“The nation’s No. 1 radio host says Steve Jobs doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Frank Barnako writes for MarketWatch. “In a posting on his Web log, Rush Limbaugh disputed the Apple founder’s statement that podcasting is the hottest thing in radio. Limbaugh countered: ‘I am the hottest thing in podcasting.'”
Barnako writes, “Limbaugh has begun offering podcasts of programs to subscribers of his online fan club. ‘This program is the hottest thing in podcasting,’ he claimed. He added that he’s thinking about bolstering the content distributed by file downloads to include a morning update and interviews he does for his newsletter. ‘Raw, unedited, just to see what these things sound like,’ Limbaugh said.” Full article here.
From the RushLimbaugh.com “Podcast Media Center” webpage:
Drop the Rush Limbaugh Podcast into your iPod or MP3 player for mobile listening, or just turn up the speakers and listen right there on your computer! Getting started is simple. Click the PC or Mac download link to run the installer (Guide), enter your Rush 24/7 username and password — and then forget about it. You don’t have to do a thing! The Podcast will automatically download the MP3 audio files to your hard drive after each day’s excursion into broadcast excellence, and Rush will be waiting for you when you have the time to listen.
MacDailyNews Take: If you’ve ever listened to Limbaugh, you’ll know that the boasting is part of his act, partly a joke, but, at the same time, he sort of means it, too. Limbaugh is a great (unpaid) promoter of the Mac, iPod and, now, podcasting. Limbaugh is currently heard on nearly 600 radio stations by approximately 20 million daily listeners on the Excellence In Broadcasting (EIB) Network.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs demos iTunes 4.9, due within 60 days, includes podcast support – May 23, 2005
Rush Limbaugh and Apple Computer working to bring podcasts of radio show to iTunes Music Store – May 17, 2005
Rush Limbaugh says ‘Mac OS X Tiger Rocks,’ posts link to free Rush advertisement for Mac – April 30, 2005
Forrester analysts: Apple should advertise Mac OS X Tiger on television and in movie theaters – April 29, 2005
Mac fans line up for new operating system as passberby asks ‘what is a tiger?’ – April 29, 2005
Apple’s iPod can bring the world to users thanks to podcasts – April 19, 2005
Apple posts QuickTime movies of Mac OS X Tiger features in action – April 13, 2005
Why doesn’t Apple advertise Mac OS X on TV? – April 12, 2005
Podcasting grows to 6 million listeners – April 04, 2005
PlayPod 1.0b RSS podcast client released – March 03, 2005
The Hill: Put Rush Limbaugh on Apple’s board of directors; he could sell tons of Macs – January 26, 2005
BBC tests Podcast feed – November 22, 2004
Rush Limbaugh calls for Apple iCal to Sidekick solution – November 12, 2004
‘Podcasting’ brings personalized audio programs to your iPod – September 30, 2004
Apple CEO Steve Jobs: ‘I’m going to just stay away from all that political stuff’ – August 25, 2004
Rush Limbaugh: Why does Apple put politics first? – June 27, 2003
Rush Limbaugh comments on Gored Apple – March 21, 2003
During keynote, Steve was using itunes to find podcasts. Was that don on current version or futre version of itunes?
Where else can you find podcasts?
Ed,
See the top “related MDN article” above. Rush is great -if you give him a chance – just like the Mac.
What exactly is Podcasting? I keep hearing about it, but know nothing…
Seems it’s a bit cold in hell these days…
I heard him when he said that. Rush was also talking about himself in general being the hottest thing in radio; it is hard to dispute that after 18 years of bringing AM radio back from the dead. He does love Apple products and has been promoting the Mac OS for a long time. I have been listening to him for about 17 years and really enjoy his shtik.
and Al Gore invented the Internet.
oh yeah, if you don’t know what podcasting is, try this linky…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
I love the mac, and podcasting is a neato concept. Thankfully though, I dont have to like Rush Limbaugh.
Rush is a big fat lying drug taking idiot. He also is the ACLU’s client of the year. What a jerk.
Rush’s rants are among the best things in radio, even if you don’t agree with his point of view. The man is entertainer first, political commentator second.
As opposed to judgmental, anonymous, name-smearing “saints” like you? Yikes. What a …
I consider myself somewhat conservative and I can’t stand Rush. He is an embarassment.
#1 Announcement of iTunes for Windows
#2 Mention of Rush during an Apple Keynote
#3 Announcement of Intel Processors in Macs
Talk about fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
A boil on the body politic.
Never trust a junkie.
follower – some people are successful, some people are very successful…and then some people are, well, followers…
ding dong. that´s the bell time for you to go back to class…summer high school is a b*tch, right?
I am a die-hard lib, but I love listening to Rush’s show (as well as other talk shows like Howard Stern, Don & Mike, Ron & Fez, the Sports Junkies, and Loveline). Unlike many of you Kool-Aid drinkers out there, I like hearing opposing points of view. Sometimes Limbaugh has a point, sometimes he sounds like a big, fat, hypocritical idiot, but Limbaugh never fails to entertain. And the fact that someone with his massive audience pushes Macs like he does means that Apple gets the commercials that it desperately needs.
Rush is awesome. The best at breaking down the agenda/foibles of the lost left and the most fun to listen to at the same time. And now even more accessible…
I got the reference, Follower.
Good one.
Reminds me of a classic episode of South Park:
Cartman: I’m the biggest lesbian!
Stan: No Cartman – you are the FATTEST lesbian!
Seems Rush doesn’t know the difference either.
Rush on an iPod… how very pornographic.
Rush is a lying scumbag.
You lefties are funny. You claim to be the compassionate, understanding, let’s include everyone, no hate speech or name calling crowd. You have such warmth and understanding for your Hollywood elites like Rosanne and Robert Downey, Jr. when they come forward and face their problems in public. Yet, let someone who does not agree with you come forward and conquor a problem some ten (he’s no longer fat) an two (he is no longer on drugs) years ago and all you can do is call him a “big fat lying drug taking idiot”. Have you ever even listened to the show. Its a “show”. He is an entertainer. In addition, he makes some valid points. For once, look at life and laugh a little. Its not all that serious.
Oh, I forgot “lying scumbag”. Now that one is creative. Good shot KillBill. You really showed him.
I guess that right-wing idiot didn’t see we put his name in the Keynote slide where we announced Postcasting in ITMS.
I guess that’s the last time he gets mentioned – joke or not. We don’t need that anti-intellectual know-nothing demagogue getting any help from us. Just see if his lame podcast is in the next release of iTunes.
It’s called sarcasm…and having a sense of humor. And that is something that obviously some of the liberals out there don’t have a clue about, much less having any.
Here’s another newsflash…there are LOTS of conservatives and Republicans that love Macs and iPods too. Liberals don’t have a corner on that market like they seem to think they do. But then again, most liberals seem to think that the world entirely revolves around them anyway, so it’s not surprising that they would be so closed minded to that fact, amongst the many other things they’re completely closed minded about.