Posted on 07/03/2008 5:23:25 AM PDT by txradioguy
THE ATMOSPHERE in the studio on the morning after our dinner at Trevini was relaxed, even festive. When I arrived around 11, Limbaugh was at his computer, wearing shorts and doing prep.
Augusto, his personal chef, was there, preparing lunch, signaling an occasion. Limbaugh skipped the meal, explaining that he doesn’t eat close to show time for reasons of “burp prevention.” Snerdly, Dawn and the engineer joined me in the dining room, which looks as if it were decorated by Nancy Reagan’s fussy aunt.
Limbaugh’s program that day was, as usual, a virtuoso performance. He took a few calls, but mostly he delivered a series of monologues on political and cultural topics. Limbaugh works extemporaneously. He has no writers or script, just notes and a producer on the line from New York with occasional bits of information. That day, and every day, he produced 10,000 words of fluent, often clever political talk.
There was nothing he said that was startling — he spent parts of the show mocking Obama’s “change” mantra and excoriating those who believe in global warming and talking about foreign affairs. But if you think it is easy turning ancient Greenland, the influence of the teachers’ unions or changes in E.U. foreign policy into polemical comedy that will hold an audience for three hours — try it for 15 minutes at your next cocktail party.
Limbaugh entertains, but he also instructs. He provides his listeners with news and views they can use, and he teaches them how to employ it. “Rush is an intellectual-force multiplier,” Rove told me. “His listeners are, themselves, communicators.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yeah, he’s doing the same thing on all his website photos, and in the dozens of other such photos.
I can’t see Pinch being too happy about this.
Which is a good thing BTW. :)
Rush, as I see it, is sticking his cigar in the face of the Nanny State and THAT, my friends, is cool.
Of all the things in the world to get your panties in a wad, you worry about people showing off with cigars? Yea, my only problem is I don’t understand you.
Yeah, I need to go to du cause I don’t like Rush.
Then leave it at that.
Like someone just said above...sometimes a Cigar really IS just a smoke.
Go call Cigar Dave and complain to him.
Otheriwise it looks to folks like you just came here to bash Rush.
And sometimes, it is not.
Funny how he started when CA mag hit the stands.
Of all the things to get your panties in a wad, you worry about me worrying about somebody showing off.
Look...either find something constructive to say about the article or leave.
I’m tired of you trashing up my OP with your insepid raving about Rush Smoking Cigars.
Go read the damn article and THEN get back to us.
Ok?
Get one.
FAST!
Yeah, you post something and I have to respond to it in a way that you approve.
I second the motion. What a maroon!
Rush was a cigar smoker long before he was featured on their cover in the spring of 94. In fact, one could argue that his on air discussion of that issue probably gave more free advertisement and subsequent subscriber enrollment than at any other time in the history of that publication......
“Yeah, you post something and I have to respond to it in a way that you approve.”
I posted a link to a 9 page article on Rush that will appear in the Sunday NY Times magazine.
And instead of having anything useful or constructive to say about the article itself...YOU have to go off on some hairbrained tangent about the pictures take of him SMOKING A DAMN CIGAR!
You didn’t post “something”...you posted (censored)
He started smoking AFTER CA hit the stands, just like the zillions of others.
As a football fan who follows the Philadelphia Eagles a bit, I was disappointed that the Times ignored Rush’s short stint on ESPN when he spoke the unspeakable: “(Philadelphia quarterback McNabb is) “overrated ... what we have here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well—black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well.”
All three points true, but none of them what ESPN wants us to hear on their shows. Rush resigned from ESPN shortly thereafter.
At least you admitted in post 25 that you are a Rush hater. That’s all I need to know.
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