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CNN Host Criticizes Rush; Rush Slurs CNN Host As Gay

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umfan said:
Exactly the point I was attempting to get across, Avid Listener. To even call it a slur implies that the OP feels that there is something wrong with homosexuality. I don't disagree with such an assertion, but I doubt that was the intent of the OP.
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Nice spin. The way you turned that right around on the OP to obfuscate the obvious. I mean, that's almost Rush-quality spin right there.

As you quickly learned from the Donald Sterling incident: Always remember, the one pointing out the slur is the offender, the one making the slur is the victim.

Nice job.
 
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"It's a damn radio show, it's not important!"

"I hate to break it to you, but to a lot of people, what Rush or Hannity or Savage do matters!"

Hey, smallmindedguy; at least make up your mind, will ya?
 
flybynight said:
Still, hearing a local guy try to imitate Limbaugh is, as I said, disappointing and a waste of an opportunity.
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Imitating someone else is always a bad idea, since everyone should just be themselves, but I can think of worse hosts to imitate. Rush is at least polite to callers and guests and at one point had a decent sense of humor.

Imitating Savage or Alex Jones is much worse. Mainly because the host usually doesn't have the education Savage does, and Jones's topics are ridiculous to the point of being irresponsible.
 
JeffM said:
"It's a damn radio show, it's not important!"

"I hate to break it to you, but to a lot of people, what Rush or Hannity or Savage do matters!"

Hey, smallmindedguy; at least make up your mind, will ya?
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In the large scheme of things, they don't matter. To the listeners, everything matters.

Now kindly go away and let people who actually do this for a living discuss things, child.
 
Rush shouldn't be throwing stones from the comfort of his glass house. How many wives has he had now? What he said, and how he said it about Don Lemon was snide and inflammatory.

Rush is on a luge like slide into irrelevance lately.
 
Small Market Guy said:
In the large scheme of things, they don't matter. To the listeners, everything matters.

Now kindly go away and let people who actually do this for a living discuss things, child.
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THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ HAS SPOKEN!!!...pay no attention to that small market guy behind the curtain...
 
Legend City said:
Rush is on a luge like slide into irrelevance lately.
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Rush was never "relevant". He simply made big pots of money for the people who put him on the air, not to mention big pots of money for himself. Beyond that, he was never more than a legend in his own mind.
 
I left one other thing out about Rush. For a short period of time he was something of a minor celebrity, and people who though they could exploit his fame to benefit themselves wouldn't hesitate to do so.
 
Keep in mind the Wizard was a fraud. The Scarecrow always had a brain and ended up the ruler of Oz.

"I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a 'dandy lion'." - Cowardly Lion
 
JeffM said:
You sound more like the Lion to me... (PS: Your mancrush on Rush is getting a little embarrassing.)
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I've stated that I don't care for Rush's show. If you actually read instead of just blindly posting nonsense, you'd have seen that. I don't listen to it often because I actually have WORK to do after my show. Your trolling is much more embarrassing.
 
FredLeonard said:
Keep in mind the Wizard was a fraud. The Scarecrow always had a brain and ended up the ruler of Oz.

"I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a 'dandy lion'." - Cowardly Lion
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"And Oz never did give nuthin' to the Tin Man that he didn't already have..."
 
Just a legend in his own mind - ???

Avid Listener said:
Rush was never "relevant". He simply made big pots of money for the people who put him on the air, not to mention big pots of money for himself. Beyond that, he was never more than a legend in his own mind.
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Yep - just a legend in his own mind. They made and paid him all of those millions for nothing. Still number one for many years and counting....
 
ok walters said:
Yep - just a legend in his own mind. They made and paid him all of those millions for nothing. Still number one for many years and counting....
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Let's be clear: If Rush is #1 at anything, it's syndication. Those responsible for planting his arse in over 600 stations should get some credit.

Ratings-wise, he's often NOT #1 in many markets. In many cases he's not even #1 on his own affiliate. I've worked at stations where some local hosts did better than Rush.
 
flybynight said:
Let's be clear: If Rush is #1 at anything, it's syndication. Those responsible for planting his arse in over 600 stations should get some credit.

Ratings-wise, he's often NOT #1 in many markets. In many cases he's not even #1 on his own affiliate. I've worked at stations where some local hosts did better than Rush.
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It's not that uncommon. Every place I've worked at the morning host did better than Rush, myself included.

But he's also a brand. If you carry Rush, it means you usually carry the other top syndicated hosts. My station is unusual in that we don't do the entire lineup. We have Rush and Hannity, but then we have Dave Ramsey and Dennis Miller with Coast overnights.

In small markets, the fee to run Rush is reasonable. I don't know what it is in larger ones, but it's a no brainer. We sell enough spots on Rush in one week to cover the syndication fee. You may not like what he does, but Rush makes a lot of people a lot of money.
 
ok walters said:
Yep - just a legend in his own mind. They made and paid him all of those millions for nothing. Still number one for many years and counting....
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They didn't pay him millions for nothing. They paid him millions for figuring out how to build a huge audience. That's something. But something isn't everything. Something is a particular thing. That thing was getting relatively large numbers of people to tune him in. The thing wasn't that he was especially relevant, or an unimpeachable source of information. He was the head cheerleader for a particular political perspective. It so happens that the particular political perspective he was head cheerleader for is also my own particular political perspective. Nevertheless, as a cheerleader, I think he sucks. But, that's just one person's perspective. Enough people like his cheerleading style that he made a lot of money. But being a head cheerleader doesn't make someone "relevant". It just makes them popular.

Popular and relevant are two totally different things.
 
He was relevant 15 or so years ago. Not so much now. Talk radio isn't at the forefront of "alternative" media like it once was. It responds to trends instead of creating them.

It has nothing to do with talk radio or people who work in talk radio. The Internet is much more participatory and people like to think they're doing something special. It's much easier to copy paste some half boiled story on Facebook than it is to call into a radio show that is only on for 3 or 4 hours a day. People used to wait to hear what a host says. Now the host has to wait to see what people are saying in other media, mainly the Internet.

The people are still there listening, but they don't take "marching orders" from any radio host anymore.
 
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