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Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey blames Rush for the stunning loss in revenue that is impacting other talk shows, “We’ve had a tough go of it the last year. The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars.” Those “certain things” are the successful advertiser boycotts against Rush Limbaugh, also known as Rush Limbaugh’s refusal to be civilized. Dickey made his point.
Cumulus released its quarterly earnings figures on Tuesday morning, reporting a 1.3 percent decline in revenues. Media Matters reported that Cumulus reported a $2.4 million dollar decline in revenue in a first quarter in their first quarter earnings call with investors. But it’s not just the latest quarter. Media Matters pointed out, “Dickey has reported millions in losses associated with Limbaugh in previous quarters as well.”
Things are so bad that Rush’s losses are taking down other conservative shows.
Media Matters explained, “Limbaugh has become so toxic that he’s hurting other conservative talk shows.” In March of this year, Media Matters explained that due to the structure of radio ad buys, the loss of revenue wiped out other national talk shows, resulting in forcing talk radio to move away from conservative talk:
At a Talkers forum last year, Norm Pattiz, CEO of Courtside Entertainment, summed up the destructive effect Limbaugh has had on the entire industry, noting that a “tremendous chunk of advertising revenue was wiped out in terms of support for national talk radio programs.” Pattiz added that “the movement in talk radio to some degree is moving away from conservative talk radio and into other genres.”
Another reminder about all of the reasons why Rush Limbaugh is so bad for our republic and society.
Source: mediamatters.org
Tell me, Rushbo, how do you think that this will go over with Romney's Vilified 47% now?
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So Joe Biden, Joe Biden is off the reservation. A little Elizabeth Warren lingo there. Joe Biden he's just going nuts. Two days in a row now he's gone nuts. I told Cookie I want the Biden sound bites from yesterday because you know what I saw? I saw that -- we've played these Biden sound bites where he was going nuts yesterday about "People don't get us. What do you mean we are against [unintelligible]? What do you mean we don't want people to get wealthy? what do you mean?"When you see it, when you see Biden's face, when you see his eyes, when you see his mouth, the facial expressions, it -- well I wouldn't call it demonic -- deranged. I mean, it's just, it's astounding, so I said Cookie give me the bites again, I want to play these bites again. I want to paint an accurate video picture of what "bite-me" looks like.
Rush Limbaugh from "Unhinged," "Deranged": Conservatives React To Joe Biden's Speech About The Middle Class With Scorn And Ridicule | Media Matters for America
...look at who is calling Joe Biden deranged
Source: mediamatters.org
Not Like I'm in Any Place to Talk here, but....
Anderson Cooper To Rush Limbaugh: 'You Might Try The Gym From Time To Time' (VIDEO) huff.to/Jj3cwD via @HuffPostMedia
— Stephen Taylor D.C. (@utchirophysicia) May 4, 2012
There is a sad counterpoint to the apparent demise of Lushbo's show. Mike Malloy has lost most of his advertisers. Sacrificed on the alter of false equivalency. I'll be the first to admit that Malloy can be offensive. There are, however, some big differences:
- Mike Malloy is carried by 13 broadcast stations while Lushbo is carried by around 600.
- Malloy usually "punches up" at public figures while Lushbo "punched down" at Sandra Fluke.
- When Malloy does "punch down" it's directed at anonymous groups. He does insult groups like evangelical Christians but he doesn't, to the best of my knowledge, slander them or name those who have done no more or less than speak their mind.
I fear that Malloy won't be the only progressive radio host who will, possibly, lose his show because the corporate tools who spend ad dollars are ticked off because they were forced to cut Lushbo loose.
You don’t have to strap on a suicide bomber’s belt to engage in terrorism,” he told Kelly, “Terrorism derives from the term ‘to invoke fear in people.’ They’ve called my people and my company, they’ve called the women at my company, and told them they’re women haters, the most horrible terms. They’ve told me — these are tens of thousands of emails, by the way, most of them are positive but the small group — they’ve told us that we’re under surveillance. The email subject line says ‘citizen of the internet,’ ‘police of the Internet,’ ‘Mark, you’re in danger,’ ‘your house is going to be surrounded by buses,’ ‘your business is going to be destroyed,’ ‘your people are in trouble.’ This is terrorism. Why don’t we start calling it what it is?”
Such a whiney, nasisistic white boy.
Source: mediaite.com
The Westboro Baptist Church on Friday released two advertisements that they hope to air on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, which is experiencing an exodus of advertisers after he called a Georgetown University law student a “slut” because she spoke in favor of religious institutions providing contraception coverage.
WBC is being consistent, right?...consistently petulant, that is.
Source: rawstory.com
diegueno reblogged
Louis did use those words, and opted to drop out of an incestuous Washington dinner party rather than make himself the focus of this recurring debate on language. But the reason more people don’t give a shit about what Louis C.K. said is not because of a liberal bias – does anybody even know what Louis C.K.’s politics are, aside from hating Sarah Palin (a sentiment shared by many Republicans)?– but because the charge of misogyny just doesn’t hold a lot of water with Louis.With Rush it does. Regular listeners to Rush Limbaugh’s program, as I have been for years, are not surprised when he finds himself lambasted for his petulance, name-calling, and race baiting. It’s what he does. He’s kind of a cunt that way.
Let’s all agree Rush crossed a line. He agrees. He has also apologized profusely, but the left wont accept an apology,” Bozell says in a video on the site.The left never gets mad when one of its own says something outrageous about women, Bozell argues, pointing to Bill Maher, who “called Sarah Palin, a dumb — excuse me — a dumb twat.”“Make no mistake about it — there is a concerted effort under way to remove Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves. To remove all conservative voices from the airwaves. And the liberal media are putting all of their weight behind it,” Bozell says.
Brett Bozell: professional right wing hot air source for decades
This is my latest project (via diegueno's uploaded images - Imgur)
When I collect $120, I'll listen to Rush's show on the San Diego affiliate and pick a local advertiser and tell them how we feel about Rush, that supporting Rush will come back to bite them and that we won't patronize them if they do support Rush Limbaugh when I deliver a horse's ass trophy to them. I'll let all of my donors who give me an e-mail for contact information how it went, afterward.
The Truth About GOP Hero Ayn Rand (by ThinkProgressVideo)
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Republicans are demanding that President Obama take the extension of renewable tax credits off the table in the deal they negotiated in return for bonus tax cuts for the rich, according to Politico.
But Democrats are fighting to allow an up or down vote on an extension of the Recovery Act green stimulus provisions that are about to expire. The extension, Baucus Amendment 4727, already got 53 votes on Saturday’s failed vote to extend Bush era tax cuts on just the first $250,000 of income, indicating that without a Republican filibuster, the measure would pass.
Two green stimulus provisions in particular, are endangered. (Ethanol extensions have Republican support.)
Source: cleantechnica.com
(General Motors) unveiled the Chevy Volt concept at the 2007 Detroit auto show. That means GM began working on it before the November 2006 elections, when the Republican Party had majorities in the House and Senate, before President Bush had signed a single veto. Bob Lutz, who famously decreed, “Global Warming is a crock of shit,” introduced the car two years before Bush gave GM its first bailout from TARP pocket change. This was two-and-a-half years before Obama’s Automotive Task Force forced GM into bankruptcy.
Motor Trend: Rush to Judgment Motor Trend beats Rush Limbaugh with a rhetorical tire iron and stuffs him in the trunk of a Chevy Volt
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