Yes, Rush, like all true Americans, hopes Obama fails in his attempt to make America a neo-Marxist socialist state.
bttt
I'll never forget the first time I heard him, it is like one of those things that gets etched in your mind. The first time I heard Rush on the radio, he was talking about when he had caught a mouse in a plastic trash can, and didn't know the best way to kill it, he spoke of spraying the trash can with PAM cooking spray and shaking the mouse back and forth to kill it. I laughed so hard when I was listening to him, and I have been addicted ever since. Rush Rocks!
Rush Limbaugh speaks well because he has the facts, statistics, truth and historical evidence on his side.
His opposition just has lies, innuendo and false charges on theirs.
And as long as Rush operates with that modus operandi, he will continue to have a huge audience.
Ahhh..... A breath of truth wafts across the internet
How to understand Rush Limbaugh—shut up, listen—and learn.
Proud member of the Institute for Conservative Studies since 1988.
The liberals despise him and the media too: they would rejoice for 30 days or more if he were to disappear from the scene.
Why? Because he articulates the TRUTH about their lies and disinformation relentlessly. Rush is not afraid to take them on--and he even goes after REPUBLICANS when they do not apply conservative principles.
Yeah, he is an entertainer--but one with scruples. He stays true to the truth and has fun doing it.
Frankly, we need more people like him in all walks of life, not just talk radio.
Imagine if we had principled, conservative:
Network and local news reporters
Newspaper writers
Clergymen
Teachers
Federal and state Government employees
Car Salesmen
Construction Workers
Musicians
Restaurant workers
Grocery Clerks
Bankers
Tax Preparers
Drug manufacturers
Auto plant employees
Attorneys
...and every other walk of life?
If there were true conservatives infiltrating those areas--and standing up for the truth--we could see a sea change in America.
The Tea Party is beginning, I think, to reflect such a situation. I do believe the social issues should NOT be ignored, which is how SOME in the media are trying to paint the Tea Party.
Okay. My opinion is done. :)
The liberals despise him and the media too: they would rejoice for 30 days or more if he were to disappear from the scene.
Why? Because he articulates the TRUTH about their lies and disinformation relentlessly. Rush is not afraid to take them on--and he even goes after REPUBLICANS when they do not apply conservative principles.
Yeah, he is an entertainer--but one with scruples. He stays true to the truth and has fun doing it.
Frankly, we need more people like him in all walks of life, not just talk radio.
Imagine if we had principled, conservative:
Network and local news reporters
Newspaper writers
Clergymen
Teachers
Federal and state Government employees
Car Salesmen
Construction Workers
Musicians
Restaurant workers
Grocery Clerks
Bankers
Tax Preparers
Drug manufacturers
Auto plant employees
Attorneys
...and every other walk of life?
If there were true conservatives infiltrating those areas--and standing up for the truth--we could see a sea change in America.
The Tea Party is beginning, I think, to reflect such a situation. I do believe the social issues should NOT be ignored, which is how SOME in the media are trying to paint the Tea Party.
Okay. My opinion is done. :)
Rush has the unusual gift of being able to “see through” liberal lies and predict the outcome...literally telling us in advance what the Left is about to do.
What’s the “trick”? It’s simple. Rush simply analyzes a situation or comment, attributes the worst possible motiviations to the liberals involved, and then bases his prediction(s) as to what the liberal(s) will do next based on that assumption of evil intent.
The formula has worked, and worked well.
Something to consider when you talk to a liberal.
Rush has the unusual gift of being able to “see through” liberal lies and predict the outcome...literally telling us in advance what the Left is about to do.
What’s the “trick”? It’s simple. Rush simply analyzes a situation or comment, attributes the worst possible motiviations to the liberals involved, and then bases his prediction(s) as to what the liberal(s) will do next based on that assumption of evil intent.
The formula has worked, and worked well.
Something to consider when you talk to a liberal.
Bob Grant started in NYC in 1970. Even Rush has stated that Grant paved the way for him and the other talkers. Grant was on five days a week saying things that FReepers would agree with 99% of the time until 2006 or so. Now he still has a show once a week on NYC's WABC. I didn't listen to Grant before I was introduced to Rush's program on a business trip in 1992, but I cannot imagine that whatever Grant said before that didn't induce frequent outrage from the left, and cause them to plot to get rid of him. But apparently the "fairness doctrine" wasn't enough to do so.
ML/NJ
You always have things that happen in your lifetime that you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing at the time, forever. Like President Kennedy’s assassination, Dr. Kings assassination, the Cuban Missile crisis, the morning after RWR was elected, the Challenger catastrophe.
I remember I was driving from Birmingham, Alabama to Tuscaloosa in 1991, trying to find a decent radio station and there Rush was. It was like listening to an old friend talk about things that had the same take on things that my friends had. I’ve been a faithful listener since that day and my opinion of Rush is still the same today as it was 20 years ago.
This is an excellent article about someone who truly is a genius conservative and genius communicator.
But I do have a problem with one of the themes of the article.
The article basically claims that efforts by the liberal media and the dems to marginalize Rush have backfired and only made him stronger. I think that claim is Pollyannish.
The fact is, there are tens of millions of people in America who are completely insulated from Rush’s message and will never hear a single word of it because of the impenetrable quarantine wall the lamestream media has placed around Rush and all conservative thinkers, writers, speakers and communicators.
Their absolute refusal to debate the points presented by Rush (or by Palin, or by a whole host of others) and instead dismiss them as “fringe lunatics or fringe hate-mongers” has worked.
The ranks of The Sheep are growing every day and I find it depressing in the extreme. Those ranks include huge majorities in the nation’s universities.
I don’t know what can be done and I don’t know who can do it but in order for America to survive we must destroy this quarantine wall and DEMAND that the media actually report the true facts of the debate, what it is that people like Rush are actually saying.
I’m not saying that liberal media people (basically 95% of the media) have to agree with anything that Rush says. They’ll never do that.
But they have to start reporting it. Fairly. And of course they’ll never do that willingly. So we have to “force” them to do it (by putting some kind of public opinion pressure on them)... but the question is: how?
To make a long story short, I started voting straight 'R' in '94.
Very well written.
Actually I know several folks who do not agree with hardly anything he says but respect and admire his ability to entertain.
“Able to draw with minuteness on more than four decades of work experience, he has achieved a comprehensive and detailed grasp of the technical, performing, and business dimensions of the industry, all of which give him an unmatched understanding of the medium and its possibilities. But it is more than a wonk’s understanding. He has a deep-in-the-bones feeling for what is magical about radio at its best—its immediacy, its simplicity, its ability to create the richness of imagined places and moments with just a few well-placed elements of sound, its incomparable advantages as a medium for storytelling with the pride of place that it gives to the spoken word and the individual human voice, abstracted from all other considerations”
Honestly can’t remember my first hearing of Rush. I do remember I initially didn’t get his humor and was put off by some of his statements until I finally figured him out. Just a harmless little fuzzball, really, that is, unless you’re trying to put the hurt on his America. Then watch out. History will record, I believe, that God really did loan him a unique gift, one that changed the course of our history to the great benefit of the cause of freedom.
Rush is brilliant, and has proved himself to be more than an intellectual equal to any of our ruling class.
That alone shows that our institutions of higher learning allowed their quality to sink to that of Detroit - with the same results.
The fact that a high school grad can out argue the Harvard quota law school grad says much.
May Rush live long and prosper!
Shortly after Rush was picked up by our local Clear Channel affiliate in the late 80s or early 90s, their sales director told me, “these guys usually last about 18 months and then burn out.”
Not exactly a prophet, eh?