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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:21 PM
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I accidently listened to Rush today!
I finally got my car tape deck working, but whenever the tape ends, the radio comes on.
(Did you know the same station that carries the Padres carries Rush?)
So, it took me a minute to realize who it was and what was being said...
Rush was talking about a Psychiatric report on celebrity stalkers and how they act...
And they sound like his fans! His discription of stalkers match his own Dittohead fans!

THEN he got a phone call from a fan, who was concerned that she was showing the symptoms of stalking him...
And his response:
"I am not a celebrity, I am a national Icon, and do not fear psychiatric problems listening to me" (not to be considered a exact quote, but close enough)
I laughed quite loudly for several minutes, then finally got side two of Footloose on the deck...

Is Rush a Egomaniac or a Megalomaniac?
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paulsbc Donating Member (314 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:23 PM
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1. no
he is just an idiot. a big, fat, idiot if memory serves :)
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:25 PM
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2. A big fat, but dangerous idiot.
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LouKYDem Donating Member (164 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:33 PM
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5. He has so much influence...
He has so much influence on the American people that will just accept whatever he says without doing research, the typical American Republican. That is why liberals don't have a Limbaugh type person, because liberals actually like to have resources, facts, and statistics to make an opinion, not a psychotic liar that is determined to destroy every liberal by his means of controlling the mind of the ignorant American conservative (or just ignorant people, I wonder if many conservative voters would STILL be conservatives if the researched things for themselves rather than listening to what Mr. Blubber has to say)
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:55 PM
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10. hey louKYDem
Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 09:00 PM by steviet_2003
first, welcome to DU :hi:.

second, i don't think the typical american repug is a ditto head. i think that instead that the typical amer repug is just uninformed and feels it don't make much difference who ya vote for anyway, might as well vote for the guy who promises giving money back to the middle class and projects the marlborough man image. (a lie of course.)

in addition, not all dittoheads are ignorant. sadly my mom is one. she had a double major in college with a minor and was considered the black sheep because she did not get an advanced degree.

i really am in a quandry as to what the appeal is and why whatever this prick says is accepted so blindly. i do agree, however, that the vast majority of dittoheads are tremendously uninformed and don't care to improve their knowledge (mom included).

sorry to ramble here, but i also agree that self research and a passion to know all sides is a hallmark of liberals, in general fair minded indivuals. in a respect, that may be our weakness. trudeau had a great strip maybe a month ago which clarified this.

oops, laxitive of the keyboard.

on edit: spelling
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LouKYDem Donating Member (164 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:01 PM
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13. OK, lol, I WAS a little harsh...
but I still think that Rush IS a dangerous man, I mean a vast majority of his listeners take what he says as fact without doing research.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:35 PM
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6. Rush hasnt been fat for awhile.
he lost weight awhile back. u might want to lay off the weight comments. I am sure not all DUers are slender. think about it.
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:57 PM
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12. I was thinking of his fat head. I don't think any DUer
will mind.
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beanball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:58 PM
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19. Mr.Limbaugh
has a slimed down body below the neck(fat headed evil bastard)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:28 PM
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3. HEY HAWK
THE 80'S ARE CALLING; THEY WANT THEIR TAPE BACK.
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:37 PM
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7. They can have my tape when they pry it out of my cold dead
tape deck!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:48 PM
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9. tell me it's not an eight-track
with a matchbook underneath :evilgrin:
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:57 PM
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11. What's an eight track?
I'm old, but not *that* old!
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 10:01 AM
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27. damn
another slam the 8-track thread....

LOLOLOLOL
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 02:36 PM
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30. LOL, no, he was slamming ME
I very much DO remember 8-tracks and potatoes on antennas! :D
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 05:39 PM
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31. To be honest, so do I
I never had one, as my Dad was in electronics and said that 'it won't last, the cassette tapes will run them out of business, and besides records are better for at home'.
Later on, I mentioned it to him, and he asked me if I remember 6 tracks...
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spotbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:30 PM
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4. yes n/t
.
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sugarcookie Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:47 PM
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8. While waiting for randi rhodes show to stream
Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 08:52 PM by sugarcookie
I listened for a while, he was talking about Celebrity Worship Syndrome. Then some frantic woman called from California and told him she was a Rush fan but she was furious because she felt he was dissing Arnold. It was pathetic the way she obsessed over Rush towards the end. He must have liked it thought because he asked him to be a member of something(?) Did you catch her statement about getting the wacko votes. Something to the effect of "rebublicans needing the wacko votes to win California and Arnold would attract the wacko votes for them". It was truly pathetic.

edit: spelling
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:32 PM
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18. I heard that caller too
Caught myself tuning in to Rush Lowbrow (accidentally flipped from the sports station when Dan Patrick was on a commercial break).

This lady was nuts. Very shrill, loud and obnoxious. Rush was playing along with it. Gave her a free membership to his site and a couple crap trinkets from his 'store'. Also invited her back to his penthouse to play a little "Bill n' Monica". Said he just got a brand new box of Dutch Masters.

Ok, ok, I made that part up. I did think he was about to ask her out. Fat groupie-banging moron.

Nonetheless, I get a kick out of Lush. Ridiculous commentary and moronic listeners to boot. So sad it's funny.

No wonder Bush had high approval ratings!
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sugarcookie Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 11:28 PM
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20. Same thoughts
Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 11:31 PM by sugarcookie
I was thinking...he's really getting off to this...verbal masturbation...eeeuuuuu

edit: and all she got was a lousy membership for her sevice.
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:03 PM
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14. Its easy to survive Rush if you think of the show as a sick comedy
Don't EVER EVER accidentally listen to Hannity's AM radio show. In all my years of exploring the AM radio bands, it was was of the worst things I have ever heard.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:24 PM
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16. All Hannity is...
Edited on Thu Aug-14-03 09:33 PM by RatTerrier
...is Rush Lowbrow on helium.

Same weak dittohead schtick without the sad, pathetic humor.

He actually thinks he's Rush.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:09 PM
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15. OMG are you alright?
pump your stomach

get a transfusion

take antibiotics

something!
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 09:26 PM
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17. same thing happened to me the other day.
and I was going, who the hell is this guy talking about his silk handmade shirt with a manly cigar motif who sayes he likes cufflinks with perfect french cuffs except of course we can't call them "french" anymore. He guessed he'd just call them "elegant cuffs" !!??


I guess it was the french thing that finally alerted me (shudder)
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pstokely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 01:31 AM
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21. in Kansas CIty, Royals and Rush are on the same station
after Entercom gets their all sports station up, KKKMBZ will probably become all Weiner and Limpbaugh
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:35 AM
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22. Sports and Propaganda
It seems to be the epidemic, the same channel covers the Padres, Chargers, Rush and Roger Hedgecock and who knows who else.
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 07:51 AM
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23. Happens a lot on this board
Edited on Fri Aug-15-03 07:52 AM by jackstraw45
A lot of people "accidently" listen to Rush and give him his big ratings, fat contracts and the kind of clout that gets him on ESPN.

SWITCH THE STATION OR TURN OFF THE DARN RADIO!!!!!

Thank you.
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:54 AM
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24. He doesn't get any ratings if they don't know about it!
Ratings are based for radio (as far as I know) by phone calls of people asking 'what are you listening to?' and 'what do you normally listen to?'. Since I don't have a phone in my car, and I don't normally listen to his propaganda (honestly, it was a accident), he doesn't get any points from me.

What, did you think he had a secret device attached to my radio, telling him when I'm listening? Go ahead and listen, and LIE if anyone calls and asks!
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:58 AM
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25. Then admit you're a Rush fan
Since you:

1. Listen to his program.
2. Tell others what you hear there.
3. Listen AGAIN to his program.

You are publicizing his show over the internet.

That's no accident.

If you and others here like listening to the guy that's fine. But let's be clear about what is and is not an accident.

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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 10:13 AM
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28. WTF?
I'm a fan because I listened to his crap for 5 minutes?
I tell others what bullshit I heard?
And I never said I listened again to it!
And if I'm publicizing it, it's negative.

I don't like listening to the bastard. Don't try to read my mind and tell me what I do, you aren't any good at it.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 10:38 AM
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29. Sorry, but this is not one...
allegation you can pin on Hawker here. His word is sterling.
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 09:59 AM
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26. I think mostly Arbitron ratings
http://www.arbitron.com/home/content.stm

Thats the way its been done for decades,probaby still is. You can listen all you want,or don't listen...doesn't make any diff to Pigboys ratings if your not filling out an Arbitron questionnaire.


David
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