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Date Posted: 17:30:10 02/21/09 Sat
Author: No name
Subject: Re: And they should be worrying
In reply to: fraud squad 's message, "And they should be worrying" on 11:53:43 11/06/08 Thu

>Right-wing radio hosts bracing for Barack Obama victory
>By DAVID HINCKLEY
>DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
>
>Thursday, October 30th 2008, 4:31 PM
>
>With the presidential election days away, the talking
>heads of right-wing talk radio are mood-swinging
>between anxiety over a potential winner they despise
>and hope that the polls and pundits have got it wrong.
>
>But the enthusiasm gap for John McCain afflicts some
>of the hosts as well.
>
>RELATED CANDIDATES' 4th QUARTER AUDIBLE
>Michael Savage, heard nightly on WOR (710 AM),
>announced Wednesday night that he was endorsing
>McCain, "even though he�s almost as bad as [GEORGE
>W.]Bush," because "we can�t afford to elect a radical
>Marxist like Barack Hussein Obama."
>
>His sense of obligation won out, Savage proclaimed
>dramatically: "My endorsement could change the
>election and help save America."
>
>Savage also has offered a few ideas that could
>expedite that process. "People on welfare shouldn�t be
>allowed to vote," he said. "They�ll only vote
>themselves a raise."
>
>That�s Savage being Savage. But at the same hour on
>WABC (770 AM), host Mark Levin bemoaned the potential
>election of a "socialist" who would "take away our
>freedoms" and end America as we know it.
>
>RELATED BARACK OBAMA GOES PRIMETIME
>"Sometimes I feel like I�m talking to myself," said
>Levin, who has also ripped McCain, but endorsed him
>after the Sarah Palin selection. "We need to do
>something."
>
>Earlier on WABC, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) warned
>Sean Hannity ominously that a President Obama "would
>knock guys like you off the air."
>
>Hannity himself has been repeatedly charged that we
>don�t know if Obama was really born in Hawaii and thus
>is really a citizen.
>
>That hosts like Hannity give voice to some of the
>wilder Internet-fed rumors offends at least one local
>program director, Rennie Bishop of WWRL (1600 AM), the
>local outlet of the liberal Air America network.
>
>"Talk radio now isn�t about issues, it�s about
>flame-throwing," says Bishop. "They�re just throwing
>anything out, no matter how pointless or baseless, to
>see if it will stick."
>
>Talk radio � or at least the 90% that sees itself as a
>proud outpost of traditional American values on a
>hostile liberal mediascape � has seen the McCain
>campaign as catch-up from the start.
>
>But veteran Republican cheerleaders like Hannity and
>Rush Limbaugh are not going to throw in the towel in
>the closing days. Each day they cherry-pick the polls,
>or parts of polls, that can support the argument that
>the race is close and McCain can pull it out.
funny how things worked out

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