Its not paid to lose money. The ticket sales generate income.
A headline the other day said Dan Rather gets $75,000. I can only imagine what Bubba makes? Probably $250,000 a pop.
GW
I just saw William Krystol at DeSales University, and it was free. He said the next day he was speaking at Harvard Law School. (Krystol recently had a pie thrown at him at another university.)