Industry Insider Says Limbaugh Responsible for "The End of Right-Wing Conservative Talk Radio" [View all]

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WED MAY 08, 2013 AT 08:43 AM PDT
Industry Insider Says Limbaugh Responsible for "The End of Right-Wing Conservative Talk Radio"
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"We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio. The genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers ... Rush is at the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he’s getting himself into trouble he doesn’t need. So can you put Humpty Dumpty back together again?

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Sandra Fluke was simply the lightning that struck and hit an old building that collapsed. She didn’t do it. She helped to bring it down at the end, but it was falling apart on its own.

Look at the millennial generation. There’s 80 million of them coming of age. They don’t see color. They don’t see gender. And they’re civic minded: they don’t like bloviating. They don’t like yelling and screaming. So you tell me: how’s right-wing talk radio working for them?"

MORE:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/07/the-high-cost-of-rush-talker-bleeds-millions-from-his-carriers-as-toxic-talk-slumps-cumulus-seems-set-to-part-ways-with-rush-limbaugh.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/08/1207726/-Industry-Insider-Says-Limbaugh-Responsible-for-The-End-of-Right-Wing-Conservative-Talk-Radio