.
-Colonel Steve
As noted in the American Spectator this morning, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer are pursuing bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. They're rather nostalgic for the days when radio had but two things....music and liberally-slated news. Now that we have stuff that actually sells (say, conservative talk radio) they want to silence it by legislation.
Personally, I'll be letting them know what I think.
(HT: Hugh Hewitt)
-Colonel Steve
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