Limbaugh's school of hard knocks for other guys

Palm Beach Post ^ | Sunday, May 9, 2004 | Frank Cerabino

[quidnunc]

MarylandPines wrote: Rush has never claimed to be an intellectual. He's never really cared for them, and if you actually gave much attention to his show over the last fourteen years, you'd know that.

No, but he tries to give the impression of being more intellectual than he is.

Sometimes he can be downright juvenile.

For instance, on his TV show one time Patsy's restaurant sent over a very large platter of calamari.

Rush ended up throwing handfulls of it at the camera and audience.

That was the kind of stuff that kids in junior high school do, and it was embarassing to watch.

[F16Fighter]

"I am who I am."

The actually quote is: "I am that I am." -- The Burning Bush To Moses.

Btw, how do we know "who" or "what" you are? Your Home Page is a bit...ambiguous.

[Age of Reason]

Rush is a very bright, articulate, informed, but swallow [shallow?] man, of limited wisdom, who panders to his audience for ratings. The man has no depth. He bores the hell out of me.

That pretty much sums him up as far as I'm concerned too.

Though once in a great while he does say something witty--it's just not worth listening to the other endless hours of his droning on and on and on.

[Khurkris]

"Rush is a very bright, articulate, informed, but swallow man, of limited wisdom, who panders to his audience for ratings. The man has no depth. He bores the hell out of me."

Thank you for sharing this with us all. We do appreciate the crumbs of wisdom that fall from the table of the intelligentsia. I'll scuttle on back below stairs.

[John Lenin]

For someone who doesn't like Rush you sure do know a lot about his shows. If you don't like him why do you listen or watch ?

[MarylandPines]

The media only wanted us to win WWII because Hitler turned on their precious Stalin. They all thought ol' Adolf was a peach up until that point.

[MarylandPines]

I don't remember that one at all---but I know he was a huge fan of Patsy's at one point.

[F16Fighter]

You've set the pins up; I've merely rolled the ball down the lane ;-)

[Diddle E. Squat]

We pretty much agree. The media is evil, Rush is calling out their tactics, and they are trying to silence him by misrepresenting him(like they misrepresent everything else.) Unfortunately he slipped up, and gave them a soundbite in which to distort and peddle their slander, and it will be effective in undercutting him for a bit.

The good guys never win every battle.

[Age of Reason]

The only talk shows I enjoy are Bob Grant and Randi Rhodes.

LOL.

It's true, though.

[arasina]

Excellent post.

[GreatOne]

No, I think that the stories have been overblown. What happened was bad, but it is being handled by our military and it is not as bad as other atrocities committed against our own troops/people.

But that does not mean that what our MPs did is the equivalent of a Yale frat stunt. Not by a long shot. Rush simply made a bad rationalization against the Blame America First crowd's overplaying of this situation.

[Torie]

Btw, how do we know "who" or "what" you are?

My corpus of 20,000 posts on this very site over what, six years, might be a start. I have opined on about everything imaginable, except that boat person son who was sent back to Cuba affair. I am a virgin on that one.

[Hoplite]

Snarky. Snarkmeister. The snarkster, the snarkinator, snark-O-rama.

"Har har", as Nelson Muntz would say. = )

[A Jovial Cad]

*Sheesh, its 'with us or against us' in the war on terror, not on every aspect of every single issue discussed...*

Agreed on that point, but have you followed the entire thread? I didn't just post that out of the blue because I got some patriarchal urge to pull out a flamethrower. It had nothing to with "suburbs" or "mushy middle majorites," I can assure you.
*Sheesh*, indeed.

[Destro]

How can Rush in your words be "very bright", informed, but of limited wisdom"?

[quidnunc]

John Lenin wrote: For someone who doesn't like Rush you sure do know a lot about his shows. If you don't like him why do you listen or watch ?

I do like Rush much of the time, but I try not to be a damned fool about it.

I started to get annoyed and then furious with Rush when he was hooked on those pills, though I didn't know what the cause of his apostasy was at the time.

I just knew that I didn't like him as well as formerly.

Now that I know what the problem was I tend to let bygones be bygones.

But I wish he would get a backbone about some of those hot-button issues he tends to avoid.

[Torie]

By the way, I did not mean to quote the Bible. That is a weak spot for me. I should read it someday, cover to cover, before I depart this mortal coil.

[Destro]

Anyone besides me see anything contradictory about this statement? I did - see #156

[John Lenin]

If you take every word literally you might believe what you just typed. The analogy may have been comical but it's not too far off, especially with the 20 year olds we have today who grew up on a diet of web porn and violent movies and TV shows.