GOP Demise Taking A Toll On Right-Wing Pundits

[Hissyspit]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/15/gop-demise-taking-a-toll-on-right-wing-pundits

GOP Demise Taking A Toll On Right Wing Pundits
By: Logan Murphy on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 3:56 PM - PDT



President Bush has driven the GOP right into the gutter and it’s finally starting to show in the wingnut media. Remember BillO going nuts in New Hampshire when he was given the B-list treatment by Barack Obama? We’ve covered a few of the latest warriors to fall, but my friend TRex has a more complete list of the losers: (Caution, may not be suitable for work)

Actually, it’s illustrative of the fact that the Pox News Cargo Cult is either dying off in waves (they are all 90 years old, after all), that Heath Ledger’s ghost is having a laugh at Gibson’s expense, or just that the wheels are totally coming off the Right Wing Propaganda Machine.

In the last six months, we’ve seen:

1. Michelle Malkin fired from “The O’Reilly Factor”.

2. Ann Coulter’s book sales tanking and her credit cards getting declined by Publix.

3. Melamine Misstatement fired from her job.

4. Tucker Carlson tossed out on his amply padded backside.

5. And now Jumpin’ John Gibson being taken away to be rendered into fat for cheap tallow candles for The Poor or whatever. Read on...

[Nitrogenica]

1. So who's gonna fight the "War On Christmas" now?

O'Reilly's on his own now.

[SpiralHawk]

20. " We Republicon chickenhawks are raising money now to continue the War on Christmas." - Bill O

"We may be draft dodgers in the regular old kind of war, but we are RUFF AND TUFF on this Christmas Thang. No amount of money will be spared."

- Bill O.

[bluestateguy]

2. Gibson is perhaps the biggest asshole on Fox

As for Tucker Carlson, I could never gin up a lot of rage against him, even though I disagree with him most of the time. One is not an ass simply because he or she is a conservative.

Melanie Morgan I am delighted to see silenced.

[dkf]

8. Tucker isn't that bad. I feel sorry for him.

[mwb970]

22. Tucker seems a bit out of place amid these awful losers.

He is surely the "least bad" of the ones mentioned here. The others all make me vomit to just think of them, whereas I actually watched Tucker's show pretty often. He tended to have great guests and to keep them on long enough that they could make their points properly, even when they disagreed with him and outnumbered him 2 to 1.

But Gibson, Morgan, and the rest - YUCK. Total, total crap.

[arthritisR_US]

3. Your Carlson link only brings up a repeat of the Gibson demise. n/t

[Hissyspit]

7. Fixed. n/t

[arthritisR_US]

9. TY :-) n/t

[arthritisR_US]

10. P.S....

Your news of the canning of all these a**holes has made my millennium, thanks!

[mitchum]

4. I swear to you that there IS a violin graphic in my post...

I swear

[Hissyspit]

6. Like this?

:nopity:

[amitten]

5. Cheap tallow candles!!

:rofl:

[KharmaTrain]

11. The Boooosh Economy Has Ruined Hate Radio

In 2000 radio was booming...so much so that radio stations couldn't squeeze enough commercials into an hour...the dot com boom and dereg had turned companies like CBS/Viacom and Clear Channel into media giants with thousands of stations all promising big profits and cranking the stock prices into the statosphere. Bigger was better...the more stations, the bigger the purchase, the greater the line of bullshit and Wall Street swooned. Radio soon detached its profits from actual revenues to stock prices. Many large companies too their soaring equity values and turned those into bigger loans to buy out even more competitors and dominate even further.

Hate radio grew as well as it championed the deregulation cause...and pushed a pro-corporate agenda. It was easy radio to do...just put a loudmouth in front of a mike, have him or her spew something outrageous and make money. Things were going swimmingly until george booooosh got to DC...no sooner did he and Cheney start tampering with the economy then the dot com bubble burst...followed by a steady decline in the economy...gas prices rose, incomes stagnated and advertising revenues began to shrink. Radio was surpassed by cable and satellite radio and threatened by internet radio...soon companies like Clear Channel faced dozens then hundreds of failing stations...tightening belts, cutting costs and cheapening the product further.

Now "stick" values of broadcast properties...that were artificially high for many years...are beginning to crash, revenues have declined on the average of 20-25% each year for the past 5 years and the large debts rolled up by the broadcast conglomerates are suffocating both the stock price and the companies viability. Clear Channel had hoped that Bain Capital with the Carlyle groups money riding to the rescue...but that's in serious doubt. XM and Sirius can't get the funding together to get their merger done...and the problems are getting worse.

Hate radio, being a key component of the large radio corporates is failing along with the rest of the medium...the greed and arrogance all but destroyed what was once an exciting and dynamic form of entertainment, information and communication.

[Supersedeas]

17. they'll find new outlets and scapegoats for hate

[KharmaTrain]

23. The Problem Are The Corporate Enablers

As the repugnican/conservative "agenda" is debunked and collapses on its own arrogance and greed, less and less people find their bile appealing, however we still have a corporate media that echos the right wing distortions and misinformation...that is far more damaging and where we must continue to speak up with truth and facts.

The wingnuts already have new outlets...the same ones we do...right here in cyberspace. They had a head start here and now its the Progressive and Liberal blogs that have become far more energized and vibrant. My hopes are one day that radio can find some equal ground as Progressive talk expands...and on a local level.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. happy to be the 5th k&r........

good riddance.

[opihimoimoi]

13. Selling BS can last only for so long...Basically, the RW pundits had their day to shine and now they

are tarnished by the sheer volume of TRUTH....peeps moving on to KO, Bill Maher, and Daly Show...etc places where the Truth might be found...

Bush himself is a large factor...the talking points from them pundits really haven't added up over these past years and now they have lost their creds..respect....voila...poor ratings....voila....poor GOP

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. kickie....

:kick:

[LeftHander]

15. The media is like a poorly trained dog on a long leash...

They run wildly one direction until they reach the end and start dragging the public with them. But then the public yanks hard and reigns them back in.

TV is entertainment whose content is dictated by ratings and advertising income.

So as ratings drops, advertisers complain. As revenue drops management makes changes.

Sadly TV has already caused plenty of damage. But they don't care about that until the bottom line is effected/

[Perry Logan]

16. High time. The right-wing phenomenon in America has been a complete fraud from the very start.

The Republican Revolution was always a con game, based entirely on rigging the system.

The right have all the money (or did until recently). They control the media. They suppress the Democratic vote. They use the power of the government to hurt Democrats. They rig the elections. They pull dirty tricks. They throw Democratic registrations into the trash. They smear and swiftboat. For a time, they even had control over all three branches of government.

Yet they blew the whole thing in just six years. No wonder the pundits are dropping like flies. What could they possibly say?

[deutsey]

18. Mt. Flushmore

Seeing those faces all together like that reminded me of Mt. Rushmore...well, this would be the anti-Mt. Rushmore...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. I just feel awful about this.

Awful happy.

:smoke:

[Echo In Light]

21. The rest of the cable pundits equally push the corporate/state's agenda/propaganda

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[krkaufman]

24. I'd like to see the Dems keep-up with the boycott of Fox News.

They shouldn't be viewed or treated as anything but a Republican media machine, and Dems certainly wouldn't subject themselves to direct interviews by the RNC.

[marmar]

25. Bumpin' uglies......

Those faces should not be displayed together. Those with weak hearts might not be able to take it.
:scared: