[Snake65]

I'll believe it when Rush says: "This is series, folks. Hugh! So series I need to hop in the shower."

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Your "evidence" doesn't seem very conclusive...but it beats lurking around CVS.

[Physicist]

I don't get it.

[jimfree]

Rush just used the word "schadenfreude." It's more evidence Rush is a lurker on here...

It could also mean that he attended our church service yesterday - - the minister used and defined the expression. I'm not sure that Rush was traveling in Maryland yesterday though and I think I would have seen him. Maybe he joined the early service instead - - but no - - I think one of the people would have noticed him in his "No Boundaries" tie and said something.

[BlackbirdSST]

I've heard Rush use the words Free and Republic all in the same day, so this must be true! Blackbird.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I'm hoping Rush starts talking about the counter-counter-culture. William F. Buckley has. :-)

[Fresh Wind]

More evidence was the time he let the phrase "barf alert" slip out, in the same context it is used here.

[John Robertson]

yes, of course, we invented that word. listen, you may be right. but it's only fair that you understand that that word is almost as overused these days as "gravitas" was a few years back.

[IncPen]

Rush had a FReep name and did post here himself, back in the day.

I can't remember the name he used... but it wasn't something he hid...

I do know that people close to him lurk and post here; I've exchanged posts, FReepmails and pings with them over the years...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Already posted here.

[BobbyK]

scha·den·freu·de (shäd“n-froi”d…) n. Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. [German : Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr½, happy).]

[Moosilauke]

A Google search turns up 139,000 hits on "schadenfreude", 615 hits on "schadenfreude" + "free republic". I think this falls in the category of extremely weak circumstantial evidence.

[vetvetdoug]

Rush is intelligent. Rush leans to the right. Freepers are (for the most part) are intelligent. Freepers lean to the right. Therefore, Rush is a Freeper and uses this site for some information he cannot get elsewhere. He would be smart to do so. IMO he is here a lot of the times. (Why would he go to the DU anyway, they cannot even get their stories straight!)

[Republican Red]

I was able to listen to the first half hour of Rush today. He was on fire!

He made some statement about the Kerry staffers secret conversation posted on Drudge. Drudge wouldn't reveal the source. He said "I can tell you all we know the source is not my housekeeper because this sounds true".

Then he launched into Daschle's MTP appearance and made me proud. He was in a rant about how liberal are all for compassion and diversity of though until you say something about Donavan McNabb on ESPN and they scream racism and want your head. He really tore into Daschle. It was beautiful.

[HitmanLV]

Michael Savage often mentios high-feedback FR stories before they become national stories, leading me to think he is a lurker also.

One of the benefits of FR is that if you follow it regularly, you will get the news usually a couple of days before the chatter shows up on the networks and cable shows.

[lilylangtree]

Wonder if Hitlery is a lurker?

[kimmie7]

Yup, if Rush is here...I just want to say, "Love ya, buddy! Dittos!"

[ctonious]

It's time we Freepers give ourselves credit. This forum is the pre-eminent site for conservative political opinion. What are we up to now? - 80,000 members, or what?

And as Rush would say about this subject - good teams belong in the end zone - and they don't make a bid deal out of it when they get there. They just hand the ball off to the ref and get ready for the extra point. We're in the zone - and we shouldn't be surprised to see "movers and shakers" here too.

[varon]

It's more evidence Rush is a lurker on here...

Of course he is. FR is where he gets his material ;-)

[stainlessbanner]

"Lurker" was the answer on Double Jeopardy two nights ago.

Maybe Alex Trebeck is a FReeper, too!