Should Limbaugh Make More Than A-Rod?
Is anybody worth $400 million? No, but Rush Limbaugh isn't just anybody.
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News reports that talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh had inked a new eight year contract with his syndicator, Premier Radio Networks, for a reported $400 million payout immediately produced breathless outrage from some in the media ranks. “Is he worth that,” they asked with derision dripping from their lips. “Is ANYBODY worth that amount of money?” The short answer is “yes.”
Rush (who is among a tiny group of super celebrities who have achieved one name status) is not stealing this money, nor is he obtaining it through fraud or deceit. Premier clearly believes that they can pay him that huge sum and still make a boatload of money themselves. That is how business in free markets works.
Unlike superstar college athletes who sign big contracts with massive signing bonuses before ever throwing their first NFL touchdown or slamming down their first NBA dunk, Rush has already proven himself to be a moneymaker of epic proportions. NY Yankee superstar Alex Rodriquez set a professional sports record when he signed a ten year $275 million contract last year, but Rush has a bigger fan base, plays a longer “season” than the 162 game stint expected of Rodriquez, and is, without a doubt, the dominant force in his “sport.”
Rush did not marry into his wealth, like Senator John Kerry. He didn’t inherit it like Senator Ted Kennedy. And he hasn’t generated it by profiteering from a mass hysteria that he himself created, like Al Gore through his global warming and carbon credit scams. No, Rush has earned his payday the old-fashioned way — being the very best at what he does. He is, quite simply, the Tiger Woods of talk — who pulls down about $20 million a year himself from just one of his sponsors, Nike. Is Tiger worth it? You bet; just like Rush.
Rush Limbaugh has between fifteen and twenty million listeners, most of whom tune in daily. That means Rush’s new contract translates into about $2.50 per listener per year. He is on the air roughly 250 days a year, so that comes to about a penny per listener per day. One cent for each listener each day. “A penny for your thoughts” certainly applies to the millions who tune in each day to hear Rush’s thoughts on a myriad of issues.
A nice direct mail piece to Rush’s fifteen to twenty million listeners would easily cost $2.50, or less, with design, printing, and postage. An advertiser could send out one such piece a year, or have Rush talk about them daily, for roughly the same cost as his “exorbitant” contract. Which would have more impact? Which one is a better value?
Premier is betting that a lot of advertisers will (and many already have) see the value in paying large sums of money to be heard on Rush’s show by his millions of loyal listeners. Some will pay extra to receive his direct endorsement. Those marketing products and services regularly pay a premium in order to reach motivated and loyal shoppers. Auto racing relies on that sort of loyalty in selling advertising space on NASCAR race cars by the inch! If advertisers could pay to put their logos on Rush they would do so in a heartbeat.
Those who are most disturbed by Rush’s new contract are clearly motivated by envy and political animus. Their criticism of Rush’s compensation also reveals a complete ignorance of the relatively simple economics that underlie the deal. Is anybody worth a $400 million contract. No, but Rush Limbaugh is not just “anybody.”
Steve Gill is a political analyst and statewide radio talk host in Tennessee. His website is www.gillreport.com.
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69 Comments
Larry:He’s worth it if he can bring in that much advertising revenue. My question is was Al Franken worth what he was paid?
Jul 10, 2008 - 9:48 am kabud:400 mil for the low quality show that he puts is too much
it is a good sign though: because it means that Americans are concerned with this country going down the tube
but “mr Limbo” is a bad answer: he is a manipulator
he is not telling all the truth and he effectively plays a surrogate, a smoke screen to hide the most important and dangerous things
so his popularity is also a bad sign of a WIDE SPREAD STUPIDITY among our fellow citizens
Dont listen to him- he is fooling you.
Just get everything you need in case a nuclear or bio attack may take place, think in the terms of 2-5 month survival, arm yourself.
And remember : good chances are that foreign intelegence havily worked on both:
OBAMA and his opponent
OBAMA is an open pro-kremlin communist
Check a wiki article on him:
he is going to cut our most important defense programs
McCain in soviet prison was worked upon in such a sophisticated way that we may only guess who he really is: it is a reality, they do it, the do it very good.
Jul 10, 2008 - 9:51 am greywar:While Rush is a little to the right of me (ok a lot to the right) he definately puts on a hell of a show and deserves every cent he gets.
Folks are just a bit bitter still that Franken (who is also entertaining on occasion but not consistently) failed in this same medium. Limbaugh simply churns out quality radio by the hour every day.
Jul 10, 2008 - 9:57 am mishu:That’s up to Rush’s employer. If they can make the numbers work, more power to them.
Jul 10, 2008 - 10:25 am RE:Of course Rush is worth more.
I wonder why does A-Rod make so much for chasing a ball around? That’s what I find absurd.
Jul 10, 2008 - 10:33 am Bob:If anything, Rush is underpaid for his educational work, and a lot of his earnings are taken away from him and placed in the federal treasury, so that his enemies (i.e., Congressional Democrats) are able to spend them.
Jul 10, 2008 - 10:48 am RedBall6:Maha Russhie, Ya see Kabud, the folks over at Premiere apparently do not think like you do. By the way when was the last time you were in for an exam? you might be a quart low on brain fluid!
Jul 10, 2008 - 10:50 am kabud:>RedBall6:
your balls are so red because they kick them all the time?
i would- lets meet and i will kick your balls, seems like u like it
or is it red ball? meaning like russians did in lebanon: your other ball is cut off?
I will kick the one that remained there.
Come on, lets meet.
number 6 means that you position yourself as a servant, so lets meet - u will serve me as a kicking ball
Jul 10, 2008 - 11:00 am W. Keller:Rush puts his show on the line every day. People listen because of his show’s content - period. If he would slide to the same quality show as Franken he’d be gone because no one would listen. And that’s the left real problem. No one listens to them. Their arguments are hollow and their “solutions” to America’s problems is always the same - more government. Rush puts the power back in the people’s hands. Hey, you want to have a $400 million dollar contract?? There is absolutely nothing - NOTHING - in your way. Rush simply reminds people of that every day - THEY are in control, THEY have the power to choose their life, THEY control how much money they make, THEY control who they elect - and the left hate him for it.
Congrats Rush!
Jul 10, 2008 - 11:56 am deguello:Kabud:Do you write that way because you are mentally retarded, or did you flunk out of an AL Qaeda English for terrorist 101 course?
Jul 10, 2008 - 12:02 pm Bullfrog:Go Rush! Or anybody else with the talent and business acumen to make “doing your thing” pay the big bucks!
As for the “outraged”? Those are left-leaning folks who seem to resent anyone making a buck if it isn’t them and wants the government to take more if their hard-earned money away to “do good” in the world.
I read the article, a few interesting excerpts:
1. Rush’s listenership are statistically the most politically savvy. (Take that, those who think “ditto heads” are idiots, or that Rush’s show lacks real content).
2. Even those who hate Rush’s guts admit to listening to his show at least some of the time. (That is success)
3. Rush is deaf. I had no idea, but he reads lips and uses a TelePrompTer to compensate for what his hearing aids miss.
I find Rush likable, in spite of the fact I don’t always agree with him. I think that is the secret to his success.
Jul 10, 2008 - 1:16 pm JOHN:They offered it and he took it. Good for him.
Kabud - huh
Jul 10, 2008 - 1:16 pm Typewriter King:One has to consider other alternatives for that capital that might bring in greater returns. Twenty million people is a great audience, but I have to wonder if more would tune in for a more slickly produced format from a production team. Besides a few skits from Paul Shanklin, the show is just an unscripted monologue from Rush and calls into the program, correct? Well, for 400 million, the audio equivalent of a summer blockbuster could be filling up three hours of airtime instead. Could such a team of the best talent making a scripted production bring in a greater audience? I doubt Premier even thought about it, but a rival syndicate might.
Jul 10, 2008 - 1:35 pm Armando:Rush is a national treasure, he is worth every penny.
Jul 10, 2008 - 2:10 pm Dave II:If Rush was a ballplayer, brought in the revenue and the fans that a player like A-Rod does (kind of), then he certainly would be paid as much if not more.
Rush is in the BIG LEAGUES of radio…he is a superstar at his craft. He has the audience…he deserves the money.
A better question should be, is A-Rod worth it??? Or is the money that A-list movie stars get for a film worth it? Compared to what they actually DO…NO!
Jul 10, 2008 - 2:18 pm rotwang:Rush is a pitchman for adjustable beds and restaurant-grade steak.
The radio show is just packaging for the commercials.
Jul 10, 2008 - 2:49 pm kabud:rotwang - well put!
i try to listen to limbo since, well i guess it was 1989 or 1990
a very smart friend recommended him.
So i honestly gave limbo a try and still sometimes turn him on, like today
actually because of this pajamas commercial on him:
so i learned lots of stuff on different commercial products, some schemes were advertised also, some idiot proposed to have energy problem solved in the next TWENTY YEARS
the i hear limbo MOOING something to the effect:
I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL SAVE THIS COUNTRY I AM THE BIGGEST OF BIG
Is it the sound of his distorted by drugs voice is really something that atracts very very very FAT AND STUPID?
Or what is it?
That FAT DRUGGED FREAK IS YOUR HERO, people?
This nation will desappear even sooner then i thought if thats the fact
But i don’t think so
I don’t believe limbo is popular
You know why advertisers pay for a SLUT in his program?
because they know that his listeners are really very very stupid and fat people and they will buy anything, any bull ideas or plastic products that their fat and ugly bodies and wifes may desire))))))
It is interesting that the friend who recomended him had some problems with facial skin)) and his wife left him )))
Well, if limbo is a right wing hero-
then the `right wing` is just a right testicle of a microtsephal)))))
it is good that i never considered myself right or left:
when you put yourself in any of those :
IT IS BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE A MIND OF YOUR OWN AND WANT TO BELONG AND WANT OTHERS TO THINK WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
so, learn kids, you will have to save this nation from limbos, clintons, obamas, kissingers, reeses, there is a long list of enemies and they are going to chew you unless you arm yourselves
God Bless America
Jul 10, 2008 - 3:10 pm Bullfrog:rotwang: ha! Another thing I read about Rush is that he admits to being a businessman first, and he goes after those companies who are willing to pay top dollar to be on his show quite successfully, yes?
Jul 10, 2008 - 3:13 pm Cletus:kabud, you are the perfect example of supreme stupidity. you are dumber than dumb itself.
Jul 10, 2008 - 3:45 pm jeff:Rush is worth every penny and more. I say so because I haven’t paid him anything but would if I couldn’t get his show for free on the radio. I’d spring for the online edition if that’s all I could get. Ergo he is worth what he already makes plus the extra that I would pay him.
I listen as often as i can. He is very entertaining and informative. And yes, i listen to left leaning talk too because it is mostly what is available on SF bay area stations.
Jul 10, 2008 - 3:50 pm jeff:Typewrite King:
Huh? You’re suggesting that it would be better to spend $400 million on one 3 hour movie. How many times will people go see it? Twice, three times? So you’ve held their attention for 6 or 9 hours.
Rush will deliver 3 hours*5 days*52 weeks*8 years of original content for the $400 million. That’s $62,000 per hour to reach 20,000,000 listeners - 3/10th of a penny per listener hour. What an incredible bargain!
You seem willing to pay alot for nothing. I need you to invest in my project.
Jul 10, 2008 - 4:05 pm jeff:I’m surprised that someone of kabud’s obviously simplistic abilities reads Pajamas media. Perhaps he is an ESL person and I am just thrown off by his poor command of english. The tirade against redball, however, suggests kabud is either dimwitted or alcoholic.
Jul 10, 2008 - 4:12 pm i guess matt:who cares. does it really bother anyone that he makes so much? if you dont like where you are in YOUR life…then YOU make more money.
Jul 10, 2008 - 4:22 pm kabud:it does not matter how much limbo makes, but it shows something very important about this society:
its volnurability to manipulation, its vast spread stupidity, and again on about money:
by trading with regimes like saudis, china or moscow, by making them so rich that they make direct payments to policy makers like Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice this thing that we know as American dollar devaluates not just morally but also in its actual monetary value
but this game is going to be over very soon:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/09/news/companies/benner_fanniefreddie.fortune/
Jul 10, 2008 - 4:36 pm kabud:to jeffrey and Cleturis:
thank you for the participation in my test of the audience!
i knew that there are, how you put it, cletoris, : “dumber than dumb itself”, dimwitted or alcoholic
among limbo listeners. And here YOU GO!
and jeffrey, well, public does not have to know your secrets ))))
Jul 10, 2008 - 4:46 pm bfwebster:With all the fuss about Rush Limbaugh, I notice that no one has been complaining that Oprah Winfrey grosses over a quarter of a billion dollars each year. ..bruce..
Jul 10, 2008 - 4:58 pm kabud:the best attitude would be to ignore oprah as a nobody
same goes for limbo
pajamas reported on limbo - we commented
i think people like limbo are the most dangerous- they pretend to be what they are not and fool the audience
some one like seymour hersh or clintons or obama - are an open enemies
but limbo is hidden and manipulative
i think i will be able to find some inside scoop on limbo, if so- will report to you
Jul 10, 2008 - 5:13 pm legaleagle:Yup!
He’s worth every dime.
No one else in this country has the kind of listening-base that Limbaugh has. And–here’s the biggie–he sells airtime! He can sell products! He’s one-of-a-kind.
Sports stars are overpaid morons.
Jul 10, 2008 - 5:45 pm Jude:Rush makes a lot of sense and is also very entertaining too. I’ve been listening for close to twenty years.
Jul 10, 2008 - 5:47 pm Gozer the Carpathian:Good point webster. No one cares what Oprah makes (good for her BTW!
) or any other mega star contract. Rush is the only one people complain about. Well boo hoo I think Rush deserves it and more. He gets my Rush 24/7 money every year just so I can listen to him when I feel like it. 
Jul 10, 2008 - 5:55 pm Typewriter King:Re Jeff:
No, I wouldn’t pay 400 million for a single three hour program. I’m saying I would be willing to put a Hollywood production value into a radio show for the duration. A team of the right scriptwriters and voice actors should be able to outperform one man that spontaneously decides what he’s going to say on the radio each morning.
Jul 10, 2008 - 6:15 pm deguello:If Al Franken made a billion dollars a year, neither kabud nor Rotwang would mind;but he’s a popular right -wing ideolgue,and that cannot be allowed.
Jul 10, 2008 - 6:56 pm kabud:deguello
you know i have no idea who al f. is. really and i dont want to know
limbo - i know things about him that public does not
and i can turn his constant commercial and egocentric program every day and you can do it too and find for yourself
his money is an illustration of the fall this society will experience in the nearest future
Limbo was warned in 1997 or so of what is coming. He knows but he is hiding the truth from you people.
I am not sure why- but i will find out and publish as i promised
I know, personally know people who are worth more then limbo, much more. Money never made no one happy. Just try to learn something from it.
Jul 10, 2008 - 7:59 pm Brian:He must be able to bring in enough audience and business to warrant the pay.
I suppose if radio syndication companies were just giving money away Air America might have been able to compete. But since the market drives the content, and the pay rate for the content, Rush was able to negotiate the salary.
As far as those claiming they would never pay Rush that much, I suppose thats why you are griping about it on the internet, rather than making the decision as the CEO of the syndication company.
Jul 10, 2008 - 8:02 pm Typical Whte Person:Who’s A Rod? and Who Cares?
Jul 10, 2008 - 8:33 pm kabud:Does Limbo have any content?
I have to give him a credit for creating buzz word feminazi))
Also i remember the way he attacked clintons in the 90s. Those attacks probably helped clinton to remain for the second term
And again: there is much more honesty and peace of mind to remain free in what you do and comment here at pajamas then trash the airwaves with tons of commercials
exploiting the PEOPLE’ VALID CONCERNS that we are losing this Country
And if we give it another year or two- we may get lucky-
your car radio will have an easy internet connection and even limbo’s SPECIFIC audience will comprehend the way to listen to the internet radio
Jul 10, 2008 - 8:43 pm ic:Typewriter King: Could such a team of the best talent making a scripted production bring in a greater audience?
Answer: no
You really think the capitalists, whoever they are, would miss a chance to make more profits? Anyway, how much do they have to pay a team of the “best talent”? Why does Nicole Kidman make more than an extra? Answer: she is unique. The studio makes more profits from her appearance in a movie than from a team of the best extras.
Jul 11, 2008 - 12:13 am MarkD:His employer is paying him that much, so by definition he is “worth it.” I’m not a listener - I have a very short commute and he’s not on when I drive in or home. I heard him a couple times and thought he was entertaining enough that I didn’t change the channel.
What motivates these comments? If you don’t like the guy, there are other stations. This is a free country, nobody holds a gun to my head and forces me to read the New York Times, so I don’t. I suspect nobody super glued your radio to the Rush channel with the volume on high so don’t listen if you don’t like it.
There would be no energy crisis if we could harness what is wasted worrying about other people’s lives.
Jul 11, 2008 - 5:56 am Roark:“Should Limbaugh Make More Than A-Rod?”
Jul 11, 2008 - 7:53 am greywar:—short answer: who cares!
I think kabud is just rush’s reverse sock-puppet. No real poster would be that incoherent.
Jul 11, 2008 - 8:13 am andersonh1:Kabud: It’s “Limbaugh”, not “Limbo”.
And yes, Rush is worth every penny. As long as he keeps drawing in the audience, and generating the revenue, then more power to him.
Jul 11, 2008 - 8:31 am kabud:andersonh1:
no it is LIMBO. Again, not limbaugh but LIMBO.
It is very important to understand.
MarkD:
it is not about other station, it is about his ideological role and compensation for it
Not very smart listeners of Limbo think that just because radio waves are filled with marxist bias LIMBO is their saver
They dont understand that enemy ways are : to work MUCH MORE with much more sophistication on OUR RIGHT WING PEOPLE then bother with useful idiots on the left
Limbo is exploiting our concerns and pushing HIS OWN EGOISTIC commercial interest on our cost
Well, i dont think too many limbo fans can grasp what i just wrote, but TRY IT, TRY IT, folks
Jul 11, 2008 - 9:19 am kabud:good news:
i turned 770 AM in New York to catch a new Limbo joke))
and..well you will never believe, - he is NOT THERE!
But a very smart brit is talking. he just spoke on soviet mastership of brainwashing and compared it to cnn bullshit
Limbo should go for a long long vacation and never come back
Jul 11, 2008 - 9:47 am Dawn:Rush gets paid well because he is the best at his job. He is highly educated, does his homework on everything, and gets the truth out. I love listening to him and learning from him. Note to kabud…..you are seriously frightening and may need to seek help.
Jul 11, 2008 - 11:09 am kabud:Dawn
i am hearing the same comments all the time, before 9-11 more then after
i survived it right here in Manhattan
believe me, it is not your nice radio in the morning commute
in the past i survived Chernobyl desaster prepared by KGB
wait, and it will come to you
but you will not get ANY help from noone- they will be dead
Jul 11, 2008 - 11:39 am Roderick Reilly:400 mil? Sure, why the hell not.
I think Premier is assuming that Obama will be the next President, which means that Rush’s ratings will likely go up dramatically.
Also, with that kind of money, Rush will be able to help finance a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that currently only exists in the fevered imaginations of lefty wingnuts and Hillary Clinton. This will help counteract the very real and ginormous left-wing conspiracy which dominates our media, bureaucracies, unions, and academia that is financed by vile billionaires who have no respect for the free-market system that got them to where they are. Richard Mellon Scaife can’t finance the under-funded Right all by himself.
Jul 11, 2008 - 2:25 pm GCA:Interesting. Limbaugh’s jealous detractors can’t spell or put together a coherent sentence. All they do is whine. I’ll take Limbaugh’s bravado and tongue-in-cheek grandiosity any day over the left’s boring outrage and moralistic drivel any day. Whine all you want; old Rushbo is laughing all the way to the bank, as he well he deserves given his value has been placed by the open market. There is, after all, no Limbaugh tax or subsidy, unlike always serious and sanctimonious National Public Radio.
Jul 11, 2008 - 9:13 pm kabud:GCA:
you are amazing: your choice reminds me of choice The Nation is facing in President race:
either the fat freak or the subversive leftist airwaves)))))
hilarious comment!
Jul 11, 2008 - 11:14 pm jrl:Limbaugh is not only the best at what he does, as per market value, he made AM radio what it is today. Agree with him or not, he shaped the format to the point where everyone else in the field is an imitator even if they are pretty good in their own right.
Jul 12, 2008 - 3:33 am Peg C.:As someone who could not give a fig for sports and who really dislikes sports stars - yes, Rush should make more than A-Rod. Rush should make more than any of the idiots in Hollywood. Rush leads a movement and may singlehandedly hold it together. He is almost alone in his unyielding championing of freedom, liberty and American principles and values. He is vastly entertaining and his audience is so huge it apparently cannot be accurately measured (or various interests don’t want to measure it accurately for fear of being found vastly unpopular themselves).
Whatever the others offer, it ain’t much. However, the market decides! That is the most important principle of all. In that vein, I resubscribed at Rush24×7 for 2 more years the day his new contract was announced, I was that jazzed.
Jul 12, 2008 - 10:38 am Javelin:“Rush did not marry into his wealth, like Senator John Kerry. He didn’t inherit it like Senator Ted Kennedy. And he hasn’t generated it by profiteering from a mass hysteria that he himself created, like Al Gore through his global warming and carbon credit scams. No, Rush has earned his payday the old-fashioned way — being the very best at what he does. He is, quite simply, the Tiger Woods of talk — who pulls down about $20 million a year himself from just one of his sponsors, Nike. Is Tiger worth it? You bet; just like Rush.”
Jul 12, 2008 - 11:13 am Barry:You forgot Bush and McCain, but this is just one right wing petty mouthpiece paying homage to the master of biased BS and cheap insults. Funny, how the same shallow fools who whine incessantly about media bias usuall take that fat windbag’s BS as gospel truth!
It’s not kabud, it’s kaboob.
Jul 12, 2008 - 12:37 pm Tom Paine:I would like to defend kabud against those who claim that he’s dumber than dirt.
He’s just as smart as dirt!
You are all a bunch of racist, sexist, red-neck, nazi, homophobes — and global-warming denyists.
Shame on you.
Jul 12, 2008 - 1:17 pm kabud:RUSH LIMBAUGH!
Alternative Sources of Fuel
http://www.rushonline.com/visitors/gasprices.htm
The current approach to having more fuel, is to open areas to drilling for more oil and pipe or ship the crude to the refineries. The timetable for the oil to reach the refineries is approximately 5 years. The amount of money to be spent is in the billions. If we were to take most of the land in the soil bank and pay the farmers to grow a crop that could be converted easily to methanol, we could then develope new forms of fuel. The land would be put to better use, and the product and byproducts could all be used. Use the monies, that we intend to spend on obtaining more oil, to create refineries to produce the fuels from methanol. I feel certain thatthe timetable to obtain an alternate source of fuel would be much shorter.
Most of the research, for the refining process, has already been done. We have allowed ourselves to become much to dependant on oil, a resource that will eventually be gone. The crops used to produce the methanol are replaceable. There will be little waste, if any, from the processing.
Rush, you have available to you, the means to advance this idea. Why in the world would you ever be backing an idea (Oil in 5 years) that would, in the long term, solve nothing.???
With my idea we could create an unlimited supply of fuel and solve a lot of controversial issues in our government, such as; subsidizing farmers in the land bank, by paying them to not grow anything. Please give my thoughts a little time on your show. A lot can be done in five years!
Jul 12, 2008 - 4:57 pm kabud:i dont know about this
racist, sexist, red-neck, nazi, homophobes — and global-warming denyists
people just get entertaining value from Rush
but it is time for him to think in terms of LEADING people and telling the whole truth
there are PLENTY of things that need publicity
Jul 12, 2008 - 5:03 pm kabud:I must pay some credit to RUSH:
ONE year ago he at least ONCE in ONE year was sayng something seriuos:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072707/content/01125115.guest.html
RUSH: Let’s just talk about the economy here for just a second. I just came across a piece published today at FinancialSense.com by Jeffrey Nyquist. It’s entitled, “The Coming Malaise.” He said, “Remember President Carter’s 1979 Malaise Speech? Americans were losing faith in the country’s future, he said. They were closing the door on America’s past. President Carter wanted to turn things around. He warned that rising materialism would not ‘fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.’ He said it was a crisis of American spirit. In response to this crisis, Carter wanted the authority to ration gasoline, form an ‘energy mobilization board,’ create a bureaucracy to guarantee that we would ‘never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977,’ set oil import quotas and develop solar power. ‘These efforts will cost money,’ Carter explained, ‘a lot of money….’” Now, this was a genuine malaise. He was right. The country was dispirited, but it was because of him! Coming out of Watergate, he puts all these things out there. It was an absolute mess. It is not a mess today, but Democrats are trying to recreate the same mind-set.
————
But Rush it is not nearly enough.
It is not democrats who are to blame. republicans are even more compromised in different ways and it is even more dangerous because decent PEOPLE trust republicans more and republicans LIE to american people about `islamic threat` when threat is purely COMMUNIST in a form of a global organized crime backed by governments of Russia and China, enforced by curuption and secret police of those two
Unless we stop burning oil ang natural gas and create another way to have energy needs serviced in ABUNDANCE: we will be destroyed.
Our enemy has enormous reserves of oil and gas and they(kremlin) effectively control the ME reserves as well. Also China and kremlin control almost all of Africa with its enormous natural resources.
So the only way to stop our destruction will be
striping oil and natural gas OFF ITS STRATEGIC VALUE
We have coal- the biggest reserve on the Planet and we have enourmous quantity of biomass:
so that MUST become an energy source for this Nation and soon it will be copied in the rest of the world, specificaly in poor countries who are totally inslaved now by oil totalitarian regimes
Jul 13, 2008 - 10:15 am kabud:see how RUSH lied to you in the same broadcast
I share this with you because a lot of people are concerned about falling morality, instability, the sense of angst that exists out there. I think the economy is in much better shape than Mr. Nyquist portrays it here. I know: 3.4% growth second quarter. Surprising, again, all the “experts.” It’s easy to become obsessed with pessimism and doom and gloom. Folks, just trust me on this. If you fight that and just within the confines of your family and your friends and so forth, just be thankful for what have you, and be thankful for the opportunity to acquire more, to do more, to achieve more, to teach your kids more, the opportunities are never better, and they’re boundless. But you have to go get ‘em. They’re not going to come knocking on your door because they feel sorry for you. You know, “Can’t” never did anything, and pessimists never sold a book. (Well, not in the numbers that the optimists do.) Let’s go to the audio sound bites. The president was talking about the economy this morning in Washington, after a meeting wide receivers economic advisors about the GDP report released today, the president said…
THE PRESIDENT: The world economy is strong and I happen to believe one of the main reasons why is because we remain strong, and my pledge to the American people is we will keep your taxes low to make sure the economy continues to remain strong, and we’ll be wise about how we spend your money here in Washington DC. I’ve submitted a budget that will be in balance by 2012, and I look forward to working with Congress to achieve that goal.
Jul 13, 2008 - 10:22 am tim stevens:To you liberals who hate Rush and have written so here: ha ha, Rush is better than anything you have ever produced.
Limbaugh doesn’t use government to steal from us. He doesn’t insist in taking from those who earn it and giving to those who are too lazy, too stupid or greedy to earn it them self. He doesn’t believe in all that anthropogenic global warming emotionalism. He doesn’t pander to the unwashed masses, the intellectual elite or the union thug.
If he has any shortcoming as I see it is his overemphasis on Christianity and antiabortionism. However, I am not going to suggest he changes how he lives his life or runs his business - he is far more successful than I. He demonstrates every day that he knows what his customers want and delivers it to them.
So, s@ck it libs.
Jul 13, 2008 - 11:41 am regmaxi:So we’re paying junkie pedophiles sportsman like salaries huh ??? Pass the crack pipe , you can keep the kids though Rush …
Jul 13, 2008 - 1:43 pm kabud:Choice mates.LOL
>So we’re paying junkie pedophiles sportsman like salaries
YOU REGMAXI PAY IT.
I- don’t. I never watch ANY idiotic sports on the IDIOTIC BOX neither go to a circus for retards you call it a stadium
choice not just matters it effectively made this nation a bunch of overweight retards WATCHING sports instead of doing it
Jul 13, 2008 - 4:09 pm regmaxi:I’m from Britain kabud … I was merely makin the point that it’s funny to reward either .
Jul 14, 2008 - 12:37 am Ryan:As a mentor once told me, you don’t get paid what you’re worth, but for what you do. As Limbaugh has openly stated many times–most recently in his NYT Magazine profile–”My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates.” The left can whine and gripe all day long about how he isn’t worth that kind of money, but his syndicator would clearly beg to differ.
However, one key distinction between Rush and A-Rod that isn’t addressed is the issue of publicly-financed stadiums. By state and city governments absorbing what is arguably most sports teams’ single biggest sunk cost–their massive arenas–player salaries are artificially inflated. From what I’ve read, the new Yankee Stadium is being financed largely by the team, but they’re the very rare exception to the rule. Say what you will about Rush, but his business isn’t on the government dole.
Jul 14, 2008 - 9:03 am kabud:regmaxi
true that, so DONT reward them. ignore the idiocy, lets finish it with them
by the way i am listening to Rush now
well, seems to be nervous, may be because of FM&FM story?
but still, he is incompetent to OFFER, just to rant
so what is good about ranting?
there are things we MUST DO IMMEDIATELY if we want to survive as a nation.
And it is no ranting or `jerking off` to Rush rethorics
figuratively speaking
Rush is oversimplified dead end for the republican mentality
he is ranting for years american politics is getting worth and worth
Jul 14, 2008 - 10:13 am Rob:Rush cranks out sophisticated political commentary by the ream. His monologs are works of art. An ordinary columnist writes a few paragraphs a coupla times a week. Rush composes original commentary and fills 3 hours daily with political discussion. When we turn to his program we are hearing a master at work.
Jul 14, 2008 - 7:45 pm kabud:Rob
you are totally submerged with entertainment
you are a fat victim of the shopping mall regime
enemy will be making shoes from your skin
Jul 15, 2008 - 10:31 am randy:is that all he’s getting? he deserves it just for the fact that he keeps people informed of the shinanigans going on in the democrap party. just the truth he and other conservative radio hosts put out about the illegal amnesty bill was worth a years pay. he’s good at what he does…pissing you lefty’s off. and i can see that it’s working.
Jul 15, 2008 - 8:24 pm kabud:randy,
tell us WHO is informing us on almost the same level of what you call shinanigans going on in Republican Camp? Or other wrongdoings that both camps agreed to use against
Honestly, lately it looks like both camps are PLAYING us very carefully, so we will never see thing clearly.
Jul 15, 2008 - 9:04 pm randy:kabud: i concede, we’re getting screwed from both sides. maybe anarchy is soon to enter the scene. voting just keeps the status quo, and people become lethargic. i’m sure you know as well as i do that journey starts with a trip to the gas station, and dems don’t want to produce any here, they can afford to pay for it from the generous allowance they receive from overtaxed taxpayers.
Jul 16, 2008 - 8:20 am kabud:we must take control as a People as we are obliged by the Constitution
Spread the word, we got to start somewhere.
Jul 16, 2008 - 10:27 am