“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
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Dont get your fat head stuck in those elevator doors Rush.
And I’ve taken oxytin for medical purposes, and I can totally understand a weak, blubbery fool getting uncontrollably hooked to it.
I guess it’s good he’s promoting the mac, but I still hope he’s pulled under a bus…with all that shitty rush merchandise as well.
>Rush is a big fat lying drug taking idiot. He also is the ACLU’s client of the year. What a jerk.>
And you’re a commie pinko—-Rush Rules!!!
MW–working, as in, not on a government handout.
NEW! The Rush Limbaugh Podcast. Starting June 3rd – every Rush Limbaugh Show available as an MP3. Simply download the Media Center software and it will download every show automatically!
Chuck Schumer is a socialist. He said it the other day on the floor of the Senate.
He’s talking about his “socialist revolution.”
The far left has finally been exposed by one of their own!
Johnny, Oh the compassion and understanding, what an educated and intellectual response. Dude, you rule!! I want to be like you!!
I think that some of the posters are merely turning Rush’s own words back towards him. He’s the one that said that addicts like Kitty Dukakis and others should be deported. He’s more than once advocated kicking any and all drug addicts out of the country.
That being said, Rush is fully entitled to his own opinion and his own show. I’m not required to listen, so that’s fine. That’s what free speech is about. And I’m fully happy with the fact that he’s promoting our favorite computer platform.
When is maddox gonna get HIS own podcast center… now thats something id love to see
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Jimbo von Winskinheimer,
Exactly right. One thing wingnuts just HATE is their own illusory rhetoric turned right back on ’em. They’ll squirm like dogs every time. THAT’S entertainment!
Far left socialists? OHMYGOD! Stop the presses. The far left have become socialists. Whats next? Far right libertarians?
get me off this crazy ride.
Madge Weinstein is the hottest thing in podcasting. And as a bonus, she’s not as bloated and yeasty as Rush. If Rush was a woman, he’d have a snatch dirtier than the Love Canal.
And Mike Malloy on Air America is better:
Quote from Mike Malloy:
“All Republicans are pigs and their children are piglets. Let’s send their precious little piglets to Iraq to be slaughtered like the pigs they are. And the first piglets we should send over are the twin piglets from the Bush crime family.”
That’s the language of love and tolerance from the left. With language like that on the flagship “voice of the democratic party” it won’t be long before every dem is voted out of office.
Rush is a teddy bear next to the left’s slugs.
Go Rush!
Well if that rotten mouth Limbaugh is bringing that nasty talk about young people doing sexual things with their mouths to the ipod. I think we may need to stop buring books and focus on that devil’s box they call iPod.
Wait tell Dr. James Dobson hears about this!
So many of you are using the “if you’re so liberal why are are you not showing all your tolerance and love you’re so known for and criticizing Rush you hypocrites!”
Well, some non-conservatives aren’t so filled with love, and just don’t like hypocritical fat bastards that sell chairs with their name on them for incredibly inflated prices.
I’d like to hear one of his shows. Is it PAY subcription only? I had never even heard of the guy.
Thanks, Ministry. (Although I think they got it from William Burroughs…
Now back to class!
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Hey, Johnny, like I said. Keep up the talk. You’re talkin’ yourselves right out of any offices you hold…
If you look at Steve’s keynote address on Apple’s web site,
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/
you will see behind Steve when he is talking about podcasting, Rush’s name is listed, along with others, on the big screen.
Every liberal’s favorite person. Howard Dean:
“Republicans are a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.”
“The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people…”
Oh yeah?
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html>
A few not-so-white people there. Not to speak of judicial appointments.
Goes to show the insanity of Ultra-left people like Dean and Schumer.
They may not look white, but really, could they act ANY more white?
Just cuz they have some colored people there doesnt mean crap, cuz as far as im concerned its not the color that matters anymore, but how much of a stuck up “whitey” you are.
Who’s Rush Limbaugh?
Is he the lead singer for that Canadian rock group? I guess he’s “big”.
Alice, then tell Dean to stop his rhetoric.
I’m sorry, you can’t have it both ways. First you liberals call yourselves “tolerant” but when a minority is a conservative, you become racists. You attack instead of realizing that minorities have different points of view, not just those of the Democrat Party.
Clearly, Alice is racist.
How disgusting…
We need some type of minimal screening–can’t we draw the line at racists?
WTF how can someone assume im racist from that? I never insulted a race, I put down or put one race on a higher level, I was merely trying to make a point that is it possible bush just threw in a couple people with colored skin to kinda, ya know, avoid being labeled as a white christian republican male? If anyone is a racist itd be him.
You can NOT just add people with colored skin in your group and pretend everything is going to be AOK
gah >.< dont go saying crap you dont know, thats whats disgusting.
Alice,
I thought race didn’t matter? What a bunch of hypocrits you and all the illiberal left is.
As for you not making racist statements:
“They may not look white, but really, could they act ANY more white?
Just cuz they have some colored people there doesnt mean crap, cuz as far as im concerned its not the color that matters anymore, but how much of a stuck up “whitey” you are.”
Must be wonderful to have selective memory.
i don’t really have anything intelligent to add… but what the hell!!! Rush Limbaugh is one of the biggest, fattest, most drug addled idiots his generation has ever produced. either that or he’s a razor-sharp and very brilliant ( and drug addled) con-artist that knows how to connect with the mostly clueless majority of north america. extreme displeasure is my feeling any time I’v looked at or listened to Rush Limbaugh.