Does Limbaugh deserve $50 million a year? (leave a comment for the Palm Beach Post)

Palm Beach Post ^ | 7-7-08 | Palm Beach Post staff

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

i think ill pass on giving the PBP any extra “undeserved” web hits, or whatever the hell you call them.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: This is so funny. Last Friday, the Palm Beach Post, they have a -- oh, guess what? The Palm Beach Post today on their website, on their editorial page is running one of their talk back features: "Is Rush Limbaugh Worth It?" Is Rush worth, whatever, $50 million a year, is what they say. And of course, this is designed to get hits, which we're going to do. We're going to generate hits for them. And most of the responses when I checked it this morning were in my favor. They had to post the negative responses four and five times each to balance it out. Then the last Friday, they've got this gossip columnist down here names Jose Lambiet, and Jose ran a piece that ran something like this: Rush Limbaugh known for his intense or something, dislike for illegal Mexican immigrants, nevertheless went to a Mexican restaurant. Now, would somebody explain to me what does opposing illegal immigrants from Mexico or anywhere have to do with going into Mexican restaurant?

The New York Daily News picked up the blurb today. It's funny! I'm sitting here, I'm laughing myself silly. "Rush Limbaugh, noted for opposing illegal immigrants, nevertheless went to a Mexican restaurant with his gal pal, Kathryn Rogers," and they quote what the bill was and the tip that I left. And I'm thinking, you people at the Palm Beach Post, just like I told CNBC the other day, if you don't get your act together over there and start reporting on this stuff accurately, I'm going to buy your paper after I buy CNBC, and I'm going to shut it down, too, and this is after I put in an offer on the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is apparently up for sale here. Well, that's the wrong way to describe it, what's going on. I happen to be privy to some of the inside details on that, but I'm not going to talk about it, I'm not going to talk about it, the Steelers, no, not going to talk about it. But anyway, the comments on the Palm Beach Post editorial page website, the opinion, "Is Rush Limbaugh Worth It?" "He should be in jail for violating drug laws," you know, this kind of stuff, but most of them are very favorable. They reflect a very enlightened understanding of markets. What do you mean worth it? Maybe they use the word deserve, I'm not sure, "Does Rush Limbaugh Deserve 50," and of course most of them say, "Hey, if somebody is willing to pay it, yeah."

Snerdley says they ought to name a park after me down there. I am the most prominent person in this community, and I am treated the way I am. I'm used to it. These are a bunch of commie libs at that newspaper, they just had to lay off 140 people, the Obama campaign staff here in Palm Beach County just suffered major layoffs. (cont.)

Palm Beach Post: Is Rush Worth It? Disabled Vet: He Deserves More

[MHGinTN]

If we listeners are buying the products advertised on Rush’s show, we are indirectly paying for Rush. At those rates (with the good products he advertises also coming to us in the exchange) I’d say we’re getting a heck of a bargain! Now, do ya suppose we can get Rush to do more to get McCain elected instead of trashing him regularly and helping the empty suit to get elected by default?

[hosepipe]

[ Does Limbaugh deserve $50 million a year? ]

Liberalism is indeed a problem with ENVY..
Envy in crack.. is at the base of all liberal motives..
Socialism pimps envy..

[JamesP81]

Who cares? If Rush has figured out a way to make $50 mil, good for him.

[dynachrome]

Maybe Rush can buy the paper. Even with out newspaper experience, he is a businessman and can hire quality people to run it.

[dynachrome]

Thanks. Glad he is aware of this!

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: And I’m thinking, you people at the Palm Beach Post, just like I told CNBC the other day, if you don’t get your act together over there and start reporting on this stuff accurately, I’m going to buy your paper after I buy CNBC, and I’m going to shut it down, too, and this is after I put in an offer on the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is apparently up for sale here.

[Biblebelter]

Deserve is a loaded word. Rush earns an honest living which is more than I can say for most in the media or politics.

[CowboyJay]

Since when has ‘deserve’ ever had anything to do with one’s earning capacity?

But since the question was asked... He’s worth ten times what they’re paying Oprah, and not a red-cent less.

[OkeyDokeyOkie]

Rush Limbaugh deserves to be paid what his employers think he deserves to be paid. He has weathered the harassment of his political enemies and has come out stronger than ever. It has to gall the dinosaur media, as represented by the Palm Beach Post, to be thrust to the sidelines as Limbaugh continues to thrive. “He longest laughs who laughs the last.”

[MHGinTN]

If he would buy that rag and change the perspective so something besides obsequious liberalism is offered down there, I’d write for him free of charge!

[RightWhale]

No, he doesn’t deserve it, he is worth it.

[presently no screen name]

bump!

[trisham]

No. Absolutely not.

He deserves $100. million a year.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I wish he’d buy the paper and fire the “Post Staff” for even asking such a stupid question. Marxists.

That is what I left in the comments section. With a Mark Levin touch added, just for effect.

[Ukiapah Heep]

Yes, he does.

[jwparkerjr]

Wouldn't it be great if someone like Rush were to buy one of these financially distressed big-city newspapers and completely redesign it to be the same as his program. Just imagine a paper that was going broke suddenly making money, simply because it abandoned the liberal line and began to provide not what their political genes dictate, but rather what those who would buy a newspaper if it provided what they seek.

Of course, it's probably too late. Newspapers are quite possibly a product whose time has come and gone. But if anyone could pull it off, Rush is the man!

[Alia]

I’m with you there; I’d offer to write for him too. Maybe I’d beg, a little... ;>

[MHGinTN]

I don’t need the money ... and I don’t beg.