Limbaugh: I get high ratings from ‘being positive,’ ‘inspiring and motivational.’
Limbaugh: I get high ratings from ‘being positive,’ ‘inspiring and motivational.’
On Fox News last night, Rush Limbaugh noted Aug. 1 marks his 21st anniversary of being on air. When host Greta Van Susteren asked him what his “secret” is to his “amazing” “longevity,” Limbaugh replied that it’s his “positive” and “inspiring” messages:
People don’t want to be beat up every day with, This caffeine product is going to kill you, or, The seas are rising and New York’s going to get flooded. They want to hear about greatness.
They want — people want to be inspired! People want to be motivated. They want their positive thoughts validated. They don’t want to hear every day how everything’s going to hell in a handbasket and there’s a shortage of handbaskets. They don’t want to hear this. That’s what gets ratings on television. I have shown you get ratings on radio being positive, respecting the audience, being inspiring and motivational at times, when it’s necessary.
Watch it:
Showing off some of his “positive” messages, Limbaugh last night said that Obama’s health care reform was “an ideological attempt to control freedom, limit it as much as possible.” Limbaugh also tried to fear-monger about how Obama is making the situation worse for the American public, saying, “They don’t have jobs. They don’t have rising incomes. They don’t have the seas being lowered. He actually promised that. We — none of — we don’t have anything positive happening.” (HT: News Hounds)
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July 25th, 2009 at 4:27 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I heard him say that and I thought…”Damn, Greta, call him out on such blatant hypocracy, double speak and having it both ways”
July 25th, 2009 at 4:28 pmOh well…..
You know what would be a positive for me?
July 25th, 2009 at 4:29 pmIf Rush had had a massive heart attack on camera and dies.
Now that would give me a positive outlook.
OMG!! Where do I begin….
July 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pmTo hear Rush and other Tea-baggers speak, it’s as if Bush never was President and didn’t leave the country in the sh¡t hole that they did.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pmI am positive Limbaugh is an idiot. He inspires me to puke.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pmWell Rush you get low marks for lying, stupidity, blatant propagandization, and lowering the collective IQ by making anyone who listens to you and takes you seriously that much stupider and more delusional. All in all you are like a plague rat without the integrity and self discipline
July 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pmI really think that Limbaugh will be dead of natural causes within 3 years….unless some un- natural Karma gets him first.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:37 pmLimbaugh added that he also gets high ratings from former SS officers.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pmLimbaugh: I get high ratings from ‘being positive,’ ‘inspiring and motivational.’
– - Shorter Rush: “I get high..”
July 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pmRush’s listners are like the people who prefer watching the sideshow freak over the three-ring acts under the big top.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pmHe left out “delusional”.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pmThey want to hear about greatness….They want — people want to be inspired! People want to be motivated. They want their positive thoughts validated.
– - You’re a regular Elmer Gantry, Rush.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:45 pmIs he going to start crying like Glenn Beck now?
July 25th, 2009 at 4:49 pmIf Rushy believes that he’s positive, inspiration & motivational I’d hate to hear him when he’s really mad. Jeebus.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:53 pmLimbaigh is positively insane.
He inspires fear and motivates hate.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:53 pmLimpballs has inspired me for years …………..to not over-eat
July 25th, 2009 at 5:00 pmRush must be on that pharmaceutical herion again.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:03 pmThe fact that Limbaugh has been on the air for 21 years is proof that the media is owned by wingnut conservatives.
He’s positive alright – positively delusional, sexist, classist and rascist.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:05 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
conservative guy says:
My GOD you are stupid. First he does NOT have 20 million listeners per day. That is bunk. The aggregate for a weak is ESTIMATED at that number and even then it is based on how many radio stations. Yeah he was given away for free for years and got into a bunch of stations. Of COURSE we dont have much on the radio. We are liberals not sheep brained morons like YOU that tune into radio programs to find out what we think. That is what brainwashed hiveming cretins like YOU do. Rush is an ADMITTED liar. He is a propagandist only the stupidest people imaginable tune into propagadists on purpose. That would be people as stupid as YOU. If you had any sense or self respect at all you would be ashamed as it is you KNOW you are too stupid to think for yourself so you worship at Rushs alter. The truly sad thing is when Rush is at his country club smoking his Cubans and drinking his hundred year old Cognac. He may hate people like me because I am a liberal and not stupid enough to fall for his BS but trust me he has nothing but contempt for morons like you who do
July 25th, 2009 at 5:15 pmof course look at his message, race-baiting, playing the race card, distracting people from their economic woes by playing TEH GAY, TEH SOCIALISM cards, way to be proud conservative guy…
Please educate me on how Rush isn’t really a racist, but sometimes slips up and doesn’t mean the things how they come out sometimes…
July 25th, 2009 at 5:17 pmDont encourage him. The stupid is so strong in Conguys posts they have my braincells begging for the sweet release of a coma
July 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pmRush is correct.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pmI’m positive I detest him
He motivates me to nausea
And motivates me to work for any opposed to his hypocrisy
con guy, look how well America turned out with you and Limpballs.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pmlol, Eugene. I’m really a glutton for punishment, aren’t I?
July 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pmconservative guy says:
Look how well Air America worked out.
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Corporate blacklisting have anything to do w/ that?
Gee…
***thoughtful pause***
If Rush’s ***cough*** “message” is so uplifting and inspirational, and conservative “values” so effective, you’d think the country would be in better shape after 20 plus years of Rush bloviating and 10 years of GOOP control of the Fed, more or less…
‘Course, one area where the numbers ARE up is Teen Pregnancies and STDs, natch in the Red Sates, … so much for abstinence only sex ed, huh, Con Guy?
So where else has Rush’s “inspirational message” and conservative values in general produced such dramatic results?
July 25th, 2009 at 5:23 pmcon guy, you and those like Limpballs are shit and we liberals will be around from now on to continue to point that out. lol
July 25th, 2009 at 5:25 pmI feel like the Afflac duck listening to Yogi Berra. How you make millions of negative sheeple feel positive with negative diatribes about people who have other peoples welfare as their goal, is by following the positive negatives of multi-millionaire opportunists. I hope I have it right. Quack!
July 25th, 2009 at 5:26 pmUCSBKitty says:
lol, Eugene. I’m really a glutton for punishment, aren’t I?
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You are but dont say it like its a bad thing. I love the optimism. It says something good about you that you have the patience and keep looking for the pearl.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:32 pmow. head hurts. bad. ohhhhhnooooo, it’s…
it’s cognitive dissonance, induced by the contradictory assertions made by Da Big Guy, Pudge Limpdiddler.
Sweet merciful heavens, please, please, can we go back to something sane, like Michele Bachmann Congressloon; or Alberto “Speedy” Gonzales, Ambulance Chaser Extraordinaire? Please.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pmOh really! I honestly don’t know many admitted Rush listeners(I sadly think there are a lot of closet cases though). However you can sure spot a Fox viewer from a considerable distance. You know the look(sloping shoulders,eyes fixed on the ground,the before guy in the Pepto Bismal ads). I know it is their fault for listening to the “sky is falling” everyday,and I have honestly asked folks “Whats the matter”? Some of the horrors they tell me are enough to make a Navy Seal cower in the corner with wet pants. Anymore I don’t ask WHERE they heard this, I TELL them where they heard it. To my amazement a lot of these folks when told the truth seem to walk away with a lighter demeanor and a regular gait instead of a dead man’s shuffle. Granted times are tough but to listen to these lying fear mongers could really have people considering their own demise or worse yet the demise of a liberal like ME and YOU! This bull shit has honestly got to STOP!
July 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pm“Positive, inspiring, and motivational”.
Translation: Bigot mentor.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pmobviously he must be referring to his pre-show drug test results.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:36 pmi bet mr. oxymoron is at the top of michael jackson’s doctor’s list of prospective clients.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:39 pmPositive and inspirational, in Bizarro world, you know where everything is just the opposite. “Positive” they hate Obama, “inspirational”, inspiring wingnuts to spin out of control.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:40 pmMotivational, motivated to nausea.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:41 pmThe man is either crazy enough to believe that (possible), or smart enough to know that being a raving, racist, hate-peddler sells well these days because so many other people are crazy enough to buy it (probable). I submit this as evidence that our health care system is terrible (or we’d have fewer crazies), and our education system is even worse (or we’d have a smarter public). Nation of Sheep all over again.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pmI think that conservative guy should be downgraded from troll to harpy. A mythical bird that craps on the dinner table then flies away when it’s spotted.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pmThe internet has far more liberals than reich-wing drones because it’s more interactive than having propaganda fed over the radio. Liberals like thinking for themselves because we love real freedom.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:44 pmThanks, Eugene…
July 25th, 2009 at 5:45 pmAs for Lush Rimjob, he’s gotten rich selling hate and praising stupidity. He proves, once again, that the surest path to riches is to: tell stupid people they are smart, ugly people they are beautiful, poor people they are rich, and evil people they are good. Ol’ Lush validates the worst qualities of the worst among us.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:46 pmI’m suprised God himself didn’t strike him down.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:53 pmWell said Mr.Cobb we certainly DO like to think for ourselves!
July 25th, 2009 at 5:54 pmP.D. says:
I’m surprised God himself didn’t strike him down.
I think that the Reichwhiners are a very strong proof for God’s nonintervention if not nonexistence. If the God of the Bible listened to them they would burst into flames or have their tongues turn into snakes or something.
I’m forced to conclude either:
July 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pma. There is no God.
b. He’s busy elsewhere Creating and Destroying stars and stuff.
c. He doesn’t give a rip if people lie in His name which makes Him kinda unworthy.
“I have shown you get ratings on radio being positive, respecting the audience, being inspiring…. ” What are you on now Rush?
July 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pmRush Limbaugh’s stock in Trade is DIVISIVENESS.
It’s all about YOU, and the reason things aren’t working out that great for YOU, is because of THEM.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:16 pmpreach on, brother heroin addict. preach on.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:30 pmlimpydic, how is “Barack the Magic Negro” positive, inspiring and motivational?
July 25th, 2009 at 6:33 pmI think Rush has proved there is no God. Thanks for pointing that out P.D.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:46 pmWhat con guy forgets is what PT Barnum said: “there’s a sucker born every minute” and rush (remember, you can’t say russian without saying rush) has a bunch of them listening to him.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:47 pmAdd to Rush’s list of maladies a stupefying delusional psychosis.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:56 pmAnd people with hemorrhoids get inspired and are motivated to go out and buy some Preparation-H for comfort so they rate that experience reasonably high as well…So, that means Limberger is the same as (or just is) a hemorrhoid…good comparison…
July 25th, 2009 at 6:58 pmRadio……….. is so last century!
July 25th, 2009 at 7:01 pmKrystalview,
I have to respectfully disagree. As the old joke goes, if you think Radio is Last century, you need a better Radio.
Rush Limbaugh’s Bigoted Worldview IS very Last Century….but Public Radio is a cultural lifeline and information source for me.
NPR has, IMHO, the BEST on the ground reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan.They rebroadcast the BBC and Canadian Programs overnite. The Talk shows on NPR showcase professors and authors, with a Wide Perspective, that actually Know what they are talking about, because they have STUDIED the Problem.
And the News Programs designate Airtime to Corrections and Listener Feedback.
Those stuck in their cars during traffic jams can use this time to become INFORMED.
And the Stations in My state have Moved into the 21st Century, by streaming their Programing on the WEB, and Pod Casting from their archives.
And finally….Listeners show their approval by Making ever increasing Pledges during fund raising drives.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:23 pmSome people might think its horrible to wish this fat bastard was dead. Im not the only who has thought about how much better our country would be without him. There I said it.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:32 pmI can only speak from my personal experience. No one I know under 35 years old listens to radio. I haven’t listened to radio for 10 years now. It sounds counter productive to sit at your computer and listen to radio. But – as I said – I’m speaking from my life’s experience.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:43 pmLimbaugh: I get high ratings from ‘being positive,’ ‘inspiring and motivational.’
Oh yeah?
And I’m Angelina Jolie.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pmPeople like Limbaugh, Coulter, etc… they are what makes America ugly. They are horrible people who say these things so the idiots at places like Free Republic will worship them.
They are violent seditious idiots and loving every bit of attention and adoration they get from the racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic morons.
They appeal to the most ugly of emotions.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:56 pmHmm. This requires some translation:
“being positive” = I’ll positively kick anyone in the nuts that my corporate masters tell me to.
“inspiring” = I get the mental, moral and social defectives of the country riled up, but good.
“motivational” = My drone listeners will do anything–and I mean anything–I tell them to do.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:04 pmto put Rush in perspective,remember that he got tossed off of Gameday on ESPN because he said Donovan Mcnabb was not smart enough to play QB in the NFL. I would call that a “positive” spin on race relations.He used to go after drug users on his show until he got pinched for abusing oxycontin. I think it is very positive that his radio network awarded a drug abuser a huge contract.Another positive is his affection for Newt Gingrich, but then they have been married the same amount of times.I don’t think i have to say anymore.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:14 pmThis guy is good! I would have bet his next 6 course dinner that there was no way he could mean to say he is positive, inspiring and motivational and mean it in a way that enlightens people and brings people together for us all to live in harmony and prosperity as Americans. No, good old RushBo means is he’s positive he’s negative and hateful and inspiring to rednecks, racists and the simple minded and motivational to neocon gun toting nutjobs seeing to destroy this country by inciting those that see America for only white only.
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Well, druggie rushbo, you can get in touch with LTC Ralph Peters, retired.
Remember your little conservanazi friend that offers up that the captured GI in Afghanistan should be executed by the Taliban? If not, here is his name and address. You two have quiet a bit in common. Two duffus conservanazi idiots.
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret)
5831 Green Springs Dr.
Warrenton, VA 20187-9324
PH: (540) 349-2472
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross.” Sinclair Lewis
July 25th, 2009 at 8:27 pmSomeone needs to test him for drugs. Apparently he’s smoking crack now if he believes his message is positive. The only people who could think his message is positive are neo-nazi, members of the Klan, bigots, former members of the Hilter youth, etc…. For this man to sit there on any show and lie through his teeth is laughable. Come on Rush the next thing you will be telling us is that you are Martian. Of course I might believe that before I believe the lies you tell. You are nothing more than a fat, nasty, drunk addictive racist who can’t get enough of your own bullshlt. Come on, fat boy, no one with a brain is buying the crap you are selling. That bull crap only works on the racist and the weak minded idiots who listen to your show.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:38 pmRush is positive – positively an idiot and near the very top of the Most Vile Americans list.
Rush is inspiring – inspires parents everywhere to keep their kids in school, off drugs, and away from A.M. radio.
Rush is motivational – motivates me to step away from the computer and get some exercise so I don’t wind up a big fat blob of quivering, hate-filled pig-eyed sackofshit.
Thanks Rush! And to think, I get all this from you never having listened to your show once!
PEACE
July 25th, 2009 at 8:42 pmHow can this man have say anything with a straight face and be believed? It sends chills down the back of anyone with a brain. Christopher Hedges told Thom Hartman there are 90-100 milion adults who function at a Jr. High level in the United States: I think he underestimated just so we don’t panic all at once. God bless the child that’s got his (her) own.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:00 pmlimbaugh is a misogynist pure and simple. . .
July 25th, 2009 at 9:05 pmI am agree. Parint basement a$$ telpromter, Rush HA HA. He wealth and smart librul homo, GOD! that who.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:08 pmI think this is the key quote from the 2nd interview:
“I’m simply validating what people already believe. “
July 25th, 2009 at 9:11 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Dear Iniskim:
Thank you for your concerns and kindly go f uck off.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pmIniskim,
It has nothing to do with politics. Lush Rimjob is a disgusting, primitive, liar. We, as a society, need to learn that both sides don’t deserve a hearing if one of the sides is bullsh!t. And I, personally, have decided it’s long past time to abandon patience with hateful fools like Lush and the moronic “ditto-heads”.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
#74. Iniskim sez:
I apologize for refering to Mr. Limpdiddler as Pudge Limpdiddler. I’ve been working on a concise epithet for Mr. Limpdiddler that encapsulates the absolute awe I feel on looking at someone who is a junkie, very probably sexually impotent, and has a weight problem and simultaneously makes millions of good old American buckolas spewing hate and lies to a gullible public of, what, maybe a couple of million avid listeners?
Despite certain flaws in the previous adminstration, I don’t recall that Mr. Limpdiddler bothered to call out any of the players, but he went on to hope, pray and spray the news all over the place that he hoped the new president would fail. Truly a fine upstanding American, Mr. Limpdiddler, and a class one chickenhawk, too.
If you don’t want me to call Mr. Limpdiddler, “Limpdiddler”, Iniskim, you might consider producing something that demonstrates that Mr. Limpdiddler produces something other than advertising revenue and divisiveness.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:51 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Providing a choice tramples our Freedom? What a stupid concept.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:31 pmIniskim says:
I listen to Rush Limbaugh. I’m not a “ditto-head”, but frankly I don’t find Rush to be disgusting, primitive or a liar. I find him to be a human being with points of view that I either agree with or disagree with.
If you actually choose to listen that hateful racist crap without being forced to – well, you deserve to have scorn heaped on your head for being just plain stupid.
Furthermore, if you agree with what that fat, ugly-souled bastard says, that makes you just as hateful and racist as he is – only he’s smarter than you, because he makes millions of dollars pandering to the lowest common denominator in this country: YOU and those like you.
Stop wasting our time, dittohead troll, and go back to freeperland where you belong.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:36 pmIniskim,
Its not about listening to someone you disagree with when it comes to Rush.
Its about the race baiting, gay bashing, hate spewing words he uses to make his points. He’s a racist, bigoted gay bashing pig, who can’t make any point without offending some group or person with fear mongering hate speech.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:38 pmTo Iniskim, excuse me but hate, bigotry, racism, homophobia, and out-and-out lying are NOT points of view.
Your response lays bare a typical Rush tactic. You claim that you are for open debate, then turn around and call posters here who disagree with your view mental masturbators. I used to listen to Rush to learn what the so-called right-wing was thinking until his hatred and obvious disinterest in hearing any other view but his own finally disgusted me.
There comes a time when you have to call a kettle that is black, black. This is not being narrow minded, it is called being reasonable, something that Limbaugh is NOT.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:43 pmHe is a liar, and the evidence is staggering. Maybe if you spent more time listening to credible sources you’d know this.
If you give any credence to Limbaugh, you do not have an informed viewpoint. So take your “concern” to one of the neoCon forums, where people won’t check your “facts”…
July 25th, 2009 at 10:43 pmAS an African American I will say, thanks, but no thanks to Limbaugh, Iniskim. I don’t need Limbaugh’s form of masturbation when he’s already fu(ked me and others over in this society. I’ve lived here for over 50 years, and I’ve seen Limbaughs come and go, but the one charactristic they share is hate. I don’t need to listen to Limbaugh spread his hatred all over the airwaves, not when I’ve had to live and suffer the consequences of it. And I get my informed viewpoints by reading as much material as I can get my hands on about what is going on in this country. I’d never listen to Lumbaugh if I wanted an informed opinion because he doesn’t have one, only a bully pulpit from which he vomits out his own form of hatred.
And last but not least I choose whom I listen to, and I choose not to listen to Lumbaugh.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pmRush is utterly and completely indefensible. Period.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:59 pmthat Rush is such a kidder….. Surely no one believes Rush is “for real”…the guy is the ultimate performer, much like the villian in Professional Wrestling…you know, the guy you love to hate.. I know, I know, there are folks out there who listen and believe and that is, indeed, a little scary. However, Rush has his tens of millions and his oxycontin and his secure compound in Florida, so I’m betting he is quietly giggling as he fools his followers and angers his critics. Yes, maybe I’m wrong and Rush actually believes himself…if so, he’s at least as wacko as his followers…and that’s pretty wacko
July 25th, 2009 at 11:09 pmLimbaugh ~
Self-awareness. GET SOME.
Who am I kidding…?
July 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pmIf Lush became self-aware, Zooey, he would have to off himself.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:31 pmHmmmmm…
July 25th, 2009 at 11:43 pm“Hmmmmm…” indeed, Zooey.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:00 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
FYI, this isn’t the Huffington Post. Are you lost?
July 26th, 2009 at 12:07 amHitler would have been proud to have Rush on his
team! Our CONservatives would have all fit nicely
into his propaganda radio.
Tell the “people” whose to blame for their problems..
Make them afraid of “those” others who are so
“different.” Tell them that only WE (Rush’s
Republicans) have the real answers. And pretend
that God is on YOUR side, and that Jesus hates’
“liberals.”
Yeah, Rush, you’re real positive. Oh, and tell it
July 26th, 2009 at 12:17 amto Jesus when (and IF), you ever see him.
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I was looking at that video about Rush. He may have been on the Air for 20 years, but Rush looks real bad. I looked at the Man very close and I could see the Man has some “SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS. And it don’t look Good.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:18 amDon’t take my word for it, see for your self. I want be surprise when I hear the News, about Rush.
Dear Iniskim:
To reiterate my post above:
Thank you for your concerns and kindly go f uck off.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:20 amDoes anyone remember how Limpo went to the emergency room to have some earwax removed when he was a nobody in Sacramento?
You know, to get his “healthcare”
As for his many lies,
Does anyone remember his drug induced hallucinations for SIX YEARS while he vehemently demanded prison for drug users and junkies?
And here we have a Limpo Dilldo head asking for samples of Limpo’s lies…
LOL!
July 26th, 2009 at 12:24 amOh, you mean this positive message Rush?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/20/limbaugh-obama-fail/
It is a laugh a minute.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:25 amWhatever floats your boat, Iniskim.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:28 amThe stupid troll seems to be operating under the misconception that our comments are for said troll’s benefit.
If I thought I could educate you, stupid troll, I would try. But? I know my limits so I’ll just ridicule your faulty logic. Such pursuits amuse me, for some reason.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:44 amPlenty of examples have been provided, stupid troll, of Lush Rimjob’s faults. And yet? You keep insisting that no evidence has been provided. I am forced to conclude that you, stupid troll, don’t know what “evidence” means.
Are you, stupid troll, a creationist?
July 26th, 2009 at 12:52 amDallasNE says:
I was just going to say that, but I was scrolling through the posts to see if anyone else remembered it.
Rush, how is “I hope Obama fails” a positive and inspiring message?
July 26th, 2009 at 12:54 amIniskim:
Rush is a racist. My proof?
Barack the Magic Negro.
Gee, and I didn’t even have to google it.
Get lost. You are defending the indefensible.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:19 amDang, that vote down button when we’re at -9 and counting is just about as much fun as a game of whack-a-troll….
July 26th, 2009 at 1:28 amAnd all this time I just thought it was those adjustable beds…
July 26th, 2009 at 1:53 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
****
gee, i don’t want to demonize and attack
people who love oxycontin in their jelly doughnuts…
oh wait.
:)
July 26th, 2009 at 2:20 amHi Amaboon…
July 26th, 2009 at 2:28 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
For the life of me I can’t understand why the stupid trolls are compelled to defend a “man” who has a national radio platform to defend himself.
July 26th, 2009 at 3:46 amHe is bought and paid for. He doesn’t choose what he says. He does his job, goes home, gets bent and passes out. He is a non-issue. He hasn’t been relevant ever. The more the left pays attention to him the more power he gets. TP should Never do stories about him (other than an obituary). He is a symbol of how weak the right wing is. Every right winger out there listens to him. 20 million, which mean the left wing has 280 million. As long as rush is the republican figure head, they will continue to suck at everything, which is bad for America. It would be great if Both parties were freaking awesome. but instead of wanting everyone to succeed Rush wants everyone to fail. doesn’t sound too positive to me.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:04 amMarwick:
I know what you mean!
The government should:
1) Let companies run scams with no fear of punishment.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:21 am2) Let companies sell untested products to infants.
3) Let companies continue to run without paying their workers.
4) Get rid of restrictions on how little companies can pay people.
5) Let officials give no bid contracts to their buddies during crisis.
6) Let crazy people make up statics out of thin air.
7) ”
8) Put poor people in slave camps.
9) Make more cliffs for people to fall off.
10) Let monopolies charge $50 for a loaf of bread.
11) Let gas stations in the ghetto charge $15 a gallon.
12) Make large families homeless.
13) Let people in charge retirement funds go to Las Vegas with the cash.
14) Make bridges for homeless to sleep under.
15) Only allow sons of rich people to attend college.
16) Allow corporal punishment at the work place.
17) Abolish the pledge of allegiance and the the miranda rights laws.
Rush has been on the air for 21 years now…and there are more Democrats than ever.
That’s truly inspiring and motivational. ;)
Holes in History
July 26th, 2009 at 5:22 amRealityCheck says:
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The thing is…all you dimwits combined wealth…including your parents…in whose basement you still live in…do not equal Rush’s wealth now.
And this my friends is the problem with conservatives…For a group of people who preach morality and “family values” and Jesus this, Jesus that, they sure can only see the worth of people not in their hearts and good intentions, but rather their pocketbook. It doesn’t matter how evil one’s heart is but if he’s making $50 million a year, he’s virtually virtuous and pure in the minds of conservatives. It doesn’t matter how virtuous and good you are, if you don’t make anything, you are worthless in the minds of conservatives. That is the problem with today’s conservative movement.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:35 amGreta question first of all assumes that Russ is as popular as he claims which is a total lie. Given that he gives lots of radio away for free just to boost his numbers. Drive anywhere into the interior of America and you can hear his stupid program two or three times a day. The real truth is almost 50% of Americans are ignorant fools who don’t know anything about what is really going on in this world. That’s why they call themselves ditto heads. Translation 1# = dumb ass rednecks translation 2# religious bigots translation 3# super rich who uses these other dumb asses and religious bigots to win elections. It is these lemmings that are so influenced by the ignorance of someone like Limbaugh.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:39 amMarwick! You are a lying sack of manure. Nazi talking points.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:55 amThere is just something positive and uplifting about being told that your president is an illegal alien, islamic radicalist, black supremacist, socialist that wants to take your guns and make you pay for abortions. I do have to admit that much.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:29 am***
the trolls love limbaugh,
but steele? not so much.
wonder why that is?
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who’s the head (the real head)
of the republican party?
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July 26th, 2009 at 10:24 amA new Gallup Poll shows that Republicans are leaderless. It found that most Americans cannot even identify “the main person” who speaks for Republicans today.
WASHINGTON — Republicans, out of power and divided over how to get it back, are finding even the most basic questions hard to answer.
Here’s one: Who speaks for the GOP?
The question flummoxes most Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, which is among the reasons for the party’s sagging state and uncertain direction.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-09-poll-parties_N.htm
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009062411/right-wingers-flail-their-world-collapses
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fred,
i nominate jonjon.
he has a lot to say.
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July 26th, 2009 at 11:03 amMarwick, How hard it must be to live in such a paranoid and delusional mind.
July 26th, 2009 at 11:52 amLimbaugh: “I hope the Obama Administration fails.”
Boy, now that’s positive and inspiring.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm“gee, Mom- if I swallow handfulls of prescription opiates, can I get uneducated, shit- for brains, morons to lissin’a me, and be a lying, nauseating, grandiose, delusional, draft-dodging, perverted POS, too!”
July 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pmThere are many reasons why this country is screwed up. Rush Limbaugh is one of those key reasons. He is the most prolific populist of the right wing lunatic fringe. In saner times, as described in Charles Pierce’s book, Idiot America, Limbaugh would have been received as loud mouth crank. But instead, in the America we live in now he has risen in status as a respected political “mover and shaker” that controls the minds of millions. I will give you an example. If the doctor who delivered Barrack Obama came to a “birther” and showed him the actual birth certificate, that “birther would not believe him… until Rush Limbaugh told him it was true. Of course Rush would lie because his agenda is not about honesty. It is about him remaining status quo.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:01 pmYeppers and nothing quite expresses optimism such as openly hoping for our president to fail and then repeating it over and over again.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pmRush is positively the most self-absorbed egomaniac that ever waddled the face of the earth.He also inspires counless numbers of ignorant sheeple who haven’t had even one independent thought in those twenty years.And motivating counless others to vomit on a regular basis at the sound of his voice or the sight of his sweat filled, porcine visage.Got to go now, just writing this post is making we need to spew chunks. Party on Rush!
July 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pmPill Daddy Rush is confusing lines of ego-bloating cocaine with inspiration.
July 26th, 2009 at 3:43 pmIn another era Rush would be a carnival barker or operating a patent medicine show fleecing the rubes and the elderly.
He is a con man pure and simple.
I just have to wonder how people can be so gullible as to believe that this draft dodging, three time divorced, drug addicted, Viagra popping in the Dominican Republic, West Palm Beach multi-millionaire represents middle American values.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:02 pmRush Limpdick says: “positive”
Look you fascist NAZI pig. Nobody wants to know about the results of your AIDS test. Shut up!
We do know you’re “positive” you’re a racist, a bigot, a homophobe and a traitor to the US. That’s enough for us to know. As for your “positive” results for AIDS for pedo-ing out on little child prosititutes in a SOUTH AMERICAN country known for child prostitution, I hope you die from it.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmOh, I forgot (133). “Positive” you’re a junkie.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pmAmaboon says: nothing.
Lookie lookie. Proud made a new sock puppet.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pmand delusional
July 26th, 2009 at 5:42 pm(133): There probably are a lot of Dominican Mandingo teens who are concerned- if OxyContin Boy is HIV- Positive.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pmthey want their racists and selfish thoughts validated and russ does that for them.
he is a product of corp fascism and hatred.
listeners get their own hatred validated.
old soul new soul thing.
look very close at repub mentality of late.
very selfish very hateful, very we are the only patroits in america.
america is ripe for a hitler type leader.
look at the mentality of germany before world war II.
all the conditions in america are close to what they were in germany.
fascism is coming to america soon.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:49 pmthe “secret” to his suckcess is this:
July 26th, 2009 at 7:49 pmgive the program away to radio stations for free in exchange for free commerical airtime to hawk products from his crappy sponsors like craftmatic adjustible beds and gold bond. afterall, not many radio stations would pass up a free show which cuts down on their operational costs.
Why isn’t Limbaugh (and any of the rightwing media) telling his listeners, that Israel has national health care for all? And that we are the only country without it? And that WE are probably paying for Israel’s national health care?
Health care in Israel is both universal and compulsory, and is administered by a small number of organizations with funding from the government. All Israeli citizens are entitled to the same Uniform Benefits Package, regardless of which organization they are a member of, and treatment under this package is funded for all citizens regardless of their financial means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Israel
They all talk about “pro Israel this” and “pro Israel that”…and they’re all anti-national health care for all in the U.S…..but NEVER tell their listeners ISRAEL HAS IT!!!!!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pmSomething’s happened to Limbaugh’s brain. It doesn’t seem to be working. I wonder if doing too much evil turns one into an evil being.
July 26th, 2009 at 9:13 pmIf Rush was honest, he would have said, “They want — my audience wants to be inspired and motivated to despise anyone who isn‘t white and conservative. They want their twisted thoughts validated.” I was hoping that Greta would call him out for this BS, but one reason Rush goes on the Fox News Channel is that he knows his views won’t be challenged.
Ironically, Rush has inspired me. After being subjected to his “Pretzel Logic”, I feel like listening to some Steely Dan.
July 26th, 2009 at 9:34 pmRush has truly inspired me to be ever watchful and aware that there are indeed wacko people in the world.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:18 pmRush has high ratings because he feeds and feeds off of the hatred and stupidity which has always bubbled below the surface of our national discourse. The next fascist sympathizer who blows up a building or tries to assassinate someone will be seen to have been an avid listener of this excrescence’s radio program.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pmRealityCheck says
You ignorant piece of dogshit. Rush is rich because people as unbelievably stupid as YOU need someone to think for them and business is glad to underwrite a Rush to brainwash you with their stupid. My GOD you are such a stupid punkass troll. Now someone with a modicrum of self respect would die of embarassment at publicly exposing how ignorant, brainwasehd and stupid they are but not you. You take being stupid to all new horizons and are PROUD of what a moron you are. I scrape thing off of my shoe that are smarter and make a better contribution to mankind as you do. Its just sad how stupid and pathetic you are.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:41 ammarwick says
Are you still trying to sell that Nazis were socialsts stupidity. YOU are a moron. Hitler put REAL socialist in concentration camps. Only the stupidest and most gullible morons in the entiere world bought that bilge when Golberg puked it out. So we get that you are stupid and brainwashed but please stop being boring. Repeating stupidity doesnt change it from BEING stupidity. I understand that you are so stupid that stupidity is all you have but spare us endless repitions of it. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about politics OR history knows Nazis were on the RIGHT end of the political spectrum and all your SKWWWWWAAAAAAKKKKKKish propaganda parrrot repitions wont change that. It just makes you look like the fool you obviously are.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:48 amNo Rush, that is NOT the reason for high ratings. The ratings stem from uneducated people that do NOT have the skills to do any kind of research and would rather have someone to tell them how they feel, what to think and what to be against.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:38 amWhy do I smell feces every time I see a picture of this hate filled, bloated creep?
July 27th, 2009 at 10:44 amHere is a good “clue” as to what Rush is really about:
July 27th, 2009 at 1:44 pmGo back and listen to that short clip, and (if you can)
count how many times Rush says the words: I, Me My.
Just saying…
The ‘core argument’ of right-wing radio is always the doomsday scenario, that changing anything means the end of everything!? This is not a serious argument, saving the entire notion of an informative radio industry, as a given. Their ‘insufficient’ weapons include creativity, tradition, cultural difference, and extremes in personal living. It is ours, ‘We The People’, to fight back with library cards, and personal collections of books and periodicals or ‘first-hand sources.’ This is nothing less than a battle, because American Families are faced with serious choices with regard to employment, health care, education, and retirement, maybe because entire families don’t fit into sufficient categories labeled, “Identical”, or “Similar” or “Dissimilar?”
July 27th, 2009 at 5:13 pm