Limbaugh: ‘I consider myself a defender of corporate America.’
Limbaugh: ‘I consider myself a defender of corporate America.’
In a New York Times Magazine profile released online today, right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh declares himself “the intellectual engine of the conservative movement.” Described by reporter Zev Chafets as “less a theoretician than a popularizer” whose “concerns are economic,” Limbaugh proudly says, “I consider myself a defender of corporate America.” Limbaugh’s claim is supported by the aggressive manner in which he acts as a “pitchman” for products on his show:
Some simply run their usual ads. Others use Limbaugh as their pitchman, which costs them a premium and a long-term commitment. And lately he has created a new option. At a much higher rate he will weave a product into his monologue (To a caller who said he took two showers after voting for Clinton in Operation Chaos, Limbaugh responded: “If you had followed my advice and gotten a Rinnai tankless water heater, you wouldn’t have needed to take two showers. And I’ll tell you why. . . .”)
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well, i’ve been researching tankless water heaters…
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pmthanks, now i know which to avoid…
Please substitute “whore for” for the phrase ‘defender of’ and ya pretty much got it.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pmIs it true that the size of the cigar is inversely proportional to the size of the shoe?
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pmThat’s fantastic.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pmFat bastard.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm‘I consider myself a defender of corporate America.’
When the price is right…
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pmyou know, If you don’t like him don’t turn on his show.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pmAnd corporate America has paid Rusty well for his propagandizing on their behalf haven’t they.
Just saying . . .
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pmHe reportedly is making $400 million over the next 8 years off of his spew.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 pmright-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh declares himself “the intellectual engine of the conservative movement.”
I’m so confused — I thoughts intellectuals were destroying Amurka?
… Oh, that’s right… Limpballs IS destroying America. Makes sense now.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pmVA Voter Says:
you know, If you don’t like him don’t turn on his show.
His show is always hilarious, in the way he completely patronizes hs listeners, like little children.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pmI consider you a D-bag.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pmHe’s some prize bull!
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pmYou now, if you don’t like opinions here, don’t read them.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pmBarfly, I agree, his show is primo entertainment. Megadildos!
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 pmAnd with this racist junkie as its “intellectual engine” the conservative movement (not to be confused witha bowel movement) can count on being out of power until long after this wretched hatemonger’s oxycontin-damaged heart pops like a zit. If it takes $400 million to ensure the acolytes of the right act like they live in a tree and talk like they just fell out of said tree then he is worth every penny.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 pmThe lying, corporate whore just got a $400M deal through 2016.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pmI can’t wait to hear his apopleptic rants after Obama assumes the presidency. Gold, pure gold…His Ana| cyst will swell up like a grapefruit.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pmHe’ll probably need to take solace in some Caribbean youth.
Last week he declared that real men don’t go to college. Then he quickly made an exception for the ivy leaguers. I’m not making this stuff up, ladies and gentlemen.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pmTry to look at it as the price the elite will pay to have their message broadcast by a drug-addled, propagandist - I’d like to think they will regret their contract with the blowhard, but $400 million is chump-change to them.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:18 pmRUC
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:19 pmMaybe he can buy a few foam donuts to park his a$$.
Marie, you mean the kind with sprinkles? YEAH!
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pmthe people who listen to his show are children. Well mostly other than those who are adults that are conflicted with authority issues and assorted other f-ed up military brat, drunken dad, last kid picked type disorders…
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pmOne can never have enough showers after contact with filth like Limbaugh…
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pmi had a rinnai tankless water heater.
it didn’t work very well.
so i got rid of it.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 pmgood return on their investment = thousand of morons whose hatred is stoked to boiling by the bloviations of the RushTurd.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 pmHe is a whore. Nothing more, nothing less. As for his millions, I hope he chokes on them. He is a pied piper of delusional thinking and his listeners are some of the lowest of the Low Information Voters (LIV). That is nothing to be proud of. History will consider Limbaugh a loser and a shill for what is ailing this country.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmSo he’ll do anything for a buck. And will do more of it for more bucks. The ultimate whore of radio.
And quite the role model for the conservative movement, I must say.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmTracy5 Says:
“I’d like to think they will regret their contract with the blowhard, but $400 million is chump-change to them.”
They know they will get a good return on their investment unlike with Air America.
not to mention limbaugh’s
three ex-wives.
they got a good return
on their investment too!
?
good luck.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmThat’s Rush for ya, always pulling for the underdog.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmThose tax free, bankruptcy immune, employee squeezing corporations don’t stand a chance.
He bears an uncanny resemblance to Mr Potter, the banker from “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm“the intellectual engine of the conservative movement.”
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week, can’t quit laughing.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pmSo, drugbaugh admits that corporations are more important than Americans. How telling.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pmDid I miss something? When did corporate America need defending? Or is this just a pathetic attempt by Limbaugh to justify his line of work?
Corporate America has been doing rather well, with tax breaks, corporate welfare, relaxed environmental laws, etc. Their biggest problem (fast approaching) is how they are going to continue raking it in now that the people they depend upon to buy their goods and services no longer have any money. Unfortunately, Rush won’t really be able to do anything about that.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pmthis is part of the first paragraph of a letter-to-editor i sent the other day - apropos to this topic:
… you most definitely will not find the TRUTH on the Fox network, TV or radio, or by listening to the drug-addled pompous blowhard Rush (who has almost single-handedly allowed and promoted more damage to this country than anyone, only because he started before the Bush administration could try to finish the job) and any of the other right-wing radio hate and fear mongering LIARS.
4 more years, huh… ugh.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pmGeorge Carlin talking about cigars being a ‘big black dick’ to suck reminded me of RL. Suck it, rush..
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 pmRUCerious Says
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I can’t wait to hear his apopleptic rants after Obama assumes the presidency.
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Yes, an Obama presidency will be Limbaugh’s wet dream. I thought he might have a problem when the GOP grabbed the White House, both houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court. Poor Rush had to continue blaming the liberals for everything, hoping nobody will notice they had no real power. When the Dems get the power, he’ll go into fresh bloviation, but only his cult will be listening.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pmXXX Says:
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And you wonder they call Progressives Marxist.
—Well I look forward to your explaination. Now does or does not torture work? I don’t really wonder so much about your stupid premise
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pmUm, no, Brainiac, we DON’T wonder why idiots like you call Progressives “Marxist”. We know it’s because you’re ignorant and ill-informed.
Coincidentally, much of the blame for that condition can be placed at the feet of El Rushbo.
However, now that bring it up… since fascism is essentially a merging of government and corporate interests, we trust that YOU don’t wonder why thinking people describe the current “Conservative Movement” as fascist.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 pmHi Nicky:
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pmI still don’t really care about your Columbia boner but I am willing to assist you as you try to realize that a large brush paints poorly. I think your site could really benefit from some comments? I really feel for you. Maybe at Valentine’s Day someones mom will force them to send a bent perforated comment to make you feel part of the class.
Yeah, and the rest of us consider him ‘Lush Bimbaugh’, lard-ass, prescription drug addicted, and blow-hard.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pmVA V is like Limpdick, both have brain cysts.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 pmIn a New York Times Magazine profile released online today, right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh declares himself “the intellectual engine of the conservative movement.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, them “intellectualals” wants them some GUNS in Atlanta Hartsfield. Just in case some IDIOT (not THEM, of course), totes a gun
and the are NO COPS AROUND!!!
It COULD happen, you know…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pmBecause those retarded people elected one of their own to the highest office in the land.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pmXXX Says:
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If only retarded Americans listen to Rush, according to TP and Media Matters, why do you constantly give him credence by writing articles on him?
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July 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pmIf torture worked John McCain told the truth! Come on now don’t sissy out on us…
Marie Says:
The lying, corporate whore just got a $400M deal through 2016.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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I purchase overpriced stuff sometime, too.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pmsomeone should tell Blush Limpdick that REAL men don’t dodge the draft. Bush/Cheney, Ashcroft, Bastart, Frist, Delay, Hannity, Abrams, Feith, Perle,& Wolfowitz, this means you too.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pmUm… that’s not a statement. It’s a description of something unnamed.
Jeez, can we get someone who knows how to troll in here?
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 pmXXX Says:
If only retarded Americans listen to Rush, according to TP and Media Matters, why do you constantly give him credence by writing articles on him?
No credence; it is pity. Part of what we try and do around here is to highlight some of the more troubling parts of the political landscape. Whether we like it or not, Limbaugh has a voice in America. His listeners have serious mental issues and we try to make them well by showing where Limbaugh is wrong. If you like Rush, good for you. Bad for your country, but good for you.
I can’t beleive you waste your precious time on this earth to listen to that viagra popping, little girl predator.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pmCome on XXX answer the torture question. I know you are the type that doesn’t wanna look like a sissy in front of a crowd
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pmwhat woman with AMY self-respect would marry or have sex (EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!) with Blush Limpdick?
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pmXXX
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pmBetter post it again and be real specific about Mr McCain. I haven’t seen it yey
XXX Says:
If only retarded Americans listen to Rush, according to TP and Media Matters, why do you constantly give him credence by writing articles on him?
Only MORONS like YOU give Rush “credence”.
We expose his LIES and show him to have NO CREDIBILITY.
Next fascist liar, please…
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:03 pmYou *do* realize, XXX, that Rush Limbaugh considers you to be a worthless piece of trash - and he’d run you over with his car without a second thought if you got between him and his oxycontin, right…?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 pmSay Porno, what exactly do you mean when you cry “ELITIST”?
I mean, I know you find it comforting to have something to scream, but what exactly do you think you’re accusing?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pmXXX Says:
Do you agree with this statement?
a belief that capitalism is based on the exploitation[5] of workers by the owners of capital
I agree with THIS statrment:
MURDERER Bush is a COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA, a spineless little TREASON-WEASEL, who will BURN with his MASTER Satan.
And TRAITOR Ronnie Reagan, now DEAD and BURNING for his GENOCIDE and LIES.
AMEN, I AGREE!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pmProof positive of how stupid Americans have become. They still listen to this a$$hole who railed drug users (until he got busted), lies and bloviates as if he is anything but the whore he is, interferes with elections, and, did I mention lies, lies, lies.
Anyone shocked? Didn’t think so.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pmXXX
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pmIncapable eh?
Shall we say pwned again or would you like to try again?
misshusseinmolly Says:
You are so right. I wrote in an earlier thread that I found the timing and lemgth of his contract as proof that the Corporate Right is setting themsdelves up for a long next 8 years.
They will have a tightly circled wagon train, with their demographics of the remaining 19%ers and wuill maket the sh!t out of them, as they have no where else to go.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pmIf torture works, why not institute it as part of the hiring process for government jobs? We could just waterboard everyone seeking any office and find out who is or isn’t a peculator, corrupt or otherwise unsuitable. We could strap both McCain and Obama to a board and find out all sorts of stuff, like whether Obama really is patriotic despite his lack of flap pins, or if McCain can actually rub two brain cells together once in awhile. Hell if they submitted to it, at least we’d know exactly how bad a candidate wanted the job.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:12 pmHey Rush: Now that you’ve got your gas bag filled, why don’t you blow away?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pmin a related story, failed radio network AirAnerica remains bankrupt, both morally and finacially.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pmRush has been spanking liberals for 20+ years and remains a hilarious class act. Kudos Rush!
Thanks for parody, gunclinger. You really sound like one of those boobs who actually think Rush is good for America. Hehehe.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 pmgunclinger Says:
in a related story, failed radio network AirAnerica remains bankrupt, both morally and finacially.
Rush has been spanking liberals for 20+ years and remains a hilarious class act. Kudos Rush!
Actually, Rush has been LYING to MORONS like YOU, who eat it up!
REAL Americans know better that to believe in rightwing nutjob LIES.
Only the “faithful” (TREASON supporters) like YOU need apply!
And the only thing TRAITORBaugh “spanks” is his monkey, dreaming about underage boys from the Dominican Republic.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 pmgunclinger Says:
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in a related story, failed radio network AirAnerica remains bankrupt, both morally and finacially.
Rush has been spanking liberals for 20+ years and remains a hilarious class act. Kudos Rush!
Well, as I have said before, talk radio is the domain of the LIV’s. Most critical thinkers get their information from other sources and would never allow themsleves to be used as a bad joke (dittoheads) by a comedic personality who has trouble with his own hyporicy.
So, I take it you fit the above category?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Thanks for parody, gunclinger. You really sound like one of those boobs who actually think Rush is good for America. Hehehe.
TRAITOR Bush once called TreasBaugh a “great amerikkkan”.
That ALONE should tell you what an unamerikkkan TRAITOR drugboy is…
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 pmLimbaugh: ‘I consider myself a defender of corporate America.’
that headline needs fixing.
Limbaugh: ‘I consider myself a defender of corpulent America.’
that’s better.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pmgunclinger Says:
in a related story, failed radio network AirAnerica remains bankrupt, both morally and finacially.
Rush has been spanking liberals for 20+ years and remains a hilarious class act. Kudos Rush!
gunc,
are you on oxycontin
too?
?
good luck.
?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:33 pmSo where did that hardcore XXXplicit troll go?
I really wanted to find out what he meant by “elitism”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pmXXX Says:
If only retarded Americans listen to Rush, according to TP and Media Matters, why do you constantly give him credence by writing articles on him?
By pointing out his lies, they do a public service. That hard to figure out?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 pmDrug addled W..H..O..R..E
It truly is surprising that we have sooooo many uneducated cretins in Amercia that this slim could have an audience.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 pmer ah…slime….LOL
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 pmgunclinger:
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pmwhat with the gun clinging and all you must be pretty tough. Does torture work?
Whatever Rush considers himself, he is a lard assed, drug addled, gas bag who spreads hate to the mentally challenged bigots of the SA. He has done nothing good in his life.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:25 pmThe 400 million dollar gasbag can buy gas at just about any price. He won’t lose his house in foreclosure, but foreplay doesn’t do it for him without viagra. He had a cyst on his butt he didn’t have to serve his country in Vietnam. He’s a mouthy, impotent coward. What a Republican guy!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 pmCaption: Nice picture of a Soprano
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pmTracy5 Says:
#26
“the people who listen to his show are children.”
No the people who listen to his show are college educated…as a matter of fact.
Did you read the linked article? 27%, Tracy. Woo-hoo! The national average.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 pmCollege-educated neoconservative: Bottom of the class.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pmTracy5,
You actually expect us to seriously consider anything that you get from Free Republic(an)? Only slightly right of RedState.
And also, that same Pew Research poll of knowledge done last year, showed the highest knowledge among those that watch The Daily Show/Colbert, 4% higher than the rusher and 35% for Faux NoNooz.
That’s gotta hurt! Being beaten out by a pair of comedy shows.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 pmJohnsom,
You mean this NeoCon Zev Chafets?
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 pmI consider myself a defender of corporate America.
~Limbaugh
Well, I thought the day would never come when I would be in agreement with Limbaugh. I also consider him to be a defender of corporate America.
Although I would also use the words “swindler”, “shill”, “fraud”, “con man” and “beguiler”. You need to use all of those to describe this man & his act.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pmRush can think whatever he wants, but he is no patriot and not a defender of this country. Instead, Rush is a traitor and an enabler of those who tried to usurp control of our nation forever, those who would become dictators as treacherous as Saddam.
Rush can wish to be seen as a defender but he is wasting his time. He can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first or, he can continue to crap in both hands and wipe it all over himself.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 pmRush can think whatever he wants, but he is no patriot and not a defender of this country. Instead, Rush is a traitor and an enabler of those who tried to usurp control of our nation forever, those who would become dictators as treacherous as Saddam.
Rush can wish to be seen as a defender but he is wasting his time. He can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first or, he can continue to crap in both hands and wipe it all over himself.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 pmWhat we do is use our dollars {if we have any left} as votes.Anything he endorses.Don’t buy.Wasn’t it the Huffington Post that listed local business contributions to the wrong candidates? Avoid them too.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 pmThe tragedy is that Corporate America is just as corrupt as Rush Limbaugh. Nazis on steroids.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 pmLimbaugh proudly says, “I consider myself a defender of corporate America.”
Yeah, cause you know, those poor multi-billion dollar corporations, the ones that have bought our government, need all the help they can get.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 am.
Limbaugh proudly says
… But not American Rights.
WHY DOES RUSH HATE US FOR OUR RIGHTS, LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS?
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July 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 am.
Hey everyone,
XXX thinks Rush’s bigotry is entertainment…
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July 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 amGee, Tracy5, you sure know how to talk when no one else is in the room.
The managers that are conservatives, as you claim, usually attain their positions through high friends in high places. The rest do it through integrity and tangible achievement.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 amThis is why liberal radio talkers can’t compete because they are more interested in informing the public, rather than entertaining them.
Limbaugh is living it up, smoking his cigar, laughing all the way to the bank while the devoted listeners cost of living keeps going up day after day….and yet, they still tune in everyday thinking they are part of a family. Well, um, no your not….you are not, you just make Limbaugh lot’s of money, but you will always be 2nd class citizens to this wealth elite that have you by the balls.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 amRush just said on his radio show that he ain’t retiring until everyone in America Agrees with him… LOL LOL LOL
FAT CHANCE!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 amdefender of corporate America. Yeah, he’s a defender of the very people who are getting richer and receiving those nice Bush tax breaks, getting rich off of their employees who make near minimum wage. I wouldn’t give the guy 4 dollars to speak on my radio show.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pmOh yeah, the people that listen to his show are the baby-boomers who continue to run this country in the ground. The same people who voted for Bush, twice. (not all, but majority.)
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 pmDefender of corporate America? Rush, there is no such thing.
There are no major American corporations. They are global, multinational corporations. Their shares are owned by people in many countries. They have no loyalty to America, nor to any other nation. Although they have been given a legal “personhood” (incorporate means to give a body to,) they have no heart, no mind, no soul and no conscience. They exist solely to protect the financial interests of the owners.
They will readily relocate their headquarters to a tax haven to avoid funding our government, then turn around and expect our military to “protect America’s (business) interests abroad.” They will export American jobs to a country with weaker protections for labor and the environment, and then want the Americans who’ve lost their jobs to lay life and limb on the line “to protect America’s (business) interests abroad.”
They are not American, and their defender is no patriot.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 pmRuss Limbaugh is also a degenerate. Too bad everybody knows it but him.
July 4th, 2008 at 4:25 amI consider Limpballs to be:
July 4th, 2008 at 6:37 pmA terrorist who encourages riots and chaos and the death and destruction they may cause.
A drug addict.
An availer of child prostitution, what with his viagra-fueled trips to the Dominican Republic, a dirt poor well-known stop on the world sex-tour itinerary.
A coward.
A traitor.
The worst example of what the flyblown scum of humanity can sink to and still remain alive.
A living, wheezing monument to the utter moral relativistic vacuum of the Republican Party.
Please Rush, throw a clot into your brain. Please.
When the allegedly “liberal” New York Times puts out a cover story about this steaming turd that allows him to continue to be seen in public, we have a lot of work to do.
BTW - Bosch tankless water heaters are the world standard. Better and far less expensive than Rinnai.
July 5th, 2008 at 3:04 am