Rush Limbaugh is an overpaid blowhard fascist.

[Octafish]

A website indicated how much the NAZI is paid. It's based, uh, conservatively at $28 million per year. In the 26-minutes it's taken me to put together this OP, it showed he's earned $6,497.38.
That's a lot of money for a guy who uses his time to mock those who want to raise the minimum wage and to strengthen Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.



Three questions:

In "earning" all that money, what has Rush Limbaugh done to make this a better world?

What do you know he's spent it on?

Who can afford to pay a drug-addled sex-tourist such vast sums to lie?

EDIT: DUer Festivito reported the original link was hacking his system. I am sorry if the original link caused anyone problems.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. you are being far too kind in the title of your OP!

I can't come up with words to describe how vile, horrible, ...................


..............................

he is.

[Octafish]

14. Perhaps someone who knows him better can give us a glimpse as to how truly awful he is...

Rush Limbaugh: 20 Years of Lies and Hate

Rush & Coulter - Two Pigs in a Palm Beach Pod

EXCERPT...

Of course, we could count of Ann Coulter – the wannabee Rush – so in love with that pig that she moved next door to him a few years ago. Of course, Rush lives in a house – a thirty million dollar compound. Ann lives in a dump – a two family atrocity on a questionable street in Palm Beach which lost half it’s value the moment she bought it. Of course, Rush must have been delighted she moved sort of “into the neighborhood.” Now they can have lunch or dinner together in a real restaurant instead of having to make bologna sandwiches at home. You see, when Rush first moved to Palm Beach he found out that when he walked into a restaurant, half the people would walk out, shouting at him – even threatening him.

In other words, Rush is a pariah – even in Republican stronghold Palm Beach. Coulter is a piranha and a pariah. Together they can at least try to go out without being stoned by people who don’t think that Condi Rice is a God.

SNIP...

Huh? Well, I guess that is correct in a way – the so-called conservatives who have somehow become Neofascists in the last thirty years do just that, don’t they? They do whatever they feel like: declaring illegal wars, killing a million innocent women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan, throwing the Constitution in the toilet, enriching themselves personally drenched in the blood of our soldiers who they make believe they care for, destroying America’s economy, and making the world detest our wonderful country.

SNIP...

Even Coulter has to admit – and she does – that Limbaugh was fired over and over again from radio – not because of his “distinctive brand of conservatism,” but for hate-baiting blacks, gays, lesbians, liberals (also known as people who can read and comprehend rather than using Cliff Notes), and any other typical Nazi target he could find.

Liberals never said that Rush was in radio for the money as Coulter claims. Liberals believed Rush should be exposed for the fraud he is: a liar, a bigot, a hate-filled evil fat clown, and worse.


CONTINUED...

http://knol.google.com/k/rush-limbaugh-20-years-of-lies-and-hate#

Most importantly: Thank you for your kindness, NRaleighLiberal.

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. Now you're talking, Octafish! And thank you!

hoping you have a wonderful day!!!

:hi:

[Trailrider1951]

30. LOL, that title reminds me of a joke I once heard:

Q: "What is the difference between Rush Limpballs and the Hindenberg?"



































Wait for it.....













A: "One of them is a flaming Nazi gasbag, and the other is a dirigible."


:evilgrin:

[Octafish]

35. It's true! You sure know your NAZIs!

Then there's the level above him...



And the other level...

[90-percent]

2. Rush

There's big money in disseminating right wing propaganda.

However, I think the only way you can get in on this gravy train is to be a full blown certifiable psychopath. If you have any twinge of conscience or empathy, you will wash out.

-90% Jimmy

[Octafish]

18. The guy must've bought some clean urine to pass the drug test at ABC Disney.

ABC and the rise of Rush Limbaugh

The following brief history of ABC offers a perfect snapshot of everything that has gone wrong with the media. This remarkable story includes ABC's takeover by a conservative parent corporation, the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, the rightward shift of the evening news, the rise of conservative talk radio, and the cozy relationship between a state and a press that are supposed to be separate.

EXCERPT...

The Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987 by the FCC. Reagan had staffed the FCC with prominent media businessmen who were intent on slashing government regulations… the equivalent of letting the fox guard the chicken coop. Among the many other regulations slashed during the Reagan years were anti-trust laws that prevented the media from becoming a monopoly. Much of this was done under heavy pressure by corporate lobbyists.

In this atmosphere of deregulation, Capital Cities found the perfect time to take over ABC. Not only were all the legal restrictions removed, but by now Casey was head of the CIA, and whatever contacts existed between the CIA and Casey's company (in which Casey held substantial stock) were immeasurably strengthened. Capital Cities soon began buying out ABC stock. The facts of the acquisition remain curious and unconventional. Capital Cities was only one-fourth the size of ABC, and there were much wealthier corporate giants who were salivating over a plum like a television network. But word got out on Wall Street that the Capital Cities takeover bid was "protected" by Warren Buffet, a legendary trader often described as the "Darling of Wall Street." (Until 1995, Buffet was the richest man in America.) With Buffet's help, Capital Cities took over ABC. According to one source, a high-ranking CIA official teased Casey, saying, "I understand Sam Donaldson is working for you now."

Sam Donaldson would not be tormenting Republican presidents for long. By the Bush Presidency, Donaldson was removed from covering the White House and paired with Diane Sawyer in a weekly news magazine that covered political fluff. Brit Hume, a staunch conservative, would take his place, and the same torment that ABC once reserved for Ronald Reagan would now be directed towards Bill Clinton.

The new conservatism at ABC was subtle but apparent. Peter Jennings, noting that the program's "American Agenda" had a liberal slant, stated that the news would pay more attention to conservatives, since their ideas are "more provocative and less predictable on some issues."

During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales noted that of all the networks, ABC was the "friendliest to and least critical of the Bush Administration and its policies." After the war, ABC marketed a video of General Schwartzkopf's famous briefing of the war, entitled "Schwartzkopf: How the War was Won." It sold 80,000 copies. Later, it would market a video on life and times of Richard Nixon.

CONTINUED...

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm

Agree 100-percent, 90-percent Jimmy! The rich, such as the Koch brothers and Richard Mellon Scaife, always can spare a few million in tax write-offs to hire the, eh, biggest liars around.

[newspeak]

25. as long as he "catapults" the propaganda for the corporations

he'll always get airtime. Jeff Christy panders to some ignorant plebes, some actually thinks he's just a good old working guy like themselves. He's one of them, right? Wasn't daddy a lawyer, wasn't grandaddy a judge? But, he's digging those ditches with his fellow plebes.

Oh and anyone doing drugs should be put in jail and the key should be thrown away, unless your him or some politician's daughter. No it's only for the plebes, those same plebes that listen to his shite and think they're eating cake.

I really wished someone would have followed him to the dominican republic-we might get quite the tale.

Jeff Christy has a gig because the elite have to keep at least some of the plebes from looking behind the curtain. Oh, and if anyone mentions about it's what the audience wants? Well, when clear channel bought a radio station in SF, there was a very popular talk radio host (of course, he was liberal), they wanted him to change his format, he refused, he was fired. It's not usually what the audience wants, it's what the corporate masters' want. And, if they can keep repeating their lies enough over and over again, they think most of the plebes will believe it's the truth.

[90-percent]

32. 90-percent

90 percent is the legal limit of nitromethane fuel percentage in NHRA Top Fuel Dragster and Funny cars these days. I've been a drag racing fan since Don Garlits broke 200 mph at Island Dragway in NJ in 1964!

Although I now prefer nostalgia nitro - front engine dragsters and funny cars. It's a lot more grass roots and fan accessible and they allow unlimited nitro percentage! And the cars have names instead of corporate sponsorships! And they still run the full quarter mile (1320 feet). NHRA Pro Fuel is now 1000 feet, since the loss of the great Scott Kalitta at Englishtown a few years ago.

Thanks again for your research and posts, Mr. Octafish. You are a cornerstone of wisdom, insight and historically accurate facts here at our beloved DU!

-jim

PS

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAPTAIN-BEEFHEART-NEON-MEATE-DREAM-T-SHIRT-ZAPPA-FAB-/200512274336?pt=UK_Men_s_T_Shirts&var=&hash=item746ab529cf

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. What's new?

[Octafish]

19. True. Thing is only a relatively few will read this, while millions hear the vile scum every day...

So, we try. For instance:

Rush Limbaugh's Lies of the Week

EXCERPT...

Limbaugh reacted to the earthquake near Japan with great sympathy for the people killed there. No, I'm kidding, he actually used it to attack environmentalists, tell jokes, and discuss at great length how he likes to fly in his private jet over natural disasters, but he wouldn't go to Japan because he would have to land there: “Have you ever been tempted to take your plane and do a flyover in one of these big natural disasters to see it firsthand?” I haven't, because I don't have a private jet and I don't enjoy disaster porn. Rush, however, is very different from the little people he flies over in his jet.

Limbaugh joked about how the earthquake was 8.9 on the “Andy Richter scale” and wondered, “do the environmentalists cheer or do they pretend to be saddened by this?” Limbaugh claimed, “I have no doubt they're gonna try to claim global warming had something to do with the earthquake and the tsunami.” In reality, no one tried to blame the earthquake on global warming. But Limbaugh would never waste a chance to take a great tragedy and turn it into a mindless, nonsensical attack on liberals.

For Rush, the big news of the week was in Wisconsin, where he celebrated the Republican union-trashing as “a great and historic day” and added, “God bless and protect these courageous people.” Limbaugh argued that unions are evil because “95% of all deductions in dues go to Democrats,” which is both a lie and so incredibly stupid that you wonder if Limbaugh even understands that very little in union dues goes to political contributions. In another obvious lie, Limbaugh claimed that the Obama stimulus package led to “no roads, no bridges, no private sector jobs” and instead was all a political “slush fund” and “everything else was a fraud, everything else was a hoax.” Limbaugh also took the opportunity to make one of his classic racist statements, asserting that Obama's stimulus plan was passed because “he's the first black president, and therefore nobody dares utter a word of criticism of his policies.”

CONTINUED...

Gosh. That's something I hadn't thought of: Rush Limbaugh circling overhead while good people are drowning in a tsunami and radiation below.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Two undenial facts

1. The money's there from the advertisers and stations broadcasting his show.

2. His agent gets the contracts with Limbaugh's terms signed.

[BOHICA12]

9. True .... his brand of bravado has sold well for 25+ years ....

....he doesn't leave anything on the court most days. Truly a zealot.

[Octafish]

20. It's like he works for Capitalism's Invisible Army.

From ABC and the Rise of Rush Limbaugh

EXCPERT...

There are about 11,000 radio stations in the U.S., and Capital Cities/ABC is by far the largest player. Either through outright ownership or the sale of numerous services, they reach about half the radio stations in America, and this number is growing. With the Fairness Doctrine repealed, Capital Cities was able in 1988 to begin broadcasting one-sided editorials on conservatism. ABC Radio Network President Edward McLaughlin scoured the nation's radio stations for conservative talent, and his search led him to Sacramento, to a little known disc-jockey named Rush Limbaugh. Rush had attracted an audience with his vigorous and spirited defense of Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings. McLaughlin brought him to New York City for a one-month "on-air" trial at Capital Cities/ABC's flagship radio station, WABC. For the next two years, ABC put him on the fast track, handling all his marketing, advertising and promotion. For legal purposes, and to protect ABC's image of supposed objectivity, Rush formed his own media company, Excellence in Broadcasting. But to this day Rush continues to broadcast out of WABC's studios in New York.

ABC initially promoted Rush by arranging his appearance on other debating shows, from Nightline to Donahue to MacNeil/Lehrer. (Unfortunately, he did so poorly against real live experts that this practice was eventually stopped.) Perhaps the most eye-brow raising example of Rush's promotion was when he appeared on an episode of ABC's 20/20 for an interview with Barbara Walters. Given Rush's criticism of feminists as "feminazis," this interview was built up as a confrontation between a female reporter in the mainstream media and Rush's supposedly misogynist views. The fact that Barbara Walters herself is conservative was nowhere mentioned. During the interview, Rush came across as charming, humorous, reasonable and moderate, and Walters closed the segment by stating that she actually liked him.

Ted Koppel's incessant praise of Rush Limbaugh is also an attempt to bring him into the mainstream. The back cover of See, I Told You So blurbs: "As no less a liberal than Ted Koppel... said, 'You ignore him at your peril.'" On television, Koppel has laughed with admiration over Limbaugh, calling him "terribly articulate." But the anchor of Nightline is far from liberal; indeed, Rush Limbaugh had to publicly apologize to Koppel for calling him one. And researchers have criticized Nightline for featuring a highly disproportionate number of experts who are white male conservatives.

Rush Limbaugh explains his success as the result of his individualism, of his refusal to do it someone's else's way. But the fact is that his success has been orchestrated, financed and promoted by Capital Cities/ABC. He also seems extraordinarily well-connected to the Republican leadership in Washington, carrying out their campaign strategies so faithfully that it is difficult to distinguish his promotions from their campaign commercials. For example, when Rush's television show debuted nationally two months before the 92 election, his producer was Roger Ailes, who was Bush's media advisor throughout the campaign. Many of the themes that Ailes had inspired earlier in the campaign showed up in identical form on Rush's show, which resembled a program-length commercial for the Bush campaign. When asked to give equal time to his opponents, Rush responded "I am equal time!"

CONTINUED...

Most importantly: You are absolutely correct, no_hypocrisy. The money is there and it's all legal, fair and square. Unfortunately, in our capitalist system, that's what counts in everything from war to elections.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm

[HappyMe]

5. Oxy-s are expensive, I guess.

$6,500 in 26 minutes is just sickening. It takes some people 6 months to make that much.

[Octafish]

37. It IS sickening.

Furthermore, the guy is paid to use our airwaves to lie in a concentrated effort to deny Americans justice, equal rights, economic fairness, a public education, health care, Social Security, as well as an open, accountable and functioning government... along with peace.

[truebrit71]

6. ..and in other news, water is still wet...

...film at eleven...

[n2doc]

7. He's cheap for what he accomplishes

The Plutocracy can afford to throw a few dimes his way to keep him happy, and to hold him up as a "see what you can get if you work hard enough for us?" standard for their minions. Same with O'Wrongly and Beckkkk.....His salary is tax deductible as well, and paid for by gold scam and penis enhancement ads to boot.

[hobbit709]

8. He'd be an overpaid blowhard fascist even if he only got minimum wage.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. +1.

:evilgrin:

[fishwax]

24. ha! indeed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. That's the nicest thing he's ever been called.

n/t

[Festivito]

12. That first link (salary-money.com) seems to be hacking us users.

And, it is unlike Octafish to not be responding to responding posts. I hope his DU password has not been hacked.

[Octafish]

15. Thanks for the heads-up, Festivito.

Did not know that. I'll remove link immediately.

[NYC_SKP]

13. Yeah, but if it wasn't for his show I'd never have heard this---

He played Liz Warren's powerful talk about Class Warfare over and over again...

"But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate;..."

Shameless plug to OP with video and transcript:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1990339

:hi:

[krispos42]

17. Rush has the option that 99.5% of the people of America don't.

If he feels the tax "burden" that he pays is too high, he can simply stop working and live off his savings, i.e., income that was already taxed and will not be taxed again.

ALL the people bitching about "high" taxes have that option.


I sure as hell don't! :grr:

[Old and In the Way]

21. He's not making the Big Bucks to tell the truth.

truth is cheap and doesn't pay all that well. He's being paid these dollars to spin the lies that Corporate Republicanism needs to have broadcast. He's got years of experience selling the propaganda to the rubes that believe what he says. I like how he threatened to stop carrying the water for Republicans a few years back. Like everything else Rush says, that was a lie, too.

[SpiralHawk]

22. Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh is a boil on America's ass

[opihimoimoi]

23. He had convinced the GOPer Big Bucks he could sway the public as he did w Newt in 86

Desperate, the GOPers caved

He fooled them for 400,000,000.00 pieces of silver

[BuddhaGirl]

26. yeah, but it sucks to be him

He is obviously a very unhappy, bitter person with an incredible inferiority complex.

[Initech]

27. I can say this without any hyperbole: He is one of the worst human beings alive.

[rdking647]

28. inother news the sky is blue

[bertman]

29. Recommended even though I hate to read anything with the fat asshole's name in it. nt

[duhneece]

31. You left off 'pervert' or sexual offender

I can't imagine any other explanation for his Viagara bust:

"...Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage ..."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtml

When we know the truth, the kooky weirdness of J Edgar's sexual oddity will seem cute...that's my prediction.

[louslobbs]

33. Thanks for the post on one of the biggest Misanthropes alive.

Lou

[Mimosa]

34. What's the story behind his traveling companions?

Does anybody know about the other guys?

[totodeinhere]

36. The answer is that he is not being paid to "make this a better world."

He is being paid to get ratings and pull in advertisers and make money for the stations he is on. Like it or not he has the highest rated talk show on the radio.

[spanone]

38. you're much too kind.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. What's the difference between the Hindenburg and Rush Limbaugh?

One is a flaming Nazi gasbag; the other is a dirigible.

[devils chaplain]

40. Sadly...

I'm sure Windbagh does bring in that much money to his sponsors. I've met countless people who basically listen religiously to find out what their political opinions should be.

[Divine Discontent]

41. doesn't bopping Dominicans and making pimps wealthy in other countries count for anything?

he is a total slime ball of a person. I am amazed anyone can listen to him for five seconds... I cannot, more power to all of you who keep an eye on him (as is often the argument I hear as to why people listen, that and humor).

http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128002960205017719

[whistler162]

42. and in other news water is wet!

[Mnemosyne]

43. K&R for Truth. n/t