Rush Limbaugh: Even the Apple fans are depressed about the new iPhone

Mac, iPhone, and iPad user Rush Limbaugh today discussed Apple Inc., Tim Cook, and the next-gen iPhone on his radio program that, 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. The program is also broadcast worldwide on the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network. A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.

From the live transcript:

I’m not kidding. I got people e-mailing me, being depressed about the new iPhone. I kid you not. Well, I’ll tell you why. It’s because apparently everything is known about what it’s gonna be, and that’s like taking Santa Claus out of Christmas for people. Apple’s big announcement is on Wednesday, and everybody thinks they know what the phone’s gonna be. It’s gonna be a four-inch screen. It’s gonna have LTE, 4G LTE in it, it’s gonna have whatever, people know it. It’s not a new design. It looks exactly like the current phone, a little thinner. It looks just like the current phone, just a half-inch longer. But no wider. It’s gonna have a bigger screen but nothing on that screen is gonna be bigger. There’s just gonna be more space on the screen and the Apple fanboys are all depressed…

It’s amazing to track this. You know, I’m a Mac fanboy myself. So I track this stuff… It’s amazing to look at the various things people are interested in, and you can find depression everywhere, disappointment. And Apple hadn’t even said anything yet. But everybody’s convinced they know what it’s gonna be, and it’s like Santa Claus. One guy even said that Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is so boring they better get a celebrity out there to conduct the big show on Wednesday or nobody’s gonna watch it.

Full transcript here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]

145 Comments

        1. It is not wrong to note that he took a LOT of illegal viagra with a private plane full of dudes to the child sex capital of the Americas. He is a despicable human being, a moral vacuum. What wife is he on 3 or 5?

          He sure leads his flock well though, a couple million unthinking, parroting lemmings.

        2. @Gupta,
          So YOU are denigrating someone else’s ethnicity/background–
          REALLY?!?!
          BTW, it’s “redneck”, not “red neck”. What’s the matter, is Google not paying enough to hire smart people these days?

        3. Would you care to list the things that you have personally heard Rush to get wrong – not what you have heard others spew about him.

          Thanks – I’m waiting.

        4. Rush is obviously right about this—it’s what some people right here have been saying.

          Rush has, again, put his finger on what comprises an Apple fan: a person motivated by exquisite surprise, like a kid.

        5. “Jeff Cohen founded FAIR in 1986. He served as the group’s executive director for a number of years, and later on its board of directors. Upon taking a full time job with MSNBC in May 2002, Cohen stepped down from FAIR’s board.”

          So some guy who qualifies to get a job working with the rest of the fact less windbags at MSNBC is gonna present FAIRness reporting on Rush? Nice try Sherlock and thanks for the great laugh!

        6. I am not saying that Rush never makes a mistake, he has admitted to some on his program on the air, but using MSNBC as a source? You might as well quote Bagdad Bob.

          All credibility lost.

        7. Rush is a media windbag. There are also media windbags on the left. Rush is just the king. And, if you disagree with this, then you have more time to wastes than brains to think. Sorry, it’s true.

        8. tbone, you response is typical liberal name calling. You really don’t have room to talk unless you actually listen to the show for a while. Don’t just jump blindly into the haters club. Don’t let yourself be defined by anger.

        9. For years I listened to this windbag. Had no choice, co workers played it right next to me. This is what I observed: Rush is a race-baiting, misogynistic, hateful man. He talks in blustering circles, he champions a rapid ideology not grounded in facts, and is a science denier.

          Add in his multiple wives, trips to child sex tourism locations, drug abuse and Richie rich bootlicking and you are not left with much to be proud of, certainly not very conservative in real life. He even has you lemmings snowed, he has admitted on occasion that he doesn’t even believe all the crap he says, he claims to be an entertainer, as if dividing Americans was entertaining, something to be proud of..

          I do find it interesting how “enlightened” his follows purport to be. It reminds me of the Heavens Gate followers. Now if only the flock would complete the mission.

        10. a few months ago this blow hard was convinced that the ‘liberal dems’ had hacked into Siri on his iPhone and were broadcasting propaganda to him. He’s been wrong about everything from the war in Iraq to over-fishing the oceans. The better question would be ‘what has he been right about?’

        11. Too many to list – I ride in my truck a lot, listen to radio, surfed Rushes show for years. He was wrong about Iraq war 2 – in a big way( Rush was a big fan of the attack and thought it would be a low cost short term affair. He was wrong about GW Bush ( he thought that Bush would usher in an economic boom.) Of course as time goes by he qualifies all his statements and backtracks . The trick is to get an extremely old Rush program and listen to the ACTUAL comments . Not his spin on them 3 years later. Have a nice day ditto head.

        12. And he was right about Iraq, the wave of democracy in the Middle East is a result of the democracy in Iraq.

          Bush economics was fine.. It was Bill Clinton who destroyed the world financial system with his social experiment.

          At President Clinton’s direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage lenders to ease credit for lower-income minorities or face investigations for lending discrimination and suffer the related adverse publicity. They also were threatened with denial of access to the all-important secondary mortgage market and stiff fines, along with other penalties.

          The threat was codified in a 20-page “Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending” and entered into the Federal Register on April 15, 1994, by the Interagency Task Force on Fair Lending. Clinton set up the little-known body to coordinate an unprecedented crackdown on alleged bank redlining.
          The edict — completely overlooked by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the mainstream media — was signed by then-HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, Attorney General Janet Reno, Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, along with the heads of six other financial regulatory agencies.

          “The agencies will not tolerate lending discrimination in any form,” the document warned financial institutions.
          So this is where it all started.  In 1994.  When the government pressured lenders to qualify the unqualified.  To put people into houses they couldn’t afford.  Or else.

  1. It’s classic, people complaining BEFORE the product is announced. Complaining that there’s no surprise, complaining that the changes aren’t going to be big enough, complaining that Tim Cook is too boring…. well, I agree with the last one.

    Can someone at Apple convince them to get Jony or Scott to do the presenting?

    1. I just don’t get it. Pundits and bloggers and commenters decrying the inadequacy of something that DOESN’T EVEN EXIST? How is this even allowed on this pathetic excuse for a planet? I’m out of here.

      1. That was my interpretation as well. And I have a similar reaction as an 4S owner (i.e., ‘meh’) after reading the pundit’s predictions over the 5.

        Normally, I’d read these estimates with a grain of salt, thinking that Apple would keep one major card close to their vest and surprise everyone. But the pundits/rumor mongers have been pretty spot on lately.

        Will the new iOS and hardware/bandwidth cut down on some of the lag Siri now has in answering queries? And will they immediately have adapters for all of the legacy docking peripherals? That’s what I’m curious to hear about tomorrow.

    1. * All is rumored until Apple speaks the facts, Jacks 🙂

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        1. Gosh it must be wonderful to know so much about the future. But there is one thing for certain, a person needs to take profits when they can. Profits on paper can disappear in an instant. Only a fool or an inexperienced investor holds on without taking profits. It’s just investing 101. You can’t spend it if you don’t have it. You don’t have it if you haven’t taken profits. You don’t have profits if it’s all on paper. I have seen so many people make this mistake over many many years. But you can’t tell them anything. They know better because their stock has run up and they think it will run up forever. That doesn’t happen. It has never happened. It will never happen. You can stay invested long-term with one company if you wish but you have to pull profits out occasionally. It’s just common sense. Apple goes up. Apple goes down. If you sell some or all when Apple is very high guess what you can do with that money if you wait a while until Apple goes down? That’s right, you can invest in Apple! It’s not daytrading. It’s not market timing. It’s just common sense. Rule number one, never fall in love with a stock. Even a company that you are smitten with.

    1. Exactly I don’t understand what anyone is depressed about? I’m as excited as hell about it. Really? You expect Apple to do a yearly phone earth shattering paradigm shift equivalent to the first iPhone’s introduction? Really? You think 4G, a bigger screen, iOS 6, Apple Maps, Passbook, Ver. 1 Siri just aren’t enough? Really? Nothing less than a Transporter, Replicator, IDT: Inter-Dimensional Travel, Time Travel & Warp Drive features will satisfy you? Really? REALLY? Get a life.

      1. Not every year, nor paradigm-changing, but remember there was disappointment right after the 4S was announced, even on MDN. That of course was quickly overshadowed by Steve Jobs’ death the very next day.

        And to pre-empt the obvious comeback to that: don’t think “record sales” is some kind of proof that the 4S was a great update instead of merely good. Samsung Android sales/shipments is proof enough that isn’t necessarily the case.

        “4G, bigger screen” etc… No, frankly they’re not enough. They’re incremental and expected–and in some cases, already in competitor phones. There needs to be *some* surprise feature or spec in the new iPhone. If the rumour mill got it all, then part of the thrill of following Apple is dampened.

        Transporter? Replicator? Come on, no need to get all hyperbolic–even the 4S had Siri as a surprise feature.

        I won’t be upgrading my 4S (company phone), but do hope to see something unexpected on Wednesday.

  2. It will take very many more of these “boring” shows before people begin to tune out. Apple has NOT announced anything yet, and everything we’ve seen or heard so far were only rumours. I have no doubt that there will tons of people watching, following tweets and expecting in anticipation what is actually going to be announced (as opposed to what has been rumoured).

  3. To me it appeared that Apple was on warp drive right up to and including the iPhone 4. Then they switched off the warp drive and used jet propulsors on the iPhone 4S.

    If the mockups are to be believed, Apple turned off jet propulsion for the iPhone 5 and has gotten on to a bicycle for its development path. Two and a half years of…nothingness…apart from a taller screen?

    Man…am I disappointed….

    1. Beyond the ridiculousness of that statement, what do people expect Apple to do? Introduce an iPhone which is no more than a rolled-up screen? Produce iPhone contact lenses so you don’t even need your hands? Release the iBrain, the iPhone that interfaces directly with your brain so it’s the fastest phone yet?

      Get real, people. The iPhone was a quantum leap forward in communication/computer technology. That can’t happen every 1-2 years.

      Guess we’re all just stuck living with our old, common, nothing-so-special iPhone 4Ses or 5s for a couple more years. Life’s pretty tough.

      1. Seems to me phones didn’t change much for the first 115 years and now people want major change every 115 days. Grow up. Yeah first world babies all right. Go out and tackle some real problems and issues than how fast your tech changes for you

  4. I couldn’t give a rat what this fetid piece of human filth has to say about anything. He promised that he would move to Costa Rica if health care was passed into law (maybe to enjoy Costa Rica’s single-payer system or maybe to find more teenagers), but he’s still here. I wish he would go, already.

    1. Such a ‘tolerant’ liberal you are. Typical, you like diversity in everything but political thought. Anyone who disagrees with you is a fetid piece of human filth. Get off your high horse.

        1. He was commenting in an intolerant way. Thanks for taking the bait though. Highlighting comments from Limbaugh help you hit the site again and again, bringing in that revenue, AND insuring that we will read more from Rush…. But– back to Apple: All design change is not good. If iPhone sales tank, then I’m guessing the designers will go back to the drawing board. I’m not sure change only for the sake of change makes a product better. I like the look of the wider screen phones but I don’t like holding them. Let the marketplace decide. 🙂

  5. Of course Apple fans are depressed; if the leaks prove true then they’ll have to deal with the fact that the incremental upgrade to the iPhone is two years behind every other phone maker on the planet. I hope for them that Apple has some big secret that has NOT gotten out yet that will impress us all. We will see.

    1. And just how is it two years behind? Others are throwing flaky beta crap out there in their panic to stay ahead of Apple. I’ll wait for Apple to get it right. I suspect there will be “one more thing” announced on the 12th. God I miss Steve Jobs.

        1. No it’s morons like jim who are the certified, approved, unregulated, confirmed, trained lifelong true douches. A Douch First Class of the Realm. (Let’s hope his genes die out living in his Mom & Dad’s basement.)

    1. Sampling the more extreme demands: teleportation, force shield, mind reading, origami form factor, quantum computing, telescoping screen size, John Gruber filter, soma generator, celebrity email database, EMP gun, a Siri hologram modeled on Cortana or Minka Kelly, and a USB port.

      No way Apple could ever spring a surprise.

  6. Apple’s phone will be the best one on the market.
    Will it be as revolutionary as the jump up from pre-iPhone days? Of course not. It’s unreasonable to expect so.

    A beautiful, sturdy phone with an iOS upgrade that improves what needs improving > all of the knock-offs on the market regardless of the cute commercials and non-stop advertising from the Android ilk.

    With Apple, I always have a glimmer of hope for something absolutely amazing and unexpected. In the history of the company — the most innovative company of the past 35 years — the “oh my Gawd!” moments are still few and far between and most who follow the industry know that.

  7. “A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.” The man who’s a proven liar that has continually spewed racist, hateful, BS and those FACTS don’t matter?

        1. Let’s see.

          Rush has risen as an entertaining talk show host no less influential than Phil Donahue or Oprah Winfrey.

          Rush has a great comic sense when it comes to skewering the train wreck that is the American political system today. He senses people’s exhaustion with high-minded social prescriptions that never materialize except in the form of more taxes. That has been his ticket to success.

          He differs from other well-known demagogues in that he frequently references the importance of the U.S. Constitution, and holds it in high regard—he understands full well the importance of free speech, making possible his own prominence in the noble opposition.

        2. You call him mush gumball? Really? That’s the best you can do? Are you in the third grade? I am a redneck with two advanced university degrees…. That means I listen to Rush occasionally for a laugh and I drive a big pickup, carry a Bible, have a great job and own guns… Hahahaha I am your worst nightmare… Keep your head down Citizen X 😉

    1. I think those “proven FACTS” are ones you made up in your own mind. A standard radical Libertardlian tactic – when the facts don’t suit, make them up! You have demonized and generalized the competition in your own mind. Libs are the most rude I’ve noticed (and I am a registered Democrat) like they have the right and nearly always resort to the last bastion of name calling. Most conservatives are much better behaved. Acting the way you do is an endorsement to run the other way – fast! So on behalf of more polite Dems everywhere, behave yourself!!!

      1. Well said.

        I am extremely conservative (and tend to be very libertarian). I prefer to think for myself and make my own decisions.

        Personally I am not a Rush fan, although I have nothing against him.

        Quite frankly, I don’t care what anyone else thinks or believes as long as they have taken the time to think through something and not just spout off at the mouth without giving it a second’s worth of thought.

        The name calling and hatred are what gets me about some of the posts above.

        So you don’t like Rush- who cares?

        Most of you did not even take the time to read the article without first blurting out names and arguing what an xxx (pick your expletive) Rush is.

        Are you on here to read about Apple, or are you on here to yell and scream about something the first time a name you don’t like is mentioned?

        Many of you posting on this topic have so much pent up hatred of Rush, and everything on the “Right” that you can’t see straight- you just go straight to name calling and yelling.

        Frankly, I would think if you hate the right so much, you would want to try and bring people around to your way of thinking.

        I can tell you that no one is going to be converted by the name calling, yelling, whining and sheer hatred in many of the posts above.

        You don’t like Rush? OK.

        You want to have a conversation about why you don’t like him? OK.

        You want to yell and scream and ramble on incessantly? Go somewhere else please.

        1. @Mike:

          Sounds like you nailed it.

          IMHO the majority of LEFT comments are juvenile off-topic name calling and the majority of RIGHT comments trend respectful and factual.

          The story line focuses on friends of Rush reacting negatively to iPhone 5 faux news reports, not the man.

          In October 2011, the same was said about the iPhone 4S. And we all know how that turned out. Record iPhone sales went on to eclipse all previous models combined.

          The negative press speculation is nearly universal downplaying another iPhone revolution.

          Food for thought: Model-T was a revolution over the horse and buggy. 100 years later and although the automobile is refined annually, it still has four tires.

          I expect Apple to move iPhone 5 evolution forward. But probably not as much as the tech/ignorati press would like.

          Who cares about the press and tech analysts. They have proven time and time again how wrong they are when it comes to Apple.

          Record sales on the horizon …

  8. News to me, everyone I know is looking forward to getting the new release.

    He gives no numbers and I can bet he doesn’t even read all the email and snail mail he gets, so allot to him could be 50 and then again we need to remember that Samsung and other players that are against Apple have Propaganda departments that have pushed out and created lies also, this is documented.

    In a few days we will know for sure, but I’ll bet this release will blow all other releases out of the water, how many times has Apple proved that no matter what nonsence is being pushed out on the Internet they just make thoes “Chicken Little” ranters look like chicken sh**.

    1. Allot – To parcel out; distribute or apportion
      To assign as a portion; allocate

      A lot – A lot, a bunch, heaps

      Rush is one of Apple’s biggest supporters. You are just too retarded to comprehend the article.

      1. No, I’m one of Apple’s biggest supporters, but I also don’t look at them as a diety. I have seen them make many mistakes over their existence, yet they have always recovered and come back fighting strong. That is why they are a dominant force today.

        I can personally say that I have no love for Flush Toilet, because he is always full of it. Maybe he should be flushed more often. However, crazily, there are times I agree with him, God that’s scary.

        The man does covet technology, and why not. Without it, he would be deaf today, since his cochlear implants keep him functional in his profession. Also, his admiration of Apple’s innovations should be highly acknowledged. He is a good judge of well made technology.

        With that said, many of his listeners don’t have the horse sense they were born with. To live a life based on speculated rumors doesn’t get you very far in this modern world. I’ve always known with Apple, that only seeing is believing, and that talk is cheap. When I worked for Genie over 16 years ago, Apple would always say that they would never comment
        on unannounced products. I learned to live with that, it sure kept me from putting my foot in my mouth.

        With that all said, I’m going to see what IS announced on Wednesday, and then wait to judge the reaction then. I’m sure that Apple’s sales will skyrocket after the announcements as well as their stock prices. Until then, I’m going to chill and watch others make jackasses out of themselves.

        The proof is always in the pudding!

        1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it—I know you knew that—sorry if I’m a bit of a schoolmarm.

          That phrase could easily be interpreted as a variation of Steve Jobs’ famous dictum “Real artists ship”.

          Because, by now, that has sunk in to the collective consciousness—people’s expectations have been shaped: Apple will deliver; Apple will surprise; Apple will confound the accursed, imagination-challenged pundits.

  9. Tim needs a coach, like in the King’s Speech.

    Nothing wrong with being boring, but Steve has spent tons of time around famous people, paying attention to popular culture. He, at least once, had taken LSD. Not that I condone such a thing.

    Tim needs adventure. He needs to conquer, he needs to take a walkabout and discover the world more. He needs to bring those experiences back to Apple and develop a strong ethos that he has personal discoveries to add to our culture.

    He was basically the strait man to a dynamic duo and frankly now, he either needs to bring in a bent individual or he needs to bend over himself and learn an thing or to about thinking different.

  10. If all of these leaks are real — basically showing a full iPhone 5:

    Where are the cease and desist letters?
    Has Apple responded in any way?
    Is this an experiment in letting leaks go?
    Are they fake parts, and the people who leaked them think they’re real?
    Would Apple spend enough time making a fake iPhone just to throw people off?

    1. I’ve wondered about this too. Could Apple really throw up such a ruse as to catch the entire planet off guard? I don’t think so, but where are all the leaks concerning the iPods? Why just the iPhone and not much else? Yeah, we’ve seen some pics of the iPad mini, but that’s not a real product yet. We should have seen some iPod mock ups by now if Apple’s were suddenly such a sieve.

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