“The Rush Limbaugh Show” is leaving the dominant conservative talk radio station in Philadelphia, one of the biggest radio markets in the country.
In its place on the station, WPHT, will go “The Michael Smerconish Show,” hosted by Mr. Smerconish, a native of the city.
Losing a station is a big deal for Rush. However, this isn’t a total loss for the talker, because he’s moving to an FM station instead of an AM one.
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Colbert on Rush Limbaugh: “Every time he’s slept with a woman, he’s had to slip her a pill first.” Scathing.
Carbonite’s CEO, who was not impressed with conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh’s apology to Sandra Fluke after calling her a “slut,” said in a statement published Saturday evening that his company would continue to withdraw its support from Limbaugh’s show.
“Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency,” Carbonite’s CEO David Friend wrote.
This is interesting, because the original statement suggested they’d try to work it out face-to-face with Limbaugh. But it appears the apology was just too thin.
Limbaugh is a professional speaker; he’s made millions of dollars by choosing words and saying them aloud. But now he wants us to believe that he chose these words improperly. For days. A momentary lapse of judgment? Sure. That’s possible. But to use the same words (that were chosen specifically to insult and degrade) over and over and over again … that’s not called choosing the wrong words. It’s pretty clear that he chose his words and he stuck to them for as long as he could, right up until it started to cost him money.Ari Kohen’s not exactly a fan of the Rush apology.
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» Why? Because of this, of course. Really, we’re surprised that any advertisers offended by this weren’t offended by anything else Limbaugh’s said over the last twenty years. Regardless, advertisers aren’t the only ones reacting negatively to Limbaugh’s comments.
Rush’s attempt to increase his ratings and get noticed again do hurt Republicans…beating up on a college student is not good optics.A senior Republican strategist • In response to Rush Limbaugh’s calling a pro-contraception college student a “slut” and a “prostitute” earlier this week. What we find interesting is that the speaker in question is identified by the Washington Post as “a senior party strategist granted anonymity to speak candidly out of wariness of crossing Limbaugh publicly.” This speaks not only to the enormous power Limbaugh wields amongst the Republican base, but also the sense of legitimacy that the GOP establishment continues to bestow upon him by refusing to denounce his statements publicly. To his credit, Rick Santorum, who’s as anti-contraception as anybody, called Limbaugh’s comments “absurd.” source (via • follow)
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