Posted on 02/01/2002 4:58:00 PM PST by Gillmeister
Has anyone else noticed.......
My point is, life is too short to worry if Rush is a true conservative, or if Rush sold us out, or if Rush spends too much time talking about golf, football or whatever.
Rush is an entertainer, with a bias.
Who isn't "an entertainer" and who doesn't have "a bias"?
Consider the "guests" on other shows, they're "government grown". In Rush's case he is showing you what success really is, those who participated on Friday were a small example, yet very good idea of who these athletes really are. They showed us what personal desire can achieve, how success can benefit the economy, and the ways these people contribute back to where they came from with again the flaming desire to achieve a better society.
That's the football and golf the other "entertainers" don't care to bore their vast audiences with. Hannity's been in many of the golf tournaments, describes them, and his pictures are on site occasionally. Listen to him talk about the generosity of his community and the reasons why he decided to stay there instead of taking all of his money and moving to Naples.
I wasn't at all surprised when Rush plugged the spin nut for tight future competition. And I wasn't surprised to hear Matthews whine about the contract he signed a year ago. Rush wants to buy an NFL team and Matthews feels like he was cheated.
Absolutely. All day long.
my view is that both oppositional ways of dealing with things are obsolete; the world is not black and white.
i reject the dem-socialist class issue while rejecting the allegedly conservative view that we're all equal, if you don't succeed, it's your fault. such an agrument flies in the face of common sense and everyday experience, and does conservativism no favors.
i'm the one who brought up the ghe-tto as a counter example. since you didn't like that one, i'll chose another counter example to rush:
sally, a white chick rush's age, grew up also in cape girardeau. her mother divorced a jerk and struggled to bring up her kids the best that she could. sally barely graduated from high school and worked at a local convenience store.
meanwhile rush, according to his own words, grew up upper-middle class with a lawyer father. rush brags how he and his father bonded while his father piloted the family plane; indeed, he owes all of his conservative knowledge which he passes on to listeners to his father and those father-son plane flight discussions.
it takes no intellectual heavy-lifting to see the what you see around you everyday: the sallys of the world are not going to "compete" with the rushes. an unstable emotional and financial upbringing does not yield a rush limbaugh, katie couric, dan rather or whatever.
i enjoyed rush in 1990 when there were few conservative views on the air, and especially when the clintons assumed office in 1993. but i'm tired of rush and his inflated persona.
i stopped listening to him when he said that hillary was not running for the u.s. senate.
senor ken.
If I jumped the gun about you I apoligize. As far as your assets are concerned, you don't know me and I don't you, so such claims are irrelevant at best.
Well said. But such common sense went out of style with the passing of giants like Russell Kirk and Mel Bradford, who never saw conservatism as being about avarice and pride. But what did they know.... after all, this current crop worships at the altar of Success and Fame, and if they crack open a book it's a mystery novel or a golf rag.
i opened this up, fully expecting to be flamed again.
funny, you mention people worshipping at the altar of success and fame. you are correct, that is a major cause of our problems today.
i see it everyday here in california...the california patio lizards and their incessant drive for success and consumerism.
i'm trying to simplify my life.
I believe Rush has tried to model that while a passion for the nation and its politics is a good thing, there is more to life.
His chatter about cigars, golf, "the lovely Marta," and football are his way of saying look--don't bury yourself in the latest outrage from the skunks at DNC-- God gave you a life...live it!
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Life should not be all about politics. That's for the liberals, always thinking of everything in the political manner.
Then too, of course, it IS SuperBowl Week. Relax.
Yeah, the All-Star game was yesterday, too. Great time watching Dominik & Scotty.
From the grooveyard of forgotten favorites...
Oh, well I'm the type of guy
Who never settles down
Wherever pretty girls are, you know I'm around
I kiss 'em and I hug 'em
'Cause to me they're all the same
I get so gosh darn hammered, I don't even know my name
'Cause I'm a philanderer
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