LOL at Rush Limbaugh

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.

http://cdn.nextsmallthings.com/coolchaser.com/thumb-4702135.jpg

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

Maybe he just didn't hear you, Darin.

To be fair, he was jowl-deep in nachos whenever I dealt with him. Maybe I was breaking his focus.

jowl-deep is possibly the worst thing i have ever heard of and i've heard of things ok

To be fair, he was jowl-deep in nachos whenever I dealt with him. Maybe I was breaking his focus.

yeah, getting b/w a fat pig like Limbaugh and his food probably isn't a very smart idea

anyone who's interested in conservative talk-radio, what its strategies for success are, what the hosts actually believe, should really read this article by a former talk-radio producer:

http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/currentIssue/full_feature_story.asp?newMessageID=24046

Secrets of Talk Radio
WTMJ's former news director reveals how talk show hosts like Charlie Sykes work to get us angry.

Monday 11/24/2008

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/17/limbaugh-we-need-segregated-buses/

Rush is nearing total incoherency, I can't even begin to untangle the logic here

“If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable?” the talk show host asked. “I’m sorry — I mean, this is the way my mind works. But apparently now we don’t choose racism, we just are racists. We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse — this is according to the way the left thinks about things."

Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, Limbaugh said: “I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”

wtf america

THIS FAT FUCK HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST PUNCHABLE FUCKS EVER.

I'm pretty adamantly not a puncher, and I would punch the shit out of him.

Fuck punching, asshole deserves to be shot. Multiple times.

I listened to the linked audio clip. It was incoherent, but I didn't think he was calling for segregated buses. He was mocking Pres. Obama. That is, I thought he was sarcastically saying "In Obama's new America, we ought to have segregated buses, to keep the racist white kids away from the innocent black kids." Now, that's also bats--t crazy, but I got the impression from reading the comments upthread that Limbaugh was saying that white kids need to be on separate buses to protect them from violent black kids. Frankly, I assume he would say something like that. But I didn't hear him say it in the clip.