I have never really listened to Rush for years but for some reason I listened to 5 minutes today

[Botany]

How long can he keep up "his act?" Rush was just making stuff up that had zero
truth to it ...... Obama is in Mexico and he has been apologizing for America, he
thinks we should give back California & New Mexico to Mexico, and all "illegal
immigrants to America from Mexico get free health care, welfare, and their kids
go to college for free too.

I flipped it off when it came to the national news (Fox) and thought if people
really listened to Rush and Fox they wouldn't know their ass from a hole in
the ground and they would be awful citizens w/ a strong case of paranoia. I am
willing to bet that Rush doesn't even believe the shit he selling,

[Myrina]

1. Oh, I thought you meant the band, Rush.

Never mind.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Good, I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thought that.

I figured the OP tuned in and heard "Tom Sawyer" again for the umpteenth time, and turned off the radio in disgust because they won't play anything else from them.

[They_Live]

30. + 1000

[freshwest]

3. Now he wants to 'give back California & New Mexico to Mexico' or sell off the USA?

His owners are getting more blatant aren't they?

[KentuckyMark]

4. Rush is a bottom feeder on the AM dial.

All is does is repeat the same stuff over and over. Maybe it's all those pain killers he is own or it could be he has fried his tiny brain with all of those 2000 calorie lamb fries.
He does have somewhat of an audience in those mindless ass kissing morons that's follow him.
P.S. first time post. Liberal Democrat/ atheist.

[Botany]

5. Welcome!

[hrmjustin]

7. Welcome to DU my friend!

[11 Bravo]

8. Welcome to DU, KentuckyMark!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Welcome to DU

and the audience is estimated at 12 million

[dballance]

23. You Could've Stopped at "Rush is a bottom feeder" and Still Have Been Right.

[BlueStreak]

28. You make a key point about AM radio

Granted Limbaugh is probably on a few FM stations, but mostly that's an AM product, and that has become a wasteland. Electronic interference is so high that these stations are practically worthless in a lot of areas. Unlike a generation ago, there is very little local programming with local personalities.

In short, AM is just about dead. FM still has a life and satellite radio has longer legs (even if Sirius isn't highly profitable).

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. Must be lonely in Kentucky...

What am I saying? I was in ANAHEIM.

[libodem]

38. Welcome to DU

You have found an awesome site. Glad you made it.

[Control-Z]

48. Me too!!

"Liberal Democrat/ atheist." WooHoo!!

Welcome to DU, KentuckyMark!!

[Blue_Tires]

6. That's one of those "who's listening" checks...

When all the liberal blogs get in a tizzy over "Did you hear what Rush SAID?!?!?" That's how he knows he scored...

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I found this statement to be interesting:

" if people really listened to Rush and Fox they wouldn't know their ass from a hole in
the ground and they would be awful citizens w/ a strong case of paranoia"

That's just it! People really *do* listen to Rush and Fox, they *don't* know their ass from a hole in the ground and they *do* have a strong case of paranoia.

They listen to Rush and Fox because it reinforces all the negative things that they already "know" which makes them feel like they were so wise to have known these things all along.

[gateley]

21. Agree -- that's why there's so much ignorance in the country today.

[CJCRANE]

11. Can't we just find some random, eccentric guy on a street corner

and elevate him to national pundit status?

Just as a counterbalance to Beck/Rush/Nugent/Coulter/Trump/Malkin/Bachmann/Palin etc. etc.

So when they spout nonsense we can reply "Yeah, well Sidewalk Bob says Mitt Romney lives on Mars with Polar Bears".

[Fantastic Anarchist]

18. I'll do it!!!

Pick me, pick me!

[LeftInTX]

12. A few months ago, my car radio was inadvertantly tuned to Rush

I got the impression he was acting more than anything. I got the impression he laughs at his rabid own BS.

[Mariana]

13. Of course he doesn't believe it.

He doesn't have to. He's a performer playing a role. His job is to get a bunch of people to tune in so they can listen to ads. He does that by telling his listeners exactly what they want to hear.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. I'd like to thank you

For taking one for Team D.U.

Someone's ears HAD to bleed and let us know what's going on with that dumb assed howler monkey. Actually - that's pretty insulting to Howlers. Let's just leave it at dumb ass.

[Little_Wing]

15. Hijacked by cynical opportunists

Great post!

I used to love talk radio, especially here in the Bay area, but the years of corporate homogenization have sadly taken their toll. The interesting/challenging/entertaining era of talk has evaporated, and the scary part was watching it (listening to it?) happen.

However, thanks to the internet, it is possible to cobble together a decent listening program. And NPR, of course.

Yes, those that still rely on the am/fm dial as their resource are being willfully deceived with total garbage, but are becoming convinced that it is everyone else who are, in fact, deceived. How is this chasm going to be breached?

As a night owl, I occasionally scan the late nighttime dial to drift off (a habit forged in my Michigan tweenhood, pulling in the monster am rock stations from around the midwest/east coast on my transistor radio). Now it is a pitiful selection, ranging the gamut from frivolously hallucinogenic (C2C) to the most drooling of knuckledraggers (hello Levin). The most curious of offering is something called Red Eye Radio, from Texas (of course), aimed at the midnight shift, wherein two totally clueless guys spend hours mulling over rightwing talking points without any discernible intelligence or insight. Actually, correction: one guy talks a lot, and the other guy agrees with him.

Seriously, these guys CAN'T be making any money for the owners, can they? So why is this what they shovel out 24/7? Hmmmm, whatever could the reason be?

[hrmjustin]

16. Welcome to DU my friend!

[NBachers]

24. I can remember nights in Kalamazoo and tuning in a truck-driver station in Waterloo, Iowa

They played all the best sod-stomper music, stuff you couldn't ever hear anywhere else. I even sent away for some of their record compilations.

Welcome, Little-Wing

[lpbk2713]

17. Just like Faux Snooze.

When lying and distorting don't get the job done ... just make shit up.

[We People]

39. Could've gone forever without that barf-inducing graphic

Thanks a lot!
/off

[Shrike47]

19. Hey, Rush was right

Obama was visiting Mexico. One truth out of six lies is a pretty good average, isn't it?

Another of his beauties today: before capitalism, the only way people got rich was to steal. So nobody before about 1800 was rich?

[Jackpine Radical]

42. I don't get it. Did something change?

"before capitalism, the only way people got rich was to steal."

[GeorgeGist]

46. The great con ...

capitalism is legal.

[Lamonte]

20. Mexico and U.S.

I would love to give Texas back to Mexico.

[Ilsa]

22. My suspicion is that after two sentences,

you and other listeners were treated to 20 minutes of commercials for jock itch cream.

[kimbutgar]

25. Did you have to take a shower after listening to 5 minutes of this dreck?

All that oxycontin and who know whatever he takes has fried his brain to the point that he sounds like an insane delusional man who just makes stuff up.

[hog]

26. Pied Piper

Rush leads the vermin to their own just end.

[TheFutureWillCome]

27. Yea Rush's

act is getting pretty ridiculous

[Hissyspit]

29. When I listened for the first time for several hours in 1990, I was amazed.

I kept saying "that's not true" and "that's not true" over and over in response to what he was saying. The guy was just making shit up and making shit up for hour after hour. And he's been doing that for decades. It's a disgrace, but it is amazing in its own despicable way, too.

[kimbutgar]

32. My Dad after he retired used to watch his show that was on in the afternoon

At first my Dad sad he was funny, then he said "he was crazy and cruel" and stopped watching. My Dad used to refer to the republican party as "dirty stinking lousy republicans" when ever he talked politics. It didn't take him long to realize the Rump was a republican.

[NewJeffCT]

37. I was about to post similar

Rush has been doing the same fact-free rant against Democrats/liberals and moderate Republicans for 20+ years. It is amazing that somebody can spew that much hatred and just flat out keep lying and be on the air for such a long time.

Didn't Newt Gingrich invite Rush to Congress after Republicans won the House in 1994 in the Contract On America wave? I think Newt even carried Rush's bags for him. I'm surprised the teabaggers didn't do the same in 2010.

[Ian_rd]

33. His show reminds me of that cheesy movie Love Potion No. 9

... with Sandra Bullock and some guy. If you drink it, whoever hears your voice falls in love with you and they do whatever you say. But if they go too long without hearing your voice, they break out of the spell. I thought, "Wow, that's just like Rush."

People listen to him fanatically everyday in order to get their "news" and know what to think. But if they go without him and Hannity et al for a while, they get their heads back. Such ignorance and batshitiness must be maintained regularly, lest the braincells have a chance to operate freely.

[alfredo]

34. Rush wants an armed rebellion.

[kelliekat44]

35. Really, I am ashamed of my thoughts about Rusk and FOX ilk. nt

[MisterP]

36. that's *Cubans,* not Mexicans, Rush

[sorefeet]

40. Talking to a right winger today

who said he believes Rush's every word but not Hannity. He said Rush is 100% right and Hannity is a I got mine kind of a person. He has 2 union pensions one from Boeing yet he hates the unions.

[Canuckistanian]

41. Years ago, I made a habit of listening to him

It was more like watching a trainwreck, I couldn't pull myself away.

But I knew that Rush was the propaganda leader and I needed to know exactly what his tack was. Because all the other RW media followed HIM.

I knew I was listening to pure bullshit. I just needed to know what the "other side" was saying.

[leftyladyfrommo]

43. Oh, I do that all of the time. Not Rush.

But I always check in with Drudge just to see where the right wing is going that day.

It's always better to know your enemy.

[Cha]

44. You got that right, Botany. they don't know their ass from

a Hole in the ground. First hand information, unfortunately, via my son regarding his poor brainwashed dad.

Fooking thinks it's true.. all true.

[Nevernose]

45. Am I the only one who clicked on this because they thought Rush meant the band?

Really? The only one?

[jambo101]

47. As longt as Rush is making millions

by basically trolling America, and he has a gullible audience that believes all his verbal diarrhea,Rush will be available on the airwaves.