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LIMBAUGH SIGNS THROUGH 2016; $400 MILLION DEAL SHATTERS BROADCAST RECORDS
Wed Jul 02 2008 09:02:18 ET
**Exclusive**
The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract, Limbaugh will keep his syndicated show on-the-air and e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e through 2016 with CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO.
Already host of the most lucrative hours since radio's inception, Limbaugh's total package is valued north of $400 million, according to media insiders.
The NEW YORK TIMES will claim this weekend that Limbaugh, marking 20 years this summer as a national host, has secured a 9-figure signing bonus for the new deal, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
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In its controversial profile, the TIMES reports that Limbaugh is buying a new G550 jet and is making an estimated $38 million a year.
[The cover photo of the TIMES Sunday magazine depicts Limbaugh 'dark and sinister' in a theme of THE GODFATHER.]
While newspapers and traditional broadcast media are experiencing declining revenues, Limbaugh's golden microphone has turned diamond-laced:
Earnings now pace him ahead of the annual salaries for network news anchors: Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer — combined!
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The deal represents a stunning triumph over the establishment by an outsider who connected with and captured the spirit of the nation's heartland.
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cool cover
a misunderstood teddybear
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cool cover
a misunderstood teddybear
Agreed!
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The funny part is Rush won't live another 5 years...The guy is a walking heart attack...
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cool cover
a misunderstood teddybear
There are alot of demons in that man's head...He is entertaining though
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$38 million...plenty of cash to buy his painkillers while ranting and raving about drug addicts ;D
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a drug addict social conservative .....a silver spoon fed proponent of laizzes faire ...
NO CREDEBILITY
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a drug addict social conservative .....a silver spoon fed proponent of laizzes faire ...
NO CREDEBILITY
Maybe when you're a real "candidate" you can re-institute the Fairness Doctrine ::)
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So $$$ = credibility ???
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He's a performer. He has an act. A very profitable one, but still an act.
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so wait, because he's making money, it means he's correct and honest? wow, welcome to the bill o'reilly school of journalism. popularity = factual accuracy. ::)
i guess that means the weekly world news and national enquirer are reliable. after all, they have huge audiences too!
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He's a performer. He has an act. A very profitable one, but still an act.
Ok, so he's a performer, but rarely wrong in his analogies, has the power to persuade voters, is so powerful his name comes up on the floor of the senent. Not an act, just tells it like it is and if anyone hates that it's liberals.
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so wait, because he's making money, it means he's correct and honest? wow, welcome to the bill o'reilly school of journalism. popularity = factual accuracy. ::)
i guess that means the weekly world news and national enquirer are reliable. after all, they have huge audiences too!
He's gotta be doing something right.
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He's gotta be doing something right.
Howard Stern puts on a good show also........... he must be doing something right.....like entertaining people. :o
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Howard Stern puts on a good show also........... he must be doing something right.....like entertaining people. :o
Sex sells what can I say. Dude has as substance as Obama. He's the Jerry Springer of radio with less morality.
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He's gotta be doing something right.
yes. he's an entertainer that panders fantastically to the closed-minded views of his listeners. it's not accident that C-SPAN is less popular than FOX and it has nothing to do with accuracy. rush and his ilk aren't journalists, they don't report, and by and large they aren't resembling accurate. they just tell viewers what they want to hear, create the "me good them bad" mentality and run with it.
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Rush never said he was a journalist.
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I like it when bloated drug addicts get lots of money. It ensures that they keep buying drugs from me.
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Osama bin laden has tens of millions of fans.
Osama bin laden has hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rush also has both, and you claim it delivers credibility to him now.
Does this mean Osama has credibility, Joe?
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Of course not, because no one but a hypocritical, drug-addled, pseudo-conservative blowhard with a gift for false analogies could ever have "credibility." Ain't that right, Couch?
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Osama bin laden has tens of millions of fans.
Osama bin laden has hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rush also has both, and you claim it delivers credibility to him now.
Does this mean Osama has credibility, Joe?
Actually, yes it does.
Osama has a lot of credibility and you ignore what he says at your peril.
Main Entry:
cred·i·bil·i·ty Listen to the pronunciation of credibility
Pronunciation:
\ˌkre-də-ˈbi-lə-tē\
Function:
noun
Date:
1594
1 : the quality or power of inspiring belief <an account lacking in credibility> 2 : capacity for belief <strains her reader's credibility — Times Literary Supplement>
The fact that so many people listen to Rush and take what he says seriously (yes, even the Senate) is a testament to his credibility. (Like it or not.) The same applies to Osama.
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Rush Limbaugh has a wonderful show I love listening to him. He is my guidance through the darkness and he brings me towards the light/right. His talent in unsurpassed and I respect his opinions and adopt them as my own.
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Coach equates cash with creditability!? You're doing it wrong(again), Coach. ;)
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#1 - The National Enquirer is the USA's best selling weekly. Obviously that means there news about women giving birth to aliens with 67 heads is more accurate than Time or Newsweek as it outsells them.
#2 - There is a politics forum. As Ron's second in command I hereby request the forum is used for future Rush cut/pastes >:(
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I could care less what he makes. I'll still never listen to him. He's annoying.
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Ok, so he's a performer, but rarely wrong in his analogies, has the power to persuade voters, is so powerful his name comes up on the floor of the senent. Not an act, just tells it like it is and if anyone hates that it's liberals.
Yes
Liberals=Haters of Truth
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Yes
Liberals=Haters of Truth
Conservatives=Hypocrites, liars and closeted aficionados of gay sex
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Thanks for proving Moosys point Chimps!!
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Thanks for proving Moosys point Chimps!!
I'm sure sure there's a funny here - somewhere. :D