Is their super cool president a homosexual? Are the persistent rumors true? Is Barack Hussein Obama gay?
If so, that means the Obamas have been lying to We the People since BHO entered politics in Chicago in 1997, and Barack and Michelle rose to the White House by “deceit and flatteries”.
I recall that early on in his first presidential campaign he firmly stated, 'That marriage is between a man and a woman'. Everyone on the left 'winked' at each other.
That means the Obamas have been lying to We the People since BHO entered politics in Chicago in 1997, and Barack and Michelle rose to the White House by “deceit and flatteries”.
President Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday (7/22/2025): "there is irrefutable proof that shows Obama is guilty of treason".
Trump cited a report from Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, that provided evidence of a plot by former President Barack Obama with former FBI Director James Comey, former DNI James Clapper, and John Brennan, former director of the CIA.
'The leader of the gang was Barack Hussein Obama. He's guilty. This was treason.' The president made the comments Tuesday morning while answering reporters' questions.
"They caught President Obama absolutely cold," said Trump. What they did to this country, starting in 2016, but going up all the way, going up to 2020 and the election, they tried to rig the election. And they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that."
In a recent Michelle Obama podcast, she referred to herself as a man. And in older Barack Obama speeches, he referred to Michelle as "Michael." I will say this: if she is a trans woman, she has done a good job of it.
In harnessing some basic liner logic; "if she is a trans woman", how and where do their two daughters fit in? The two Obama daughters would HAVE to be in on the scam.
In my world, whether you give one or take one, you are one.
Obama was a product of radical Left politics from the gitgo, especially from the day he entered Chicago politics to the lies about his birthplace and the cobbled certificate, as good as a Harvard Magna Cum Laude. It’s all out there with certainty now. Are we still moaning about water over the dam? Please !
It was one more crazy tragic drift in the race to the roundabout of the Fourth Turning. But it served cause for some important distinctions to be made in the dreamy complacency of popular misconceptions. The deep hatred for our Republic and the imperfect ancestors who made it possible for us to get here, be here, and grow here has revived a sense of reality that could help us make some important decisions about who else should be here, how they mix with our law and order Constitutional Republic, with ethnic sensibilities always a work in progress. And, how secure are we with them in our midst, as they contribute to the common good, or not?
I digress:
Foreigners should not be given the same ownership rights as full citizens. Owning a lease with conditions in favor of our nation are acceptable, but not this quasi -immunity status they think they deserve. They should be subject to unannounced inspections, reviews of status, audits of books with no delays, no conditions, no objections.
Otherwise, the way the Uniparty has been handling business, they’ll have an undocumented immigrant, (illegal alien* — Barry birther, anyone? ) on the ticket, with both bird fingers up telling us it’s a new Red Day in America — ‘Roll Red Tide’ — and low info voters will think it’s an adopted Alabama Patriot from Redstone Arsenal. (Slam dunk if they vow support for Israel.) But this time, in spite of an across the border sneak, that birth certificate will be a masterpiece of civil engineering. And very clever. (Anyway, who would know with no records from clandestine entry?) Move on. Nothing to see here.
Fiction doesn’t seem as far-side as it once did, does it?
Yeah, Colbert was not fired because he was anti-Trump, he was kept around (in spite of being terminally unfunny) because of it.
The immediate cause for his firing was his on-air trashing of CBS for settling its lawsuit with Trump. He embarrassed the guys in the suits and three days later got shit-canned for it. How come nobody mentions this?
Mostly because he was an unfunny, expendable and way too expensive loser, who also managed to piss them off - which makes him incredibly stupid as well.
Those who are rallying around him is only because they all see the same axe headed for them.
Not to mention his show was supposedly losing $40MM+ every year. The entertainment industry is notorious for its "flexibility" as long as you are making money. CBS would likely not have cared if his show was doing well.
Now ban pharmaceutical ads from TV and that will destroy the main source of revenue for lame stream media/fake news networks. They'll either go out of business or change the way they do things to attract more viewers from all of the U.S.
My understanding is that only the US and New Zealand allow public pharmaceutical advertising. No where else in the world. Don't forget to "ask your doctor" about the latest eye drop for dryness that MAY also cause you to be so depressed you'll throw yourself out a window, and about two dozen other side effects that are amazingly worse than the condition you're treating.
He wasn't fired, his contract was not renewed. The show will be on until next year and no one is replacing Colbert - the show is going to be taken off the air and replaced with something else. The fact is that the audience for all these late night shows is old (average age of the Colbert audience is 68, according to Matt Walsh) and dwindling rapidly. There's no reason to keep broadcasting programs that few people want to watch, and Colbert certainly falls into this category.
Sorry, not renewing his contract=fired. Yes, Colbert's ratings sucked, but they did for years, and CBS stuck with him. But a few intemperate words about management got him canned. End of story.
It wasn't entirely a "black hole"... Colbert was a thorn in Trump's side, and that provided a certain sort of value for CBS.. until Colbert's on-air attack on management instantly made him expendable...
But See-BS is keeping him on the air for the duration. The Mouse, OTOH, would have cut him a check and cut their losses and he would have long since been off the air.
There was a disc jockey (Moby) in ATL that management (which, coincidentally, happened to be See-BS!) wanted to fire; but instead of cutting him a check and letting him serve out his noncompete, relegated him to traffic reports.
Frankly, I'm surprised See-BS didn't go the Disney route, or relegate Colbert to some other role if his contract had let him. Maybe Colbert's contract didn't allow for that.
the demographics have changed. People don't stay up waiting on the Carson monologue anymore. If they are up at all, they have one eye on the computer as they watch. half an interest in the actual program.
What Jack Paar created, and Carson perfected, these idiots murdered.
Precisely: "What Jack Paar created, and Carson perfected, these idiots murdered." And anyone staying up late and watching these idiots, does not have to get up and go to work.
“What Jack Paar created, and Carson perfected, these idiots murdered.” I may steal this. It says it all.
I thought of Paar last night…caught myself laughing out loud remembering the water-closet joke. It’s reported that Paar generated annual advertising sales as high as $15 million in 1960’s (equivalent to $156 million in 2024).
Does anyone remember Steve Allen's late night show? My goodness, I still laugh to myself remembering his UNFORGETTABLE sketches and banter. The guy was a genius.
Colbert was SUCH a disappointment on CBS. I couldn't believe how unfunny he was from the outset. I haven't watched a late night show in a LONG time, except for Johnny Carson reruns. Surprisingly, they still hold up as entertainment!
Yes, Bernadette, so true. Based on his brilliant work on The Colbert Report, I expected him to be the second coming of Johnny Carson... But he was a boring, unfunny flop from the get go.
It’s a numbers game. Advertisers look for numbers. If the numbers aren’t there, they take their dollars and go elsewhere. The mother ship—in this case CBS—then pulls the plug. But yeah, Trump did it.
If Stephen Colbert earned a firing, Jimmy Kimmel deserves to be drawn and quartered, for viciously going-off on parents who declined vaccinations for their kids by exercising the right to informed consent.
His first son had a serious medical issue, so I believe he saw any disease as a threat to the health of his son. In my opinion, that's why he took such a hard-line on parents who didn't vaccinate their kids. He mocked, demeaned them, which I think goes to mean streak in his character.
If Steve Colbert’s Late Night was the highest rated program on CBS maybe the entire network should just put up a For Sale sign. What a wreck of a network! Wow.
It really is just clinging on for dear life. No one under 20, maybe even 30, watches any of it - they’re all online, streaming or playing games. Many 16 year olds have never watched any TV since they were babies watching cartoons.
This would be tantamount to old (55+) conservatives thinking Soros* has ulterior motives taking a conservative talk show host off the air from an Audacy-owned non-clear-channel AM station because Audacy wants to sell the transmitter site to a developer because the AM station hasn't made a nickel in years.
Sometimes--oftentimes--the financial math simply doesn't work. The BlueAnon crowd really needs to give their arguments a clean, close, comfortable shave with Occam's Razor.
And before someone @'s me for saying 55 is old, the oldest demo that radio marketers care about is 25-54.
Conservative AM radio is actually profitable, perhaps the most profitable market for that venue. Soros knows that and thus wants to water it down and eventually decapitate it.
There are a lot of marginal AM radio stations that are turning in their licenses or piggybacking on someone else's tower and going daytime only because the land is worth more than the station, especially if they have a multitower directional signal. Others are basically still on the air with a tiny signal just to support an FM simulcast (translator), thanks to an FCC loophole.
Most folks have migrated to online feeds versus listening to AM, especially if the AM is a noisy <=5000W station.
Heck, a 50,000W day/1000W night AM station in Atlanta--owned by iHeart, which also owns Premiere Networks which syndicates a lot of conservative radio, including Rush back in the day--threw in the towel on conservative talk because the signal was so bad.
Nightly anti-Trump network propaganda was and is pumped into our homes — all while the Obama-Comey-Brennan-Rice people spent the last 9-years telling us the Russians got Trump elected because of a few Facebook posts.
It’s been reported that CBS was losing $50 million a year on the show. You have to wonder if there’s any number that would justify the closure and not result in blaming Trump?
Clearly Stewart, the king of snark, has found himself becoming increasingly irrelevant and feels it necessary to latch back on to the anti-Trump parade.
Sadly, there are no more Carsons out there, and the best these clowns can muster is a pathetic anti-Trump shtick that appeals to an ever diminishing minority…(which, of course, is all Trump’s fault)
Gutfeld should take the slot and expand to two plus hours nightly. Maybe after Murdoch gets his ass kicked in a Trump lawsuit he'll get serious about making money. Gutfeld is the number one rated show on FOX and he has no competition.
Maybe network Fox can air Gutfeld! instead of cable Fox? Would give it a much wider audience. He's already beating all the other late night shows, yet cable Fox only reaches 61 million households while network TV reaches all Americans. He gets 3 million viewers a night. Gutfeld! is always hilarious and has an infinitely smaller budget than Colbert.
So witty and has eclectic guests who are always interesting and funny, not just actors pushing their latest movies. I hope Fox resists any urges to tinker with Gutfeld because its kind of perfect as it is!
The Ruthless Podcast was introduced to me and many others by Megyn Kelly, and Megyn and “the fellas” appear on each other's podcasts often. Ruthless is available on YouTube and various podcast platforms. I’m not as big a fan of Ruthless as I am of others, but it's quite influential in the conservative community. The only podcast I ALWAYS listen to is Scott Adams (Dilbert creator). It's an addiction for me.
Deb, I note you describe yourself as MAGA. Scott Adams started predicting Trump's victory in 2015, and he's a huge fan. You might like him, especially if you like irony.
I have followed Scott for a number of years. The only thing I watch religiously is X22. I'm a big Q fan and love the puzzle and clues. I've followed the strategy presented for eight years and it's very predictive.
If a podcast is an audio programme that you subscribe to and listen to whenever you like, then yes X22 is a podcast. Although you can also choose the video version. There is a Financial which is dealing with the parallel economy and the end of the private bank known as the Federal Reserve. And one that is geopolitical. The political is most popular. It's free.
For years I lived without a TV because I didn't want to pay for cable and the reception in my building was terrible. I cringed when I saw that tv show with Obama on it. I wonder if my view of the world would be different if I had had access to television. For instance, I've never seen "The Apprentice."
Hold onto that. It adds to your identity. I have a friend who has never tasted Coca ~Cola. I've never owned a cell phone. Not everyone wants to be copied.
Kaitlan Collins is on CNN, and I can't stand her either. I love the way Trump called her a "nasty character" or something like that. She's a soulless leftist with no principles at all. The Five's token lefty is Jessica Tarlov. Unlike Kaitlan, she has a conscience even though I often disagree with her. Jessica can have respectful conversations with conservatives one-on-one. She gets along well with Guy Benson, for example.
I can't stand Kaitlan Collins. I would watch the show if they didn't need a lone liberal to defend the indefensible. Greg is funny on the Five, but the Gutfeld Show has comedy and comedians as guests. I often laugh till I'm crying and it's great to go to sleep on.
BTW…re: above comments on NPR…they’ve claimed something along the lines that we “rural” folks would be lost without them…hello! We have satellite, cell phones, books, beautiful views…who needs NPR?
My mom and her entire family were born in AR. My mom came to CA during the war & worked at Mare Island where she met my dad. Of course, she had an accent. My dad, born in CA, was a fierce reader and had read The Grapes of Wrath. My dad asked my mom out. He suggested how she should dress. My mom asked, "Do you want me to also wear shoes?" He said, "Uh...uh.... yes." He was taken aback when my mom stepped out wearing stunning clothes and an expensive coat she had brought from AR. I laugh every time I think of it.
Yes, but get this. Early on, they would go out with another couple. Of course, my mom had a southern accent. She had said something and the other man asked my dad, "What did she say?" My dad said, "Hell....I don't know."
My mom was FOREVER trying to get rid of her accent. I LOVE southern accents, so I was disappointed.
OMG. Well, I grew up in the PNW and then worked all over the place. I talked very fast, so often people would ask if I came from NYC!!! But, my original NW WA accent had a bit of a Canadian accent to it, since I lived 5 miles from the border and spent a lot of time there. When we moved to NW FL about 20 years ago, I went to a gun show and was talking to a guy who made jams (yeah…) and he commented that I was losing my accent! So, I guess I was acquiring one! Not much. But, I have to say that living on the FL/AL border….there are a few old timers, like our plumber, with such heavy Alabama accent that it’s hard to understand him. But, I love the Southern gracious, affectionate, friendly….and I’m old enough that everyone under 50 calls me “sweetheart” or “honey”. That’s a “no no” in the East and West, but it’s fun and endearing here. It’s meant to be kind AND respectful. As well…as Miss (first name) as a respectful way of “informally” addressing someone but still showing respect.
"Colbert was funny once, back when he played a pompous TV host who took himself too seriously. Not so funny when he became one"
That's the kind of pithy, true, and incisive turn of phrase I subscribe to Sasha for.
And also “Late-night comedy has become like the Bates Motel in Psycho - no customers once the interstate was built.”
Jesus, as a carpenter, could not have hit that nail more squarely on the head than did Sasha.
I totally agree! Just get excited in anticipation when I see a new Sasha post because I know a silent WOW is coming for me.
Is their super cool president a homosexual? Are the persistent rumors true? Is Barack Hussein Obama gay?
If so, that means the Obamas have been lying to We the People since BHO entered politics in Chicago in 1997, and Barack and Michelle rose to the White House by “deceit and flatteries”.
I recall that early on in his first presidential campaign he firmly stated, 'That marriage is between a man and a woman'. Everyone on the left 'winked' at each other.
That means the Obamas have been lying to We the People since BHO entered politics in Chicago in 1997, and Barack and Michelle rose to the White House by “deceit and flatteries”.
President Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday (7/22/2025): "there is irrefutable proof that shows Obama is guilty of treason".
Trump cited a report from Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, that provided evidence of a plot by former President Barack Obama with former FBI Director James Comey, former DNI James Clapper, and John Brennan, former director of the CIA.
'The leader of the gang was Barack Hussein Obama. He's guilty. This was treason.' The president made the comments Tuesday morning while answering reporters' questions.
https://x.com/theblaze/status/1947687293545832856
"They caught President Obama absolutely cold," said Trump. What they did to this country, starting in 2016, but going up all the way, going up to 2020 and the election, they tried to rig the election. And they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that."
Seems to me the more important question: is Michelle a tranny?
In a recent Michelle Obama podcast, she referred to herself as a man. And in older Barack Obama speeches, he referred to Michelle as "Michael." I will say this: if she is a trans woman, she has done a good job of it.
In harnessing some basic liner logic; "if she is a trans woman", how and where do their two daughters fit in? The two Obama daughters would HAVE to be in on the scam.
Yes indeed. The two daughters were adopted.
They were adopted. Fact. Yes they are part of the scam.
Perhaps Sasha Stone would post a Substack on the alleged scam. Sasha would be a very reliable source on the alleged "scam".
Indeed.
His ex gf said he told her he fantasized sucking a bone, therefore a bone buzzer.
In my world, whether you give one or take one, you are one.
Obama was a product of radical Left politics from the gitgo, especially from the day he entered Chicago politics to the lies about his birthplace and the cobbled certificate, as good as a Harvard Magna Cum Laude. It’s all out there with certainty now. Are we still moaning about water over the dam? Please !
It was one more crazy tragic drift in the race to the roundabout of the Fourth Turning. But it served cause for some important distinctions to be made in the dreamy complacency of popular misconceptions. The deep hatred for our Republic and the imperfect ancestors who made it possible for us to get here, be here, and grow here has revived a sense of reality that could help us make some important decisions about who else should be here, how they mix with our law and order Constitutional Republic, with ethnic sensibilities always a work in progress. And, how secure are we with them in our midst, as they contribute to the common good, or not?
I digress:
Foreigners should not be given the same ownership rights as full citizens. Owning a lease with conditions in favor of our nation are acceptable, but not this quasi -immunity status they think they deserve. They should be subject to unannounced inspections, reviews of status, audits of books with no delays, no conditions, no objections.
Otherwise, the way the Uniparty has been handling business, they’ll have an undocumented immigrant, (illegal alien* — Barry birther, anyone? ) on the ticket, with both bird fingers up telling us it’s a new Red Day in America — ‘Roll Red Tide’ — and low info voters will think it’s an adopted Alabama Patriot from Redstone Arsenal. (Slam dunk if they vow support for Israel.) But this time, in spite of an across the border sneak, that birth certificate will be a masterpiece of civil engineering. And very clever. (Anyway, who would know with no records from clandestine entry?) Move on. Nothing to see here.
Fiction doesn’t seem as far-side as it once did, does it?
SAME!!!! Hers is the ONLY opinion/commentary I give my hard earned money to. Well worth it.
Yeah, Colbert was not fired because he was anti-Trump, he was kept around (in spite of being terminally unfunny) because of it.
The immediate cause for his firing was his on-air trashing of CBS for settling its lawsuit with Trump. He embarrassed the guys in the suits and three days later got shit-canned for it. How come nobody mentions this?
Publicly trash the boss. Expect a pink slip.
Publicly trash middle America, MAGA, and pay attention. A pink slip RIF will mean more than moving on. Karma and consequences equal payback.
Mostly because he was an unfunny, expendable and way too expensive loser, who also managed to piss them off - which makes him incredibly stupid as well.
Those who are rallying around him is only because they all see the same axe headed for them.
Not to mention his show was supposedly losing $40MM+ every year. The entertainment industry is notorious for its "flexibility" as long as you are making money. CBS would likely not have cared if his show was doing well.
Now ban pharmaceutical ads from TV and that will destroy the main source of revenue for lame stream media/fake news networks. They'll either go out of business or change the way they do things to attract more viewers from all of the U.S.
My understanding is that only the US and New Zealand allow public pharmaceutical advertising. No where else in the world. Don't forget to "ask your doctor" about the latest eye drop for dryness that MAY also cause you to be so depressed you'll throw yourself out a window, and about two dozen other side effects that are amazingly worse than the condition you're treating.
almost all medications have side effects. but keep whining.
pharma ads account for about 10% of total TV ad spending. so, yeah, there is that. but don't let pesky facts stand in your way.
He wasn't fired, his contract was not renewed. The show will be on until next year and no one is replacing Colbert - the show is going to be taken off the air and replaced with something else. The fact is that the audience for all these late night shows is old (average age of the Colbert audience is 68, according to Matt Walsh) and dwindling rapidly. There's no reason to keep broadcasting programs that few people want to watch, and Colbert certainly falls into this category.
Sorry, not renewing his contract=fired. Yes, Colbert's ratings sucked, but they did for years, and CBS stuck with him. But a few intemperate words about management got him canned. End of story.
How long would you keep shoveling money into a black hole?
It wasn't entirely a "black hole"... Colbert was a thorn in Trump's side, and that provided a certain sort of value for CBS.. until Colbert's on-air attack on management instantly made him expendable...
They told his agent they were not renewing the contract two weeks before Colbert attacked his bosses.
Sorry, not renewing his contract=/= fired.
Matt Walsh is incorrect. He has no source for that number. The median could, though, be 68 or thereabouts.
But See-BS is keeping him on the air for the duration. The Mouse, OTOH, would have cut him a check and cut their losses and he would have long since been off the air.
There was a disc jockey (Moby) in ATL that management (which, coincidentally, happened to be See-BS!) wanted to fire; but instead of cutting him a check and letting him serve out his noncompete, relegated him to traffic reports.
Frankly, I'm surprised See-BS didn't go the Disney route, or relegate Colbert to some other role if his contract had let him. Maybe Colbert's contract didn't allow for that.
"embarrassed the guys in the suits"
They have thicker skin than that.
Only as long as they are making money. No money, no time slot.
the demographics have changed. People don't stay up waiting on the Carson monologue anymore. If they are up at all, they have one eye on the computer as they watch. half an interest in the actual program.
What Jack Paar created, and Carson perfected, these idiots murdered.
Precisely: "What Jack Paar created, and Carson perfected, these idiots murdered." And anyone staying up late and watching these idiots, does not have to get up and go to work.
Exactly. I will watch Instagram reels of Rodney Dangerfield doing panel on Carson a million times before I ever watch the current douchbag shows.
Laugh out loud. Sinatra, Don Rickles on Johnny Carson, circa 1976
https://youtu.be/q5_V9RT8aR8?si=QLy9ojGQYUbqyfAr
They only have to get up in time to watch "The View."
“What Jack Paar created, and Carson perfected, these idiots murdered.” I may steal this. It says it all.
I thought of Paar last night…caught myself laughing out loud remembering the water-closet joke. It’s reported that Paar generated annual advertising sales as high as $15 million in 1960’s (equivalent to $156 million in 2024).
Does anyone remember Steve Allen's late night show? My goodness, I still laugh to myself remembering his UNFORGETTABLE sketches and banter. The guy was a genius.
Paar had fascinating guests like Alexander King (look him up). Colbert… not so much.
Colbert feels entitled to an eternal platform no matter how much money he loses. It's the same entitlement that exists at NPR.
These Orwellians claim that they are wronged if the people they hate are NOT forced to subsidize them.
I sure don’t miss NPR.
Love this!
Sasha has become my required reading. Sharp and honest commentary. Keep it up!
Colbert was SUCH a disappointment on CBS. I couldn't believe how unfunny he was from the outset. I haven't watched a late night show in a LONG time, except for Johnny Carson reruns. Surprisingly, they still hold up as entertainment!
Yes, Bernadette, so true. Based on his brilliant work on The Colbert Report, I expected him to be the second coming of Johnny Carson... But he was a boring, unfunny flop from the get go.
No Letterman?
The left thinks that simply because it controls culture, it can dictate what people like.
And I hope they keep thinking that. It makes them look irrelevant and desperate. But it is funny to watch them flail.
The hubris of the utopian left is a sight to behold.
They honestly think if they put enough fat, unattractive female characters in video games they will change male preferences.
Utopian is an apt description. I use it to as a pejorative to describe the lefties.
His show was losing $40 million a year. I have to ask, how does it cost that much to produce a show? Good riddance!
It’s a numbers game. Advertisers look for numbers. If the numbers aren’t there, they take their dollars and go elsewhere. The mother ship—in this case CBS—then pulls the plug. But yeah, Trump did it.
You have no evidence that Trump "did" anything to get Colbert fired. Colbert fired himself by trashing management on air.
I was being sarcastic! Of course, Trump didn't do it!
These days, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the sarcastic from the real...
I think that was sarcasm?
He had a $100m budget.
I know! Ridiculous!
Sasha, spot on. Get rid of these sanctimonious, condescending clowns. Time for a new crop, with fresh thought and no more hive mind for the dems.
Terrific, Sasha! I never watched Colbert, and I'm still delighted he's going, going, gone.
If Stephen Colbert earned a firing, Jimmy Kimmel deserves to be drawn and quartered, for viciously going-off on parents who declined vaccinations for their kids by exercising the right to informed consent.
Kimmel was funny on the Man show with Adam Corolla. What ruined him I wonder?
His first son had a serious medical issue, so I believe he saw any disease as a threat to the health of his son. In my opinion, that's why he took such a hard-line on parents who didn't vaccinate their kids. He mocked, demeaned them, which I think goes to mean streak in his character.
If Steve Colbert’s Late Night was the highest rated program on CBS maybe the entire network should just put up a For Sale sign. What a wreck of a network! Wow.
Well, Paramount IS selling out to Skydance.
Of course, the rest of Big Media is trying to figure out to do with linear TV--both OTA and cable. Warner is looking at getting out and so is Comcast.
It really is just clinging on for dear life. No one under 20, maybe even 30, watches any of it - they’re all online, streaming or playing games. Many 16 year olds have never watched any TV since they were babies watching cartoons.
Their demographic is dying off.
This would be tantamount to old (55+) conservatives thinking Soros* has ulterior motives taking a conservative talk show host off the air from an Audacy-owned non-clear-channel AM station because Audacy wants to sell the transmitter site to a developer because the AM station hasn't made a nickel in years.
Sometimes--oftentimes--the financial math simply doesn't work. The BlueAnon crowd really needs to give their arguments a clean, close, comfortable shave with Occam's Razor.
And before someone @'s me for saying 55 is old, the oldest demo that radio marketers care about is 25-54.
*For reference: https://www.insideradio.com/free/george-soros-415-million-stake-in-audacy-is-billionaires-latest-radio-gambit/article_3767b086-cbd7-11ee-9fd0-571cfd16e80a.html
Conservative AM radio is actually profitable, perhaps the most profitable market for that venue. Soros knows that and thus wants to water it down and eventually decapitate it.
The effects are already notable.
There are a lot of marginal AM radio stations that are turning in their licenses or piggybacking on someone else's tower and going daytime only because the land is worth more than the station, especially if they have a multitower directional signal. Others are basically still on the air with a tiny signal just to support an FM simulcast (translator), thanks to an FCC loophole.
Most folks have migrated to online feeds versus listening to AM, especially if the AM is a noisy <=5000W station.
Heck, a 50,000W day/1000W night AM station in Atlanta--owned by iHeart, which also owns Premiere Networks which syndicates a lot of conservative radio, including Rush back in the day--threw in the towel on conservative talk because the signal was so bad.
So if I listen to 710 WOR on my iHeart app on my iphone am I still listening to am?
Nightly anti-Trump network propaganda was and is pumped into our homes — all while the Obama-Comey-Brennan-Rice people spent the last 9-years telling us the Russians got Trump elected because of a few Facebook posts.
It’s been reported that CBS was losing $50 million a year on the show. You have to wonder if there’s any number that would justify the closure and not result in blaming Trump?
Clearly Stewart, the king of snark, has found himself becoming increasingly irrelevant and feels it necessary to latch back on to the anti-Trump parade.
Sadly, there are no more Carsons out there, and the best these clowns can muster is a pathetic anti-Trump shtick that appeals to an ever diminishing minority…(which, of course, is all Trump’s fault)
In answer to your first question: no. BTW, my ice machine is broken, and I think it's Trump's fault. :)
Gutfeld should take the slot and expand to two plus hours nightly. Maybe after Murdoch gets his ass kicked in a Trump lawsuit he'll get serious about making money. Gutfeld is the number one rated show on FOX and he has no competition.
Maybe network Fox can air Gutfeld! instead of cable Fox? Would give it a much wider audience. He's already beating all the other late night shows, yet cable Fox only reaches 61 million households while network TV reaches all Americans. He gets 3 million viewers a night. Gutfeld! is always hilarious and has an infinitely smaller budget than Colbert.
So witty and has eclectic guests who are always interesting and funny, not just actors pushing their latest movies. I hope Fox resists any urges to tinker with Gutfeld because its kind of perfect as it is!
Ruthless has expanded from 2 to 3 per week, so I mean....😂
Are you referring to the tv show or the panel discussion? I don't watch tv and hate to miss your joke. 🤷
The Ruthless Podcast was introduced to me and many others by Megyn Kelly, and Megyn and “the fellas” appear on each other's podcasts often. Ruthless is available on YouTube and various podcast platforms. I’m not as big a fan of Ruthless as I am of others, but it's quite influential in the conservative community. The only podcast I ALWAYS listen to is Scott Adams (Dilbert creator). It's an addiction for me.
Deb, I note you describe yourself as MAGA. Scott Adams started predicting Trump's victory in 2015, and he's a huge fan. You might like him, especially if you like irony.
I have followed Scott for a number of years. The only thing I watch religiously is X22. I'm a big Q fan and love the puzzle and clues. I've followed the strategy presented for eight years and it's very predictive.
Is X22 a podcast?
If a podcast is an audio programme that you subscribe to and listen to whenever you like, then yes X22 is a podcast. Although you can also choose the video version. There is a Financial which is dealing with the parallel economy and the end of the private bank known as the Federal Reserve. And one that is geopolitical. The political is most popular. It's free.
For years I lived without a TV because I didn't want to pay for cable and the reception in my building was terrible. I cringed when I saw that tv show with Obama on it. I wonder if my view of the world would be different if I had had access to television. For instance, I've never seen "The Apprentice."
Hold onto that. It adds to your identity. I have a friend who has never tasted Coca ~Cola. I've never owned a cell phone. Not everyone wants to be copied.
Kaitlan Collins is on CNN, and I can't stand her either. I love the way Trump called her a "nasty character" or something like that. She's a soulless leftist with no principles at all. The Five's token lefty is Jessica Tarlov. Unlike Kaitlan, she has a conscience even though I often disagree with her. Jessica can have respectful conversations with conservatives one-on-one. She gets along well with Guy Benson, for example.
You're right. To me they're interchangeable. I can't stand either one of them. Too many better things to do.
I think Greg's only competition is The Five, which also belongs to him. 😊
I can't stand Kaitlan Collins. I would watch the show if they didn't need a lone liberal to defend the indefensible. Greg is funny on the Five, but the Gutfeld Show has comedy and comedians as guests. I often laugh till I'm crying and it's great to go to sleep on.
BTW…re: above comments on NPR…they’ve claimed something along the lines that we “rural” folks would be lost without them…hello! We have satellite, cell phones, books, beautiful views…who needs NPR?
It fits in with their theories that blacks can't do math and Hispanics are best suited for unskilled manual labor.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's the same way when southerners were thought to not wear shoes.
Yes! I live in The South! And, I do go barefoot a lot…. LOL
My mom and her entire family were born in AR. My mom came to CA during the war & worked at Mare Island where she met my dad. Of course, she had an accent. My dad, born in CA, was a fierce reader and had read The Grapes of Wrath. My dad asked my mom out. He suggested how she should dress. My mom asked, "Do you want me to also wear shoes?" He said, "Uh...uh.... yes." He was taken aback when my mom stepped out wearing stunning clothes and an expensive coat she had brought from AR. I laugh every time I think of it.
I love it!!! She married him anyway! LOL.
Yes, but get this. Early on, they would go out with another couple. Of course, my mom had a southern accent. She had said something and the other man asked my dad, "What did she say?" My dad said, "Hell....I don't know."
My mom was FOREVER trying to get rid of her accent. I LOVE southern accents, so I was disappointed.
OMG. Well, I grew up in the PNW and then worked all over the place. I talked very fast, so often people would ask if I came from NYC!!! But, my original NW WA accent had a bit of a Canadian accent to it, since I lived 5 miles from the border and spent a lot of time there. When we moved to NW FL about 20 years ago, I went to a gun show and was talking to a guy who made jams (yeah…) and he commented that I was losing my accent! So, I guess I was acquiring one! Not much. But, I have to say that living on the FL/AL border….there are a few old timers, like our plumber, with such heavy Alabama accent that it’s hard to understand him. But, I love the Southern gracious, affectionate, friendly….and I’m old enough that everyone under 50 calls me “sweetheart” or “honey”. That’s a “no no” in the East and West, but it’s fun and endearing here. It’s meant to be kind AND respectful. As well…as Miss (first name) as a respectful way of “informally” addressing someone but still showing respect.