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"Rush Limbaugh's adverse reaction"

DToTheJ said:
He can't even have his own bust displayed publicly at the Hall of Famous Missourians!
http://rbr.com/rush-limbaugh-now-a-famous-missourian/
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I propose a "Missouri Compromise". There's already been one of those in our nation's history. And my proposal is along the same lines. Limbaugh gets to have his bust displayed as a "famous Missourian"....and so does Jesse James (the outlaw).

Both are very famous. ;D
 
in other news....Mitt Romney polling ahead of President Obama among women in the
latest New York Times poll...
 
FreddyE1977 said:
in other news....Mitt Romney polling ahead of President Obama among women in the
latest New York Times poll...
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With all due respect...and without trying to be confrontational......

I'm unclear what this has to do with Rush Limbaugh. If this has anything to do with my post (which IMHO it shouldn't, so I hope it doesn't), I'll say again that I'm politically independent. I was trying to just add a little levity and have a joke. Not make a political point. I will say that I personally view Limbaugh as an entertainer and would put him in the same category as Howard Stern: Shock Jock.

Some people....including a few in my own family view him as some sort of god. I personally view him as a guy who's main job is to attract as many listeners and advertisers as he possibly can. He deals with serious stuff, and sometimes makes some very valid points. But to me that's a byproduct of his "shtick". As is also the case when he says offensive stuff (which IHMO he definitely does).

If he can craft an act that enables him to do both and attract a following, more power to him. I'm basically neutral....other than I think there's a potential for damage when people of ANY political stripe take him too seriously.

People who defend Rush....like people who bash him...usually have an effect that's 180 degrees opposite of "converting" me (independent, remember) to their point of view.
 
People are taking about Radio and Limbaugh, ad revenues, ratings, station programming, not Romney and Obama.

However the political ads end November, and that could further hurt radio revenues for Limbaugh.
 
MC said:
People are taking about Radio and Limbaugh, ad revenues, ratings, station programming, not Romney and Obama.
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We who gather on this little electronic version of the old court house lawn "spitt'n and widdl'n club" are talking about Radio and Limbaugh, ad revenues, ratings, station programming.

The general public has virtually no knowledge that we exist.

The "People" are talking about Romney and Obama.

Whether Limbaugh continues on the air or not probably has little to nothing to do with whether people have jobs, how healtcare will be delivered and paid for, and how we will deal with the national debt.

There is a public perception that Romeny vs Obama could have a profound effect on every day life. Limbaugh, not so much.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
There is a public perception that Romeny vs Obama could have a profound effect on every day life. Limbaugh, not so much.
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There is also a faction (Ron Paul types, mostly) which believes that Romney and Obama are tweedledee and tweedledum.

Aside from that, people are talking about Limbaugh. When that tidbit from Cumulus about their revenue losses on their Limbaugh affiliates came out, the left wing media outlets (thinking especially of MSNBC & Huffington Post) did new stories on Limbaugh's situation.

So some editor somewhere thinks "real people" care about Limbaugh's fate, even if only to root for his demise.
 
"People" meant people here... not people in general.

How do national political polls relating to Obama and Romney effect to the radio business? If Romney (who Limbaugh in not enthusiastic about) is up in the polls, then Limbaugh doesn't have to worry about losing sponsors?

If Obama is ahead then the handful of left wing talkers are going to see there audience grow?
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
So some editor somewhere thinks "real people" care about Limbaugh's fate, even if only to root for his demise.
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More accurately, some people on the Left feel that if they could only remove their #1 Arch Nemesis from the public
airwaves, all would be sweetness and light and we'd all smile and sing Kumbaya and go marching arm-in-arm into the first Five Year Plan.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Limbaugh is an entertainer. If he disappeared tomorrow Conservatives and
their opinions would go on (it very nearly happened back in the 90's when he went deaf).

If Conservatism could survive the loss of Ronald Reagan it would survive the loss of a radio host, influential though
he may be. Other people and other media would replace him.

Makes you wonder why Media Matters would waste years and years of their time constructing this Rube Goldberg plan.
Their efforts would have, I think, been better spent trying to promote their ideas in a positive manner.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Makes you wonder why Media Matters would waste years and years of their time constructing this Rube Goldberg plan.
Their efforts would have, I think, been better spent trying to promote their ideas in a positive manner.
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What is your focus on Media Matters. Get a group of liberals in a room and see how many of them have ever heard of Media Matters. Maybe Media Matters.... doesn't matter.

The conservatives are all in tangled up like a ball-of-yarn with their disdain for Media Matters and some guy name Soros.

The liberals are all tangled up like a ball of left-over rubber bands with their disdain for the Koch Brothers and ALEC. Maybe the Kochs and ALEC do not matter.

Can we discuss how the public and how the audience and how the society have reacted to certain on-air behaviors of Rush.... without us all clustering around the political playground bullies.... that may or may not really exist.

Rush WILL leave the stage.

Next week??? Next year??? 23 years from now??? I don't expect the earth to implode when he does. In fact, I can't name a single person.... entertainer, journalist, historian or political figure who will cause a major upheaval in the political scene when they leave the stage. Why do we continually debate such a cataclysmic event?

Let's assume Rush indeed survives this dust-up over Ms. Fluke. I don't know that I can name one really bad thing I am willing to predict will happen because Rush remains healthy, popular and influential. Can you name for us one really good thing that will result if he remains healthy, popular and influential?
 
"I don't know that I can name one really bad thing I am willing to predict will happen because Rush remains healthy, popular and influential. Can you name for us one really good thing that will result if he remains healthy, popular and influential?"

Bad thing: he's an outlet for many people who would no longer have that. What follows the vacuum created by his departure might be less to your liking.

Good thing: he continues to serve his audience and keep hundreds of radio outlets viable.

And yes, he will exit the stage at some point because he is human and someday he will pass away, as will we all.
 
umfan said:
Bad thing: he's an outlet for many people who would no longer have that. What follows the vacuum created by his departure might be less to your liking.
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That is what I used to tell my wife about our hired help. We would have someone on staff that did not impress here... in fact, some of them totally turned her off! "Why don't you get rid of him?" Answer: because his replacement has a high probability of being worse than he is. (We were pumping gasoline along the Interstate back in the days before self-serve gas pumps. We didn't have many pretty-boys and Harvard grads applying to work for us. ;D )

umfan said:
Good thing: he continues to serve his audience and keep hundreds of radio outlets viable.
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For some of us, that is a bit like going before the convention of Baptists and arguing that we should keep the "houses of ill repute" open and legal because they serve a clientele and keeps hundreds of land-lords from having vacant properties.

Now, don't get all in an uproar over free speech, etc. In these forums we are simply going through our little written "stump speeches" where we debate where the edge of decency is, and at what point programming falls off the edge of the earth. Somewhere out there we would all agree on drawing the line. The people over in Arkansas that apparently nurtured and maybe financed the Oklahoma City Bomber were probably turned down by some local radio stations when they wanted time on the air.

Very few people, if any, come to the defense of the Westboro Baptist Church and radio stations apparently have no problems saying no to people with a message like that. I don't propose the Rush comes anywhere close to those two examples. Rush's basic political philosophies when expressed by Huckabee or Romney or Newt or many other "conservatives with great credentials" do not cause the kind of stir and protest that rises up to shake it's imaginary fist in Rush's face.

To many of us, there are days when it seems like Rush is bored with being the gold-standard measuring stick for where the main flow of conservatism has it's riverbed. He seems on same days to have an over-supply of the hormone that also flows in the veins of Neal Boortz on the days when Boortz giggles and says: "Let's see... who have I not pissed off yet today?" They both have this little boy fascination at that point with "Let's git'er DONE."

It is the "tone of voice" more than the actual words and concepts. And I guess "Freedom of Speech" includes freedom of tone-of-voice. ;D
 
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