Limbaugh Turnoff

Aug 24, 2005 | polishproud

[ThePythonicCow]

What Laura does not seem to understand is, while she may be tired of political talk, her audience isn't.

Ironic that she's the author of Shut Up and Sing. She was berating singers for giving us too much political talk, and you're berating her for too much entertainment talk.

In any case, yes, Laura is good. Really good.

[unsycophant]

I have missed the innuendos. Dammit!

[July 4th]

Hey, did ya hear he's got a book out?

He might have mentioned it. Can't talk now though. I'm on my way to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Mahhrrtyy!

[penowa]

I have never heard Hewitt, but have disagreement with him on stuff that I see posted on here. I can't stand Medved; for openers his voice irritates me so much it's hard to listen to what he's saying. Right after Rush (who is The Master and way above the others mentioned here) I put Jim Quinn. I know not everyone has heard him which is difficult for me to understand why he is only regionally syndicated. (Because his previous "bad boy" reputation still precedes him?) Glenn Beck is fine sometimes, sometimes not, but as you said should be added to the positive list.

[KarlInOhio]

While Rush relates to his audience on most subjects, he disconnects when he talks about social security as an entitlement. He doesn't accept that the government has made a contract with taxpayers; whereby, in return for the payment of social security taxes, the government promised to provide monies for retirees.

Ignore Rush. Look at what the Supreme Court says about the issue:

http://www.ssa.gov/history/nestor.html

Case name: Flemming v. Nestor 363 U.S. 603

No. 54. Argued February 24, 1960. - Decided June 20, 1960. - 169 f. supp. 922, reversed.

[snip]

2. A person covered by the social security act has not such a right in old-age benefit payments as would make every defeasance of "accrued" interests violative of the due process clause of the fifth amendment. pp. 608-611.

(a) The noncontractual interest of an employee covered by the act cannot be soundly analogized to that of the holder of an annuity, whose rights to benefits are based on his contractual premium payments. pp. 608-610.

(b) To engraft upon the social security system a concept of "accrued property rights" would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands and which congress probably had in mind when it expressly reserved the right to alter, amend or repeal any provision of the act. pp. 610-611.

Not a contract, not a contract, not a contract. Congress can change or eliminate the program any time they want to. You could be celebrating your 65th birthday with a trip down to the SS office, reach for the door and an employee could lock the door and put up the closed for business sign. All you could do is try to get different senators and representatives elected next November to reverse that decision.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Let me see, five shows a week, three hours a day. I don't know how he does it, and evidently few do, as most who have tried the format fall on their collective faces.

Rush is good at what he does. I have listened to Rush off and on since he was a local in Sacramento.

I heard the "farding" bit live, and it only took me about 10 seconds to catch on, and he did say "fard" with the hard "d" and not the other word.

But Rush does not need me to defend him, except to say what he says himself, he is an entertainer.

I sometimes get bored with him, and when that happens, I turn him off. Truth is, I don't think anyone can be 100% all the time. But he is close.

Don't like Rush, turn him off, there are pleanty of host I don't listen to.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I believe the word is "farded" and not "farding." I standed corrected if I am wrong.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"You should listen to Rush for more than a week before you start posting vanities about him or anyone else."

I have to agree that the author sounds more interested in joining the crowded ranks of those who think their opinion is so enlightened that they think others are not only interested, but will not notice whether they know what they're talking about or not.

Although other amateurs have taken advantage of this forum as their personal op-ed opportunity over the years, if I were a Moderator serving Jim Robinson's interests I'd tell you to start a blog on your own dime if you want to editorialize your opinions.

[El Laton Caliente]

Sometime you really have to acknowledge, like it or not, that social security is here and it's not going away.

Simple numbers and accounting say it goes away... and goes away broke...

[Reaganghost]

"It doesn't matter if they had the right to take money from us,"

Anybody who says government had the right to take this money (and yes there is a Supreme Court Decision to that effect) is wrong or lying or both. There is no Constitutional authority for any of the socialistic programs. None!

[I still care]

I love Rush - am a member of his site. And yes, when he talks dirty, I turn him off. He does have a slightly twisted sense of sexual humor.

Fortunately, he doesn't do it that often. And when Rush is on fire, there is nothing like him. He seems to almost have a supernatural insight into the way people think.

Tony Snow is wonderful too. He is honest and informed.

[Reaganghost]

Have you forgotten his role as Majority Maker? The Contract with America gets most of the credit, but Rush was a tireless advocate of the Contract and there is no question that he deserves much of the credit that Congress has been controlled since 1994 by Republicans instead of the socialists.

As an old-timer myself, I understand that we all get a little short-sighted as we age.

[newgeezer]

At least part of the reason I have all but stopped listening to Rush is that he has become increasingly 'dirty' as you say. Maybe it comes from being comfortable with his audience.

At any rate, when I find out (on FR) that Walter E. Williams is the guest host, I listen. Professor Williams is the man. He's brilliant, and he's squeaky clean on the air. Some people say that's boring.

To each his own. If I'm not Rush Limbaugh's target audience, no problem. I can always find something else to do.

Oh, and Mike Gallagher? Our station dropped that ranting gasbag for Tony Snow. It's a huge improvement, to say the least.

[Kokojmudd]

"And yesterday he got off on "vagina chocolate" made of "sweet" white chocolate"


Yeah I heard something like that on Rush's show yesterday and turned it off. I am turning Rush off more often after the monologues. Laura Ingraham's bumper music is rotten but that is just me. You can't please everybody.

[cksharks]

Two words for you DONT LISTEN.

[Texas_Conservative2]

I say let the liberals keep attacking Bush... Bush is not running for President again, so they are wasting their time and energy attacking him.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

"But at times Limbaugh takes us back to the sexual innuendoes of the 1970s."

I agree. Rush gets hung up on sexual innuendoes. It gets pretty disgusting. I am embarrassed for him because he starts to sounds like a pimpled face juvenile. I also turn him off at that point.

[OldFriend]

The attacks on Bush are all about 2006...mid terms.

No attack can go unanswered.

[HarleyLady27]

Rush is JUST FINE, leave him alone! Sean is working on being a good host, give him some time! You didn't mention the Great One: Mark Levin, what's the matter, you chicken?

Those are my favorite talk show personalities, and they are doing just fine, thank you.

[Reaganghost]

Check out Cato. Ending Social Security does not mean that the United States is going to screw the people who have paid into the plan. Without going into detail, the boomers who are presently counting on Social Security as the main-stay of their retirment are going to find that their purchasing power does not live up to their expectations or even close to what it did for prior SS beneficiaries. SS is going to end, but if it is not ended under something akin to the Cato plan, everybody dependent on SS will end up being impoverished or destitute. Here is a link to the Cato web site:
http://www.socialsecurity.org/