I download Limbaugh’s podcasts and listen to them on the way home. They are on The Pirate Bay, in torrent form. Search under Audio/Other in the early afternoon.

The Pirate Bay is under legal challenge for alleged copyright violations, so it’s not clear if this will continue.

That would be pretty sweet. I hope he doesn’t ham it up too badly. Texas is not just a place for country music and wranglers.

I can’t stand to listen to any show for 3 hours, but I empathize with those who keep hearing news about Obama and sicker and sicker. Don’t be demoralized. Obama wants you to be demoralized. Focus on the good, simple things in your life, and channel your anger into something constructive.

I was originally licensed as a CPA in NY. I kept up the license in NY for years after I had moved out of state. Every year the state hounded me wanting to know if I had earned any income in the state since I still maintained a professional license there.

BASTIGES!!!!!

When I have listened, I’ve heard him frequently mention being in the “EIB building,” which I just assumed was somewhere in NY, although “EIB” (ie, “excellence in broadcasting”) really could just be a fictional, or semi-fictional, place in radioland, or, for that matter, his house in Florida (but Limbaugh apparently also does own a condo in NY).

This is a transcript from his show today:

I told Mayor Bloomberg: I’ll be the first to lead the way. You know, this is just… I’ll sell my apartment. I’ll sell my condominium. I’m going to get out of there totally, ’cause this is just absurd, and it’s ridiculous — and it isn’t going to work. It’s punishing the achievers for the mistakes and the lack of discipline on the part of a bunch of corrupt politicians that have run that city and state into the ground for I don’t know how many years — and I, for one, am not going to take the blame for it…

And that’s the liberal capital of the world. People ask, “How often do you go to New York now?” As little as I can get away with. I think last year I was there a total of 15 working days. I go up to see the staff at Christmastime. New York is probably going to celebrate that I’m not going to come back, and I know Snerdley. They hate me, so they’re happy I’m not coming back. They’re going to praise Paterson for driving me out, even though I am rarely there anyway. Or, instead of a slogan, like: “New York: It’s Never Enough,” the I love New York campaigns, “You May Love New York, But New York Doesn’t Like You.” That ought to be another slogan that Governor Paterson ought to employ.”but I would love to tell my tax audit story of New York State and New York City since 1997. It happens every year, but that’s not the point. I have to prove 14 different ways where I am every day of the year. I have to prove 14 different ways, ’cause I pay New York state and city tax on a per diem.

When I am there working I pay whatever, you know, my rate is based on income for that day in New York. And I try to go as little as possible. If it weren’t for hurricanes down here, I would never go up there. New York is the escape valve in case hurricanes are showing up in our area, because of the loss of electricity. So I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to look for an alternative studio somewhere outside New York, perhaps Texas — another no-income-tax state — and I’m going to get the hell over there,

Even accounting for hyperbole, the litany of abuses Limbaugh reeled off is nauseating.

RL is physically in Palm Beach, FL as far as I know.

ABC is his “flagship” station which means almost nothing in terms of business operations.

harkin – Did you get that feeling by reading here or was that something people were saying elsewhere?