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"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message ... On Mar 9, 9:18 pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote: On Mar 9, 8:03 pm, Winston_Smith wrote: http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/bl...sk/Obama-is-in... Obama is in trouble Did you feel it? The political ground shifting beneath President Barack Obama since his speech last week to Congress? It's been downhill since and I'm not referring mainly to the Dow Jones record-setting dive. The pivot point of the shift was the speech, or rather what the speech did to the evolving public narrative of Obama. Let's review: * Since the first of the year, Rush Limbaugh's audience has exploded , according to Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, even as his daily assaults on Obama have intensified. The conservative Talk Radio maestro has become quite possibly the most listened-to radio personality in America since before Paul Harvey (God rest his soul). Demand for his air time hs suddenly become so intense, Limbaugh told The Examiner's Byron York earlier today, that his network sold 80 percent as much advertising in January 2009 as it did in all of 2008, and expects to sell-out the year by the end of March. That was before Obama and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel launched an explicit counter-attack against Limbaugh that seems only to be making him bigger. * Glenn Beck's eminently forgettable presence on CNN has been transformed, according to The Los Angeles Times, by his move to Fox News where his main theme has been variations on this question - Wake Up! Wake UP! What in Heaven's name does Barack Obama think he is doing to America? Beck has a tough time slot from which to win big ratings because he's in the middle of evening drive-time. Even so, in a very short period of time at Fox, his audience has grown to the point that it is now exceeded only by those of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. * Obama remains personally popular with the public, but worries and even outright opposition to some of his cornerstone proposals are growing. Democrats in Congress are even beginning to express in public print their worries that Obama has reached too far with the $787 billion economic stimulus package, the $410 billion omnibus spending bill and the $3.6 trillion budget proposal (and the trillions more senior aides whisper are coming in further bailouts, loan guarantees, "tax cuts" that are really just grants, and other spending accountrements of Leviathan Unleashed.) * Paralleling these developments, a potentially devastatng conservative case against Obama is coming together rapidly. Two influential columns this week tell the tale: On Thursday, Daniel Henninger offers this crucial observation in a WSJ piece otherwise devoted to asking why Republicans aren't more eagerly and quickly taking advantage of the fact the Obama Democrats have all but declared war on the 75 percent of the U.S. economy that is private and therefore productive of the nation's wealth: ||WS - Oh, oh. How can we shut up the opposition? - WS http://www.cnsnews.com/public/conten...x?RsrcID=44588 Speaker Pelosi Backs Senate Amendment to Regulate Talk Radio Friday, March 06, 2009 By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (AP Photo) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNSNews.com on Thursday that she supports an amendment to a Senate bill that would force the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to "take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest." The amendment’s language is viewed by many media experts as a means to regulate conservative talk radio, particularly popular programs such as the Rush Limbaugh Show and the Sean Hannity Show, among many others. House Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a former radio broadcaster and one of Congress’ biggest opponents of the Fairness Doctrine -- an FCC regulation removed in 1987 that forced broadcasters to grant equal airtime to opposing political viewpoints -- told CNSNews.com that the amendment is a masked attempt to restore the Fairness Doctrine. ||WS - That's all fine and good but how can we tweak Rushbo personally? - WS http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Conten...x?rsrcid=44558 Democrats Issue Call for Slogans for Anti-Limbaugh Billboard in Rush’s ‘Backyard’ The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is asking people to submit ideas for an anti-Rush Limbaugh slogan it intends to put on a billboard in Rush's "backyard" -- his hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. The DNC pitch, which comes in the form of a fund-raising letter and e-mail, is being sent out across the country: In part, it reads: "I'm Jen O'Malley Dillon, the new Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee. If you're anything like me, then you've had the urge to talk back to a right-wing talk radio host more than a few times. Now you can." The pitch asks readers "to come up with a slogan, in ten words or less" that the Democrats will place on a billboard in West Palm Beach. "We'll go through all the slogans we get, and the winner will have his or her message appear on the billboard -- and receive a free T-shirt featuring the winning slogan," the letter says. ||WS - Oh yeah, that will show him. Seldom has a winger been so full of sh*t than you. Obama's popularity is never higher while the GOP/Rush are hated by millions. I am surprised that you can type...you must really be buzzed. TMT Winston...did you let your redneck cousin use your computer? ;) TMT |
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