Has Rush Limbaugh Finally Reached the End Of The Road?
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UPDATED: Sunday, July 6, 2025 04:06
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Rick Ungar, the senior political contributor for the conservative Forbes and regular attendee on Fox, has some tough words when it comes to Limbaugh’s relevance in the conservative movement:Quote:
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.
It happened on the occasion of Stephen Colbert’s appointment to fill David Letterman’s soon to be vacated chair on the CBS late-night set.
By using this occasion to create a political narrative designed to stir up his listeners, Limbaugh telegraphed to his loyal followers that he is now dependent upon feeding fully faux political nonsense that his audience instinctively—or explicitly—knows is a bunch of baloney.
To be sure, this is hardly the first time Limbaugh has fed his audience a diet of twisted information and bizarre, conspiratorial memes. However, it may well be the first time that he attempted to shove a diet down the throats of any semi-rational listeners still living in the real world made up of nonsense that even his most loyal listener could not possibly swallow.
That’s a problem for Rush.
A show like Limbaugh’s is wholly reliant on his listeners’ willingness to believe—or suspend belief—no matter how ‘out there’ their guru’s arguments may be. While it is one thing for me to sneer at much of what Limbaugh may present, it is quite another when he attempts to sell his loyal audience on stuff they already know, through personal experience, to be false and fraudulent hokum.
Upon hearing the news of Colbert’s new gig, Limbaugh pronounced— as only Limbaugh can pronounce—
“CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America. No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values, conservatism. Now it’s just wide out in the open. What this hire means is a redefinition of what is funny, and a redefinition of what is comedy. They’re blowing up the 11:30 format… they hired a partisan, so-called comedian, to run a comedy show.”
Not quite satisfied with his initial declaration, Limbaugh returned to the subject in a later program, commenting further on CBS’s decision to hire Colbert—
“It clearly indicates that the people making this decision have chosen to write off a portion of the country, that they don’t care if a portion of the country watches or not.”
Rush has it right on his last statement.
Indeed, the people who make decisions at television networks have chosen to write off a portion of the country—a decision that was made for them a very long time ago.
However, it has never had anything to do with making choices of audience based on anything even resembling politics and has always had everything to do with blowing off anyone older than 49 years of age because these older folks are poison to advertisers. In other words, the networks are clearly writing off those in ‘the heartland’ if they’ve reached 50 years old—just as they’ve written off folks in this demo in every other nook and cranny of America.
What Limbaugh chose to ignore in his rant is that this is a choice based on what television advertisers want—and what television advertisers want is a young television viewing audience or, to be more specific, viewers that fall between the ages of 18-49. Despite Limbaugh’s truly lame efforts to pretend otherwise, if you fall within this age group, you are welcomed to the party whether you be a progressive, conservative, independent, communist, John Bircher, or whatever other political affiliation you can conjure up.
And yet, Limbaugh—a guy who has spent his life in media—wants his audience to believe that there is some political agenda on the
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I was wondering what would happen ... 90% of women of childbearing age use or have used hormonal birth control ('the pill'). When you call women who use birth control 'sluts' and repeat the theme 20 times or more ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/rush-limbaughs-pe
rsonal-attack-on-sandra-fluke-more-like-20-attacks/2012/03/04/gIQA1OkHtR_blog.html ... doesn't that seem like a way to lose a lot of your audience? It does to me. Sure the move to register complaints with Rush advertisers went a long way to spreading the word about what Rush is willing to say about his female audience - or their girlfriends, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, and cousins - but the essential woman-hating message is loud and clear all on its own.
I just pray he faces heavy defamation lawsuits afterwards. I'd hate to think he got rich and stayed rich on his message of hate.
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He's rich. Let him retire in peace. I mean. it IS the goal of all frauds & carpetbaggers, right?
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Per usual, Rush is right.
Hard pill for the Lefties to accept.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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CBS does have freedom of the press, Rusho.
If they choose to throw a portion of the country, or the populace, or the political spectrum, under the bus, they get to make that choice. You may not LIKE it, because it runs against YOUR political bias, but it's THEIR choice. They own the cameras, the studios, and the broadcast licenses.
And if they choose to do it for financial reasons, that's free market at work. Their stockholders will determine whether or not it's a good idea, at their next quarterly statement or stockholders' meeting.
Ol' Rush does have the right to point out what he thinks they're doing, and his audience to react as they chose or as he advocates or not, but he doesn't own the network, so he can only jawbone. THEY still get to take whatever action THEY choose.
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"Has Rush Limbaugh Finally Reached the End Of The Road?"
Who cares?
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
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Originally posted by Geezer:
"Has Rush Limbaugh Finally Reached the End Of The Road?"
Who cares?
I suppose I don't. I've never listened to him or anyone else on the radio, and it's been my consistent observation that his real political power and societal influence is minimal at best. But I like him because he drives libtards crazy.
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I have a question. If this was your ideal world, and Fluke did pursue a lawsuit (on the basis that Rush violated the security of her person by demeaning her to millions of people and ruining her reputation) and you were on the jury - how would you vote?
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Who cares?
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OONJERAH - We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
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