Posted on 01/09/2007 1:18:23 PM PST by iowamark
I liked Kinison.
He used to be some type of libertarian but I don't know if that's true anymore.
He did vote for Reagan IIRC, but I don't think he's the same guy he was then.
To put it another way I used to like to listen to him. Not anymore and not for a while.
Yes I heard him say that. That he signed a ~$285m / 8year contract (+ one time renewal bonus, or including ?) is public knowledge. What could a studio pay him for a one time endorsement that would matter to him ? A few million ? I doubt he would care. He has everything he needs, including that 15ft DLP tv that only Michael Dell besides him has. What matters to (or grates on) Rush more than what he is making, or how much more he could make, is how much the govt is robbing from him by pointing a gun barrel in his face. Which is one of the points of his show.
Yep. It's one of the most profound lessons I have learnt at the Limbaugh Institute, and yet something so amazingly simple. It's called "commissioned sales". You help others make money, and they give you a percentage of their income. Limbaugh helps his sponsors and his parent company (Premier) make tons of money, and so he gets his cut of a measly 35 million for it. If you think about it *ALL* salaries/ paychecks are based on commissioned sales. What your employer pays you is based on how much *you* help your employer make, and how many of you are out there willing to do the same. I have never forgotten that lesson.
I do commissioned sales and do rather well, but I don't have quite as big a "pie" as Rush!
I was listening to one of his tapes one night, and something struck me. If you get past the profanity, Sam seemed to hold to some pretty conservative ideals. And it wouldn't surprise me if Sam was still a believer too.
Probably because Sirius offered more for the rights to broadcast. I wish they hadn't have, but alas, don't have much say in it. Losing NASCAR is bad.
I've been a Sirius subscriber for almost four years now, and I love it. And to be honest, I couldn't care less about NASCAR - I wish Sirius had the rights to the MLB games. There were plenty of times the past few years when a Mets game that I really wanted to watch or listen to was on but, alas, I'm out of range of WFAN up here so unless I'm in front of a TV, I am SOL.
Um, the day I allow any entertainer-slash-comedian-slash-musician-slash-movie star to shape my political philosophy is the day I put a .45 slug through my temple.
$12.95 a month? That's less than a week's worth of coffees at Dunkin' Donuts---i.e., hardly Thurston Howell III money.
They just sent me a letter asking for $12.95/mo, down to $10.60/mo if I pay up front for the 3-yr package... made me wonder if they had an audio feed on me or something! LOL
Wise move!
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