Is Rush Limbaugh in Trouble?

Politico Magazine ^ | May 24, 2016 | Ethan Epstein

[ArtDodger]

Rush called Fluke a slut. Hmmm, I may start listening to him again...

[Big Giant Head]

Remember, Rush never called that slut a slut. He posed it as a question: “What does that make her? A slut?”

Liberals who are SO MUCH better educated, SO MUCH smarter, can’t see the difference.

[Williams]

He’s in trouble with me and for me that’s enough.

[Souled_Out]

I canceled after 6 years, right after his full throated support of the GOPe. Just another paid liar stealing other people’s money.

[Carl Vehse]

Why? Because four years after Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” on air

Wait. What was the problem? Sandra Fluke (rhymes with "duck") was a slut.

[867V309]

fluke has nothing to do with rush’s problems. Listeners don’t quit because advertisers quit, they quit because they don’t like the show. And if the audience is large enough, there will be advertisers.

[snarkpup]

For several years I've had something of a problem with Rush because he strikes me as a "James Watt Republican."

More recently, he blew his credibility by making up complete crap about what was going to be in the Net Neutrality document. After it was released, he dropped the matter like an enraged porcupine and never mentioned it again. From this point I stopped taking him seriously, and regarded information from his show as suspect until confirmed by other sources.

Most recently, I stopped listening to him completely after the Cruz/Trump/Chicago affair that he neglected to even mention, even though it had other conservatives washing their hands of Cruz en masse.

[a fool in paradise]

Why? Because four years after Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” on air, spurring a major boycott movement, reams of advertisers still won’t touch him.

Phony outrage over a phony controversy.

a twitterbot campaign to attack Rush Limbaugh's attack on an anti-Catholic agitator who tried to challenge a school and the church on the issue of birth control.

She played the poor little victim, unable to afford birf control yet the numbers as discussed by Rush didn't pan out. Condoms were cheap and what's more, she took an expensive vacation with her mam-slut afterwards. Someone between them can afford "the pill".

It has still never been confirmed or refuted that sh may have participated in Georgetown's "slutwalk" a year before this kerfuffle. why aren't "slutalks" grounds for boycotts and protests?

[Big Giant Head]

I can take 10 or so minutes before I return to the Libertarian radio show.

[Safetgiver]

That old windbag has never, NEVER been wrong in his prognostications. Unless you can post some relevant mistakes?

[apillar]

When Rush came on the in scene in the late 1980’s he really was a breath of fresh air, for conservatives there had never been anything like him before, a national conservative advocate which was also entertaining. Before that our only choices where conservative magazines or “dry” conservative intellectual shows late night on PBS. The problem is that time and technology has passed Rush by, conservatives now have endless options (websites, podcasts, blogs etc.)for conservative thought and discussion. Rush is now just “that old guy your grandma listen’s to on AM radio”.

[moovova]

If I were Rush, I’d be worried too...at only $38 million per year for the last eight years.

Rush could tell the world’s listening audience, the article’s author AND Sandra Fluke to stick it where the Florida sun don’t shine...and never have another concern the rest of his life.

[AppyPappy]

He’s pregnant?

[Cinnamontea]

Why is it always the conservative radio hosts? Why is there no report on the leftist media falling apart?

Because the media are left-wingers and have no wish to harm their fellow travelers. They manufacture stories to fit their agendas. All you have to do is say, "Is Rush [or fill in the blank with any other conservative] in trouble?" That's it. Impression created, speculation started, job done.

I know that was a rhetorical question, but I had to answer it anyway! And I agree with you--Rush is going to be around for a long time. As long as he wants.

[ozzymandus]

Didn’t read it all, because it’s a rehash of the same wishful thinking about Rush’s demise that leftists have been spewing constantly for years. They’re still using his single comment about Sandra Fluke to trash him. How long ago was that? The sad part is that some so-called conservatives also wish Rush ill.

[EveningStar]

ROFL!

[BigEdLB]

Hannity has been good to Trump... One of the most decent... Along with Laura Ingraham

[Moonman62]

Maybe he is losing listeners because for the last three months he has been pimping Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, and he has been unlistenable.

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That and outside the studio he is a CINO. Years and years ago Rush always reminded people that he was just an entertainer. He’s been a very good one, but I think he hasn’t done much for Conservatives when it’s all added up. Reaganism was purged out of Washington under his watch.

[EveningStar]

Safetgiver, al baby is joking. LOL.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I was a listener since 1990, quit after he went full-throated on Rubio.
I suspect he lost quite a few with that.
One cannot be serious about the danger of illegal aliens and amnesty and also support Rubio.
I may tune in again from time to time now that the primary is over.
His credibility has suffered.