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   From: BillV2320@webtv.net   
      
   Re: Rush Limbaugh's Vile Rants Are So Bad They're Screwing Other Radio   
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   Group: rec.sport.pro-wrestling Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 12:26pm (EST-1)   
   From: nomailverizo.net (Mitchell Holman)   
   BillV2320@webtv.net (The Shocking Blue Brujo Man) wrote in news:4007-   
   50AFB458-143@storefull-3113.bay.webtv.net:   
   Rush Limbaugh's Vile Rants Are So Bad They're Screwing Other Radio   
   Programs   
   Radio host Doug Stephen says Limbaugh has cost him tens of millions of   
   dollars in advertisements.   
   November 23, 2012  |     
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   It would appear that Rush Limbaugh's vile form of commentary is starting   
   to have  a negative impact on radio profits as a whole:  Doug   
   Stephan, president of Stephan MultiMedia and host of the nationally   
   syndicated “Good Dayâ€� program, had this to offer:   
   Let’s face it, the agencies and advertisers are how we survive.   
   So to tell them that their clients are stupid for not staying in an   
   atmosphere in which they don’t want to be is akin to the   
   Republicans not reading the tea leaves about changing demographics.   
   I’m not here to argue the point, but rather to tell you what   
   this ONE incident has cost me as an independent in a sea of big   
   corporate operators, who are obviously losing tens of millions of   
   dollars due to this one event.   
   So far this year, my losses are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.   
   Cancellations, avoidance and decisions to just not buy across the whole   
   format, no matter what the content...   
   I’m not looking for Limbaugh to send me a check (although that   
   would be nice), but I do think we have to let it be known that his   
   actions have been devastating to our survival. â€"Doug Stephan: Talk   
   Must Expand Beyond Politics to Survive, November 19, 2012   
   This is very interesting. Limbaugh has always been a big driver of radio   
   profits. If that is changing because people are so disgusted they've   
   truly begun to boycott his advertisers to protest, it's significant.   
   Right wing hate radio is a truly ugly contributor to the public   
   discourse and Limbaugh is its King. He has a right to say whatever he   
   wants, but no advertiser has the obligation to pay him to say it.    
   I'm sure Rush will always be supported by his powerful friends.   
   Here's   Mary Matalin calling in during the worst of the fighting   
   in the Iraq war, just to tell him she loves him: [Y]ou inspired me this   
   morning. There's no reason that I have to do that. I'm -- and at least I   
   think I do, but when I listen to you, I get all the information I need,   
   and I -- and I -- it is -- I have a confidence in the President, in the   
   policies, in the goals. I have -- I know his conviction. I know he's   
   right and I know he has the leadership to do it. What I don't have, and   
   what I can only get from you, is the cheerfulness of your confidence --   
   That was probably the high point.      
   Digby is the proprietor of Hullabaloo  . Comments  Comments    
       
           Remember Rush Rooms?   
           Remember Rush's failed TV show?   
           Remember Rush being booted off ESPN?   
           His time is past, only he doesn't know it yet.   
      
   actually, i dont.   
   i have always found him so repugnant to my beliefs and sensibilities, i   
   have avoided having anything to do with him in any capacity whatsoever.   
      
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