Laura Ingraham off the air

[kpete]

Popular radio talk show host Laura Ingraham has been taken off the air with no explanation.

Laura's show is one of the top five most popular talk radio shows in the nation. Laura is a solid conservative voice on the air.

She is gone with no explanation. All anyone knows is that it is not her choice.

If radio networks can yank a conservative voice who is that popular, they can do it to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or anyone else.

Liberals are again agitating to shut down conservative talk radio. They have been pushing "diversity" regulations through the FCC to do just that. Taking out Laura Ingraham is just a step along the way toward shutting down conservative talk radio totally.

..........

Sincerely yours,

Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/13/10461/7541/645/535316

[MorningGlow]

1. Proof there is a god n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

14. I read here on DU that she was getting a faux TV show........

I'll go find a link.

Here's a link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3438281

[Robbien]

17. She leaves hate talk radio for cable TV and the right winger blogs rabidly

start blaming liberals for plotting to ruin their winger hate talk radio.

Is it any wonder they are called the rabid right?

[MorningGlow]

18. Well that sucks

I was afraid of that...

[brooklynite]

29. Doesn't fully explain why...

since Sean and O'Reilly are both able to double-dip.

[ashling]

20. er... Goddess?

:shrug:

[MorningGlow]

21. Hee hee

God, Goddess, all the same. How about "a Great Is"?

How you doin', dude? :hi:

[ashling]

26. Swamped with papers for grad school

but I guess it is a quagmire of my own design ... :shrug:
:hi:

[MorningGlow]

28. Applying, attending, or grading 'em? n/t

[ashling]

36. Writing

They should have all been turned in, but I got an extension due to some health issues ... and a modicum of procrastination.
:rofl:

[psychmommy]

38. and a lot of du.

there's been alot going on. the primaries, the dnc meeting. it's hard to keep up with everything. good luck. i would love to go back to school.

[ashling]

43. DU sort of falls under the procrastination category LOL

so I guess I had better get back to work.
:hi:

[MisterP]

46. how many pages?: I got 34 n/t

[ashling]

47. All together ....

roughly around 75 - 80 ... for the ones that I am working on now. I will have to get started on another paper in a couple of weeks and then I will be doing a workshop later this summer at the LBJ library in Austin.

suddenly I am feeling completely overwhelmed ... excuse me while I have a panic attack. LOL
:hurts::scared::hurts::scared::hurts::scared::hurts::scared:

[BlooInBloo]

2. What'd she say this time?

[hisownpetard]

3. This is beyond wonderful. I despise her almost as much as Ann Coulter. Great news!!

[Supersedeas]

12. Coulter is a caricature -- Horseface Ingram is legitimized by invitations to the WH

[Klukie]

4. I wonder if it had anything to do with her going to Faux News.....

I think I read that she may replace E.D. Hill.

[old guy]

11. My first thought also.

[ingac70]

19. Most that go to FAUX...

keep their radio shows.

[BurtWorm]

5. Wingnuts have benefited from corporate radio's affirmative action

unlike any other minority group in America. And they have the gall to cry about "diversity" rules.

[Iris]

23. I love how they act like "diversity" is a 4-letter road.

the knuckle-draggers

[bluestateguy]

6. The FCC is made up of majority Bush appointees

Yet this is somehow the "liberals" fault?

[YOY]

35. Everything is our fault to them.

They'll think of the most asinine s*** that Bush did and blame us. Lately the cracks have been showing though.

Constant griping about the "liberal media" when there IS NO MAINSTREAM LIBERAL MEDIA comes to mind always.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Where's Erickson's Proof That Liberals Did It?

First of all, little Erick, the 5th most popular talk show means that about 0.08% of the U.S. population listens. Simple economics would dictate that you could put on an automated music program and would have equal listnership with lower costs.

But, for all their bluster, the "red staters" really know almost nothing about business.
The Professor

[EstimatedProphet]

9. The proof is in the word "liberal"

Liberals are responsible for all things that are bad. From the Latin 'liber al' meaning ' bad thing'.

Liberals do all bad things, Comrade Snowball.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. LOL!

Good one, EP. I'm sure you're correct. Which of course, means that this idiot has got NOTHING!
GAC

[tridim]

34. Don't forget George Soros. He's apparently responsible for funding everything "Liberal"

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

8. Didn't laura indulge in some sort of voter suppression while

on the air. IIRC, she was agitating listeners to call and jam phone lines? First of all, that to me is a crime, which should have been investigated, and second of all, since her venom is always directed at the Dems, why wouldn't our side be fighting to get her removed. Red State is upset because we are fighting back, and they can't take it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

32. Yes, she did

I don't have a link, but I remember during the last GE, she encouraged her brain-dead listeners to call up the voter helpline and jam the phones. If that is not a crime, it should be; same as Limburger telling his dittoheads to cause a riot during the Dem Convention.

[maddezmom]

10. does it have anything to do with her new gig on Faux?

[Wabbajack_]

13. Contract dispute

[papau]

15. replaced by Monica Crowley as Fox gives her an hour at 5 pm - don't think liberals did this

[LeftinOH]

22. Is conservative talk radio even relevant? Who listens to radio?

...its soooooo 20th century ---seriously.

[lpbk2713]

24. The world is a better place with one less RW MM hatemonger.

There are several others to work on however. The Fairness Doctrine won't kick
in until we have an FCC that works for the people instead of for BushCo.

[daa]

25. She was taken off

because she was broke her contract and was secretly negotiating to take Hannity's place if he moves and it pissed her boss off.

[mmonk]

27. Excellent.

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. Good riddence, you hateful hag!

:woohoo:

Too bad we still have Rush, Insanity, O'Lielly, Coulter, Glenn Beck, etc. etc. But, hey, it's a start!

[Swamp Rat]

31. She'll be on TV and radio again soon.

We'll likely be seeing and hearing even more Laura Ingraham than before.

[cascadiance]

33. Hopefully that if she's on TV she'll get axed like Michael Savage did when he tried that!

[Swamp Rat]

48. Yeah, but she's a blonde.

:eyes:

[mzmolly]

37. I heard she's getting a TV show?

Perhaps they didn't like her searching for another job?

[Liberal Dose]

39. Time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine! nt

[KharmaTrain]

40. Report Was She Was Headed To Faux

This from ThinkProgress:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/13/laura-ingraham-tells-bill-oreilly-shes-been-forced-off-the-air/

On Tuesday, Fox News announced it will include right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham in “a rotating series of personalities” to host its 5:00 pm hour. Ingraham has more time to devote to TV, after apparently being forced off her radio show, at least temprorarily. Last week, she told fans on her website her absence from her radio show “is not of my choosing,” and gave further detail to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly last night:

This is interesting indeed. Ingraham was syndicated and paid by Salem Media...a rabid right wing hate talk purveyor. The big red flag points to money. Salem has been hitting hard times lately and may be trying to hardball Ingraham into a new, cheaper deal. Ratings of her show and of Salem stations in general have been abysmal and the company overpaid for properties that depreciate further by the day.

I can't see Ingraham being yanked for anything she says...but I did recall she was a pretty solid Romney supporter at one point and took some wicked shots at Gramps.

As always...stay tuned.

:popcorn:

[Liberal In Texas]

41. Gosh, if we liberals have that much power, lets get rid of Rush...

Limpballs
Sean Hannity
Michael Savage
Neal Boortz
Michael Medved
Bill O'Reilly
G. Gordon Liddy
Dennis Miller
Michael Reagan
Glenn Beck
And a whole host of local wannabes

Oh, and while we're at it, Lionel. Just because I can't stand him.

[Puzzler]

42. The fairness doctrine is not about...

... shutting Limpballs and Hannity down, it's about letting the other side be easily heard. "Heard" means in national syndication. So when you go to some small town in Kansas, you can just as easily hear progressive talk radio as you can the right wing drivel.

[calimary]

44. Sigh... you'd think having faced that bout with cancer would have made her a better person.

But unfortunately, she returned to the airwaves as every bit as bad a snot-nosed, snark-assed, mean-spirited female putz as ever.

Not sure what's going on here. Here's a bit of what the website www.laradio.com had to say a few days ago:


(snip)


Hannity’s Potential Syndication Move
May Have Domino Effect

(June 11, 2008) Earlier this year, Charlie Rahilly, president of Premiere Radio Networks, was seen having lunch with Farid Suleman, president/ceo of Citadel Broadcasting. The luncheon was reportedly instigated by Suleman. Farid was having money woes. Citadel’s loss of over $850 million in one quarter hadn’t been announced yet. Since Citadel purchased ABC Radio, Farid has had his financial challenges. His primary syndicated talk show host is Sean Hannity, whose contract was up for renewal on June 13, 2008. Suleman was having trouble paying what Hannity wanted in a new deal, a raise from $5 million a year to something closer to Rush Limbaugh’s annual salary of $30 million plus a signing bonus. The luncheon was to discuss a possible partnership between Citadel and Premiere to syndicate Hannity. Well apparently the partnership conversations are done. Look for an announcement between now and Friday that Hannity is ending his association with his ABC syndicator and will be part of a three-way deal, which may include the ABC Radio Networks.

If all of this comes down in the next 48 hours, you might think that the listener will be unaffected and that Sean will continue at KABC in his noon – 3 p.m. slot. Not so fast. Insiders say there is a memo from Farid instructing all Citadel stations to make other arrangements if the company loses syndication rights to Hannity. If the three-way deal, or some variation of it, becomes reality, his show on KABC and other Citadel stations will be unaffected. If the deal falls through there are various scenarios for KABC including Al Rantel moving to Hannity's slot and re-hiring Mr. KABC for early evening. Or maybe an outsider?

With all of this behind the scenes turmoil, is Laura Ingraham (l) attempting to take advantage of the syndication shuffle? Laura’s syndicated show is heard in morning drive at KRLA (870 AM), at least it was until last week. She has apparently disappeared from the conservative talk station. Last weekend, Laura was at a radio industry function, the “2008 New Media Seminar,” picking up the “Judy Jarvis Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Woman to Talk Radio” award. She thanked Talk Radio Network, her syndicator, and the boss Mark Masters, “…for believing in my radio vision five years ago when few others did.” Laura posted a notice to her listeners, but it has since been taken down: “Due to contractual obligations, for the present time I am unable to reveal why I am not currently hosting The Laura Ingraham Show. Rest assured, this absence is not of my choosing, nor is it health or family-related. I am ready, willing and eager to continue the conversation we started seven years ago about politics and the culture. (Heck, if cancer couldn’t keep me off the airwaves for long, nothing will.)" Meanwhile, Laura has stepped up her tv appearances, so is she angling for a Cable TV show? The Fox News Channel will utilize a rotating series of hosts on a rotating basis, including Laura. She will be auditioning on Fox TV beginning Monday afternoon. Or will she go with another radio syndicator? Or is she on stand-by to replace Sean Hannity at all the Citadel stations? Did TRN get upset with Laura when they heard she was secretly negotiating with Citadel-ABC? Or was she? Tammy Bruce was filling in for Laura earlier this week. This morning Doug Urbanski was the fill-in host. KRLA promo says: "Laura will be back soon."

Late last night, the RadioEqualizer blog is reporting that Sean Hannity's radio show will be taken over by a unique, three-way partnership that includes current syndicator ABC Radio Networks, Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks division and Hannity himself. “As part of this highly unusual deal, Hannity will remain on Citadel- ABC Radio's stations, a development that probably brings a sigh of relief to program directors across the country,” according to Brian Maloney, writer of the RadioEqualizer blog. Citadel shares closed at $1.60 yesterday, down three cents.

You have to subscribe to this one - www.laradio.com, but if you're at all interested in Los Angeles radio people or events or news, this is the site of record. Highly recommended by calimary.

[specimenfred1984]

45. She call Hillary a whore? That'd be good for 900 recs around here

Ka-Ching!

[warren pease]

49. Too bad the fact that she's stark raving mad and sheds her skin like a lizard every year...

...probably didn't have anything to do with it. If they kicked every wingnut loon off the radio, there'd be the worst case of dead air since the 18 1/2 minute gap on that Nixon tape.


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