Using Public Airwaves To Encourage Criminal Acts
By Jamie Friday Mar 21, 2008 6:02pm
We all remember earlier this month when Rush Limbaugh encouraged Republicans to vote for Hillary in Texas and Ohio's primaries. In Ohio when you change parties you must sign a form stating you are doing so because you believe in the political ideals of that party. Lying on that form is a criminal act, and has now spawned an investigation:
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has launched an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against voters who maliciously switched parties for the March 4 presidential primary.
Elections workers will look for evidence that voters lied when they signed affidavits pledging allegiance to their new party. And at least one board member, Sandy McNair, a Democrat, wants the county prosecutor to review the findings.
But it remained unclear Wednesday whether the four-member board will agree to pursue prosecution. A 2-2 vote would mean that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, would have to break the tie.
After the election a lot of these cross overs went on the air and proudly proclaimed that they did it for Rush. Little did they know they were admitting before the nation that they may have just broken the law.
Now the question remains about Rush's involvement in this. Using the public airwaves to encourage people to break the law has been a shady area in the past. If charges do come out of the investigation, then the FCC needs to look at Rush's involvement and possibly take action against him, as well as all affiliates that carry his show.
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Wouldn't we ALL love to see Porky Pig face some big boys on this!
Did everyone have a happy Capital Punishment Day yesterday?
I've heard Randi Rhodes telling a caller how to do it and telling him to vote for Romney during the primaries. How come there is no calling for criminal investigation?
FCC?? They'll applaud Rush.
Because the idea of voting for a man who wears magical underpanties was clearly a joke. Hillary is actually a real candidate.
nyguy @ 3:
If you have evidence produce it.
nyguy @ 3:
Was it illegal in the state in question?
You might want to check that out before whining too loudly.
slippy hussein toad @ 6:
I don't spend the day recording radio talk shows.
The FCC won't touch Limpballs.
The FCC allows so many illegal acts to occur on right wing talk radio that any talk of enforcement against the right is just that: TALK.
The FCC is completely corrupt, and due to the fact that their unwillingness to enforce the laws against right wingers is so well documented, even during the Clinton Administration, that I think the FCC needs disbanded and fresh people staffing a fresh agency needs to be the order of business.
Imagine that.
Dittoheads looking at felony charges for following the limp dicked, drug addicts advice.
I think the real surprise for them comes when they see what is costs to wiggle out of a conviction.
In a just world, where we actually had a democratic government, this would happen. Like impeachment.
In the real world, you've got no shot. The FCC will not touch this guy. He's a paid lackey for the GOP, and so are those who sit on the FCC.
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IMNSHO - there is a better chance that Rush will reveal he has seen the light and become a card carrying member of the Democratic Socialists.
No one is going to be prosecuted. The case is way too difficult to prove in court and it becomes a case of those mean old Democratic prosecutors picking on those poor innocent, weak but good hearted Republican middle class voters aka dittoheads.
As far as Limberger is concerned, the FCC is not even going to acknowledge receipt of a complaint if one is filed. The Bushies are still in the cat bird seat.
Vociferously encouraging others to break rules to achieve a personal desire?
Isn't that just what you would expect from someone with that much reight-wing influence, a high school education, a huge cigar, and a small, limp penis?
GWBush, and others, ahem, Brian Byers, to the last stitch, perfectly impersonated by ol' Rushbo.
I remember Rhodes saying that also on a few ocassions. There's nothing I'd like better than to see Rush get to see the inside of a cell, but he wasn't alone on that one. Oh, by the way, Rush is such an asshole. Just feels good to say that.
Kevin Martin, Chairman of the FCC, will look at the charges and laugh, close the book and walk away. Hopefully, shortly after history is made at the inauguration, the new President will put Michael Copps or Jonathan Adelstein in Martin's chair and the FCC will be viable once again.
EnderW @ 9:
And I say this as both a watchdog and a licensee. As an Amateur Extra Licensee, when it takes a freaking CONGRESSMAN to deal with a problem involving death threats and threats to blow up federal buildings, after numerous reports to the FCC asking for something to be done, and that being the norm for ANY complaint against ANY right winger for ANY reason (including Terrorism).
I have a nice list of Career FCC employees that need to be fired and investigated.
These people have been breaking laws for years. They'll get away with this as well. What about that right-wing radio host that encouraged his listeners to kill representatives and senators if they voted for amnesty?
Hillary's bald-faced lies.
Marco @ 15:
hola marco...(if this the same marco) I didn't know that this kind of thing was illegal. nice to see you again marco.i hope all is well in your part of this crazy world we live in.
We should be so lucky as to see that disgusting loudmouth in legal trouble - again.
Does this mean that maybe Hillary DIDN'T really "win" Ohio ? ?
David Aquarius @ 16:
I disagree entirely. There is a leadership problem, but the even bigger problem is at the Career Employee level. The people that Clearchannel and friends started stacking in the FCC since the 1970's and 1980's... These employees run the show, and any change at the top won't matter a bit when the lawyers and EB agents are right wing radicals who will do anything to protect the right, right down to protecting Terrorists.
The FCC is terminally broken. Time for a new agency with new people.
Zooey @ 19:
Hi zooey how are you?
Didn't Mann Coulter get in trouble for voter fraud awhile back?
I wonder how that's going? seems to have dropped of the radar.
Brian Kilmeade has advocated violence against groups and or dissidents on Faux at least twice.
and hes not the only RW mouthpiece to have done this on the airwaves.
What will it take for the FCC to crack down on these hate promoters, dead bodies on TV after the fact !?
Clinton in office would be bread and butter for Limbaugh. Remember he has that big contract to live up to.
Sometimes a cigar is just a penis.
mudshark @ 24:
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But it's the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that would have first shot at the voters who took Rush's advice, and I don't see how they can avoid addressing this problem if the state law is that specific and the violations are so open. But this oughta' really make Rush unpopular. Then a voter convicted of fraud could bring a lawsuit against Rush, claiming he instigated the lawbreaking.
Leave the FCC out of it. Until a Democratic president's in office, they're worthless.
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"Lying on that form is a criminal act"
In case any missed it, it is a felony.
Getting the oxycontin popper in trouble with the FCC is probably a long shot but a few felony convictions of dittoheads seems likely.
What a waste of time, their is no way they will take this to court, how pathetic the dem's have come. Of course Rush said the Dem's have been doing the same thing so there you go..
"Now the question remains about Rush’s involvement in this. Using the public airwaves to encourage people to break the law has been a shady area in the past. If charges do come out of the investigation, then the FCC needs to look at Rush’s involvement and possibly take action against him, as well as all affiliates that carry his show."
Not as long as there is a Republican in the White House. The prospect of bringing all these Republican thugs and criminals to justice is not the only reason I would vote to keep McCain out of the White House but it's probably in the top 3.
This is why I was upset when Markos over at Daily Kos urged his readers in MI to vote for Mitt Romney! We tried this same shit and lost the moral high ground when we did!
Kevin Jeffrey Martin. Political party U.S. Republican is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30, 2001, and was confirmed on May 25, 2001. On March 16, 2005, President Bush designated him as FCC chairman, to replace Michael K. Powell. President Bush renominated Martin to a new five year term on the Commission on April 25, 2006, and he was reconfirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 17, 2006.
Before becoming a commissioner, Martin was a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. He has also served as the Deputy General Counsel to Bush-Cheney 2000, on the Bush-Cheney recount team in Florida, and on the Presidential Transition.
This kid is going to go after Rush?
chris @ 31:
Chris.....................so I gather you listen and believe Osama Bin Limbaugh. He speaks the truth.he never lies.
sheesh chris no wonder people don't like you.
LUSH NOBALLS the only guy who's prescription for Viagra included a pill cutter , half a pill was way more than enough......
mudshark @ 24:
The guy who was trying to prosecute her ran into brick walls.
It's not going to happen. She's not a Dem or a Liberal in which case she would be eating a bologna and white bread sandwich at this moment before heading to the exercise yard.
You can have your free elections as long as they're Republican. What sickens me is how do these people not realize how unpatriotic and deceitful this is. Fuck discourse and the will of the people, win at cost, even your own personal welfare.
NOVAK: All kidding aside. Is this country, with the permissiveness, that we are moving toward a fascist theocracy?
ZAPPA: You bet we are buddy.
ferrofluid @ 25:
They dropped charges a few weeks ago. Remember, that was in Florida.
Marco @ 15:
and twice arrested and convicted fined for possession / smuggling Sildenafil (a drug used by date rapers and child rapists) and Oxycontin (heroin based drug) nice that somebody like this is a role model for our children and poisoning their minds.
BIGBONEDED @ 36:
I thought he had perma hard-on for hate-mongering.
It would be nice, then we really could say cleaning up America one filthy dirty lying republican at a time!
mudshark @ 24:
She was aquitted. Didn't you know, it's okay for right wingers to do vote fraud. It's also okay for people like her to call repeatedly for illegal Terrorist acts against Americans right on the airwaves.
It's time to disband the FCC and create a new agency with new people! (And Bush set the precident, we CAN do this!)
EnderW @ 9:
The FCC is an arm of the Republican Party, and not the least bit coincidentally, it allows them to consolidate their grip on the disinformation they peddle, it needs some kind of oversight other than a crony filled 5 person committee
chris @ 31:
We live in a country that throws people in prison for smoking a joint. I wouldn't hold my breathe on no one going to jail over this.
mudshark @ 35:
They don't like me, boo hoo, alot of people don't like capitalism and the capitalist but I'll truck on. I'm just saying, they can't be waste time on this, its just part of the process..
ferrofluid @ 25:
Well, what I was told by the lead counsel of the EB was that because the person doing the act isn't a licensee, that they can't touch that person, and that they can only touch the licensees, but that they have no intention of doing that, because the licensees have no control over the programming, and that they don't regulate the airing of syndicated programming.
I asked about that after Michael Weiner called for the GENOCIDE of all Democrats over the airwaves.
We only have two options: Because the FCC is corrupt at all levels, and because a change at the top won't change the status-quo due to the fact that the actual employees support what is on the airwaves, right down for advocating Terrorism against Americans, and because they refuse to even enforce the law in such cases, we can disband the FCC and create a new agency blacklisting the old employees so that we get fresh blood in; or, well, we know what the FCC approves of. Let's do it too! EXTERMINATE ALL CONSERVATIVES!
chris @ 47:
Wow that makes a lot of sense.
mudshark @ 24:
Hi mudshark, long time no see. :)
I think she slept her way out of the fraud charge. Ewwww....
I have to say as a Canadian - whether or not I am currently allowed to comment on this blog - C&L is a terrific source of pure entertainment for those of us in the rest of the world. The sad part is that the US continues to be a major economic/cultural/military influence. My hope is that all of that will change - soon.
L.A. Confidential @ 49:
You speak piss-soaked trollese?
Zooey @ 50:
FEC ruled Coulter did not willfully break election laws and the case was dismissed.
L.A. Confidential @ 52:
oh,so she did the lawyer,judge,court reporter and the bailif...........wow, she got of light.I 'm sure she was willing to do the jury as well.
L.A. Confidential @ 49:
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Rush never made sense either.
This is why political parties are a joke. This oath is so loosely worded they could say they did believe in its ideals such as patriotism and strength or something lame like that. Or they could say that everyone else needs to be pro-choice or anti-death penalty. There is no case here. The only time someone should be busted is if they try to vote in both.
L.A. Confidential @ 52:
Of course! IF you are Ann Coulter, you get to vote in three states in the same election! (Florida, New Jersey, and New York)! Not to mention, in the wrong precinct in one of them!
Then again, this is the same FEC that was staffed on the recommendation of our dear Soliciter General, the skinhead Neo-Nazi!
L.A. Confidential @ 52:
That what I said! Heh.
mudshark @ 53:
EWWWW! That's sad too, because syphillis is incurable!
Well, I knew it. All these years the Republicans have been throwing up this conspiracy theory of Democratic "voter fraud", and it was just a cover for REPUBLICAN voter fraud. When will the liberal media jump on this?
Dear Lord, I hope this goes to criminal trial and rush is convicted!!
Zooey @ 51:
I think Libs are you upset because they have failed on radio, mainstream America isn't buying what your selling...
chris @ 61:
TRANSLATOR!?
Chuck @ 46:
to go to jail for minor drug charges, you have to be poor / black / minority and or commie liberal hippy looking,
basically anything that doesnt look like some smart suited up lawyered up Republican church going hypocrite.
Limpbough's chickens are coming home to roost!
chris @ 31:
So how do you explane record # of Dems voting and such a low # of repigs voting?
President PNACcio @ 59:
"Liberal Media"? No such beast in the audio or video world.
I mean shit, cross-reference the master file here: ftp://ftp.fec.gov/ with the ownership records at http://www.fcc.gov/mb/ and http://www.sec.gov/
The MSM on TV and Radio is over 97% Republican owned! Click the links and do the research yourself!
This right here is the "Liberal Media", because the Internet is all that's left, until people start rediscovering Shortwave Radio and putting up the money to build some stations.
Blue Lensman @ 62:
Translation:
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chris @ 61:
We're not selling bullshit Chris. That why your 18% screaming minority isn't buying it.
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Blue Lensman @ 62:
Ok, near as I can tell, it's saying "Help, please help (could be Waaahhh!!!), there's miceys under my bridge, and I'm skeered."
EnderW @ 67:
Awwwwww... Darnit, you think the ditto-monkey might start slinging shit at us?
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Awww come on! purty please?
LOL okay as you wish.
EnderW @ 66:
Of course I was being sarcastic about the "liberal media", but thanks for posting the links for others to use. It's really a "corporate media".
President PNACcio @ 70:
The Media Consolidation Act was claimed to foster competition. Instead, it continued the historic industry consolidation begun by Reagan, whose actions reduced the number of major media companies from around 50 in 1983 to 10 in 1996, reducing the 10 in 1996 to 6 in 2005.
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Zooey @ 68:
Musta been a shift change at the overseas internet cubicle farm they use on weekends for the ongoing 'chris' character in their little contardianfucknut charade... don't be too hard on him, this one's just a 3rd worlder tryin' ta survive. Either that or chrissy's mom is takin' over while he cranks one out on a long bathroom break, lol.
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EnderW @ 58:
I suspect she just BLEW on out on this one. dunnow if syphilis is as easy to catch from mouth cankers as it is from genital sores.
Looking at the picture of rush, just shave his head on top , add some 5 O´clock shadow and you have what looks like a Tony Soprano mob style dillweed.
Except the mob is more intellegent then Rush and shuts its mouth when it knows when.
Femme Varie @ 75:
OK, now I just got here and see syphilis on the same thread as Rush Limbaughs name ...
Do I dare hope?
♣Bangkok Bob♥ @ 77:
Nah, you need to read the context... That was in reference to Ann Coulter and her legal problems on vote fraud.
It would be nice if something is done about this, elections should be about us (the people) voting who we want, not throwing sand in the face of our opponent.
What Rush did is prosecutable. So don't think about prosecuting him. Just prosecute him.
EnderW @ 78:
Oh, coulter, the ethics reform chick (snark)
chris @ 47:
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better stop talking about her, I'm still hung over pretty bad and don't need anything more to trigger my gag reflex.
♣Bangkok Bob♥ @ 77:
go right ahead. I'll hope with you. What a trifecta that would be if Insanity as well as Limpballs and Adam's apple Annie had syphilis.
♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 79:
Well, unfortunately, I doubt anything will be done, except at the local level in this case.
As far as the level of discourse in politics, the right only has itself to blame now that we realize the only way to deal with the schoolyard bully is to kick the bully's teeth in. I fully support using the right's own methods against the right, and yes, that does me we have to get (more than) a little dirty in the process. If they wanna whine about it, all we have to do is point to the hundreds and even thousands of cases of them doing it.
Nice flash game for Easter with the average Rush Limpballs listener featured!