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If he wasn't a fat, bigoted, misogynistic, racist, I might feel sorry for him.
Baby, please come back!
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They'll come back. Most will anyways.
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Actually he's begging his affiliates not to dump his show (the ones that haven't already).
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Tych2 posted:
They'll come back. Most will anyways.
You've been wrong consistently throughout this entire controversy. I just thought I'd point that out.
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You're right for once to celebrate, Voodoo.
This is how it should work. Free market working as intended. Go off the reservation and piss off most of your advertisers... watch your business go down the tubes.
If he finds new ones who want to associate with him, fine. If not, adios, fatty.
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Voodoo-Dahl posted:
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They'll come back. Most will anyways.
You've been wrong consistently throughout this entire controversy. I just thought I'd point that out.
What have I been wrong about specifically? I've only stated that his sponsors would return eventually. I've made no other statement other than to call him a moron and a misogynist.
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Also Rush as Fred Flintstone is A++
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Rush gives away his show to many affiliates. Having more affiliates means more potential listeners and that lets him charge more for the national ads (some of which he reads himself). But the affiliates only want even a free show so they can sell the remaining ad slots to various national and local companies.
A lot of the affiliates are having to fill their ad slots with the nearly free PSAs which isn't enough to cover the costs of broadcasting a free show. So they need to decide to either wait it out and hope the advertisers for the ad slots they control come back or drop the show for something more profitable.
Rush himself has enough money to wait out the return of advertisers, the only question is how many radio stations will still be playing his show once they do come back. 
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I dont much care either way. Dont listen to him, but he has the numbers of people that do. Either way, on or off air makes no difference to me. Never have listened to him or beck.
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I dont like the pompus windbag...
I also cant stand Bill Maher...
I really dont like the idea of the govt silencing either, which is something people have been calling to do... dont like them dont listen, boycott sponser's if thats your thing.
It really scares me that some people want a federal agency to force him off the air, makes me wonder what will be next.
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Voodoo?
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I really dont like the idea of the govt silencing either, which is something people have been calling to do... dont like them dont listen, boycott sponser's if thats your thing.
It really scares me that some people want a federal agency to force him off the air, makes me wonder what will be next.
I haven't seen much (at least specifically due to this situation) about people wanting the government to force him off the air. There have been some calls for the military to take him off the Armed Forces Radio, but that isn't really the same thing as wanting the government to force him off the air in general.
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Scarne posted:
MatrexMistwalker posted:
I really dont like the idea of the govt silencing either, which is something people have been calling to do... dont like them dont listen, boycott sponser's if thats your thing.
It really scares me that some people want a federal agency to force him off the air, makes me wonder what will be next.
I haven't seen much (at least specifically due to this situation) about people wanting the government to force him off the air. There have been some calls for the military to take him off the Armed Forces Radio, but that isn't really the same thing as wanting the government to force him off the air in general.
"If Clear Channel won't clean up its airways, then surely it's time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh's show in fact using their licenses "in the public interest?"
Spectrum is a scarce government resource. Radio broadcasters are obligated to act in the public interest and serve their respective communities of license. In keeping with this obligation, individual radio listeners may complain to the FCC that Limbaugh's radio station (and those syndicating his show) are not acting in the public interest or serving their respective communities of license by permitting such dehumanizing speech."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/10/opinion/fonda-morgan-steinem-limbaugh/index.html
Though you have to laugh out loud at the three people pushing it.
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Yep, the three people pushing it are laughable... but the comments on the various pages that carried the story are scary to me... common people saying yes the FCC should for clearchannel off the air unless the get rid of Rush...
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hahaha the democrats are so stupid and ham handed they may breathe some life into a dying rush limbaugh. What idiots.
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hahaha the democrats are so stupid and ham handed they may breathe some life into a dying rush limbaugh. What idiots.
This.
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I didn't realize that Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and whoever the third person is run the democratic party...
Thanks for enlightening us.
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I didn't realize that Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and whoever the third person is run the democratic party...
Thanks for enlightening us.
Yeah... in much the same way Rush "leads" the Republican party.
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The advertisers aren't a long term problem for him. The vast majority only said they were taking a break, not never advertising on his show again.
As said above, it's the local affiliates that are his problem. There are plenty of other free shows (or barter programming as it's called) that generate a lot of revenue. If they think they would be better off with someone less prone to pissing off a good segment of the public with stupidity, he is going to lose a lot of them, which in turn will reduce the amount of revenue he can generate and threaten the barter status of his program.
I highly doubt it will come to that, but I'm usually wrong about what the nation as a whole is thinking....so it's possible. It's not like he will vanish even if it does, he will simply go to a different distribution model and keep spewing his crap. I'm happy that he is around to spew his crap, he says what a lot of people are thinking. The stupid people that is.
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I didn't realize that Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and whoever the third person is run the democratic party...
Thanks for enlightening us.
Yeah... in much the same way Rush "leads" the Republican party.
Yeah they have a daily radio show with millions of listeners, where they dictate on high, and Democratic politicians will regularly kiss the ring.
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... enjoy yourself.
As for me, I hope Rush gets relegated to some third-rate Internet show like Beck has been. So he can wake up one morning a couple years from now and think to himself, "dear God, what a joke I have become" and reach for that NRA-sanctioned pistol in his night stand.
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Remnant_OBrien posted:
I didn't realize that Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and whoever the third person is run the democratic party...
Thanks for enlightening us.
I just said "the democrats." Are you saying they aren't democrats? I guess I don't know for sure.
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They will be back.
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... enjoy yourself.
What's actually pretty funny about your choice of gif's here is that the person doing that was talking about how the Republicans treat Rush...
True story...
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Rush said today that the Sandra Fluke episode was all part of Obama's conspiracy to "take him down." You see, Obama made Rush call that chick a slut. It was all part of Obama's master plan.
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Actually he's begging his affiliates not to dump his show (the ones that haven't already).
WBEC in Pittsfield Massachusetts, along with KPUA in Hilo Hawaii, how will he ever survive the tragic loss of two such major outlets?
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I guess you didn't click the link.
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Ashmaele posted:
I guess you didn't click the link.
funny how Rush is always the victim
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Remnant_OBrien posted:
What's actually pretty funny about your choice of gif's here is that the person doing that was talking about how the Republicans treat Rush...
True story...
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