[vladog]

This is a few days old, however I just found it.

The mind of a professor is a terrible thing to waste!

[Not A Snowbird]

Hannity, a "Limbaugh clone"? Not hardly.

As for the rest of it, "yawn".

[I still care]

Another pseudo-intellectual wringing his hands over the stupidity of the masses from his ivory tower.

The intelligent argument and discourse I see on FR surpasses anything I have seen from the liberal elite.

[Valin]

A waste is a terrible thing to mind.

[Valin]

FYI Today is national Doublespeak Day.

[Conservababe]

Well, bless his heart. Pure liberal analysis from a professor who is patronizing, arrogant and totally out of touch with the real world. LOL

[Cacophonous]

The author misses the point. Liberals had their way in the media and access to the public because they made issues that really are not complex, and intentionally muddled and complicated them in order to hide their own messages and agendas. Rush succeeded because he returned the issues to their roots: right vs. wrong. That is why he succeeded.

[BillF]

For example, the challenge of crafting environmental policies that balance ignore legitimate economic considerations with a responsible awareness of and misrepresent the finitude of natural resources is dismissed as the neurotic hand wringing of tree hugging "environmentalist whackos."

That should correct the above sentence.

[Servant of the 9]

And this differs from the mindset of PETA Members and DU Democrats just how?

Mind Numbed Robots all.

So9

[netmilsmom]

>>That's perhaps the most maddening, diabolically clever thing about his show, the faux populism that persuasively claims to be looking out for the little guy, all the while touting policies that tilt tax codes and regulatory policies further in favor of him and his kind.<<

When did Rush say he was looking out for the "Little guy"?
That's a liberal term. Rush looks out for hard working, thinking guys and gals. That's it, that's all.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I read the link. The discourse by Prof. Paul Ginnetty seems to follow his derisive analysis of Limbaugh's listeners - breathtakingly simplistic. When you strip the fluff and characterizations from the rather pedantic argument, you find him discovering that Limbaugh listeners see issues in stark terms of right vs. wrong, true vs. false, good vs. evil, black vs. white.

As a behavior doc, he has the leisure of never being wrong while simultaneously never being correct. He lives in a gray world of half-truths and nuance. Limbaugh listeners are working folks who tune in during commute or lunch or break. They live in the world where actions have consequences. Failure is punished and excellence is rewarded. True is always true, wrong is always wrong and evil is always democrat (sorry, I couldn't resist).

[Pearman]

Anyone who writes an article about Rush Limbaugh should be required to take an oath under penalty of perjury that he has listened to every minute of Rush's show for at least three straight weeks.

Why do I want this?

Because the one constant in all the anti-Limbaugh articles I have read is that the writers of those articles have not listened to Limbaugh's program. This one is no exception.

[SwinneySwitch]

Professing to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:22 NASB

[duvausa]

Another vacuous pretense at analysis of something this pompous professor has obviously not bothered to actually listen to. It’s sad, really.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[dts32041]

This sounds like it has been written by someone in the neanderthal wing of the rat party.

[EGPWS]

(One should not assume that simplicity and truth are synonymous here.)

Of course not. untruths and deceit are very hard to promote without a "gray area" to work in.

[Exit148]

I didn't bother reading the whole article. This part was enough:

For example, the challenge of crafting environmental policies that balance legitimate economic considerations with a responsible awareness of the finitude of natural resources is dismissed as the neurotic hand wringing of tree hugging.

Sounds like a tree hugging neurosis to me!! LOL!

[nutmeg]

...Their collective nickname says it all - they are the well-scrubbed ranks of "ditto-heads" - people who can be counted on to shout "amen," who have little to add but a grateful and admiring "ditto..."

...Many of them probably also derive a sense of inclusion and pseudo-intimacy via this electronic fraternity of kindred spirits. Consider the somewhat pathetic character, Marty, who checks in daily with his radio "buddy," Sean Hannity, a Limbaugh clone. There are plenty of other Martys out there who regularly light up the call boards of right-wing talk jocks - among them G. Gordon Liddy, Matt Drudge and Laura Ingraham - who unabashedly mimic the Limbaugh formula of ideological simplicity...

By Paul Ginnetty
Paul Ginnetty is a professor of psychology at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

"Pathetic" Marty - Sean's friend from his WABC audience (and when I met Marty this summer, he was sitting in a wheelchair) - was one of the incredibly brave soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day during World War II. So who's pathetic now, Professor Ginnetty?

[Exit148]

OK-----I waded thru this river of words. If the pompous prof would climb down from his lofty perch, maybe he'd see things a bit clearer. Even then I don't think he'd have a clue as to what Rush is all about.

[rface]

Limbaugh's listeners are only too glad to circle their electronic wagons, protected by unequivocal truths, insulated from pesky nuances and grayish shades of meaning. They've got it totally right....

Wow! They figured us out!