[joesbucks]

Rush's callers are either bots are sufferable fools. I've more than once heard someone sign his praises and how much they love and agree with him only to have him leave the call obviously wondering how in the heck the caller can breathe on their own.

The other thing I've began to notice is how he will switch gears and suddenly go to the phones and have someone ready to talk about that topic. Think about it guys. It's too hard to get through to find someone after a short riff on a topic that 's ready to go. Try it sometimes. These have to be staged calls.

[Beemnseven]

The other thing I've began to notice is how he will switch gears and suddenly go to the phones and have someone ready to talk about that topic. Think about it guys. It's too hard to get through to find someone after a short riff on a topic that 's ready to go. Try it sometimes. These have to be staged calls.

Yep, I've wondered about that too. The only thing I can figure is that either they've been on hold ready to talk about that particular topic before Rush had gotten to it. Because there's just not enough time, like you said, to get through, to start the screening process, and instantly be on the line with Rush once he's done with his rant.

And NOBODY screens their show more than Rush Limbaugh.

[cwb]

"The other thing I've began to notice is how he will switch gears and suddenly go to the phones and have someone ready to talk about that topic. Think about it guys. It's too hard to get through to find someone after a short riff on a topic that 's ready to go."

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I don't think there is any conspiracy here. This would just seem to be good show prep, as Rush holds or bumps certain callers who are talking about the same thing he is. He's got a phone bank of callers and he knows what each wants to talk about. It makes for a good segway and transition...and he does do it alot.

[Atlas Sneezed]

It's too hard to get through to find someone after a short riff on a topic that 's ready to go. Try it sometimes. These have to be staged calls.

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Let's see. Rush knows he wants to talk about Issues "A", "B", and "C". He tells his screeners. Thousands of calls come in. The screeners pick several callers to put on hold for each issue, perhaps with a specific perspective that Rush told them he wanted to get out (i.e. "give me a teacher who can tell me that her administrators told her to teach about condoms").

Then, as the show proceeds, Rush scans the on-hold list, and brings the right callers on just as he wants to cover that aspect of the topic. I think that is how the format is designed. It would be harder to do it the "staged" way that to do it this way.

[ThanhPhero]

Not staged. He has a number of lines and the calleers with the gist of their point on the screen in front of him. He tailors his comments a bit to the callers he has and picks his callers according to what he needs.