As opposed to the "relevant" Anderson Pooper who called patriotic men, women, and children "teabaggers" (f@gg*ts).
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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There are many, many more examples of these "Limbaughisms" through the years. Looking at these comments makes you wonder why it took so long for advertisers to wake up and smell the bigotry.
The writer then compares him to Don Imus and says he'll never be the same to end his liberal fantasy.
The liberals are rejoicing in the comments. Have a look at this typical liberal comment:
Sadly for the Republican party, Rush Limbaugh (like Hannity, O'Reilly, Palin, Beck, etc.) epitomizes how radical the Republican party has become. All share an 1800's mentality which shockingly, people are gullible enough to believe. Most GOP politicians are too spineless to challenge the extremist viewpoints of these people, thus their viewpoints are now mainstream in the GOP. And they wonder why they are becoming known as "the party of stupid"?
I thank God every day that I’m part of the “1700’s”
mentality and respect where and when the Idea of
freedom took root.
“he infamously called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute”
Did he really? Or is this just another distortion?
Limbaugh has orders of magnitude more listeners than CNN has viewers.
Yes, because she thought she should be paid in contraceptives for her sexual activities.
LLS
Isn’t that ironic? I guess that Obama didn’t read this article.
What else would one expect from the COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK?
Judging by THEIR ratings, I think they should worry about their own filthy house.
I truly think that if Limbaugh had a dip in his following, it was when he was embraced by the Republican mainstream, and he made two very bad mistakes.
First, he decided to “moderate” his views. Before then, he used sharp-tongued savagery to lash into scoundrels from feminist abortionists to corrupt politicians. He was willing to “call a femiNazi and femiNazi.” When he stopped doing that, he lost a lot of edge.
Second, instead of going after anyone and everyone who fouled up, he embraced the Republican party platform as a baseline, instead of what the rank and file conservatives wanted. Again, this cost him a lot.
Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN.
They have ZERO relevance in my life (news, publishing, information, entertainment).
There may be “legacy” recordings they own (film, television, music) from decades past but they are already available USED in the marketplace and do not earn them a dime on resale.
The question should be: “Is CNN still relevant?”
Every once in awhile when I hear him lean too much to Romney or Rubio...I start to wonder but after a little time Rush always comes through it. He is just human. He thinks it through and is way too good to be fooled for long. He is still “Da Man”.
Yes indeed!
LLS
From what I hear, Obama thinks he is still relevant.
Funny... Rush has stated that their numbers are up and more and more low information voters are tuning in to see what all the fuss is about. Many are converted and I have heard them call in and discuss their transformation.
LLS
He talks about himself too much. He’d be relevant if he’d get back to politics and be a little more up to date on his discussions - very often, everything will have changed since he did his “show prep” (if he even does it) and he appears to be unaware of it. Also, he often seems to misunderstand the callers.
So I think he’s coasting, and that’s why listenership has dropped.
Obama seems to think so.
As opposed to the "relevant" Anderson Pooper who called patriotic men, women, and children "teabaggers" (f@gg*ts).
What’s this CNN thing?
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