Beyond Rush: Hannity, Beck, Levin Hit with Advertiser Bans

I have ALWAYS questioned the rationality of having an "entertainer" or a "disc jockey" as spokespersons for a political party. And, that is all they are. Some started as DJ's, some as janitors, until they got a break, an audience slowly grew and they became authorities on politics. Remember, they are just ENTERTAINERS, nothing more, extremely RICH entertainers. In Rush's case, he became one of the most powerful voices in the Republican Party. What are HIS credentials, or any of them. I think Beck, at one time, admitted that he was nothing more than an entertainer, a multi-millionaire entertainer. Oh,, he also sells cups and t-shirts. They all get "drunk with power," and feel they can do no wrong. They are the "evangelists" of the political world, cut from the same tree.

Efforts to silence Rush Limbaugh are apparently having a significant impact on the talk radio business as a whole, including syndicated radio shows hosted by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck.

After provocative comments made about a female Georgetown law school student, Limbaugh's show has been targeted by liberal groups that have pressured more than two dozen advertisers to drop his program from their ad buys.

Now, Rush's syndicator, Premiere Networks, is losing advertisers for other conservative programs it airs.

According to an internal Premiere memorandum obtained by Radio-Info.com, the company says 98 advertisers no longer wanted to air ad spots on any "offensive or controversial" talk programs.

Radio-Info says the list of advertisers include "carmakers (Ford, GM, Toyota), insurance companies (Allstate, Geico, Prudential, State Farm) and restaurants (McDonald’s, Subway)."

POLITICIANS are getting LAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've said it before and I will say it again, I am getting sicker of politicians all the time. Now they are even getting too lazy to go out and campaign. We get about five or six palm cards a day in the mail from politicians. We get phone calls all day from politicians, we see them on TV, too lazy to even dress up, campaigning in blue jeans, that, to me, shows a total lack of respect for the voters. And, his jeans were even torn.

Let's be realistic. Obama is going to win again, There is no one who can beat him. But, you can bet on it, according to TV it will be a close race, they will make a BIG issue out of it. It is like making a "one horse" race exciting. They will do it though, a billion or two in revenue for TV.

A lot of it is my age, I have lived through a lot and seen a lot. I am skeptical of politicians and evangelists, I think they were cut from the same log. Evangelists are attempting to do "good," and in doing so, coincidentally, are become multi-millionaires, politicians are doing the same. Oddly enough, they are both making their money on television.

They, and others, have just turned themselves into ENTERTAINERS ..... at least entertainers admit what they are and what they do, they are HONEST about it, the others ARE NOT.