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Rush Limbaugh "Suspicious Package" At Florida Home

After what he said on the radio today, he's surprised people are angry?

TODAY WAS THE DAY The Rush Limbaugh Show became a liability to its affiliates.
 
Holland Cooke said:
After what he said on the radio today, he's surprised people are angry?

TODAY WAS THE DAY The Rush Limbaugh Show became a liability to its affiliates.
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Many people LOVE a cliffhanger.

I am not one of them.

WHAT did he say?
 
I quit listening to Rash about ten years ago. When I read what he said today, I hope he gets sued for libel/slander, and CheapChannel or whoever pays this drooling idiot shoves his big golden microphone up his sphincter before they physically toss him out the door. They won't, naturally, but that's what needs to happen. His show is turning into what amounts to a fat, angry kid in an internet chat room.

If he was on a station I owned, today would have been the day his show got the axe, contract or not. He's evidently has no common sense at all anymore.
 
I followed the link to a massive Limbaugh transcript. UGH.

I started reading...and came to the conclusion that it's even more difficult to trudge through a transcript of his show than to just listen to it. I got through most of it and still don't know what the big deal is---I mean, what did he say that is any more offensive than anything he's said before?

Can someone please give the gist of what he said that is so extraordinary by Limbaugh standards?
 
Rush nis playing the left and mainstream media like a violin. He says what he says; he's mentioned on every MSNBC show, the left feigns outrage, and it's a win. Nothing new here.
 
I assumed the "suspicious package" was an actual bomb.....like an aircheck from some former Air America host looking for a producer's gig. And as usual, when Rush speaks the truth, liberals s#!t themselves. Go El Rusbo!
;)
 
Regardless of what's exchanged in our recreational discussion here/now, The Rush Limbaugh Show will never fully-recover from the wound self-inflicted March 1, 2012.

Short-term, he's complicating life at affiliates, which, unlike him are licensees where PO'd listeners/groups can waltz-in and demand to read The Public File (which, as you've read in trades recently, stations get-fined for not-adequately-maintaining). So thanks for THAT heightened scrutiny, Rush. :( His "Imus moment."

Longer-term and WAY-outside-our-box, Limbaugh just used the power of radio (what Sales calls "reach and frequency") to throw-gas-on-the-flames-of a Gender Gap which 10 days of Republican-candidates-off-message-talking-about-Reproductive Rights might have already ensured the president's re-election.

But that's what Rush wanted. "Four...more...years" will be a lot better for Limbaugh's business than having-had-to-apologize-for the last 3 years of McCain/Palin bloopers...unless Rush loses his job now.
 
This is not at all an "Imus Moment." Don Imus used a racial slur against a group of girls and it was unprovoked - they had not done anything but win games.

This woman did exactly what Rush said - she went before congress and said that birth control is costing her too much and we need to provide it for her.

She is the ho.

We are the pimps.

He is exactly right.
 
I suppose Cumulus can use this as their cover if they really are cramming Huckabee down on all of their affiliates. Haven't heard of any protest groups marching on any of the local affiliates I'm familiar with.

As I recall the whole birth control fiasco started with George Stephanopoulos asking the Republican candidates if a state could ban birth control..clearly starting the meme "Those evil Republicans want to take away your birth control!" Add the mandate on all employers to provide "free" birth control, and the Democrats manages to change the message from the economy to birth control. The young woman was making the case that other people should pay for her birth control while she's in law school. She did insert herself into the political debate, and yes, that unfortunately does leave you open to criticism.

Is Holland guesting on Ed Schultz tonight to discuss this?
 
While I happen to agree with Limbaugh on this one, the overall tone of his show is fast becoming passe -- his alarmist style of "lecturing" is wearing very thin. Cumulus is smart to offer an alternative and it will be interesting to see how Huckabee does against el Rushbo.
 
Why does anyone hire Holland? As far as I can tell he spends most of his time acting as another mouthpiece for the left. People hiring him to consult a conservative news/talker REALLY need to read up on this man. You might as well just be flushing your cash down the office toilet.
 
wadio said:
While I happen to agree with Limbaugh on this one, the overall tone of his show is fast becoming passe -- his alarmist style of "lecturing" is wearing very thin. Cumulus is smart to offer an alternative and it will be interesting to see how Huckabee does against el Rushbo.
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Rush used to be fun and entertaining, even when he was "lecturing." But he and his cohorts are now old and tired, like their audience. He's becoming a bitter old man and a "Get off my lawn" type of guy. Not listenable anymore.
 
w00t said:
Why does anyone hire Holland? As far as I can tell he spends most of his time acting as another mouthpiece for the left. People hiring him to consult a conservative news/talker REALLY need to read up on this man. You might as well just be flushing your cash down the office toilet.
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I guess anyone who recognizes how whacked right wing talkradio really is (not to mention how dead-end it's becoming) is a "mouthpiece for the left".

Holland, from what I gather, is quite capable of seperating his professional judgements from his personally held beliefs--just like many of the right wing talk show hosts who say one thing on the air, but do very *different* things in their personal lives.
 
Those with personal interests that oppose their profession as strongly as Holland's do not benefit from "airing that dirty laundry in the front yard."

I work for the government, and often disagree with much of how it operates. But you don't see me on the steps of city hall yelling about taxes.

It's biting the hand that feed you. Nearly literally.
 
w00t said:
Those with personal interests that oppose their profession as strongly as Holland's do not benefit from "airing that dirty laundry in the front yard."

I work for the government, and often disagree with much of how it operates. But you don't see me on the steps of city hall yelling about taxes.

It's biting the hand that feed you. Nearly literally.
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Well, I certainly enjoy the freedom of saying what I want, thanks to the anonymity of a "handle". I definitely wouldn't be as candid if I had to attach my name to everything. It's difficult enough to get and keep a radio gig these days without creating unnecessary static for yourself. However, I give the guy credit for putting his name on everything he says, irrespective to whether or not it is consistent with the programming of stations that pay him.

DO NOTE: It may come as a surprise to you that many newstalk station programmers and GM's DO NOT believe much of the right wing BS broadcast on their air. So having a consultant who echoes what most reasonable people already think, is not as dangerous as you may think.

As that great philosopher Michael Corleone once said:
"It's not personal. It's business."

So having a consultant who echoes what many reasonable people already think, is not as dangerous as you may think.
 
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