Democrats launch campaign to get 'rush limbaugh off the air'

Nah, he just makes liberals feel superior, but then they do that without Rush.

 

My contempt is not for Limbaugh's addiction. It's for his hypocricy.

The whole time he had that problem he railed against it on the radio constantly, even as he was having his houskeeper score oxy for him.

I don't feel sorry for people who behave like that. Nor do I respect them for publically claiming that they were exhonorated when, in fact, they were convicted.

I don't care about Limbaugh's private life either. But I have have problems with him preaching family values, when he spent years talking about a non existant happy marriage to his second wife, when in reality, they didn't even live in the same house.

He is the most listened to talk radio screamer. Which is a lot like being the world's leading buggy whip company in a world full of cars.

His average listener is a 67 year old white male (his audience is nearly 100% white), and is aging steadily.

Many people appreciate what he does. He validates their prejudices and narrow world view, and the bob their heads in agreement. He is the mirror of their prejudices. His cohort will follow him into retirement and eventual irrelevance.

His influence has declined significantly in the last few years, as has his ratings, and earning power (for his syndicator, which had to cut their prices to keep him on the air).

His contract comes up in 2016. He'll be renewed. But at a far lower rate than he's getting now.

He's on the way out. It will be a slow walk, but his best days are behind him.

 

Boy you sure do have a complete knowledge of the guy.
At least you don't lie and say you don't listen to him.
You obviously listen to his entire show, every day.

Although I must point out a couple of your lies...

#1

Assuming you mean drugs (as in the old lefty talking point failure that he vilified drug use while using Oxy).... you're wrong.


#2

Well, you debunked that one yourself, in the novella you typed above.

 

No, I turn him on three or four times a year.

The only time I have ever listened to him for more than 15 or 20 minutes (which is the standard span during which he will say something completely ridiculous or absolutely false), is when I was in the South and stuck in a rental car that didn't have satellite radio.

There was some reporting on him during his trial for perscription drug shopping. Sorry, but he did routinely rail against drug use and drug users while being one himself. Of course, every one of you Limbaugh excusers waltzed right past the fact that he claimed that he was exhonorated, when, in fact, he pled out. That's probably the biggest lie he ever told (which is saying quite a bit). And every single one of you ignores it.

I don't hate Limbaugh. In fact, I've always viewed him as a rather pathetic figure. Most blowhards and demogogues are. The famous ones, Father Couglin, McCarthy, Walther Winchell, eventually faded into obscurity, and were forgotten by thier audiences.

So it will be with Limbaugh. His genius was grasping at a successful business model in an industry that was facing irrelevance (AM radio). He singlehandedly prolonged the life of AM radio by thirty years, and made himself and a few others rich.

Few young people listen to Limbaugh, or to AM radio in general. As his cohort ages, AM will slide into its inevitable decline.

I suspect that Limbaugh will finish his days online, as the bandwidth that is now AM radio will eventually get snatched for more productive and profitable uses by other technologies.

In any case, he'll be the voice of small town and blue collar Archie Bunker types as long as he's around or they are.

He had a very good ride. He made a lot of money.

I do dispise what he stands for. Ignorance, fear, bigotry, misogyny, character assasination and xenophobia are not pretty things. But Limbaugh, like Winchell and Couglin before him, proved that they are a rich vein to be mined.

 

And still no examples.

 

You

I see he offers no apologies to others who are drug addicted that he railed on all the time he was an addict himself.

Laughable that he says he turned everything around in just 7 weeks of rehab. It's a lifetime time of introspection, but he's so effing great he can do it in 7 weeks.

 

All of your rant does nothing to change the fact that Limbaugh is a lying, distorting POS.

 

All your hate does nothing to change the fact he's a popular talking head who's made a success of his career.

Not likely he cares what you think.

 

Again.............................. please provide examples of where Rush ever railed against drug addicts? And what makes you think he isn't in a constant state of introspection? You can't stay in rehab all your life in order to 'introspect. You're not even being reasonable about who can be rehabbed in what period of time. Are you some expert in rehab?

 

Have you ever suffered chronic pain? On the 6-7 level or higher on the pain scale? Do you conflate people fighting chronic pain with recreational drug users?

Just wondering.

 

Its soooooo cute that you think that he cares what you think.

He doesnt care what ANYONE thinks or feels. He could care less if that vomit from his piehole is hateful.

 

If they are trashing others for drug use....you better effing believr it. I know yall think hes Superoxycontinman...but hes an ass none the less.

 

There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Mr. Limbaugh declared on his radio show on October 5th, 1995.***

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Stoned Rush Limbaugh Makes Hypocritical History
By Demanding Harsh Penalties For Other Drug Users

Hypocrisy: hy-poc’ri-sy, n.(LL. hypocrisies; G;R. hypokrisis, a reply, acting a part, feigning, from hypokrinesthi, to answer, play a part, pretend; hypo, under and krinisthai, to contend, dispute.) a feigning to be what one is not; the acting of a false part; a deception as to real character and feeling, especially as regards to morals and religion.*

"The truth is now back on the airwaves; equal time is back in America,"** declared Rush Limbaugh in reopening his radio show recently after returning from an upscale drug rehab center.

But was truth back on the air? Was it ever on the air when Mr. Limbaugh used his particular linguistic skills to attack everyone and anyone who was not supportive of a hard right-wing agenda? Those questions are particularly valid now that it is apparent Rush Limbaugh lives by and within a double standard.

After having been caught abusing some of the most powerful new drugs available, Mr. Limbaugh appears both defiant and unrepentant. Assuredly, when he was exposed and about to be investigated, he admitted to using painkillers, and excused himself by declaring he became addicted because of serious back pain. But whether that excuse is facile or not, the central point is that he did not assume the responsibility of his actions, a point that must be illustrated because it is precisely what he demands of others.

"There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Mr. Limbaugh declared on his radio show on October 5th, 1995.***

He concluded the point by noting: "What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we’re not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."***

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http://www.bradleyreport.net/commentary/StonedRush.htm

 

Absolutely... just look at Barack Obama.

 

So!.....is Rush off the air yet?.....no......because that'll never happen.

This thread just feeds into the hysteria righty media feeds conservatives to make them fell oppressed, and angry.

 

I don't know the emotion - hate. Perhaps you can describe it to me. Other than that, the rest of your post is correct. For once.

However, the correct parts still don't change the facts of him being a distorting, lying POS.

 

You provided the video. Did you not listen to it? 7 weeks and he's cured. All perfect again.

And I've heard plenty from Limbaugh and his take on the drug culture. All the time he was deep (*)(*)(*)(*) in the middle of it.

 

What I compare is Limbaugh shopping doctors and having his housekeeper, his pusher if you will, obtain drugs illicitly to feed his addiction. All the while criticizing the scum drug users of America. People come across their addictions in many ways, but an addict is an addict. To crap on one type when you are just as addicted is the mark of a POS human being. Limbaugh fits that definition perfectly.

Don't like it? Tough. It's the brutal truth. That's what he did and what he stood and stands for.

 

For????? This i cant wait to see. Lemme guess: cigarettes?

I have a sneaky suspicion that you really are going to go there. Pi.ti.ful. Wow.

 

Well, I’ll just chalk this up to making one’s own facts up = the truth.

As usual, having a discussion with a liberal is always entertaining.

 

I wish I could say the same about conservatives.

 

An excellent, often forgotten suggestion - WTF is forcing Liberals to listen to El Rushbo? They do listen to him, of course...

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You supposedly tolerant, inclusive Liberals have no tolerance but anger and malice toward anyone, not sharing your ideas.

 

I have plenty of tolerance. I support churches with my tax dollars despite being an atheist. I accept gays and support their efforts at being treated just like the rest of us, even though I'm a heterosexual male. I even accept Rush's 1A rights to chronically lie and distort.

If the ideas coming from today's conservatives weren't so extremist fringe, they might be worth debating. But your side has become such a distortion of moderacy, it's difficult to have a conversation. You wish to marginalize your own citizens that are different from you. If one is gay, a minority, on welfare, a union member, a government employee, a drug user, on and on, you see them as less than human. Every ****** thing that either Obama does is evil. You will support corporations profits over the people that provide those profits.

So, yeah. I have pretty much lost patience with today's extremist conservatives. As has most of America. You are hardly the patriots you try to portray yourselves as. Just the opposite. Your inability and unwillingness to govern is pulling this country down. Until your party pulls its head out of its ass and returns to sensible leadership rather than banner waving ideologues, you'll continue to lose national elections and gridlock in Congress will remain the norm. If that's the way you like it, great. I'm fine with a Democrat as President. The gridlock, no.

 

The FACT of the matter is that the TRUTH is this: while windbag was talking (*)(*)(*)(*) about drug users and their dealers he was IN FACT popping up to 30 pills a day and getting his housekeeper to be his mule. I think they should both do jailtime. That IS what HE was saying.

Two-faced? Nah, not him.

 

It's not a rant.

It's simply information about who is behind this phony "grassroots" campaign to malign Rush.

A whole 10 or so big time entrenched lib morons. That's why this has been going on for 2 years and has no real results. The advertisers know they are being scammed by these idiots, and are being used for the statists political purposes.