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Limbaugh joins LeBron
Radio host Rush Limbaugh had joined LeBron James in spurning New York and its escalating taxes for the more taxpayer-friendly environs of Florida; Limbaugh recently closed on the sale of his Manhattan apartment, selling it for about $11.5 million after paying around $5 million for it in 1994. That’s a decent capital gain for El Rushbo.
And it essentially completes Limbaugh’s move to Florida, breaking ties with the state that launched him to national stardom. Limbaugh has spent most of his time in Florida for the past several years, but the sale of his Manhattan apartment completes the severing of his Big Apple ties.
NBA superstar LeBron James chose Miami over New York when he decided to move from Cleveland in free agency, and the choice is estimated to keep an additional $12-$20 million in James’ pockets over the next five seasons. That’s not chump change, even for LeBron. It could even pay for a lot of much-needed adult acne treatments.
When will New York learn that raising taxes pushes people away and lowering them draws people in, creating a larger tax base pool to draw from?
Well, probably never; the state’s eternally Blue…
Fifteen years later, Clinton still jousting with Limbaugh
The Oklahoma City Bombing was a national tragedy grossly mishandled by then-President Bill Clinton, who disingenuously tried to blame talk radio and Rush Limbaugh for the event. Now, fifteen years later, Clinton’s still jousting with Limbaugh long after anybody really cares.
Of course, no matter the outdoor décor they are surrounded by, Limbaugh certainly played into Clinton’s hands on Friday. To illustrate the absurdity of blaming talk radio and Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing, Rush on Friday referred to a recent Clinton speech and said any future acts of domestic terrorism are, ipso facto, Clinton’s fault.
Of course, as they always do, Clinton, his handlers and his willing media accomplishes missed the irony of the parody and are taking it seriously. Too seriously, claiming Limbaugh meant it literally, rather than as he intended it… as an illustration of Clinton’s demagoguery of fifteen years ago.
What else is new?
And here I thought it would be me…
A CBS News/Vanity Fair poll listed radio host Rush Limbaugh as the nation’s most influential conservative voice, according to results released Sunday. Limbaugh was named by 26 percent of respondents, followed by Glenn Beck with 11 percent and politicians Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney at 10 percent each.
That Limbaugh is the nation’s leading conservative voice should come as no shock, given its a position he held – poll data or not – since the early 1990s. The only true shock is that CBS News is actually acknowledging the radio host’s existence without attempting to tie him to an appetite suppressant scandal or something like that. Refreshing! Thanks for telling us what we already knew, CBS!
Eight more years! Eight more years!
As reported, variously, by the LA Times and the Drudge Report, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh signed an unprecedented contract extension with Clear Channel Media and Premiere Radio that will guarantee the host remains in place behind the “golden EIB microphone” he first made famous 20 years ago, through 2016.
The size of the deal is a record for regular, terrestrial radio, checking in at over $400 million for the eight-year extension. That’ll buy a lot of luggage.
Only Howard Stern’s deal with Siruis Satellite Radio eclipses the Limbaugh deal; Stern’s contract awarded him $500 million in contract money and $225 million in stock options for a total compensation package of $725 million over only five years.
Stern and satellite radio aside, however, Limbaugh’s deal is still one of the largest ever signed by terrestrial radio, and places his compensation well ahead of the traditional news media anchors Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer combined.
Still, Limbaugh has done a lot of work to earn the record-breaking compensation package; he has built and maintained one of the largest radio syndication networks for his program in modern radio history, and kept it going for over two decades.
The only X-Factor in the deal for Clear Channel and Premiere comes if Obama is elected in November and the Democrats retain control of Congress; it is strongly believed that in that event, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would push to bring back the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” redesigned to silence voices like Limbaugh, as well as other conservative hosts such as Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and others.
Congratulations, Rush!
Edwards off the deep end
For whatever reason, Iowa seems to undo even the sturdiest of Democrats candidates. Last time around, it was Howard Dean who lost it in the “field of dreams,” with his Ric Flair-style, “Woooo!” speech. This time around, it’s former ambulance chaser and former Senator John Edwards who showed off his “Crazy Dean” credentials.
Speaking in Tipton, Iowa about his Hillary-style universal health care plan, Edwards promised:
“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care. If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK. The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death.”
Does this plan include indemnifying doctors from ambulance-chasers like Edwards in this mandatory care system? Not likely.
Edwards is off the deep end on this one, and while he’s unlikely to get the Dem nod for the top of the ticket, if he’s chosen as someone’s running mate, just remember all the damage Al Gore did when the previous Clinton was at the top of the ticket. It’s enough to require most people to seek out a headache treatment.
One has to wonder exactly what the penalty would be for a prospective patient who didn’t go for his or her annual physical, and whether it would be a better or worse fate than he has in mind for Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, if he ever does achieve power.
