It kind of makes me wonder how many people working for him actually take the crap he says seriously
You mean his staff wouldn't take him seriously on serious issues... like a couple Leftists presidents have? Both Obama and Clinton tried to neutralize Rush, others tried too... attempting to make him the unofficial leader of the Republicans in Congress. It backfires every time it has been tried. In fact, they help focus attention on him, them and the issue at hand.
Obama tried to neutralize Rush right out of the box, and paid dearly for bringing Rush to the forefront. I was Rush who was 1000-miles ahead of the curve, by stating, "I hope he fails".
My bet is none. You don't go to work year after year to be repulsed daily.
He probably isn't serious and just spouts off just for the ratings,
Some of it is schitck, and targets thin skinned Leftists, so they become further unglued.
but he probably doesn't realize how repulsive he is...
The most successful radio show for 20+ years isn't built on repulsive behavior. Perhaps to hard core Leftists.
His ego is the only thing bigger than his waistline.
He has a healthy ego, but a good portion of the ego-spiel is designed specifically to tweak Leftists.
I imagine that the guy is so self indulgent and absorbed that he doesn't have the control to stop gorging himself on food.
He's known to go up and down with weight. Sometimes he's thinner, sometimes heavier.
He'd never look in the mirror and say, "Damn, I look like hell. I should probably diet."
If you'd listen to his show you'd realize he goes on diets.
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Because to me, it's essentially similar to when some ****ty celebrity decides to put out a perfume line or do a clothing line. If he was truly interested in donating to charity, he'd pull a Paul Newman and have ALL proceeds to charity. It just seems skeevy to me. That's my opinion.
That was Newman's model, but doesn't have to serve everyone.
Which would be quite stupid and childish. What, like liberals are going to burn somehow when they drink it like a vampire reacts to holy water?
Not stupid and childish, especially when you have Rush haters. Just a little fun. You know what that is dontcha?
Really? The guy is paid what... 100 million per year. That's due to mass marketing/advertising on his show.
You bet it is. Where do you think the money comes to pay for him? And the people syndicating his show make a good chunk too. His show has a huge nationwide audience, some 600 to 700 stations, there is what, some 30-minutes of ads per show. That's 18,000 to 21,000 advertising minutes per show... per day, 250-days per year. Cha-ching. If they charged a $100 a minute, they'd make 450 million annually. You know his ad space goes for more than $100/min.
:lamo Jealousy? Over what? Because I don't have my own line of tea?
No... that he has one and it seems to have launched successfully.
Not yet, to my knowledge. But I predict that he will use that argument in the future over people on the left who refuse to buy the tea simply because he is behind it. Drinking some ****ty tea doesn't make one more patriotic, nor does putting said tea out.
You start OK, then default to the patriotic bit. He hasn't sold it as patriotic, as you admitted at the start of this paragraph, and he doesn't need to start a venture to prove he's patriotic. A couple decades behind a mic has clearly proven he is.
How do you know the tea is ****ty? What if it succeeds famously due to its quality? He knows Leftists will be loathe to buy it, but he has a captive audience, and polarization helps with a successful product launch. To be continuously successful, the product need to move people to buy a second, 3rd... and 10th time.
I just find it tacky. Again, my opinion.
Do you find Warren Buffett tacky too? He promotes Sees Candy, DQ, Geico, Nebraska Furiture Mart and Borsheims not all the time but often. What is the difference between Buffett and Limbaugh? Both own ventures that seek to make money, and both promote said ventures.
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