I can't believe he is still on the air. Just when you think he can't sink any lower...

Will pay that contract. It's a contract. He will get his blood money whether he is spouting his racism on radio or on a soap box in a park. He is NOT however paying his own contract.

Well his crapping out may take Clear Channel and Cumulus under.Good in a way, but Bain now owns Clear Channel I believe.

May be someday soon, the radio landscape will be changed dramatically when Rushbo and little Seanny and the wannabes are gone.

"I thought he had already lost most of his sponsors" I agree...I don't doubt he is losing sponsors, I know, I have read the press releases some of them have put out. However, I am beginning to wonder if the "sponsor flight" is being a little overblown by some who, like most of us on DU, would love to see him off the air.

I know I could be wrong because I know nothing of how the ad world operates but if he has truly lost 3300 sponsors in just the last two years then how many sponsors does his show have?!?! Seriously, I think of sponsors as companies & certain groups who pay to run ads during his broadcast. If so, his show is only on 3hrs a day, although most stations run his nauseating voice at all hours via repeats, but how is there enough time for literally thousands of sponsors to get their ad broadcast??

Plus, I bet many of the same sponsors who publish press releases saying they are ending their relationship with the show slowly & quietly go back to his show after things die down a little.

I want Rush off the air a much as anyone but I also am skeptical of claims Rush's show is in any kind of trouble. How many sponsors could he have had in good times & better yet just how many sponsors have to leave before his show is really under threat??

I have not seen anything that points Rush losing his show anytime soon.

If you were to count local sponsors who no longer want to be affiliated with Limbaugh I could see how that number could be in the thousands. Most never paid a lot of attention until the show got so toxic.

The way the Limbaugh show works, the station gets the show basically free and they split the advertising. I think Rushie gets 2/3rds and local gets 1/3rd to sell. Works great when that time is in demand. But when it is toxic, anything times 0 is 0.

Since almost all of the stations he is on are owned by the big conglomerates (Clear Channel or Cumulus) they can just keep running him as long as they want. But eventually with no revenue and his enormous contract something has to give. CC has already been bought by Bain and Cumulus is on the verge of going under. About another year may do them in.

We have to consider that Limbaugh is more than just a radio show, it's the right arm of the GOP propaganda machine and as such might manage to stay on the air without any *official* sponsors. Having said that, if the GOP is trying to distance itself from its own hateful message, Limbaugh may become obsolete. Not counting on that, though.

Why haven't we heard more about this? To me, this is up there with his horrid comments about Sandra Fluke, which (rightfully) got so much publicity.

have a clue why it's being ignored, but it enraged me.

because I had already reached my outrage limit and didn't want to get any angrier on this beautiful
Sunday morning. So if it's that recent, it still may "go viral." I hope it's covered on MSNBC on Monday.

... the dignity of her attention?

and often miss the outrageous vile he hurls into the ears of his remaining faithful audience.

I listened to him in the early 1990's to see what the hullaboo was in media. And it was all there, planting the seeds. The day he goes off Armed Forces Radio is the day I'll cheer. Not until then.

and he does the "hehehehe it was just a joke" but the seed has been planted.
His listeners also do not understand irony - like him making a "joke" about child rearing but he stilll has no child from 3 marriages.

Armed Forces Radio.

This sub-human pile of dung needs a good flushing.

I haven't heard his program in ages.

rock bottom prices...

Also, if he's doing fewer breaks due to fewer ads, he'll have to keep working to top himself. Open mouth, insert ass!

The good news? In one month, over 300 more sponsors have pulled ads, now totaling over 2,500. (This does not count the 800 or so who have 'left quietly') Limbaugh now averages a loss of 10 sponsors per day. To make up for these sponsorship losses, it is known he has been subsidized by outside sources including FreedomWorks (backed by the Tea Party). And I'm betting he is having to subsidize himself, to stay on the air.

I think there has to be a big, deep, individual pocket keeping that jerk afloat.

A Koch-ish person. An Adelson type.

FreedomWorks is amateur hour in the big scheme of things--they're the idiots that did the moronic, childish and stupid panda - Clinton video. Their attention is divided with their "superpac" work.

I'm thinking there's a "main contributor" who is bankrolling that assclown. Time will reveal, hopefully.

at this phase of the game.

They must be planning a push in 2014 and that is why they keep him on.

The radio stations he worked on, from the beginning were funded differently than the typical working ones. He had family money at the beginning. Until the radio stations were consolidated along with television stations under some big players who monopolized the media, the individual carriers lost money while he made many, many millions.

The stations would have dropped him if they were not getting some sort of slush money to pay his salary. And as Dick Armey revealed, both Rush and Beck have been getting paid directly by the FreedomWorks, etc., cabal of public opinion producers. I remember him railing daily and on the weekend when Hillary was trying for universal health, with all the same canards pushed by Palin and Beck.

Rush was where I first heard the term 'Death Panels.' It got Newt his majority, and look at the many millions of dollars that put in neo-con pockets, so much that they re-invest in him every year.

Frigging fascists, the lot of them.

I can't bear to listen to him for even a moment--he's like fingernails on the blackboard, sunlight to the vampire, to me!!!

is a blood sport among the two parties for position, money and power. Using any of that to change the status quo is not.

That is the one I remember. I only listen to the week-in-review on Saturdays to hear what he has been up to, a know-thy-enemy thing. And this is a constant ad that I remember.

Not that this one company is keeping him going, but they are doing a lot of ads.

that is pretty much all I hear and I listen in to the first 10 or so minutes at that top of each hour (prime ad time).

Between those two, and Rush's personal endorsements of them, that is the only ads I can remember. And I do try to pay attention.

I guess they crept back when I wasn't looking. But Angies List seems to have bailed. Maybe I'll rejoin.

It seems to me that he has been pushing that in the last month or so. I am not sure how recently it has been, but it has definitely been since that brohaha about his advertisers.

If I'm not mistaken, they also advertise on Big Eddie's and Stephanie's radio programs.

Oh, and they ALL do the buy gold foolishness.

we all called 1 800 flowers two or three times a day and then changed our minds ?

Besides Carbonite.com, IncomeAtHome.com, the usual national companies?

His audience would leave him completely if he ever decided he was going to be a decent human being. They're all he has left.

That's him.

Sorry, that's the frustration speaking.

has 3,000 sponsors. It doesn't matter. He creates so much hostility that alone he should be out. Just because we have freedom of speech doesn't mean crazy people have a right to scream hate over the air ways.

Not that many national advertisers left I think but probably still quite a lot of local ones, particularly in smaller markets that trend more conservative.

It's his carriage on stations I am concerned about. Considering the owners of his show (Clear Channel) and the fact they have enough stations to put it on... it will only be a good thing IMO if non-CC stations decided it would be a good idea to discontinue carrying his opinions on their airwaves. Then the bean counters might figure out it's more profitable to program that station with canned music than anything featuring Mr. Limbaugh. At least locally here when CC blew up WGBT (as a Spanish language station) to become WPTI (Rush Radio) they did lose ratings, and didn't fully recover.

"That person who shall not be named"
DUer's shouldn't waste their time or effort on this gas bag.
For 20 years Democrat's have wasted time trying to get Limbaugh off the air.
We shouldn't give a shit.
Let him spew his hate. Let him cut his own throat.

he doesn't have to make any money, just like Fox didn't make a dime for over a decade. But his sewer mouth is invaluable to the little men behind the curtain. They will make sure that he stays on the radio, if he loses every sponsor he still has. And by the way, who in hell would still sponsor this joke?

The Sandra Fluke thing helped us. The DNC probably fundraised millions off that.

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It's just a matter of time. I'm as impatient as anyone, but I really feel he will be gone from our troubles soon. Within a year or two. He will either have a massive stroke or a massive cardiac infarction.

Dear, Lord, why are my prayers never answered?

20 years ago already I drove around with a home made bumpersticker:
Flush Rush: End a Movement

cannot sink any lower, I am proven wrong.

Everytime a ritewing nut spouts a "fact" or "their opinion", I get to say,
"Where's you get that, from Rush?"
Oh, and Rush wants Obama to fail. In other words, ritewing nut,
he wants America to fail and your Republicans gave him a standing ovation,
so they want America to fail, too, so by common sense, anything they propose
or stand for is bad for America and Americans but good for old rich white people.
(then I take a breath)

Did anybody ever wonder why people like him, Hannity, and Beck get paid so much money to divide the country? These are his masters who pay the likes of this human shit to divide and spread hatred just so they can control the conversation. It is good to see that the American people are finally waking up and who knows maybe not to late for our once great country.

But it hasn't grown any less relevant, has it?

He's getting desperate - and he knows that he's becoming more and more irrelevant with each vile rant. The sooner he's gone the better we'll be.

Twenty years ago many did but even the conservative people I know consider him a waste of time.

just so ya know

Miss them.

Where can I find a list of his sponsors to do that? I couldn't handle listening to one of his shows to know, sorry.... But that is some activism, I can do.

down with rush

vomiting? It skeeves me just to hear his voice. It's so depressing to think millions of Americans listen to him spew and love it.

K & R

Here is a direct link to the petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/sign-here-tell-limbaugh-sponsors-we-will-not-buy-products-that-support-misogyny-racism-and-hate-speech?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_after_sign

He won't ever go the written word as he can't write so when we get him off the air he's gone, kaput, out of here.
Just 'tween you and I I say that in the end he will be penniless.

so now the "big guy" can complain about market forces -the sacret cow of republicans- giving him the boot because he is not selling like he used to.

to that hatefilled bully for profit.

Good News, babylonsister.. thank you!

will pay to keep the bloated Nazi propagandist on the air.

The effect of Rush's show is massive election fraud. His advertisers are accessories, and so are the sports teams that allow their games to be broadcast on those stations!

The first time I heard this jackass he was demonizing liberal doctors and started calling tourette syndrome a liberal contrivance, or some nonsence. Then people started calling in to the show with the disease, he just had the biggest laugh. 'This guy' is a hero to the right in this country?

his little cloven hooves jerking spasmodically in the air, like they do when he gets all excited on his radio show.

Not sure why, but every time I see this grotesque hog of man, I instantly picture him like that.

and there were many times, as I kept sending this across the country to those who needed to know.

worth 400 million, signed in 2008 (the article was dated July 3rd of 08). This would mean his contract would be up in June or July of 2016! Interesting.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121504302144124805.html

before he is allowed access to publicly owned airwaves? I mean, what if he is using drugs

He spouts their message and they will keep him on no matter what. Last year when Rush lost a ton of sponsors CC just went to other stations and fired other talented hosts to make up for what Rush was losing. We lost a very popular show in West Palm called Josh Cohen and the Home Team. It got good ratings but they had to make up for Rush's big mouth so the entire show had to go.

Chik Fil A day was a Clear Channel effort as well. They helped them out with free advertisements at the top of every news break for at least 2 days.

CC also helped push the Iraq "war" by having "support the troops" picnics all over the country that trashed anyone that disagreed with the invasion. Every picnic had a jet flyover as well.

Because of Limbaugh's ass mouth, I discovered Vitacost when they cancelled their advertising. We have a beautiful relationship.