As numerous members of the conservative movement flee from the Heritage Foundation's flawed immigration study, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh has maintained a stalwart defense of the organization. Not a surprise considering Rush Limbaugh's syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks is the single largest independent contractor to the Heritage Foundation according to their latest 990 filing with the IRS, receiving $2,236,555 from the think tank. ... Limbaugh in defense of his sponsor was willing to toss aside the underpinning of thirty years of conservative arguments on the economic benefits of tax cuts. We won't know, until the organization's 2012 990s are filed later this year, how much the organization spent to bolster rightwing talk radio in the wake of the advertiser boycott, but listening to the frequent on air promotion of the Heritage Foundation, it is unlikely this significant level of support waned. And why not, they are clearly getting what they paid for. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/09/rush-limbaughs-wingnut-welfare/193995
so your argument is that it is happening, it is effecting the way Rush operates but let's see what the other guys are doing. Got it. It must really be exhausting to have to defend right wing corruption every single day.
It must be really exhausting following all of Mr. Alinskys rules. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition." “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
To put this in perspective, the HF is a "national" sponsor of RL, meaning when they place an ad it goes on on all 600+ radio stations. It's not like buying an ad in a local market, where depending on the size a 60 second may go for $100-$500 or $50-$250 for a 30. I don't know the exact number but a 30/60 spot to 600+ stations probably costs 10k-50k. Spending 2,236,555 gets you between 223 and 50 or so spots. RL is on 5 days a week which is 260 events and 780 hours a year. So HF, as a national sponsor was running from between one a day to one ad a week.
funny that is exactly what the poster about MSNBC did. I never read Alinsky....but the right seems to worship it.
My answer would be to analyze Media Matters.A George Soros funded/backed site that is instrumental in crafting talking points for the White House to use daily. Media Matters is also The largest Political Smear merchant that has ever been affforded a 501c3 Status.Media Matters has strong roots to the Clintons and especially Hillary during her run in 2008.Former Clinton Administration Chief-of-Staff John Podesa helped Media Matters get off the ground. Wassa matters ... cat got yer tongue.
The money in question is for advertisments on several of Primeres shows. As usual Brock's little smear machine, takes a dash of truth, adds to it 4 cups of innuendo, and a peck of out and out lies, and mixes it all together to create a pile of excrement that only a fool would believe.
Good point. In fact, all things Left AND Right considered, it looks to me like "Political Smear merchants" are both sides' primary resource.
The question isn't relevant, but my guess would be that there aren't any. Little difference it would make, anyway. Nearly all media is supported by advertising decisions from conservative businessmen. It's logical to conclude massive bias in favor of Republicans. - - - Updated - - - It's obvious that no crooked conservative think tanks were sending it money.
Saul Alinksy is totally off-the-radar for 99.9999999% of Democrats. It's total BS made up to appeal to BECK'S B1TCHES.
Please examine it as closely as possible. You might notice that the articles are accompanied by something known as PROOF.
So what about the study is flawed? It was good enough for the author's Doctoral thesis at Harvard. What did the liberals at Harvard miss that you have caught?
It isn't a study it's media matters which by definition means it's lies, inuendo and distortions. And if You think George Soros who supplies most of the funding for media matters is a right winger you need to see a psychiatrist to get some meds for those hallucinations. Brock, who runs media matters is a lying hypocrite, who blathers on and on about gun contorol while packing heat himself.
