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I have never had enough tolerance to listen to him long enough to figure out what he represents. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, but you won't find it listening to Rush Limbaugh.
rush limbaugh.... what a piece of work.. He and Larry Craig certainly have a lot in common.. as far as ideals... one's got perverted sex problems.. and the other's got a drug problem... they should start a new night club and call it the "GOP"... sex.. drugs and rock n roll... er.. I mean family values...
I don't know much about fair.org, but in regards to Media Matters for America... it may be leftist, but what they do is give the actual radio/TV broadcast clip (or transcript) for something that a right wing host/pundit/politician says. You get to see the person actually saying it, and there is no room for misunderstanding/misquoting. They also tend to give a fairly large clip (2-5 minutes) so that it will put things in the proper context, which sometimes doesn't happen when all you just give a 15 second sound-bite (which is what most news sources and talk radio guys seem to do quite often).
Whenever Oreilly or the others gets mad and tries to smear MediaMatters.org ("left-wing smear merchant" is the phrase Bill tends to use) for showing the actual clip of him or another right winger saying something bad, it reminds me of the Richard Prior joke for when his wife caught him in bed cheating with another woman... "I didn't do it. Who are you going to believe... me, or your lying eyes?"
I don't know much about fair.org, but in regards to Media Matters for America... it may be leftist, but what they do is give the actual radio/TV broadcast clip (or transcript) for something that a right wing host/pundit/politician says. You get to see the person actually saying it, and there is no room for misunderstanding/misquoting. They also tend to give a fairly large clip (2-5 minutes) so that it will put things in the proper context, which sometimes doesn't happen when all you just give a 15 second sound-bite (which is what most news sources and talk radio guys seem to do quite often).
Whenever Oreilly or the others gets mad and tries to smear MediaMatters.org ("left-wing smear merchant" is the phrase Bill tends to use) for showing the actual clip of him or another right winger saying something bad, it reminds me of the Richard Prior joke for when his wife caught him in bed cheating with another woman... "I didn't do it. Who are you going to believe... me, or your lying eyes?"
And that is where we have come to in our society. Actual transcripts and providing context are now "Leftist"...while Rush and Hannity and the other Spin Meisters are telling the "Truth". Bizarre.
Rush (and many other talk show hosts) represent the Status Quo. In his daily introductions he comes very close to announcing himself to be the smartest, most infallible man in America, if not the world. Also, that he is God's chosen man, or even God's gift to earth.
Rush appeals to the lynch mob mentality. He convinces those who are easy to convince. His basic message is: just believe everything the conservatives tell you, because conservatives are always right, about everthing, all the time. To question or doubt conservative opinions is equivalent to hating America. If only the liberals were half as perfect as conservatives are!
Rush appeals to those who believe everything other than conservatism is always wrong, all the time. To those who belive that liberals tell lies all the time, but that conservatives always tell the truth (all the time) and can easily be led around by the nose by conservative politicians. These are dupes, suckers, or whatever.
Like many of the talk show hosts (Hannity, Savage, etc.) Rush has an ugly mind.
As for Ann Coulter...she is intelligent, but has some sort of fanatical hate problem, I think she would be an interesting case for psychoanalysis.
Question: Do you know what radio station managers call people who tune in Rush Limbaugh and hate him?
Answer: Listeners.
Just like TV, the goal of a radio show is to get ratings so radio stations can charge more for advertising. They don't care what you think of him.
Rush Limbaugh must be doing something right.
By that standard, so is Jerry Springer.
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