BAD NEWS to have a JOY DANCE over - all together now... (Limbaugh in Ruins)

[Mira]

A bad movement is about to be flushed

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The START:

It’s been a very bad week for talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, and a very rewarding week for the millions of Americans who have protested his extreme hate speech for decades. Two years ago, newer groups like BoycottRush, FlushRush and StopRush, began a massive national boycott movement that is exposing Limbaugh and crushing his career. Here are four new recent developments:
1. Politico published an article revealing that Tea Party organizations (some created by the Koch brothers) have contributed millions to Rush Limbaugh. What does this mean? For Rush it means they helped sustain him while thousands of sponsors pulled their ads. It means this may lead to an investigation to see if the funding was done legally. According to the FCC, if you receive money from an organization that pays you to promote their propaganda, without telling your audience, it may be considered ‘payola’  - and it may be illegal.
Politico:
“The Heritage Foundation at the end of January ended its five-year sponsorship of El Rushbo’s show, for which it had paid more than $2 million in some years and more than $9.5 million overall. In 2012, FreedomWorks paid at least $1.4 million to make him an endorser, though it’s not clear that the sponsorship is ongoing.”
2. Forbes Senior Political Contributor and regular on Forbes On Fox, Rick Ungar, believes Rush Limbaugh has become a joke. He also shows, via FrontPageMag.com data, that Limbaugh has outlived his audience. Ungar, also known as Forbes ‘token lefty’ implies Rush is now in the, toss out the old – bring in the new, demographic category. The median age of his dwindling audience (as well as the aforementioned sponsor boycott) no longer appeal to advertisers.
Rick Ungar:
“At long last, it appears that Rush Limbaugh has run out of steam. I have to acknowledge that I have sensed Rush getting by on fumes for some time now (yes, I tune into his show from time to time to enjoy his broadcasting skills if not his message). However, it was only recently that the world of Limbaugh crossed that thin red line from partially serious to total self-parody and audience deception—a line crossed from which there is often no return.”

The continuation:
http://samuel-warde.com/2014/04/left-wing-right-wing-now-agree-rush-limbaughs-sell-date/

[merrily]

1. Limbaugh has done way too much damage and made way too much money.

Do I want him off the air at long last? Yes. That's a victory. I just wish it had come long, long ago.


And, for every Limbaugh that goes off the air (if he does), another ten (at least) will spring up.

[Mira]

3. I think he is one nasty cuss who is in a class by himself

no wannabe will replace the vitriolic presence he has inflicted on the airwaves/television/and the armed forces network specifically (forgot the name of it)

When he's done, when that goose is cooked, the celebration ought to be without qualifiers.
Even really bad things come to an end.

[merrily]

5. Sorry, but I will always wish his retirement had come sooner.

[Nay]

30. Yeah, the damage he's done is pretty much irreversible this far down

the pike.

[demwing]

45. Germany survived Hitler

Rush is but a boil on the ass of history.

[Maynar]

50. While I agree completely

I must say Limbaugh is not alone. Two words: Michael Savage. If there is another entity more vile than Limbaugh, it has to be this pus-bag.

[the_working_poor]

56. the little weiner is more vitriolic and has a smaller audience

people who listen to rush will not automatically listen to savage.
hes considered to be a little too crazy/hateful for your average middle/upper class flush listener.
i am embarrassed that he calls my beloved SF Bay area home.
i wish he'd move his hateful ass to where he belongs, like texas or deep georgia.

sorry guys, but as long as that is the MAJORITY of your populations, you have those reputations hanging around your necks. I know Atlanta and Austin are bastions for thinking people, but those are beacons in an entire ocean of hate and stupidity.

[Helen Borg]

6. Probably not many people listen to him anyway...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/rush-limbaugh-ratings_b_1320144.html

[merrily]

8. He's done more than enough damage, no matter how many or few listen to him.

Isn't he on TV, too? I'm always seeing videos of his bombast, so I assumed he was.

[TexasProgresive]

19. Hmmm, you're thinking hydra.

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cut off a head and 2 grow back- the only solution to that is cauterization - cut, burn, repeat.

I just had to edit think(ing)

[merrily]

20. Either that, or resurrect the Fairness Doctrine.

I kid, of course. No one in power is going to do that. And I mean no one.

[merrily]

22. P.S. The RW talking heads are not all part of one being, as were Hydra's heads.

If you somehow killed the Hydra, that would have been the end of it. Not so with the talking heads. They're perfectly capable of springing up independently of each other.

[Rozlee]

51. The entire right-wing talk radio continuum is in a downward spiral though.

It's not just Limbaugh. Sponsors have been pulling away from other right-wing programs. They've all suffered collateral damage. Most of the well recognized conservative hosts will be around for awhile because they're protected by long-term contracts, but it's a matter of time. Their main demographic are senior citizens. Only 10% of their listener base is in the coveted 35 to 54 age range. They always had a dearth of female listeners and they've been hemorrhaging the ones they do have. They're recruiting practically zero new audience among the under 34 crowd. Radio stations are losing money big time on talk radio and it's a lose-lose situation for them. Military troops aren't happy with talk radio either. The June 3rd, 2006 issue of Stars and Stripes, "Future Military Radio Could Be More Pop, Less Talk," stated that talk radio wasn't a big draw for the military crowd under 34. They would prefer music programs or sports programs on AFN. It's probably the conservative big wigs at the Pentagon that force conservative talk radio on them.

[HubertHeaver]

27. Whenever Rush has been off the air for whatever reason,

vacation, court dates, drug rehab, drug rehab masquerading as vacation, what have you, his replacement of the day was never as good as or as skillful as old Rush himself. The man has talent and abilities--misspent and misused, totally wasted.

[merrily]

28. I wouldn't know. The only time I hear that walking fart is when another show plays video

of his show. As far as comparing him to his replacements, you seem to pay a lot more attention to his show than I ever have or ever will, so I will take your word for it. However, that is like saying one turd is better than another. Either way, they're turds.

As far as Limbaugh's having talent as an absolute , that is your opinion. While you are certainly entitled to it, I don't share it. I think many people with no morals and no regard for honesty or fairness could bloviate for hours against everything Democrats do or attempt.

[HubertHeaver]

34. Yes, I used to listen to his show regularly.

I worked with dittoheads and had to clean up after the college republicans. They (both groups) would come up with some of the most off-the-wall bullshit that seemed to have a common source so I asked. I started to listen to him in order to be forewarned of the next day's serving of bullshit. They didn't seem to understand that what he said on Monday was directly contradicted by his Thursday musings. I continued to listen to Rushbo and irritate the dittoheads until my blood pressure hit 220/110. At that point I gave it up as a bad health habit.

Rush, his replacements and imitators are propagandists. To be unaware of their techniques, to dismiss them all as "turds", is self-blinding. It is far better to know your enemies.

[TheJames]

60. All of that is true and obvious to a person who thinks,

AND he's a turd.

[HubertHeaver]

61. A talented and highly polished turd

but, still a turd.

[merrily]

63. Is it really far better for me to know what Rush is saying daily?

I've done without Rush or FOX all my life. So far, so good.

I recognize their lies as soon as I hear them. I have a harder time, though, trying to figure out which deceptions my alleged political friends are trying to sell me.

[HubertHeaver]

64. You are trying to put words in my mouth. I did not suggest you listen to Rush (or any one else)

daily. When I listened to him, I had an ulterior motive--to stay a step ahead of my co-workers who were ditto-heads.

[erronis]

59. Mmmm. Love that "walking fart"

May have to repeat it in polite company.

Just since I'm on this topic of farts/assholes/rw-talk radio...

Isn't this all just a playbook game by some very moneyed interests? Does it matter which bloviated asshole is making the tooting sounds? Their masters will switch the cast, tune the messages, infiltrate and try to destroy from within.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a mole within the Koch/Adelman/RNC/ALEC/etc. organizations that is getting ready to post on YouTube? Hope springs....

[Doctor_J]

2. Only 999 or so knock-offs polluting the airwaves.

[KittyWampus]

4. Vulgar pig boy can't ooze back into whatever slim he crawled out of fast enough.

[enough]

7. Very good news, but extremely unlikely that anything done by Limbaugh's right-wing

donors will every be investigated by the SEC, let alone declared illegal.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Are Limbaughtomies reversible?

[Enthusiast]

10. I do not think so.

It's a permanent condition.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Probably because there's so little brain tissue to work with.

[Thor_MN]

15. The loss of oxygen due to having one's head up one's ass cause the few remaining brain cells to die.

[MisterP]

37. it's spelled "Limbectomy"

[MerryBlooms]

11. He cut the throat of AM talk radio when he attacked

Sandra Fluke-- advertisers bailed on the whole genre.

The left didn't invest money in radio, but the righties did. LA, Portland, etc... all good lefty markets lost their progressive voices because big right wing money bought the airwaves. WCPT here in Chicago survives, thankfully, but that's one of just a few stations left.

Rush fucked himself, and everyone else in the business.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. His "Camp Gitmo" stuff lost him listeners.

[GoCubsGo]

54. Yeah, but I think the Sandra Fluke thing was the nail in his coffin.

That's when he really started hemorrhaging sponsors. Unfortunately, he scared them off for all of talk radio, so it's also adversely affecting people like Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

57. The station managers were being told there's no market for liberal talk,....

...and all of the listeners are penniless, yogurt slurping hippie types.

Meanwhile Limbaugh was presented as wildly popular.

He wasn't really.

The way he got so many listeners was because he gave his show away for FREE when he first got started. It was presented to local station owners as three hours of air time for free with a built in audience and don't YOU want to be the station that they tune to? Local sponsors will flock to any show that's considered popular regardless of format.

Next thing you know his show wasn't free anymore but station managers were afraid to stop it because the audience turned out to be a bunch of gun happy assholes that threatened to not only show up at the station but to find out where they lived and where their kids went to school. IOW: Domestic terrorists.

[randome]

14. I called it a few months back.

Limbaugh getting the short end of the stick is another sign that this country is moving in the right direction. Glacially, to be sure, but it is moving.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[Fla Dem]

16. He'll live well whether he's on the air or not. He's been paid mega millions over the 20 years

he has been spewing hate over our public airways.

[lillypaddle]

17. Couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy

[japple]

18. May he be the first (and largest) domino to fall, and may he crush everyone

in his wake.

[narnian60]

21. ...to enjoy his broadcasting skills.

WHAT?????

[maddiemom]

24. Limbaugh

Many years ago before he was a "household name," (I'd never heard of him) an old friend and former college roommate was visiting from out of state. She recommended that I tune into him if he was on locally. Although she was always liberal, she thought he was very (unintentionally) amusing, and believed he would crack me up. We went to school in an era where there were any number liberal send-ups of right wing, Birch Society type conservatives who were more openly bigoted at that time. Colbert and Co. just reinvented it in a more sophisticated way.

[greiner3]

23. I'd say the Kochs' are just waiting to dump Rush;

As he is not 'damaged goods' while they await the new 'Rush'; shades of The Who;

Won't Get Fooled Again;

"

Top Who Lyrics
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
You Better You Bet
My Generation
Magic Bus
Won't Get Fooled Again
Squeeze Box
Won't Get Fooled Again Video
Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics
by Who
Single: Won't Get Fooled Again
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!"

I say this only as a comment on how Conservatives need to have someone tell them how to live their lives.

[MADem]

26. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.... nt

[freshwest]

40. "And God Bless the *United* States of America." ~ Barack Obama

[mylye2222]

29. Dont be too optimistic too soon. ...

Those militias from tea party will feel the disgusting need to ' revenge' him.....

[catbyte]

31. I saw a picture of one of his McMansions. It looked like Versailles if Versailles had been

decorated by Sadaam Hussein's pimp. Garish to the max. It was as disgusting as he is.

[Initech]

32. Lewis Black had a bit about Donald Trump a while back.

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And he posted a picture of two very gaudy decorated mansions and he's like "See if you can guess which palace is Saddam Hussein's and which is Trump's. Which is a trick question - they're both Trump's!"

I wonder if all republican divorcees have the same crappy taste in decorating.

[bearssoapbox]

33. Unfortunately, without a job he'll have time for more vacations.

[Nay]

46. All those poor little boys in Thailand and Haiti better look out.

[yuiyoshida]

35. I am sure that if

Limbaugh goes, someone like Hannity or Michael Savage will take his place. I can't even imagine the damage they will do. Loved how Mike Malloy jumped all over Hannity. That was awesome.

[Grassy Knoll]

39. Let me add a button to your collection...

The holy grail of Croix. I have one, and was there.

[yuiyoshida]

42. Nice one

[lonestarnot]

36. Fuck him let him go homeless.

[grahamhgreen]

43. He had a 300 million dollar contract... He'll never know homelessness.

[lonestarnot]

55. Then send him a ham.

[merrily]

65. He's not worth the effort, let alone the money.

[lonestarnot]

67. We were talking about his demise, not his net worth or what anything would be worth.

[Grassy Knoll]

38. Rush is so obvious, his shtick is to blame progressives.....

for what the uptighty righty's are doing, The biggest ass makes the biggest stink, But
when this pill popping fool keels over, you can believe his parade will be in white, and
bigger than Elvis Presley's. FOX Noise will fly the AMERICAN flag at half mast...Predictably.

[NealK]

41. Good. n/t

[livingonearth]

44. I have listened to Rush quite a bit, and I can truthfully tell you he has no talent.

There is one thing that Rush will never be good at, and that is direct discussion with someone who doesn't hold his view. He just can't do it, and fails every time he tries. I've heard some of the rare times he has tried to take on a liberal; he gets whipped every time, and dumps to a commercial. Rush must always have callers that agree with him since he is awful at actual debate. Anyone can sit and bloviate unchallenged, but a true talent can debate. Rush has no talent.

[JohnnyRingo]

52. I politely disagree...

I agree that he can't stand up to a live counterpoint, but he has a unique gift to word things in such a way that people would think: "when he puts it that way, that makes sense to me". Unfortunately for his fans, those who tried to quote him (or Hannity) in social settings don't share that gift and come off sounding stupid.

A case in point from a couple weeks ago: I studied up on Croatia to find out what happened there, who the Croates are, and whether I'd have to change the map colors on my Risk game board. When I went out that night, I used it to spur a conversation on the recent events.

One friend, who I know is a devoted (and aging) Dittohead, interjected "I love Putin!" as I was speaking of the effect on Croation Muslims. It got very quiet while the three or four of us just stared at him for a few uncomfortable seconds, as if he just made the most ignorant statement since Nixon declared himself not a crook. Finally, I informed him that Rush wanted him to make the dubious point that he wishes Obama was a strong and powerful leader like the current Russian president. He didn't want my friend to go out and sound like he fell head over heels with man-love for a buff and shirtless dictator.

It's unfortunate for Limbaugh only that his gift has gone from "talent from God" and a "golden microphone" to a Life Alert and the clapper.

[Populist_Prole]

62. It's part talent and part control that makes him a hit with his fans

I used to listen regularly back when I was younger and impressionable ( stupid )

He really is adept at sophistry and using speciousness ( even as he claimed counter-arguments against him as specious, but that's projection for you ) to generate talking points, but his ability to have total control over his debate environment on-air really solidified his position.

As both of you above noted, it's both fairly easy to discern if a person you're talking with is a dittohead and also frustrating and unpleasant. As noted, his fans lack his talent for sophistry and their arguments more or less self-destruct without the ability to control the discourse. Oh they'll try all right; interrupting, talk over you, speak with faux smug snarky-ness, but real people in real life won't put up with that garbage....and they can't hit the eject button to a commercial break or seek support in sycophants for counter arguments via screened calls. They don't like that. Not one bit. So they tend to get nasty.

[The Green Manalishi]

47. One thing I have always liked and appreciated about him:

When meeting new people or when I met the wife's family he is a very convenient touchstone:
Me:" So, do you listen to Rush"?
them: "yes"
Me:" Just take everything he says and you can safely assume i believe the exact opposite".

Very easy peasy

[NewJeffCT]

48. If it is Payola

Shouldn't both sides be in trouble - not just Rush, but all the other contributors that kept him afloat?

Of course, since they're all the super-rich, they can afford the best lawyers and keep it tied up in the courts until Rush drops dead of a heart attack one of these years.

[JohnnyRingo]

49. Even though the article is an opinion....

...I share that observation.

I know some on the right who say they don't listen to Limbaugh anymore. One especially thoughtful republican even told me that he doesn't think even Rush himself believes what he says on the air, and he just spouts outrageous nonsense for exposure. In other words, he's gone from right wing oracle to circus sideshow clown.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean views have changed, just that his listeners have found a new source for there canned outrage. That's still significant because there isn't one single star that shines as brightly as Limbaugh in his prime.

I always wondered why he didn't make the logical jump to sat-rad when howard Stern did. Perhaps he wasn't invited. I can't imagine the offer is still on the table now.

[judesedit]

53. Our military personnel had no choice BUT to listen to him. No wonder some of them are brainwashed

That right there should have been a super red flag. Alternate opinions were NOT allowed. So sad that this country has come to be so divided. And...all according to plan. I hope Rush, the super bigot, has a muzzle put over his mouth...and soon!

[Liberal_in_LA]

58. comments about sandra fluke were begining of the end - in my opinion

He was considered more racist than sexist. Comments about women being sluts for using birth control crossed over to insult larger group

[Brigid]

66. Dance of Joy? OK.