Posted on 06/19/2015 5:29:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I could give a rat’s patootie about ratings snapshots.
AFAIK, the only ‘ratings snapshot’ is what I think about him and I’ve pretty much said my piece. I’d also hazard a guess there are others out there that have observed the same things I’ve mentioned.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: ‘The death of talk radio is premature.’ Rush is not as good, but he - and talk radio - is still there for the common folks. The LSM would love their monopoly back, so they can choose who will B the next president.
Ironic that Libs used Air America as their name seeing that it’s the name of the CIA air support used in Laos during the Vietnam War. Great movie too BTW.
ah....shut up. Limbaugh has done more to advance our movement than any other living American. He’s in his mid sixties now, and surely contemplating his exit as a daily host, but to do anything other than give him his due is absurdity. Pure and simple.
Sadly I don’t listen to him any more. I want to. But his station is not convenient in L.A. any more.
I wish him nothing but success.
The only idea I have for him if he wants to climb back up the peak is to do something different this presidential election. Use what is left of his bully pulpit for good. He’s not some angel too high to be human. He’s the only radio guy who keeps his personal feelings aboutnthe candidates too close to his chest and doesn’t try to naturally influence his audience. Maybe he should. I know the thing is that he is afraid to be wrong. Well, you aren’t “wrong” if you have an educated preference, whether the candidate wins or loses. And it might sway enough people to give us a win. If his fave is Jeb I never said any of this. But I don’t think it would be.
Today, Rush has competition from Andrew Wilkow on Sirius satellite radio as well as others in his time slot.
Me neither. He won't be selling his Maybach either.
Idea for Rush's next book: "Making Ends Meet On Only $20 million A Year." Sniff!
I don't think Rush will completely retire although he might take longer and longer vacations. He does this because he loves doing it. I've been listening to him, on and off, almost since the beginning. There are ratings ups and downs -- his ratings should be expected to go up in an election year, down in the summer of a non-election year.
I miss that too.
I think that’s it. There’s a loss of passion, I think. I listen to Mark Levin now more than Rush (not only is he on when I done at work), because he gets angry about what is happening to our country. Rush seems more resigned to things as they happen, less anger (actually none at all).
However, this seems cyclical. Libs love to herald Rush’s demise, and somehow he’ll bounce back.
Probably true. But I am not going to sit and listen to him everyday. He really doesn’t have anything to offer me anymore.
Will always listen to Rush, but his problem is started in elementary schools all over the country. From the minute a kid starts their education in a public school, right on up through graduation from college, they are browbeaten to death with liberal pro-abortion, anti-American, code-pink teachers and these kids naturally grow up to be liberals. Unless they have a strong conservative at home, someone that will keep them on the right track, they are lost forever. They are democrat voters for life because they have heard nothing but put down America their entire lives.
I agree. Post 2012, he saw we were in a sea change in the wrong direction, and it's a totally different tone. He makes it clear he hasn't given up, but it became clear to Rush and many of us that the past 20 years of intensive brainwashing of the younger generations and the advent of 24/7 media has created a juggernaut for leftist thought. As he says daily now, what we were laughing at for the 20 years shouldn't have been laughed at. The absurd has become the mainstream.
I love Rush but will turn off for football,golf or the latest Apple product. As there is no alternative, he isn’t going anywhere.
Rush on his worst day is still five times better than Sean Hannity on his best.
Limbaugh is a shill for the status quo, so called conservative side of the political puppet show. He is no longer talking to a people that feel that one side has answers, the other, ruining what was once a great country. The country is in shambles, the leaders hold hands and ask us to jump off the cliff. It matters not who gets control of the handles of power. They are lawyers that argue their case in front of a corrupt judge vociferously, and shake hands and go out for toddies afterwards.
BUT...and here is where I think he has lost his edge...
Yesterday he was attempting to talk about Uber. Now I do give him credit he admits he knows very little about Uber and even insinuated someone of his celebrity would never be able to use Uber.
My first thought when he made that admission was, “and that indicates how you've lost touch with the common listener.” He has grown too old and too rich.
I also hold a certain amount of resentment when he tells listeners...now is not the time to act. He...his greatness...will tell us when. And the progressive agenda rolls ahead leaving us in the dust.
Another conversation he had this past week was about “objective truth” has died. That conversation was so old and shows he wasn't paying much attention to the core principles of the Tea Party or 912 movement.
Rush has lost his edge because his success has caused him to lose his touch of the common.
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