[PolishProud]

I'm no prude, but Rush, when you talk dirty for the sake of talking dirty, its embarrassing and passe'

[VegasCowboy]

I think Rush is hilarious. The condom thing the other day was a classic case of Rush highlighting absurdity with absurdity.

[MosesKnows]

In my opinion the best hosts are

My favorite is G. Gordon Liddy and I mention it because his name was not on your list. Although G. Gordon is not widely distributed he is nonetheless an immense source of accurate information regarding law, history, and politics. He also dispenses valuable personal advice as well as Dr. Phil or Dr. Laura. I feel privilenged to have access, via the radio, to his critical thinking ability.

I am not at odds with your observations regarding the host you did list.

[Wuli]

I think you are a troll trying to scare up some anti-conservative talk-show bites from this blog.

Take your pitch someone else; while the rest of us practice the Gippers pledge "thou shall not speak ill of....".

[Little Ray]

I think Hannity is a moron - couldn't debate his way out of a paper bag, uses ad hominems, etc. Too many of his callers are idiotic sycophants; "Oh, Sean, you're a Great American!" is most of the substance of their calls.

I DO like Savage - he's nasty, edgy and smart. He addresses the right issues. His biggest problem is that he's too negative.

The best of all "conservative" talk show hosts, however, is probably Neal Boortz... and his Nealz Nuze is a great source of information.

[devane617]

I agree with the part about Hannity.

About Rush, it is getting harder to take the full three hours of Rush talking up the daily WH briefing. Rush is a BushBot WaterBoy that has one message, and that is what the WH tells him to talk-up that day. I think he has lost touch with his audience during the past two or 3 years.

[infocats]

"The worse host, by far, is Michael Savage. He gives conservative talk radio a bad name. When liberals excoriate conservative talk, they use Savage as an example and rightly so."

NONSENSE! In the first instance, who gives a flying f**k what liberals think (an oxymoron because they don't think...they feel). In the second instance, Savage is far brighter and more intellectually honest and has a more keen sense of humor than all the rest put together.

Where Savage does suffer is in the showmanship department where he is demonstrably less refined and more crude than the others.

[atomicpossum]

But at times Limbaugh takes us back to the sexual innuendoes of the 1970s.

I guess you never listened to G. Gordon Liddy. (!)

[beandog]

I love Rush, only person I make sure to listen to everyday. It sounds to me like you are a prude. I can't believe you can't handle a little bit of as you put it "dirty talk". I'm a 48 year old female and I have no problem with it.

[unsycophant]

Rush is the best, even though he has had some problems.

Sean Vannity and O'Reilly have both ridden Rush's shirt tail for years (even their websites looked like his and contained much of the same content) and boy-it truly shows because neither has the broadcasting experience or level of professionalism Rush has. Kindly enough, Limbaugh lets them have their little TV shows and does not compete with them for viewers.

Many on our side seem to view conservatives as their personal cash-cow. (Conservatives: Need fast cash? Write a book, take to the airwaves, latch on to an "issue"!) Even that goofball Keyes gave it a try.

I should also point out that Rush is very humble.

[ThePythonicCow]

What Laura does not seem to understand is, while she may be tired of political talk, her audience isn't.

Ironic that she's the author of Shut Up and Sing. She was berating singers for giving us too much political talk, and you're berating her for too much entertainment talk.

In any case, yes, Laura is good. Really good.

[KarlInOhio]

While Rush relates to his audience on most subjects, he disconnects when he talks about social security as an entitlement. He doesn't accept that the government has made a contract with taxpayers; whereby, in return for the payment of social security taxes, the government promised to provide monies for retirees.

Ignore Rush. Look at what the Supreme Court says about the issue:

http://www.ssa.gov/history/nestor.html

Case name: Flemming v. Nestor 363 U.S. 603

No. 54. Argued February 24, 1960. - Decided June 20, 1960. - 169 f. supp. 922, reversed.

[snip]

2. A person covered by the social security act has not such a right in old-age benefit payments as would make every defeasance of "accrued" interests violative of the due process clause of the fifth amendment. pp. 608-611.

(a) The noncontractual interest of an employee covered by the act cannot be soundly analogized to that of the holder of an annuity, whose rights to benefits are based on his contractual premium payments. pp. 608-610.

(b) To engraft upon the social security system a concept of "accrued property rights" would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands and which congress probably had in mind when it expressly reserved the right to alter, amend or repeal any provision of the act. pp. 610-611.

Not a contract, not a contract, not a contract. Congress can change or eliminate the program any time they want to. You could be celebrating your 65th birthday with a trip down to the SS office, reach for the door and an employee could lock the door and put up the closed for business sign. All you could do is try to get different senators and representatives elected next November to reverse that decision.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Let me see, five shows a week, three hours a day. I don't know how he does it, and evidently few do, as most who have tried the format fall on their collective faces.

Rush is good at what he does. I have listened to Rush off and on since he was a local in Sacramento.

I heard the "farding" bit live, and it only took me about 10 seconds to catch on, and he did say "fard" with the hard "d" and not the other word.

But Rush does not need me to defend him, except to say what he says himself, he is an entertainer.

I sometimes get bored with him, and when that happens, I turn him off. Truth is, I don't think anyone can be 100% all the time. But he is close.

Don't like Rush, turn him off, there are pleanty of host I don't listen to.

[I still care]

I love Rush - am a member of his site. And yes, when he talks dirty, I turn him off. He does have a slightly twisted sense of sexual humor.

Fortunately, he doesn't do it that often. And when Rush is on fire, there is nothing like him. He seems to almost have a supernatural insight into the way people think.

Tony Snow is wonderful too. He is honest and informed.

[newgeezer]

At least part of the reason I have all but stopped listening to Rush is that he has become increasingly 'dirty' as you say. Maybe it comes from being comfortable with his audience.

At any rate, when I find out (on FR) that Walter E. Williams is the guest host, I listen. Professor Williams is the man. He's brilliant, and he's squeaky clean on the air. Some people say that's boring.

To each his own. If I'm not Rush Limbaugh's target audience, no problem. I can always find something else to do.

Oh, and Mike Gallagher? Our station dropped that ranting gasbag for Tony Snow. It's a huge improvement, to say the least.

[cksharks]

Two words for you DONT LISTEN.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

"But at times Limbaugh takes us back to the sexual innuendoes of the 1970s."

I agree. Rush gets hung up on sexual innuendoes. It gets pretty disgusting. I am embarrassed for him because he starts to sounds like a pimpled face juvenile. I also turn him off at that point.

[HarleyLady27]

Rush is JUST FINE, leave him alone! Sean is working on being a good host, give him some time! You didn't mention the Great One: Mark Levin, what's the matter, you chicken?

Those are my favorite talk show personalities, and they are doing just fine, thank you.

[Soul Seeker]

Another person seeking to help Rush "better" himself and, apparently, the entire stream of talk radio.

I'm sure they'll all take your words to heart.

My advice? There is this little device known as an off button. Don't like it, shut it off. I choose to keep mine on.

[jslade]

Guess you've never listened to Mark Levin!

[montag813]

The worse host, by far, is Michael Savage. He gives conservative talk radio a bad name. When liberals excoriate conservative talk, they use Savage as an example and rightly so.

You show your ignorance here, pal. Savage was first on the border, first with the Swifties, first on Able Danger. Savage's Conservative bona-fides are beyond reproach. Who the hell are you?

And what kind of pussy attitude is it to worry about what liberals think, and what offends them? To me that is a sign that Savage is right, not wrong.