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(53,661 posts)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.