Posted on 05/30/2016 12:46:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
Earlier this year, as that unmistakable bass line of the Pretenders’ My City Was Gone faded into the background, Rush Limbaugh opened his daily three-hour broadcast with characteristic bombast. “[According to the] latest research data,” he intoned, “the audience is expanding at near geometric proportions, as people seek guidance, answers, explanations, information, and an answer to the basic question, ‘What the hell is happening out there?’" ...
And yet, there are signs that all is not well in the Limbaugh radio empire. Because even as his influence is sky high and his dominance at the top of talk radio remains unchallenged, as a business proposition, Limbaugh’s show is on shaky ground. In recent years, Limbaugh has been dropped by several of his long-time affiliates, including some very powerful ones: He’s gone from WABC in New York, WRKO in Boston and KFI in Los Angeles, for example, and has in many cases been moved onto smaller stations with much weaker signals that cover smaller areas.
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. He suffers from what talk radio consultant Holland Cooke calls a “scarlet letter among national brand advertisers.” And for someone who has said that “confiscatory ad rates” are a key pillar of his business, that spells trouble. (Limbaugh ignored multiple interview requests.)
Limbaugh’s extremely lucrative eight-year contract—estimated to be worth roughly $38 million a year—is up this summer ...
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Rush called Fluke a slut. Hmmm, I may start listening to him again...
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.
He’s in trouble with me and for me that’s enough.
I canceled after 6 years, right after his full throated support of the GOPe. Just another paid liar stealing other people’s money.
Wait. What was the problem? Sandra Fluke (rhymes with "duck") was a slut.
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.
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.
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?
I can take 10 or so minutes before I return to the Libertarian radio show.
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.
He’s pregnant?
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.
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.
ROFL!
Hannity has been good to Trump... One of the most decent... Along with Laura Ingraham
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.
Safetgiver, al baby is joking. LOL.
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.
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