Great article on Limbaugh here -

[John_Shadows_1]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979355.asp

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Rush Limbaugh has always had far more followers than friends. Bombastic and clowning on air, shy and bumptious off it, Limbaugh could count on 20 million “Dittoheads” and talk-radio fans to tune in five days a week. But it’s hard to find many people who really know him. He was a lonely object of mass adulation, socially ill at ease, at least occasionally depressed and, for the past several years, living in a private hell of pain and compulsion.

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But Limbaugh’s story owes more to the “Wizard of Oz” than “The Scarlet Letter.” The man behind the curtain is not the God of Family Values but a childless, twice-divorced, thrice-married schlub whose idea of a good time is to lie on his couch and watch football endlessly. When Rush Limbaugh declared to his radio audience that he was “your epitome of morality of virtue, a man you could totally trust with your wife, your daughter, and even your son in a Motel 6 overnight,” he was acting. He “regards himself as an entertainer who is very pleased that people pay attention to his political views,” says Wall Street editorial writer John Fund, who collaborated with Limbaugh on one of the radio host’s books (“The Way Things Ought to Be”).

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But his personal life left something to be desired. Despite his fervent moralizing, he smoked a little pot and watched a little porn (as he has publicly admitted).
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Looks like he was an angry, depressed, alienated man putting on a show - they fail to mention all the damage he's done, though.

[kaitykaity]

1. Locking. Dupe.

Please discuss here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=521462&mesg_id=521462

[paulsbc]

2. Rush, IMO, is a person

who knows how to say what people want and entertain them in such a way to maximize his profit. I've never considered him more than a talking head that says what the audience buys, and like a skilled minister we've seen plenty of times in the past, tailoring his message to maximize the audience / profit.

Contrast that with people like Hannity, Bennett, and other conservatives who actually think what they say is true, they scare me much more than Rush :)