It seems that sometime soon, you’ll be able download podcasts of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show from Apple’s iTunes Music Store and/or RushLimbaugh.com. Rush Limbaugh’s web site is currently sporting note stating, “Podcast coming soon. Daily downloadables will be here very soon, folks. Be There on Day One of the Rush Podcast.” A transcript of Rush’s comments to a caller, Bob in Louisville, Kentucky, inquiring about podcasts of The Rush Limbaugh show reads:
“I can’t tell you the number of requests… about getting the podcast the program, make MP3s available and we are in the process of setting up a system for that to happen. I don’t know when it’s going to happen. In fact, I was expecting that it was going to happen two weeks ago. It’s running a little bit behind so I’m not comfortable giving you a firm date but I can tell you that we are working on it…. I think there may be an attempt here to tie it in with the Apple Music Store. If that works out, it would be great. If it doesn’t… I think there’s some tie in that we’re trying to do with Apple and I’m not sure how far that’s advanced. I know it’s been worked on. Countless, thousands of people are asking me about this. So actually I’m glad you called, to be able to take the occasion of your call to express it or explain the process here. I wish I had a more firm and definite date for you. All I can tell you is it’s one of the things at the top of the list that we’re working on… If I had to guess, it’s something that will happen. I just don’t know when. “
“The Rush Limbaugh Show” is currently carried by more than 650 U.S. radio stations and is heard by nearly 25 million people weekly.
Transcript of Rush Limbaugh’s comments here.
[UPDATE: 2:58pm EDT: Rush Limbaugh announced today on his radio broadcast that podcasts of his show will be available on June 3 at RushLimbaugh.com. Thanks, MDN Reader, Scott Kay. It it not known whether or not Apple’s iTunes Music Store will be involved in any way.]
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commercial radio wises up. NICE. I’d like to see other radio shows on itms as well. Hopefully FREE.
otherwise it’s a radio Shark for me.
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cool……..
Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot!
is there a market for right wing propaganda ??
never mind … I forgot, some people actually believe Fox News is is news
Al Franken,
Still not funny after all these years…
He used to be a writer for the old SNL (original cast). I’m not sure how that in any way entitles his opinions to be considered as somehow enlightened. He wasn’t that funny then and he sure isn’t funny now. What the libs don’t get about the Rush Limbaugh Show is that it is good radio first. He is a pro and worked long and hard to get where he is today. Franken is just there because the libs will rally around anybody they can find.
Shut up Al you whimpy/whiney little freak.
New smart playlist: Right-wing oxy-contin freak lies
Al Gore wrote: “is there a market for right wing propaganda ??
never mind … I forgot, some people actually believe Fox News is is news”
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That’s because Fox news IS news. Newsweek, a liberal mag, is the one responsible for over a dozen deaths for its false “Koran down the toilet” lie. You liberals never learn, and I suspect the main reason for this is that you all are irretrievably obtuse.
Have a nice day!
Y’all quit picking on Rush
Fox News is news just one sided.
cbc.ca canadian broadcasting corporation
The world’s most trusted new source.
MDNMW: season – as in: ‘Tis the season for left-wing/right wing flame wars!
LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
Oh, BTW, Al Franken is big, fat-headed idiot!
Oops,
All right-wingers believe that Fox News has accurate reporting. You’ve clearly demonstrated that the Jedi Mind Trick actually does work…
Opps
I failed to see the Apple content in your post.
I just love all the intelligent comments.
Throw the cheap shots away, look at it as advertising of Apple and the advancement of a product into the mainstream. I don’t exactly want to be 90% of the market, but I wouldn’t mind Apple holding a few more percentage points so we can shut the PC people up with their marketshare argument.
We don’t have to agree with Rush on everything, but at least he has a good choice in computers.
Rush rocks. So does Andrea Mackel. And big boobs.
That damn lib Newsweek; y’know, the rag that all the muslims read. It’s all their fault!!! No one else would have would have printed such a story, that’s for sure.
Oh, wait…
Yorkshire Post, November 1, 2004 | Tipton Three turn on the trauma for £22m… injected with “unknown substances”, and had their Korans thrown into the toilets.
DAILY MAIL (London), October 28, 2004, ED_3RD; Pg. 1; Pg. 2, TIPTON THREE SUE FOR Pounds 22M, DUNCAN GARDHAM… guards threw prisoners’ Korans into toilets
DAILY MAIL (London), October 28, 2004, ED_3RD; Pg. 1; Pg. 2, TIPTON THREE SUE FOR Pounds 22M, DUNCAN GARDHAM… guards threw prisoners’ Korans into toilets
The Express, October 28, 2004, U.K. 3rd Edition; NEWS; Pg. 4, GUANTANAMO BRITONS WILL SUE US FOR £22M, By Lianne Kolirin… guards threw prisoners’ Korans into toilets
Irish News, October 28, 2004, Pg. 26, British men detained at Guantanamo sue US government for rights abuses;… guards threw prisoners’ Korans into toilets
Press Association, October 27, 2004, Wednesday, HOME NEWS, GUANTANAMO BRITONS SUE US GOVERNMENT, Mark Sage, PA News, in New York… guards threw prisoners’ Korans into toilets
Belfast Telegraph, August 5, 2004, Father demands release of his British son after claims of torture at Guantanamo Bay, By Andrew Buncombe in Washington… allegedly threw prisoners’ Korans into toilets, while others were injected with …
Birmingham Post, August 5, 2004, Thursday, First Edition; NEWS; Pg. 2, TIPTON TRIO CLAIM THEY WERE TORTURED BY ALLIES, EMMA PINCH A detainee is led by military police to be interrogated by military officials at Camp X-Ray at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul… Guards would throw prisoners’ Korans into the toilet ‘as part of their clear policy to …
Federal News Service, August 5, 2004 Thursday, PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT – RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES ALLEGE ABUSE (ABC RADIO, AUSTRALIA, 08:25 (GMT+11) AUGUST 05, 2004)… guards would throw detainees’ Korans down the toilet and shave them, to try to get them to …
IPR Strategic Business Information Database, June 28, 2004, THEY ALLEGE ABUSE BY U.S. CAPTORS… at Guantanamo. “They tore the Koran to pieces in front of us, threw it into the toilet,” Vakhitov said.
BBC Monitoring International Reports, June 26, 2004, RUSSIAN TV INTERVIEWS FREED GUANTANAMO PRISONERS… bucket instead of a toilet. People were in cells, … … floor. (Vahitov) They tore the Koran to pieces in front of us, threw it into the toilet.
The Observer, March 14, 2004, Observer News Pages, Pg. 5, 5420 words, World Exclusive: Inside Guantanamo: How we survived jail hell: For two years the Tipton Three have been silent prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Now, in this remarkable interview with David Rose, they describe for the first time the extraordinary story of their journey from the West Midlands to Camp Delta, David Rose… … sleeping tents, copies of the Koran would be trampled on by … … occasion, thrown into a toilet bucket.
How inconvenient…
Some people believe Newsweek is actual news.
Podcasting…you don’t hear anything about Rivercasting or carboncasting or xzq4(sony)casting.
Bob and Tom are offering Podcasts and even a local radio staion in Syrcuse, Modern Rock K-Rock.
When big names and little guys are putting iPods on their websites kinda shows how big the whole iPod thing really is.
There are well founded cases of prisoner abuse in many of the holding areas of Islamics and you honestly think that there haven’t been Koran abuses also?
Just because Newsweek pulls the column, or apologizes for running it means it’s not true? You are a fool.
Why would it surprise you to find out that the interrogators used every trick in the book, including their most valued book, to anger them and break their will.
Do you think those soldiers give two shits about the so-called holy book that causes many of it’s followers to preach “death to the infidels (read: Americans)”? I’m really sure the troops are saying “hey, we can tie them up and put them in a cage, or put a leash on them and have a woman drag them around naked, but don’t touch the koran, people might die!!”
Mmmmm… Love those presecription meds…
FOX News is biased to the right; just as CNN is biased to the left. Unbiased journalism died…..wait…..it never existed. News companies learned a long time ago that you cannot please everyone, so its easier to go after a target audience. The channel that is closest to being unbiased is MSNBC, and I WILL NOT watch them because of those 2 letters in front of NBC.
Does Fox News have a ‘spin’? Yes.
Do the NYT, Newsweek, Washington Post, Time, CNN, etc have a ‘spin’? Yes.
Is it unvarnished news? No.
Is most of it relevant? No.
These folks are in the business of selling advertising. The ‘content’ is just the bait. There are far more important things to report on than the Michael Jackson trial, whoever is missing at the moment, et al. Meanwhile, Rome burns and the news readers are doing the same old song & dance.
Does Fox News have a ‘spin’? Yes.
Do the NYT, Newsweek, Washington Post, Time, CNN, etc have a ‘spin’? Yes.
Is it unvarnished news? No.
Is most of it relevant? No.
These folks are in the business of selling advertising. The ‘content’ is just the bait. There are far more important things to report on than the Michael Jackson trial, whoever is missing at the moment, et al. Meanwhile, Rome burns and the news readers are doing the same old song & dance.
Does Fox News have a ‘spin’? Yes.
Do the NYT, Newsweek, Washington Post, Time, CNN, etc have a ‘spin’? Yes.
Is it unvarnished news? No.
Is most of it relevant? No.
These folks are in the business of selling advertising. The ‘content’ is just the bait. There are far more important things to report on than the Michael Jackson trial, whoever is missing at the moment, et al. Meanwhile, Rome burns and the news readers are doing the same old song & dance.
If I were a soldier, I’d use the Quran to wipe my butt on and flush down the toliet as well.
I’m saying what everyone is scared to say: the Quran is trash. JRR Tolkien has more relevance to morality the nthe Quran
Fox News isn’t any more one sided than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Newsweek, Reuters, The Associated Press, New York Times, LA Times, Agence France-Presse, CBC, BBC, or Al Jazeera. There are plenty of left wing “news” sources out there.
1. Sean Hannity
2 Rush Limbaugh
(and hopefully soon)
3. Jim Cramer
I’m not a big music fan, but I love talk (conservative or money) radio. You learn so much, and it’s very worthwhile.
With Podcasts becoming more and more popular, I’d see more reason (personally) to buy a iPod mini.
hey Will…
you siy: cbc.ca canadian broadcasting corporation
The world’s most trusted new source.
ROFLMAO. Who would trust any news source that isn’t guaranteed freedom of press and is in FACT denied the right to publish stories the government doesn’t want released? In the US we get lies and crap from both sides but at least we know we get it all – in spades and up to our ears. Whether it is Rush or Al (Franken or Gore) we get to hear everyone’s “facts” as they make them up. You get to see whatever your government wants you to see. Now stop trying to *think* and follow the flock carefully back to the barn – baaaaahhhhhh.
Magic Word “fall” as in: does Will think anyone will fall for that crap?
Morons:
Fox News is unabashedly biased. Many of the other news outlets you listed are so paranoid of being accused of liberal bias that they have actually become more conservative.
Any news outlet that publishes anything negative about the Bush administration or other GOP leaders is immediately branded as “liberal media” when it is the role of the press to be critical of government.
And oh yeah, Macs rock!
afcombatcrayola:
If these are your sources, we can see how much you’ve learned.
Go back to your PC and repeat after me: “The war in Iraq was to bring democracy to the region. Tax cuts and huge deficits are responsible governing. Dismantling Social Security is a wise and compassionate thing to do….)
Just be happy you do not live in Minnesota. Al Franken (originally from St. Louis Park, MN) is considering moving back here from New York so he can run for the U.S. Senate. Sounds like Hilary has been coaching him.
“it is the role of the press to be critical of government”
Funny, I thought the role of the press was to report the news using facts, whether it ends up being supportive of the government or critical of it should be irrelevent. Though in this day and age everything *has* to have a label because most people are uninformed and can’t argue the facts. And we end up with comments like “right wing idiot” and “liberal clown”.
Rush just announced June 2 as the debut date…..
Rush said today (at 1:33pm EST) that Podcasting will begin on June 3rd.
Morons-
OK, maybe I should have used the word “suspicious” instead of “critical”. But my point was it is necessary for democracy to have an independent press that doesn’t just go along with everything an administration does.
Oops,
Newsweek is not responsible for over a dozen muslim deaths, fanatic muslims without the facts are responsible for over a dozen muslim deaths and over 100 injured.
Do you see other religions killing there own for something that was published in a magazing and retracted a few days later?????
Doesn’t happen.
Look at this sermon performed by Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris and tell me I’m wrong.
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD90805
G5Man…
Ps….sorry to drag politics and religion onto this site…its not my style but when I see posts like this I lose it.
I can’t imagine that he’d want that. Now all of his incorrect facts and predictions will be out there for everyone to see. And why would this involve the Apple Store? Most reputable businesses won’t go near him with a ten foot pole, and I can’t see Apple being any different.
So, how much will these Podcasts cost?
Politics aside, I think it’s great to be able to listen to a program whenever you want. And being able to listen to an OLD program or one you missed is a great thing as well.
re: “I can’t imagine that he’d want that. Now all of his incorrect facts and predictions will be out there for everyone to see.”
Well, if his facts are incorrect, and the predictions are out there for everyone to see, we will all know it and so will he. Why would he want to do it unless he thought he could handle it.
I have a feeling he can handle it. So maybe your “imagination” about him could be wrong.
Possible?
Oh brother. You’re all a bunch of nitwits.
What can you say?
Macs Rock, Rush Rocks
Can’t wait to have Rush on my iPod–oooo….what a feeling.
Macs Rock, Rush smokes rock. Rush is just like Macklen, no that’s not right. He is a big boob.
Drug addicted, self-denying, hypocritical asshole. Maybe he can talk about how to get your dr. to give you more pain killers. On Franken moving to NY. Didn’t Allen Keyes get his ass kicked when he tried to carpetbag Barack in Illinois? Let’s see, he’s a Republican isn’t he? So that would make it alright.
We Can Tell,
I serve. I protect. Even people whose opinions (yours) differ from my own.
Liberal news networks would have you beleive that Iraqis have a worse standard of living now than before we liberated them. They are wrong. Iraqi’s are not saying “Oh, please have Islamic radicals rule us!!! I just can’t wait for all the unhumane things they’ll do to us!”
There is a possibility of a non-religion governed state in Iraq, and insurgents don’t like it. So, they kill themselves and others to scare the world, which is full of cowards that would let these TERRORISTS get away with it. They use fear to get what they want. Evil knows no conscience.
We, the USA, used military strength and superior morality to obtain JUSTICE in Iraq. W is not a coward, nor are the armed forces that call him Commander in Chief. We are strong.
(typed on a PC, longing for OS X on x86 architecture)
Al Wanken, is a pinko lefty bigot. Is Air Hate America still on the air?
afcombatcrayola:
I am not defending Saddam, he was a dictator, but his govt ( if you can call it a govt ) was secular.
i think it is funny that mac fans are getting up in arms about liberal/conservative stuff…
i mean really, you see the mac/windows crap in the news, don’t you get it that it is the same liberal/conservative?
oh, and if you have to put ‘you’ in front of a group (i.e. you liberals, you mac fanatics, you NE fans) you are probably losing the argument.
that being said, this is great. rush podcasting. he needs to get on itunes, but he has to get through thesteve… and we know how he leans (just leave some room in the knees)
If that pill poppin’ freak gets on the iTunes music store, I’m leaving Apple for good. Jesus christ, can’t we go anywhere to get away from the moronic right wing freaks. Surely Steve will nix it.
I think Dennis just made my point.
And “ha!” is right on
Moron(s). If you think there really is a “liberal media” in the U.S then the only point you have is the one you hang your Nascar hat on. Lay off the kool aid, boy.
Al Franken,
Still funny after all these years.
God I hope Apple has nothing to do with this.
Al Franken’s “Air America” is currently carried by more than 6 U.S. radio stations and is heard by nearly 25 people weekly.
I love it when I’m right.
Rush does not lack intelligence or honesty, but a dead hampster has more…
I would not pollute my Ipod with the sound of Rush Limbaugh’s hate filled, divise voice.
Is’t it bad enough that xenophobic games like First to Fight are infecting Macs? Isn’t that worse than a virus, now Rush Limboob on iTunes? I can’t believe this will ever happen, Apple’s theme is “think different”, not “be told what to think.” Apple computers have always been for people who can think for themselves, if you really want to be a mindless clone go buy a Republican computer.
Leave the politics out of this folks, and talk about how one more major entity (be it Rush or his company or whatever) has decided the iPod is the standard and the future.
How pathetic that positive news has turned into political idiotic discourse.
The fact of the matter is Rush L. is the most successful talk radio host ever. He is responsible for the talk radio revolution that is occuring on both sides of politics right now.
Also, he is a mac fanatic. If you ever listen to him he is always trying to challenge his mind by attempting to work out is own mac problems before calling tech support.
Whether you like him or not he is successful, revolutionary, popular, mainstream, cutting edge, and a leader of the new media revolution.
Oh yea… way to go newsweek.
MacLiberal, Dennis, etc,
Last time I checked this was still a free country. Ever heard of freedom of speech? That also implies the freedom to listen (or not listen) to speech.
Nobody makes you listen to Rush and nobody will come to your house, download Rush’s podcast, then strap you down with your pretty little white ear buds on and force you to listen to Rush.
Why would you get upset if Rush wants to pay Apple to let him use the iTunes store? If he’s such a moron and nobody wants to listen to him, he should fail miserably. Won’t that make you happy to see him fail?
Rush for prez. Newt fof VP.
Magic word ‘may’, as in Robinsons May, Nordstroms will.