He's Worth $400 Million?
Filed under: Media Minute > Politik
Conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh struck a mighty rich renewal deal with Clear Channel!
The radio giants are paying the Right's top media man $400 million to host his conservative talk show ’til 2016.
Limbaugh reaches an audience of nearly 20 million listeners. His program is syndicated on about 600 radio stations nationwide.
In a recent magazine interview, Limbaugh shows off his biz acumen. He says, “First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.”
So he just riles people up for the money?
Looks like it's working!
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
Posted: July 2, 2008 at 2:46 pm
What a sad old blowhard he is. Pathetic, meet Disgusting.
He looks exactly like the owner of the Bunny Ranch whorehouse in Vegas that they feature on HBO.
I'd ride his cock
Amen! Rush ROCKS!!!!
Re: bones – He was in church?
YOU ASK….."So he just riles people up for the money? THAT IS TOTALLY AND EXACTLY WHAT YOU DO ALL DAY LONG MISTER.
Rush is a straight up P-I-M-P! Go cry in some herbal tea, hippies.
Rush is awesome and deserves every penny. A lot of you young people who visit this website ought to give him a listen, it might expediate your growing up. Winston Churchill said "that if you're 20 and you're not liberal, you don't have a heart and if you're 40 and not conservative, you don't have a brain."
now he has more money to buy his OXYCONTIN
Re: KJElf –
Are you kidding me? Republicans are fat, ugly geeks from college???? Whenever I'm driving on the highway and see a car in front of me with a ridiculous "Kerry/Edwards" bumper sticker on it, I know that the person driving is going to be as ugly as sin. Most liberals are hippie wannabes who just want it to be the sixties again so badly. Any liberal that is over the age of 28 is usually a homely peacenick.
oh all u liberal idiots shut up, without him 1/2 of the actual factual info would never get out there!!
CONGRATS EL RUSHBO & MEGGA DITTOS!!!!!!!
Rush "talent on loan from G-O-D! He is worth every penny!
I hate him
they can pay him 400 mil but can't keep a few starbucks open or keep flight attendents working??? More drug money for Rush.
If Prezers was offered 400 million you guys would be HIGH SLAPPING ASSES WITH each other. Rush is setting a standard for all to follow in entertainment. Dont be Haters!
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I wish I was the blonde he's with!!
I love me some Rush!
Not afraid to tell the truth and I'm glad he gets paid well for it!
Shimbaugh should prove his business chops once again and buy Perez his own radio station. Perez Radio would have 50 million listeners.
Re: k=H=k – Ass, maybe he has money because he can actually put a sentence and thought together that you don't have to decipher phonetically. Your command of the English language, well, escapes you!
It amazes me with this being a gossip site run by an openly gay male and which is in general pretty leftist in its presentation is visited by so many right wing republican dum dums. I would think an unprincipled amoral site like this would burn their eyes out and that most of the comments of visitors would have been against Rush LimBarf but many are congratulating him. I for one detest this ugly, nasty, hate-mongering, nothing-good-to-say-about-anyone walking peice of excrement.
Many of you trash liberals but lets not forget liberals have made this country as great as it is….if it wasnt for them we'd still have slavery, segregation, women wouldn't be able to vote, and many of you right wing repubs wouldn't be able to get ur drink on at the local honkey tonk.
I really love his show! He does always give the true facts. Like it or Not!
This is what testosterone looks like. Foreign to liberals. GOD love you El Rushbo.
HOW MANY VIKES CAN HE BUY WITH 400 MIL???
Politics aside, he just isn't that great of a broadcaster. Is Howard Stern worth the $500 million he got from Sirius? Yes. Is Rush Limbaugh worth $3.50 and the dog sh!t i just scraped off my shoe? No.
Re: ed – Dude, get a grip before you start spewing. I don't particularily adhere to RL's views , but the man has been to Iraq/Gitmo and has done many things to raise money for the Armed Forces and for local childrens' charities. Say what you will about his policies, but the man has raised millions for many causes. So, what have you done lately??
yuk. is he missing a tooth?
It amazes me with this being a gossip site run by an openly gay male and which is in general pretty leftist in its presentation is visited by so many right wing republican dum dums. I would think an unprincipled amoral site like this would burn their eyes out and that most of the comments of visitors would have been against Rush LimBarf but many are congratulating him. I for one detest this ugly, nasty, hate-mongering, nothing-good-to-say-about-anyone walking peice of excrement.
Many of you trash liberals but lets not forget liberals have made this country as great as it is….if it wasnt for them we'd still have slavery, segregation, women wouldn't be able to vote, and many of you right wing repubs wouldn't be able to get ur drink on at the local honkey tonk.
Thank you Rush for creating ONE less Angelina, Britney or oil related post.
For that alone, you deserve an extra million.
P.S. Giuliani- write him in.
Re: nolibfags – so testosterone looks like a balding, overweight, yellow teethed, cradle robbing, jaundice-infected white guy????
WORTH EVERY PENNY
Perez learns from the best.
This guy is fat, pill popping, hipocritical asshole. People should find out what company's giving this money and boycott them for paying thid lard ass money. And he talks about the goverment wasting money on things like gelping out the poor and this pill popping junkie gets 400 million. It's a sad day in america.
Re: RIGHT – Hmmm, two words, Abe Lincoln. Oh, crap…I guess three….Republican.
My sister used to work as a talk radio host in Little Rock about 10 years ago and met Rush. She said he was as cocky as he comes across on radio. But, she did ask him if he believed everything he said. He laughed, looked at her and said…first and foremost, I am an entertainer. Thats what I do. She then said, so…you don't believe what you say. He winked at her and laughed. Take that for what you will. He's a windbag who will say whatever will get the ratings. And people fall for it too.
SEE!? It PAYS to tell the truth people!
Re: mej – God bless Abe, but I hope u dont seriously think he just woke up one day and thought "HEY, we need to free these slaves".
Re: kalia – So what is your point? Do you believe everything Tom Hanks says, or Steven Speilburg? What is your point??? I am not sure what your sister reference was supposed to allude to? Umm, he's an entertainer, eegadds. and he has made tons of money doing that??? That is unHEARD of in your world?? Everything you see or hear on TV and radio is basically for that purpose..and you can read entertainment as being "$$". RL is what he is, just like Al Franken is what he is…just some are more profitable. I just don't get your point?
the world just become a lot more doomed. evil.
Congrats to Rush. He has done what the liberals just can't do. Score up tons of millions of dollars from being a talk show entertainer and have fun doing it. No liberals can do what Rush has done, not one. What liberal idiots. But yet the stupid liberals want to shut him down. Rush rocks. He justs make me laugh so much poking fun at those liberals. You liberals are never going to shut down Rush no matter what you do. Liberals need to hug a tree, smoke pot and just shut the hell up.
I love you Perez but doesn't that remind you of a certain someone??? Near a mirror by any chance? P.S. I am NOT a republican
He's an asshole. Is that some young girl he's molesting? He's a fat bigoted pig.
Rush is a blessing. All you liberals and tree huggers are gonna kill this country. We are so dead as a Country, until we do something! Unless the young folk LEARN something!!!! And did I read something earlier, that someone is comparing Rush to the Starbucks closing? Have they not ever heard Rush before? OMG! And to compare Starbucks and their employee's to Rush? Who is raising these dumb children, and tree fucks? To compare the two, or attempt to, is laughable. Where has the education in this country gone to? Oh governmnet schools, I forgot that point! Probably half, no, one third (that would mean 1/3 for you common folk) if not less than that, of the people that comment here, have never heard a word of Rush before. No they are gonna listen to the Media, and what they tell you to believe, or an empty suit (being Obama) who has never done anything in his life. Really what has he ever done? What CHANGE?? Who's gonna pay for that "Change"? Each and every one of you are!!!! All of you, and me are gonna pay alot more for that, and his "CHANGE". That man speaks the truth, and he has for twenty years! (20 years) Why else would he be getting $400 million, that works out to $8 million a year, like an athlete, or a movie star, Obama and his books? Quit being sheeple people! Wake up and learn something, and investigate things for yourself! Verify what you are told!
The annoying thing about disagreeing
with liberals is that they can not
answer or tolerate disagreement with their point of
view -
and they must resort to name calling
and labeling people "bigots" or "racists"
or whatever just to shut down the discussion.
Rash Manly
Oh I think "Eagle" pretty much nailed it! Kudos to that! HUAH!!!
And Reid and Pelosi have done nothing to help us "common" folk! Nancy Pelosi promised to lower gas prices when she got in power (google it), and nothing has happend except it going up! And Obama is an empty suit!
Rush is the MAN, listen to him, you just might learn something! He's worth every penny!
I do, each and every day!
He'll be dead by then-2016. How can they make deals like that? You'll never know what happens tomorrow. right???? With all these Republicans….
The latest Gallup poll gives
the President a 26 percent approval rating.
That is low BUT -
The liberal Congress has a 12 percent approval rating.
Re: Sibby –
I am a liberal. I make a lot of money. I am educated.
Conservatives are uneducated, stupid, racist and worthless.
They are the shame of the world, and Rush leads this
pack of rabid dogs.
When is this fat fuck getting his heart attack? Why Tim Russert and not this POS?
WOOF!!!!! soooo fug.
he pays my friend for sex.
pays well but
smells like shite.
I respect him because of his honesty.
Maybe he should take some of that cash and get his teeth cleaned. YUCK!
Re: EP – You respect Rush because of his honesty? But he said openly that he says things to entertain and make money (as opposed to the truth). And what he says divides the country. Divided We Fall. So you respect him because he lies to destroy the USA?
Gimme another vicodin Blanche.
Re: shell – LOL!!! Shell, it's so true that when a jealous liberal doesn't have anything of substance to say, they revert to child-like name calling! Keep helping to feed the stereotype! KISSES!!! LOL!!!
All you liberals are just jealous because you don't have someone that intelligent, well spoken and RIGHT! I LOVE RUSH -
DITTO HEAD ALL THE WAY!
"So he just riles people up for the money?"
Just like Perez!
ROTFLMAO!
More money for The Drug Abuser!
How Does this PIG of a Man even have a JOB??
It's not even knocking HIM it's the Stupid listeners!
What the HELL is wrong those People??????????????
OMG This DRUGGIE
Lost His Hearing
doing DRUGS and
People pay Him
Even more Money?
What the Fuck?
Re: EP – Respect this honesty– He's full of Shit!!!
Rush is an idiot. I hate him.
PEREZ, Please draw a COCK in His mouth
Or Sperm drooling down His Lips!
Are You tooo afraid to????????????????
??
He gets $400 million to talk SHIT about 1/2 of America and American Airlines is laying off People!?
Re: RIGHT – You should be a tad more informed before you go making bold statements like you just did my dear..Abraham Lincoln was a republican..The North was much more conservative than the South..the main people who wanted to keep slavery in America was the old Southern Democrats. The main people who stood in the way of The civil rights act of 1964 were: Howard W. Smith,a Democrat from Virginia on the Rules Committee..Richard Russel,a Democrat from GA, who made this statement"We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."the list gos on if you look into it………..Basicly every decision that has ever improved this country was conceived by a conservative.
2016…looks like the Republicans are just setting their sights post Obama…
would you do that man? ew
This guy was separated at birth from the dude at the Bunny Ranch in Las Vegas!
Rush is THE MAN! He is brilliant, hilarious, witty, compassionate, and "MahaRushi–all caring, all knowing, all seeing; the harmless little fuzzball!"
Re: Joe – I'm a Savage Nation fan. Love Dr. Savage!
tim russert falls over dead from a heart attack and this fat bastard still lives! it doesn't seem fair. rush, why don't you just die already? here, have another cheeseburger.
He's way worth it. He saved AM radio, he calls liberals on their lies, and he's a smart guy. He's worth more than you Perez, who makes his money off of selling advertising for fags.
wow? i am surprised Clear Channel can afford that. they wont even pay some full time employees 9.00 p/hr.
HOPE THIS FAT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT DIES OF A HEART ATTACK BEFORE HE GETS TO SPEND A DIME!
He's a bigot
#173 DAVID….REAL MATURE
Yay Limbaugh! He's the shiz
wasn't this asshole consuming like 40 (40mg) oxy contin pills a day??? that is literally enough to kill a HERD of elephants and a pack of wolves…to come out of that he is one tough son of a bitch….but is still an asswipe!!!
Interesting — all of you avid Limbaugh defenders seem to be deaf to the fact he has nothing buy contempt for you — and you ignore this man's perverted personal life (underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, anyone)?
Do yourself a favor: turn off the talk radio and begin thinking for yourselves.