What will be the Wednesday morning spin

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Topic Title: What will be the Wednesday morning spin

Topic Summary: by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al

Wishful thinking but it would be the best thing for this country if they get yanked off the air.

What other Constituitonal amendments do you not like? You are one sick pony.

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Topic Title: What will be the Wednesday morning spin

Topic Summary: by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al

Wishful thinking but it would be the best thing for this country if they get yanked off the air.

If you don't like them don't listen.

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
Of course there will be spin...right wing talk radio will complain about media bias...

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
My guess:

1. They will start some type of "America under siege" or "Conservative underground" type of movement.

2. They will point out the wins for the party and conservatives. i.e. Marriage amendments are passing in 2 states so far, and by healthy margins.

3. They will point out that McCain did MUCH better than anyone could have expected under the circumstances.

4. They will point out that McCain was NOT a true conservative and did not run a conservative campaign.

:thumbsup:

Both good responses. I think ProfJohn's under siege prediction will be a broader and slower response. Like the 90s militia movement.

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Now to the "point" of this thread - Rush and Hannity aren't elected and have no real say. My guess is you just wanted to start a thread to whine about them...which isn't unusual for this forum. Do you even listen to them? If not, why do you care what their spin will be?

:thumbsdown: :roll:

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: Balt
I'm hoping they will spin it the way they need to:

The Republican Party needs to embrace fiscal responsibility again, because without it they only appeal to the Christian Right.

If the Republican party every becomes truly fiscally conservative, I'll start voting Republican.

But I wouldn't count on it.

 

[Soundmanred]

"It's all Tina Fey's fault."

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: StormSide
Time to order my "Don't blame me I voted for McCain" bumper sticker ... When do we get our checks? 🙂

It should be, "Don't Blame me, I voted for Kerry"........ imagine if Kerry had won.....

1, Obama wouldn't be running now.
2, It wouldn't be Bush's fault.

Virginia has changed, all my co-workers are liberals... so i can't gloat...

 

[sandorski]

Rush will bring back his "[something] Day X [something]". I don't recall what it was, it may have been "America under siege". If it works like last time, things will get really good, but he'll keep whining about something.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: alien42
ACORN bitching won't last because its low level voter registration fraud by slackers looking for a quick and easy buck and had nothing to do with actual voting.

When has Talk Radio ever let fact get in the way of a good rant?

 

[Drakkon]

I went into the fire and listened to Rush today - pretty much a lot of "Hopefully this will renew the conservative movement in this country - get us back to our true values" - telling his followers that "see i told ya what would happen" because he knew mccain would loose as hes not "conservative" enough. It was an interesting show - he seemed to limit the callers from name calling. There was some "black racism" talk and "stupid voter" talk but no worse than what you would expect.

Its definitely going to bring his base back that grew content over the Bush years. Rush had huge numbers during the Clinton years and I can see that coming back during the Obama administration for no other reason than they will be frustrated one way or another and look to Rush as a leader.

 

[Hugh H]

Originally posted by: StormSide
Time to order my "Don't blame me I voted for McCain" bumper sticker ... When do we get our checks? 🙂

Dumbass... you are not even giving the guy a chance.

 

[shrumpage]

I caught part of the Medved show and he was discussing the day after, a couple of highlights:

1. McCain stepped out at the appropriate time and gave a good speech.
2. Obama gave a very good acceptance speech. "Classy."
3. The lack of gloating of Obama camp.
4. Obama will most likely take, at least initially, a left centrist route and avoid issues like gun control and the fairness doctrine.
5. Now is NOT the time to pile on Obama, but be supportive. He deserves a chance.
6. The fatal down turn for McCain was the economy tanking. I heard this same sentiment on NPR after the election was called.
7. Obama ran a nearly flawless campaign.

I haven't heard any commentator talk about ACORN or voter fraud, and i doubt they will. Was there voter fraud? probably, but the margin of winning is large enough where it wouldn't mater. It is a non-issue.

Sorry no wailing or gnashing of teeth and outside the nutty fringe (i'm looking at you alex jones) i think most talk show hosts will analysis what republicans did right and wrong, and what democrats did right. Talk about the statistics of voters, focus on some of the wins and what will/can be done different.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Topic Title: What will be the Wednesday morning spin

Topic Summary: by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al

Wishful thinking but it would be the best thing for this country if they get yanked off the air.

If you don't like them don't listen.

There is no alternatives on my public airwaves to listen to and that is my point.

Either get the airwaves fair and balanced or pull their license.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: GoPackGo

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: HomerJS
Topic Title: What will be the Wednesday morning spin

Topic Summary: by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al

Wishful thinking but it would be the best thing for this country if they get yanked off the air.

If you don't like them don't listen.

There is no alternatives on my public airwaves to listen to and that is my point.

Either get the airwaves fair and balanced or pull their license.

Get Siruis Radio, it's only $12 a month. Just don't go to McDonalds for lunch one day, that ought to cover it.

 

[DealMonkey]

On my drive to my weekly meeting I had the "pleasure" of listening to Rush on the way, and Hannity on the way home:

1.) Rush was blathering on and on about how Democrats were going to take your 401K's and give them to the goverment. Where the fuck does he come up with that? Is he relegated to making shit up now?

2.) Hannity has formed his so-called "conservative underground" which strikes me as interesting considering how often right-wingers act like they're some tiny minority, despite having full GOP control of the gov't for 6 of the past 8 years. For whatever reason, this "underdog" nonsense seems to work and seems to be catching on now even more.

Hannity spent a bunch of his show letting liberals call in and "gloat" ... he sounded really pissed off about the whole thing, almost as if he was pretending the fairness doctrine went into effect already, and somehow he's now forced to do it.

 

[jonks]

The "Mandate" That Wasn't, by Robert Novak

For context, I present an interview dated November 6, 2004:

Q: Bob Novak, is 51 percent of the vote really a mandate?

NOVAK: Of course it is. It?s a 3.5 million vote margin. But the people who are saying that it isn?t a mandate are the same people who were predicting that John Kerry would win. ? So the people who say there?s not a mandate want the president, now that he?s won, to say, Oh, we?re going to accept the liberalism that the ? that the voters rejected. But Mark, this is a conservative country, and it showed it on last Tuesday.

So naturally Obama's nearly 7.5 Million vote margin and 52 percent of the vote is a mandate, right? Right? No. What?

No Mandate for Obama