Yeah, he was way over the sarcasm plateau today. It was getting pretty stale after an hour.
Guys, it was a joke. Remember the thing with Will Smith playing Obama, Will Smith playing the Seals, Will Smith playing Captain Phillips, etc.?
I agree, however, that a lot of people obviously didn’t get it and it wasn’t a successful parody.
OK - you tired of Rush's "shtick" so turn him off or down. As there are many new listeners to Rush's show, he was showing them how it's done - remember Rush's April Fools Day shows, and this way the newbies learn just how skilled Rush is in getting people to jump to conclusions, unless they are really skilled at blotting out the MSM.
So sorry your day (3 hours) was ruined by listening to El Rushbo.
I thought that was what the on/off button was for.
Had to turn the car radio off.
Insufferable to say the least.
And those first few calls.......arrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh
Rush is mailing it in these days.
He’s a voice crying in the wilderness of deluded Americans.
I’m thinking that this is credit earned for when they try to impose the Unfairness Doctrine. He can play clips over and over proving that he is fair minded.
To say nothing of the Omnibus Public Lands bill shoved through a couple of weeks back and the Waxman-Markey Gorebull Warming bill.
Rush’s point of today’s show was alluded to twice, once at the beginning of the show and once in hour three. If there were more later, I haven’t finished listening. But the point is:
IF THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA ARE SO EVIL FOR DEMANDING ONLY TWO MILLION DOLLARS RANSOM AND
IF THE PIRATES ARE SO EVIL THAT THEY ARE WORTHY OF DEATH,
THEN HOW MUCH MORE AWFUL ARE OUR CONGRESSMAN AND OBAMA FOR DEMANDING A TRILLION-DOLLAR RANSOM FROM US, AND
WE’RE NOT GOING TO EVER BE SET FREE FROM OUR PIRATES OF DC?
I’m a 24/7 Rush subscriber and usually paint (artist) while listening to Rush, but lately I have had to switch to listening to music. My husband and I even used to listen to an hour of Rush during supper through his site sometimes, but we sure can’t now. The level of stress seems too high and continuous. The callers have gotten strangely clueless also. I thought it was just my impression things were getting out of hand until I saw your post just now. It would probably help Rush if he took your list seriously and climbed back down and got calm again. But for now, for me, at least, it’s Allison Kraus and Union Station cd’s for the sake of my landscapes!
You know, I have to admit, I listen to Rush and get his point most of the time, when I don’t I stay patient and usually I’ll figure it out, with the help of fellow freepers.
There’s been a handful of times I can remember when Rush’s show got so BOOOOORING that I tuned out. I love El Rushbo to death, but this show was forgetful. 3 hours of it was too much to bear.
He could be trying to get us off our butts and join the Tea Parties. He’s mentioned them a couple of times last week. Maybe he wants to get out there by being boring? I know. It’s a stretch....
I caught some of it during my lunch break and I compared it to NBA basketball where the home team is not getting the foul calls and the road team is getting away with murder, the crowd gets angry, starts chanting Refs Suck! and once the refs finally call a foul against the road team, the home crowd bursts into long sarcastic cheers.
That’s how I see what Rush did today.
What did you think of Rush’s show today devolve? I’ve seen three threads about it and at first didn’t realize he was being sarcastic in his comments.