The Eleven Lessons of Rush Limbaugh (EXCELLENT READ!)

National Ledger ^ | 1-30-06 | Chris Davis

[smoothsailing]

Stop stuttering! :^)

[writer33]

I've only been here about a year and a half. I think the Longbranch Saloon is gone. But then I'm not a saloon type of person.

Maybe a bar, but definitely not a saloon.

:)

Nice graphic again!

[writer33]

Pay no attention to writer33,knuthom.He's a notorious flatterer.:)

In short, smoothsailing means I suck up. :)

[writer33]

Sorry, I meant to include you in the ping and remembered after I hit the post button.

Man, just one little thing can set FReepers off.

:) HA!

[ashtanga]

Rush isn't really a -well, he may be a conservative, but he is not a revolutionary Jeffersonian. So I don't consider it very helpful to speak in terms of "conservative" and "liberal" because we end up in a semantic miasma. That said, he is the funniest analyzer of idiotic journalism on the American scene, a sort of Podunk Mencken. He has no real education, and I'd be hard pressed to call him eloquent, but he is unparalleled in his social commentary. One simply hangs on his words.

[Kryptonite]

Two people have done more for conservatives than any others.

#1 Rush Limbaugh

#2 Sean Hannity

I might have to add that C. Gordon guy soon!

[rock58seg]

God, will this Super Bowl never end. :-) Hehehe!

No problem. It's not really a Super Bowl without Dallas.

[SeaBiscuit]

This is a keeper.. and what can I say about Rush.. there are too few like him..he gets it and he gets it out there, we need that now more than ever.

[DollyCali]

Great read indeed FRiend. I didn't get home until the "wee hours" and so was not able to ping.

Thanks for the great thread...

appreciate it as always.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[TheForceOfOne]

You're welcome writer :)

[antiRepublicrat]

Rush is RIGHT on with all his points.

I think you missed the discussion. It's not a question of whether what he says is right, but of whether people should look to him for moral guidance which, given his example, is probably not a good idea.

[pgyanke]

No offense meant... just phrases that stand out.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I listen to Rush daily, so take my "criticism" of him in the context that I think he is nearly always right.

• Rush isn't an economist and, once in a long while, I wish he'd call in Walter Williams or Jack Kemp to clarify an economic issue that Rush doesn't have a real strong handle on.
• On the issue of "bias in the media," he is converging on my perspective but isn't there yet. My perspective toward journalism is that although the Second Amendment explains why we have a right to keep and bear arms, the First Amendment doesn't explain why we have a right to keep and operate printing presses. The former right is instrumental, the latter right exists for its own sake.

  That is, "the press" doen't exist apart from the people but is of the people, and the press doesn't have rights or responsibilities distinct from the people. It follows from that that journalists don't have to be objective - and I don't have to believe them. And I certainly don't have to agree with their priorities. The important story of the day may not be above the fold on the front page, and may not even be in the paper at all. Or it may appear days after we knew about it on FR.

[sheltonmac]

Oh, well, it's so good to see that sheltonmac has done so much good for the conservative movement and maintained a lilly-white life that we can now completely condemn the ineffectual Rush Limbaugh.

I'm flattered you think so highly of me, but I have never held myself up as the "epitome of morality and virtue." As I recall, Bill Clinton's defenders also insisted that one's private life had no bearing on one's public life. He was imperfect and flawed, too.

[Sam Cree]

#2 is about diversity. Kind of cute.

[Future Snake Eater]

That's fine, except one of those people has utterly destroyed his party and the other almost single-handedly resurrected it. Rush Limbaugh is a great American, personal faults and all. None of our lives are perfect, and I hope to have a small fraction of the influence in my life that Rush has had with his.

[Constitution Day]

Spell check wouldn't work on these examples.

Yeah, I know.
I was just being my usual smart-alecky self. ;^)