How is it that a puny, mediocre mind like Limbaugh's can make $50 million per year?

[kentuck]

Those that think he is intelligent are less intelligent than Rush and those are the fish that he throws out the bait for. They are a pitiful and sickening lot, those "ditto heads". They all have their degrees from the Institute of Broadcast Excrement. They have their heads so far up their asses they think they are pioneers.

Limbaugh was a failure at everything until the powerful conservative groups in this country saw how effective he could be at spouting their propaganda. He does the dirty work for them as they rob the people blind, including the ditto heads themselves. He says that Obama has never done anything but talk? What has Rush done?

Rush is the dummy that sells the act. And the stupid ones eat it up with a shovel. He is a mediocre mind that has reached the pinnacle of the American dream. He has done a lot of damage to this country in the last twenty years and his followers believe themselves to be educated. They are fools and puppets to be pitied.

[canetoad]

1. Because in the Hollywood tradition

He is relying on his looks.

Oh, wait.....

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Because in terms of marketing, he is successful.

Rush the Product sells. Companies buy advertising on his show and Rush's lemmings buy those products or services. Everyone goes home happy.

[notadmblnd]

3. they pay him good money to suck republican dick?

:shrug:

[jb2u11]

4. gotta give him credit

he puts on an entertaining show, not that he's right about everything but it is entertaining and gets one heck of a big audience

[kentuck]

7. I don't gotta give him credit for anything ...

but helping to tear down this country and build up his own bank account. He is not funny nor entertaining. He makes ditto heads feel good by talking about the "Democrat Party". When was the last time he made fun of any Republicans?? It's not like there is nothing to make fun of. He's a propaganda tool and if you can't see that, I feel sorry for you.

[left coaster]

8. hmm..

In what way does Limbaugh's spewing of hate filled lies entertain you, and what exactly has he been right about?

[evan2]

11. What are some things "he's right about" - in your opinion? nt

[jb2u11]

33. reply

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying i agree with him but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

My employess have him on most afternoons so I get to hear a lot of it as I walk through the different departments. Over the years it has opened my eyes to the fact that there are at least two sides to everything and things are not as black and white as I used to think.

Yes he stands behind the republican party but i guess i would expect a liberal talk show host to stand behind the democrats in the same manner.

[LibDemAlways]

5. Because his listeners have even punier more mediocre minds.

Never underestimate the willful ignorance and stupidity of the average American "moran." Rush sure hasn't, and it's made him a fortune.

[left coaster]

12. Yep.. as the old adage states..

There's a sucker born every minute.

[Bill219]

14. +10

[supernova]

6. Because raking in the clams has nothing to do with brains

The world is littered with poor-as-church mice PhDs.

Meanwhile one of the original robber barons, Cornelius Vanderbilt, could barely write.

[Orangepeel]

9. I don't think he is stupid

It takes cunning to be a successful con artist. He is a lazy shameless liar with no scruples, but I don't think he's stupid.

[frazzled]

10. The same could be said about many sports figures, actors, business people

We just have a bizarre system that sometimes elevates particular people to unparalled (financial) heights.

Talent has very little to do with it. It's just some weird thing in the zeitgeist that people glom onto. We see the same thing in the blogosphere: certain personalities, though they have no particularly better writing skills or thinking skills than thousands of others, rise to the surface and become the kool kidz with all the hits. I've stopped questioning this phenomenon: it's America. My tastes are always going to be a bit outside the mainstream. They always have been. So don't ask me to explain things.

[Junkdrawer]

13. After Reagan killed the Fairness Act, they auditioned sociopaths...

and Rush found something where he excelled.

[City Lights]

15. He bleats to an audience of sheeple.

His listeners are the dumbest people on the planet.

[kentuck]

16. But Rush is the "truth detector".

He is right 99.6% of the time. He told us so. Yeah, right. Stupid motherfuckers.

[left coaster]

22. Absolutely..

Who would willingly refer to themselves as "dittoheads"??

Those without a single, original thought inside their heads, that's who.

[nxylas]

17. He's good at peddling a pro-establishment message in anti-establishment drag

Always a winning combination as far as our lords and masters are concerned.

[WI_DEM]

18. because lots of other puny, mediocre minds listen to him.

[Gman]

19. Yet more enduring proof that there really is a sucker born every minute

and Rush takes full advantage of that. Doesn't take too much smarts to be a huckster.

[cherish44]

20. because he's convinced millions of stupid people that he cares about them

same thing that televangelists do

[tom_paine]

21. Why did someone like Julius Streicher become the Voice of Germany?

Same answer.

[HopeHoops]

23. Hate sells.

[gateley]

24. Fear sells. nt

[Edweird]

25. Lots and lots of fellatio on GOP'ers?

Other than that, I got nothin'.

[gratuitous]

26. Because H.L. Mencken was right

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. And the combined intellectual firepower of the assembled masses of dittoheads couldn't spark a puddle of gasoline on a hot day in the desert.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. It's easy...very, very easy.

The first (and most critical) step is to surgically remove your conscience, to do away with any discomfort faced when viewing your target audience as "rubes" or "marks."

If you want to follow me,
you've got to play pinball.
And put in your earplugs
put on your eyeshades
you know where to put the cork

:patriot:

[bridgit]

28. Joe Pyne & Wally George could have made the same money if they stuck with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLYYIh8uEo0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6AwD5ROdA&feature=related

[optimator]

29. 99% of his audience are Democrats

I'm tired of hearing about him.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. He embraces an astonishing willingness to be unapologetically and consistently wrong

Most people care about being factually informed and correct. Rush does not.

[guardian]

31. Goes to show

there is no justice in the universe.

[DBoon]

32. keeping white america in line is worth it to his corporate masters

He channels angry against the left and against minorities and scary foreigners.

Without celebrities like Limbaugh, the corporate overlords know they might have to face another Eugene Debs, or at least a Huey Long.

$50 million is a small price to channel that anger against the weak and helpless, instead of against those who are really responsible

[Greyhound]

34. Born to privilege, he like shrub, has failed his way up his whole life.

Dickhead Mellon-Scaife poured millions into creating Limpballs.

[Blue_In_AK]

35. The same way a brainless liar like Sarah Palin

can be considered by some to be a viable presidential candidate.

[raccoon]

36. They're fools, all right. Recd. nt