Limbaugh's school of hard knocks for other guys

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

[Torie]

Prankish and not really that inflammatory.

Bull. Most emphatically disagreed with that, including those on this non-representative site. They were disgusting, unprofessional, illegal, ineffectual, and damaging to both the moral standing of this country, and to the causes for which it fights. Granted the unpublished ones, probably represent even more serious felonies, with even more attendant damage. And you know what? It appears the brass looked the other way. Kay mentioned it, others mentioned it, but nobody cared, because they thought it was generating information, however illegally obtained. The brass is in big trouble. Stay tuned.

[Torie]

Thanks. Shallow swallower, or something.

[Morgan's Raider]

. Now, the Arab world can hold up a picture for their illiterate masses of puppets to look at in horror and outrage.

Now why would the Arab world be showing these pictures to democrat voters?

[F16Fighter]

"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."

I disagree with your assessment of Rush, but hey -- if Bill Buckley's your cup of tea...(snore...)

[Torie]

Perhaps the 21 million just have a naughty little habit. I will leave the IQ thingie to others to parse.

[new cruelty]

Riiight. Thank you for playing.

[Torie]

Is Bill Buckley still alive? He has been an animated cadaver for about 20 years now. But he does have a good vocabulary, and back when, did introduce me to some ideas.

[The Other Harry]

We're going to lose this war. Rush fired a shot in our direction. We should get our troops out now.

[John Lenin]

Rush is no intellectual ? I don't think you ever listen to him he has an incredible knack for seeing through BS and than putting it in simple terms that even idiots can understand. I doubt you could stay in he same room with him.

[quidnunc]

Texas Eagle wrote: (....but he's no intellectual, that's for sure.) Thank God. I believe it was William F. Buckley who said: "I'd rather be governed by the first 500 names in the Boston phone book than by the entire staff and faculty of Harvard."

The problem, Rush tries to con people into believing he's more knowledgable than he really is.

Two examples from within the last two weeks:

Rush made a big thing about trying to discredit somebody because they wrote that Iraqis were Arabs.

Rush said that Iraqis weren't Arabs.

Rush is dead-wrong, the majority of Iraqis are Arabs.

Rush went into a riff about how he was amazed that anyone would be dumb enough to characterize the words 'infer' and 'imply' as being synonymous.

He said that even dictionaries made this mistake.

But Rush neglected to mention that he lifted this directly from the opening scene of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel "Gambit".

Sometimes Rush shovels bullbleep to his audience.

[Bobby777]

Boolah, mullah! Boolah, mullah!

completely off the subject, but that seems like a great tag line ...

[Pukin Dog]

Then your recollection sucks.

I posted to you because the very last time I noticed your name, it was being used in reference to a derogatory comment about Limbaugh.

[Ajnin]

I don't remember Rush approving of such behavior. I think his take was that the pictures were taken out of context. Personally, I don't have a problem with what they did.

[Politicalmom]

Well, I certainly wouldn't call Rush a bird man....

[A CA Guy]

Oh, YOU must be very special then...congratulations!

[woofie]

Yea ...and that guy Mark Twain was a lightweight too ...Its the folksy stuff ...Ya cant be folksy and be real intellectual ...heck Will Rogers was dumb and boring too...And then that Faulkner guy a real yokel....always talkin about dumb southeners while he was drunk


(scarcasm for the scarcastically challenged)

[Torie]

How long ago did you notice me. :)

[roylene]

Ok how does one be bright, articulate, informed yet limited? If he bores you please don't listen to his bright, articulate and well informed opinions.

[Henrietta]

"Most reasonable people expressed disgust by the sight of the bound, nude, hooded men in American custody being forced to degrade themselves sexually."

Sadly, some here on FR had much the same reaction as Rush. One depraved soul here on this site actually claimed that those who were debasing Iraqui prisoners were "protecting American lives." I asked him to explain how mistreating prisoners in our charge protected Americans. Predictably, no explanation has been given.

People who think that this is "no big deal" are sick, sick, sick.