Lying Piece of Shit = Rush Limbaugh
Lying Piece of Shit = Rush Limbaugh
He had an incredible collection of neckties.
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Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak
Way to completely miss the point.
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People can make whatever political petty comments they want about Rush. He alone created national talk radio, its a massive industry now, both on the left and the right. He did it, and naturally bitter people on the left are relishing his death. It does not take away from the fact he created the AM talk radio industry by himself. Without Rush AM radio would have died a long time ago, give the man his due.
Walter, for real through did you also know some “ Brothers” back in the day who chased the white girls with big asses to leach off the walfare proceeds?
-Allergic to the struggle
Guy is sharp
If it wasn’t for the Rush Limbaugh show saving a couple Houston radio stations...we would not have that fuck head Dan Patrick as our Lt. Governor.
Rush was a onetime ordinary guy who truly loved radio and basically perfected a format which had existed in the background for decades, and brought it mainstream.
Born into a wealthy family, he could have coasted on that, but instead chose to go chase a radio dream. This pissed off his dad (also named Rush), who wanted him to go to college and enter a professional career. Rush bounced around various stations and didn't find much success, until he started a political talk show at a Sacramento station called KBFK. He incorporated the entertainment element into the show (which he had learned from being a top 40 DJ), and that separated it from the dry, monotone right wing talk shows of decades past. This eventually exploded into a syndication deal, and by 1991, he had become a big name. By 1992, he had become a huge name.
If you're old enough to remember the blowout Republican victory in 1994 midterm election, that was largely credited to Rush's influence, though Newt Gingrich had a big hand in that, as well.
Rush can be credited for getting a lot of average people into following politics in the 1990s. He had a talent for breaking down complex political issues into language the everyman could understand, while presenting it from a convincing conservative slant. He didn't come off as extreme or angry. The show even had some comedy elements to it -- something unheard of in conservative talk radio beforehand.
Rush was a flawed human being. He had a lot of divorces, and likely wasn't a very good husband. An easy insult to lob at him was "misogynistic", but I think this was more of an inability to adapt to changing times. Rush grew his brand by being occasionally outrageous and controversial, and had a hard time in the 2000s figuring out which lines not to cross regarding insults which could be considered sexist. Also, it's important to understand that he spoke about controversial material several hours a day, for 5 days a week, for over 30 years. With that large volume of speech, it's likely you're going to mess up and say something stupid every so often.
The pill addiction is often misunderstood. He wasn't doing pills for pleasure, but rather overusing them because of chronic back pain. This was stupid of him, but not your typical case of drug abuse. Even his "doctor shopping" and buying pills through his maid -- which was illegal -- wasn't nearly as bad as it looked. By that time, he had become hooked on the pain pills, and felt awful unless he got his fix. While I wouldn't let this happen to me, it's understandable how he fell into it. This happens to millions of Americans each year.
I didn't really like the direction Rush went during the Trump years. He seemed to have lost his ability to think for himself, and turned into a Trump-defending drone. Donald Trump is the type of guy you can't blindly defend 100% of the time, or you end up looking like a fool. While Trump was definitely treated unfairly by the media, he also deserved some of the criticism. Rush wasn't having any of it. Rush also seemed to give some consideration to the Obama birther theory (also pushed by Trump at the time), which was embarrassing.
I prefer to remember Rush for his 1990s work, and as a talk radio pioneer. I'm under no delusion that he was perfect or without faults, but he wasn't a bad guy. When it all came down to it, Rush was a regular dude with regular dude attitudes of someone born in the early 50s, who happened to have found his niche in right wing talk radio, and was wildly successful at it.
RIP
That's what he said
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Guy is sharp
-Allergic to the struggle
Rush was prescribed pain medication and became addicted. This has happened to millions. It could have been his downfall but in true character he cleaned it up. He invented conservative talk radio. Paved the way for Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Glen Beck. Liberals tried to copycat him with liberal talk radio but failed miserably. It's why they started pushing the Fairness Doctrine.
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Good article by Erick Erickson, about his friendship with Rush Limbaugh:
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/my...h-limbaugh-rip
Aside from the hypocrisy, who gives a shit about the pill arrest? Addiction, pill abuse happens to some of the best of us.
Rush was a racist, misogynistic piece of shit who injected pure vitriol into the zeitgeist, dumbing down political discourse in this country to an irreversible point.
Incredibly smart at knowing what to feed what eventually became Team Retard, he was really no different than some megachurch priest.
I really hope he cared about conservatism, because if so, he died with the QOP having just lost the Senate with an incumbent getting bodied by over seven million votes, Georgia flipping and Dems inching their way toward flipping Texas and gaining ground in other once solid red states. Party is in absolute disarray, which must have been unpleasant at the end to think about.
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With all due respect .... every once in a while remind yourself that there is an audience. A receptive audience. Agitated, discontented, distrustful and disrespectful of the establishment. This is not your parents’ Republican Party.
As Brad Parscale points out, “beating impeachment twice will give Trump super powers with his audience”. The fans in the bleachers eat this stuff up.
Rush knew his audience.
There is TDS and now there is RushDS. They are “made in America”. Deal with it.
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No. I chased them for a different reason. If anything, I was their welfare check, until it was time to move on.
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The above typifies the simplistic attacks on Rush's character that we've seen for decades. The left hated him because he gave the right a voice to the average American. Prior to him, right wing talk radio was only for existing right wingers who wanted to hear their viewpoints affirmed. Rush was different. He spoke to both the right and the center. He made it easy for the center and the apolitical to understand why they might want to consider voting Republican, and why the angelic narrative about Democrats sold by the media was a lie. Prior to Rush's ascent into prominence, the left thought they had the monopoly on messaging -- given that they controlled both the media and entertainment industries.
You're too young to remember 1990s Rush. Even in 1999, you were like 12 years old, right?
There was nothing racist or misogynistic about his show -- at least not by the standards of the day. Sure, by hypersensitive, ultra-PC 2020s snowflake standards, you can find objectionable material. But viewed through the lens of the period, Rush was making a strong case daily for conservatism -- and he was doing it with cheer, humor, and (usually) class. He wasn't a shock jock.
As I said, he didn't adapt well to the 2000s and beyond. But that's common of older people who can't quite adapt to the rapidly changing world around them.
The bottom line is that the left hated him because he put an end to their one-sided deception of the public, and they didn't like that. To this day, they're still bitter about it, so they chose to take a few offensive comments he made over the years, and trick youngsters like you into believing those defined him.
So for him to air a song called Barack the Magic Negro is not racist, or to call a woman who dared to propose that the ACA cover contraception a "slut" and demand that she post videos of her "taxpayer-funded sexual encounters" is not misogynistic, and those incidents say nothing about who he was as a person and the worldview he was encouraging/reinforcing among his listeners?The above typifies the simplistic attacks on Rush's character that we've seen for decades. The left hated him because he gave the right a voice to the average American. Prior to him, right wing talk radio was only for existing right wingers who wanted to hear their viewpoints affirmed. Rush was different. He spoke to both the right and the center. He made it easy for the center and the apolitical to understand why they might want to consider voting Republican, and why the angelic narrative about Democrats sold by the media was a lie. Prior to Rush's ascent into prominence, the left thought they had the monopoly on messaging -- given that they controlled both the media and entertainment industries.
You're too young to remember 1990s Rush. Even in 1999, you were like 12 years old, right?
There was nothing racist or misogynistic about his show -- at least not by the standards of the day. Sure, by hypersensitive, ultra-PC 2020s snowflake standards, you can find objectionable material. But viewed through the lens of the period, Rush was making a strong case daily for conservatism -- and he was doing it with cheer, humor, and (usually) class. He wasn't a shock jock.
As I said, he didn't adapt well to the 2000s and beyond. But that's common of older people who can't quite adapt to the rapidly changing world around them.
The bottom line is that the left hated him because he put an end to their one-sided deception of the public, and they didn't like that. To this day, they're still bitter about it, so they chose to take a few offensive comments he made over the years, and trick youngsters like you into believing those defined him.
True those happened in the 2007-10 timeframe. Was a man who devoted his career to current events and political commentary unaware by that time that to say those things is offensive, was he "unable to adapt" to that? Would it have been acceptable to say those things in the early 1990s when his show started? Spolier: no.
I guess when you say he spoke for the "average American" there is a certain type of person who qualifies as an "average American" and many other types who don't count.
I'm glad you enjoyed listening to him, good for you, but to defend him as not racist, not a misogynist is ridiculous.
And his pill addiction, I have as much sympathy for him as he did for the millions of people he advocated be jailed for their drug dependence issues. The fact that he got barely a slap on the wrist for a federal felony is the epitome of wealthy white privilege.
If there's a hell, housekeeping has already turned down his bed and left a doggie chocolate on his pillow.
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Barack Obama is a negro thoughSo for him to air a song called Barack the Magic Negro is not racist, or to call a woman who dared to propose that the ACA cover contraception a "slut" and demand that she post videos of her "taxpayer-funded sexual encounters" is not misogynistic, and those incidents say nothing about who he was as a person and the worldview he was encouraging/reinforcing among his listeners?
True those happened in the 2007-10 timeframe. Was a man who devoted his career to current events and political commentary unaware by that time that to say those things is offensive, was he "unable to adapt" to that? Would it have been acceptable to say those things in the early 1990s when his show started? Spolier: no.
I guess when you say he spoke for the "average American" there is a certain type of person who qualifies as an "average American" and many other types who don't count.
I'm glad you enjoyed listening to him, good for you, but to defend him as not racist, not a misogynist is ridiculous.
And his pill addiction, I have as much sympathy for him as he did for the millions of people he advocated be jailed for their drug dependence issues. The fact that he got barely a slap on the wrist for a federal felony is the epitome of wealthy white privilege.
If there's a hell, housekeeping has already turned down his bed and left a doggie chocolate on his pillow.
Bullshit! I was moderate Republican who voted for Pappy Bush in 1988 and would have again in 1992 if he hadn’t caved to the religious right in the GOP and flip-flopped on abortion rights. I voted for Perot that year and in 1996.The above typifies the simplistic attacks on Rush's character that we've seen for decades. The left hated him because he gave the right a voice to the average American. Prior to him, right wing talk radio was only for existing right wingers who wanted to hear their viewpoints affirmed. Rush was different. He spoke to both the right and the center. He made it easy for the center and the apolitical to understand why they might want to consider voting Republican, and why the angelic narrative about Democrats sold by the media was a lie. Prior to Rush's ascent into prominence, the left thought they had the monopoly on messaging -- given that they controlled both the media and entertainment industries.
You're too young to remember 1990s Rush. Even in 1999, you were like 12 years old, right?
There was nothing racist or misogynistic about his show -- at least not by the standards of the day. Sure, by hypersensitive, ultra-PC 2020s snowflake standards, you can find objectionable material. But viewed through the lens of the period, Rush was making a strong case daily for conservatism -- and he was doing it with cheer, humor, and (usually) class. He wasn't a shock jock.
As I said, he didn't adapt well to the 2000s and beyond. But that's common of older people who can't quite adapt to the rapidly changing world around them.
The bottom line is that the left hated him because he put an end to their one-sided deception of the public, and they didn't like that. To this day, they're still bitter about it, so they chose to take a few offensive comments he made over the years, and trick youngsters like you into believing those defined him.
In 1990, a business school colleague and friend who worked at the same company recommended Rush to me to listen to. I tried for awhile on my way to and from work and was quickly repulsed by his bloviating racist and misogynistic comments, and confronted my friend about. He even admitted that Rush was “over the top”, but excused his liking him for some of the points he made criticizing Democratic policies.
Come to find out, my friend’s wife was a hardcare white supremacist, who at a small dinner party they hosted railed against Hispanics in her hometown of Boston who “cheated” the healthcare system by going to the emergency room for free healthcare versus pay out-of-pocket elsewhere (as they lacked healthcare insurance). I initially countered that they were just wisely using what resources they could get access to, and how it was no different than rich folks and corporate managers using advantages in the tax law to minimize their taxes. She retorted that that was different because Hispanics, in her words, were inherently morally corrupt. Because of they were Hispanics. Meaning their ethnicity/race. I pressed her on what she meant and she repeated it, adding other minorities to the same catagory of morally inferior people.
Well, I was so shocked by what she said, and the vitriol behind it, that I had to excuse myself from table and leave the room. In fact, I was so furious and disgusted at my wife’s friend, I couldn’t bring myself to return to the dining room where the others were seated. I paced about in the next room for a bit fuming until my friend came to see what had happened. I told him that I had to leave right away, I couldn’t talk about it, and asked him to tell my wife to join me in the car. I did so without seeing my wife’s friend again that evening.
The next week, my friend caught up with me at work and asked me had happened to cause me to leave so abruptly. I explained what I had felt and said that I had been utterly shocked by his wife’s blatant racist attitude, to which my friend excused his wife being “strong in her expressions” of her views. Mind you, NOT because of the views themselves, meaning her unrepentant racism, but he expression of them. Meaning, my friend probably mostly agree but was just more politic about expressing them.
Come to find out, his wife was a descendent from someone from the Mayflower, and from a moderately weathly family, and had kind of married below her “station” by hooking up with my friend, who was a second-generation Italian American. And after that conversation with my friend, and additional conversations we had over the years, I realized how he had couched his own racist attitudes when talking with me. Druff’s excusing Rush Limbaugh’s racism and misogyny remind me of what my friend back then used to say.
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