I wonder who is going to catch the attention of the left wing next week?

3 weeks ago it was Hannity.
2 weeks ago it was Jindall.
This week is Rush.

All the while there President is spending us into oblivion. Now that I said that, someone will shrug off President Obamas hand in this mess by blaming Bush.

Here it comes. 5, 4, 3, 2,1 GO!

The Republican party is done. They have lost the true conservative base. Still, many Neo-Conservatives will continue to back them because of one issue...abortion.

I refuse to back the Republican party by pulling the straight lever like I used to.

Now I take careful thought before I vote, and gasp...even voted for some Democrats last election.

And Rush Limbaugh is a FF that I can't stand, and as someone else pointed out, he is definitely wrecking the chances of the true base ever voting straight Republican again.

Go Rushy Go.

Hang on... I don't watch TV nor listen to radio. I'm kind of an Internet denizen, I get all my news and commentary here on the World Wide Web. So, while I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh or Al Franken or Alan Colmes or Sean Hannity, et cetera, I know who these people are and I know, basically, about their impact on the media.

Um. Look. The conservative talk radio business isn't about a bunch of rich bigwigs spewing their capitalist hate speech out upon the unsuspecting masses, okay? If you know anything about radio, you know that radio stations live and die by commercial advertising. Commercial advertisers direct their revenues into the radio formats that attract the most listeners. So, the listenership shapes radio programming — wherever the listener interest goes, the radio programming follows, and commercial advertisers pour their money into the most successful formats. It just makes sense.

Have you heard of radio stations changing formats? It happens all the time, stations switch from Lite Rock to Tejano, or from Pop Music to News Talk, or from Classical Music to Hip-Hop. The audience determines which radio programming survives.

Just so, Rush Limbaugh is a very, very successful radio personality who sells a hell of a lot of mattresses and cold remedies on the air. I mean, that's all Rush Limbaugh does. That's his job. He recites a 15-second radio commercial for a nose spray, and money changes hands all over the world. The rest of the noise he makes is to keep his listeners enthralled until the next advertising spot comes around.

That's how commercial radio works.

Rush Limbaugh is only doing his job. He's preening this one, he's pissing on that one, he's pooting and farting and making obnoxious noises, and his audience loves it, and his advertisers are rolling in cash, and The System Works.

Now, why is that a threat to some people? Think about it. Why is speaking your mind and making a stand and making a profit considered a threat?

Originally posted by weedwhacker
[IF you don't get cable TV, then you haven't been sullied by the likes of Sean Hannity, or Bill O'Reilly....however, if you have the guts for it, since you're online....they are there, as well....so I don't buy, entirely the 'I don't watch TV schtick

When I say I don't watch TV, I mean I do not sit in front of the cathode cannon, fingering the remote control, blasting my brain with a torrent of commercial garbage. I simply don't do it. Rather, I sit in front of a massive plasma screen and select which news and commentary and entertainment I will consume.

I don't listen to commercial talk radio, either, but I'm abreast of their shenanigans via the world wide web.



— Doc Velocity

[edit on 3/5/2009 by Doc Velocity]

Originally posted by weedwhacker
Doc, that is why DVR tech is such a great invention!!! Oh, and NPR on the FM machine, if you just want to listen to something....Cheers!!!

Hey, I'm swimming in the technology, streaming everything in the world at the touch of a finger. Let's exploit the magic while we have it.

— Doc Velocity

Hallelujah! We are saved. Rush is a man with a plan. All we have to do is listen to him and follow his "teachings".

I have tried to make it through one of his broadcasts repeatedly, but have never made it more than 20 minutes.

Contrast him with G. Noory's easy grace behind the microphone. Even Alex Jones comes across as a person who actually cares about the average Joe.


Rush is an expert at ........self promotion.

I agree that unless the Republicans undergo massive upheavel with a strong charismatic leader then it is done.

The issue remains....a strong charismatic leader will fill the conservative vacum, who will it be?

Our family remains strongly consevative with back to the farm principles.



EDIT Strongly conservative does not mean I agree with the money laundering so called Christian Church of the US and Cantana...all denominations....

[edit on 5-3-2009 by whiteraven]

[edit on 5-3-2009 by whiteraven]

I am a Rush fan, and find it offensive the way people are thrashing him for his weight. Is it because they can find no other point to criticize?

I picture it as 2 kids trading insults in a playground. Child A has stumped child B, and all Child B has left to say is, "Well your fat."

Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc. bring many truths to light that without them we would never hear about. Agree with them or not, fine either way. But we have to fight to keep the right to let them speak.

Originally posted by SlickSpeed
I am a Rush fan, and find it offensive the way people are thrashing him for his weight. Is it because they can find no other point to criticize?

I picture it as 2 kids trading insults in a playground. Child A has stumped child B, and all Child B has left to say is, "Well your fat."

Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc. bring many truths to light that without them we would never hear about. Agree with them or not, fine either way. But we have to fight to keep the right to let them speak.

Sure. Does anybody want a return to The Fairness Doctrine. Anybody who doesn't like Rush can just change the channel. I do.

I believe Rush Limbaugh once referred to himself as "just an entertainer" during one of his broadcasts...

He was in the midst of blasting Clinton (this was quite a few years back) and then they put on a caller. After the usual sycophantic praises, she told him she agreed with EVERYTHING he said, and now what do we DO about it? And then there was this long pause. The first time I ever heard that bigmouth choke up and not know what to say. Finally, he told her he didn't propose she do anything. He explained he wasn't an activist, he was just an entertainer.

What he is is a hatemonger. He directs his listeners' anger and hatred toward a particular person or group, with twisted logic and ridicule...and this passes for "entertainment"? I don't get it.

Hmm, if it weren't for the damage that some people (shallow, extroverted right-wing republican politicians and pundits) do who take Limbaugh and Coulter seriously, I'd enjoy them immensely.

I think they should be treated like the side-show circus-freak television curiosities they are.

Originally posted by weedwhacker
Rush Limbaugh! A bloviating bouncing bag of blubber!

And don't forget, he's also a hypocritical narcotics junkie too, ha. I use to listen to the guy a long time ago until I realized be sounds like a broken record.