Tag: Rush Limbaugh
Those Red Shoes
We’ve always known Rush Limbaugh is racist,
And he’s proved time and again he’s sexist.
But he jumped the shark
And broke the bounds of snark
When he called Pope Francis a Marxist.
Children’s Book By Limbaugh a Frightening Notion Indeed
The release date for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is set for October 29, two days before Halloween, which seems entirely appropriate. After all, it’s tough to think of a cultural development more frightening than one of conservatism’s most age-inappropriate personalities peddling his ideas specifically to young kids. … Except maybe for Rush’s on-air musing that, if the book sells well, he plans to expand it into a series.
— Michelle Cottle, writing on the Daily Beast.
Limbaugh Could Lose Access to 40 Radio Stations
40
Number of radio stations, including his flagship channel, New York’s WABC, Rush Limbaugh would lose access to if he leaves Cumulus Media at the end of his current contract. The Week reports Limbaugh, who has the No. 1 rated talk radio program in the country, is threatening to leave Cumulus after the company blamed him for declining revenue.
Rush’s Boss to Limbaugh: Don’t Let the Door Hit You
Rush Limbaugh’s big fat feelings might be hurt, and he is considering leaving the distributor of his show over it. Cumulus Media, which contracts with Limbaugh, is blaming reduced company revenues on last year’s boycott of advertisers on Rush’s show. The boycott was called after Limbaugh labled a “slut” the lone female who provided testimony to a Congressional committee examining insurance company coverage of birth control.
Although several dozen advertisers either permanently left the show or suspended their ads until the dust settled, Rush at the time described the situation this way.
“That’s like losing a couple of French fries in the container when it’s delivered to you at the drive-through,” Limbaugh said. “You don’t even notice it.”
But to Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey, the advertiser stampede must have been more like more being shorted the fries AND the burger, being left with the ketchup packets and the soft drink.
In an August 2012 earnings call, Dickey said Cumulus’s top three stations had lost $5.5 million, in part because of the boycott. In a March 2013 earnings call, Dickey said the company’s talk radio side had “been challenged… due to some of the issues that happened a year ago.”
Rush could actually be right that Cumulus Media’s losses aren’t all his fault. In addition to his show, the company carries The Mike Huckabee Show and The Huckabee Report, Focus on the Family “Commentary,” and The Savage Nation. I don’t know about you but I sure wouldn’t want to advertise on any of those shows.
Conservatives’ Media Masters
We own talk radio, and Fox News for the most part.
— Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, on the influence of conservatives.
Rush Limbaugh: Obama, Acting Through the National Hurricane Center, Tried to Ruin Republican Convention
Rush Limbaugh has to be thinking that now would be as good a time as any to retire. His recent assertion that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is conspiring to re-elect the president is all the evidence anyone needs that Rush would probably be happier at home, out of the reach of microphones.
Here’s what Rush said on his show earlier this week:
The hurricane center is the regime. The hurricane center is the Commerce Department. It’s the government. It’s Obama.
And as Obama, the NHC obviously wanted to disrupt the Republican National Convention by forecasting, while Isaac was still a tropical storm south of Haiti, that it could strengthen and threaten the gulf coast of Florida, including Tampa. Just listen to Rush’s version:
Oxycontin-Addict Limbaugh Attacks Obama’s Casual Drug Use 30 Years Ago
There is no clearer sign that the attacks on Mitt Romney’s contradictory statements on his tenure at Bain Capital are working — on whether he was in charge when the company off-shored thousands of jobs, as he suggested in sworn testimony in June 2002 or whether he “retroactively resigned” from the company after taking a leave of absence in 1999 — than the fact that GOP’s most listened-to propagandist offered Romney this advice on what to say to the president:
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Look, pal, when I was out creating jobs, investing in businesses, and growing this economy, you were at Columbia smoking weed and snorting coke.
This is rich coming from Limbaugh, who, just three years ago, reached a deal with prosecutors related to charges he purchased 2,0000 Oxycontin tablets over a six months period, a practice that may have been going on for years. It’s possible that Limbaugh’s voracious gobbling of opiates may have cost him his hearing.
No Rush, Apparently. Limbaugh Just Now Joins Twitter
Showing that he is a hip and happening dude, despite the fact that his average listener is a 67-year-old man, Rush Limbaugh is jumping right into the end of the last decade with his Twitter debut.
Rush knows social media is a more effective means of sending a message than using his show. But then, so is speaking into a can attached by a string to another can.
Tweeting at the handle @Limbaugh, the host began his foray into the social networking site by sending out links to articles criticizing the liberal group Media Matters.
One thing Rush is right about is that social media is a more effective means of sending a message than using his show. But then, so is speaking into a can attached by a string to another can.
“I’ve decided to actually activate it now and use it for strategic purposes since it has become such an effective means of informing people outside the bounds of this program,” Limbaugh explained.
Not totally getting it, however, Rush is his usual pushy self even on Twitter. His tweets come with instructions.
“Good story by @jeff_poor @DailyCaller. He gets it right, @mmfa wrong as usual. Read and Retweet.”
