I Forgot How Much I Hated Rush Limbaugh

[AlFrankenFan]

Okay, this is my first thing I written for my site that I've posted on DU. Here goes.

12/15/03

I was forgetting today, as I was lying in bed staring at the ceiling, why I hated Rush Limbaugh. I hadn't heard him on the air in over five months, so I decided to check and see what he was gloating about this week. This is from the last hour, which I had the unfortunate pleasure of listening too, and if this is from one hour, I can only imagine what three is like.

Among the names I counted, as there were many, Rush bashed liberals and democrats, calling them "discombobulated", "out of their minds", " don't like or trust America", "insane" and other names among those.

The first subject that caught my attention was that of the late Strom Thurmond's illegitimate black child, and how he claimed Jesse Jackson had illegitimate children, too. Every time he said Jackson's name, he prounounced it in an odd manner, almost a Southern Black accent, like: "The Reverend Jack-sn".

Also, he discussed the matter of a 4'4'' teenage boy in London that was ridiculed at his former workplace, a grocery store, for being too short, and I believe is suing them. He said in part that "Howard Dean, being only 5'6'', is probably going to join his side", and that was only one part of the heavy Dean and Clark bashing that went on throughout the hour.

Then, on how "liberals don't want Sadaam to get the death penalty", he gave a very moronic metaphor: "Liberals, come gather 'round the Christmas tree, oh wait, I forgot, you want to ban that, too....well, gather 'round like it's a Planned Parenthood broadcast. Sadaam is an unwanted late term fetus. So you abort it. That simple."

He then went on, gloating at his "genius" comparison for the remander of the show. During an ad break, a radio announcer voice called Rush "the best talk radio host of all time". And, I ask, if he's the best, how come he can't get off the AM dial?

[LatteLib]

1. Good points, FrankenFan

I believe his 3 hours of radio time spent calling Democrats names, his lack of actually promoting a "political arena" (since he screens his callers and never has any guests to debate opposing views) has probably fueled his minions with hate for their fellow countrymen.
It is sad that there are people that depend on him for his opiate skewed idea of the "facts". It is even more grievous that there are people that are still hanging onto his "facts" as gospel.

[Manix]

2. I heard a conservative radio host say yesterday that there is real

anxiety among their ilk, not yet shown publicly. For some,
only one or two more bad twists in this drug escapade will have
them bailing on this guy.

[dutchdemocrat]

9. I don't think Limpdick

I don't think Limpdick can beat it. From what I have seen in Freeperville lately. Sure there are diehards but it's well past the point now where one cannot criticize Rush there anymore. No matter what he says, he is being damned. The blackmail allegations backfired big time...

[formactv]

3. shrinking gene pool

Allowing only closely likeminded callers is like preventing new blood in animal breeding. The craniums are getting smaller on the Limbaugh show. His arguments are specious; he loots news for shreds to cut and paste for his minions to hear. He states plainly that he will do the thinking for his listeners- and they eat it up.

[fineyounglib]

6. like minded callers

Dude, this forum is for like minded people.
I don't like Libaugh either, we need the same on the left.
What makes Rush popular is his like minded audiance, much like this forum. You would not want to hang out in a Republican forum would you? We just need someone to get started and stick with it, the show needs to be professional as well, if you ever listen to Rush, you don't hear mistakes.... you know like Stern... he tries to put in some tape or music and can not find it. The ten or so times I have listened to Rush (I was tied up, part of toture, I was in the war), I never heard one mistake, that is what I caught, probably because I was not listening to what all the loonies said.

[Name removed]

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[gator_in_Ontario]

5. How long will swabby last?

Let's start a pool....

[GOPFighter]

7. For awhile...

...my dream job was to become a liberal Rush Limbaugh. What a fantastic job it would be: spend 3 hours a day making the most absurd, hateful accusations about conservatives (what could be so hard about that?) and probably get rich doing it. Wow!

But you know, I began to realize that on most days I couldn't do it. Mainly because I don't hate myself, my country, and my fellow citizens (even if they are conservative) enough to do it. Yes, there are days I am filled with enough anger and bitterness to vent like Rush, but most days I feel more depressed that some on the right DO hate this country enough to turn citizen against citizen. Or maybe they're just too greedy and amoral to care.

The best way to deal with Rush and Ann and all the other RW haters is to poke fun of them. I'd love to see a Saturday Night Live-like venue where we could put on skits lampooning the hate-mongers and the neocons. People will respond better to humor than to a flame war.

[Skittles]

8. you are also

not drugged out of your mind

[leyton]

10. Today...

A liberal woman called in to the show to say that though she was still a liberal, she had been tuning into the show for several years regularly to hear what the opposition said. She basically said she respected him because of his firmness in his beliefs. (Why? Why, oh why?) So he launched into a 'You liberals' and berated her for listening to his show and still being a liberal, when she called in to praise him. What a jackass.

[AlFrankenFan]

11. Jeez

What a jackass!