His pride has to be kind of eased down to admit he went too far overboard with pumping up Cruz and was too obviously undermining Trump. Since there are not too many listeners who do not realize his position on Cruz vs Trump it is himself that Rush has to deal with. He seems to me to be flailing but by next week he might get his mo back.
Very true if Limbaugh is saying the same stuff in two weeks that he is saying now his show will suffer dramatically.
Limbaugh has been mailing it in since "Kothorine" showed up.
He cut his show prep in half when he married her and substituted the "reasoned analysis" with a "we gotta get to your phone calls" schtick.
He listens to most of the phone calls like everybody listens to a recorded weather report. Every once in a while something will catch his interest and he starts with the "...wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you saying..."? Detached?
Rush has been running on empty for a couple of years.