[rodguy911]

In talk radio there is a huge fallacy in thinking that you can carry the show each and every day. 75% is good.
Limbaugh has one of the finest call screeners around James Golden,”Snerdley.” He should use his talent more and talk more with the callers golden chooses to put on the air. He has had some fabulous callers but still thinks he has to do about half the show himself no matter whether it is working or not.
He needs to go to callers more.

[nutmeg]

He needs to go to callers more.

I agree. Rush decided he was going to mail it in the past three days (especially yesterday - Worst Show Ever), and apparently didn't want to bother with callers wanting to actually discuss more important things than how funny Rachel Jeantel's "dialect" is...

[jenk]

Geez, I come back to this thread after what, 2 years? and everyone is bitching about Rush, unreal.

[nutmeg]

Not a lot of FReepers on this Rush thread today. I wonder how many gave up and didn't even bother to tune in today, after yesterday's debacle of a show.

I almost didn't bother to tune in today. When Rush started talking about Matt Harvey's hot model girlfriend at the top of the show, I almost snapped my radio off yet again...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I really miss the clever and entertaining ‘bits’ he used to do—the Shanklin parodies (haven’t heard a new one for a while), the Snerdley translations for the “hood,” and going back in time a while, the “updates” complete with their own themes and bordering-on-outrageous mock commentary. Even Operation Chaos from 2008, despite the fact that it didn’t work, was a tour de force.

Rush really seems to have lost his ‘edge’ lately.