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.
I certainly don’t begrudge any of the talk show superstars making scads of money, but it seems like we’re getting more ads and less talk as the years go by. Rush is especially disappointing in that respect as he has more money than he can possibly spend now. I wish him success in his new business, but somebody should clue him into the fact that his listeners don’t want to hear more ads. Whenever he goes into his spiel for Lifelock or his other clients, I switch the radio off.