Rush Limbaugh On His New Deal: "I'm Not Retiring Until Every American Agrees With Me"

On his radio show Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh commented on the news of his astronomical new contract estimated at $400 million. Limbaugh told his audience, "I'm not retiring until every American agrees with me." The deal pays Limbaugh to keep dishing his views through 2016.

The New York Times has more on how Limbaugh's windfall stacks up against other conservative hosts.

Mr. Limbaugh is not the only radio star who is busy pumping his franchise. Sean Hannity, the country's No. 2 host according to Talkers Magazine, is in contract talks with his current syndication company, ABC Radio, as well as Premiere, for a potential three-way deal, according to two sources close to the negotiations. They requested anonymity because the deal had not been signed.

Glenn Beck, another popular host, signed a new contract with Premiere last year that will pay him $10 million a year through 2012.

Mr. Hannity and Mr. Beck each appear on radio while hosting television shows, writing books and staging nationwide tours. Other media personalities, including Oprah Winfrey and Mr. Seacrest, also have radio engagements that feed into their cross-platform brands. But Mr. Limbaugh sticks to his self-proclaimed "golden E.I.B. microphone" -- E.I.B., for excellence in broadcasting -- and his associated Web site.

Comments

[Tulka2]

I believe in redemption. I sincerely hope Rush someday finds his heaven and grows some angel wings, but i suspect that will be when pigs fly too.

[klmebane]

rush will drop dead before i agree with him. so much for his every american plan...

[SgtLucifer]

Super!! Then he gets to work (if hate-mongering & bloviating while sedated on oxy & viagra can be described as work) until he croaks. Even Jesse Helms had to retire one day. Just look at Jesse now... on a bullet-train to hell.

[emerywood]

NO, ESPECIALLY NOT ON GETTING ADDICTED TO PRESCRIPTION PAIN PILLS OR TAKING VIAGRA LIKE CANDIES !
NO AMERICAN SHOULD AGREE TO THAT KIND OF SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR, EVER !
JUST LET HIM BUY MORE OF THAT STUFF WITH THE 400 MILLION DOLLARS.

[yalc27]

400 mill? Man, that's a lot of pills.

[Tulka2]

Ha! Laffin' with U.

[sa]

four hundred million,
for aiding and abetting war crimes -
sounds like "america" to me.

(correction: sounds like bush's "america" to me.)

[BobsNotWorking]

Don't be so quick to condemn Rush. Larry Hunter has recently been quoted as saying, "The Republican Party is a dead, rotting carcass that is being led by a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of Weekend at Bernie's, handcuffed to a corpse." Consider how this profound truth came to be. Rush is a huge part of it. Go Rush!

[watcher269]

I hear all this talk about the Left and the Right - that the Left is Bad (Liberals) and the Right is Good (conservative)- well lets look at this a moment.

The left side of the human body is controlled by the right side of the brain and the Right side of the body is controlled by the left side of the Brain - So, one has to conclude that "Left is RIGHT and Right is WRONG"

So Republicanism is WRONG! Not to mention - should be ILLEGAL.

[MTGradwell]

It's a ruse, a trap. After all Americans have come together and shouted spontaneously in unison "we agree with you, Rush! Now retire! do it now!" he'll smile and say "just kidding". Don't do it, Americans.

[gr8abz]

Face it. The bully boys of the Far Right have it all to themselves. The corporate media is there to serve and maintain them at all costs. To hell with the rest of us. I keep waiting for the landscape to shift. Forget it. Something about right wing fascism and today's networks that keep working hand in hand.

[protagonia]

Cancer eventually eats itself.

[KenGirard]

Something we can all agree on: "America could be better".

OK, time for the retirement party.

[plafayette]

Hey you guys have missed the point. Mr. Limbaugh said he will not retire until All Americans agree with him. Good. Let's all of us agree, "Rush you should retire". There it's settled. Nothing more to see here...Bye Rush.

[Tulka2]

We could use your Alice in Wonderland tactic in many areas. Let's all agree we've won in Iraq too. Then we could come home.

[goodog]

Totally.

If we'd only known this years ago.

Hope 300,000,000 names on an petition will do the trick. Or maybe just a representative sample.

Ask ask a single question.

Do you agree Rush Limbah should retire?

[BadgersBite]

Thats what I call job security!!

[TonalCrow]

I don't think that Limbaugh meant to admit that he's a vampire, but he just did.

[cae]

So, OK, there's no retirement for Rush Limbaugh. Yawn!

[DereksDontRun]

I agree with you, you sick pig. Was I the last hold out? Will he retire now?