Yet another Rush is doomed thread.
jmowreader (23,865 posts)
Exclude Rush Limbaugh orders have him shitting kittens
A little-known secret of the media business: we do nothing unless we get paid for it. And what pays the bills is advertising.
Cumulus Media, iirc the second-largest radio network after Clear Channel, is about to dump Rush because advertisers don't want to sponsor him. People know this.
Now consider having to sell this program to stations that are already scheduled around the clock: "We would like you to take whatever you've got scheduled for the three hours in the middle of the day off and replace it with a show with declining Arbitron ratings and no national ad accounts, and that you can't sell locally to anyone except army surplus depots and cigar stores because the host is radioactive." It's not likely he'd find new stations.
http://election.democraticunderground.com/10022820921Well let's see when he called the slut a slut he lost a couple of advertisers, but they were replaced right away. Carbonite was replaced by I Drive and Pro Flowers by 1800 flowers. Yeah Rush is doomed.
mike_c (31,497 posts)
1. the longer he continues to spew his poison, the more he'll trash the divisive...
...political talk show medium, which is ultimately a good thing, as it has done much to foster the blind and stupid partisanship that has overtaken American politics.
Yet your blind partisanship and that of Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz is just fine.
BuelahWitch (7,461 posts)
4. I hope he has to take a job selling coins on infomercials at 3am
Where normal people won't have to look or listen to him.
I didn't realize people were forced to listen to his show.
mike3121 (71 posts)
12. Fat Jerk
I would have thought he and Hannity would be arrested by now and Fox shut down.
Scratch a fascist and find a progressive.
AtheistCrusader (14,064 posts)
17. Time to retire, you drug addled shitheap.
I love how the drug addled idiots of the DUmp use that against him.
lpbk2713 (23,222 posts)
32. His lies and hate should never have been allowed in the first place.
But a lot of powerful RW politicos went to bat for him and the rest is history.
If lies and hate are not to be allowed then the left is in major trouble.
Every time I have ever asked a lib to name just one Rush lie, they can never mention one. They say he lies so much that they can't think of one example.
Travelman (444 posts)
81. I'll believe it when it actually happens
I can't even count how many times over the years I've seen the claims that Limbaugh was gone/going/losing all his sponsors and going broke/shut down/toast/etc. Not a single one has come true.
It was just absolutely certain that Limbaugh was gone after Sandra Fluke.
It was just absolutely certain that Limbaugh was gone after "fake soldiers."
It was just absolutely certain that Limbaugh was gone after "hope Obama fails."
It never happened. Not even close. Even with all of the brouhaha over a couple of advertisers dropping him in the wake of Sandra Fluke, there were others lined up banging on the door to take their place.
Like it or not, he's bringing in the money, and a lot of it. He's making Clear Channel a bunch of money. A bunch of money. They're not going to kill the goose that lays the golden turd.
I'll not hold my breath that he's going away any time soon. Too much past disappointment there.
The fact that it ruins your pathetic lives that Rush is on the air just shows how petty and stupid you are.