Rush Limbaugh

About

Rush Limbaugh (1951-2021) was a viciously conservatist AM radio talk show host in the United States.

Quotes About

A poster on Contrary Brin writes:

I've been listening to Rush Limbaugh et al. non-stop since the last presidential election in an effort to completely internalize the worldview of the "anti-modernists." I'll summarize their reasons for the anti-filibuster:

Liberals never achieve anything. They just sit around and endlessly talk and are always pessimistic.
If liberals don't like someone, they and the liberal mainstream media will simply amplify everything negative about that person, be it Bolton, Owens, Janice Brown etc. and will never present them in a fair light.
If we let the liberals have their way, they'll ruin our country just as they've ruined our education system - probably true.
The filibuster was a bad thing anyway - look at the history of the white Southern democrats who used the filibuster in the 60s against the civil rights movement.

And on and on. If you listen to Rush and company long enough, you pick up a lot of things that you can actually agree with. However, most of it is presented in a warped, bigoted, echo chamber like manner and with tremendous amount of paranoia and pseudo-underdog feel thereby negating itself.

from Contrary Brin, 2005-05-11, reader comment on "Modern(ist) Political Subtlety - or Why "Majority Rule" is a Deadly Ruse"

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Conservapedia (article was "permanently protected" as of 2007-10-06, despite poor quality at the time; remains protected as of 2008-03-22)
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News

2015/01/30 [L..T] Rush Limbaugh lays down the law for Republican candidates "Not long ago, Mitt Romney seemed to be indicating that he was thinking about running for President. Shortly after that, he indicated that he thought Anthropogenic Global Warming was for real and important. Then Rush said..."
2009/03/07 [L..T] "Bipartisan DEFINED !" : RUSH LIMBAUGH : CPAC Convention 2009 «To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us after we have politically cleaned their clocks and beaten them.»
2008/02/06 [L..T] John McCain to Rush Limbaugh: Calm Down, Reach Across Aisle «McCain gets credit for being a maverick, as if that's evidence of his great character, because he'll always follow his conscience rather than the party line, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but he's always a maverick in furtherance of principles that we find abhorrent and principles that liberals love.» Who, exactly, is "we"? And which of McCain's principles do they abhor?... «We are reaching out and asking liberals to come join us as liberals. And somehow this is a great masterstroke? If this were a war, what we're saying is, "Enemy, come on in, and come be who you are when you get here." If the Republican Party and the Democrat Party were two nations, Senator McCain is saying, "I'm going to have no border on my nation, the Republican Party. And if those people in that enemy party want to come in, infiltrate our party, that's great. I'm going to show that I'm the guy that can get it done. I'm going to be the guy to not protect the borders." Why is it so hard? I'm serious. This one escapes me. Why is it so hard to understand that what we want is to defeat those people?» What happened to Karl Rove's "big tent" coalition?

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2007-09-20 A Lesson on Why Liberals Worship Separation of Church and State (see also: separation of church and state)
- 2007-09-27 Limbaugh Flunks History: Radio Ranter Spreads False Information About Church And State
2005-01-06 Talk Radio 2: some analysis of Limbaugh on Abu Ghraib and related topics