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Limbaugh Signs $400 Million Deal
As print media loses millions a day and liberal Radio proving to be an utter failure Rush Limbaugh demonstrates his popularity in America by signing a $400 million deal. Many will say that this is a victory for the individual independent thinker who has rejected the print, radio and TV's fading liberal monopoly. This may drive the left in Congress to force Rush off the air with the so called "fairness Doctrine." Makes one wonder how badly the Democrats would be arguing for "fairness" if Rush was a Democrat. The new Times Magazine on it's cover depicts Rush as dark and sinister. Unlike the God like image they gave the messiah Obama...mpress
Earnings now pace him ahead of the annual salaries for network news anchors: Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer ? combined! The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract, Limbaugh will keep his syndicated show on-the-air and e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e through 2016 with CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO.
Already host of the most lucrative hours since radio’s inception, Limbaugh’s total package is valued north of $400 million, according to media insiders.
The NEW YORK TIMES will claim this weekend that Limbaugh, marking 20 years this summer as a national host, has secured a 9-figure signing bonus for the new deal, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
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at 06:45 on July 2nd, 2008
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at 06:54 on July 2nd, 2008
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at 07:23 on July 2nd, 2008
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at 07:40 on July 2nd, 2008
Rush who? Never heard of him this side of the Atlantic. Is he bigger than Oprah?
at 07:48 on July 2nd, 2008
In size?
at 10:08 on July 2nd, 2008
He is the Godfather.