{"id":246924,"date":"2017-09-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=246924"},"modified":"2017-09-14T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:24:49","slug":"30-years-and-theyre-still-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/13\/30-years-and-theyre-still-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years and They\u2019re Still Trying!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: (interruption) No, I don\u2019t want to mention it, because if I mention it, it\u2019s only gonna get bigger, and it doesn\u2019t deserve to be amplified. But it\u2019s still so full of BS, it\u2019s incredible. I shouldn\u2019t say this. It\u2019s just teasing you people. You\u2019ll wonder, what am I talking about, and I\u2019m not gonna tell you what I\u2019m talking about. Oh, well, I might as well. (interruption) What, it\u2019s on the Drudge Report now? Okay. Well, I&#8230; (interruption) Here it is. The link on the Drudge Report is, &#8220;Liberals Turn to Podcasts for Salvation.&#8221; But I have noticed, by the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0-RushBig-Voice-041917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0-RushBig-Voice-041917.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0-RushBig-Voice-041917-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>I happen to know this. You have to know the liberals to read and you have to know just&#8230; I know them. I study them. So they make casual references to podcasts that they love. So I have picked up on the fact that liberals, unable to compete in radio, are now turning to podcasts. So there\u2019s a story at a website called The Week, W-E-E-K. So just now, I clicked it. I\u2019ve gotta travel a distance to do it here, folks. Just a second. The Dittocam follows me. But you click on the link here, and it comes up with the headline:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/723980\/how-new-generation-leftwing-podcasters-are-dethroning-rush-limbaugh-rightwing-talk-radio\">How a New Generation of Left-Wing Podcasters Are Dethroning Rush Limbaugh and Right-Wing Talk Radio<\/a>.&#8221; There isn\u2019t any &#8220;dethroning&#8221; going on, and the story actually admits this, at the end of it. They say they\u2019re not even close but they\u2019ve got a good start, and whoever wrote the story gets so many facts wrong. It says the audience here is 12 million. It\u2019s 26 million now, folks. (chuckles) Twenty-six million. The distance&#8230; We don\u2019t even see them in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t begrudge them for trying. They have failed at every attempt they\u2019ve made. This guy goes on to&#8230; (impression) &#8220;He\u2019s just so ticked off, \u2019cause Limbaugh, he\u2019s just nothing but a broadcaster. He\u2019s never had any experience in policy. He never worked in government. He doesn\u2019t know anything. He just makes people mad!&#8221; And then they cite researchers who have found out that the audience trusts Limbaugh. &#8220;And when Limbaugh says something, they believe it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that\u2019s not good because Limbaugh doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about, because Limbaugh has never written policy. Limbaugh has never been involved in the business of politics and policy.&#8221; So it\u2019s filled with deep, deep resentment, which is comical to read. And he points out that the conservatives who have experience in government and policy are&#8230; Well, he said the people in talk radio who are prominent are not experts and have no experience in it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-246926 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/650-Tear-Away-The-Week.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/650-Tear-Away-The-Week.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/650-Tear-Away-The-Week-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And then he cites all these various podcasts that are springing up out there that may have &#8212; and believe me, if a podcast has an audience of 1.8 million, he points out that\u2019s bigger than Anderson Cooper\u2019s audience! (laughing) He\u2019s trying to tell us that podcasters have a bigger audience than CNN! Which may be true, by the way. I don\u2019t know about 1.8 million. Anyway, it\u2019s the last thing I expected to see. I mean, Drudge doesn\u2019t put my name in the link, so I just see &#8220;liberals turning to podcasts.&#8221; I knew it, \u2019cause I read \u2019em, and they talk about their podcasts that they like so I know it\u2019s a coming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/join-rush-247\/\">We\u2019ve been podcasting this program before they knew what it was<\/a>! There are podcasts of this program each and every day, and we don\u2019t add those numbers to our overall official ratings reports, although we know what the numbers are. But we don\u2019t add them because we don\u2019t have to. But they\u2019re scrimping and scrounging for everything they can get out there. But the funny part of this is the deep resentment that I have built this empire and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about and I\u2019m not worthy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not qualified. I don\u2019t have&#8230; I shouldn\u2019t have the right to be telling you what I tell you, \u2019cause I don\u2019t know anything. (laughing) It\u2019s 30 years, and it\u2019s just&#8230; Every criticism just continues to recycle. And this, of course, is a boomer of a surprise, because the link doesn\u2019t even suggest this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  There isn&#039;t any &quot;dethroning&quot; going on, and the story actually admits this, at the end of it. They say they&#039;re not even close but they&#039;ve got a good start, and whoever wrote the story gets so many facts wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":246928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>30 Years and They&#039;re Still Trying! - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/13\/30-years-and-theyre-still-trying\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"30 Years and They&#039;re Still Trying! - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: There isn&#039;t any &quot;dethroning&quot; going on, and the story actually admits this, at the end of it. 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