Rush Limbaugh boosts 'Fox News Sunday'

Radio's Rush Limbaugh is not only good for his own business -- with a new eight-year contract offering him the potential to make $400 million -- he's also good for Fox News.

Limbaugh's appearance on "Fox News Sunday" set a ratings record for the year so far for the network's Sunday morning counterpunch to "Meet the Press" and the rest. Limbaugh drew 3,892,000 viewers, including 1,180,000 in the coveted 25-54 age group, for the show on the Fox broadcast network and cable's Fox News Channel (2.35 million tuned in at FNC.)

"I'm a ... guy who earns a percentage of what I generate every year,'' Limbaugh told host Chris Wallace in the interview that aired Sunday. "There are some guarantees, but the $400 million is not guaranteed. I have to earn that. So far ... I could -- I'm ahead of schedule, in fact.''

See the reports on Fox's ratings boost and Limbaugh's interview in the Swamp.

-- Mark Silva

Photo: Rush Limbaugh. Credit: AP.

Comments

[Rob]

I recorded the show, and I have NEVER recorded the show. Rush is the man!

NOBAMA!

[KansasGirl]

This doesn't surprise me. The man is like the brother I never had. I wish him nothing but good forture and happiness in life.

[epnpen]

"You're worth whatever your value is, and that's determined by what somebody's willing to pay you for. And the only reason I get that money is because the people who invest in me get results beyond their expectations."

He's someone's voice piece, for sure.
The question we need to start asking ourselves is who really backing Rush Limbaugh.

[Frank]

Rush Limbaugh is entitled to free speech in America, and makes as much money as he can in the American way. There is nothing wrong about his choice to be on Fox News. Fox News is a business entity run by Rupert Murdoch to make money, using news as a cover.

The audience who follows him needs to understand what he is leading them to believe. Our country will suffer when rhetoric distorts truth and divides people of different beliefs, religious or secular, and cultural backgrounds.

Such bigotry just makes me sad for our country.