Posted on 05/09/2009 1:46:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh signed an eight-year, $400 million contract in 2008 with Clear Channel Communications! In terms even I can understand, that's $50 million a year -- not to mention tens of millions more in endless endorsements.
I've just got to ask: Why on God's green Earth does he make so much money? Yes, I realize Limbaugh is the de facto Führer of the Republican Party. Yet, as far as I can tell, he's making well over half-a-billion dollars the next eight years for doing nothing more than always being wrong.
Didn't Limbaugh predict the invasion of Iraq would be smooth sailing? Didn't Limbaugh parrot Bush every time he said, "The fundamentals of the economy are strong" -- all the way up to and over the economic collapse cliff, in September 2008? In January 2009, didn't Limbaugh predict the apocalypse if President Obama's economic plans were passed by the majority-Democrat Congress?
Then, on May 5, didn't Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a Republican, predict the economy would be out of recession by fall 2009? Jobless claims are dropping. Retail sales are improving. Thus, the stock market has been positive the past two months.
So, where's this apocalypse we were all dying for?
I'm sorry, but as the rational human being bank-rolling him, I would absolutely have to know that Limbaugh has been right about one, single, teensy-weensy thing in order to have completely justified his $400-million-plus goldmine jackpot.
Jealous? You bet your sweet, sweet apple I am! Hey, I'm wrong all the time, too. Quick -- someone write me a check for $400 million and I'll be as wrong as you want for as long as you want. Heck, I'll even go one better. I'll be wrong and over the moon to get paid a measly 1 percent of that amount for my magnificently selfless services.
Nathan Kirby
Augusta
Some got it, some don’t.
I apologize for thinking otherwise.....
Because he's worth it, dickweed. Take Econ 101.
Limbaugh's salary is largely (if not entirely) based on advertising revenues so you should be happy, Nathan, that all those advertisers on Limbaugh's show are being screwed to the tune of 400 million dollars.
Don't you like it, Nathan, when greeeeeeeeedy businessmen get screwed? Ha ha ha haaaaaa!!!
yeap never understood how socialists claim conservatives are socialists.
It’s obvious he’s a God hater
Absolutely, we’re doomed if the great government doesn’t save us. You can’t possibly believe that Obama is above partisanship. Also, I would much rather a president do nothing than spend us into oblivion.
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