{"id":11749,"date":"2013-08-05T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-05T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:45:31","slug":"cnn_s_segment_on_the_business_side_of_this_show_gets_it_just_about_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/05\/cnn_s_segment_on_the_business_side_of_this_show_gets_it_just_about_right\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Segment on the Business Side of This Show Gets It Just About Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Cookie gave me a couple other sound bites here. A lot of people have been asking me about some things about this program in the news. And I have chosen not to be specific in comments about it because others I knew would and have, and so we can hit the sound bites in that regard. Let\u2019s grab sound bites five and six. This is on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources yesterday. They\u2019ve got a new host in there, Patrick Gavin. You know, Howie Kurtz went over to Fox News Channel. So their new host at Reliable Sources, Patrick Gavin, had Michael Harrison from Talkers magazine on there and a syndicated talk show host by the name of Thom Hartmann on. I guess he\u2019s a liberal. <\/p>\n

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And they were talking about the stories that have been in The Politico lately about me supposedly being dumped because I am losing everything that\u2019s going on and the people can\u2019t wait to get rid of me and so forth, they wanted to put these stories in perspective. This is what you\u2019ve e-mailed me about. So the host of this show says, “There are two ways to look at this. One way is that it\u2019s a big blow to conservative media if Limbaugh gets dropped. The other way to look at this, simply people sorting out the negotiations in public, simply two people trying to resolve a business deal, and we can\u2019t read much more into it. What is your take from what you\u2019re hearing about what exactly this debate\u2019s about?” And here\u2019s Michael Harrison.<\/p>\n

HARRISON: It\u2019s clearly a radio deal. It has nothing to do with the future of conservative talk radio. It has nothing to do with the future of Rush Limbaugh. It just is a deal between two giant radio companies trying to negotiate whether they\u2019re gonna continue to be in business together, and they\u2019re two competing companies that also work together, Clear Channel and Cumulus, and they\u2019re just trying to come up with a deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so I have to tell you he\u2019s right. And in this sense it\u2019s probably a little bit better that somebody outside this program who I don\u2019t know that well, I mean, I know Harrison, but I wouldn\u2019t call him a friend, but he\u2019s an acquaintance and I know him fairly well, Talkers magazine, but he\u2019s got it exactly right. And I don\u2019t want any of you to be concerned about all this because it\u2019s being written up as a content issue and it has nothing to do with content. It\u2019s strictly dollars and cents, it\u2019s strictly business, and one side decided to start negotiating in public, and the left wants this to be about something that it\u2019s not, so they write it up that day. <\/p>\n