I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but ever since our local hard-right political activists, such as Russ Steele, George Rebane and Todd Juvinall, expressed their disdain at a petition stating that Rush Limbaugh “needs to be removed from KNCO,” the number of signatures has exploded to more than 600 as of this morning.
“Support the women in both our community and globally. This is not about conservative radio. Mr Limbaugh crossed a line and his show needs to be removed from KNCO. If you agree, please sign this petition. Thank you.”
Russ belittled the signatures, but make no mistake about it: It is being signed by prominent citizens, ranging from well-known doctors, to nonprofit presidents, to business owners.
I listened to the KNCO forum yesterday and have been following the posts on KNCO’s Facebook page. It was interesting to note the large number of business owners who routinely told KNCO they did not want their ads to run during Rush’s programming. It was telling. Some spoke out in the forum.
“Many KNCO advertisers ask not to run during Rush’s three hours, so that would free up air time for the staff to sell prime time, which could actually increase revenue,” one person knowledgeable about KNCO wrote.
“I love our lefty wackos. I am taking note to the people who are opposed to free speech,” Steele snapped back on KNCO’s Facebook page in a bullying tone. “They are on my list.”
“BTW, RS, nobody cares about your list!” one wrote.
A link to KNCO’s Facebook page is here. You can read all 60 comments, and find a link to the petition, with more than 600 signatures, under the post “We hear you!”
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Steele mimicks his idol and I’m appauled that his definition of free speech is slander and hate. I listened to the call ins yesterday but I couldn’t get through. The lines were always busy. I did express my opinion via e-mail to KNCO.
I was intrigued about the caller in support of Limbaugh who described how every PG&E vehicle he rode in on his job was tuned to Limbaugh. Working stiffs making a good wage with benefits listening to a man degrading them and their society? Unbelievable!
My husband, a professional, was subjected to listening to Limbaugh in his work place where his boss harrassed and intimidated everyone to side with him. This was in the late 90′s when it came to social researchers attention that employer bullying in favor of the right was becomeing a work place problem for those seeking work and trying to keep their jobs.
There was a store in down town GV that played Rush. I never shopped there again because I felt like I was under seige while shopping and it didn’t make sense to support a working stiff who didn’t support fellow working stiff…me.
I quit listening to KNCO when they started aring Limbaugh.
Nothing is more heart wrenching than watching working stiffs support the messages and philosophy of the Plutocrats against their own best interest.
Thanks Jeff. If any of your readers would like to sign and share the petition, please go to:
http://signon.org/sign/take-rush-limbaugh-off?source=c.url&r_by=2927623
Here’s what CABPRO member and the group’s former executive director Martin Light thinks, writing on Russ’ blog:
“I agree with you that if these nazi’s don’t like Rush then don’t listen to him. Switch to KVMR or some other tribal station.”
Amazing. Do you notice that the only name calling is coming from the side that rides on the “free speech” ticket? If you go through the post regarding Rush on KVMR’s facebook page, the mean spirit of Rush comes through with any of his supporters. True colors.
Little help please. I can’t find the link to the signature page.
If I insulted you, and then apologized saying, “I was only sinking to your level,” would you think this an appology or further insult?
Jim Hurley
http://signon.org/sign/take-rush-limbaugh-off?source=c.url&r_by=2927623
Yes, the name calling and personal attacks are the stock-in-trade of this group.
I wonder if CABPRO’s board members (B&C hardware owner Kimberly Janousek, real-estate agent Kirk Pharis (www.kirkpharis.com) and former supervisor John Spencer), among others, condone Martin’s remarks on Russ Steele’s blog.
http://www.cabpro.org/CABPRO/Board.html
Here’s another one of Martin Light’s gems: “Russ, the FUE is having a hard time finding enough of a hand full to continue jerking.”
I guess the Rush “potty talk” is alive and well in our very own community too.
Not to be outdone, CABPRO’s current executive director Todd Juvinall weighed in: “Kim Jong Ill would be poud (sic) of the anti free speech signers of the petition.”
Good people.
also see new facebook page:
Remove Rush Limbaugh from KNCO
I’m signing the petition since Steele, Juvinall, and the rest of that ilk are unable to stop my freedom of speech. Care to give it a try boys?
Peter Gabriel has asked that his song “Sledgehammer” no longer be used on the Rush Limbaugh show.
According to Daily Edition, when polled, 93% of American parents want their college age daughters to be able to receive contraception provided by their insurance carriers without having to provide a sex tape to Rush Limbaugh. >shudder<
Just remember he was paid $56 million last year to spread his manure.
Senate Armed Forces Chairman: Drop Limbaugh From Military Network | Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said yesterday that he would like to see the American Forces Network, which broadcasts TV and radio to American servicemen, stop carrying Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. “I would hope the people that run it see just how offensive this is and drop it on their own volition,” he told CNN. “I’d love to see them drop it, but I don’t think I’d legislate it.” “I think that is probably an issue that should be left to the folks that run that network,” Levin explained. A
group of female veterans, organized by VoteVets, called on the Armed Forces Network to drop Limbaugh Monday.
I could think of a lot of different programing for our service members!
Our vote? Remove Rush. It’s time to take a strong look at “Entertainment at the degradation of others.” This is an opportunity for businesses (supporters of commercial radio) to take a stand and pull their financial support.
From the psychoanalytical point of view, Mr. Limbaugh’s rant shows us that what we have here is an impotent sexual addict who titillates himself by verbalizing his libidinous fantasies on the air.
It effect, he is publicly masturbating.
Really boring.
Thank gawd for my iPod!
Judith, I don’t think he is even successful doing that. I have to say YUCK for the image but highly commend your comment
Judith,
That is what I think as well. He definitely believes women are inferior in matters of positions of decision making, thus objects to be ruled not respected. Rush is a man who uses viagra, takes guys trips to areas that have heavy prostitution, been married I think 4 times, and has the disposition for addiction as his Oxycontin run in with the law showed. Two issues stand out with me.
First, his jump and focus on sex throughout the entirety of his tirades, specifically sex with Ms Fluke.
Second, his insistence that it takes more contraception the more sex a women takes part in (birth control pills were the main source of contraception in the hearing). This refers to the viagra, for a man with erectile dysfunction it takes another pill to achieve another erection.
Just some observations I have made over the last few days.
Freedom of speech doesn’t free you from your responsibility for what you say. Rush said what he said and now he gets to own it as others express their own freedom of speech in response.
If the government was trying to silence Rush because it didn’t agree with his views, that would be a freedom of speech issue. But that’s not what’s happening.
Personally, I think it’s a bad idea to feed the troll — reactions like this are exactly what Rush is after. He only wants to make the needle jump, doesn’t matter what direction. So long as he’s generating noise, he’s generating money and remaining relevant. Better, I think, to just quietly ignore him and let him blather in the void.
My Grandma was a schoolteacher for 40+ years, leaned left on social issues, and voted Democrat most of the time. She absolutely loved to hate Rush — it was one her favorite pastimes, listening to his show on the radio and getting infuriated, literally shaking her fist and talking back to the radio as she paced around the room.
Did Rush care that she listened to him to hate him? Of course not — just one more set of ears in the audience, one more notch in his ratings report. Ticking people off and getting noticed is his stock in trade.
I understand that Rush crossed a line for many people here and they want to express their outrage. As I said, that’s fine — he said it, he gets to wear it. But keep in mind that Rush didn’t get to where he is by being a fool — this feels like a calculated play to generate exactly the sort of firestorm it has, and that’s all he wants. For me, I don’t want to be a part of Rush’s play — I’m just going to keep ignoring him.
Great story, Sid. And you’ve described the Rush tar baby very well…
R.L. Crabb has posted a cartoon of the RQC vs. CABPRO. What Bob still doesn’t get is that the RQC is not as vocal or visible now as CABPRO. It’s not equal now. The problem now is the hard right, inflammed thanks to our “electeds” such as McClintock and Logue. He suffers from the past and needs to think more about the present and future.
Maybe you didn’t catch the date on that cartoon. It’s from 1999.
Yes, I caught the date. And I didn’t find it relevant to the present, so I commented. You might consider shifting the panels to make the right side much larger than the left
If you read the text below the cartoon, it will provide some context. And how relevant do you really believe CABPRO is? If you asked Joe Average on the street who they are, he’d probably tell you it’s a professional cab company.
R.L,
You’re kidding right? That’s the mindset that has divided the GOP party nowadays. Ask any moderate GOPer.
You keep bringing up theses “moderate” Republicans. If there’s so much opposition to the present leaders of the county party, why don’t they just break away and start their own wing? It’s not that hard. Frankly, most Repubbys I talk to are okay with the party’s stands, if not the rhetoric.
It is hard, because the “old guard” is entrenched. And the stands diverge on the social issues, as well as the rhetoric. Watch what happens in the Aanestad-LaMalfa race.
Actually Bob, I think the issue is the elected Republicans are the moderates and the critics are the radical conservatives. The elected office holders would rather have the radicals leave their party! Almost all of the Republicans I know (and believe me I know a lot) think the conservatives are insane.
I found this signature on the petition interesting:
Alasdair Fraser Mar 8, 2012 nevada City, CA
It would be a relief to know Rush Limbaugh is not contaminating the airwaves of our beautiful Nevada County with his hateful, bigoted and damaging diatribes.
Unfortunately the sad thing I see happening with the hateful rants and rude behavior that has become a part of our media society (whether left or right, blog, radio program or newsprint) is that it is dividing us even more as citizens of the United States and it is teaching our young people that this type of language and way of expressing yourself is OK. If this trend is allowed to continue, what will the next generation think is acceptable?
Just thumbed through the petition.
If Russ Steele is taking names, well so am I. It’s telling whose name is not on that list!!
Did Russ include my name too? LOL!
You’re on the LIST!
The online poll has a glitch. When I put in Nevada City it came up with North Columbia. Lot’s of North Columbia -
I agree with Cathy, although the nasty, in-your-face-confrontational aspect of dialogue and debate about areas of disagreemnt, IMO, has been growing since its formative years preceding the advent of the Internet and all the social media outlets it begat. As we all know, confrontational programing has grown in popularity over the last couple of decades. Even judge shows, the type originated by the mild mannered Judge Wopner, where he actually explained the law and the viewer could learn something, have been replaced by screamers like Judge Judy, usually exhibiting disdain and contempt for the litigants. Other judges are not as bad, but the litigants are allowed to fill the screaming, in-your-face void. And all the Jerry Springer type shows. The list goes on and on. As a former teacher, this type of behavior was all too common among a percentage of students, often depending upon the affluence of the district. Even a 12 year old, or so, kid in San Clemente, called me a Fu____g idiot, after I witnessed him kill a sea bird with his fishing pole–a federal offense–while walkng along the S.C. pier, cooling down after a run on the beach.
And this inbred “meism” has become part of that youngsters character, where whatever he does is OK, and being cautioned by an adult was justification to abuse me verbally in front of his friends. This meism is my favorite adjective to describe the present day right wing, controlling faction, of the Republican party. Whenever they talk about a policy, it really boils down to ‘what’s in it for me’.
These tea people and stubborn Republicans still advocating totally discredited economic theories like supply side, trickle down, Voodoo-isms,
simply refuse to abandon a theory akin to “the sun revolves around the earth”, because it, despite all of its flaws, is the only sound bite left to them in their efforts to justify their Republican economic meism.
And I see this guy, Mr. Light, yesterday, calling contributers on this blog, not lefties but Nazis, I can only respond that this Internet allows things to be said that probably the sayers of such insults wouldn’t have the nerve to say face-to-face; and that Mr. Light also is ignorant of what the Nazis were. In fact, the rhetoric and ideas put force by the right and posted on their blogs come much closer to the ideology he is talking about than anything I read in progressive forums. Reading the blogs of the triumvirate of Nevada Co.’s local proponents of right wing thinking, I feel like I’m back in 4th grade, out in the play ground, having a 4th grade level argument: “Can not”, “Can too”. But from these modern day Zealots I don’t expect much. Too bad they don’t find their own, modern day Masada where they can congregate and excite each other with extinct ideas.
It’s strange but I see the extreme right engaged in its final death throes. Kind of like if they scream louder, kick harder, double down on the reality show behavior that someone, somewhere might yank them from their angry black hole of irrelevance. It’s time has all but passed. I’ve been reading a lot about South Africa during the initial dismantling of the Afrikaners and apartheid. It wasn’t long ago. Like, the 80′s? Anyway, the extreme rw regime was dismantled and the upshot is everyone moved on. Life does. And there is nothing haters and extremists anywhere can do about that.
Kate
Cum se cum sa…
Much easier to track local businesses advertising on Facebook, 700 people can share responsibility. What’s the matter, do we really need to tolerate Rush because he’s bring attention to local businesses? What sort of value system works that way? Have you no thought as to the possible improvements that might replace Rush? And what it would say about the quality of life up here? If advertisers here need Rush, and only Rush, to sell, then maybe we’ve found a new class of “sluts.” Time to step outside the box, and look at the overall quality of life up here. Currently locals include Yuba River Massage, Hanson Brothers, Wells Fargo, Utopian Stone. Rush is getting ads from a Superpac supporting newt. IHOP also advertising on Rush. Raley’s and Barsotti’s carrot juice. Progressive Insurance, let KNCO play their own ads for their other shows. That’s OK by me.
BTW, the big boys have their toys for monitoring social networks:
“Hearsay Social provides the first comprehensive social media SaaS offering for brands with local branches and representatives. Hearsay Social helps these “corporate/local” organizations centrally measure, manage, and deploy content, compliance, monitoring, and analytics across corporate and local social media presences including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.”
http://www.theunion.com/
Vote at the Union about Rush show on KNCO. Scroll half way down.