Rush Limbaugh’s Long, Slow March to Irrelevance

[mudwhistle]

At this rate, another 25 years and Rush will have to retire.

 

[Oddball]

So he's irrelevant this week....Next week he'll be the defacto Godfather of the GOP.

A-fuckin-mazing.

 

[Pogo]

So he's irrelevant this week....Next week he'll be the defacto Godfather of the GOP.

A-fuckin-mazing.

Aye, they're not mutually exclusive...

 

[Stephanie]

So he's irrelevant this week....Next week he'll be the defacto Godfather of the GOP.

A-fuckin-mazing.

Aye, they're not mutually exclusive...

another left wing sheep talking point...you should be proud you used it

 

[Toro]

ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....................

That's what his demos are doing every day at 2:30 in the afternoon.

 

[Toro]

and this OP said the left didn't need people to do their thinking for them...well how many damn threads is going this week on Rush from the left?

friggen sheep, marches to whatever they are told...their masters from their party rage against Fox news and here they all are, RAGING against Fox news..

how petty and shallow

"Ditto."

 

[Oddball]

and this OP said the left didn't need people to do their thinking for them...well how many damn threads is going this week on Rush from the left?

friggen sheep, marches to whatever they are told...their masters from their party rage against Fox news and here they all are, RAGING against Fox news..

how petty and shallow

"Ditto."

That's not what "ditto" means, eh.

 

[The Professor]

Limbaugh's net worth is $23 million
What's yours OP?

-$311.80?

That's way off. I think he earned like 70 million in 2012 alone. I've read his networth is close to a billion dollars.

According to the following link, his net worth is $350 million and his annual salary $40 million.

Rush Limbaugh Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

 

[Leweman]

Limbaugh's net worth is $23 million
What's yours OP?

-$311.80?

That's way off. I think he earned like 70 million in 2012 alone. I've read his networth is close to a billion dollars.

Interesting use of the word "earned".

More interesting, the same poster above, a few hours prior, said he was worth 29 million. What can you spend 6 million on in three hours? Viagra and Dominican hookers cost that much?

Most interesting is the value system: that "how much one is worth", i.e. how many millions beyond what you can ever spend, is some kind of measure of accomplishment.

No one even understands you. You are just rambling.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Rush Limbaugh’s Long, Slow March to Irrelevance

We’ll know Limbaugh is finally irrelevant when there are no more news stories telling us he’s irrelevant.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

Best, most accurate article about this yet:



Rush Limbaugh’s Long, Slow March to Irrelevance

Don’t listen to the headlines—Rush Limbaugh’s talk-radio supremacy ain’t over just yet. But it’s long been clear that his glory days are behind him. John Avlon on the final days of toxic right-wing talk.

Fox News presented an hourlong Rush Limbaugh infomercial on Greta Van Susteren’s show Tuesday night, allowing the embattled talk-radio giant to offer up uncontested howlers like this: “I get more grief than the al Qaeda gets.” And this: “I don’t see any pushback [by the GOP] against anything Obama wants to do.” And finally this: "I can't remember a time when it’s been more partisan, more divisive and getting worse—and being done on purpose.”

While Greta also found time to ask Rush’s opinion about the Zimmerman verdict (he pronounced it “uplifting”), no questions were asked about the big story that has Limbaugh in limbo: a Sunday-night report by Dylan Byers at Politico that suggested Rush and his right-wing talk colleague Sean Hannity are on the verge of being dropped by Cumulus radio.

The report follows months of complaints by Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey about the impact of an advertiser boycott of Rush enacted after he called birth-control advocate Sandra Fluke a “slut” back in early 2012—a drought that has resulted in some $2.4 million in associated losses over the first quarter of 2013 alone as The Daily Beast reported in May. Combine those losses with the high cost of running Rush—his last contract, an eight-year deal inked in 2008, had a $400 million price tag—and an aging fan base of white men and at best you’ve got a recipe for renegotiations. At worst: ejection.

But while Rush’s toxic formula of right-wing talk radio is surely dying, that doesn’t mean rigor mortis has set in. Headlines blaring the demise of Limbaugh and Hannity are jumping the gun, according to interviews with multiple radio analysts.

“My personal prediction, based upon what I know of the industry, is that it’s going to happen,” says Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine. “But I would never call you or call Politico or write in Talkers that it’s a fait accompli, because it’s not.” Harrison points out that Limbaugh and Hannity technically work for the radio conglomerate Clear Channel; their shows are syndicated to Cumulus stations. “Cumulus is basically saying—if in fact it’s true that they’re going to do this—that they don’t want to be in the business of selling that type of controversial political talk,” he says.

Meanwhile, Limbaugh is sending his own public signals, and he has still some bargaining chips left. “What you have here is public negotiation,” says Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-industry tip sheet Inside Music Media. “Limbaugh is telling everybody, ‘I'm not going anywhere,’ and I love that comment because he's right. He isn't going anywhere. [Dickey] is playing a real dangerous game. If you take the replacement characters for Cumulus—who they have left without Sean and Rush—you've got Geraldo, you've got Huckabee, and Michael ‘I Hope You Die of AIDS’ Savage. And do you know that those three replacements do not do anywhere near $4 million a year in revenue nationally, on all their stations? If [Dickey] doesn't do a deal,” Del Colliano says, he could just exit the talk game altogether, “and then flip to sports.”





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Let's see if I understood this story correctly. Limbaugh is either going to be irrelevant or he's not going to be irrelevant. Seriously? This isn't even a story. This is an ambiguous opinion piece.

 

[JoeB131]

Limbaugh's net worth is $23 million
What's yours OP?

-$311.80?

Seriously? He gets paid 25 million a year and hasn't salted any of it away?

Man, that's a lot of money on Oxycotin. Or trips to the Dominican Republic.

 

[editec]

Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.​

 

[mudwhistle]

Limbaugh's net worth is $23 million
What's yours OP?

-$311.80?

Seriously? He gets paid 25 million a year and hasn't salted any of it away?

Man, that's a lot of money on Oxycotin. Or trips to the Dominican Republic.

Still repeating that old story?

What difference does it make. It was a long time ago.

 

[JoeB131]

Limbaugh's net worth is $23 million
What's yours OP?

-$311.80?

Seriously? He gets paid 25 million a year and hasn't salted any of it away?

Man, that's a lot of money on Oxycotin. Or trips to the Dominican Republic.

Still repeating that old story?

What difference does it make. It was a long time ago.

Which one?

the one where after years of ranting about how we aren't punishing drug abusers enough, he fought a drug charge tooth and nail when caught abusing drugs himself?

Or

The one where he was caught with a drug for sexual enhancement while travelling to a country notorious for sex tourism?

Because, honestly, they both paint the picture of a hypocrite.

 

[rightwinger]

Any way you look at it, Rush Limbaugh has had a remarkable career

I remember when Rush started out 25 years ago. He was mostly right leaning political satire that was tongue in cheek. Then he realized that his "dittoheads" actually take this shit seriously. By the time Bill Clinton and Hillary came in to office, Rush had it made. He moved extremely to the right and became a Republican propaganda arm.
Suddenly, Rush had political power and with a mention on his show, he could make or break political careers.
Rush's act had been done before. Morton Downey Jr was a good example. But Rush has managed to keep it going for 25 years, which is remarkable for anyone in the media

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I think liberals worry more about Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh going down than conservatives do. Frankly, most of us don't worship them. We're not like liberals who worship at the altar of the Clintons, Obamas of the world. We believe in concepts and real values. If those guys left, we would keep going. But don't worry liberals, you'll always find someone to worship also.

 

[JoeB131]

I think liberals worry more about Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh going down than conservatives do. Frankly, most of us don't worship them. We're not like liberals who worship at the altar of the Clintons, Obamas of the world. We believe in concepts and real values. If those guys left, we would keep going. But don't worry liberals, you'll always find someone to worship also.

If Limbaugh goes down, the Koch Brothers will find someone else to tell you who to hate.

 

[rightwinger]

I think liberals worry more about Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh going down than conservatives do. Frankly, most of us don't worship them. We're not like liberals who worship at the altar of the Clintons, Obamas of the world. We believe in concepts and real values. If those guys left, we would keep going. But don't worry liberals, you'll always find someone to worship also.

I don't think Liberals worry about Rush, Hannity and Beck going down.....

In fact, they find them to be useful tools to broadbrush the entire Republican Party. "This is what Republicans think", "This is what Republicans really want to do"

Moderate Republicans lack the balls to denounce the extreme right Republican propaganda arm. This leaves the Moderate and Independent vote to the Democrats.

Another useful purpose of the rightwing propaganda arm is that they tell Republicans what they want to hear

Obama is a Failure
America loves our message
Ignore the Media and the Polls, they are out to get us
Liberals are EVIL
Real Americans support Republicans

When this message is all you hear and it is echoed from Rush to Hannity to Beck.....Republicans start to believe it

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Limbaugh's net worth is $23 million
What's yours OP?

-$311.80?

Seriously? He gets paid 25 million a year and hasn't salted any of it away?

Man, that's a lot of money on Oxycotin. Or trips to the Dominican Republic.

Fake Republican says what?