Echoed my sentiments. Rush, who has about a billion bucks, used up about half his program today to hawk his tea. Rush used to have the best record of talk show hosts concerning the amount of time actually doing the show. Most talk shows, like Hannity's, that boast about being there for you for three hours actually only prate for about half that time.
Just count the minutes the host, for example Hannity, is actually doing his show. There's about fifteen minutes in each half hour. First there's six minutes for the news. Then the host does his thing for about fifteen minutes a lot of that talking about irrelevant crap. Then there's about a seven minute commercial break. Then he comes back and tells you about the great second half hour. Then at the half hour on to news and more commercials. Then he does about ten or twelve minutes. Then more commercials with another small teaser before the hour. Repeat second and third hours, and that's the "three hours of talk" you were promised.
Rush used to be better than the other hosts with less time devoted to shilling. Now he's getting to be as bad as the others. He certainly doesn't need the money.
Rush was the pioneer of the infomercial on talk radio, now they all do it. Rush used to say that he has not added commercials so he went for the infomercial.
I used to never miss a Rush show but lately I don’t care if I miss it, in fact I never used to shop while Rush was on but I’m way over that now.
Rush used to tout his 24/7 so you could listen to his 4th hr. Hell I think he did maybe 3 of those and that stopped, he doesn’t promote it much anymore. I joined for 1 year and let it go as a big disappointment.
Now with this tea crap I guess I can find other things to do.
Mark Levin has also caught the infomercial virus. In fact his show has lost of the edge it had and his shilling for his last book lasted for almost a year and he’s got a new book coming out so we can expect another year of shilling for his new book.
Just seems like talk radio is maybe half talk and half commercials and infomercials. Oh well, I do have an off button.