Posted on 05/14/2013 3:38:41 PM PDT by Pinkbell
New York (CNN) -- Is Rush Limbaugh becoming a relic, a human version of "Mad Men," except without the style or cool clothes? Has Limbaugh become as dated as Jazzercise or "Macarena?"
All you need to do is look at the bottom line to see that Limbaugh is in trouble. Limbaugh once raked in the big bucks for his radio syndicator, Cumulus. But last week, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey made it clear those days are over. Dickey reported that Cumulus had lost millions of dollars in ad sales because many advertisers no longer want to be associated with Limbaugh.
According to Dickey, advertisers began to pull away from Limbaugh after his February 2012 comments in which he infamously called law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" after she testified before Congress advocating birth control be covered by health insurance. Limbaugh's despicable comments were met with an avalanche of outrage and calls for corporations to stop advertising on Rush's show.
How badly did this advertising boycott hurt Limbaugh's show?
Well, according to the radio industry magazine "Radio Ink," 48 of the 50 network advertisers for Cumulus radio have excluded Limbaugh's show from their ad orders. I'm no media expert, but that sounds really bad for Rush.
What was Limbaugh's response? Was he contrite or remorseful? Nope. Instead Limbaugh lashed out last week at young women again by asserting that the reason ad sales fell off was because: "The media buyers at advertising agencies are young women, fresh out of college-liberal feminists who hate conservatism." Not only is this comment sexist on its face, remarkably Limbaugh apparently doesn't believe that his past antics have contributed to Cumulus' lost ad sales.
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I still neither heard confirmation nor denial that she participated in Georgetown’s “slut walk” the year before the comment was made on the air. If she DID engage in that feminist “take back the term” protest, then she has little room to b!tch.
“Drudge is where Rush goes to get much of his daily news, which shows the limits of his time and research abilities...or that of his staff.”
Have *you* ever been to Drudge? It’s a collection of links, and the people who compile them miss very few if any significant matters. It doesn’t pretend to be a complete news source; it is a jumping-off place—and a very good one.
“tiresome”
Then don’t listen. There’s always Jon Stewart.
“Rush told them that Bambi was going to lose in a “landslide”
I just did a quick web search for that prediction. Could you point me to your source?
Rush, is that you?
Here you go, dsc:
“Every poll from both Republicans and Democrats say this is a tight race. But forget that. This thing is going to be a Romney landslide” Rush Limbaugh, Nov.6, 2012.
I don’t listen to him most of the time anymore. I stopped after the election..
No thanks on the Jon Stewart show. I’ve never tuned in but I’ll bet you have!
Levin is the only talk show host worth his salt.
Um, who are you and why don’t you go away? Troll alert!
Let’s review the action.
I said, “I just did a quick web search for that prediction. Could you point me to your source?”
To which you replied, “Um, who are you and why don’t you go away? Troll alert!”
No comment on that exchange is required. I would only point out that I have been here since 1998.
“Every poll from both Republicans and Democrats say this is a tight race. But forget that. This thing is going to be a Romney landslide” Rush Limbaugh, Nov.6, 2012.
I Googled that, and the only thing other than this thread that popped up was this: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/11/rush_limbaugh_says_romney_will.php
Even that mouth-frothing, brain-dead putz did not cite the quotation you offer. That screed did have a link to Newsmax: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Limbaugh-polls-Romney-landslide/2012/11/05/id/462891
That article didn’t cite your quotation either.
To sum up, you say Limbaugh said it, but haven’t yet provided a source.
Rush wasn’t quoted exactly correctly.
...My friends, I’ve been looking at all the data that you have been looking at. I’ve been trying to separate feelings from thoughts and come up with some sort of an educated prognostication. You know, common sense tells me this election isn’t gonna be close and shouldn’t be. And yet every poll, every single poll, has this race tied...
...This is Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Romney Winning Independents 59%-35%.” That is 24 points. Twenty-four points, Romney up independents!
Folks, we’re talking major landslide if that’s true, and yet it’s a CNN poll that shows Democrats plus 11 and the race tied at 49-49...
“Rush wasn’t quoted exactly correctly.”
Gee, wotta surprise. Rush misquoted. Whooda thunkit?
Thanks for the clarification.
You know, every time somebody tells me that Limbaugh said this or that stupid or false thing, it turns out that he didn’t say it.
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