Limbaugh's crumbling audiences this means the fairness doctrine is not needed. Just sit and watch them crumble, like they are doing at Time and Newsweak, right ...

Both Wolff and Sinton are full of bull...it is so obvious they don't listen to his show whatsoever or they would know the varying ages of his callers.

Rush has to be roaring with laughter with this garbage.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Yawn.  Wishful thinking.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

My God, it's like these libtarded morons are completely unaware that this country has ever been through a recession before.

"Reagan-and-Rush-esque hands-off government" 

In other words, personal and economic freedom.  I think the American people still prefer that, by a wide margin, when asked honestly.

Do you think that El Rushbo is sitting at EIB south fretting over this? Heh. 

It is not just that the gravity of the economic crisis, with historic
unemployment rates, means it’s a lot harder to get people excited about
Reagan-and-Rush-esque hands-off government.

More of the never-ending "this is the worst it's been since the great depression" b.s. from the Obama PR firm known as the MSM.

Historic
unemployment rate?  Not as bad as it was in the early 80s, or even the mid 70s.  And Reagan's hands-off, lower taxes approach worked quite well, thank you:

Data and graph of unemployment rate by year:

http://data.bls.gov/...

(Change the value for "from" at the top of the screen to 1970.  Puts things in perspective).

The media continues to reguritate these Obama talking points and no one calls them on it.

msm say last year that rush was not relevant anymore and had lost his influence> if so, why the concern.

Let us say 10 years from now Rush decides to retire after 30 years of broadcast excellence , the leftist cry will be "see we told you he was over"

I don't know where this clown gets his numbers for the "average age" of Rush's audience....but if it's the same place he got the old age of Fox News's average audience, he's blowing smoke.

 Fox News destroys the other networks in the key demo (25-54....the younger viewers). 

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_thursday_april_9_113813.asp 

The ratings I linked to are from April 9, but they hold basically true every other day.  Fox News beats the left-wing MSNBC by 3-1 in the key, young viewers demo.  Thus, that flies in the face of Michael "Lex Luthor" Wolff's expose.

"women and minorities hardest hit"

haven't they learned by now? How do I say this? Rush is not dependent on how others think of him or respond to him. He has structured his organization such that it doesn't matter how many  people don't like what he has to say. He will carry on no matter what. Of course, someday he will retire, but not because of throwing in the towel to the liberal mob haters. He wants Obama to fail. Some didn't like him saying that. Where is he now? Doing what he always does, and always will do: Commenting on things as he sees them. What percent of the adult population is 20 million? A lot, I would think. I have listened since 1990. I didn't know I was a conservative until I heard him explain what it meant, and what a bunch of buffoons the liberals are.

I live in a college town in California.  I know LOTS of college-aged Republican's that love Rush Limbaugh.  I DON'T know ANY young college-aged girls that think twice about that old fossil Oprah.  Therefore, I think this Air Amerika guy is F.O.S.  Rush's ratings will only grow.

Michael Wolff, Jon Sinton, what planet to these creatures come from?

Ridiculous analysis like that of Wolff and Sinton is not intended to be objective journalism for a broad audience.  It is intended as cheerleading and faux-talking points for those liberals who may be questioning the behavior of their own President and legislators. 

Bills that are rushed through without reading them?  Money handed over to banks without written strings attached?  A Democratic-run Treasury Department which refuses to answer the queries of the Democratically-led TARP oversight board?  Obama's broken promises regarding withdrawal from Iraq and transparency?  Certainly, this behavior disappoints the purist of bleeding hearts.

This stuff was intended to reassure the libs that conservatism and Rush Limbaugh are endangered species, moderate-Republicans are abandoning the Right and splitting the GOP, and any resistence to Obama-ism is insignificantly small and only damaging an economic recovery.

"The dirty little secret of conservative talk radio is that the average age of listeners is 67 and rising, according to [former Air America guru Jon] Sinton—the Fox News audience, likewise, is in its mid-60s: "What sort of continuing power do you have as your audience strokes out?"

That sounds promising. The first of the Baby Boomer Bulge is just hitting their '60s. Looks like there is an ever increaseing audience coming swiftly down the pike. To replace all of stroke victims.

Well I don't know about YOU but Vanity Fair has sure converted me to their way of thinking.

Now's the time for me to stop listening to Rush and abandon the SS Limbaugh with all hands on deck as it heads for that Liberal Iceberg.

That way I'll be able to say all snooty like, well I STOPPED listening years ago. Thus proving my bona fides as a free thinker. Because there's nothing like agreeing exactly with liberals to prove you think for yourself.

Clearly Rush is doomed because the readership of Vanity Fair listens to Limbaugh to a man and woman! They were his core audience lo these twenty years.

Imagine the devestating effect when they realize that Vanity Fair NO LONGER SUPPORTS RUSH LIMBAUGH!

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There will be plenty of younger conservative talkers to take over Rush’s place when he retires.

The not so dirty little secret that Jon Sinton and others should worry about is the demographics for TV viewing. The vast majority of TV viewers are over 55. For people over 55, the Boomers, TV was the new electronic marvel in the home when they were growing up, a hard habit to break. Guess people under 55 are busy with their computers, etc, and not TV.

TV could have a big problem when the over baby boomers "stroke" out as Mr. Sinton so sensitively puts it. Maybe TV needs more conservative talk shows and show some morality in its other programming to survive.

"How far will he [Rush] go? You don’t know what might come out of his mouth. What if he truly goes to war against the leadership? He could, you know, if he wanted to just split the party. Walk out with the hard-core conservatives. He could and he knows it."

This is the most promising and hopeful thing I've heard from a liberal. Imagine returning to the values of our Forefathers. Could it get any better?

old timers such as myself, then you haven't talked to amazing 13-year old Jonathan Krohn who spoke at and wowed them at CPAC. Surprisingly, the leftist Huffington Post had a good article on him that began:

"The future of the conservative movement presented himself on Friday, and he was 13. Jonathan Krohn, the author of "Define Conservatism" and political prodigy voted "Atlanta's Most Talented Child" in 2006, was the talk of the Conservative Political Action Conference for a brief portion of the afternoon session."

Here is a link to 955 Youtube video clips of his speech at CPAC, as well as interviews.

Obviously Michael Wolff has not met 14-Year-Old Josh or 15-year-old Alyssa, or the multitude of Young Republicans on our college campuses.

The Conservative Movement is alive and well, in no small part thanks to Rush Limbaugh.

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“Understand something about liberalism.  They never stop until they get what they want, and when they get what they want, it's never enough.  That's why it's a constant thing to have to oppose them.  You can't join forces with them, you can't moderate them, you can't slow them down by joining them, you can't make them like you and have them change their agenda.  They have to be stopped.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

and it isn't just from old people. I'm not near 67 and am an avid listener. I think Sinton is full of it and jealous.

is a reliable, rabid anti capitalist who always available to spew his kool aid induced hate to any that will listen 24/7.   He fits right in with other america hating propagandists we've seen throughout the Messiahs continuing election campaign, lots of feelings but no facts.

Must be something in the kool aid they drink?

No Representation in NorCal

Think about it...the left has a constituency with a combined I.Q. of something approaching (but not quite reaching) triple digits.

Therefore, "they" think anyone that doesn't walk the halls of Congress, or doesn't work in Hollywood is beneath them.  They pander to the lowest common denominator and are often suprised to find that they are accused of pulling "facts" out of nowhere, because they think Conservatives are stupid, too.

We need to start fighting as dirty as the other side does.  We have stood the moral high ground for so long, we have become targets for their snipers.

As a side note, I'm teaching my twelve-year-old (homeschooled) son how to understand when a leftist been shown facts.  Just listen for the voice to become loud and shrill, and wait to be called a name other than that given at birth.

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Younger people who listen to Rush I believe are go-getter types that have dreams of opportunity, the chance to work and to excel and make a very comfortable living---and don't like the idea of giving away a huge chunk of what they earn before they can even spend it for those that don't want to work and to have their goals limited and controlled by the State.

My take on many of his listeners anyway.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).