Mac, iPhone, and iPad user Rush Limbaugh yesterday covered some Apple tech gear in yet another free advertisement on what, since its inception on August 1, 1988, is the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States. The 3-hour Rush Limbaugh Show airs daily on a network of approximately 590 AM and FM affiliate stations.
Selected excerpts from Limbaugh’s January 6, 2011 program:
We’re being asked here, ladies and gentlemen, there was a story in USA Today, maybe yesterday, the day before, about how cable television is imperiled because people are now getting televisions equipped, the ability to watch Internet programming without having to have a satellite dish, without having to have cable or what have you, things like Apple TV and whatever others. I hooked that [Apple TV] up, a couple rooms in my house just to try it and to me, it’s cool. You download, buy TV shows or movies on iTunes, and watch it on your big screen. (interruption) Well, it’s 720p — it’s not 1080i or 1080p. That’s the drawback. On DirecTV some movies are 1080i. iTunes is 720 and of course the bigger you blow that up the less the picture quality is and there’s no closed-captioning on 95% of it, which is a drawback for me but still it’s cool.
Apple has this thing called AirPlay. You can sit there with your iPad and you can transfer what’s on your iPad to your big screen. So you buy a TV program on iTunes, you transfer it to your iPad, then you sit there and watch it on the iPad, and then hit AirPlay and it moves it, if you got it all set up right, to your television set, and you have control over it with your iPad controls, or whatever remote system that you use. I hooked it up just because it was cool to do. I need closed-captioning, though, or else I need a speaker right next to my ear. The farther away I am from a speaker the more echo, and especially if there’s a music soundtrack I’m dead trying to hear dialogue in a television show or a movie. But if I get a speaker, and I have one, a little remote wireless Bluetooth speaker that I put on the couch right next on my left ear, and I get about 90% of the dialogue that way.
You know, I watch a lot of stuff on DVD simply because of captioning. For example, there’s a show that I really like called Mad Men. Season four for Mad Men is available on iTunes, but it’s not captioned. The DVDs are not coming out ’til March 29th so some of this stuff actually ends up on iTunes, and Netflix, I’m not trying to leave any of these others out, I just use iTunes, but I have Netflix, too, but I don’t want to say anything about it. I use iTunes. But stuff is available much sooner than they put it on DVD in many cases, but the DVD has the captioning, these other shows don’t.
Full excerpt, “Tracking Cool Tech Advances,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
More free advertising for Apple from Rush!
I wonder how much it would cost to place a live 5-minute ad on U.S. radio stations nationwide within the country’s highest-rated talk show, using the show’s famous host as pitchman?
“tolerant” liberal crapfest in 3….2….1…..
Impressive… from such a balanced and truthful journalist…
only took three posts… new record?
Isn’t 1080i roughly the same as 720p, quality-wise?
@lukeskymac…
Nope. If it’s encoded right, 1080i is superior to 720p.
Wow, conservatives can be geek, too.
Unless your watching on 55″ or bigger tv almost no visible difference between 720 and 1080
@ KenC,
Too bad liberals can’t be intelligent too.
It’s better to live as a victim, waiting for your handouts.
I don’t know who is uglier – Limbaugh or Ballmer.
Yecchhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Rush doesn’t claim to be a “journalist”. So, unlike Keith Oberman and the gang at MSNBC, at least you know you’re getting commentary and not lies passed off as “news”.
@me in LA
Funny…the greatest politicians in Canada were liberal…Trudeau, Pearson, King….
Is Rush losing his hearing? Why all the emphasis on needing closed captioning?
@John – he probably has a TV big enough to make a difference.
That is the final proof… He is a closeted h o m o 😀
As all the republicans are 😀 xD
Whether you think he’s an idiot or brillant, you have to admire Rush’s taste in technology.
there’s no closed-captioning on 95% of it, which is a drawback for me
Yeah, English is a problem for Rush. He wants to view close-captioning in Stupid Rightwing Idiotspeak. And a Faux News crawler going constantly so he can get new material.
Who gives a damn what Rush thinks about tech, or even politics for that matter?
He’s deaf and wears a cochlear implant. And to save the libs the trouble of posting, there is much speculation that his abuse of prescription drugs caused his hearing loss. Everyone feel better now?
Any publicity for Apple is good, and his audience is huge and mostly rich Republicans, so it has to be good for Apple. So now all the haters can start hatin’.
What does Limbaugh know about cool? He is the most un-cool person on the planet. That is like having Hitler saying something is so “tolerant” What does HE know?
He is a bombastic manipulator for his own financial gain. Not to mention a coward who supported a the war in viet nam – but refused to serve! His hate-mongering is un-American and is taring this country apart.
Bloated gasbags shouldn’t use the word “cool” so much. I can smell his sweaty stench right through my iPad. Yuck.
@ neomonkey,
You simians just can’t resist slinging your shit, now can you.
Dig the picture; very clever. Listen every day. It’s always pleasant to hear a free market booster like Rush on the radio…
Is Rush confusing Apple products for pain medications?
P.S. All the people who bash liberals, ummm, Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, is a BIG liberal who use to hang around the Berkeley area.
What is that? DAHHHHH people!
I really wish this bigot wasn’t a Mac guy and I really wish MDN would quit reminding us he is still alive. He lies thru his teeth about most things and it’s too bad the Oxycontin didn’t do him in for the benefit of humanity.
@jmmx
Thanks for bringing up Hitler. I was afraid he wouldn’t get mentioned. Of course, if you think Rush Limbaugh and Adolf Hitler have much in common, you obviously know very little about German history and you managed to offend the memories of million of Jews who experienced it first-hand, or are you a Holocaust non-believer, too? Well done, my friend.