Rush is moving to Costa Rica?

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kokonut said:
Such as?
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http://www.alldeaf.com/war-political-news/72001-obamas-swelling-ego.html#post1456621 (notice how you bolded it with red color?)
http://www.alldeaf.com/war-politica...-country-than-hilary-barrack.html#post1423273 (notice it again?)
http://www.alldeaf.com/war-political-news/69296-obama-superstar.html#post1409535 (Rush Rush Rush Defense)
http://www.alldeaf.com/war-political-news/76164-rush-moving-costa-rica-3.html#post1548227 (Rush Rush Rush Defense)
http://www.alldeaf.com/general-chat...white-house-declare-war-them.html#post1442034 (Rush Rush Rush)
http://www.alldeaf.com/war-politica...es-sotomayor-supreme-court-6.html#post1343757 (Rush Rush Rush and more Rush)
http://www.alldeaf.com/war-politica...es-sotomayor-supreme-court-7.html#post1344694 (eerrrrrr)
Kokonut Pundit: "I Hope Deafhood Fails" (Rush Rush Rush)

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kokonut said:
Now, he's a conservative. Many other personalities hold many of the same views about him.
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who? such as?

kokonut said:
Sure, there are many posts on Limbaugh posts. But exorbitant? Hardly. This isn't my thread, you know? But so what? You're complaining or what now?
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so.... where are other personalities' views?
 
Jiro said:
who? such as?

so.... where are other personalities' views?
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Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Ed Morissey, Ann Coulter, Fred Savage, Sean Hannity, O'Reilly, McConnell, Bill Kristol, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Mark Levin, Hugh Downs, Laura Ingraham, Monica Crowley, Victoria Town, Mark Steyn, numerous bloggers, and editorial writers, etc, etc...

Believe me, many share many of the conservative views held by Limbaugh. Enough focus on me. This is about Rush.
 
Limbaugh's Audience Size? It's Largely Up in the Air
How many people actually listen to Rush Limbaugh, the radio talk titan White House officials have spent the past week characterizing as "the head of the Republican Party"?

According to what Limbaugh delights in calling "the drive-by media," the number varies wildly. Is it 30 million (Pat Buchanan on MSNBC), 20 million (Time magazine, ABC News), 19 million (Fox News), 14 million (CNN), or "14.2 million to about 25 million" (The Washington Post)?

Answer: Maybe.

Limbaugh is widely acknowledged to be the most popular talk-radio host, as evidenced by the record $400 million, eight-year contract he signed with his syndicator last July. But estimates of Limbaugh's nationwide (and overseas) audience are exercises in guesswork, slippery methodology and suspect data. Limbaugh himself has muddied the water with the claim that he reaches 20 million people a week, although there's no independent support for that figure.

Arbitron, the radio industry's dominant audience-measurement company, has never publicly released a national estimate for Limbaugh, and it says, in effect, that the job is too complicated, expensive and time-consuming to bother with.

The difficulty comes from the vast patchwork that is Limbaugh's radio empire. His three-hour daily program is carried on more than 600 domestic stations, but these stations don't all carry the show at the same time or even for the same duration. Most air all three hours of Limbaugh's broadcast each weekday, but some carry only two hours. Arbitron has never attempted to aggregate all of this audience data for this many stations and times. "There is no economic motivation for any objective third party to do that kind of analysis," says Thom Mocarsky, an Arbitron spokesman.

And there are no ratings at all for a constituency of Limbaugh listeners: U.S. military personnel stationed overseas. Limbaugh's program is carried to these listeners on about 400 stations of varying audience sizes via the Armed Forces Radio Network, which Arbitron doesn't monitor.

The ratings service can say with some precision how large Limbaugh's audience is in a particular city and at a particular time. In the Washington region, for example, Limbaugh's program -- carried from noon to 3 p.m. on WMAL (630 AM) -- attracted an average of 167,700 unique listeners per week during January. Limbaugh has never been a huge draw in Washington; his show ranked 14th overall during January, far behind ratings leaders WTOP-FM (567,500 weekly listeners), soft-rock station WASH-FM (526,300) and Top-40 station WIHT-FM (349,300).

Premiere Radio Networks, Limbaugh's national syndicator, estimated last year that 3.59 million people were in Limbaugh's audience during an average quarter-hour of his program, based on a review of Arbitron's piecemeal data about hundreds of stations.

Because people typically tune in and tune out of stations, however, that number doesn't reflect how many individuals cumulatively listened at some point during the week. What's more, Premiere's figure is based on data from the first three months of 2008, a virtual lifetime ago in the fast-moving radio business.

Whatever the number, not all of Limbaugh's listeners are the ardent ideological followers known as "Dittoheads." According to a survey released last month by the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of his audience identified themselves as "conservative."

Figuring out the size of Limbaugh's flock "is an art, not a science," says Michael Harrison, the editor of Talkers magazine, a trade journal about the talk-radio field. "It's very hard to come up with an exact answer. It really reveals the embarrassing state of radio ratings."

Harrison's own calculation -- that Limbaugh typically attracts about 14.25 million listeners weekly -- is based on Arbitron figures from about 30 cities and spot checks of a similar number of stations. Harrison stands by his guess even though Limbaugh's program is heard on more than 600 stations across the country. "Once you get below the big markets, [the audience] doesn't add up to critical mass," he said.

Harrison said his estimate of a big spike in Limbaugh's audience this week -- some 25 million, a figure quoted in The Post -- was also based on his discussions with station program directors around the country. Although there's no actual survey data to support such a figure, Harrison said "it's what we're hearing, based on the e-mails, the calls, all the buzz this controversy is generating. We put a little bit of our interpretation on it, added it all up, and that puts you in the ballpark."

No matter the exact figure, Harrison says Limbaugh's weekly audience eclipses all other nationally syndicated personalities, including conservatives Sean Hannity (13.25 million), Michael Savage (8.25 million) and Laura Ingraham (5.5 million), according to the magazine's "rough projections."
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jillio said:
Conservatism occurs on a continuum. Rush definately falls into the ultra end of the spectrum....
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If Rush were truly "ultra" conservative, he wouldn't be so pro-Republican.
 
Why don't we just pretend Rush Limbaugh has 50 million listeners?
The truth is journalists only have a faint idea of how many people listen to Limbaugh's program each week. And until reporters can get some independently verifiable information, they shouldn't pretend hunches represent facts. And they shouldn't announce Limbaugh's audience has doubled unless they can prove it.
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bviously radio syndicators have ratings numbers off of which they sell advertising, but those figures are closely held -- unlike Arbitron data, which is more widely avail able. So, basically, it's up to the syndicator to dole out the ratings numbers to the press; like last year, when Limbaugh's syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks, claimed 20 million listeners tuned into Limbaugh's show each week.

Also keep in mind that eight-digit number is what's known in radio as the "cume" (short for cumulative). It in no way reflects the actual audience size like the way television shows are measured minute by minute or half-hour by half-hour. Instead, the cume number represents a very large -- and generous -- umbrella covering the number of people who, in theory, tune into a program at any time during the week, even if it's for just two minutes.

As a radio trade reporter confirmed to MSNBC last week, common industry shorthand to determine the actual size of a radio audience at any given moment is to cut the cume figure down by a factor of 10, which would mean Limbaugh's 20 million becomes 2 million. Or, if you take the more modest cume number of 14 million, which some inside the industry have used to judge the talker's audience, Limbaugh's rating becomes 1.4 million, which is roughly the same size audience that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann get each night on cable TV. So why doesn't the press treat them as the ultimate kingmakers?

The point is, over the years the press seems to have gone out of their way to puff up Limbaugh's ratings and audience size, which brings us back to the Kurtz assertion that Rush's ratings have doubled. What was Kurtz's sole piece of proof for his sweeping declaration about Limbaugh's audience having doubled? Here it was:
"The people who love him are a very small segment of the public," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, whose research indicates that Limbaugh's weekly audience has spiked from 14.2 million to about 25 million since the controversy escalated.
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Reba said:
If Rush were truly "ultra" conservative, he wouldn't be so pro-Republican.
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Right, and he has criticized a lot of Republicans, too. Even among the so called "RINOs" as well.
 
Foxrac said:
No, he is ultra conservative, even plain conservative would be Scott Brown so not fit in category.
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Rush isn't ultra conservative because he's too pro-Republican Party.
 
When I was able to listen years ago.....he cracked me up. I think some people take stuff too seriously. The clip with the lobster from his old TV show was hilarious.
 
souggy said:
But Republicans is the only major conservative party at the moment.
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Many of the party faithful are NOT conservative. Less liberal is not the same as conservative.
 
TXgolfer said:
When I was able to listen years ago.....he cracked me up. I think some people take stuff too seriously. The clip with the lobster from his old TV show was hilarious.
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Tell me about it. He has a way of making his radio show entertaining to listen to, as well as informative and insightful.
 
Reba said:
Many of the party faithful are NOT conservative. Less liberal is not the same as conservative.
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Okay...

Most of the Republicans are conservative by Canadian and European standards...

All conservatism and (social) liberalism is just a spectrum. There's no solid definition of what being conservative and being liberal is.

Generally, being politically conservative means you like status quo.
 
kokonut said:
Well, a $400 million dollar contract speaks pretty loudly. And certainly so when Obama speaks negatively of Rush when speaking to reporters is also another sign as well.
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that's all you can say? exhortation :hmm:
 
Reba said:
Not enough.
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McCain.
Graham.
Criticized GOP "makeover"
Crist
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He has criticized the Republican Senate in Congress on numerous occassions, especially on the Amnesty Bill.

I don't know how much more you want. He has criticized Republicans repeatedly.
 
kokonut said:
McCain.
Graham.
Criticized GOP "makeover"
Crist
Many more...

He has criticized the Republican Senate in Congress on numerous occassions, especially on the Amnesty Bill.

I don't know how much more you want. He has criticized Republicans repeatedly.
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"Less Talk, More Action" - so why isn't he in political business?
 
Jiro said:
"Less Talk, More Action" - so why isn't he in political business?
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That's a very common question Rush gets. He's comfortable in where he is. He has that gift and it shows. He has a way of inspiring people both in and out politics. He wouldn't have it any other way.
 
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