Rush Limbaugh Is Killing His Audience
DO you watch TV or listen to radio shows because you like them or because you like to hate them.
For masochistic pleasures, Anorak routinely tunes into anything with Anthea Turner, Vernon Kay, Jeremy Kyle and GMTV.
This is how talk radio works. You listen because it’s so hateful. US host Russ Limbaugh is talking with a caller he is making ill. Listen to this:
CALLER: “All these accolades that you’re receiving are literally making me sick. And, in fact, my doctor, believe it or not, actually may be tongue-in-cheek, but wrote me a prescription for lowering my blood pressure”…
RUSH: “If you’re really suffering high blood pressure, why are you even listening?”…
RUSH: But Jennifer, my concern for you is that you may die listening to this program from high blood pressure, and you can turn it off. You may be committing a slow form of suicide here on purpose. That’s not right…
CALLER: Hm-hm. I know it. I know it. I don’t always listen to my doctor, either, so, you know, I don’t listen to you”…
RUSH: It’s the first time I’ve had a caller who has actually said my show is killing them, and they kept the radio on…
Spotter: Tim Blair
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August 1st, 2008 at 8:36 am
Maybe Anorak was thinking Russ Abbot, who also makes you (or himself, rather) “mad”, but more in the English sense…
July 31st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Dude - the name is RUSH not RUSS….gee, you must be a long-time listener, for sure.
M and A
Ahem , only mods and other long term posters get to yell at Anorak and his spelling mistakes.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:17 am
Lost? I kind of hate it because of all the contrived/hackneyed plot devices as a writer, or the convention of naming the characters after political philosophers (a bit cheesy, like the musical clues in Morse).
But the wife loves it, so I can complain about it while watching it, and getting a sad smug sense of satisfaction in predicting what might happen next from a story-writing pov.
Crap Football? You went all that way and spent a large chunk to watch a bore-fest, so you tell yourself and match-day mates how interesting it really was from a technical pov? The thing is that, in the rain or whatever your consciense tells you to go home, but you hang around in case you miss something?
The other kind of crap football is that on the telly, and this is usually because it’s free, so you get a compulsion to watch it, even if it’s MLS (US Soccer-ball) which even the Missus could see how bad the standard of goal-keeping is (probably so’s that more “points” are scored).
Listening to the 606 also on R5, all those numpties spouting off while driving back down the M6? Again it feels wrong, but you keep listening to it, getting more and more agitated as you listen more. I tell a lie, the 606 I really can miss, and often.
So it’s “Lost” and Crap Football. And on consideration, because it’s a tough one, I agree.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:08 am
No(el), still nothing.
I definitely need a shrink.
But you probably knew that anyway…
July 31st, 2008 at 11:03 am
Edmonds? Deal or No Deal. Try… I’m listening…
July 31st, 2008 at 10:50 am
I’ve given that question serious thought, and come up with a total blank.
I think I probably need a shrink…
July 31st, 2008 at 10:10 am
What do you hate - but cannot stand to miss?
July 31st, 2008 at 9:58 am
The Victoria Derbyshire show does that to me on R5 at 10 am to 11 am.
It raises my blood pressure as the callers go on about sending them back and about hanging is too good for them and that it’s the only language that they understand.
Like during the Burma disaster earlier this year; “I can’t afford to help them, Vivkie, what about helping the UK people?” Basically a complete racist on the radio, of course I wanted to call in and say what a pity that they didn’t say the same about us in WWII regarding fighting the Japanese… but that’s what R5 does now, they put these morons on to stir the pot, like Rush Limbaugh and his ilk do.
Why put myself through that? Because it’s either that or Woman’s Hour on R4, which after years of suffering it, I just can’t anymore, so out of the two talkies available to me, it has to be Victoria Derbyshire’s R5 version of the Daily Mail.