Thread: How Limbaugh Manipulates Listeners

Smelly Poseurs Put Out Song, "KILL KILL KILL Rush Limbaugh"

YouTube hasn't yanked it yet, despite their policy of yanking anything whenever a protected liberal group whines about it.

Now Playing on YouTube and Facebook: 'Kill Rush Limbaugh'

This song that openly calls for the killing of Rush Limbaugh apparently doesn't offend YouTube or Facebook, in the least - hasn't been pulled yet

Now Playing on YouTube and Facebook: 'Kill Rush Limbaugh'

Any thoughts from the Usual Suspects?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Any thoughts from the Usual Suspects?

Is it worth listening to? Apart from that, more whiney drivel from the sanctimonious Right. It's a parody, ffs.

Exactly one month after the conservative radio host sparked outrage by calling Georgetown law-school student Sandra Fluke “a slut” and “a prostitute” in a three-day diatribe, stations are standing by him, advertisers are trickling back to his program and the news media have moved on.

“Contrary to the wishful thinking of the professional special interest groups, reports of sponsors fleeing the ‘Rush Limbaugh Show’ are grossly exaggerated. In fact, the program retains virtually of all its long-term sponsors who continue to have great success” with the show, saidRachel Nelson, spokeswoman for Premiere.



Give 'em hell, Rush!

Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer - The Washington Post

Limbaugh remains the US' most popular DJ in audience numbers, I believe. The most unpopular, too.

His big mouth has most certainly cost him $, and a lot of them- but he'll still take home more dosh next month than most earn in a lifetime, and his audience- while considerably down from it's peak, remains sizable.

He's an entertainer, I daresay.

^ Just heard his listenership is up 10-60% (depending on the market). And one of his advertsisers is getting backlash for sticking with him -- union thug and commies at it again. Don't they work?

"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,” Stevens said. “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?” Limbaugh himself recently lent support to Stevens on his show, fingering the group Media Matters as the one responsible for the “boycott” on his show, which has spilt over onto Stevens’ business.

Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Mark Stevens Accuses Media Matters of ‘Terrorism’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Nope- from my Post #334 above-

the audience for right-wing talk has been shrinking since 2009. In some urban markets, Limbaugh’s audience has dropped by as much as half over the past three years.

In the same Post, you will also realise why Rush has lost a lot of dosh, given his drop in advertisers- that goes absolutely straight to his bottom line, given they way his deal is set up. And of course, what hyperbole describing Media Matters as 'terrorism'.

I daresay he's lost an amount in the seven figures, but he still isn't exactly poor.

Originally Posted by sabang

I daresay he's lost an amount in the seven figures, but he still isn't exactly poor.

And his 'message' is still spot-on.

^ Sure if you live in an alternate reality enslaved by the corporate dogma of Murdock and Koch then you may be dumbed down enough to buy into his mindless dribble.

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Big negativo on that. Here Rush nails the Liberal agenda:

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, what happened this week at the Supreme Court is profound regardless the outcome. It was an eye-opening experience for millions of Americans that were paying attention maybe for the first time to this kind of thing. But the reason that I harp on this is… and I’m still struggling with a way to explain this to you. The reason I think it’s profound is that the next time one of these events such as Hayward just reviewed in this horrible month for the Democrats, the next time the media and the Democrat Party get all exercised about something happening in our country or in our culture or in our media, and when they’re all in unity on it, the reaction ought to be they’re lying. They’re making it up. There’s a political agenda here. There is no real outrage, for example.

All these people supposedly calling advertisers of this program. There was no angry consumer outrage. It was all trumped up. The same thing was attempted with the Trayvon Martin case. To create a false reality, to make it look like the country is as agitated as the left is, but it never is. The country is never as roiled and as agitated as the left is. They can succeed in upsetting people. But the object lesson here is to, from this point forward, just don’t believe them. Just understand with some sophistication the effort that’s being made every time something seemingly falls in their laps that is on the surface made to order to get rid of one of their enemies or to get rid of opposition to an issue or piece of legislation or what have you.
They don’t live in reality. They have no moral fiber or moral core. They are not smarter by any stretch. They’re not as smart as you are. They have shut themselves off from learning. You and I, for example, can explain liberalism to somebody. They can’t explain conservatism. They don’t care. They’re not interested. It doesn’t matter. It’s beneath them. As such they’re not informed. It’s like Geithner was up talking to some congressional committee about reducing the deficit. He said, (paraphrasing) “Well, we don’t really have a plan. All we know is we don’t like yours.” But Geithner doesn’t know what our plan is. He doesn’t care what our plan is. The fact that it’s ours is enough for him to reject it. That is arrogance, that’s conceit, and that’s who they are.

They’re bullies. They don’t know half of what they think they know. And when they are confronted with hard, cold reality as they were before the Supreme Court this week, their media members, their lawyers, their bureaucrats, when they’re confronted with reality, they’re lost. They can’t explain themselves. They can’t justify their issues. They’re never able to do that. I’ll give you a little illustration here, a couple of examples. There’s a story here in the UK Daily Mail. This is the British media. “Sarasota Murder: Shawn Tyson, 17, Found GUILTY of Killing 2 British Tourists in Florida — A sneering teenager, nicknamed ‘Savage’, was today found guilty in the shooting deaths of two British tourists after days of damning evidence.
“Shawn Tyson, 17, was charged with two counts of first degree murder for killing James Cooper and James Kouzaris in April 2011 and was sentenced to life in prison. The Sarasota, Florida, jury of eight women and four men only deliberated for two hours before coming to the guilty sentence for Tyson.” The story is that these two Brits came over here to Disney World for vacation, and this guy tried to rob them. They didn’t have any money, so he just killed them. They’re white; he’s black. You’re not hearing about this in the US media ’cause this will not fit with what they’re trying to make you believe in the Trayvon Martin case.
Now, the important thing about the Trayvon Martin case, we don’t know yet who is it that’s jumped the gun, who is it that’s trying to make that story fit into their template. It’s them. Who is it that’s waiting to see what really happened and let just take its course? It’s us."


Read the rest here

The money quote: …on their latest phony, divisive distraction to keep Americans from focusing on Obama’s failed policies.

^ WOW! That is the most absurd steaming pile of propaganda and nonsense I have read in sometime. I love it when the right wing puppet master tries to reassure his audience that they are smarter then the other guy, that his listeners are better "informed". All the while he leads his sheep to slaughter.

That post proves that all he is doing is filling his listeners ears with his daily dose of cool-aid scripted by his corporate handlers.

Thanks for proving my point you walked right into it.

Filed under the facts don't fit the narrative again?

Washington Post and the Rush Limbaugh Memory Hole.

They don’t seem to mention that Limbaugh lost “fewer than five” advertisers.

One month later, Rush Limbaugh still has a job and Keith Olbermann doesn’t

Poetic justice.

If only Media Matters had launched a campaign against Olby, he might still have his gig.

One month later, Rush Limbaugh still has a job and Keith Olbermann doesn’t | The Daily Caller

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Filed under the facts don't fit the narrative again?

Washington Post and the Rush Limbaugh Memory Hole.

They don’t seem to mention that Limbaugh lost “fewer than five” advertisers.

Yep, it's a told you so moment. The lefties conveniently changed "controversial" announcers to Rushbo. FFS, as I said before, I listen to the boy almost daily, and I ain't never heard any ads by McD nor any of the myriad others they say pulled out. Rush's ads are for a bunch of investment firms, computer backups, flowers and whatnot. Nobody I know. He gets money from listeners paying, except you can listen on the Net. Just plug in here and pick a station. Rush, Dennis Miller, Hannity, Levin (sucky voice)...
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Michael Savage is spot-on with his analysis too.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

The story is that these two Brits came over here to Disney World for vacation, and this guy tried to rob them. They didn’t have any money, so he just killed them. They’re white; he’s black. You’re not hearing about this in the US media ’cause this will not fit with what they’re trying to make you believe in the Trayvon Martin case.

Bimbaugh does it again. I did hear about it in the US media actually, which isn't too bad considering I'm in Isaan. There was even a small thread about it in TD.

Heh...

Limbaugh: 'If I Had a Daughter, She'd Look Like Ann Romney'

It's gonna be an interesting campaign season for sure!

Limbaugh: 'If I Had a Daughter, She'd Look Like Ann Romney' - Fox Nation

Rush Limbaugh Ratings Drop In Several Big Markets

Rush Limbaugh's ratings have dropped sharply in several major markets following the firestorm over his comments about Sandra Fluke, Politico reports.

... a month into the controversy, Limbaugh crowed that he was doing better than ever. "The advertisers who hung in here are going gangbusters, yes," he said, adding, "On the range of all 600 radio stations, our ratings are up anywhere from 10% to 60%, depending on the station."

On Monday, though, Politico's Dylan Byers got an early look at the latest ratings report from Arbitron:

The conservative radio host's ratings fell 27 percent in the key 25-54 demo in New York City, 31 percent in Houston-Galveston, 40 percent in Seattle-Tacoma, and 35 percent in Jacksonville, according to a selection of the March 29-April 25 Arbitron ratings provided by an industry source.
Rush Limbaugh Ratings Drop In Several Big Markets

I suppose any 'shock jock' gets a short term boost in ratings on the back of controversy, weighed against would be the resultant loss of advertising revenue- which was quite significant in the 'slut' controversy. The overall trend with Limbaugh's ratings appears to be down though- but this may not actually be due to Limbaugh himself so much as the dinosaur medium of am talk radio that he inhabits.

^ Pls show the whole ratings map. I doubt Rush is in the dungeon like left-wing radio.

How many Limbaugh listeners believe his latest?


Limbaugh's Dark Knight Rises/Romney Conspiracy: "Do You Think That It Is Accidental" The Villain Is Called "Bane"?

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie-- what is it, the Dark Knight Lights Up or something? Whatever the name of it is. That's right, Dark Knight Rises, Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in the Dark Knight Rises is named Bane. B-A-N-E. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran, and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for[at]a long time, the release date's been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental, that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?

LIMBAUGH: Anyway, so this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there's now discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful, and whether or not it will influence voters. It's going to have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is going to be huge, lot of people are going to see the movie. And it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd. And they're going to hear[at]"Bane"[at]in the movie, and they are going to associate Bain.[at]And the thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, not Bain Capital, but Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie --"Oh yeah, I know who that is." There are some people who think it will work. There are some people think it will work. Others think -- "You're really underestimating the American people who think that will work."

http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/0...racy-do/187171

Maybe he's smokin' crack.

^Limbaugh knows better. He's just winding up his dumbass audience, for which he has no respect.