Report: Limbaugh Ratings Down Big After ‘Slut’ Remarks

[Purveyor]

By David Edwards
Monday, May 21, 2012 11:24 EDT

A lot less people are interested in what conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has to say after he called Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute,” according to one industry ratings source.

Politico reported on Monday that Abritron’s key demographic ratings between March 29 and April 25 showed Limbaugh’s show had fallen 27 percent in New York City, 31 percent in Houston, 35 percent in Jacksonville and 40 percent in the Seattle-Tacoma market.

“Clearly Sandra Fluke isn’t the only one who didn’t like Rush calling her a ‘slut’ given how many viewers that comment incinerated,” a listener told Politico‘s Dylan Byers.

In late March, Limbaugh had claimed that he ratings were up by between 10 percent and 60 percent after he called Fluke a “slut” because she advocated that health insurance cover contraception for women.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/21/report-limbaugh-ratings-down-big-after-slut-remarks/

[Zalatix]

1. "given how many viewers that comment incinerated"? incinerated?

[Bake]

3. Yes, incinerated. As in, vaporized his ratings.

Plus, it set a lot of his listeners on fire.

Nice choice of words. I like it!

BAke

[Dawson Leery]

2. Chickenhawk Rush has also lost affiliates in some sizable markets.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. I know ONE person who'll never abandon OxyBoy:

George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina !!!!! (Currently, the biggest twit on Twitter.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002709878

[gratuitous]

5. You said his name!

Now you owe him a hundred million billion dollars!

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Hey, I was just helping to spread his fame over the Intertubes!

...for which my fee, coincidentally enough, is ALSO one hundred million billion dollars.

[tandot]

9. Do you mean

George Tierney Jr of Greenville, South Carolina who tweets under @geotie2323 ?

[richardmyers]

7. Angie's List is getting clobbered today...

Angie's List is getting clobbered today, on Twitter and on their Facebook page, for sponsoring Rush.

For anyone who has a login and wants to check out the hundreds of posts flooding the Angie's List Facebook page, it is here:

http://www.facebook.com/angieslist?filter=2

You have to click on highlights, and select "Posts by Others".

For anyone who wants to join the effort to dump Rush, the website of note is here:

http://stoprush.net

[Spazito]

8. That's good news!

I hope it continues downward until the POS has only a street corner left where he can spout his putrid ranting.