You’ve put Rush on a pedestal
*I* didn't say one word about Rush. If you want my take here it is.
Personally I don't much care what he says, he's a just salesman and his product is his own show (not that's there is anything wrong with that). Certain people who listen to him every day and latch on to everything he says are the ones who elevate him to godhood.
I don't much care for the phenomenon. I don't think Sickoflibs does either. You appear to be on a different wavelength than him, or I. We appear to have difficulty understanding one another.
What I jibe at here is the ludicrous accusation that here, I’ve put Rush on a pedestal. Maybe that ain’t you and I shouldn’t put you in the same pea pod as the sicko. But the sicko made the accusation.
I say Rush is *useful* if less so than we would like. Lets see what we can do to make the situation better. Let’s not bend our minds into pretzels about how the glass is half empty when we could be trying to put more water into it.
Like hey. I do think Rush listens to reasoned arguments presented privately to him. That works better than wailing out here in cyberland where he probably never looks.
If there is a problem here, like he is overoptimistic and therefore inadvertently saps the momentum of his listenership... constructive suggestions, like to urge his own audience not to be complacent even when he sees trends as optimistic (and to be sure Rush HAS gotten that way in the past in the face of a clear threat, e.g. in the effort to keep Obamacare from happening, alas in vain) would likely find virtual open ears.
It seems that certain “conservatives” eat their own even worse than liberals do.