{"id":12685,"date":"2014-05-04T01:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2014-05-04T01:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T08:43:06","slug":"rushs-ratings-limbarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/04\/rushs-ratings-limbarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush’s Ratings LimBARF!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years it has boggled my mind that Republicans give so much power to Rush Limbarf, the de facto head of the Republican Party.  Every time one disagrees with him, you can be sure that politician will crawl in homage to kiss the ground at his feet.  It thoroughly pleases me that his ratings are getting almost as low as he is.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0504Limbarf\"It’s another bowl of crow for Rush Limbaugh to eat, and his bowls runneth over these days. Media Matters<\/a><\/font> has just reported more negative ratings that began after Limbaugh made his move in January, to the new southern California station KEIB: <\/font><\/p>\n

Three months later, Limbaugh’s KEIB is a ratings disaster, coming in 37th place in the second largest radio market in America with a .5 rating share in March, the most recent month available, according to<\/a><\/font> Nielsen ratings. (A ratings share<\/a><\/font> represents the percent of those listening to radio in the market who are dialed into a particular station.) <\/font><\/p>\n

How small is KEIB’s audience? So small that eleven non-English radio stations have larger audiences in Los Angeles. And so small that KEIB actually trails four college-run, non-commercial stations in the market. This, for a man who makes $40 million<\/a><\/font> a year to attract big radio audiences? As for KFI, the station Limbaugh left and which switched to an all-local news and talk format, its ratings remain healthy in the talker’s absence. A top ten station, KFI boasts an audience six times larger than KEIB’s.<\/font><\/p>\n

And on the East Coast, where Limbaugh was King, he is now ranked 22nd, trailing four non-English stations and one classical station. <\/font><\/p>\n

Limbaugh’s real trouble began in February 2012, when he spent three days spewing lies, hate, and misogyny at then unknown law student, Sandra Fluke. He and ‘his GOP boys’ didn’t like having the women folk advocating for birth control, much less in Congress, of all places. He called Fluke a ‘slut’ and ‘prostitute’ and the social media crowd went wild. Think Progress<\/a><\/font> made a mighty good compilation video of the Sandra Fluke rant:\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Danger: 70 Barf Bags needed to view this video!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n