Aestu wrote:
Jubbergun wrote:
I think Rush Limbaugh gets a bad rap, because the only thing most people who don't like him have ever heard that he's actually said are out of context sound-bites. You really have to listen to him for like a month and a half to understand what he's doing.
Rush Limbaugh is an idiot, a coward, and a hypocrite.
This reminds me of an old adage: We always curse in others what we see most prominently in ourselves.
Aestu wrote:
Growing up in Sacramento you could find ten copies of his books in every used bookstore so of course I leafed through them. His books are mostly profanity-filled rants about his own pathetic inferiority complex (getting off at being called "Professor") and sexual deprivation (how good radio sex felt on one isolated occasion).
I've read a few of his books, and while they aren't great works of literature, I remember neither a lot of profanity nor much sexual content.
Aestu wrote:
He went on record saying that all drug addicts deserved to lose everything, then it was revealed that he had been abusing painkillers for years in enormous quantities. He made the most vicious slanders of other political figures then turned into a pussy and begged for mercy when OTHER people got on him for his hypocrisy.
Yeah, he did. He also apologized for being wrong for years, because he believed, like a lot of people who never deal with substance abuse personally, that addiction was just a form of personal weakness that was being excused as a medical condition. It does sound self-serving, but he had to 'walk a mile in another man's shoes' to get his mind right. Would that he had the epiphany without being a junkie, but that's not the case, and people should be glad in his change of advocacy.
Aestu wrote:
He called soldiers who fought in Iraq and thought the war was stupid "phony soldiers", then said BUT I DIDN'T RLY MEAN THAT SOZ. He's a chickenshit - strives to be as offensive as possible so he can get noticed but stops just short of going over the line; when he does, rather than manning up and clarifying what he meant or saying "I have the right to say that", he says he didn't really mean it.
Thanks for bringing this one up, because it is a prime example of the out of context commentary that is generally used to beat the guy up to people who haven't actually listened for themselves. There were at least a few soldiers who came back from Iraq and spoke out against the war, but the ones Limbaugh refers to with this line were proven to have not served in Iraq, or in at least one example, not in the military at all. Limbaugh's assault against these posers was misconstrued by other pundits as being against all the servicemen who had spoken out against the war, which was not the case. The thing that makes the case most interesting is that he found the phonies because they had been used in or interviewed for news/human interest stories...which was unnecessary since there were plenty of legitimate soldiers they could have interviewed.
Aestu wrote:
So he suddenly "doesn't mean" something when it goes just over the line? Hmm. Seems more likely he doesn't mean anything he says and will just say whatever gets him attention.
It's not "sudden." In a lot of cases, he tells his audience what he's going to say before he says it or announces a 'media tweak,' then says it. Anyone capable of taping him for rebroadcast on Mediaite or Media Matters should be capable of recognizing they're being punked. I guess that's a concept a little above the head of someone who confuses something they skimmed umpteen years ago with something out of Salinger and, as usual, has no first-hand knowledge about that which he's shooting off his fat yapper. Maybe you stop presenting your assumptions and delusions as fact and just wait until we need an expert on what not to use for sexual lubricants.
Your Pal,
Jubber
