Posted on 04/16/2014 12:00:15 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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At long last, it appears that Rush Limbaugh has run out of steam.
I have to acknowledge that I have sensed Rush getting by on fumes for some time now (yes, I tune into his show from time to time to enjoy his broadcasting skills if not his message). However, it was only recently that the world of Limbaugh crossed that thin red line from partially serious to total self-parody and audience deception—a line crossed from which there is often no return.
It happened on the occasion of Stephen Colbert’s appointment to fill David Letterman’s soon to be vacated chair on the CBS late-night set.
By using this occasion to create a political narrative designed to stir up his listeners, Limbaugh telegraphed to his loyal followers that he is now dependent upon feeding fully faux political nonsense that his audience instinctively—or explicitly—knows is a bunch of baloney.
To be sure, this is hardly the first time Limbaugh has fed his audience a diet of twisted information and bizarre, conspiratorial memes. However, it may well be the first time that he attempted to shove a diet down the throats of any semi-rational listeners still living in the real world made up of nonsense that even his most loyal listener could not possibly swallow.
That’s a problem for Rush.
A show like Limbaugh’s is wholly reliant on his listeners’ willingness to believe—or suspend belief—no matter how ‘out there’ their guru’s arguments may be. While it is one thing for me to sneer at much of what Limbaugh may present, it is quite another when he attempts to sell his loyal audience on stuff they already know, through personal experience, to be false and fraudulent hokum.
Upon hearing the news of Colbert’s new gig, Limbaugh pronounced— as only Limbaugh can pronounce—
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Don't expect you to respond how - intelligently?
Much ado about nothing.
"I write from the left on politics and policy."
But personally - the 50/50 mix of news and commentary to advertising is no longer for me. The day someone invents a "radio DVR" with a skip forward button is the day I go back to talk radio.
"I write from the left on politics and policy."
Yeah, I read that, too. At least he's quite frank about it. It's possible that once in a great while, a lefty might say something sensible, As W. C. Fields was fond of observing:
"A man that hates dogs and kids can't be all wrong,"
tapping the ash off the end of his cigar.
Is that old windbag still on the air?
“If I were Fox News....I’d quietly sit there...until the week that Colbert is about to start up, and announce we’ve got Jay Leno...starting this week....lining up forty big names for interviews, and have Jay’s garage as the back-drop for the entire show. Colbert drops ten points just on the announcement.”
I would LOVE that! And many others would, too, as you predict.
That may very well be the case. I recently saw a PBS performance from 2007? of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," starring Neil Patrick Harris, Richard Kind, and Colbert.
-PJ
You don’t see irony in you post, I assume.
The yahoo writer is pretty silly, but limbaugh jumped the shark for a lot of people a long time ago. My first wake up call that I had to intentionally try to ignore was in the hours and days just before and after Waco where his biggest problem with janet reno was that she didn’t give the order to burn those people alive sooner. But today I’m okay with the clucking fools in the establishment wasting their time taking pot-shots at limbaugh instead of demonizing gun owners, divorced fathers and people who just want to be left alone.
Talk about psychological projection...my word!
The left has utterly destroyed the main stream news outlets => nobody is watching.
This is the reason why the left dominated media is in a panicked pursuit of new mediums...namely: late night comedy and the notably the NFL audience, but sports in general.
With respect to the NFL/sports we have the onslaught of agitation propaganda about concussions, the celebration of gay players, unionizing college basketball, Bob Castas bleeding heart gun gripes, and on, and on, etc.
Different mediums, different tactics => same agenda.
They know it, Limbaugh knows it, we know it...who doesn’t know this instinctively?
They’ll fail faster now and they probably know that, but the goal is short term (2014/2016 elections).
Rick Ungar is that Felix’s son?
At least he owns up, that that is indeed an ice pick in his hand, and yes, he has it in for Rush.
More GOP-E enmity, belittlement, and backbiting, and now they're taking on Limbaugh. They'll wish they'd stepped into a gorilla cage instead and barked "FU!" at the owner.
So, lessee, what is the new qualification trash line, for being "allowed" to comment on American public life? Oh, yes -- I forgot -- a master's from Yale. Okay, I get it now. Everybody else eff off.
Mnemonic assistance for public-screwel products from Rio Linda. Weak minds need love, too.
There's been a cat-and-mouse game going on with Obama since he appeared in public life. Obama's been baiting Limbaugh and other commenters to speak out on this or that story that Obama's team (Carville, other Clinton buggerhump-politics specialists) have booby-trapped with false information and/or special defenses constructed on information they know has been destroyed, so they can do essentially the same thing the Reds did to Joseph McCarthy in the 50's: they led him into an area where he could not substantiate his charges without compromising a vital national "means" (the Venona File and the NSA's decryption abilities).
McCarthy, forced to choose, tried to expose the KGB assets working in the Truman Administration without the Venona material ..... without releasing the decrypts, which absolutely prove his case now that they're public. It didn't work, Joseph Walsh called his bluff in public at the "Army-McCarthy Hearings", and McCarthy's credibility with the public was destroyed -- which was the whole object of baiting him. Eisenhower refused to back McCarthy or throw him a lifeline, but instead, in finest E-GOP fashion (Ike did that a lot), abandoned his hard-pressed soldier and left him to drift away into public contempt, despair, alcoholism, madness, and death, and a huge dark victory for the People of the Lie.
Talk about making some guy "take one for the team" .....
That's what the E-RiNOate and Obama have waiting for Limbaugh, Levin, Savage, O'Reilly, and all the non-E-GOP commentariat.
IMNSHO.
Rush at the end of the road...
yep, absolutely...
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Are you serious? That long ago? I listened a lot during that era and don’t remember it, but am not disputing you.
My biggest complaint about him has always been the gaps in his knowledge about things he really should be informed on. Also his haste to ridicule things and people that may not deserve it. And the connections he makes between things which may not really exist. Still, on balance, I think his contributions have been more positive than negative. I have learned things from him. And his personal story is impressive. People who don’t go to college and have an unorthodox business model that others say will fail can succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Young people need to hear that.
I think you’ve pretty much nailed it. Colbert is a one trick shtick. Unless he’s been holding back some major talent (which I somehow doubt), he’s not likely to fare all that well in the late night wars.
He sure does bore me to death. It was a long time before I even realized he was supposed to be a comedian.
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