LOL at Rush Limbaugh

Honestly, one you accept that he's a sack of manure stuffed in a suit, Rush is kind of fun to listen to. O'Reilly, same thing.

There was really good piece on Rush in the NYT Sunday mag a few months ago, I think. He makes no bones whatsoever about being non-ideological, in that he's 100% in it for the money.

He also likes France!

I sincerely doubt Olbermann is a differenter, more specialer kind of soul.

Rush is just a doofus. Most right-wingers who listen to him (who i've encountered) are aware that he's an entertainer first and foremost.

but Hannity, O'Reilly and that shitstain Beck are on what is consider "the news" by lots of people, and that's, you know, fucked up.

rush, i have to admit, is very talented at radio. it's tough to fill up 4 hours of airtime a day. the writer of that profile didn't have anything to say about limbaugh pushing information on air that is just factually incorrect, which does a disservice to his own listeners, not to mention the general discourse in this country..

The writer of the profile was also a right winger.

Rush is just a doofus. Most right-wingers who listen to him (who i've encountered) are aware that he's an entertainer first and foremost.

Not the ones I know!

Mom takes him very seriously.

hannity/o'reilly/beck.. yeah. depressing that so much of cable news is just opinion shows presented as news, that play fast and loose with the facts & fill up airtime with guests who are still playing 'crossfire'

yeah the writer of the profile thinks the 'liberal media' just doesn't appreciate el rushbo.

My dad and I don't talk about Rush. Verboten. Too sensitive a topic. He has a (old overinflated white) man crush.

oh sure, not saying that he doesn't help shape discourse (both on the right & the left), sadly...

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Great choice of wall color.

Is that your dad, kenan?

Yes.

Rush is just a doofus. Most right-wingers who listen to him (who i've encountered) are aware that he's an entertainer first and foremost.

Uh, given what happened to that Congressbro who said something bad about Rush and then had to go begging forgiveness, I find this hard to believe.

rush is mock-heroic and grandiose and all, and while i'm sure he has a high opinion of himself i don't think he buys into his spiel even as he expects his audience to do so. o'reilly/olberman/hannity/savage do a lot of bullshit riffing too but i hear them as being more 'into it'. rush would be most like ann coulter in that respect, in my opinion, though her persona is more spiteful than self-aggrandizing.

(((Actually my dad has unkempt silver hair and a big bushy silver mustache. And apart from that, looks exactly like me.)))

Hannity, Beck, Schnitt, et al are "serious" because they rarely joke! Meanwhile the Rush listeners I know consider him an entertaining soothsayer.

Oh man try and find one pundit that has an audience who doesn't believe what they're saying most of the time (except for maybe the Comedy Central parody ones, and even then...). Peeps take them really seriously & it's amazing how influential their opinions are on most of their audience.

Also I can't get listening to these dudes for the lols. I'm getting tired of even Keitho and stuff, I just can't handle the smug.

pancakes i have no idea what you're talking about, please provide citation of this congressbro episode

abbott what of ms. maddow, she is also smug but much less of a blustering blowhard

Gingrey apologizes to El Rusho.

and again, i'm reducing it down to folks i know personally (family, ex-coworkers), and while they agree with Rush on basic matters, they can sort of chuckle at his blowhard-ness ("lol that scoundrel etc").

OTOH I've got grandparents who think those fuckos on Fox are really giving it ot them straight.

Yeah elmo Rachel is my homegirl, she's funny and informative and still has some perspective/empathy and isn't shouty and shit.

I'm getting tired of even Keitho and stuff, I just can't handle the smug.

Keith is getting on my nerves, it's true. I think the last time I watched three nights in a row, he dedicated a good five minutes each night to attacking O'Reilly. They both need a time out to learn to behave, because daddy has better things to do than listen to you kids.

Love Rachel! Omg squee.

Rachel also doesn't wuss out on issues.

yeah i can really only take Olbermann in bite-sized best-of chunks on youtube.

A thing that bothers me about Keith, and this is totally silly, is that he calls Bill O'reilly 'Billo.' This bcz the name Billo only makes me think of a cute baby hippo. I don't know why. So Keith associating Bill O'Reilly with that cute hippo, it just kills me!

http://www.clipartof.com/images/clipart/xsmall2/13400_cute_blue_hippo.jpg

"Billo" vs "Papa Bear"

(answer: papa bear. still makes me chuckle)

I really like Maddow's set design. Not sure why, exactly.

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lil' Billo in love.

Billbo Windbaggins

yeah i'm down w/ RM. i like her little perma-smirk.

So deliberately cute when she's angry

I drew you guys a picture of the real Billo that Keith is slandering:

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8687/billoby5.jpg

I worked at a restaurant Rush's brother owned in the early 90's and waited on Rush multiple times. Fucker never tipped!

Maybe he didn't think he had to bcz it was his brother's restaurant, plus bcz he is a jerkwad?

Yeah, probably. He was one of those people who wouldn't even make eye contact with you while ordering.

maybe he was afraid he would cry, or catch compassion

or he really DIDN'T approve of the service?!?

tipping would have just encouraged you to stay in your lowly job, rather than striving for the greatness rush saw within you. teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day. kick 'im in the balls, he won't think about how hungry he is for at least 15 or 20 minutes.

i mean, give a man a fish.

give a fish a bicycle.

never mind.

imagine the poor sod who had to serve both limbaugh and justice bork on the same night ...

Also - if you ever find yourself trapped in SE Missouri, you can always do this:

Rush Limbaugh Hometown Tour
Cape Girardeau is the hometown of radio phenomenon Rush Limbaugh. Our self-driving tour will take you past the hospital where Rush was born and his childhood home. You will see where he attended school and cruised Broadway, traditional during Rush's high school days. Included is the barbershop where he shined shoes and the radio station where the record-breaking broadcaster started his career.View the sites that influenced Rush's early years. For more information on self-driving tour, call the Convention and Visitors Bureau at (800) 777-0068.

I guess they decided to leave out the college he attended and flunked out of.

He got his diploma at the university of shining shoes in real life

Shining Shoes and Cruising Broadway: An American Story

seems like a p meaningful relationship if the Ukraine managed to almost throw the election to Hillary

but yeah Rush's rhetorical sleight-of-hand is always p amazing

I know advanced lung cancer has a bad rep. However...

where was it 30 years ago?

well smoking a cigar at every photoshoot catches up to oyu

If it just causes him to retire and spend his last years quietly spending his money, then it will have done enough.

Rush has been a longtime "smoking = lung cancer"...well maybe not "skeptic" but skeptical that it's as dangerous as people say.

Please watch this video if you think this shit is funny. You're sorely mistaken.

https://kapwi.ng/c/ynEf8O4p

“We’re shutting down our country because of the — the cold virus, which is what coronaviruses are. This is COVID-19, the 19th version of the coronavirus. We’re shutting it — can you imagine our enemies watching this? You think the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over how easy this has been? And it continues. This has been easy.

“Can you imagine — Vladimir Putin’s sitting over there, ‘Look, I tried to ruin Donald Trump with this stupid story about he and I colluding to steal the election from Hillary. And I worked with the FBI and I was working with the CIA and I was planting all kinds of stuff, and that went nowhere. And the Chi-Coms run this scam on some sort of virus, and the Americans do this?!'”

COVID-19 is actually named for 2019, the year it emerged, not because it’s the “19th version” of anything.