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Has Rush Limbaugh Finally Reached the End Of The Road?
Forbes ^ | April 15, 2014 | Rick Ungar

Posted on 04/16/2014 12:00:15 AM PDT by Pinkbell

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To: driftless2

The world might be a little different that when we were 18 watching Carson.


41 posted on 04/16/2014 4:47:10 AM PDT by dmz
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To: Arthur McGowan
In 1988, Rush was reading the news from all over, and it was impossible for most listeners to get most of it anywhere else. Rush has been overtaken by the internet. For many years, anyone who followed FR and some other websites would learn little or nothing by listening to Rush.

Free Republic killed talk radio for me. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, I listened to talk radio constantly as it was my only source for "non-lamestream" media news.

Now I'm much better informed than just about any talk show host. In fact, it appears that many talk show hosts get their material and talking points right here on Free Republic.

42 posted on 04/16/2014 4:50:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Pinkbell

The writer wrote his own epitaph..... he knows not of what he speaks. He is merely a rider on the band wagon


43 posted on 04/16/2014 4:52:04 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Rush survived a drug addiction which left him hard of hearing, the NFL flap and numerious other things and each time the left had the grave dug.
Long Live Rush


44 posted on 04/16/2014 4:59:32 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: driftless2

I used to wonder about this since the older demographic has more money to spend on advertisers products. But then I realized that they are thinking long term—if buying habits, brand loyalty and do forth are established when a consumer is young, they will still have them when they’re old and presumably with more money.


45 posted on 04/16/2014 5:01:19 AM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: Pinkbell

I’ve listened to Rush since 1992. I quit listening to him about a year ago.

I usually spend about 45 minutes every morning reading news from FR, Weasel Zippers, Breitbart, NewsBusters, The Blaze, etc.

I find that I am normally 24-48 hours ahead of Rush on any given issue. Then when he says something about any issue, I already know what he thinks about it because I’ve heard it all for 22 years. Combined with him pushing his overpriced, gimmicky tea and his goofy kids’ book and golf stories and refusal to use his pulpit to actually change anything, I get nothing of value from listening to him any more.

Sorry, Rush. It was fun while it lasted. I have moved on.


46 posted on 04/16/2014 5:01:21 AM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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To: SamAdams76

I’m convinced that they do.


47 posted on 04/16/2014 5:02:15 AM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: Jim Robinson

He’s been on Hannity. Pretty effective leftist mouthpiece. Too many lies to bat them all down.


48 posted on 04/16/2014 5:03:24 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: Pinkbell
This is really a very flimsy (ridiculous really) reason to declare that Rush is done.

I have been done with Rush Limbaugh for a long, long time, because he is a scoffer and scorner, profiting on inflating and rolling in others' errors. After listening to his radio fare a few times, I made sure I never read his books or his comments that have been posted here verbatim.

The Spirit's Holy Scripture has convinced me that God cannot bless one who makes Limbaugh's ungodly radio fare a daily lust. Why?

Psa 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Prov. 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Prov. 3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. (Here "he" is Jehovah G0d; see Ps. 2:1-4)

Prov. 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Prov. 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Prov. 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Prov. 13:1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Prov. 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Prov. 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Prov. 19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Prov. 21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Prov. 21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Prov. 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Prov. 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Hab 1:9-10 They** shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. (** "they" are the Chaldeans=Babylonians whom God allowed to enslave and deport the Judeans for a generation for their idolatry.)

Jud 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignit(ar)ies.

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I believe God will punish us just as much for listening to commentators like Limbaugh as He will for our bowing to the objects of Liombaugh's ruthless mockery.

Rush pretends to be moral, but he is merely a profiteer of moralism, not as a Christian. Those who swill his stirred-up fecal matter are just as stupid as the liberals that create it, IMHO.

And as I expect, because of saying this, his worshippers will now throw a lot of that fecal matter my way also, won't they?

Don't expect me to respond.

49 posted on 04/16/2014 5:04:31 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Pinkbell

Sounds like he’s hoping his little opinion gets some air time.

I hope Rush ignores this person and advises his screeners not to let this topic through.


50 posted on 04/16/2014 5:05:42 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: caver

It’s true. Just when I get disgusted with him or write him off as having jumped the shark, he has a barn-burner show of the kind that only he can do with the insights only he can provide.

It’s a mystery to me why he hasn’t spent any time on the Bundy affair. By this time I think it’s deliberate, not just an oversight. But here’s a reason that he (or other hosts)might not be entertaining birther theories: they’re bullshit. Aren’t there enough real problems with Obama and his administration to be pursuing this foolishness? Put it in the same dustbin with 911 trutherism, moon landing hoax stories and half-baked stories about the Kennedy assassination and move on. Believing crap doesn’t make a person a “true” conservative. Other conservatives don’t avoid this stuff because they’re “scared”. They avoid it because its stupid.


51 posted on 04/16/2014 5:17:18 AM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: SamAdams76

It happened rather suddenly. One day I realized I already knew all about every story Rush covered.

While we’re trashing Rush, I wish he would stop this: He plays an “audio sound bite” and immediately after, recites the entire sound bite word-for-word.


52 posted on 04/16/2014 5:18:07 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Olog-hai

I figure Unger wrote this to get attention. He probably knows Rush can’t resist answering to it.


53 posted on 04/16/2014 5:19:36 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Heart of Georgia

Rush has a penchant for any “mention” be gets in any media of note, so unfortunately it will probably make it to the show.


54 posted on 04/16/2014 5:21:51 AM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: crazycatlady

I would take your opinion of “birthers” seriously if I had not seen the hard evidence that the “birth certificate” is crude forgery.

I won’t deny what I’ve seen with my own eyes just because “there are other issues.”


55 posted on 04/16/2014 5:22:01 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
And Rush, Levin, Hannity, and most other radio hosts refuse to deal with what everyone in Washington knows: that Obama/Soetoro is almost certainly an illegal alien. And that his “birth certificate” is absolutely certainly a crude forgery.

They all offer the excuse: “We will never get him out of office with that stuff.”

How about this?-—Broadcast the truth, and the evidence, and let the chips fall where they may.

AMEN Brother!

56 posted on 04/16/2014 5:23:19 AM PDT by Marathoner (When Obama fails, freedom prevails)
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To: Pinkbell
Ha

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57 posted on 04/16/2014 5:50:18 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Arthur McGowan
I hardly listen to Rush anymore, but it’s because I don’t feel I’m learning anything. In 1988, Rush was reading the news from all over, and it was impossible for most listeners to get most of it anywhere else. Rush has been overtaken by the internet. For many years, anyone who followed FR and some other websites would learn little or nothing by listening to Rush.

I think you're on to something here. Rush has to sit on any breaking news or information until his 3-hour broadcast window arrives. Meanwhile, Drudge and everyone else has been talking about the story for as much as 21 hours. It's not that much different than how a newspaper operates.

58 posted on 04/16/2014 6:01:17 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Pinkbell

Considering that Colbert has mostly been seen by viewers ‘in character’, there is a good chance the unmasked Colbert will flop.

Many will tune in to see him ‘in character’ and may be disappointed to find someone else.


59 posted on 04/16/2014 6:02:12 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Wildbill22

Its mighty presumptuous to contend to be a better “marketer” than Rush, who has been able to carve out the most popular and lucrative niche in the radio land of Impossible.

As much as we all as more than sure nobama is not Constitutionally qualified, because of PC reality, nothing foreseeable is going to remove him from office before his time expires in Jan. 17. That IS reality. Regarding continually preaching it, go ask Savage how well “let the chips fall where they may” is working out.


60 posted on 04/16/2014 7:46:51 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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