Posted on 04/30/2016 6:29:51 AM PDT by bray
I know one thing. There is not one product or service that Rush hawks that I’ll ever buy. I don’t even tune him in anymore.
I listened to him for a long time.
I’ve always wondered about Sarah’s turn on Cruz. There’s a story for the gossip columns. Maybe he put the moves on her or one of her daughters!
And, yes, although Rush went in a different direction than his family, he may very well be in awe of lawyers - especially ‘constitutional’ experts. And Levin is one of his close friends who he put in the radio business. But he can support Cruz without insulting Trump voters. That’s not necessary. I don’t remember him insulting McCain voters - but then McCain didn’t have any voters, did he?
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“It’s Limbaugh’s program, and he can do with it as he likes. The program is all about his opinion. If “Trumpists” don’t like it, there are other places they can go, but at least, in Rush’s case, the structure of his program doesn’t give him any sort of power to punish them for nonconformity; they can listen or not listen as the case may be. If his attitude harms him financially, why, that’s something he appears willing to cope with.
That said, I think he’s been very adept so far at straddling the fence. “
Rush has NOT been “straddling the fence” - just pretending to (and not very well).
He has had NOTHING but praise for Ted Cruz - calling him the “ideal conservative” and reading every pro-Cruz article he can get his hands on. Conversely, he mocks Trump’s speeches, laughs at callers who support him, and reads every anti-Trump article he can. His disdain for Trump and man-crush on Cruz is evident in every word he says.
Even the other day, when he engaged in some anti-Trump propaganda by playing Ted Cruz’s comparisons of Trump to Hillary, Rush couldn’t bring himself to admit that some of Cruz’s points were out and out lies (actually, I think ALL of them were out and out lies - because Cruz seems incapable of telling anything resembling the truth these days), but even the OBVIOUS ones just left Rush speechless. He couldn’t say “Cruz is full of it.” He COULDN’T attack “his guy.”
At least Levin and Beck, dumb-asses that they are, have the integrity to actually tell you their opinions. If “the program is all about [Rush’s] opinion,” as you say, he’s done a poor job of it, since he pretends to be some shade of neutral, but doesn’t have the honesty to come out and actually tell you he’s in the tank for Teddy.
Funny, over at PJ Media, the never Trump crowd were throwing a temper tantrum that Rush, FoxNews, and all kinds of other ‘conservative’ media was over the top too pro-Trump 24/7.
And they swore they’ve left these outlets/websites for good.
I have always been of the belief that Rush and his show’s cohorts read FR, and especially when his show is on-air, as there have been too numerous occasions when he would say/reference something that I had only just read on the site a few minutes/short time before.
That being said, I sure hope he sees this and the posts that follow.
He will read this thread during breaks from counting his money.
I love that “white as the driven snow”—ha! He worked in Washington for the Bush administration, his wife did as well. His wife works at global Goldman Sachs, CFR and was picked to write up the plans for the North America Union. Now Mr. Outsider has none other than Neil Bush on board. He was also dissembling about the TPP and TPA as well as illegal immigration. The Bush family is all globalist all the time and the Cruzes are joined at the hip to them.
Limbaugh gave an open mike to Arlen Specter years ago, when Specter was outed as "taking Soros money" via Republican Main Street Partnerships. Limbaugh didn't research the issue, and let Specter get away with a technical defense (accusation made a small error in naming the pipeline for the Soros money).
I don't know what Limbaugh did IN ADVANCE with regard to the Cochran/McDaniel primary race.
-- ... he won't tell the whole truth. He is unreliable as a source. --
That has been so for a decade, at least. He is a great entertainer, and his voice has given effective "venting" to conservatives for years. That has been his establishment role, authorized dissenter. I don't think anybody gets to that level of prominence in the media unless they play ball.
Rush married a liberal.
Goldwater married a liberal in his later years.
The marriage explains Rush’s position as well as anything else can.
No, I never listen to Beck, he is off his meds most of the time. But in Houston, Birmingham, Baton Rouge and some other Markets you can listen to Michael Berry. A fresh new face who is very funny, and unlike most of the people here does not swing with the popular opinion. Yes, Michael Berry does have a few choice words Mr. Trump, deservedly so
Well done. Thank you for writing down my own thoughts in such an eloquent way.
There’s a certain radio personality I know (not famous; I’ll call him Bob.) Bob has been a fixture in his community for decades. I like him a lot but haven’t listened to him in years because he can’t speak w/o using the filler word “uh.” I played a little game for years, tuning into his radio show once a week to count how many sentences he can complete that week before resorting to his “uh” word. His record is 7 full sentences, but I suspect he was reading from something that day. Otherwise, he can’t get 2 or 3 sentences out before the “uh’s” start rolling out of his mouth.
Rush has become my “weekly “Bob” game now. This week when I randomly tuned in, the once-great Rush Limbaugh was sanctimoniously trying to decide why Trump supporters are offended by “Trumpists,” which is the word he had just used to describe millions of Dittoheads. Mind you, we are ... Well, we WERE Dittoheads who’ve been listening to him for decades, learning through his tutelage to think for ourselves. Yet here he was, trying unsuccessfully to disguise his derision toward us for daring to refuse to follow his Globalist Path.
It’s sad, really. I’m way past the anger stage at him. Now it’s just pathetic to watch. It’s a little like that sick feeling I get inside when I think about how Cruz had me so fooled. But this is more. This is much more: Rush is an iconic figure. Rush was a stalwart I could usually rely on to see through the BS and tell it like it is.
At least the real Bob doesn’t lie to me. After years of entertaining myself with my silly “Bob game,” I’ve never felt derision toward him, despite not being able to listen to his incessantly annoying speech patterns.
Rush, you may have riches and fame, but you’re not half the man Bob is. I do thank you for the memories and for teaching us so much. Best of luck to you, but you’ll never be viewed the same.
On another note... Y’all check out Laura Ingraham. She gets it, plus she was a FReeper years ago. Oh, she gets it alright.
Meh...
I prefer Herman Cain
Today and for some time now, the people of this nation have looked to the greatness of personality rather than to moral principles. People trust the wisdom of man rather than faith in the reality of a living God. People in America today desire a king to rule over them, whether it is the Pharaoh type we now have or the Godless Nimrodic tower builder who promises security. The nation as a whole on both sides of the political spectrum has made idols out of Godless men who promise greatness. America to a large degree has sold its soul and chosen man over God. Great men show humility before God and acknowledge him as the source of all goodness and greatness. They do not exalt themselves as though they are God. They are repentant before God and seek his forgiveness and guidance every day. Men who come in their own name proclaiming their own greatness and promising to bring greatness with them are in every case men of destruction. Any nation or people who exalts them to rule over them will inevitably come to naught.
Thank you Bray, enjoyable article...
Wow, that was a most excellent post.
I am proud to know ya!
I am going to pass that around. Hope you won’t mind.
A long time ago, the word ‘conservative’ became a litmus test word, sort of like the Tea Party.
Both have been usurped.
Politicians toss the word ‘conservative’ out to appeal to certain types of people, just like the invoke the name ‘Reagan’.
The word ‘conservative’ has basically lost its meaning. It has become whatever the user wants it to be. Politicians use it during election cycles and shelve it until their next election.
Saying one is a ‘conservative’ doesn’t make it so. It is validated by actions, and that is where most politicians fall short.
GWBush was a compassionate conservative. Romney claimed to be a severe conservative. JBush said he was a reform conservative. They create their own labels, so they can market their own brand of political pablum.
The biggest problem real conservatives have is their Battered Conservatives Syndrome. They take the constant abuse from the GOPestablishment, they gripe, they complain, but they hang on, thinking they can change the Republican party from the inside. That didn’t work with Goldwater. It didn’t work with Reagan.
Mark Levin keeps saying ‘we need a new Republican party.’ He never really says what that is, though. Trump seems to be bringing in new demographics and cross-overs and has already received about 2 million more votes in the primaries than Romney did at this point in 2012. But Levin has been trashing Trump for months. Trump seems to be the only candidate in decades who seems to be expanding that ‘tent’ the establishment wants to expand. So, they trash Trump — who is expanding that tent.
It is a lot of talk. Gibberish. Sound-good-isms to fill talk radio air time. It is an Industry and most of the participants who benefit financially do not want any changes to their status quo. That includes talkshow hosts, beltway pundits and commentators, lobbyists, politicians, media and big business.
"Being Conservative" rings hollow since all the so called "conservatives" in congress when along with Obama's budget deal.
It's hard to care about that term when you have people like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell leading the Republican party.
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