Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Rush Limbaugh
Updated Monday June 4, 2007
Rush Limbaugh, that right-wing king of the airwaves, and a clown in the vaudevillian tradition, endures as a permanent scab on the American political landscape, spinning incendiary yarns, half-truths, and personal attacks. The Radio Hall of Famer has been “credited with saving AM radio,” but it is doubtful whether AM radio was worth the travesty that is The Rush Limbaugh Show, which has now aired nationally for seventeen years. Limbaugh is a long-time source of interest here at Campus Progress, and what better reason for us to revisit him than his recent plea agreement related to charges of “doctor shopping.” The AP soberly reported that Rush “received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion.” It’s an ignominious episode in a long career of hypocrisy.
But, despite the legal troubles, Rush has still found plenty of time to spew his vitriol. Taking on the Duke Lacrosse case, he characterized the alleged rape victim as a “ho.” And then, the same day he was arrested and released on bail an excruciating three hours later (we’re sure that taught him a lesson) he singled out the Center for American Progress for releasing a ‘wacko’ report stating that mobility in America isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You can listen to Rush’s take here. Select soundbites: “America-in-decline is liberalism’s central tenant [sic] …For generations, liberals have wiped out achievement ideals. Well, they’re the losers, folks, and I am sick of their stupid studies.” Glad to know that a few hours in the clink didn’t slow him down one bit.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III began his radio career as a teenager in Southeastern Missouri, debuting as Rusty Sharpe on a radio station once owned by his father. He attended Southeastern Missouri State University for one year, dropping out to pursue a career booming and bellowing against “liberal bias” in the media to add the voice of yet another angry white man to the overwhelmingly conservative domain of talk radio. After leaving college in 1972, Rush took to the airwaves as a Top 40 music disc jockey for Pittsburgh’s WIXZ and later for KQV under the name Jeff Christie. KQV was only one of a host of radio stations from which Rush would be fired over the course of his career (KGMO, KQV, WXYZ, KUDL, KFIX, KMBZ). According to peers, Rush was snobby, and was fired for what would later become acceptable and much-celebrated by his avid fans: political commentary rife with personal attacks and outrageous statements and heated on-air arguments with callers and guests, often ending in Rush cutting off anyone he disagreed with. Unfortunately, early public distaste for Limbaugh’s obnoxious style didn’t last.
In 1984 his career took off when he took his show to KFBK in Sacramento, California, where he decided he no longer needed guests, basing the show solely on his own commentary and meticulously screened calls from listeners, who seemed rarely to challenge Limbaugh’s rants. This format was just the thing to kick it up a notch for Rush, and soon after he moved to New York City, where he joined the roster at WABC (and remains today) and became syndicated in 1988.
At best, Rush dabbles in racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and, well, heartless commentary. In fact, it seems the only group that he doesn’t have a penchant for offending is his own – the cult of the angry white man. As if it wasn’t enough to have coined the derogatory term “feminazi,” Limbaugh says of feminism generally, “Feminism was established to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream…” (Hartford Courant, 1992). Now thrice-divorced, Limbaugh’s views on marriage are not much better: "If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.”
On homelessness, Limbaugh has said, “One of the things I want to do before I die is conduct the Homeless Olympics. The 10-meter Shopping Cart Relay, the Dumpster Dig, and the Hop, Skip, and Trip.” His views on homosexuality also never fail to appall. He’s said, “When a gay person turns his back on you, it’s anything but an insult – it’s an invitation. The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
Limbaugh plays hardball partisan politics, and like so many of his fellow pundits, he sticks pretty close to the conservative party line, hacking it up with the best of ‘em. He played a particularly dirty game during the Clinton years, taking aim not only at Bill Clinton, but at the entire Clinton family. He repeatedly suggested their involvement in Vince Foster’s death, sharing an unsubstantiated claim on air with thousands of listeners: "OK, folks, I think I got enough information here to tell you about the contents of this fax that I got. Brace yourselves. This fax contains information that I have just been told will appear in a newsletter to Morgan Stanley sales personnel this afternoon… What it is is a bit of news which says… there’s a Washington consulting firm that has scheduled the release of a report that will appear, it will be published, that claims that Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park." No such report was ever actually issued, by an investment bank’s employee newsletter or otherwise. Apparently, as vicious as his smear campaign was, it wasn’t vicious enough unless he attacked a unwitting child, showing a picture of 13-year-old Chelsea on his television show, and announcing it was a photograph of “the White House dog.” On a separate occasion, Limbaugh put up a picture of Labor Secretary Robert Reich that showed him from the forehead up, clearly attempting to make fun of Reich’s height. Reich’s height (he is in fact quite short) is a result of a bone disease he had as a child. Subtle. Classy. Limbaugh.
Although widely-discussed for over 13 years, conservatives have recently begun claiming Limbaugh’s 1993 attack on Chelsea Clinton was fake, citing as their evidence a portion of a transcript circulated online of a show from a year earlier where Limbaugh… attacked Chelsea Clinton, this time by comparing her to a different dog, Millie, owned by then-President George H.W. Bush. Limbaugh half-heartedly “apologized” on his show for that incident four days later, saying among other things “I mean, [Chelsea] can’t control the way she looks” and claiming the airing of her picture with Millie was inadvertent. Limbaugh himself has never refuted, nor challenged, either of the two quotes- nor has he ever explained if the incidents were a mistake, why he didn’t just edit them out of his pre-taped television shows.
Controversy seems to tail Limbaugh everywhere he goes, or perhaps he chases it. Not one week after leaving ESPN, the National Enquirer reported that Limbaugh was under investigation for illegally purchasing prescription painkillers, including OxyContin, Lorcet, and hydrocodone, after Limbaugh’s former housekeeper went to the authorities. A week later, Limbaugh told his listeners that he was a prescription drug addict and would enter treatment. Far be it from Limbaugh to make excuses or seek sympathy – he said, "I am not making any excuses. You know, over the years, athletes and celebrities have emerged from treatment centers to great fanfare and praise for conquering great demons. They are said to be great role models and examples for others. Well, I am no role model. I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes."
Touching statement, and though we at Campus Progress view drug addiction as a very serious problem, we can’t help but be reminded of Rush’s previous quotes about drug use. Apparently, Limbaugh’s recognition of these “demons” came only when he needed a way to rationalize his addiction. When it came to others, he repeatedly condemned drug abusers and alcoholics: “We have alcoholics and drug addicts in our society, don’t we? And what do we say about them? ‘Well, they can’t help it. Why, it’s genetic. Why, they have a disease. Why, put one thimbleful of scotch in front of them and they can die.’ We totally exempt them from any control over their lives, do we not? Some athlete will spend two years snorting lines of coke. ‘He can’t help it. You know, it’s – it’s just – it’s not – it’s – it’s genetic. These people – they’re predisposed to having this addictive syndrome. They – they can’t help.’ Yeah, like that line of cocaine just happened to march into the hotel, go up to the athlete’s room and put itself right there in front of him on his blotter.”
Limbaugh’s advice about how to solve the problem of addiction plaguing this country? “…Send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let’s be rid of them.” Though Limbaugh did send himself to rehab, he has yet to send himself overseas so that the rest of us might be rid of him. But fear not, upon his return Limbaugh reassured his listeners that he had not turned into a “linguini-spined liberal” in the five weeks he was gone and his stint proved to be far from a fall from grace in the eyes of his listeners. They stood behind him despite the alarming hypocrisy of his personal life.
It’s not just Limbaugh’s personal life that is mired in controversy. The Rush Limbaugh Showhas been at the heart of scandal itself. The group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) issued a report detailing 43 errors Limbaugh made during various radio shows. After several rounds of rebuttals, FAIR finally released a book chronicling over a hundred such errors. As Al Franken said at the 1994 White House Correspondents Dinner, “Most of us here in the media are what I consider infotainers…. Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.” So outraged was Franken at Limbaugh’s disinfotainment, that he dedicated a whole book to uncovering it in Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.
The Rush Limbaugh Show has been the most popular talk radio show for the last 15 years. Indeed, his fans are so dedicated that they call themselves “dittoheads” to show their support for whatever the hell comes out of his mouth. In an attempt to appeal to the arch-conservative component of his party, former President George H. W. Bush went on the show several times over the course of his reelection campaign. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have also both made appearances on the show.
Limbaugh aired two advertisements parodying Democratic opposition to then-Supreme Court nominee John Roberts and the recent Karl Rove scandal without informing viewers that they were fake ads. Many viewers called in believing that the ads were in fact real ads paid for by George Soros (which is how Limbaugh originally introduced them). After significant pressure from Media Matters for America, Limbaugh finally issued a statement reminding viewers that the ads were in fact parodies.
The twelve months since our last Rush bio update have proven to be another banner year for Limbaugh, as he has negotiated some of conservatism’s recent obstacles—the consensus on global warming, the midterm election defeats—with all the grace of a drug-addled rhino. Rush has always been critical of environmentalism, so it was no surprise when he discounted scientists’ consensus about our role in global warming as “organized around a political proposition.” Nor was it particularly uncharacteristic for him to blame the inability to save New Orleans from Katrina on “unchecked liberalism,” even nine months after the fact. But during the run-up to the 2006 Congressional elections, Limbaugh distinguished himself as a harbinger of new era of classless public discourse, when he questioned whether Michael J. Fox was “faking” the effects of his Parkinson’s disease in a campaign ad for Missouri Democratic candidate for Senate, Claire McCaskill. “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Limbaugh asserted, with all the authority of a certified talk radio crank. “He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.” Apparently Limbaugh missed or didn’t give a darn about the irony that he was criticizing someone for improper use of prescription drugs.
The early activity of the 2008 presidential race has provided Rush with a new array of targets. He continued his War on Tact by asserting that the John Edwards camp leaked news of Edwards’ wife’s breast cancer to “jump-start the campaign.” Most notable has been the “Barack the Magic Negro” affair: Originally, Rush adapted the handle for Obama from an L.A. Times article about the Illinois Senator’s socio-psychological place in the public imagination as a figure that eases white people’s fear and guilt in regard to African Americans. That intelligent essay was interpreted by Rush as “racist”— this from the man who a few weeks prior had wondered if, because Obama’s ancestors had owned slaves and Al Sharpton’s ancestors had been slaves, Obama would “own” Sharpton when elected president. But that didn’t stop Rush from perpetuating what he interpreted as the article’s main, “racist” argument—that Obama is not “authentically black”—by airing a musical parody of the Senator to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon.” The song is sung by a cartoonish caricature of Al Sharpton.
And you can still catch Limbaugh carelessly throwing around the label of “racist” when he sees fit — most recently, he blamed criticism of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the racism of white liberals, even though Gonzales’ incompetence has been widely denounced on both sides of the aisle.
Thanks, Rush, for twenty years dedicated to downgrading legitimate political discourse in America.
—updated by Michael Gottwald
In case you still haven’t had enough of Limbaugh’s bon mots, here are a few more:(On Abu Ghraib) : “This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it, and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people. You know, if you look at—if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean, I don’t know if it’s just me, but it looks just like anything you’d see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I’m—yeah, and get an NEA grant for something like this.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 5/3/04]
“Kurt Cobain died of a drug-induced suicide, I just – he was a worthless shred of human debris.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 9/7/04]
“We’re not sexists, we’re chauvinists – we’re male chauvinist pigs, and we’re happy to be because we think that’s what men were destined to be. We think that’s what women want.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 4/15/04]
“Some of these babes, I’m telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd. They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 4/26/04]
“We’re going to let you destroy your life. We’re going to make it easy and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don’t destroy our lives on drugs, we’ll pay for whatever messes you get into." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, Dec. 9, 1993]
Illustration: August J. Pollak
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You should mention how tough-talking, flag-waving Limbaugh avoided military service during the Vietnam War, a medical deferment: literally an ingrown hair on a boil on his butt. See www.ALWOLBush.com
— Mike Scott - May 4, 06:02 PM - #Can’t you liberals take a joke? Most of what you consider inflamatory on his show is said in a sarchastic manner, not actually reflecting his opinions but rather exploiting your stereotypes of him for the sake of humor. You treat it as if the fake ads and joke do you some great disservice. I find it disgraceful that liberals today in America support the rights of teachers to indoctrinate students with opinion filled lessons, while conservatives telling jokes is unspeakable.
— jrob - May 16, 05:49 PM - #I wonder if Rush believes in Hell. He probably doesn’t, because any one who does wouldn’t do the stuff he does deliberately and with malicious intent. Between him and O’Reilly, it’s like two Satan’s are walking the earth.
— Connor Z. - Jun 9, 09:54 PM - #You write:
“He repeatedly suggested their involvement in Vince Foster’s death, sharing an unsubstantiated claim on air with thousands of listeners: “OK, folks, I think I got enough information here to tell you about the contents of this fax that I got. Brace yourselves. This fax contains information that I have just been told will appear in a newsletter to Morgan Stanley sales personnel this afternoon… What it is is a bit of news which says… there’s a Washington consulting firm that has scheduled the release of a report that will appear, it will be published, that claims that Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park.”
That is taken completely out of context. His very next sentence, his VERY NEXT outburst to his radio audience after the words: ”...in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park.”, were the following: “I’ll give you ten to one odds that this fax is a FAKE!” I ought to know. I was listening to that particular broadcast.
“No such report was ever actually issued, by an investment bank’s employee newsletter or otherwise.”
Of course not, because as Rush said on his show, and what you did not know, was that Rush had derided the fax as a phony.
You also write:
”, showing a picture of 13-year-old Chelsea on his television show, and announcing it was a photograph of “the White House dog.”
False. Here is the real version of events regarding that incident:
Copyright 1992 Multimedia Entertainment, Inc.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
SHOW: RUSH LIMBAUGH (9:00 PM ET)
November 6, 1992, Friday 11:15 AM
LIMBAUGH: Thank you. This show’s era of dominant influence is just beginning. We are now the sole voice of sanity, the sole voice of reason. We are the sole voice of opposition on all television. This is the only place you can tune to to get the truth of the opposition of the one-party dictatorial government that now will soon run America. Oh, I mean, we are only beginning to enjoy dominance and prosperity. Most of these things on the in-out list are not even funny, but a couple of them—one of them in particular is.
David Hinckley of—of the New York Daily News wrote this, and what he has—he’s got—it’s very strange. He says, In: A cute kid in the White House. Out: Cute dog in the White House.’ Could—could we see the cute kid? Let’s take a look at—see who is the cute kid in the White House.
(A picture is shown of Millie the dog)
LIMBAUGH: (Voiceover) No, no, no. That’s not the kid.
(Picture shown of Chelsea Clinton)
LIMBAUGH: (Voiceover) That’s—that’s the kid. We’re trying to…
You also write:
On a separate occasion, Limbaugh put up a picture of Labor Secretary Robert Reich that showed him from the forehead up, clearly attempting to make fun of Reich’s height. Reich’s height”
True. In fact it happened on more than one occasion. It happened dozens of times.
” is a result of a bone disease he had as a child.”
A fact that neither Rush nor his fans knew at the time.
— Jonathan - Jun 17, 10:45 PM - #Jonathan, your claims on the Chelsea Clinton quote are simply wrong.
The “transcript” you “found” for some strange reason appears only, and identically, on a handful of right-wing websites. The real quote is and has been verified as accurate for over 12 years - and, in fact, happened on a show that aired in 1993 - the year following the quote you "found." So your counter to the well-verfied quote is to claim Limbaugh said something else on a show a year earlier. Umm... alrighty then.
Campus Progress carefully fact-checks its statements; in the future it may help for you to do the same beyond merely searching through FreeRepublic.com. I have heard on numerous occasions that they perhaps may not be very reliable.
— August J. Pollak - Jun 18, 04:16 PM - #Limbaugh’s “apology” for the 1992 incident, by the way, was as follows (and yes, Jonathan, we actually have Nexis):
SHOW: RUSH LIMBAUGH (9:00 PM ET)
November 10, 1992, Tuesday 11:15 AM
LIMBAUGH: Ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry. Let me tell you very quickly what happened last Friday night. There was a new in list and new out list that was published in the newspaper. The writer said in, cute kid in the White House; out, cute dog in the White House. Could we show the cute dog in the White House who’s out, and they put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton back in the crew. And many of you people think that we did it on purpose to make a cheap comment on her appearance. And I’m terribly sorry. I don’t—look, that takes no talent whatsoever and I have a lot of talent. I don’t need to get laughs by commenting on people’s looks, especially a young child who’s done nothing wrong. I mean, she can’t control the way she looks. And we really—we do not—we do not do that on this kind of show. So put a picture up of her now and so we can square this.
(Photo shown of Bill and Chelsea Clinton, who is making a sour face)
(Laughter and applause)
So Limbaugh “apologized” for that incident (which, again, if it was so horrible could have been edited and never aired to begin with) by again mocking Chelsea.
Classy.
— August J. Pollak - Jun 23, 10:01 AM - #Hey! Can I join in on the I hate Limbaugh circle-jerk! Get over him, people. The only reason he has a show is because of the only people listening/watching – liberals and democrats.
— Buck Jackson - Jun 28, 01:27 PM - #The Moral Majority rises again, with those Little Blue M & M’s…..that Limbaugh uses while on a limited Boy’s weekend out in the Dominican Republic….were those boys cavorting with the underage who are giving pleasure to the MORAL MAJORITY CLAN?
— J - Jun 30, 02:28 AM - #Incidentally, who oppose the new vaccination for preventing cervical cancer…..young girls and young women may WANT to have sex because of this vaccine…SO THE MORAL MAJORITY IMPLIES…
The MORAL PARTY, LYING, SPYING, DENYING, THEN DYING…AS LONG AS THE MORAL MAJORITY TRIES TO IMPOSE THEIR, (Rush Limbaugh principles) on the young and naive…..wow Generation XYZ what a life to look forward to….
Rush is to liberal to suit me, so I guess you are happy I’m not on the Radio.
— warren balderson - Oct 26, 12:51 PM - #His original statement was truly appalling, but what is worse was his “apology”. It’s things like this that show the true color of his character: he’s a mean spirited, bitter partisan hack.
— Ken Dryden - Nov 23, 04:07 AM - #There was a new in list and new out list that was published in the newspaper. The writer said in, cute kid in the White House; out, cute dog in the White House. Could we show the cute dog in the White House who’s out, and they put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton back in the crew.
— Scott Brison - Dec 5, 05:06 AM - #Please post the Lexis-Nexis transcript of the 1993 incident.
I know for some reason some of his kool-aide drinkers are trying to rewrite history to make him look better, but we need the facts out there.
— Jim Ausman - Dec 21, 01:58 PM - #What’s great is how much Rush gets under your (liberals) skin. If his rants are so terrible, I would say they shouldn’t be dignfied with response. But , here you are….. By the way, “Campus Progress?” That’s a contradiction of terms.
— Jamie - Dec 27, 09:48 PM - #This is a great article. I am new to your blog and i like what I see. I look forward to your future work.
— Ken Dryden - Jan 22, 04:15 PM - #Unbeleivable,
— Devon Haverly - Feb 23, 03:27 PM - #your attempt at what you call “progression” really comes off as the “hatred” you accuse Rush limbaugh as perpatrating. it’s sad all the hate liberals dish out, with such sayings as “i fail to see what is meant by Intelligent conservativism“Is that Fair? Or how about this oldy but A goody “theres no such thing as compassionate conservatism” I mean liberals(I used to be one until I matured) use hateful Hurtful language every day, Why is that ok? besides you must have something better to do than Obsess over rush Limbaugh. Very sad whatever…
Quite amusing that clearing up the facts about a historical incident qualifies as “hatred” to conservatives. Quite telling, that.
— Jim Ausman - Mar 14, 08:50 PM - #How disappointing! This site titled ‘Campus Progress’ seems to hold itself out as an enclave for the discussion of ideas by the educated. Instead, you’re apparently obsessed about whether Rush said something mean. You take no notice of the daily conservative philosophy he argues. Are conservative ideas so completely defeated on campus that it is now unnecessary to acknowledge them? Or are you taking the easy way out? You don’t have to overcome their ideas if you can make them unpopular? Some day (after graduation) you’ll find the real world doesn’t work that way. I apologize for my patronizing tone, but the content of this page begs for it. Muster up your campus courage and take on a real, meaningful ideological debate, and get over the juvenile discussion of ‘who’s mean spirited.’
— Brian - Mar 29, 06:15 AM - #Re: #5 Molly Ivins herself said in 1995 that Limbaugh blamed this on a technician. So unless you think this happened twice, this took place in 1992 as per the transcript. www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1995/05/ivins.html
— Doug - Apr 15, 08:12 PM - #I find it hilarious that conservative dittoheads troll through here thinking that this article pointing out Limbaugh’s hypocrisy and racist, sexist statements is somehow our sole approach to confronting conservative ideas. This article is not a liberal creed, it is information about the person that Limbaugh is. The schmuck has found a schtick that schtuck.
— Doug - Jun 8, 06:40 PM - #I also find it funny that most of the typos and grammatical errors are in the posts by conservatives. I guess learning how to spell and write clearly is part of that liberal bias on campus that they are so intent on avoiding.
— Jules - Jun 8, 09:27 PM - #Rush Limbaugh definitely pulls one over, but it is his faithful listeners- his dittoheads- who are his victims. He lies to them, he spreads rumors and half truths that these poor sock puppets regurgitate in public, proving to everyone else that they’re just idiots. Which is exactly how Rush, the $25 million a year propagandist, intends it.
— Blue Patriot - Jun 11, 11:19 AM - #Rush Limbaugh- making conservatives more ignorant since 1972.
CP should just get over Rush. Seventeen years of success days a lot about the issues and ideas liberals support don’t you think. Besides, until you treat the extremist Al Franken on Air America by the same standard you treat Rush you have no credibility. And finally, Air America cannot succeed without massive cash infusions from G. Soros. All they ever do on that network is beg for money; at least Rush does dusiness the old fashioned way – he earns it.
— Zackery Fischer - Jun 11, 01:22 PM - #Liberals have been taking Limbaugh out of context ever since he’s been on the air, becuase they don’t listen to the show. They get their quotes and sound bites from lib propaganda sites like Media Matters (funded by Soros.) Since they can’t win in the arena of ideas, they must use character assassination. Conservative principles are self reliance, hard work, liberty, personal responsibility, and freedom from government oppression (taxes.) Liberals have contempt for the common man with their elitist beliefs that people can’t achieve success on their own without some sort of government program or redistribution of wealth or the belief that some have hit the “genetic lottery.” Their feigned compassion makes me want to vomit, because they’re not interested in eliminating poverty, because if they do, they will run out of victims to which they can pander for more government power. But you can’t judge a liberal’s results, only their intentions like the Great Society and the tripling of the illegitimacy rate in America. Liberalism is absolutely the least compassionate political philosophy today because it teaches its followers to blame someone else for their misofortunes and to envy those who are successful.
— Bruce Higgins - Jun 27, 12:43 AM - #Liberals don’t understand the inspirational aspect of the Rush Limbaugh program. He gives listeners like me a sense of the tremendous opportunity available in this country I started saving and investing because I learned that the economy doesn’t suck, stopped feeling like a victim, was inspired to take risks, and challenged to think independently. He empowers people to pursue their dreams through hard work, has a great sense of humor , and he offers a perspective that I feel is purposely ignored and misrepresented on my campus. Here’s a portion of the program that illustrates what I’m saying pretty well.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062907/content/01125117.guest.html
— Kevin - Jun 30, 02:57 PM - #Progressives have no choice but to attack consevative pundits. You could hardly brag about Air America, MSNBC, NYT,etc. What are they gonna say…look at detroit 90 percent Democrat and what a great place to live. If you don’t mind murder,drugs, car jackings,etc. Or Washington D C what a freedom loving democrat stronghold-they don’t even allow legal gun ownership. The outlaws don’t ask they just get guns and victimize the other democrats. They have disgraced the capitol of our country. Wow the list goes on New Orleans true blue democrat and not the sense god gave a goose….hint a goose would flee a hurricane. Newark NJ wow another liberal bastion…don’t go there without a police escort though. Someone tell me what exactly is progressive about all the violent big city kill zones? But they are straight down the line democrat. One things for sure all races can walk the streets of a republican voting area without fear of being robbed or murdered . Can you say that about a democrat voting area? NO. Go ahead vote democrat everytime you can and watch your area go in the toilet. If good schools don’t matter vote dem. If safety doesn’t matter vote progressive. Go Hillary. Go Jesse. Go Sharpton. Go away!!
— scooter - Aug 13, 11:53 PM - #The blue-er the city the higher the murder rate.
— scooter - Sep 7, 10:18 PM - #The blue-er the city the lower the test scores.
I think it bothers liberals that Rush is the number one radio program in the world. His numbers dwarf this site and any other liberal talk shows or sites.
— Roy - Sep 13, 05:36 PM - #Being a famous conservative radio host can make you a target, but is it real he was at at place for escorts in the DR (www.charlisangels.com )?
— Charles D - Oct 9, 02:25 PM - #It could`ve been somewhere else. Thank God there`s no children in that place, just a bunch of Russian hookers!
I am sooooo glad I’m not American… And therefore not associated with morons like Rush and Sean Hannity in any way.
— David - Oct 16, 12:35 PM - #I for one am jealous of Rush.
What other job pays you millions to sit on your ass and basically spout the same crap that every barfly in America spouts?
What other job lets you sit securely in your bunker-like studio away from people who are critical of you?
What other job lets you make fun of someone with Parkinson’s disease?
What other job lets you stuff your face with $200 lunches?
What other job gives you the cash to buy Oxycontin by the pallet, and then let you cry for sympathy because you lost your hearing to drug addiction?
And what other job gives you the kind of cash to pay for Viagra-fueled vacations with all-male entourages to the Dominican Republic, the child prostitute capitol in the Western Hemisphere?
What other job, I ask you?
Jealous as all get out by Rush’s success? Hell yes, just like I’m jealous of the success of drug lords and the captains of the child porn industry.
— Rick - Nov 2, 11:32 PM - #I am pretty moderate, and listen to Rush when I can. I don’t always agree with him and he can be a huge egotistical blowhard; but he’s not anywhere close to what you are making him out to be. I used to hear about what a hate monger he was, until I listened to his show. It’s not bad, he’s a talented guy. There is no hate mongering. In fact, he often comments on the perception people who don’t listen to his show have of him and conservatives in general. “They think conservatives are homophobic, racist, xenophobic troglodytes” is I think how he puts it, and when I read things like this website, it makes him seem pretty right on.
I was listening to his show when he said the Michael J Fox remarks, and in context it was not malicious at all. Same goes for that whole “phony soldiers” fiasco. In real time, they were harmless, but taken out of context they were terrible things to say. And yet the media ran with it without so much as listening to the segment. Nobody who listened to that in context would have walked away with such malicious conclusions.
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