Rush Limbaugh
Man of the Year: Rush Limbaugh
by Mark R. Levin
January 7, 2008
An Excerpt:
What is it about Rush that drives the left crazy (that is, crazier than they already are)? The answer is actually quite simple: Rush is the most important voice in the conservative movement. Others want to be, some claim to be, but he is. More than any conservative politician, columnist or pundit, Rush speaks for us. His opinions are principled and consistent. He has a brilliant mind and a voracious appetite for knowledge and truth, all of which he uses behind his golden EIB microphone to teach and persuade as he cuts through the daily media clutter. He has the guts to say what so many of us are thinking to ourselves. And Rush’s likable and optimistic personality and entertaining style attract increasing numbers of conservative adherents. Liberals consider Rush and his talk show the greatest threats to their agenda and pursuit of power, and they’re right.
Did'ja catch that?
Liberals consider Rush and his talk show the greatest threats to their agenda and pursuit of power, and they’re right.
Liberals! Gotta love 'em... the individual, not their philosophy; which is contemptible.
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To paraphrase Ann Coulter: If Liberals had any brains, they'd be Conservatives!
No one in my circles talks about Rush anymore.
I was one...back during the first four Clinton years. During the '96 cycle, however, I decided Rush was an establishment hack .I've not listened to his show for more than a few minutes between work and the drive-thru since.
His television show was classic. I'll always remember his clip showing Clinton walking back to the motorcade after Ron Brown's memorial service.
Daddio-- "Establishment Hack"? Since [per your own admission] you don't listen, you're excused for being thoroughly uninformed. Since you don't listen you can't possibly know how he daily castigates both Democrats AND Republicans. He's no hack. He thinks for himself. But I can't help but wonder who you ARE listening to, to have come to the conclusion that Rush is an "Establishment" hack. Rush "establishes" the framework for daily Conservative debate, he doesn't carry water for anyone. That WOULD make him irrelevant. That would make him a democrat.
Dan-- [Parting Shot] Choosing the occasion of an Indictment to label a man irrelevant? Forgive me if I'm more understanding of the human condition and MORE willing to forgive than you and "your circle"
...great Christians that I know you all are.
Look, Dan. We all like and dislike people for all kinds of reasons. We are all hypocrites to the extent that we hold people we don't like to a higher standard than we do those we DO like. Let's at least be honest about it.
You don't have to like Rush as a person. I'm not asking you to. I'm not even asking you to appreciate his ideas on politics and government. But I do ask and expect you to be honest enough to admit his, and his ideas have relevancy with a large segment of our society, as well as quite a few folk in other countries... but to say he's irrelevant because of an indictment which though now resolved has never been proven? That's both beneath you, and the spirit of honest debate.
I expect better than this from you.
I don't dislike him nor like him - I don't know him, so how could I have a personal opinion of the man? I just mean we (me and my irrelevant circle of so-called "liberals") don't talk about Limbaugh, we don't really care what he says. He's a bad joke. That's all.
Am I mistaken? Did he not admit to having a drug problem - something that he has castigated others for? Has he not called for "those type" of people to be thrown in jail without mercy, BUT wants sympathy for him when he finds himself in that situation?
Is that not hypocrisy?
I have all kinds of compassion for folk who have themselves caught up in destructive lifestyles. It's just when those same folk are the ones condemning others for the same thing they find themselves guilty of, well, that's hypocrisy.
I've sympathy for Limbaugh, the drug addict. I've sympathy for Limbaugh, the blowhard. I've sympathy for Limbaugh, the hypocrite. All the same, I have criticism for unrepentant hypocrites.
That's all.
I can't recall ever hearing such from him. If you can quote chapter and verse, please do. Otherwise the "hypocrite" label doesn't stick.
"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...
We're becoming too tolerant, folks."
More of Rush Limbaugh on Drug Abusers here.
I have hardly listened to Rush in a decade - and not much before then except for a brief period where I thought he was a little funny and I knew this much to be true - he's called for no sympathy for drug dealers.
But why doesn't he get to defend himself? Because he had a problem with prescription pain killers... that began as a medical problem, not because he was a "high" hound... he's not allowed to speak against leniency for those who do serially abuse drugs? And what's hypocritical about not asking leniency for drug dealers? Why should drug dealers be given leniency whey they destroy lives? How does this make Rush a hypocrite?
Besides which, this argument of yours has zero bearing on his impact as the voice of Conservatism. Your argument is a "strawman." it gives you and others an excuse to dislike him.
Shooting down the message because he shows himself to be human? How about addressing the message itself?
"He's a Human!"
;-)
Just for the record:
1. No strawman here. I wrote repeatedly that he is an irrelevancy "to the so-called liberals that I know." That is a truth. A verifiable fact.
2. As stated, I don't dislike Limbaugh. I don't know him and have no significant opinion about his personhood. As a comedian, he used to be a little funny, but not so much anymore, in my opinion. As a spokesperson for the Right, I find his hypocrisy, well, hypocritical.
That's all. Enjoy him all you want, it's no skin off my nose. I find him irrelevant.