Rush Limbaugh......Is it just me?

2/1/02 | gillmeister

[Gillmeister]

Has anyone else noticed.......

[christine]

SoA, don't worry. i didn't take your post as a criticism. ;) just wanted to tell you that, unfortunately, rush is our only choice here in austin.

i only started listening to rush in 96' when i became 'political'! :)

[rdb3]

Hey, Sent. I know this is not necessarily the thread for this, but, I still have hope in the Tribe.

They have a great new pithing coach in Mike Brown. They have done some wheeling for pitchers with the resigning of Bob Wickman, getting Mark Wohlers from the dreaded Yankees, Jerrod Riggan from the Mets, and southpaws Christian Bridenbaugh and Nial Hughes from the Dodgers. C. C. Sabathia is an up and comer, and Coach Brown will definitely bring the best out of Bartolo Colon.

The problem has never been the sticks for the Indians. Pitching has been the let down. Maybe their emphasis now on hurlers as opposed to more offense is the trick. Besides, after suffering for umpteen years of 60-win seasons, I ain't ready to give up hope yet!

GO TRIBE!

[RaceBannon]

If our only mechanism, that is supposed to multitask by nature, and then refuses to multitask, then it is seriously broken and needs to be replaced.

If it is the war we should concentrate on, then the White House needs to skip any congresional committee lead by Joe Lieberman, and fully announce the shenanigens of Clinton and document how he left us open to attack!! Where is the GOP on this??? We have to let Alamo-Girl and other Freepers do it??? Goodness!!

[teresat]

Have you ever gone deaf and been given so precious a sense back? Rush can talk about whatever he wants for all I care...

[Hagrid]

Limbaugh wanted the ABC gig on Monday Night Football a year or two ago.

[LaMudBug]

Rush has always said that "it is his show" and he will talk about what he wants to talk about. Accept it and live with it. He is still the leading medial exponent of the Conservative cause, even when he talks about football.

[Vineyard]

You might be expecting it .. . I am not. And I didn't say anything about ghetto, don't know where you got it or why you said it.

My comments were pretty much limited to stating that Rush makes no bones about his middle-class childhood, and from 20 to 30, he struggled with different jobs. No wealth. NO Exclusive clubs, no privileges. Just working day to day. Then he found his groove, someone found him, and helped promote him into national recognition.

How did you get the blather about ghetto??? (One too many visits there to get drugs???)

Rush is great for what he does. Read the threads here that aren't put-downs or whiny complaints about how Rush isn't a purist (or an obnoxious person, like Michael Savage.) I enjoy William F. Buckley and George Will ... but the "masses" can't understand the polysyllabic compositions, and probably figure that the writings are a bit too dry for their taste. But Rush is Education and Entertainment. And "Joe Six-Pack" enjoys the show, gets educated, gets motivated, and instead of reflexively voting Democrap, he might vote Republican.

Rush has succeeded more than most politicians - and helps more than the purists or Loosertarians .... you can't make progress until you get the masses better educated and you can control the House, the Senate and the Big House (White House) ... And THEN maybe some real progress can happen.

Mike

[SpookBrat]

Mega Rush Ditto Bump! Never miss his show. But who was the guy on this past Thursday (or was it Wednesday). Some guy from Los Angeles. He said Clinton wasn't too bad of a President and I turned it off. No thanks...I'm not listening to that. Boooooooo!!!!!!!!

[Republican Wildcat]

It is just you.

[x]

Rush has been like this for a while. Or at least, other people have been complaining about it for a few years. Some said it was Rush's marriage. Others said it was the move to Florida that mellowed him. Certainly his hearing problems didn't help.

But this just isn't as political an age, compared to, say eight or ten years ago. There's no one prominent on the scene who really polarizes as Clinton or Gingrich did. People are up in arms about al Quaida, but not so much about domestic politics.

At least that's how things look from where I sit. Other people probably see things differently. Maybe polling data can provide a more objective measure of how most Americans feel.

[blackbart.223]

"Don't listen. Tell all your friends not to listen. Have them tell all their friends not to listen. and when you are done, Rush will still be on top of the ratings, so someone is listening.

That would be me and twenty million others.

[blackbart.223]

"Rush is now a multi-millionaire who had/has a hearing problem and he got married, and, . ."

You sound like a victim of class envy. Why does success make you think Rush lacks credibility? Success is what America is all about.

[mountainfolk]

We don't need the RUSH OF OLD. His hearing loss and recovery are of great interest to many, if not most, of his listeners. We know he is telling the truth and not fluffing the experience. As for marriage redirecting his passion I thought he was really grouchy when he was eating donuts and having colds all the time in the early days. Marta got him shaped up and undoubtedly runs interference for him as most wives do for their husbands, freeing him up to do his job better. Thanks Rush. Thanks Marta. Sports I can do without and so I endure or tune out. My problem, not his. Others around me can't get enough. Politics will still be here when football is over. Lord, then it is basketball---I'm beginning to feel sorry for myself!

[M. Thatcher]

He was "discovered" by Roger Ailes ... who got Rush to go National, got Rush to move to New York, got Rush syndicated. Roger felt that the brash and audacious local talk show guy would be very successful... and the rest is, as they say, HISTORY.

Nope. Roger Ailes produced the Rush TV show. Ailes is TV. Had nothing to do with Rush's radio or his rise to national fame. Rush was already on his success track in New York when the TV show started in 92.

You may be thinking of Ed McLaughlin, the radio guy.

[Jorge]

Does Rush talk more about his hearing and football more than what is going on in politics lately, or is it just me?

Let's see....it the week of the Superbowl...so that might explain him talking more about football......
And he is a person who went completely deaf during the past year....and now has regained his hearing through a miracle of modern technology...which might explain why he is talking about that...

[Cannon6]

Get lost.