Posted on 05/18/2014 2:07:21 PM PDT by xzins
Host Rank + Host + Minimum weekly audience in millions.
1. Rush Limbaugh 13.50
2. Sean Hannity 12.75
3. Dave Ramsey 7.50
4. Glenn Beck 7.25
4. Mark Levin 7.25
5. Michael Savage 5.50
6. Jim Bohannon 3.25
6. Mike Gallagher 3.25
6. Michael Medved 3.25
6. Doug Stephan 3.25
7. Bill Bennet 3.00
7. Clark Howard 3.00
7. Laura Ingraham 3.00
7. George Noory 3.00
8. Thom Hartman 2.25
8. Dennis Miller 2.25
8. Ed Schultz 2.25
9. Alan Colmes 1.75
9. Don Imus 1.75
9. Stephanie Miller 1.75
9. Todd Schnitt 1.75
10. Herman Cain 1.50
10. Kim Komando 1.50
10. Denis Prager 1.50
11. Andy Dean 1.25
11. Hugh Hewitt 1.25
11. Lars Larson 1.25
12. Bill Handel 1.00
12. Eric Harley & Gary McNamara 1.00
12. Roger Hedgecock 1.00
12. Kevin McCullough 1.00
12. Al Sharpton 1.00
That may be in the cards. He has a regular guest segment on Hugh Hewitt on Thursdays.
But my favorite Hewitt regular was James Lileks. Not only is his voice very sexy, but the Gallery of Regrettable Food is one of the funniest books Ive read.
I don’t blame you. I listened to Kudlow Sat. night and noticed the same thing. Usually I’m watching a movie or out dancing or something, but once in awhile I catch him.
For one thing, who’s going to check to see if they’ve all learned English as promised? Of course the ones from places like Nigeria may already speak better English than some of us do, but I digress.
There are no easy answers. That’s what I believe. I have to admit that it bothers me that the illegals who have served in the US military dont get an exception.
Don’t forget Kudlow was also pretty hard on Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc a few months back.
Oh, yeah—he’s pure RINO/GOPe.
I don’t believe we should have illegals in our military. It was just reported that we’re down to taking one out of five applicants as it is.
IMO enforcement is a very easy answer. We’ve just haven’t executed it: Congress has already passed all sorts of laws on it. Yeah, I’d let more highly educated immigrants in. Stop chain migration and do whatever necessary to stop anchor babies and citizenship by birth on American soil.
Bob Grant didnt use his real name.
That being said, most of the time, it is clear that Rushs “narcissism” is a joke. One if the times it doesn’t, is when he used to be really star-struck, dropping the names of people he’d socialized with that weekend. He doesn’t do that so much now that he lives in Florida.
Do you catch Lileks’s podcasts over on ricochet.com?
Talk about RINO central, and the principals there aren’t particularly well informed. But Lileks does have a very quick wit.
Also, Maha Rushie and El Rushbo were both names callers came up with.
I think he’s stressed out because he has gone out on a limb with The Liberty Amendments. I admire him with this project, but he knows that he is making enemies in the conservative ( well so-called, anyway) movement and there’s no turning back. And it could get ugly if big RINOs start going after him. Some have proven how vicious they can be.
I haven’t read the Liberty Amendments, but from what I hear, it could help a lot. Term limits is one I don’t agree with, though. We had a Congressman here in WA who was all pro-term limits, then changed his mind and ran again because he could. I realize that one hypocrite doesn’t mean an idea is bad, but I have other reasons.
Rush used stage names when he was a DJ. It’s the norm in that business.
The way some if these morning zoo people act, if I were their parents, I would make them use a fake names.
He called her an anti-Semetic hag around the same time he called Cindy McCain a pill-popping hag. He’s one of the biggest misogynists I know, and Ive known a lot of them.
I don’t consider Rush to be a misogynist, BTW. Calling feminists out in their own inconsistencies and hypocrisies is not a war on women. The Sandra Fluke thing was b.s.
Bingo.
He clearly has issues with Jewishness it would take a shrink to untangle. For example he hates Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld, incredibly talented men, regardless what you think of their personal lives or politics.
He’s obviously not a strictly observant Jew like Medved or Dr. Laura because he’s out there eating lobster, etc. That’s his business, but he obsesses on stuff like circumcision scandals and Jews involved in business scandals, etc. With Jews like him, who needs anti-Semites? (Of course I guess you could say the same for Jewish Obama supporters, and I know one)It also doesn’t seem to occur to him that a wide audience may not care about these stories.
Also could somebody explain for me Savages position on Vladimir Putin? It’s too complicated for me to understand.
Actually he’s in his fifties, approximately the same age. I’ll read the link when I get time.
He gets more into consumer stuff—protecting from identity theft, what brand of bacon is the best (Kirkland by Costco), that kind of stuff.
I don’t have an iPod, but thank you.
Savage has taken a pretty big nose dive, from 8 million listeners/week in 2005 to 5.5 million in 2014.
The big gainers have been Mark Levin, who didn't appear on the 2005 list and is at 7.25 million in 2014, and Glenn Beck, going from 2.75 million in 2005 to 7.25 million in 2014.
You can just go to ricochet.com and listen to them online. He’s part of the weekly ricochet podcast (no iPod needed) and also for some time was doing his own separate podcast, the something-or-other diner.
It’s not a matter of using stage names as much as it is choosing the word “savage”.
It says to me either “huge ego” or “broke ego”, both of which are a form of compensation.
Mike Savage recently hosted that antisemitic nut, Paul Craig Roberts. I guess antisemites who subscribe to Savages worldview are okay.
I just listened to Hannity interview Dr Ben Carson a few hours ago. It was such a great exchange of ideas. Carson is so respectful of God, of this nation, and of what a hard-working, inspired person can accomplish. Hannity was right where he should have been. He didn’t intrude on the interview...he let Carson shine.
The thought came to me: “I wish this man had been our first black president.”
Hannity can play hardball, he can rant, but what he does really well is respect and friendliness. In that regard, he’s among the best. And, in that regard he reminds me so much of the late (and I think great) Tony Snow.
I hate to play the Left's color scheme, but I am hoping that Allen West will run for President.
p.s. Sean Hannity gave me free tickets to his Freedom Concert because of me answering a question about the "Oceans 11" movie, so I am a little partial toward him.
I just listened to Hannity interview Dr Ben Carson a few hours ago. It was such a great exchange of ideas. Carson is so respectful of God, of this nation, and of what a hard-working, inspired person can accomplish. Hannity was right where he should have been. He didn’t intrude on the interview...he let Carson shine.
The thought came to me: “I wish this man had been our first black president.”
Hannity can play hardball, he can rant, but what he does really well is respect and friendliness. In that regard, he’s among the best. And, in that regard he reminds me so much of the late (and I think great) Tony Snow.
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