It's pretty hard to believe that a man who went from a NOBODY... to #1 in his business with a 21 million audience is ONLY brilliant in "his own perception of himself."
I agree completely with CROSSHIGHWAYMAN that Rush is one of the most brilliant minds around.
And that being able to make the complex simple and understandable and to make it understanding and appealing to the average person is truly a sign of a superior intellect.
Not only has Rush accomplished what I described above, but he has brought AM radio back from the dead, and is the forerunner of numerous successful conservative talk show hosts over recent years, and yet still remained #1.
Rush has humiliated all the liberals who call him dumb by beating them consistantly in the media wars. Much like Bush has done in politics.
By the way, it is only the liberal media and pointy headed psuedo-intellectual academia liberals who flatter each other as "brilliant" while calling conservatives dumb.
But the truth is that conservatives kick their butts when it comes to debating facts.
I find liberals to be emotional airheads who do very poorly when it comes to debating the facts.
By the way, there are 8 kids in my family. All are liberals (including my mother) except for myself and one brother.
This brother is the most educated in the family, a college professor with a his Master's degree, and I graduated first in my college class with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
So in our family, the liberals are definitely not the most brilliant.