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rush limbaugh radio show. Supporters of Rush Limbaugh have initiated a counter-petition on the White House’s public petition website to keep the controversial conservative talk-radio host on the Armed Forces Network radio station, reports Military Times.Limbaugh has been the target of a campaign by Democrats and liberal groups pushing advertisers to drop his show after he called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, who testified in favor of the administration's contraception mandate, a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
As part of that campaign, a petition was initiated on the administration’s We the People public petition website to remove Limbaugh from the AFN.
Petitioners have one month to gather the 25,000 electronic signatures for an official White House response, and as of this writing, the anti-Limbaugh petition needed 631 more signatures by April 3 to reach the 25,000 threshold.
“He has regularly demeaned women,” the anti-Limbaugh petition claims. “His remarks this week were well beyond the pale of what should be broadcast to our military and their families, supported with our tax dollars. We have a moral objection to our tax dollars being used for such a purpose. You should move immediately to cancel any further broadcast through government facilities of his venom. There is no excuse for the U.S. government, in any capacity, giving this man an audience.”

The pro-Limbaugh counter-petition, which was only created on Sunday, presently has 455 of the 25,000 necessary signatures.
“Threatening to take Rush Limbaugh off AFN is a direct threat to free speech,” the petition reads. “There are plenty of liberal-progressive entertainers who make much worse and offensive comments, yet we don't hear the White House or any liberal screaming for them to be censored. We the signed demand Rush remain on AFN.”Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( /ˈlɪmbɔː/; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host, political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism, and is particulary influential in matters affecting the Republican Party. Limbaugh began in radio job at age sixteen, which was followed by a series of radio jobs. In 1984 Limbaugh became a talk show host, California for Sacramento radio station KFBK,

which still airs his syndicated program. Limbaugh rarely has guests on his show, and instead comments on political matters for content. In 1988 Limbaugh began nationally broadcasting his show from radio stationWABC in NewYork, New York. He currently lives and broadcasts from West Palm BeachFlorida. The Rush Limbaugh Show is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.[1][2]
In the 1990s, Limbaugh's made the New York Times Best Seller list with his books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993). From 1992 to 1996, Limbaugh hosted a half-hour television talk show. Limbaugh frequently criticizes liberal policies and politicians, and often takes issue with what he perceives as liberal bias of major media in the U.S.
The Rush Limbaugh Show
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Limbaugh's radio show airs for three hours each weekday beginning at noon Eastern Standard Time on both AM and FM radio. The program is also broadcast worldwide on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
Radio broadcasting shifted from AM to FM in the late 1970s because of the opportunity to broadcast music in stereo with better fidelity. Limbaugh's show was first nationally syndicated in August 1988, in a later stage of AM's decline. Limbaugh's popularity paved the way for other conservative talk radio programming to become commonplace on the AM radio. In March 2006, WBAL in Baltimore became the first major market radio station in the country to drop Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio program.[17] In 2007, Talkers magazine again named him #1 in its "Heavy Hundred" most important talk show hosts.

Limbaugh frequently mentions the EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting) network, but this is a mythic construction, as he told The New York Times in 1990.[18] In reality, his show was co-owned and first syndicated by Edward F. McLaughlin, former president of ABC who founded EFM Media in 1988, with Limbaugh's show as his first product. In 1997, McLaughlin sold EFM to Jacor Communications, which was ultimately bought up by Clear Channel Communications. Today, Limbaugh owns a majority of the show, which is syndicated by the Premiere Radio Networks.
According to a 2001 article in U.S. News & World Report, Limbaugh had an eight-year contract, at the rate of $31.25 million a year.[19] In 2007, Limbaugh earned $33 million.[20] On July 2, 2008, Matt Drudge reported that Limbaugh signed a contract extension through 2016 that is worth over $400 million, breaking records for any broadcast.[21] A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation, garnering 12.5% of poll responses.
Television show
Limbaugh had a syndicated half-hour television show from 1992 through 1996, produced by Roger Ailes. The show discussed many of the topics on his radio show, and was taped in front of an audience. Rush Limbaugh says he loves doing his radio show[23] but not a TV show.