I have listened to "Air America", and find them even more rude and agressive to Conservatives then Rush is against Democrats.

For the most part, Rush lampoons his "subjects".  Air America is mostly rude and insulting.



I particularly remember Rush going after Chelsea Clinton, she would have been about 12 or 13 at the time, and the audience loved it.
Remember the time he showed a picture of a pig, saying it was a picture of Chelsea?  Maybe Rushs' 3rd divorce will temper his
criticism of Bill, or maybe it will make him much more jealous and spur him on to even stronger drugs, and lower insults.

Nobody ever said it was OK.

Who says that anyone here even listens to Air America? I don't. I think Al Franken's show is actually quite boring. Most of their shows are. Sometimes I listen to Lynn Samuels or Ed Schultz on Sirius Left 146 but I get sick even of that. Political talk radio isn't always stimulating, at least once you get tired of hearing the same thing everyday.
I'd like to add that I feel the same way about Michael Moore. I saw Fahrenheit 911 in the theater when it first came out, and I left feeling angry and disappointed. I felt that he had a golden opportunity to educate the public on what the Bush administration was really up to, and he completely dropped the ball. The theater itself was on the University of Nebraska campus, so naturally the audience was probably 80 to 90 percent liberal, and they all laughed in a kind of smug, knee-jerk manner at things in the film that really weren't all that funny, in exactly the same way that a bunch of dittoheads would laugh at things Rush Limbaugh would say if they were all gathered in one of those "Rush Rooms." I thought it was lame. What irritated me most about the movie (and what irritates me about pretty much all political talk shows, regardless of whether they claim to be "conservative" or "liberal") was that it was so obviously and blatantly distorted that I found it to be insulting to my intelligence. Why is it that the vast majority of political rhetoric in this country is based mainly on fighting B.S. with more B.S.? Is it even possible today for anyone to get a talk show on the air who isn't completely full of sh*t?

I particularly remember Rush going after Chelsea Clinton, she would have been about 12 or 13 at the time, and the audience loved it.
Remember the time he showed a picture of a pig, saying it was a picture of Chelsea?  Maybe Rushs' 3rd divorce will temper his
criticism of Bill, or maybe it will make him much more jealous and spur him on to even stronger drugs, and lower insults.


I said it before and I'll say it again, the Right understands humor like a potted plant understands calculus.  It wasn't so much that Limbaugh's "White House dog" joke about Ms. Clinton was mean, the real problem humor-wise was it wasn't even funny.  It's the same as the way Rush refers to NOW (National Organization of Women) as "NAG" ("National Association of Gals")  He didn't just say it once, he uses it whenever NOW pops up in the news.  If you must make a misogynistic joke, at least make a funny one!  I mean, "NAG"?  That's pathetic!
Rush also used to make fun of Dr. Robert Reich's height (when Rush was bloated like the Goodyear blimp!).  When Rush had his TV show and Reich was labor secretary, he used to play Reich quotes showing a podium with just the tip of a person's head sticking above it.  Reich replied that the only problem with the joke was that it was true.  He's 4'10" and sometimes that happens.  Of course, Reich is about 100 times smarter than Rush, so he found the cruel jest more amusing than anything else.
The Right can dish it out, but they can't take it.  When Rush made fun of Chelsea Clinton's pubescent awkwardness or Dr. Reich's height, it was "all in good fun."  When Al Franken called Rush a "big fat idiot," that was the "liberals being mean-spirited again."  Go figure!
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Why is it that the vast majority of political rhetoric in this country is based mainly on fighting B.S. with more B.S.? Is it even possible today for anyone to get a talk show on the air who isn't completely full of sh*t?

What was that movie in which Jack Nicholson says, "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"  I think the prevalence of B.S. in the media is along similar lines, only it's "the corporations who control the media can't handle YOU knowing the truth!"  Nobody is completely full of sh!t (with the possible exceptions of Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson).  Even people as odious as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Robert Novak make a salient point now and again.
I listen to Air America when I get the chance, but I don't agree with everything the hosts say.  However, from my POV, Al Franken's and Randi Rhodes' shows contain about 90% less B.S. than Sean Hannity's or Rush Limbaugh's shows!
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I particularly remember Rush going after Chelsea Clinton, she would have been about 12 or 13 at the time, and the audience loved it.
Remember the time he showed a picture of a pig, saying it was a picture of Chelsea?  Maybe Rushs' 3rd divorce will temper his
criticism of Bill, or maybe it will make him much more jealous and spur him on to even stronger drugs, and lower insults.

Limbaugh is on his third divorce because no woman in her right mind could stand him!!

Limbaugh is on his third divorce because no woman in her right mind could stand him!!

Oh, really, his latest missus is dumping him.  I hope she and her lawyer pick his bones clean!
;D

Oh, really, his latest missus is dumping him.  I hope she and her lawyer pick his bones clean!
;D


Even though I don't like Rush...this just sounds like a mean thing to say.  It is his personal life anyway.

I said it before and I'll say it again, the Right understands humor like a potted plant understands calculus.  It wasn't so much that Limbaugh's "White House dog" joke about Ms. Clinton was mean, the real problem humor-wise was it wasn't even funny.  It's the same as the way Rush refers to NOW (National Organization of Women) as "NAG" ("National Association of Gals")  He didn't just say it once, he uses it whenever NOW pops up in the news.  If you must make a misogynistic joke, at least make a funny one!  I mean, "NAG"?  That's pathetic!
Rush also used to make fun of Dr. Robert Reich's height (when Rush was bloated like the Goodyear blimp!).  When Rush had his TV show and Reich was labor secretary, he used to play Reich quotes showing a podium with just the tip of a person's head sticking above it.  Reich replied that the only problem with the joke was that it was true.  He's 4'10" and sometimes that happens.  Of course, Reich is about 100 times smarter than Rush, so he found the cruel jest more amusing than anything else.
The Right can dish it out, but they can't take it.  When Rush made fun of Chelsea Clinton's pubescent awkwardness or Dr. Reich's height, it was "all in good fun."  When Al Franken called Rush a "big fat idiot," that was the "liberals being mean-spirited again."  Go figure!
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Ever notice on Rush's TV show, everyone in the audience wore three-piece suits? Come on here!That's so ridiculous! No wonder why his followers are called 'dittoheads'....

Even though I don't like Rush...this just sounds like a mean thing to say.  It is his personal life anyway.

Awww, poor Rush, we shouldn't say mean things about Rush!  He's such a sweetheart of a man and never said an unkind or untruthful thing in his broadcasting career.  He's been nothing but honest, humble, humane, even-handed, and morally impeccable.  Oh, I feel so guilty for wishing anything less than the best fortune for Rush!
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Ever notice on Rush's TV show, everyone in the audience wore three-piece suits? Come on here!That's so ridiculous! No wonder why his followers are called 'dittoheads'....

That audience was bogus.  They weren't live in front of Rush.  They were filmed at a different time with applause coordinated in production.  Then again, Rush is bogus too.  One time I heard an audio glitch on his radio program.  You could hear one of his stooges feeding him the schtick line-by-line!
:P

Even though I don't like Rush...this just sounds like a mean thing to say.  It is his personal life anyway.
On the other hand, look at how many times El Rushbo has struck out with women. It's pathetic...I mean he must be pathetic.

Awww, poor Rush, we shouldn't say mean things about Rush!  He's such a sweetheart of a man and never said an unkind or untruthful thing in his broadcasting career.  He's been nothing but honest, humble, humane, even-handed, and morally impeccable.  Oh, I feel so guilty for wishing anything less than the best fortune for Rush!
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and oh yeah, Rush is a noted expert on black quarterbacks in the NFL!

On the other hand, look at how many times El Rushbo has struck out with women. It's pathetic...I mean he must be pathetic.

Money can't buy you love...but it can buy you plent of dope and p*ssy!  Hey, to a lot of folks nowadays, that IS love!

and oh yeah, Rush is a noted expert on black quarterbacks in the NFL!

Rush is NOT a racist.  He just says things the liberal cowards in the media are afraid to say, like Black people only get to be star athletes because of affirmative action!
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Hey, whatever happened to Jimmy The Greek?  All he said was African Americans are genetically superior!

Awww, poor Rush, we shouldn't say mean things about Rush!  He's such a sweetheart of a man and never said an unkind or untruthful thing in his broadcasting career.  He's been nothing but honest, humble, humane, even-handed, and morally impeccable.  Oh, I feel so guilty for wishing anything less than the best fortune for Rush!


This logic seems to imply that if Rush employs a certain kind of bullying strategy, it is okay for those of opposing viewpoints to use it.

What I'm saying is that you don't stoop to a lower level because somebody is setting the bar low.

Even people as odious as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Robert Novak make a salient point now and again.
But that's precisely their tactic. They'll start off on a topic that outrages pretty much everyone, and make comments about it that are completely logical and make sense, and at the end of their rant they'll twist it around in a way that fits their own agenda and sneak in a bald-faced lie.
  Did you ever watch Rush Limbaugh's TV show that was on for a couple of years back in the early '90s? It failed miserably, and I can tell you why: Rush is a master at effectively using subtle tactics to push forth his agenda on his radio program, yet when he tried the same thing on a visual medium it was too blatantly obvious. He ran his TV show the same way he did his radio show: He'd start out with some lighthearted banter (and I'll admit, Rush can be quite funny from time to time), and then he'd shift to a more serious note.
    And I figured out how to tell exactly when Rush was lying: When he would start his rant, he would be sitting at his desk and looking straight into the camera. The focal point of the camera would be roughly 10 feet away, and the camera would begin zooming in on him, at a rate that was so slow it was almost barely perceptible, and as he kept speaking the camera would zoom closer and closer until, at the end of his rant his face filled almost the entire screen, with his big blue eyes staring you down.  Very subtle, but not subtle enough.

This logic seems to imply that if Rush employs a certain kind of bullying strategy, it is okay for those of opposing viewpoints to use it.

What I'm saying is that you don't stoop to a lower level because somebody is setting the bar low.

I agree with you on a philosophical level.



    And I figured out how to tell exactly when Rush was lying.


So did I...it's when his lips are moving!
:P

Rush Limbaugh is a woman-hating, right-wing arse-kissing, yuppie-god LOSER!!!

I don't see why anyone with a functioning intelligence would listen to his radio PROPAGANDA show!

I wonder what would happen if El Rushbo ran for President? I would not vote for his sorry a$$!

I still wonder why anyone with half a brain would listen to Rush Limblabber's radio show?

I still wonder why anyone with half a brain would listen to Rush Limblabber's radio show?
i used to listen to it all the time. i liked hating him. i derived a nice pleasant warm rage from it.

Rush Limbaugh is a woman-hating, right-wing arse-kissing, yuppie-god LOSER!!!

I don't see why anyone with a functioning intelligence would listen to his radio PROPAGANDA show!



I wonder what would happen if El Rushbo ran for President? I would not vote for his sorry a$$!



I still wonder why anyone with half a brain would listen to Rush Limblabber's radio show?


So, you like Rush?

So, you like Rush?
methinks the lady doth protest too much. she's secretly in love with rush.

seriously, though, what's to like? that guy sucks eggs.

I wonder what would happen if El Rushbo ran for President? I would not vote for his sorry a$$!

Give that man's campaign $100 million and rig the voting machines and we'll have President Limbaugh.  It worked for Dubya!
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So, you like Rush?
No, I absolutely think he's disgusting.