Only in America can an obese douche-bag get paid a King's ransom to sit on his fat ass and tell lies for fun & profit. CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO just signed Limbaugh to a $400 million radio contract that keeps him on the air through 2016. It is the most astounding contract in the history of terrestrial radio broadcasting. However, Limbaugh will have to make a hell of a lot more money to match the world record setting deal Howard Stern signed with Sirius Satellite Radio in 2006. Stern earns a mind-boggling $850 million in salary & bonus money in just 5 years.

BTW, if a fat tub of lard like Limbaugh is making that kind of money, justice demands that a real broadcaster like Randi should get an immediate and massive pay increase from NovaM.

what it tells us (painfully) is that his 5th grade approach to communication appeals to a certain group of people...

these people tend to be less educated than we are and they tend to vote republican..

they tend to be religious or superstitious and rarely question their leaders or the information they are receiving...

as a result, someone like limbaugh can make a fortune...i want to be president so i can raise his tax bracket to 80%

If NovaM had the funds, I'm sure she would get what she's worth.

What the hell is wrong with this country? Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly get millions a year.

People like Rhodes, Malloy, Farias don't get what they do deserve.

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Only in America can an obese douche-bag get paid a King's ransom to sit on his fat ass and tell lies for fun & profit. CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO just signed Limbaugh to a $400 million radio contract that keeps him on the air through 2016. It is the most astounding contract in the history of terrestrial radio broadcasting.

And morons making six dollars an hour will continue to obey every word he says, because he's a regular guy like them. As opposed to Randi, who's a liberal elitist. What a bad joke.

Randi is purposely staying away from Obama right now. After the election and Obama wins, watch what happens between the two, she will be an overnight political super star.

Click Below, Enjoy.

http://www.bushflash.com/nazi.html

when they have the same listenership and money draw. Big money doesnt care where their money is coming from.

The Progressive blogs say that the American public's desire for conservative hate radio is on the decline. I've heard that Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage and O'Reilly are losing listeners and market share at a rapid pace. If the lucrative new Limbaugh is any indication, then the forecasts were dead wrong. Right wing hate radio is not declining; it is booming.

Ditto.

Your inclination squares with my suggestion that no individual should be permitted to accumulate more than $20 million in personal assets. So let's raise his tax bracket to 95%.

I despise the politics of Rush Limbaugh. It's annoying that he makes such an obscene amount of money but his income is justified because he generates more ad money for the radio stations of this country than anyone else in broadcasting. Let's be honest...he is the Tiger Woods of terrestrial talk radio. More importantly, he gets paid with money from the private sector. As long as my tax dollars don't pay his salary let him make all the money he wants.

Being a Corporate Shill pays way better. And you can afford Ambien®* by the truckload in case you cant sleep.






*or, in Rush's case OxyContin©

I'm not sure about this but I was thinking that Rush and gang get alot more listeners because the corporations control the big airwaves. I heard a caller to Randi say in Virginia he could pickup Rush on like 3 AM stations at once. I always thought if Randi could get her word out like that it would be such a huge boon to the American public to get the fact side of the story that she is pretty damn good at. It is unbelieveable to me the following that Rush gets...mind boggeling

OH GOD....THAT IS ABSOLUTELY PAINFULL!

Limbaugh provides an important service to those who like their news and worldview pre-digested for them. Just tell me the answer. Simply. In black and white. And I better feel good about myself when I hear it, so pump me up and shred the other idiots in the world. Be certain of the answer, so I don't have to doubt you. This probably serves approaching 50% of the listening public pretty well. So big market, even though it's getting scaled back some.

Randi provides a different service. Truth, shooting holes in dumb lies, trying to wake people up. She tries to make it simple and black and white, but it's never as simple as RW hate. Listening to her doesn't always make listeners feel great, but it does give them a little hope. In any case, Randi's total available market is much smaller.

It is too bad for us that so many people are not smarter than a fifth grader.


Is it true that Limbaugh insisted on there being no "morals clause" in the contract?

Randys; I'm so surprized to see you spouting such condescending, self-serving generalizations that must be based more on emotion than actual fact. shame...

Well, maybe not all that surprized

In talk radio, its all about attracting, maintaining and delivering a demographic audience to advertisers in order to maximize advertising revenue for a network of radio and television stations. When looked at from that perspective, there really isn't any comparison.

In actuality, Limbaugh is a popular talking head who is very entertaining. His loyal audience loves him.

Randi is also a popular talking head who is very entertaining. Her loyal audience loves her.

In terms of numbers of nationwide listeners, Limbaugh crushes Randi. More listeners attracts more advertising revenue and thus increases the value of the talking head.

These are the cold hard facts that differentiate Randi and Limbaugh.

Yeah, and Alexander Hamilton once said, "The masses are asses." This pretty much proves that POV.

You might not like that Limbaugh is the number 1 rated talk show host in America in terms of listenership, but it is a fact of life. Since he is currently the king of the hill, he can command a hefty salary. Like it or not, that's what the free market is all about.

I'm betting if the roles were reversed and Randi was the one receiving $400 million dollars, the tone of this thread would be very different.

Naaaa nobody here is that hypocritical!

It has been statistically proven that most humans are of average intelligence or lower. So Rush has a large target market. A minority of humans are of above average intelligence, which is an IQ of 101 or higher. I have an IQ of 120, which is not that smart, but it enables me to see that adult life is much more complicated that when I was in high school. I know that I can not trust anyone, starting with my supervisors at work. I also know that the the more money (which = power) a person has, the less he or she can be trusted. Thanks to the internet, I can check what I hear on the radio, television, or any where else. To be truely informed requires work and reading. When I was a child, my high school graduate dad subscribed to two newspapers, and read both of them every night after dinner. He watched the nightly news too. Hey, that was the 60's and 70's. Before cable TV that tells us nothing! Now you have to search for information, but you need to be able to differentiate between fact and opinion. Randi tells you were to go for the facts. This is not a contest..this is our lives.

What does any of this have to do with Limbaugh's $400 million dollar contract?

Interesting topic...NOT! My husband and I are recalculating our budget to accomodate the higher GAS, FOOD, AND HEATING COSTS! Sorry for shouting. We moved closer to work, I'm taking college classes on the internet, and we bought a bicycle. There is an election in November, I wonder who has the best ideas to stabalize the US economy and improve our standard of living? Obama? You are correct! Please vote in November! Thank You!

If you don't find this particular topic interesting, why are you posting in this thread?

I was responding to another post. Sorry, I'm not sure if it's my mistake or the website's. Sorry.

Sorry all! This post was in response to another topic. My mistake. I apologize.

I just did an online IQ test and scored 138. Not to bad.

I've always been afraid of IQ tests, as it might reveal that I'm not as intelligent as I like to think I am.

I was being sarcastic. Now read what I wrote and post an intelligent response. I know I am being rude, but your adolescent remark made me mad. Do you have any opinion about my posting. Sorry, "You're post sucks!" is not sufficient. This is not YouTube.

I KNOW I am not as intelligent as I think I am, but I have to work with what I got!

Yep!

Here is what you posted.

Interesting topic...NOT! My husband and I are recalculating our budget to accomodate the higher GAS, FOOD, AND HEATING COSTS! Sorry for shouting. We moved closer to work, I'm taking college classes on the internet, and we bought a bicycle. There is an election in November, I wonder who has the best ideas to stabalize the US economy and improve our standard of living? Obama? You are correct! Please vote in November! Thank You!

What is it exactly you would like me to respond to?

From where I sit, it sounded like you didn't feel the topic we were discussing was very interesting and that you had more important things to worry about than whether or not Limbaugh was making $400 million.

It is our function to push POVs, candidates and information that will uncover the lies of the likes of Limbaugh. We need to move forward and make his sponsors eat some serious crow by bashing the conservatives with the truth and in that manner, we can start to drive down those ratings.

More power to progressive talk radio if they can unseat the current king of the hill. I personally don't care for Limbaugh and rarely listen to his show.

Yes, you are grasping the concept of sarcasm. My point is I do not think Limbutt's salery is important because there are more serious issues to contemplate. But, QBC, my opinion is a legitimate response to the topic, and an opinion I felt needed to be expressed. I am wondering if I can encourage others to carefully consider what they spend their time worrying about. I can't change Limbutt's or the Goddess' salary, so I want to encourage all to focus their energy on what we can change!

Fair question.

AllRight!!!!! I haven't seen this since we lost the old board!! Thanks NEM!!! He's A Nazi!!!

Limbaugh wouldn't bother me so much if he wasn't so darned pompous and arrogant. I listen to him occasionally (I am a glutton for punishment hehe) just to keep an eye on what he's saying so I can anticipate my parents' talking points in advance, and if I hear "el rushbo" or "king of the airwaves" etc. one more time, I'll scream. It's downright irritating. It seems like he has a real hate-on for women who are in full control of their lives as well. Very interesting.

I live in Charlotte North Carolina and the only talk radio we have on the airwaves (as far as I know) is NewsTalk Charlotte which is ALL conservative. I have to stream progressive radio in one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. Amazing.

I'm hoping someday we'll have more options, but until then, I'll be listening to podcasts.

As I said, Limbaugh's total available market is bigger than Randi's.

His pompous and arrogance is part of his act and what endears his loyal followers to him. It also pisses off his detractors. He knows it and uses it to his advantage. Its what make Rush who he is and part of what makes him so popular.

Not sure I understand your point. Please elaborate.

Hmmm.. ".. Uncover the lies of limbaugh .." - so easy to type out.. can you back it up with real facts?

give me 2 major lies of HIS.

oh yea and and please do not include OPINIONS with which you disagree ..

OK, it's a little hard to lay out, so I'll give the abbreviated form.
Consider the bell curve of the population of the US, along the dimension of how inclined individuals are (at one extreme) to seek comfort above all else vs (at the other extreme) to seek understanding / growth at all costs. Imagine that -5 was comfort at any cost (including denial of reality), 0 was more or less neutral / balanced, and +5 was understanding at any cost (including denial of intellectual / emotional comfort). Each person has some orientation towards comfort vs growth, so plot the distribution of that over that scale. Narrow it to political understanding if you like. For example, Barbara Bush might be a -4 or -5 because of her saying that she didn't want to think about Iraq deaths because it might upset her beautiful mind.

So I imagine that that distribution curve resembles a bell curve, except that it is skewed toward the comfort end, with perhaps 60% or even 70% to the left of 0, and the remainder to the right of 0. Oversimplifying, I think Limbaugh's target market / audience is to the left of 0, and Randi's is to the right. It's harder to be a liberal, intellectually and emotionally, than a conservative, and I believe that manifests in market size.

Now I get it the lefties are the Master Race!!!

Just the opposite, I'd guess. Thinking that fundamentally goes against the grain for lefties. And the last group that called themselves by that name weren't lefties. It was probably because the bell curve was skewed, then as now, that the lefties found themselves persecuted rather than dominating.

Seems ta me like there are a lot more dittoheads & freepers on this new board!!!

That's: "Not too bad."

There's a lot of stupid people in this country that listen to Rush Limbaugh and make him rich.