Rush Limbaugh threatens, fails to leave Manhattan after tax tirade
Back in March, Rush Limbaugh got a lot of attention when he vowed to sell his New York City apartment and cease broadcasting from Manhattan, in response to a planned tax increase for wealthy New York State residents. "I'm going to get out of there totally, 'cause this is just absurd, and it's ridiculous," he fumed.An empty threat? It's starting to look that way.
Four months to the day after his tirade, the conservative radio giant does not appear to have taken any steps towards making good on his promise. On his show in March, Limbaugh said he maintains a residence in New York City mainly so that he can broadcast from the studios of Premiere Radio Networks, his syndicator, when severe weather in his home state, Florida, threatens to interfere with his operations there. When doing so, he pays state income tax on a per-diem basis. He said he planned to "look for an alternative studio somewhere outside New York, perhaps Texas -- another no-income-tax state."
But with hurricane season starting up, Limbaugh has yet to make any such arrangements -- or, if he has, he's been keeping them from Kit Carson, his producer and "chief of staff." When I attempted to contact Limbaugh to ask him about his relocation plans, I was directed to Carson, who told me he'd forwarded my remarks to his boss, to no avail. "All I can tell you is, I put the question into him, and I got nothing back," Carson said.
Perhaps rather than scout studios, Limbaugh has been focusing on unloading his 4,000-square-foot penthouse condominium at 1049 Fifth Avenue?
Alas, a search of real-estate databases failed to turn it up. Carson had no comment on the condo, either, but a Manhattan real-estate broker assures me that it would almost certainly appear in the listings if it were indeed on the market.
Additional reporting by Tim Catts.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
7-30-2009 @ 6:46PM
Ms S said...
You've given Rush a few months....I am still waiting for Baldwin to leave after 4 years of threats!
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7-30-2009 @ 7:07PM
Glenn said...
We know his views are out of this world; now if only he would move there. Figures he was only blowing hot air as always !
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7-30-2009 @ 7:26PM
av1rick said...
I'm sure the housing market stinks so he's not sold his place so rather than LOSE money that way I guess he's figuring that his tax increase will be deducted.
Maybe it was a push?
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7-30-2009 @ 7:37PM
george said...
Rush Limbaugh is STILL a big fat idiot.
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8-04-2009 @ 2:40PM
Doug said...
Very sharp and calculated response ... your intelect is a work or amazement!
7-30-2009 @ 9:25PM
george s said...
He makes $30 million per year, you can call him what ever you want.
7-30-2009 @ 7:59PM
Melltalks said...
That's what happen to a ex-addict brain after too many pills: they make no sense lol.
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7-30-2009 @ 8:06PM
Doug said...
Babs Strisend was supposed to leave 9 years ago. Why is she stil here?
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7-30-2009 @ 8:24PM
poot said...
A star on radio? lol... yeah, with a voice and speech pattern like she has, she'll last about one show. Maybe.
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7-30-2009 @ 8:27PM
poot said...
lol!!! wrong thread!
However, Limbaugh said this about a year ago and the basic consensus from New Yorkers was "Don't let the door hit you on the ass, fat boy!"
7-30-2009 @ 8:34PM
jo said...
How lucky can one city be losing Rush Limbaugh. Heaven help the city that gets him.
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7-30-2009 @ 8:58PM
Anthony said...
Yes..it may come to a surprise to all of the Libs , but Rush is a star, has been for 2 decades now but you wouldn't know because he isn't of your ilk. The move from Manhattan ?! So what he hasn't moved and it is nobody's business if he does.
And if you haven't seen Rush in a while he has slimmed down to a very trim man. But then most of the comments on this site are from libs anyhow, would we expect anything else?
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7-31-2009 @ 12:40PM
Larry said...
Rush the champion of evey thumb sucker, racist, bigot and tin foil hat wearing goober in America... He lives in New York because that's where the expensive hookers and the good drugs are...................
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7-31-2009 @ 12:17PM
Bubba said...
Since when has Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ever said anything that ever resembled reality or anything even resembling reality.
As for the threat to move out of NY, in the drug induced state of euphoria that he usually finds himself, why would anyone think that he would recall such a statement.
Given the Republican Party's track record since Rush took over the reigns of the Party, the RNC should consider a relocation program.......some place where Rush can amuse himself, perhaps with those 'little brown bodies' that stimulate his waking hours when he travels and vacations in the Caribbean.......Not that there's anything wrong with that!
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7-31-2009 @ 9:33AM
big john said...
F*** Rush Limbaugh. He is a wealthy entertainer who incites the ignorant and the angry bigots that permeate our great country.Unless you are a "conservative" who hang on to his every word, he is insignificant. I think he is hilarious.
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7-30-2009 @ 10:33PM
KACHINA321 said...
HOW ON EARTH WILL HE LEAVE NEW YORK? THEY HAVE THE BEST HEROIN IN THE COUNTRY THERE.
SO WHEN HE RUNS OUT OF THE OXY'S. ALL HE HAS TO DO IS GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK FOR THE DOPE MAN. THEY ARE ON JUST ABOUT EVERY CORNER IN CERTAIN AREAS OF DOWNTOWN. WHO CARES IF THE PIG LEAVES. HE IS A TWO FACED HIPOCRITE THAT ALWAYS PUT JUNKIES DOWN FOR WHAT THEY DO. HE NOW KNOWS WHY THEY DO WHAT THEY DO. HE GOT A GOOD TASTE OF IT FOR YEARS. TRUST ME IT'S ALWAYS ON HIS MIND TO GO OUT AND SCORE.
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7-30-2009 @ 10:34PM
bob said...
Hey Jeff-This is some crack reporting-you really broke this story. I wonder-did you investigate Alec Baldwin when he threatened to leave the US if Bush was elected?
Does anyone else notice that any article about Rush always has a bitter tone-a venemous style.
The media hates this guy-why? Because he is far more succesful than any of those reporting on him.
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8-01-2009 @ 6:12AM
Dhammer said...
Because of the Liberal Taxing of New Yorkers,know wonder people like Rush are leaving the State. As long as dumb asses keep putting these Idiot Liberals in office they will continue to spend your money and more of your money until you can't pay your own bills.And thats for other Liberal run states also.So Rush,screw New York State and anybody else who thinks otherwise.
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7-30-2009 @ 10:53PM
bernadette said...
Limbaugh? -- Simply amazing!!
And I mean that.
Listen and learn people -- you'll be surprised.
www.rushlimbaugh.com
sign up for e-mails, too.
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7-30-2009 @ 11:13PM
Richard YOUNG said...
Good riddance Rush!
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