Mustang
Gold Member
I have a comment even though I don't listen to Limbaugh. Frankly, it's because he comes across as a buffoon as far as I'm concerned. But that's not my primary point.
I think it's no secret that people can and do lie when money is involved. It often motivates people to 'color the truth,' so to speak. I guess that's why it's so easy to get 'experts' in court who will testify to just about anything for what? Maybe $10,000? Last time I heard, Rush was making something like $50 Million a year.
At any rate, skipping past this subject for just a minute, while I don't listen to Rush, I DO listen to Mark Levin. The guy makes me laugh. While screaming into his microphone and sounding like a man who's unhinged, Levin routinely calls Obama a tyrant, or irrational, or unbalanced in some way. It's funny listening to a man like Levin when he's ranting and raving and accusing another man like Obama of being some kind of lunatic when Obama actually always seems calm, and reasonable, and rational in both the sound of his voice and the content of his speech. What that should show everyone is that you often need to look a little deeper to get at the truth. Sometimes you don't need to look too deep. You just need to look, period!
Back to Rush. He makes a lot of money. He also isn't responsible for governance, or results, and he isn't accountable for anything other than ratings as far as I can see. And because Rush is not a journalist, he's perfectly free to say things that aren't factually true, or at least aren't factually verified or that aren't anything other than his opinion. Nice gig. He can say anything he wants, and he's not constrained by the usual limitations of journalistic integrity and/or accountability. And since these people are public figures, he can pretty much say anything he wants to. This is even more true since he bills himself as an entertainer, which is, after all, all he really is, regardless of whether some people take him more seriously or not.
Back to the BIG paycheck. Rush makes about a million dollars a week. That's probably more money than a lot of his listeners make in twenty years. And he damn sure knows what they want to hear. Since his continued popularity is to quote 'give the people what they want,' and because he has no legal constraints or occupational limitations on what he can say, and because he's essentially accountable to no one but his affiliates and his advertisers for anything other than his ratings numbers, what's stopping him from saying pretty much anything if it feathers his nest and furthers his goals? Anything? What's stopping him from lying through his teeth? Nothing as far as I can see.
So, just as I laugh at Levin for casting aspersions on Obama's emotional stability or his motives, I laugh at Limbaugh (AND the people who take him seriously) when he calls ANYONE a 'sociopathic' liar simply because I think that Limbaugh is FEIGNING a lot of his outrage. You see, Limbaugh, by his OWN admission is an entertainer. He's like a magician doing a magic show, and the conservatives sitting in the audience are like children who think the magic is real.
