The Limbaugh Problem: A Conservative Laments
The David Frum cover story in Newsweek, “Why Rush is Wrong,” begins with the names he is being called by conservative talk show host Mark Levin; names like “a-hole,” “jerk” and “putz.” Of course, like Limbaugh, Levin is a talk show host whose job it is to entertain and get ratings. Next, Frum offers his extensive conservative bona fides and paints a picture of the differences between Limbaugh, who wishes he were the head of the Republic Party (and Republicans refuse to renounce that notion) and Barack Obama, who is, by nature of his job, head of the Democratic Party.
On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of “responsibility,” and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.
And the other side?
A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence-exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we’re cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush’s every rancorous word-we’ll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time.
The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush is; the more mainstream they become, the more Rush is marginalized. Frum then says Limbaugh is to Republicans now what Jesse Jackson was to Democrats in the ’80’s: they wanted to offer him respect for what he represented, but not have him be the face of the party. But this all helps Obama. As Frum puts it, the real beneficiaries here are Limbaugh, Obama, and Democrats, and Republicans come up short: “Limbaugh gets an audience, Obama gets a target and Republicans get the blame.” And what the Republican leadership that refuses to distance itself from Limbaugh doesn’t get is how generally unpopular he is.
Rush Limbaugh is a seriously unpopular figure among the voters that conservatives and Republicans need to reach. Forty-one percent of independents have an unfavorable opinion of him, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Limbaugh is especially off-putting to women: his audience is 72 percent male, according to Pew Research.
Republicans, as Frum points out, are trying to run a country that no longer exists. Even Newt Gingrich acknowledges we’re at the end of the Reagan era. The set of problems facing the country are different now and require different solutions. But Limbaugh and conservative talk show hosts in general have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Look at it this way: Rush has maybe 14.25 million weekly cume listeners according to Talkers magazine. That means 3 million-plus listeners a day. In other words, there are millions of people who don’t listen to him. In radio, a 10 share is enormous, something even Limbaugh doesn’t achieve in most markets. But even that number would mean 90% of radio listeners would be listening to something else, never mind the rest of the world that isn’t even listening to radio. To put it bluntly and accurately: We radio talk show hosts operate in relatively small universe. We’re not as important as we think we are. And we’re certainly not as important as those who think we’re important are.
Bombastic! It sounds like EL Rush-no more is an equivalent to Rev. Wright. So Hannity will be going after him soon. Maybe, Sean did set up Rush with a loaded question.People, Rush is the victim of a Nazi mother; and that’s why he is so vulgar with respect to woman.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I love Frum’s comparasions between Obama and Limpballs. Well, I’m sure Limpballs will be attacking him……for telling the truth.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Let’s continue to complain about a private citizen who is a paid entertainer.
If he isn’t as important as he and everyone else thinks he is, then why the heck are liberals still talking about him?
March 8th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Any talk of Rush having affairs during his three marriages? I honestly don’t know.
But if he did, Hannity will still him a free pass. He gave McCain a free pass for not only adultery, but to leave his wife in the condition she was in, to run off with some high-class looking hooker ~ all because he was a POW.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Bliss ~
Because he’s good for some laughs. When people become so sick and pathetic as Rush, the only thing left to do is laugh!
March 8th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
That and the irony of hypocrisy.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Hannity is the next target.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
“Republicans, as Frum points out, are trying to run a country that no longer exists. Even Newt Gingrich acknowledges we’re at the end of the Reagan era. The set of problems facing the country are different now and require different solutions. But Limbaugh and conservative talk show hosts in general have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.”
Exactly, let Frum get some ice cream or a big kiss from a pretty girl. These people are invested in not some ideology but keeping in place status quos that have long since expired in real politics. Keeping everyone talking about Fairness Doctrines and don’t ever touch on any real issues. Then proceed to call your show a news source and claim some high level of credibility.
We have a few of these right here on Alan.com
They accept nothing but Reagan or Bush-era policies and seem invested in keeping all the truths of the world away from America’s ears. Like that they lost the last election because of their failed policies. Or that millions of Americans can ‘thank’ our former President for losing their jobs or the loss to their retirement portfolio.
You know, American issues.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:37 am
If he isn’t as important as he and everyone else thinks he is, then why the heck are liberals still talking about him?
POSTED BY BLISSFULCONSERVATIVE
All you conservatives want the liberals to just move on from the Limbaugh issue because you guys are getting embarrassed. Truth is you’ve always been embarrassed of Limbaugh. He is like the loud and annoying uncle that nobody wants over for diner. When we or anyone is going to take a good hard look at his show and what he does he are going to find a man that has no material beyond mocking and slandering any group not approved of by the GOP power structure. It is not like other programs in that this man can’t go more than few minutes without needing a verbal punching bag. It’s like a disease or something. He just has nothing but venom and even the most viscous hater can hear what others might think of ‘magic negro’ etc.
So he isn’t as important as his media buzz is propping him up to be. Your right about that. He really never was anything but a radio guy with some harsh words for Democrats. Guess what? I’d love to get into radio some day and be the exact opposite. A Republican hater. Then we’d see the true colors of these spin artists. They’d all make up wild lies about me as I made the truth spoken by Steele and Frum look like polite gestures and praise compared to my sentiments on these half-an-American talk show hosts.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Before the election when Biden spoke truth!
http://www.thedailychange.com/before-the-election-when-biden-spoke-truth/
March 9th, 2009 at 1:31 am
“If he isn’t as important as he and everyone else thinks he is, then why the heck are liberals still talking about him?”
Because he demonstrates so ably that the radical right of the republican party is populated by puritanical cavemen and vicious dinosaurs.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Is that the SAME David Frum
(impotent, not gay)
that Rachel Maddow OWNED
and
wiped
her
panties
on?
Different?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Personally, I think that Limbaugh is the perfect representation for the Conservatives. He is self indulgent, mysoginist, hate-filled, sarcastic, has no solutions, only criticism. His racism and homophobia leeches out on a regular basis. He believes in economic warfare against the poor and environmental rape.
What has the Conservatives squirming in their chair is that although this is who they are and what they believe in, they can’t sell such an extreme agenda to moderate Americans, or Americans that can think objectively. Conservatives like to conceal their nefarious agenda, in order to make it palatable, behind such as issues as “family values” (although Republican policies have been anything but family friendly), or a divisive social issue (Gay marriage or guns), or,(when all else fails), wrap it in the flag, religion, or both.
Since the Conservatives have no clear spokesman currently, their REAL agenda is being broadcast by Rush just a little too loudly for them to win converts and elections. Since Limbaugh’s inflammatory rhetoric is only a pep talk to the already converted, it isn’t a very effective recruiting tool for those on the fence politically. That is what has them worried.
Personally, keep up the good work, Limbaugh. With your help, I can see the Democratic party’s tents getting more and more filled while folk’s flee the GOP like a sinking ship. Thanks to Rush, for exposing the REAL agenda of Conservatives. :)
March 9th, 2009 at 5:47 am
AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 9th, 2009 at 7:18 am
The Truth. That is what Rush represents. Rush is an unabashed conservative and proudly proclaims that. I am an unabashed conservative and I proudly proclaim that. Our views will win out in the long run. Most people live their lives on the conservative side.
You libs will not beat us down. We are to strong and truth is on our side.
RUSH IS A GREAT AMERICAN AND PATRIOT!!!
LONG LIVE RUSH AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT!!
March 9th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Here’s what’s REALLY funny:
Frank Schaeffer, whose father was one of the founders of the religious right, said,
“Today the Republican Party is rooting for doom. And since the Republicans are now anti-American members of an Obama-must-fail insurgency, lies become a self-fulfilling prophecy: talk doom, and keep the economy in a panic and we may get what we wish for.”
Following this current path, they are radidly becoming nothing more than the white nationalist party.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Old,
I am assuming that last comment is your own?? You are throwing racism into the mix. Are you assuming that everyone who disagrees with obama is white and a racist and everyone who agrees with him is non-white and not a racist?
RC
You mean people who actually stand for what they believe it and don’t cave to pressure from popoular culture?
March 9th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Are you assuming that everyone who disagrees with obama is white and a racist and everyone who agrees with him is non-white and not a racist?
Posted by blissfulconservative
………………………………………………
Nope!
Just the Limbaugh wing of the party.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Then you are calling me and millions of Americans racist. There are a lot of democrats who are now speaking out against his omnibus bill. I guess they are racist. And Michale Steele, is he a racist too? Do you think Rush doesn’t have black listeners??
Obama, his staff and liberals in general are going after Limbaugh because they need someone to hate. It is also convenient for them to focus on a private citizen rather than focusing on the crappy economy, jobless rate, war in afghanistan, war in Iraq that Obama is now in charge of.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Rush-no-more is irrational for wanting the president of the USA (reds & blues states) to fail. Their pre-election arguments never stop.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Pierre,
Many want his policies to fail. If you don’t agree with a policy you rationally don’t want it to succeed.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Liberals cannot or I should say will not accept the fact that Rush did not say he wanted Obama to fail, but that Rush, and I, do not want Obama’s socialist agenda to succeed, so in reality we want his policies on the economy to fail.
We want our president to succeed. We do not want our great nation to shift towards socialism.
But, then, you can’t expect liberals to be intellectually honest.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:57 am
We are calling those who apologize and parrot a man who says such racist things as,
I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.
Calling Obama a ‘halfrican American’
‘Barack the Magic Negro’
We are calling THAT racist.
You want credible opposition to Obama, get credible people with credible arguments, and stop hiding behind a racist, then complaining when you are smeared by the same racist brush.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Things sure are nice in Willy World.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:02 am
The most racist people in America are liberals. I mean after all, it is liberals who are always bringing up race in every facet of life. It was Obama who brought up race in the campaign. It is the drive by media who is always bringing up race. “Barack the Magic Negro” was published first by a liberal rag.
And the McNabb story is not racist.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Willy, you are getting to be as much fun as Rush Limbaugh!
March 9th, 2009 at 9:15 am
If you say to a Bully ” you are hurting me because I am smaller and weaker than you”—- he will keep hurting you. A proper name would be Barabarian, Evil, Demon ect.So stop using the word racist to describe the Rush-es and the Hannities. A so called racist embodies a false sense of superiority.So use proper names such as reptilian, repugnant, rat, ammphibian, abnormal, cancerous, indignant,infirm, superfluous ect. to describe those “Bastards”.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:18 am
So let’s start : Rush Limbaugh is a bombastic barbarian.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Not on this one Pierre. Willy is right on THIS one, let’s get behind him.
RUSH IS A GREAT AMERICAN AND PATRIOT!!!
LONG LIVE RUSH AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT!!
And I Add. Hail RUSH, the NEW leader of the NEW GOP!
Here’s the Maddow/Frum clip. She eats him up starting at 3:00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1uj2c0l9fA
March 9th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Okay. Let me get this straight.
When conservatives were in charge and you questioned them, you were called unAmerican.
Now that they’re out of power and you question them. The government is always wrong, maybe it should be overthrown.
Hannity had a poll on his website about how to overthrow the government.
Isn’t that bordering on treason?
Keep whining about “liberal ideas”. It is funny. Get used to “liberal ideas” because the state of our government is because of the failure of the conservatives.
Don’t worry Rush won’t be your leader for long. I’m sure you will get someone the will be very inspiring and (I’m sorry I can’t type anymore…)
March 9th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Hannity is a cancerous rat.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Rush is a heart attack waiting to happen. Have you seen the size of his a*s?
I find it hilarious when Rush and his parrots accuse us of racism. That is called projection. Look it up.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Once again Alan tries to make a case out of one conservative opinion and expects that opinion to be the consensus between all conservatives. yawn…this kind of rhetoric is getting a bit boring, Alan.
Also, it could be that the Republican Party thinks the whole “Rush is the defacto leader of the Party” (a democratic created moniker by the way) to be ludicrous…and doesn’t think it’s worth the “time” and “government resource wasting” to address the issue. All the while, prominent members of the Democratic Party continue to “waste taxpayer money” and write articles, op eds, give interviews, etc. on this very subject.
If the Republicans finally cave into your request Alan, you could resurrect your “republican feud” post. I know you’re just waiting in the wings to pounce on both inaction and action with regard to Rush…all the liberals on this site are.
No need to tiptoe around your feelings.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Rush is an amphibian.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Rush’s name must taste good because it is only every liberal’s lips lately.
You don’t want to talk about the economy, the jobless numbers, iraq, afghanistan, and pork. Didn’t obama say something about reading every line of every bill and getting rid of earmarks?
March 9th, 2009 at 10:52 am
BLISS,
That was a campaign promise…we couldn’t possibly expect a politician to stay true to what they say while on the campaign trail.
Notice I didn’t say Dem or Repub…
March 9th, 2009 at 11:04 am
“Once again Alan tries to make a case out of one conservative opinion and expects that opinion to be the consensus between all conservatives. yawn…this kind of rhetoric is getting a bit boring, Alan.”
Are you kidding me?
Tom Delay
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Bachmann
Mike Pence
David Vitter
Jonah Goldberg
Rick Santorum
And others have also said they hope Obama fails.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:07 am
LILY,
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!! You, and those similar, need to pull your collective heads out of the liberal spin machine…
All have said they want the policies Obama is implementing to fail. There is a HUGE difference there. If I could draw you a picture, I would. geezus criminey…
March 9th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Jared, you said “one conservative’s opinion”
I’m saying it’s not only one person who has that opinion whether or not we agree that it’s for the President or for his policies to fail. They all agree with him. So draw yourself a picture.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:15 am
What a boring topic already. Who said there is only room for one voice in the arena of ideas. Rush will be okay,, you folks can quit worrying about his job security already….
March 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am
All have said they want the policies Obama is implementing to fail. There is a HUGE difference there. If I could draw you a picture, I would. geezus criminey…
Posted by JaredfromTexas
Let me draw you a picture – If Obama’s policies fail the country fails – BECAUSE WE ARE IN CHARGE – GET IT?
March 9th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Those who have hoped that Obama fails, have themselves failed with their mantra( stop obama express; rev.wright &ayers association;palling around with terrorist; socialist).So no Bonus for them!!.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:21 am
LILY,
I’ll try the best I can here: Alan’s post was about ONE conservative writer and that writer’s opinion. Nowhere in the article did he talk about Delay, Malkin, Bachmann, etc. I was pointing out Alan’s post eluded to all conservatives believing the way this one guy does.
If you’d stop your conservative bashing for a second and actually read the original post, by Alan, you can see where my comments came from.
Even if your paltry list of conservatives agree with this “one conservative”, it isn’t reflective of the entire conservative body. That’d be like me saying all liberals think/believe the way Jer Wright does.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Secretly I think liberals wish they had someone like Rush. They were obsessed with Palin, then Joe the Plumber and now Rush. Saul Alinskly’s rules at their finest.
I don’t understnad why it is so hard for liberals to accept and comprehend conservatives who want policies that contradict everything this country was built on. I mean the liberals in this country have been saying for years that you can support the troops but not the war, right?
March 9th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Why have my last two posts not appeared? Hmmmm.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am
SOUTHERNGIRL,
You’re kidding, right? I very much doubt the success or failure of this great country rests on the shoulders of Obama’s policies. (sigh)
March 9th, 2009 at 11:24 am
southern lib girl
Tell me when it became the job of government to SAVE US???
March 9th, 2009 at 11:24 am
BLISS,
Apparently on Nov 4th.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Souther Lib,
we got it your in charge, nothing wrong with wanting you guys to fail, hopefully before you ruin the country. Thats like saying, now We are the captain of the Titanic, and if we run the engines up to full speed we can hit that iceberg 3x’s as hard as we were going to. I know that only sinks the boat faster, thus killing more people, but hey, the other way, a rich person might have survived…..and where is the social justice in that
March 9th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Jared, you said: I was pointing out Alan’s post [alluded] to all conservatives believing the way this one guy does.
I don’t see Alan inferring this.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Quote – If you don’t agree with a policy you rationally don’t want it to succeed. -
Pardon me? If you don’t agree with a policy, you may feel it WON’T succeed, but it seems like it would be very childish and vindictive to hope it DOESN’T succeed. I am amazed at the anti-American rhetoric on here. Why don’t you go move to Panama or the Cayman Islands?
March 9th, 2009 at 11:31 am
LILY,
apologies for the misspelling…that word gets me in trouble a lot as I never know which one to use…
I guess I’ve become accustomed to reading into the intent behind Alan’s posts.
I did finish watching that documentary, by the way. Maybe…just maybe…my first comments were a bit harsh…but it still seemed to infer a causal relationship between the neo-conservative movement and the soaring extremist behavior. That comment I believe was justified. I’ll retract my anti-american statement though.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:34 am
‘Later on February 13, Limbaugh stated, “Not only do I want Obama to fail, I want this package to fail. I want this to blow up in their face. I want this to be seen by the American people for what it is, nothing to do with getting them jobs, nothing to do with reviving the gross domestic product of this country.” Still later during the same show, Limbaugh said of the economic recovery plan: “I hope it prolongs the recession.”
If someone says, Not only do I want X, I also want Y, does that mean X and Y are the same thing? Maybe to some people, but to me it appears that he wants both the President AND the President’s policies to fail.
And how would you interpret “I hope it prolongs the recession?”
March 9th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Most americans did prefer Obama’s policies. Can’t they wait until the next election? Conservatism is not the only road that leads to Rome.Sarah is the only one that can see Rome from her house.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Warren Buffett – huge O supporter
Said he was against
card check
cap n trade
and demonizing ceo’s
Seems Warren does not like the road to Rome either,,,,,,
March 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
DRK, Rush just said that! do you know why?
March 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Bliss: “Rush’s name must taste good because it is only every liberal’s lips lately.”
Rush’s name doesn’t really taste good, but I do want him to be the head of the Republican party. (; That’s why I think it’s a good thing that he is so popular with SOME conservatives and, well, so unpopular with the rest of Americans. That only means the same will happen with the Republican party.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Vegas,
When are liberals going to stop focusing on the other party and focus on the business at hand? As someone pointed out earlier, the dems are in charge. In other words, if this economy doesn’t turn around in say 6 months, dems are going to be hard pressed to get re-elected.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Well, the last man standing is trying to justify his repugnant comment .He simply needs someone to say” Rush was right”.He also sarcastily chastised the catholic church for saying washing machine has a greater liberating role for woman than birth control pill.So you see! he is looking for a respectale voice to justify his own cynical thoughts.He really hates woman as a result of his castration by his MamaNazi.And that is why he gets tired of sex with woman just after 2 min.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Bliss: “When are liberals going to stop focusing on the other party and focus on the business at hand? As someone pointed out earlier, the dems are in charge. In other words, if this economy doesn’t turn around in say 6 months, dems are going to be hard pressed to get re-elected.”
I assure you that President Obama is focusing on the business at hand. There’s some ‘libs’ that just want to focus on Rush though. Let them. I can’t say that ‘BO’, as they love to call the President, can magically fix the world economy in 6 months. Maybe God can. Yea. I think God can.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
VEGASLIB…if you ask Louis Farrakhan…Obama is God.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
and be careful…you just acknowledged the existence of an all-powerful being…the other libs won’t like that very much…
March 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Jared,
Who cares about Louis Farrakhan… I do, by way of my upbringing, acknowledge the existence of an all-powerful being. I can’t say that it’s exactly as it was meant by my upbringers, though. You really do think that all Liberals are atheist, huh? God, enlighten this man.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
VEGASLIB,
I absolutely do NOT think all libs are atheists…it was a joke…you’re wound too tight today.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Rush’s next feud will be with Newt Gingrich , Not Louis Farrakhan. By the way , Rush had “no Cojones” this morning to put Newt in his proper place as he did with the black M. Steele.He only said that “Newt wishes that he was at the top where I’am”.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Jared,
I’m never wound too tight. I was only joking back man. (;
March 9th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
VEGAS…
aahhh…maybe I’m the one wound too tightly then.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Jared,
Haha. Now there’s something we might agree on.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
;)
March 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
ANOTHER RUMBLE in the JUNGLE IS COMING to a THEATER near you.
Rush Vs Gingrich
Let’s hope for a rational fight!!
No MORE KISSING A**.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
An all-powerful being is just what this world needs!
They would have to actually use that power for good though, or else what’s the point? The one we have now seems to like earthquakes, droughts and flooding a bit too much for my tastes.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
NIKOLAS,
Didn’t you know that’s the product of global warming and not God’s doing? Just ask Al Gore…heehee
March 9th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
“Notice I didn’t say Dem or Repub…”
Posted by JaredfromTexas
Thank you Jared. We democrats appreciate that.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
A NOTE FOR FOX NOISE:
K. ROVE DID NOT LET TO WASTE the 9-11 CRISIS.
HE PROMOTED FERVENTLY for a PERSONAL and POLITICAL WAR on IRAQ.
And a Fox-tube was at Cheney’s office to feed the american people.
So FOxy news, stop crying just because MSNBC will replace you at the white house for the next 8 years.You had enough complicity / or water carrying already( Hannity, O’reilly,Gavut, fox & friends ect).
March 9th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Hannity has just repeated the same taking points as Rush.
Is that a coincidence or Universal conciousness?
So why are they complaining about MSNBC being in
bed with the Obamas?
March 9th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Because they are.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Was Foxy news in bed with the Bushes? They had no complaint, then!!
March 9th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Well Jared I’m not sure which I would prefer, Al Gore’s version – where climate change is leading to more powerful hurricanes, rising sea levels and world wide drought and flooding – or that our all-powerful God gets His kicks from causing incomprehensible pain and suffering to His children.
I never enjoy argueing my beliefs online, but my God doesn’t punish and destroy and wreak havoc on His children. He has His hands full with creating the NEXT world, and see if THEY can all get along.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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March 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
NIKOLAS,
I believe you and I could go a couple of rounds debating global warming, etc…but honestly, I’m a bit tired of that debate.
Without suffering, how would we know gratification, and happiness? I’ve always found that a pretty convincing argument all in itself…but that’s for another day.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I was listening to Rush sometime in february, it may have been the same broadcast Lily quoted, and he said ” I want Obama to fail “. Rush said it more than once. I remember because my buddy (who is a right wing conservative) was with me and it sparked some heated discussion between us. I specifically remember him saying it that way, he even repeated it after a commercial break. “I want Obama to fail” , mean spirited and shortsighted at best, to be sure.
That being said I’m rather enjoying the corner conservatives seem to be painting themselves into, with Rush as their perceived leader, shouting conservative principles from the rooftops. It may serve to expose those failed ideals for what they really are, selfish, greedy, unkind, bullying, society destroying, divisive, arrogant and just plain wrong ideals. We are in this mess because of them.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
“Let’s hope for a rational fight!!”
Posted by pierre
We are talking Rush here; rational doesn’t
compute with Limpball.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Nikolas wrote: An all-powerful being is just what this world needs!
I’m available for the job as Emperor of the Planet Earth…………:) :) :) Do I need a resume?
March 9th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Willy wrote: LONG LIVE RUSH AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT!!
Rush won’t be living long weighing in at at weight usually reserved for beluga whales….:)
March 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Yes, Phillip,,,, hahahaha
Now run along and play with skeletor (James Carevelle) and let the grown ups talk now
March 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Poor Rush was whining like a whipped pup today. He is your typical bully – the persecutor turns into the victim. How could anyone find fault with America’s Anchor? I have many doubts too about his callers. I think probably all or most of them are plants.
He can critcize Obama all day long as being a poor speaker when not in front of a teleprompter but, I surely did not observe Rush as being a superior orator when he gave his speech to the nation.
I wonder when this party of conservative family values will begin stepping up to the plate to defend Michael Steele.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Typical conservative, whine, whine……..
March 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
DRK wrote: Now run along and play with skeletor (James Carevelle) and let the grown ups talk now
Ever heard of calorie restricted longevity? If the theory is true, then Carvelle will be broadcasting long after Rush has turned to dust……….:)
March 9th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
A SHORT-LIVED LEADER:
After anointing himself as the GOP leader in his “FIRST ADDRESS to the NATION”, Rush has stepped down.
He declared today that the GOP in Exile is leaderless as of 1pm easthern time.
Newt, among others has taken the crown off his Paget’s skull after only a week on the job.
Is Sean Hannity on deck?
March 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Pierre wrote : Is Sean Hannity on deck?
And the GOP meltdown, like Global warming, picks up speed….. :)
March 9th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
YER!! Sean Hannity has just been chosen to be the VP of Sarah Palin for the next election. A crazy ,costumed Lady with a feather hat has given SEAN THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
RUSH WILL BE MAD AND WIIL CHARGE sEAN FOR TREASON.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I think that Rush has gotten more listeners to his radio show lately because he did say Obama will fail. But not me, I listened once for about 10 minutes and that was enough. Maybe I’m stupid and that is why, I’m not sure. Maybe I’m smart and that’s why I don’t listen. But because of what he said I’m sure he has more listeners than he has ever had, what a stupid nation. But that is what is great about USA, people can listen/watch whatever they want no matter how smart/stupid they are. But don’t forget, he is a talk show host, entertainer not the head of a political party. And after you drink the kool-aid think about it?
Daniel ………… Toronto
March 10th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Daniel,
You cannot listen to anyone for only ten minutes and know what they think or where they are coming from. But, to me your post makes sense. Except the last sentence.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:56 am
El Rushbo, “talent on loan from God.” You realize that independent studies have been done to track Rush’s accuracy. They have found that he has been right roughly 90 percent of the time.
“Excellence In Broadcasting”. The man who sits behind the golden microphone.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Danielle,
I can only take about 20 minutes of Rush once a month…I don’t care much for his style.
My dad loves him like he was his real son.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pm