Exclude Rush Limbaugh orders have him shitting kittens

[jmowreader]

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.

[mike_c]

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.

[DeSwiss]

5. It was inevitable.....

- K&R

[MADem]

20. Very nice graphic, that! nt

[mimi85]

34. You took the words

right out of my fingers. Yep, it's a good one!

[ismnotwasm]

45. Nice!

I like that a lot.

[Tarheel_Dem]

49. Excellent!

[Matariki]

60. Wow. Yeah.

[MineralMan]

2. And consider the plight of the individual stations' sales staff.

They have to sell local ads on a station that many people never tune to, due to the constant stream of right wing garbage coming from it. Radio ad sales are tough enough without that hanging over your head.

[Autumn]

3. I hope those kittens come out back wards, with their claws out

poor kittens.

[meow2u3]

9. I hope those kittens are 8-11 months old

with their claws out and coming out backwards.

[Metro135]

24. Kittens?

How about lion cubs?

[relayerbob]

30. Cubs?

Full grown!

[Jazzgirl]

27. And I hope those kittens nails have never been clipped!

[mimi85]

35. I think we ought to introduce him to...

[Erose999]

77. I hope those "kittens" are hungry adult lions and tigers.

[BuelahWitch]

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.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I'm sure everybody on DU

feels really bad for Rush.

[LiberalFighter]

8. I feel bad

that he wasn't killed off 20 years ago on the radio.

[BlueCaliDem]

73. + 1000 eom

[Sheepshank]

7. Couldn't Limbaugh just hook up with Beck? n/t

[madokie]

11. With each of their egos

I doubt it.
rushbo will sell his mansion and move to the DR is my bet. Wifey number 4 or whatever it is will divorce him and take most of his money and no one will give him any air time and he has no skills otherwise. Its all down hill for pedoboy from here on out

[KansDem]

31. I think you're on to something! "The Baugh/Beck Show"

Or maybe "The Oxy and Toxi Show"

[demwing]

64. Gush Limbeck? /nt

[Junkdrawer]

10. I've said for years that ad dollars were only PART of why Rush (and Fox and..) stay on the air.....

Catapulting RW propaganda (especially to our troops) also has a dollar value to the PTB.

And the longer he stays on the air while his show loses money, the more obvious this becomes.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Look at the Washington Times

The Moonies pump in an average of $100 million/year just to help that money-loser break even. But, it allows all those RW columnists to get on the air with "John Doe - Washington Times correspondent" or similar beneath them

[Junkdrawer]

16. Exactly

[jmowreader]

40. Catapulting RW propaganda only goes so far

Radio stations have to pay rent, buy a lot of electricity, pay staff and so on. If they can make more money with something besides Rush Limbaugh, Rush will be gone.

And as extreme as he's gotten, pretty soon even the local advertisers will desert him - he's out of national accounts now.

[Junkdrawer]

42. How much money did Goebbels make for the Nazis?

Come on, Clear Channel. Take him off the air and prove I'm all wet.

Pleeaase.....

[Pelican]

44. 20+ years later...

Even if it were to happen it seems like it would be a hollow victory.

[Nay]

59. Yeah, the damage has been done about fifty times over. I don't think it matters any more if

he's on or not. I'll be glad he's gone, but the wreckage he's left behind is pretty massive.

[demwing]

66. 20 years is a blip

It seems like a lot, but only because we had to live through it.

Limbaugh will be as relevant to the generation of tomorrow as someone like Huey Long is to the generation of today.

[mike3121]

12. Fat Jerk

I would have thought he and Hannity would be arrested by now and Fox shut down.

[Voice for Peace]

14. please, please do not post about little kittens that nobody will ever want to rescue

thank you

[Lunacee_2013]

28. Yeah, why kittens?

How about porcupine? Angry, full-grown porcupines?

[Warpy]

29. Or wolverines?

Tasmanian devils? Badgers?

[Jackpine Radical]

38. I vote honey badgers.

[jmowreader]

41. Oh, be nice about the kittens

Wash 'em in Janitor In A Drum, put a little bow around their necks and write a suitable tale of woe and people will adopt them.

[Erose999]

78. Catfish. May he be "finned" many times upon their exit.

[Turborama]

58. I was was thinking angry full grown rhinos n/t

[libodem]

15. Has he been kicked off

Armed Services radio, yet. That is the biggest national travesty, ever. Our service men and women have to listen to him disparage their, Commander in Chief.
It is wrong to spread sedition through the ranks. There ought not be partisan politics on that radio station even for fucking free.

[Pelican]

47. Would you have kicked off Ed Schultz or Keith Olbermann...

... during the Bush years?

[SammyWinstonJack]

55. ...

[Kingofalldems]

62. No comparison between Limbaugh and Olbermann, Schultz

Good try though.

[Pelican]

69. I was referring to this bit...

"Our service men and women have to listen to him disparage their, Commander in Chief.
It is wrong to spread sedition through the ranks."

The exact same thing could have been said about the broadcasting the usual winner of "Worst Person in the World" 5-13 year ago. Hint, it was President Bush....

I'm sure the ethical and legal standard of, I think my opinion is right and they are wrong, will hold water though. Awesome...

At least the other guy was honest about it.

[Kingofalldems]

83. Rush honest?

You sure are defending Rush. Are you a fan?

[Pelican]

84. I'm defending intellectual honesty...

Something that some folks are desperately trying to avoid.

Either you can talk smack about the President or you can't.

All of this "My personal ideology lines up with this person, so it's ok" is just silly and would come back to bite them in their collective ass next time someone they don't like is in office.

[2ndAmForComputers]

90. Your guys are crazy, poisonous, hateful extremists. Our guys aren't. That's the truth. Deal with it.

And call me back when a liberal media person calls a young conservative woman a "slut," or the 13yo daughter of a Republican president a "dog."

Who the hell do you think you're fooling?

[Pelican]

91. You are obviously confused...

Reread the posts towards the top and try again...

[demwing]

67. To get rid of Butterballs?

Yep

[caledesi]

71. No, because they do not "make things up" like some ppl... there are FACTS and BS! nt

[Pelican]

72. Neither of them were strictly news but were rather editorial in nature...

They had a strong bias against the administration at that time and it went out to the same service members that listen to Rush nowadays.

I just think it's hypocritical. Keep on keeping on if that's what you like.

[Kingofalldems]

74. Except one lied and smeared constantly

while the other two didn't.

[cui bono]

80. The bias came from reality though. It was only bias because Bush was so wrong.

Not from birthers etc. If someone criticizes based on factual evidence then good. If Rush were criticizing Obama for more drone attacks and for increased warrantless wiretapping I'd be fine with that. But he spews lies and filth.

It's like the difference between a slanderer and a whistleblower.

And really, when was the last time you heard Olbermann or Maddow say something akin to the Cleveland women faking their kidnappings in order to get welfare and somehow putting the president's name into that scenario? When was the last time you heard Olbermann or Maddow call someone a slut and attempt to ruin a person's life just because they didn't like them testifying?

It's not the same at all.

[2ndAmForComputers]

89. I see you wisely waited until you had more than 100 posts.

Savvy.

[TeamPooka]

92. that won't stop MIRT or admin.

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Time to retire, you drug addled shitheap.

[zeeland]

18. To think that the Obama Administration

and the cultural climate it has created are primarily
responsible for the gutting this pompous ass makes
me ecstatic. Poetic justice.

[Botany]

19. I feel no pity for Rush because he is set for life with 10s of millions of dollars but ...

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.... Rush sees the walls closing in on him and he knows it is just a matter of time
before he is fired. Rush has lived in an echo chamber of his own making and even in
that protected environment things have now started to turn on him. The bombast and
planned in your face act has run its course.

Please remember Rush is just a really well thought out and planned act whose time is up.

BTW if and when Rush is shit canned he might make just as much money giving speeches
to his "dittoheads" about how he was let go for standing up for the "real american people."

Rush was not the first or will he be the last to fleece the suckers with an act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

Rush I know you read DU ...... feel the burn motherfucker!

[Junkdrawer]

21. I think Rush knows the minute he becomes expendable....

his Magic Shield will disappear and he'll be vulnerable to being held account for things he's not now.

I sense the man is blovating for his life.

[Ilsa]

22. The really good news is that RL will eventually

be dead and those millions will do him no good as he dies alone. I suspect the ex-wives might be able to talk then, just a little.

[Ikonoklast]

51. When they all get together for that press conference, there will be more

beards in that room than in an episode of "Duck Dynasty".

[Stewland]

56. Yes, I certainly hope he does not land into a seat next to me

A gas bag for sure. I have known of mindless ditto heads who would follow his blind mouse off a pier. I suspect his time left to be short because his lifestyle will catch up with him. I won't miss his stinky rants but where will all those little piggies go when he is gone?

[jmowreader]

86. I don't think Rush is set for life

When you live in an unsalable house (market demand for mansions is kinda low; those places sell based on the history of the people who lived in them before, and Pigboy's like Jay Gatsby in that people will forget him the second he dies), have three expensive ex-wives and an expensive current one, chain-smoke $20 cigars, vacation in Latin American sex-tourism paradises and so on and so forth, you burn through a lot of cash. I would be surprised if after all these years of being the King of AM Radio, he could put his hands on $100,000 within 24 hours without selling anything but gold or securities or committing a felony.

[Botany]

88. although his real estate might be hard to move I have no doubt that a ....

.... good chunk of Rush's money has been put into very safe investments such
as Index Funds and what not. I do kind of hope that global warming puts the
ocean in his Florida home's living room.

According to "the internets" Rush is worth $350 million and made $69 million last year.

http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/celeb/radio-personality/rush-limbaugh-net-worth/

But Rush is costing the companies that hire him millions every month in lost
revenue because he is so toxic and that along w/his fat salary almost guarantee
that he will be shit canned very soon.

[Ford_Prefect]

23. As much as I want him off the air "they" will only replace him with 5 more like him.

If they dump him its because the man is a financial embarrassment not because they do not want to continue selling his message.

The Kochs have propped him up during the long haul because he sells their racist hate agenda to the widest audience. Let's be clear about this one: He sells their hate agenda. That's what its about.

They will put more of the same thing on in his place, one way or another. His audience didn't leave. It was the effective boycott of the advertisers which makes him less desirable radio material, not the content he pushed.

[Bucky]

25. And so.... 30 years after he started vomiting onto the public airwaves, he gets his comeuppance.

Ha ha ha, now he'll have to go back home to his billions of dollars and his 6th or 7th wife and wallow in the humiliation of it all.








Yay.
















.

[Initech]

26. We really need to get his ass off Armed Forces Radio.

[lpbk2713]

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.

[southernyankeebelle]

33. Let's pray. From your lips to god's ears. Amen, the joker is leaving.

[caseymoz]

36. If this were anyone else . . .

. . . they would have dropped him months ago.

[TRoN33]

37. I really hope the world would look at us with...

the new light and hope they would feel entertained that Americans are capable of getting the act together to oust the voice that oppressed rest of the world and non-Republicans. Rush's career in radio talk show are almost literally over!

Hope many people in the world would get to drink with us and saying, "FUCK YOU RUSH!"

[sheshe2]

39. See ya Rush,bye bye!

No Rush, you will not be missed!

[marble falls]

43. How does the most popular personality on radio not draw top advertizing...

dollar. The folks who listen to him do not spend any bucks? Don't get me wrong, I only like the back shirt jiggle gif of him, but his demographic doesn't draw any marketers????

[Rex]

46. I am surprised the Mighty Fart Bag has lasted as long as he has.

nt.

[bobhuntsman]

48. I hope he fails. . .at respiration. . .soon!!

[davidthegnome]

50. Overly optimistic.

Much as I hate Rush, it's rather early to start cheering his demise. The relative success of his show is largely dependent upon angry white men... of which there is certainly no shortage in the USA. Some of these angry white men are into advertising, some of them are corporate officials, government officials, military officials, radio station owners, etc.

Hurt their bank accounts enough - and eventually, yes, Rush will go the way of the dinosaur. Not quite yet though.

I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect that radio stations will be giving this asswipe plenty of airtime for years to come.

What inspires this cynical point of view of mine? Working for a radio station with rather conservative programming. I can tell you that if we pulled Rush off the air - for any reason - a whole lot of listeners would be calling in real quick, going absolutely apeshit that they couldn't listen to his high stinking fat stupidness anymore.

We even had a few call in when we filled an hour of Glen Beck with a sports show. It would be much easier for the station I work for to get rid of Glen Beck AND Howie Carr both, than to eliminate Rush.

[benld74]

52. Sode Stream is still advertising with him. Heard it yesterday

[Purveyor]

53. Isn't 'soda stream' an israeli company? Makes sense...sort of. eom

[Junkdrawer]

54. Right you are...

http://sodastream.investorroom.com/contactus

[PD Turk]

57. good work

If we can keep it up we may be able to drive the proverbial stake all the way through his heart. I'm sending thank you letters to all the advertisers I can find that dropped him. At some point if he can't pick up revenue, he's a goner!!

[MrMickeysMom]

61. Time To Replace Mr. Blowhard Dick-face with real radio programs...

I suggest Thom Hartmann followed by Mike Malloy or Randy Rhoades...

And somebody... wash those kittens, please!

[navarth]

79. That would be an excellent lineup. Won't happen

not on these brainless RW stations. Here in Detroit WJR was once known as The Great Voice Of The Great Lakes. Powerhouse station, heard all over the continent. Broadcasted Tigers, Red Wings games. Now it's the Bloated Voice of Limbaugh Wannabees. They won't change easily.

Pisses me off to remember what a great station it once was.

[MrMickeysMom]

82. That sure is true

Could hear it from Oscoda, my hubby says... Absolutely a great station.

You know, sometimes it's GOOD to remember what was. Who says it can't be once again? Of course, you have to through a ton of SHIT to change things, mind you, but...

[sigmasix]

63. seeing the end of Limbaugh

Since one end looks the same as the other it will be difficult to figure out whether he's passing gas or bloviating.
Let's not mince words here; everyone (including Limbaugh) knows that this hate-filled, racist paranoid is going to die alone with no one feeling any grief over his death. As a matter of fact, his burial plot will probably be a featured destination for anyone in need of toilet facilities.

Limbaugh is indirectly responsible for millions of war casualties and thousands of destroyed futures. He has had his hands in the destruction of our political system and the formation of extremist, antiAmerican right wing organizations.

[mwooldri]

65. I guess "clear channel" will have to pay Cumulus to keep Rushbo on.

It used to be that when a new show started up and the show owners wanted to spread it wider, they paid other stations to syndicate the show. If it proved a success then new stations can pay to have the show. Obviously Mr. Limbaugh's radio show is in decline... so if Clear Channel want to keep him on the air and there is no other venue for Mr. Limbaugh to go to, then Clear Channel will have to cough up the cash.

[randome]

68. Try selling that idea to their stockholders, though.

It won't wash.

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[truebluegreen]

70. Didn't Bain Capital just acquire Clear Channel?

What are the odds that they will care more about ideology than money? Given their pattern they will dump the biggest contracts (guess who), pile on debt, pay themselves a ton of money for "consulting", and declare bankruptcy. Buhbye, druggie limpballs....

Lord Dog, that would be sweet!

[jmowreader]

87. Bain bought Clear Channel in 2008

[truebluegreen]

93. Phooey. They are moving a little too slow for me....

[Aviation Pro]

75. Actually, he's not shitting kittens....

...but smaller versions of himself, the fucking, balloon of a turd.

[jberryhill]

76. Those poor kittens

[Travelman]

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.

[davidpdx]

85. He's going to take a tumble it's just a matter of time...

[KentuckyWoman]

94. Rushbo isn't going anywhere - unfortunately

He and his supporting 1%ers have enough collective wealth to just flat buy the airtime if they have to.

He'll spew until he decides to quit.