Has anyone listened to Limbaugh lately?

This is the guy that's done us in.
He's made it uncool to be an open minded liberal.
The others....Rove et al...are pikers compared to this exponentially evolving capitalistic pick pocket.

No one knew how insidious the nationalization of hatred could be under various other leaderships...I won't mention names.
Such forces spell the downfall of freedom.
Ironic isn't it....rallying the people...
... to bring down the essence of humanity.

Why is it that he remains protected....sitting in his warm environment of hate breeding....somehow innocently viewed as a "talk show host".

Why can't our democratic leadership take him on directly....or at least the core of his demonization theories.

The only one to do that effectively....and masterfully...by diffusing the essential lie against liberals.... has been Clark.

Anyone else you can think of....that has even a clue as far as who (or what) is doing in the party?

But Cheney and others have his back.

They all do. But it is the consumers themselves who must stand up to him. But they are starting. O'Reilly has backed down on the war on X-Mas, and I believe it was in large part people are seeing congressional republicans running away from Bush on the spying issue, while O'Reilly sits around telling them that there is a liberal grinch trying to steal X-mas. At a certain point, anybody comes aware of when they are being told fairy tales as news.

Or Wesley Clark? Either way, I don't think Limbaugh has been the one who has set back the liberal movement. Its been the corporate media more than anything. It isn't so much that the right has had better talking points (in fact its rhetoric is inherently poor quality because it is so blatantly self-serving) but rather dissenting points of view have been shut out.

The mainstream media is a problem, too, but let's not underestimate Limbaugh.

They wouldnt give her a shot though. Too many idiots running things were copycating so they wanted a Rush lookalike.

Or some stupid title like that.

I can't wait for the follow-up "The Dittoheads Guide to Pharmaceuticals"

is unbelievable and unacceptable, yet he rocks on and on. He (or more accurately the rightwing think tank who pulls his strings) is the reason the Republicans are in power, AFAIC. It's amazing how long we let him go practically unchecked. Shows how far the Democratic Party is behind.

confused about what you mean by "practically unchecked"? How would we check him?

I can't stand the guy so I don't listen to him.

of the dubious things he says:
http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/shows/therushlimbaughshow

that what he does is not political--that it's only entertainment. So he gets on the Military radio, but no one else to counter his right-wing blather or point out his inaccuracies.

If we had a real FCC, they would fine people like him for lying and defaming others without proof of their assertions. Look what Bill O'Reilly is doing with his "war on Christmas": making up stuff whole cloth, and when the folks he's lied about say "that's not true!", no one forces O'Reilly to correct himself on air. That's what I call unchecked.

I think means he "gets away with murder".
It's all about the "ha ha's" intermixed with the hate mongering.

Ever have someone deliver a serious insult to you and then pose a shit eaten grin to diffuse the insult?

That's Rush....only on a world wide scale that's 1 million times more insidious.

a full-time sports commentator, I think he'd take it.

Get it in your town...

We will have it locally on AM810 in Orlando beginning in January after much lobbying and working to get them here.


Until then I'm listening to them on XM.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

By making a donation, big or small, at:
https://secure.airamericaradio.com/

But AM....even in the NY, NJ area....1190...well it's now competed by 1180....coincidence?

Meanwhile...I can get Limbaugh on 3 different channels....almost anywhere I travel within 300 miles of my home...which I do regularly.

The only other readily available truth is Keith.

I had it installed on Monday night. Had to go to Boston to pick up our son from college. We listened to Mike Malloy all the way home. He was -ahem- f'in brilliant. I love my new XM radio.

It works ok with the car antenna but with the walking antenna or the house antenna coverage is spotty. I need to buy another car antenna for my other car so I can get good reception in either vehicle.

Other than that I do like it but they play an awful lot of commercials on Air America radio and charge me to play them too.


Doug D.

Are you kidding? I am making a mental note to buy one of whatever they are selling. LOL. I just think it is brave of advertisers to sponsor the crazed libruls, ya know?

If you pay attention.. you'll figure out that the same sponsors that sponsor Air America are often the sponsors of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Annoys the hell out of me.

Doug D.

I don't listen to Rush or Hannity so I did not know that. OK, I'll just switch to the Broadway channel during commercials. :-)

Just dollar wh*res...if people are willing to listen, they will hawk their wares.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

is cut down on the ads.

be a Liberal than I am certain that it's the Coolest thing in the World..who gives a rat's ass what limpbaugh thinks?

that druggie has no power over me or my friends.. he's just a Toykorose wannabe.

may be the number 1 radio talk show host, the audience for talk radio is pretty damn small. We see it here because we are politically active but most people don't know or don't care who Rush is. Rush has an over-inflated opinion of himself and an over-inflated sense of self importance. Rush has NOT made it "uncool" to be an open minded liberal. What he has done is made it acceptable to be an uniformed ignoramous.

Most people live their lives with no knowledge of what Hannity, Coulter or Rush are saying.

with all the years that Limbaugh has been on the air, how many people has he programmed to hate liberals. First he appeals to their prejudices, then he fills their heads with propaganda making these other people the enemy. It's a cumulative effect.

and the 1000s of radio syndications of Limbaugh form a subliminal controlling force.

You turn your head to the obvious.

It has only been since 1988 that media regulations have been warped to allow such one sided domination.

Even if you don't believe he's the principle factor....he's the dominant "consistent" voice that whispers into the ears of those that want to believe that Reaganism will in fact take them to the promised land.

The fact that he speaks very effective talking points to Bushco and other Repuckos cannot be ignorred.

Think of it this way.

THERE IS NO OTHER DIRECT....CONSISTENT....ALL ENCOMPASSING....HAMMERING VOICE THAT TRIUMPHS THE VIRTUES OF FREE THINKING ACROSS OUR NATION.

WE HAVE IN FACT
JUST THE OPPOSITE WITH LIMBAUGH

certainly believes in freedom of speech.

we just don't have the "opposite" of Limbaugh....such a direct nuetralizing force.

Think about it just for a moment.
Wouldn't that be just a bit too much for people to stomach...just a bit too uncool...just a bit too tongue in cheek?

Assholes just seem to be much more prone to get the pulpit these days....and we don't have the core values anymore to simply shluff it off.

We have a number of great comics that take us dangerously close to wanting to trash Limbaugh and the leach field he attracts.

But know decidingly forward voice that is so appealing, so rationale, so attractive that we want more and more of it.

The only one I can think of is Clark.

nt

People in this county are sick of the garbage that hate radio and Fox propaganda are pushing.

I see it everyday, they ran their course and now people are realizing that the antidote to there problems doesnt come in the way of a far out whacko party and its talking heads. Now we need to give them a viable alternative. If not a third party will rise into power soon.

politically?....I wonder even if that's true....but in the sense of corrupt business practices....the belief that there's an easy way out....that all I have to do is worry about me...just me....that overall lack of responsibility....that hopelessness of caring for one another....etc.

That's more alive today than ever.
Therefore....Limbaugh is more relevant than ever to feed it...to nuture it...and to amplify it.

There are still millions of Americans that believe in the premise of this cult that they are not rich because there are government programs that help the poor and helpless. Just look at mainstream media. They use the language of this cult like "deficit reduction" in the elimination of a safety net.

chemical drugs instead of "all natural". He is no more than a hypocritical idiot.

Thank you for defining it for us.

say they don't listen to Limbaugh - they listen to O'Reilly and Savage. They think they are enlightened wingnuts.

is these guys...especially Hannity...are directly coupled to el Rushbo.
He's got not only these guys in his hip pocket, but at least 30 members of Congress too.

If you listened to him....and then heard the talking points from Congress....you'd see the cause/effect relationship.

I know they are all repeating the same lie.

Maybe they just don't like Limbaugh's style. Or maybe they don't want to admit it. :shrug:


A couple Media sites:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch

http://media.eriposte.com/

even though I have mixed feelings about the value of what he does on the radio, is the way he has consistently and unrelentingly trashed Rush Limbaugh, calling him the big "Pumpkinhead". I've loved the way Stern has goofed on Limbaugh and his use of "My City Was Gone" by the Pretenders as his theme song to pathetically try to seem cool because of that guitar riff intro, whereas he's just a fat doped out fuck and the most uncool person in media. Even the uptight Paul Harvey has more cool than Rush Limbaugh.

And who would ever think Stern could be so on the money with that?

When he went on the radio just prior to the last election and whispered....now listen to me...just vote for Kerry....I had all the respect in the world for him.

It's possible many would interpret his motivations as simply anti the censorship promoted by Bushco...but I know what you mean....Stern had the sense of what was going on...and he remained a true American in that sense.

Meanwhile....IMUS sold out....hook line and sinker.
I haven't listened to him since.

After the elections I don't watch those Bush news conferences but everytime that I do catch a glimpse he is always lying his ass off and afterward the media tries franticly to sense of the crap he spews out.

I don't mean the occasional liberal caller that gets through his screener. I never see him on any show being taken on by another commentator. Years ago I saw him on the old Donahue show but he wasn't as prominent then. He appears to have totally insulated himself from any challenges to his message. It makes it that much more aggravating that he gets a platform on the Armed Forces Radio, where he's broadcast to essentially a captive audience.

Have a debate Rush, you chickenshit. :grr:

His TV show was a complete failure.
When he was on network TV as a football commentator he bombed.
Whenever he's on with other much more informed talk show hosts....he bombs because he is so patentedly agenda driven.

So it goes with the turf.
It's a one sided scpeal.
And it works.
And it has brought down our party.
It's cool to be a jerked off money grumbing asshole.
That's where we are today in the USA.

And he sucked at it. I never see him doing any political debates anymore, most likely for the reasons you state.

I'd love to see Jon Stewart take him on!

decisively, intelligently....and for the purpose of taking our country back from the subliminal insidious message.

We can't "take him on" in a legal sense because of freedom of speech. But we can do our best to make him "uncool" and to show was an idiot he is.

I think his clock is running out, frankly. If he doesn't do himself in, with drugs and so on, people will get sick of his evil schlock.

Limbaugh uses powerful and dangerous persuasion techniques to keep millions of Americans under his mental control. Its frightening to talk with these people. They simply cannot even look at anything that might contradict Limbaugh. I don't see why normal people aren't more worried about this.

Limbaugh dehumanizes those who disagree with him. He says the left is full of people who hate God, want US troops to die, want everybody to be poor so the left can take over..etc. He's created so much hatred among these millions of people who listen to him that its all like a bomb just waiting for something to trigger violence.

Its not just his 15 million dittoheads. Limbaugh's followers take falsehoods provided to them by Limbaugh and repeat them to others. I've often heard wild lies from Limbaugh repeated at work or at other places. This creates a buzz that network news can't ignore. The MSM is deeply influenced by the threat and power of Limbaugh and his zombie army.

Amazingly, almost no one ever opposes Limbaugh. People write him off. People say fighting Limbaugh will just make him bigger. I monitor what Limbaugh does and his lies change the course of US policy more than once a week.

The only way to stop Limbaugh is by a concerted effort by elected officials and others on the left with high profiles. The left must attack Limbaugh directly. They must let the rest of America know the outrageous lies he tells, the hatred he spews, and the extent of his influence. Then, put GOP politicians on the spot. Ask the goppers if they agree with Limbaugh that Democrats hate God, etc. The goppers will either be rejected by all sensible people or they'll dump Limbaugh. Limbaugh would soon be another nobody.

Rush Limbaugh...it figures.

Re >>Limbaugh dehumanizes those who disagree with him. He says the left is full of people who hate God, want US troops to die, want everybody to be poor so the left can take over..etc. He's created so much hatred among these millions of people who listen to him that its all like a bomb just waiting for something to trigger violence.

Its not just his 15 million dittoheads. Limbaugh's followers take falsehoods provided to them by Limbaugh and repeat them to others. I've often heard wild lies from Limbaugh repeated at work or at other places. This creates a buzz that network news can't ignore. The MSM is deeply influenced by the threat and power of Limbaugh and his zombie army.<<

I can personally attest that it's "not just his 15 million dittoheads." I'm a regular on another discussion forum with both libs and kool-aid drinkers. While I haven't listened to Rush in years, I have heard every last one of the smears your brought up, with one exception. So far, nobody has accused the liberal faction on this forum of "wanting everybody to be poor so the left can take over," but they slime us with all the rest of it on a regular basis...like wanting US troops to die. There is one guy on my home board, a Vietnam vet, who posts every time an American soldier gets killed in Iraq. He wants to remind everyone of the actual human cost of the war, but the freepers accuse him of rejoicing in the deaths of American troops.

That just drives me ballistic. How could anyone say that, or believe that, about another American, especially one who has served his country in a previous ill-conceived war and who KNOWS first-hand what it's like to see his friends die?

So that's where they get this crap--Limbaugh or one of his surrogates. All part of a 20-year long campaign (at least) to demonize liberals via the CONSTANT repetition of irrational talking points. The Great Wurlitzer indeed!

And now what do you suppose we can do about it?

I've heard Springer put together good clips of Limbaugh....then sit back and say....well now wait a minute...let's see what we have here. For instance, Limbaugh's "adopt a soldier" program which was a cheap way to promote his $49.95 newletter to the troops. Write to Springer and congratulate him on these great efforts and that you want to hear more.

Write to Franken that you want to hear more treatise on dealing with Limbaugh.

Here's the point.
You have to first recognize that he is very much part of the problem.
He has SUCCEEDED in demonizing liberals.
The whole issue has to be out in the open....exposed for what it is.

Don't ignor it....and don't think it's going to go away....because of all the problems Bushco is having, etc.....because he's been astute enough to see a lot of this unfolding and he's ramped up to deliver the public an even more uncurable brain-neutralizing virus to feed into the unrest and discontentment we all generally feel.

Turn it on for 5 minutes once a week, see how bad it is...and don't forget it is this bastard that's crawling into the minds of the youth and people that really can't put together what the American dream ought to be and/or can't even remember what it used to be.

Air America?

That is the same thing that we said about Novak. We knew what he did, but yet he was able to continue on CNN--but he became unhinged on-air. His coming un-done was due in large part to the pressure that he was feeling. Take comfort in that when thinking about whats-his-face, he is under similar pressure.

No, he hasn't. Don't be silly. :silly:

I'm not listening to that drug riddled gas bag. I'd rather listen to about anything else.

never had a chance at being open-minded.