He engages in actual conversation. He listens to the caller's points. He has a sense of humor. He doesn't slur or slime the caller.
At the end of Rush's show I don't feel the need for decontamination, or a decompression chamber.
I enjoy some of Rush's rivals in the talk show game, but they just make me realize how much better he is than anyone else doing it.
Unlike a certain other talkshow host I could name, but won't. Michael Savage Did I say that outloud? Oh I'm a baaaad person!
With all due respect for Mr. Limbaugh, it was inevitable that a talk-radio format would excel, (if it wasn't him, it would have been somebody else) in some ways he is just a tragic comedian, pointing out the absurdities of modern "liberal" policies. Point is, there is no shortage of material, so how hard is that? The liberals got around this in past years by only presenting one point of view and/or ridiculing and marginalizing opposing viewpoints since they had a vitual stranglehold on news outlets. Astonishingly, it was possible to convince the mainstream that their views were somehow, not mainstream, which is quite a trick. The death knell for the old-school news folks was claiming they were objective, which really stuck in the craw of folks since the 60's at least.
God, I love this man! Rush has put it all together for a long time and when he's good, he exposes a whole Congress full of critters for what they really are, smelly politicians!