Posted on 05/25/2016 6:28:22 AM PDT by IChing
Sorry madison10 meant to include you - see my post above #100 i believe
No I don't think Limbaugh in the tank as far as - like lets say Medved.
RE Beck:
After this latest fiasco with Brad Thor, never mind; Trump needs to keep Beck FAR AWAY from him. Beck seems to have become completely unhinged...
I FULLY agree on the illness, the drug addiction, and the impact it had on his third marriage. I think Marta could not cope with his addiction and, simultaneously, with his pain quotient. It’s interesting that she, especially, has been 100% silent (certainly part of the divorce, but even so, there are ways to leak things, so she has been extremely loyal. I think she’s still a fan.)
Rush let his love of Cruz’s POSITIONS override his common sense about Cruz as a person. I drifted away from Cruz, then ran away from him, because of the utter sleaze coming from the campaign of a so-called Christian. Everyone makes mistakes, but Cruz flatly denied them and engaged in underhanded tactics-—yes, they may have been legal, but the Apostle Paul said to avoid even the appearance of evil.
This really hurt Rush and his analysis (David’s too) because he could never understand why conservatives and evangelicals were not siding with Cruz. He did a much better job than anyone else, but because he didn’t want to criticize Cruz, he could just never wrap his arms around why Cruz became to toxic.
Funny, isn’t it, that Trump who was supposed to be toxic ran a pretty darn straight, normal campaign and Cruz was involved in the shady stuff? Anyway, I think Rush’s moderation still caused him to retain listeners who just quit some of the others in frustration. Hannity came out the winner, and intellectually I think he is the most lightweight of all. Prior to the campaign, he would just regurgitate the same phrases every show and have the same little panels of guests on. But he has been extremely fair to ALL candidates during this cycle.
Also, I agree that because Rush taught us how to spot bias in the media, how to uncover liberalism in policies, he has made himself somewhat less necessary than he was 20 years ago.
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