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Does Rush or someone else get to decide if Erickson subs as a host?

Posted on 08/11/2015 4:34:09 AM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal

I thought Rush deflected this issue pretty well.

"For example, I've got a bunch of e-mails from people over the weekend saying, "You better deal with Erickson! If you don't deal with Erickson, then you're not up to snuff." "What do you mean, 'Deal with Erickson?'" I wrote. "You better! You know, you can't let this go." Let me tell you something, folks. I have had a policy for I don't know how long: Right or wrong, good or bad, I do not purposely try to destroy people on my team.

Now, if they do that themselves, fine. Nothing I can do about it."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/08/10/get_back_to_the_issues_mr_trump


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1 posted on 08/11/2015 4:34:09 AM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ObamahatesPACoal; Servant of the Cross

PA Coal: Rush decides everything.....and I have it on good authority that he never listens to his guest hosts. They have some metrics, based on call volume, ad response...but that’s it.

Now, he no doubt has seen what Erick has been up to. It’ll be interesting to see.

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2 posted on 08/11/2015 4:39:01 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Rush. Just Do It! Blackball this idiot. This blowhard does you, your listening audience and the conservative movement a disservice.


3 posted on 08/11/2015 4:43:57 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

strikes me that Rush and Erickson have both missed it on Trump....Rush on one side and Erick on the other.

Neither has it right...


4 posted on 08/11/2015 4:47:37 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

By the next time Erickson subs for Rush, this little non-event will have been forgotten by all except those who can’t step outside their political bubble......


5 posted on 08/11/2015 4:50:10 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Jeff kuhner would be good sub.


6 posted on 08/11/2015 4:52:01 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: C. Edmund Wright
PA Coal: Rush decides everything.....and I have it on good authority that he never listens to his guest hosts. They have some metrics, based on call volume, ad response...but that’s it.

No need to make a scene. The phone just won't ring. Years ago, Rush's main sub was "B-1" Bob Dornan. He was serviceable, but certainly no Rush. At some point I remember him claiming he was getting more calls or something when he was subbing, some kind of bragging. We don't here Dornan on the Rush Limbaugh Show anymore.

Mark Steyn, on the other hand, is always amusingly self-effacing (the Canadian part of him), and he never pretends it is his show, even though for many of us, he is on the same level.

I turn off the radio if Marc Davis comes on. Texas can send us better.
7 posted on 08/11/2015 4:53:38 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Hot Tabasco
At the RedState Gatherhing, held in Atlanta over the weekend, Erickson gave an extremely glowing introduction of Bush. As he introduced Jeb Bush, Erickson said, “I love this guy“, “the most conservative governor,” Jeb Bush.
8 posted on 08/11/2015 4:55:15 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I agree 100% with your Mark Davis comment...he’s boring as Texas dust. But what’s the snark about “making a scene?”

Huh?


9 posted on 08/11/2015 4:56:08 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

The bet here is Erickson will never sub-host for Rush again.
Keep in mind Chris Mathews sub-hosted for Rush but that was short lived.


10 posted on 08/11/2015 4:59:02 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Managed to catch that portion of the show. Rush quickly swept the Erickson issue aside with that single terse statement and then proceeded with a much longer rambling about how Trump is what Trump is. But to me it seemed Rush was distancing himself far more from Trump than from Erickson.

There was a segment days before the “Debate” in which Rush cited some of his chief news sources which surprisingly included the RedState site.

IMO Rush has been, in the last year or so, become sloppy in his show prep, meandering discoursions, forgetful searching for the fact or name that earlier would have been snapped out quickly. Could be that the three hour format is just wearing on him after almost three decades.


11 posted on 08/11/2015 5:03:49 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I want to know how Erikson found out that judge has sex with goats. Anyone know?


12 posted on 08/11/2015 5:04:10 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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To: FES0844

“Jeff kuhner would be good sub.”

Yes he would but he’s a direct competitor now.


13 posted on 08/11/2015 5:07:54 AM PDT by Andy'smom (How many more acts of love can we take?)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Mark Davis strikes me as a thinker. He’s the Dennis Prager of Texas!


14 posted on 08/11/2015 5:10:04 AM PDT by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Will Imperil America...)
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To: Covenantor

I get frustrated with him. I have been listening for about twenty-six years because of the updates, his voices and humor but no updates anymore, he rarely does Clinton voice and his humor is almost non-existent. Well yesterday the stuff about blood was funny and he was having fun with the black ladies video. I had the ditto cam on and he was shaking he was laughing so hard. Every time he gets married it seems the women steal his soul or something.


15 posted on 08/11/2015 5:11:33 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

No more Erickson for me. I won’t be listening to him when he fills in for Rush.


16 posted on 08/11/2015 5:14:51 AM PDT by The Toad
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Really miss Dr. Walter E Williams guest hosting.


17 posted on 08/11/2015 5:16:52 AM PDT by Marathoner (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: Covenantor

I also hear him (nearly) cut off a lot when he is talking. It is as if no one is in there telling him a break is coming up.


18 posted on 08/11/2015 5:18:30 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I only listen to Steyn. I can’t bear any of the other substitutes. I even remember when Chris Matthews was a sub!


19 posted on 08/11/2015 5:20:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I basically heard Rush say that he won’t be told who he can or can’t have as a guest host. That said, he also suggested he won’t have a host who is busy self-destructing.


20 posted on 08/11/2015 5:23:03 AM PDT by xzins (Don't let others pay your share; reject Freep-a-Fare! Donate-https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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