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aceventura3 · 09-15-2010, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru

Wait.... an 8-year, $400-million deal with Clear Channel and over 15 million weekly listeners and you don't consider that mainstream?

Wow....since when is an audience of 15 million a fringe audience? The New York Times doesn't even have 1 million in its daily circulation. Does that make the Times a fringe newspaper? Even if you consider NYTimes.com's 18 million or so unique visitors, I'd hardly call Limbaugh's show "fringe." It's currently the most listened-to radio show in America.

I love you guys. So keep the rest in perspective.

I heard susan Boyle had 100 million hits on her YouTube audition video. Not mainstream.

Lady GaGa makes political statements, her audience is bigger than Rush's. Not mainstream.

If a person's show is an AM radio show, by definition (in my book) it ain't mainstream. Is Rush even on XM or Sirius?

I was doing some traveling by car in rural areas in the Southeast last month. Here is what you get on AM radio: Rush, college football talk, foreign language radio (mostly Spanish), religion, and I am not kidding, there was a Radio garage sale, good for about 300 miles - callers would call in and describe an item for sale, like a used post hole digger, and other callers would call in to inquire about it. I am not kidding! So if Rush has 15 million people who have to drive around and listen to his show each week because they speak English, don't care about college football, don't want to hear a religious sermon, or participate in a radio garage sale, and that makes him mainstream in your book. All I can say is - I love you man!

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Originally Posted by roachboy

how nice that you have an official limbaugh decoder ring, ace. did you have to send away for that or did it come with the koolaid?

Thats some funny stuff! Between your post and Baraka's, i have tears in my eyes from laughter. Thanks. Time for lunch, I think I will tune in Rush on my way to McDonald's.