Limbaugh makes millions for being wrong (While I toil away at 7-11 and opine from Mom's basement!)

The Augusta Chronicle ^ | May 9, 2009 | Nathan Kirby

[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

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Liberals are like Cinderella, they wait in Mom's basement for someone like Obama to come along and rescue them. With a wave of his entitlement wand, he turns them into a prince or princess (in this guy's case) and they will live happily ever after.

Well, after Obama gets Amnesty passed before the year is out, this idiot had better study hard just to keep his job at 7/11 or Wal-Mart. Because there will be some serious competition even for sweeping floors on the night crew.

[VlPu]

Answer to "millions of dollars" to reward failure is  "millions of dollars" to manufacture icons. A special type of icons:

http://illuminati-icons.blogspot.com/2007/05/clinton-hilary-vs-blair-cherie-millions.html

[infidel29]

Can I disagree with presidential policies without alienating and losing friends...

Sounds like this.. individual's... friends think he's a tool as well.

[Gaffer]

I could say here that $400M over eight years would be over a half a billion dollars because of investment, interest, etc. But, somehow I don't think the author of the screed meant that. I'm convinced that most of his constituents are just that stupid - and you can't fix that!

[NavVet]

Rush gets paid a lot of money, because he generates even more money for the people paying him. The question the loser should ask, is why does Keith Olberman get paid 7 million dollars a year when only his immediate family, and the Obama’s watch his show.

[RichInOC]

Nate, why should we cut you a check for 400 mill when you’re already wrong for free?

[Anti-Bubba182]

"......Yes, I realize Limbaugh is the de facto Führer of the Republican Party........"

No need to read further.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

He makes all that money because he is right most of the time. Without trying to refute everything this malcontent is saying, maybe there is a reasin Limbaugh makes what he does and this guy is in a 7/11.

[gwilhelm56]

**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.**

I got this far in the article... I think I need a SHOWER, now. To all Liberal blogger wannabe’s; Before you go throwing around the term FUHRER, Go read about the early days of the National Socialist Party.

geez ...

[iopscusa]

From the comments @ the Augusta Chron:
‘Nathan, put some ice on it young man. If you had anything to say you too could be making money. You, however, are an empty suit with your leftist neo Marxist ideology. I have been a Rush fan since 1988’...
Augusta, GA is a bit different IMHO, lots of lefty losers brought in to the DOE Savannah River site as well as disaffected black minorities awas mucho Hispanos....Nathan is probably just another retardo that retired with a Federal Pension & Healthcare after feasting on the back of the Taxpayer for 30 years!

[melsec]

I am sure his employer would not agrre with this twit or his employer would not have paid it - Surely this is the basis of Capitalism and this, dear friends, is what this useful idiot does not like.

Mel

[Caipirabob]

(While I toil away at 7-11 and opine from Mom's basement!)

*snicker*

I had to read after that...

[EBH]

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.

Dear Nate; this is called a pause. It gives us an opportunity to examine if what has been done to stop the slide is actually working. It is part of a slow unwind and not the hallelujah start of a recovery in this case. The banks are still not lending on a large scale. Instead they need more capital on their books. Even your own Fuhrer O knows this, he is just softening the information for your weary crisis emotions. He won't let the bad banks fail, remember they are too big to fail. Fuhrer 0 has created trillions of dollars of new debt, new debt on top of the old billions. You screamed about the Bush billions used to protect our freedom, keep us safe, and keep terrorists at bay. The Fuhrer 0 trillions is going to do what for us? Energy Independence you say? How when we can't drill for oil, can't build more nuclear plants, can't build more coal plants. Electric cars need more electricity ...about 40% more. That isn't going to come from windmills and solar panels son.

Hmmm...let me go find the chart I posted yesterday. All those tax cuts and repealed cuts and repealed oil subsidy thing-a-ma-jobs ain't even going to begin to help our economy, unless Fuhrer 0 gets his trillions down to millions. Now, let me see it was a chart from the CBO...oh yes,...here it is. I understand you liberal folks like your visual aids.

You see them red bars on there. That is what Fuhrer 0 has created for us to take care of. In order to take care of them trillions he is going to have to take the money from somewhere? Now, son just where do you think he is going to get that money?

Print it? Really? What happens if we just around printing money like it is counterfeit? It devalues our money. Now there was a time when our money was backed by gold. But, son we've been off that gold standard for decades. So our money is backed by our debt and the full faith and credit of the United States. You ever think about what that means?

Naw, didn't think you had. It means your work, your effort, your imagination, your ingenuity, your ability to "make something of value" with your life. What has always made this country prosper, our economy hum, has been the individuals ability to pursue his happiness. Sure some succeed and some fail. Nothing wrong with failure, if you learn something from it. The more Fuhrer 0 meddles with creating trillion dollar debts, the more freedom he takes away from us all.

The longer you live in your parents basement typing out computer generated blogs the less freedom you give your parents and your country. Your piggybacking on your parents, instead of getting out there and pursuing your dreams, is what is going to kill the country and our Freedom. It is like all those folks who are piggybacking on the government, looking for their handout from the government. It is really a handout from me who works to pursue their dreams, to folks like you still living in your parents basement.

I'll give you Rush is wrong from time to time, but not on this son. The more the Fuhrer meddles in the economy, the more congress wants to hold its kangaroo courts with CEO's the more we lose our Freedom. We have laws to deal with what has happened and what is about to happen. Perhaps you should ask your Fuhrer why he isn't using them?

[JessieHelmsJr]

If you ask me I think Rush is under payed!

[Slings and Arrows]

How brave. He’s speaking truth to power.

[Waco]

Limb. pulls in the bucks, ‘’democracy’’ rules,,,,heh heh

[RoadTest]

It’s a TRUTH thing; you wouldn’t understand.

[sergeantdave]

Living in the basement, surfing flyingsaucer.com all day and hoping the dog in the junkyard will notice you is not the way to go through life, son. Most likely you’ll see this boy Saturday morning at the dumpster looking for used Twinkies and ramen noodles.

[RoadTest]

I almost fell off my chair laughing at your grenade complaint department.

[LibLieSlayer]

Price Waterhouse says he is 99.7% in accuracy... since this article is 100% bullsh!t... Nathan... you are batting zero loser!

LLS