Angry White Male (Rush Limbaugh)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-7-2003 | Toby Harnden

[eddie willers]

Let me guess:

Skull and Bones...
The Illuminati...
The CFR
The Trilateral Commission.

"Oh, Mr LaRouche...please save us!"

[republicman]

--"The genuine hate and the phobia are on the Left." And it is the Right, he insists, which provides solutions, rather than just lofty sentiment.--

That is why the left is busy calling people things like "angry white males" WHILE the right is busy ridding the world of terrorism.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Rush is Rush. You my friend, are a whisper heard by no one.

Amen, and Rush is winning. He talks, he doesn't make policy.

[republicman]

Rush Limbaugh is the main reason many like myself are no longer liberals.

I'm wondering just what you've done for the cause that could top that?

[God'sgrrl]

Citizens Against Celebrity Pundits.

Sign the petition make it 10,000 signatures! Tell others.

[Yardstick]

...it's not the unequal distribution of resources that's the problem, it's the unequal distribution of capitalism.

One of my favorite Rushisms.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[american spirit]

To that I would reply that Rush has a lot to say on a daily basis but I have a problem with issues he refuses to cover with any depth. For example, what's his current stance on illegal immigration and it's destructive effects on our country? Did he cover the fact that we've had numerous incursions of the Mexican federales into this country and a US border patrol agent was killed within the last few months as well as the newly formed Ariz. group that have been forced to create a local style militia to combat the crime wave brought on by the invasion of illegals across the border.....I doubt it.

Does he talk about the attack on property rights and the fact there have been rebellions across the country similiar to the Klamath Falls debacle? Keyword "Sagebrush Rebellion" and learn some facts about what's happening to property owners in a parts of Florida.

I'm sure he's mentioned the fact that the Bush admin. is now proposing expanding Social Security to Mexicans who may have worked in this country at one then returned home...and the real neat thing about this proposal is that if a person didn't have enough quarters working here to qualify for Soc. Sec. they want to count his time spent working in Mexico to help with qualifying for benefits. Boy, that's some real compassionate conservatism right there!

These are just a few topics that I doubt Rush covers with any clarity or regularity.

[jaugust]

American Spirit sounds like (in Rush parlance) a "seminar caller", or, as in this case, a seminar poster, which is perfectly OK, as we need some comic relief.

[american spirit]

I agree with you and most of his rants are either self promoting or much ado about nothing. For many ex-liberals, he may not be a bad first step but the depths of our country's course towards self-destruction goes far deeper than anything Rush will ever discuss.....he doesn't have the stones.

[american spirit]

And I get my comic relief by reading the smug, arrogant writings of Rushbots who really believe they're getting the full story regarding our current state of affairs from the old Blowfish himself.

[blam]

"American Spirit sounds like (in Rush parlance) a "seminar caller", or, as in this case, a seminar poster, which is perfectly OK, as we need some comic relief."

He must be young and not know what things were like before Rush.

[american spirit]

Cute, eddie did I touch a nerve or something? As far as I know all those organizations do exist but I've not been invited to their meetings lately although their rosters are full of many well known politicians, media and entertainment types.

[jaugust]

Have you read any of his books? And how often do you listen? I humbly recant my post on you being a "seminar poster". But some of the issues you have mentioned have been brought up by Rush, either on his show or on his web site. I don't get to listen all the time like I used to but because of Rush I have been forced to do research on my own to verify many of things which he has said on his program. I know more about economics than I did ten years ago. I do know more about the infringement on property rights than I did. And to say he doesn't have the stones to discuss some issues important to you I challenge you to qualify that statement.

[Ole Okie]

I guess the phrase "ignorance is bliss" had to be coined by a dumbed-down dittohead because it sure applies to most of his listeners and you seem to fit the profile.

No, in point of fact, the saying "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise' is attributed to Thomas Gray.

Gray's 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' is probably the most quoted poem in the English language. He was not, to my knowledge, a dumbed-down dittohead, having preceded Rush by over 200 years.

[GUIDO]

You're Louis Farrakan, right?

No he is Sean Penn!!!!!!

[Yardstick]

...he doesn't have the stones.

I don't think that's it at all. He knows that if he starts addressing fringe issues he'll lose his broad, mainstream appeal. That's a calculation he's made. He can't do both. He also stays away from abortion and religious stuff and that's okay with me, even though I have strong views about these things and I'm sure he does too. I'm glad that Rush has positioned himself right out front in the mainstream, and I accept that that places some limits on the topics he can address in depth and with regularity.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Rush is OK, but I now listen to Michael Savage.......

[Allan]

bump

[jaugust]

"And I get my comic relief by reading the smug, arrogant writings of Rushbots who really believe they're getting the full story regarding our current state of affairs from the old Blowfish himself."

Yes, I've known my buddy Rush all of my own 47 years and have hung on to every word he has ever uttered in those 47 years. Or perhaps I became a conservative about ten years ago when I first caught his program and decided to march in lock-step through my own sorry life. Poppycock!!

My family has ALWAYS been conservative. When I was nine I remember the Johnson-Goldwater campaigns and the children of the union thugs at the school that I attended threatening your existence if you didn't support good ol' LBJ.

Listening to Rush is merely validation for things I ALREADY believed in, long before I ever knew the name Rush Limbaugh!