4um: Hmm. Prominent Conservative Radio Hosts Planted Scripted Actors Among Callers

Title: Hmm. Prominent Conservative Radio Hosts Planted Scripted Actors Among Callers
Source: Crooks And Liars
URL Source: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-mad ... minent-conservative-radio-host
Published: Mar 5, 2011
Author: Susie Madrak
Post Date: 2011-03-05 20:44:54 by Original_Intent
Keywords: Pills, Vannity, Propaganda, Radio
Views: 1462
Comments: 62

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Well, looky here! From the Columbia Journalism Review:

Well, here’s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I’m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!

Via Tablet Magazine:
If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.
“I was surprised that it seemed so open,” the actor told me in an interview. “There was really no pretense of covering it up.”
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Curious, the actor did some snooping and learned that Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. But a great radio show depends as much on great callers as it does on great hosts: Enter Premiere On Call.

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“Premiere On Call is our new custom caller service,” read the service’s website, which disappeared as this story was being reported (for a cached version of the site click here). “We supply voice talent to take/make your on-air calls, improvise your scenes or deliver your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the kind of voice you need, and we’ll get your the right person fast. Unless you request it, you won’t hear that same voice again for at least two months, ensuring the authenticity of your programming for avid listeners.”

Ensuring the authenticity of your programming… with paid, planted callers.

That merits a "Well Done". You can always tell when Rush has been nailed because he will then spend the next half hour talking about how wrong and how stupid the caller was.

I think these guys also share listings of caller I.D.'s between shows because on a couple of major shows I tried to get in on I was preemptorially flushed. The guy on Ollie North's old show didn't want to talk to me AT ALL.

Maybe some who tune into Dreck, but it's a small portion. I've never met a Pills listener who was awake.

Seriously, listening to a pill-popping, hypocritical, arrogant, neocon, bank-MIC whore windbag, isn't a sign of higher level cognition, awareness or conscience. I would argue that tuning in is the absence of these.

" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11

I met a co-worker recently who proudly described rush limbaugh as his idol. he initially said he's a former liberal who is now a conservative. after some conversations about 9/11 and the police state, liberty, etc. he said he had a hard time accepting the 9/11 conspiracy but that the one thing out of all of it that makes him consider it is all the blatant tyranny that resulted from it., which he never realized until my indoctrination. I gave him some dvds including loose change and freedom to fascism, which he was impressed with (patricularly ruuso's film). I then told him about alex jones (yeah i know), and he said that was his favorite new talk show host. he said that he never would have believed that anyone could change his views, but said that i changed his entire persepctive. He is a nice sincere guy, who has since left the company. Upon learning all this stuff, particularly about the federal reserve and irs, he was ready to march in the streets. (not that that would do anygood). I did mention the jews several times but he instinctually replied 'i don't agree'.

"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html

yes, i also believe that they tag phone numbers and will not take a call from a troublemaker who has got thru once.

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan

I can't speak for others but the reason I did listen, starting in the mid 90's, was I figured anyone who can annoy all those liberals can't be all bad. So, I was wrong. Still, it was entertaining for a time - from about 95 to mid 98 when the inconsistencies added up to the point that I realized beyond the shadow of a doubt that it was a rigged game. The thing about Rush is that he was mostly honest up until 98 - knowing what I know now he was simply building his credibility before the disinformation was really cranked into high gear. However, up to that point he was entertaining.

Egads, NO!!! I've never even turned Air America on. Have you? I don't think I even know any person who listens to Air America. I tuned out of network TV years ago as well because no matter the MSM channel, it's all about the BS.

I did listen to Dreck for a spell as he seemed to be promoting the constitution......but then he avoided so many basic truths, wasted odious amounts of airtime flicking crap over irrelevant celebrities, omitted key points in history etc. He soon lost credibility as I was ready to give him the benefit of the doubt about a possible turn around after the crapping on the constitution by Bush that he had previously cheered. He proved he wasn't worthy of the benefit of the doubt.

" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11

I don't think it is even troublemakers per se, but anyone who has a history of making incisive comments that are not in "the playbook".

If you listen to a lot of talk radio, which I did at one time while I was being a caregiver (I had a pocket radio and the earpiece was almost permanently attacted), you begin noticing patterns. The hardest to detect is that which is omitted completely and never even mentioned.

You will never hear a well spoken, articulate, anti-war conservative or libertarian, with very very very rare exceptions, get through as a caller. It is like they do not exist, and yet there are quite a few of them. However, you could not tell it from "conservative" talk radio.

And of course with few exceptions, and never on a major network like Klearchannel, you will never hear a coherent, articulate, 911 truth spokesman.

You could actually make up a list of the things that they will NEVER talk about.

" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11

well, i think if i have one thing itt"s sincerity.i think the lesson is that we should never discount or dismiss anyone. heck, even i cheered for bush sr & schwarzenegger live in 1988.there is always hope for the uninformed.

LOL well we know reality TV is false no surprise that reality radio is false as well.

The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF) These boys will be dropped off in Afghanistan and have been given only the following facts about terrorists: 1. The season opened today. 2. There is no limit. 3. They taste just like chicken. 4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus .... 5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt. The Pentagon expects the problem in Afghanistan to be over by Friday.

LOL! I like that: "Reality Radio" with your host the Mahajunkie himself with Sean Vannity, and Michael Wiener.

Except that the masses are likely using MSM information as a basis for decisions at election time so you an the rest of the country are now subject to laws and policies that are adopted by those elected. Also, the phony fight between conservatives and progressives diverts attention away from Organized Jewry as it plunders the nation to prop up the illegal Israeli state.

Just look at the planted press corps who "question" the president. This sort of thing has been going on for a LONG time.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin

How is it just now coming to light? I'm glad it did, but why the delay? I'm surprised that they haven't been caught at it until now.

I like their loose usage of the word 'conservative.' Until freaks like the trio who are the subject of the story are scattered like interlopers that they are, the word conservative has no meaning to me.

...and what a damned shame that such a fine word has been stolen from us Conservatives. The neo-cons were the first offenders....Now, dumb Americans have little understanding of conservatism - by design, of course.

"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lod

yes, very true. despite being dubbed 'talk radio', presumably for 'thinkers', it's very dumbed down & not honest open discourse at all. hence a lot of shouting, derision & tight controls among the major players.

just curious, was your 'Infowars.com' caveat an example of an owned/controlled side also? :-)

thanks! you too. I made some homemade chili last night & am having a good relaxing weekend. :-)

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin

"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson

Looks like Rush has only been telling part of the truth concerning "seminar callers", he didn't specify that some of them are HIS seminar callers.

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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"

Last week a caller on the neocon John David Wells show here in DFW got a caller who managed to get in "9/11 was an inside job" and the host stopped the show for a two-minute rant about having this guys phone number and he threatened to turn him in to the FBI!! He was LIVID!!!

Exactly. "Trade Secret." If it got out and widely accepted then Rush goes down the tubes. Darn.

Of course the Dildoheads should be able to figure it out from the fact that he is paid more than his program makes.

that is very interesting. do you know if 'john david wells' offers an episode archive of his shows? if so, id reallly like to hear that. that actually has potential to be a huge story.

i think its disgusting. this douche claims to be a tea partier too. he will be embarassed & scorned nationwide soon. x-15 can you please tell me what day & time he said that? thanks a milllion.

I "think" it was last Thursday around 5:00 (CST), but it could have been Wednesday or Friday, too. I'd already forgetten about it until your story jogged my memory. Sorry, I'm losing my memory almost as fast as my hair!!

no biggie, its not something anyone wwould make a point to remember the date/time but if i find it we're gonna have field day w/ this bastard, lol. its very anti american to threaten to call the fbi on callers for their ideas.

google the phrase RICE UNIVERSITY JEWISH STUDIES PROFESSOR CALLS POLICE OVER 9/11 YOUTUBE VIDEO to see what i mean. :-D

I thought it was very odd for the host to get that worked up over an idea that goes against the status quo, the caller just casually tossed that phrase in at the end of his call. Needless to say, I view John David Wells in a very different light now based upon that one outburst of indignation.

The only time you won't find it scripted, is when you listen to things that are pod casts that aren't in the mainstream. Even then though I'd wager that if they have advertisers, they're scripted to a degree.

It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist. I went to Chernobyl, and all I got was this glow in the dark T-shirt. - Tommy The Mad Artist.

I think that at this point that is pretty much a given and should be obvious to anyone with 3 functioning brain cells - which of course excludes the slobbering mouth breathing prehensile toed gibbering defective retards at Freeptardia.

Every station of 25,000 Watts or above is owned by one of just 3 companies the largest being the degenerate child of the Bush Combine and run by the sniveling monsters of the Mays family i.e., Klearchannel which boasts a portfolio of around 1200 stations. If you do not toe the NeoCon Party Line and Parrot the Propaganda that is catapulted you do not work for the Nazi combine known as Klearchannel - as at least one or two honest hosts have found out.

As well the dildoheads with their dim and minuscule sub-moron intellect are so enrapt in their delusions of the legitimacy and infallibility of their drug addled pedophile idol that they are incapable of discerning much more than it is time to turn on the radio for their daily programming. To actually look and research on their own is a conundrum that is so far above their feeble level of mentation as to be a total mystery. And the Obamazoids rank below them.

The Israel Firsters are scared shitless of 911 and the real evidence of inside complicity and in particular all of the Israeli ties.

If it was ever proven beyond a doubt in a public venue that Israel was involved in the 911 False Terror event then Shittylittlestan would be instantly and permanently deligitimized. The demand to brand them as a terrorist nation would be unstoppable. It might not proceed as far as military action as Shittylittlestan is a nucelear power, but it would be a sure and certain guarantee that their next ~~Welfare Check~~ "Insurance Payment" would get "lost in the mail".