RUSH LIMBAUGH
Rush Limbaugh big, powerful and Titular head of the Conservative Block of Hit-tites, is a fifty-million dollar a year Self Proclaimed “Spiritual Leader of Intellectual Conservatism Anchored in Social Science’.
We just call him SLIC-ASS.
It’s a love-hate relationship, some love him, and the others got him pegged. Daily bantering and misleading snippets with a really healthy dose of self-adornment is the trademark of his radio show and commentary.
JUST ANOTHER DRUGGIE
He like Glenn Beck is a recovering drug addict. In 2003, Limbaugh was illegally obtaining oxycodone and generics. See the pattern with these guys, dumped from college and drugs. Then in 2006, DEA agents at Palm Beach International Airport stopped him. While on probation for drug use, he was found to have with someone else’s prescription Viagra. That’s a no-no since he didn’t have the other guy’s libido with him.
No answers just complaints and little if any of the other side of the story. Truth has one side. Untruth has no sides. It has been said, “Limbaugh's facts are almost never challenged on his programs”. A hostile caller hardly ever gets through the screeners on his radio show. No one in the history of national radio has had such a political platform. Limbaugh's chronic inaccuracy, and his lack of accountability, wouldn't be such a problem if people accepted him as an entertainer, like others with rhetorical themes.
FLUNKY EDUCATION
Like many who did not graduate College, or finish two semesters, he rarely mentions education, as he is self-taught. There are few books on earning a Degree of Distortion. He ousted himself in 1970 from Southeast Missouri State. Reportedly flunked out of what was essentially a community college. But there are the “ditto heads” and other “wannabees” who think he is really educated and take Limbaugh seriously.
VET: Limbaugh began his career in radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe. Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer.
According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "He just didn't seem interested in anything except radio. In spite of rumors, Rush Limbaugh III is not a prominent attorney. Nor is he an attorney period, nor is he a graduate, nor a sophomore for that matter.
It's like a two week stay at a psycho ward, comparing patients. He is on par with Beck, his rocketing competitor, some think Limbaugh is not as weird as Beck. Thats like telling an ulcer patient you'll love the choice, will it be Habanero or the Scotch Bonnet Dressing on the wings.
THE ARROGANT IMBECILE
Rush’s most arrogant despicable moment came when he mocked actor/stem cell advocate Michael J. Fox and said the actor was faking the tremors that are a symptom of his Parkinson’s disease. It was at that point, some gave him the nickname, "BIG FAT PR*CK". So he went on a diet and lost some weight, so they dropped the FAT part.
Another charming moment came when he suggested on-air that African-Americans make inferior NFL quarterbacks. Not to be outdone he called possible veterans who were opposed to the Iraq War “phony soldiers.” And claims, he was mis-quoted and meant those who never served pretending to have served. That debate never found redemption.
HE IS A BORE HERO
He never served his country. In fact when the nation had a military draft for the Vietnam excursion, police action, commie crackdown, or call it just war, he avoided service by having his physician certify his medical unfitness due to an "inoperable pilonidal cyst" and "a football knee injury from high school."
Hmm. That meant he couldn't sit on his ass and couldn't run from combat. He played one year of varsity football in high school, and his coach, said later, he remembered no injuries to Limbaugh. You can't when you are on the bench. Too bad. As far as a cyst on his ass, you will have to check that out yourself under draft dodging 101 rules and gain permission to see his ass just like he wanted to see Obamas Birth Certificate.
It's not pretty, I'll take the paper anytime.
HIS RADIO FOLLOWING IS THE REPUBLI-CAM CONSERVATIVE TWEED RING
On Thursday, February 6, 2014, Nielsen Ratings released its annual "Audio Today” report:
• 242 million Americans listen to the radio each week
• 64 percent of listening time outside of the home
• 62 percent of listeners (age 18 to 64) full-time workers.
• There are more than 16,000 radio stations nationwide spanning 50 different formats.
• 14.8 percent of the radio we collectively listen to is on country music stations
• 11.3 percent is news/talk radio. None of the other formats cracks double-digit saturation.
• Country is the top choice of ages 18-34 and members of Generation X, 35-49
• The baby boomers (ages 50-64) favor news and talk radio.
• Gen Xers, and boomers make up more than 70 percent of the radio audience.
THE PEW REPORT
According to Pew's report, 26 million Americans listen to NPR each week, not counting its growing online and mobile audience. It suggests that NPR's 26 million listeners make up 10.7 percent of Nielsen's 242 million total listeners.
The other big segment of the news/talk universe is, of course, talk radio, where Rush Limbaugh is still king, drawing 14.75 million viewers each week. Sean Hannity is close behind, at 14 million. Pew has the rest of the Top 10:
"Roughly one out of six people tune in to hear Limbaugh at least sometimes (16 percent), roughly half as many people who listen to NPR as often," Pew says. That doesn't contradict Nielsen — Limbaugh is only on for a few hours each day, and the 11.3 percent number represents how much time people spend listening to each format; if a third of people listen to NPR sometimes, Americans spend more time with the radio tuned in to country music.
But collectively this mess of numbers tells us one thing pretty clearly: When people listen to the radio, what they're most likely listening to is country music, NPR, or Rush Limbaugh. Only Adolf and Dr. Goebbels had a better following.