He’s become very tedious to listen to. Between his self-indulgent golf and Apple B.S. and his deteriorated voice which bears no resemblance whatsoever to the way it used to sound.
He sounds like he’s shouting all the time. Guess it’s the deafness.
My constructive gripe for a long time is that Rush - understandably - is doing a 1990-style show in the year 2018.
We all have internet access. We have it on our computers, our phones, our tablets. We’ve read or seen excerpts of most interesting and/or relevant stories by the time Rush’s show starts.
How often does he say ‘Drudge has story XYZ....?’ Well, yes, when he has Drudge’s site up on his screen throughout a show I imagine Drudge would be foremost in his thoughts. But you and I can see Drudge for the proverbial 21 hrs Rush is not on the air as well as the 3 he is.
Nevertheless, Rush goes through reams of paper printing hard copy (!?!) of web articles we’ve already seen. The laser printer can be heard whining loudly in the background even if his cochlear implants don’t detect it.
He’s got a roomful of state of the art computers with huge displays. Why print articles and why read them verbatim like Paul Harvey? Why spend 10 min to read the article only to get 30 sec of commentary on it just before an ad break? Is this a newscast or is it a commentary show?
Why are articles from deranged leftists read from the first word to the last, while articles by Victor Davis Hanson et al are simply mentioned in passing?
Demographics is no longer an excuse since people of all ages have and use browsers, email etc.
An optimist would encourage Rush to drop the long-form exposition to speed things along.
A pessimist would say - accurately - that he’s merely padding out the show.