Rush Limbaugh must be destroyed according to another right wing talk show host.

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"Radio legend Rush Limbaugh, as he has on millions of conservatives, has had a major impact on my life. My late grandfather’s obsession with his show in the early 1990’s led me become an avid listener and to then change my career path from sports-casting to that of a “conservative radio talk show host.” At one point, I was even being groomed to fill in for Rush, but for a number of reasons, that never worked out (probably for the best, especially for him!).

oreo --- contact me via PM about a LINK to the bulk of this OP. It is NOT the NYTimes link given at the bottom --- and it is too long for copyright.. --- FlaCalTenn

With all of that said, I am very angry with Rush Limbaugh and have lost an enormous amount of respect for him. Last week I was widely quoted in this exposé on the conservative media where I lamented that Rush, sadly, needs be dethroned from his lofty position atop its ranks. It is becoming very clear that a large percentage of his shrinking audience feels exactly the same way.

The reason for this is that if there was one man who could have stopped the Trump trainwreck from handing Hillary Clinton the presidency and possibly destroying the Republican party, it was Rush. No one else had the credibility and the reach within the GOP base to scold the emerging temper tantrum and keep conservative eyes on the bigger picture.

Rush’s responsibility (as at least he led us to believe) was to see all dangers to the movement and do his best to destroy them. However, when faced with the Trump Trojan horse entering the gates to the kingdom, not only did he hardly fire a shot, he practically held the door open and then laughed as the carnage ensued.

Did he criticize Trump during the primaries? Sure. But only mildly, just as he did with all of the other candidates in the bloated field ripe for a celebrity con-artist to overtake it with less than a majority of support. Trump was an existential threat to the entire conservative movement and perhaps the country itself. This was not the time to hide behind some silly “I don’t endorse in a primary” rule or a desire to pretend to be “fair” as to not offend a significant portion of his already dwindling audience.

The Rush Limbaugh I used to admire would have immediately seen the obvious danger of the Trump candidacy and snuffed it out before it could even catch fire. Instead, he mostly stood back and watched the raging inferno engulf all that he had built and everything he claims to believe in.

Sean Hannity selling his soul to Trump for a few ratings points didn’t surprise me, but Rush doing nothing at all to stop him really did. Hannity is not a smart guy, but Rush is. To whom much is given, much is expected, and Rush Limbaugh came up tiny when the conservative movement needed him most.

So now, Rush is in a very difficult spot. Much of his audience is now fully able to see the betrayal that the conservative media inflicted upon their customers for their own entertainment and ratings gain. This has become crystalized by Trump’s recent apparent reversal on much of his plan to deport all of the illegal immigrants currently in the country.

I’m a big believer that if you wait long enough and keep your eyes pierced the truth will always eventually come out. That’s exactly what happened Monday when Rush was blindsided and demolished by caller “Rick from Los Angeles,” who took him and the rest of the “conservative” media to task for allowing Trump to “con” the base about what he would really do on illegal immigration. The most telling moment was at the very end when Rush, apparently by mistake, jumps to the obviously guilt-ridden conclusion that the caller was primarily blaming him (the caller probably was, but was just too polite to say it directly).

Exposed more dramatically on his conservative flank than at any other time I have ever heard of, Rush pathetically claimed that he never attacked Trump for making an obviously false promise on illegal immigration because he never took Trump “seriously” on the matter. Of course, you would think that it would have been the obligation of “America’s Truth Detector” to point that out about a hundred times during the primaries, but Rush never did.

Forced into a corner, Rush then inadvertently let his audience in on his own “con.” You see he’s just a radio host, he admitted. Just an entertainer. It wasn’t his job to take out Trump. That was the responsibility of the other fifteen candidates (who couldn’t get access to a large conservative audience because Trump was being given massive amounts of free advertising in exchange for the ratings he provided).

That’s all fine, and, to be fair, Rush has relied on that excuse to get out of jams in the past, but this situation was different. This was the 100-year storm and the guy who has made many millions of dollars pretending to be manning the lighthouse, never even bothered to warn his seaside town. In fact, he seemed to even revel in, and benefit from (his contract was just renewed), its destruction.

For that abdication of responsibility, as much as it literally pains me to say it, Rush himself must be destroyed if conservatism is to survive this disaster. How ironic that it took a caller to his show (where Rush has said for decades that the only purpose of a caller is to make him look good) to finally make that sad reality all too clear."
Caller to Limbaugh Show Exposes That Rush Knows He Blew It with Donald Trump

It's going to be very interesting to see the morning after the election just how many will still believe they are still listening to Mr. Talent on Loan from Gawwwwd-d. But, let's face it there are a whole lot of supposedly conservative talk show hosts that have sold their soles for ratings and those obscene profit breaks. Sean Hannity, Ann Colter, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage & Laura Ingram. Less but not least, Sarah Palin who shows up every now and then to promote this Chimpanzee. In fact, the only time I am going to turn them on is the morning after the election to see what kind of bullshit excuse they're going to use.

These people are responsible for shattering the Republican party into pieces, by delivering 3 or more daily hours of ring wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions and enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling. They have continually violated Reagan's 11th commandment by attacking their own. Referring to good Republicans as Establishment & Rino's. This is no longer the party of Lincoln or Reagan it is now the Trump party because of them. The party of anger, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny & extremism. Their 2016 platform is even more extreme and divisive than ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/opinion/the-most-extreme-republican-platform-in-memory.html?_r=1


I truly hope that Trump takes them all down the toilet with him. Frankly, as a former Republican I am following the advice of a friend and former staffer of Ronald Reagan. You should too.




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Wait, what? A former Republican that spoke at the DNC doesn't like Rush anymore? Golly.

To prove what an idiot he is I listen to Rush and he was very much in the Cruz camp. Maybe the poor bastard had a stroke or something?
 
(Yawn)

Competing radio shows in the same market talking bad about each other. Whatever....
 
It's been pretty amusing to see the very absolutist thought processes that conservative talk radio hosts have trained their fans to exercise come back to bite them square on the ass.

Limbaugh, Hannity & Levin have spent the last several years attacking the Republican "Establishment" with at least as much energy as they attack Democrats. So when the most ridiculous and annoying possible candidate pops up, they can't stop them from voting for him because he's so anti-Establishment.

Even more amusing, this mess coincides with the Democrats having to run their most vulnerable possible candidate. Holy crap.

You can't make this shit up.
 
I think this guy has an over inflated perspective on the impact of talk radio in general and Rush in particular.

As if a dwindling star on a dwindling media could single-handedly have turned the tide here.

don't think so...
 
Wait, what? A former Republican that spoke at the DNC doesn't like Rush anymore? Golly.

To prove what an idiot he is I listen to Rush and he was very much in the Cruz camp. Maybe the poor bastard had a stroke or something?


Well ya dumbass--if you actually read the article
Wait, what? A former Republican that spoke at the DNC doesn't like Rush anymore? Golly.

To prove what an idiot he is I listen to Rush and he was very much in the Cruz camp. Maybe the poor bastard had a stroke or something?


Well you've proved what I have been saying all along about the Reich wing of the Republican party. You have no reading comprehension skills and the attention span of a knat.

If you would have managed to actually read the article you would have realized that the guy in the video was not the author of the article.

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Pity it won't fit on a bumper strip,

Will anyone 'fess up to having read the entire rant?


Rush Limbaugh just admitted:

1. That he is an "entertainer."
2. That it is not his job to vet Presidential candidates, and or to inform you of any of their fallacies.
3. That he is only on the micro-phone to entertain, not inform.
4. That he could care less if the Republican party gets hit by a 200 foot high Tsunami.
5. That he does this for ratings and profits.

And that the very worst thing that could happen to those obscene profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election and he has nothing to talk about for the next 4 to 8 years.

You think he is the "face" of the Republican party--would never tell you a lie, or never mislead you into believing something that wasn't true. Never twist a fact to suit the Reich wing hyperbole. He has become your worst enemy--along with all the rest. This is the outcome of mixing "entertainment" politics with ratings & profits, and very stupid people who have turned them into factual based information and news.

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Wait, what? A former Republican that spoke at the DNC doesn't like Rush anymore? Golly.

To prove what an idiot he is I listen to Rush and he was very much in the Cruz camp. Maybe the poor bastard had a stroke or something?


Well ya dumbass--if you actually read the article


Wait, what? A former Republican that spoke at the DNC doesn't like Rush anymore? Golly.

To prove what an idiot he is I listen to Rush and he was very much in the Cruz camp. Maybe the poor bastard had a stroke or something?


Well you've proved what I have been saying all along about the Reich wing of the Republican party. You have no reading comprehension skills and the attention span of a knat.

If you would have managed to actually read the article you would have realized that the guy in the video was not the author of the article.
The article was too long, anusbreath. You tried too hard to squeeze all your hate into a single post. You put a video on the bottom, what for it it didn't relate to the topic you brought up?
 
Pity it won't fit on a bumper strip,

Will anyone 'fess up to having read the entire rant?


Rush Limbaugh just admitted:

1. That he is an "entertainer."
2. That it is not his job to vet Presidential candidates, and or to inform you of any of their fallacies.
3. That he is only on the micro-phone to entertain, not inform.
4. That he could care less if the Republican party gets hit by a 200 foot high Tsunami.
5. That he does this for ratings and those obscene profit breaks.

And that the very worst thing that could happen to those obscene profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election and he has nothing to talk about for the next 4 to 8 years.
You forgot the source and thought a cartoon would cover for it. LOL.

He has said all along he's an entertainer, you are 25 years behind. But I never heard him say he didn't inform, just the opposite. He has said he isn't the one to pick the candidate for the GOP.

Do you do drugs?
 
"Radio legend Rush Limbaugh, as he has on millions of conservatives, has had a major impact on my life. My late grandfather’s obsession with his show in the early 1990’s led me become an avid listener and to then change my career path from sports-casting to that of a “conservative radio talk show host.” At one point, I was even being groomed to fill in for Rush, but for a number of reasons, that never worked out (probably for the best, especially for him!).

I have never met or even spoken to Rush, but I have emailed with him on many occasions. I correctly warned him that he would eventually be taken off the powerhouse station I worked for in Los Angeles (KFI-AM), and even gave him golf “lessons” via email, which he seemed to appreciate. My current radio show, nationally syndicated on Sunday nights, probably would not have happened without Rush forwarding an email I sent to him on to an associate who set me up with a syndicator.

All politics aside, there has never been a more amazing unscripted broadcaster than Rush Limbaugh (Howard Stern wouldn’t even be close without great guests). What he has been able to maintain after the loss of his hearing is perhaps the most underrated achievement in the history of the medium.

With all of that said, I am very angry with Rush Limbaugh and have lost an enormous amount of respect for him. Last week I was widely quoted in this exposé on the conservative media where I lamented that Rush, sadly, needs be dethroned from his lofty position atop its ranks. It is becoming very clear that a large percentage of his shrinking audience feels exactly the same way.

The reason for this is that if there was one man who could have stopped the Trump trainwreck from handing Hillary Clinton the presidency and possibly destroying the Republican party, it was Rush. No one else had the credibility and the reach within the GOP base to scold the emerging temper tantrum and keep conservative eyes on the bigger picture.

Rush’s responsibility (as at least he led us to believe) was to see all dangers to the movement and do his best to destroy them. However, when faced with the Trump Trojan horse entering the gates to the kingdom, not only did he hardly fire a shot, he practically held the door open and then laughed as the carnage ensued.

Did he criticize Trump during the primaries? Sure. But only mildly, just as he did with all of the other candidates in the bloated field ripe for a celebrity con-artist to overtake it with less than a majority of support. Trump was an existential threat to the entire conservative movement and perhaps the country itself. This was not the time to hide behind some silly “I don’t endorse in a primary” rule or a desire to pretend to be “fair” as to not offend a significant portion of his already dwindling audience.

The Rush Limbaugh I used to admire would have immediately seen the obvious danger of the Trump candidacy and snuffed it out before it could even catch fire. Instead, he mostly stood back and watched the raging inferno engulf all that he had built and everything he claims to believe in.

Sean Hannity selling his soul to Trump for a few ratings points didn’t surprise me, but Rush doing nothing at all to stop him really did. Hannity is not a smart guy, but Rush is. To whom much is given, much is expected, and Rush Limbaugh came up tiny when the conservative movement needed him most.

So now, Rush is in a very difficult spot. Much of his audience is now fully able to see the betrayal that the conservative media inflicted upon their customers for their own entertainment and ratings gain. This has become crystalized by Trump’s recent apparent reversal on much of his plan to deport all of the illegal immigrants currently in the country.

I’m a big believer that if you wait long enough and keep your eyes pierced the truth will always eventually come out. That’s exactly what happened Monday when Rush was blindsided and demolished by caller “Rick from Los Angeles,” who took him and the rest of the “conservative” media to task for allowing Trump to “con” the base about what he would really do on illegal immigration. The most telling moment was at the very end when Rush, apparently by mistake, jumps to the obviously guilt-ridden conclusion that the caller was primarily blaming him (the caller probably was, but was just too polite to say it directly).

Exposed more dramatically on his conservative flank than at any other time I have ever heard of, Rush pathetically claimed that he never attacked Trump for making an obviously false promise on illegal immigration because he never took Trump “seriously” on the matter. Of course, you would think that it would have been the obligation of “America’s Truth Detector” to point that out about a hundred times during the primaries, but Rush never did.

Forced into a corner, Rush then inadvertently let his audience in on his own “con.” You see he’s just a radio host, he admitted. Just an entertainer. It wasn’t his job to take out Trump. That was the responsibility of the other fifteen candidates (who couldn’t get access to a large conservative audience because Trump was being given massive amounts of free advertising in exchange for the ratings he provided).

That’s all fine, and, to be fair, Rush has relied on that excuse to get out of jams in the past, but this situation was different. This was the 100-year storm and the guy who has made many millions of dollars pretending to be manning the lighthouse, never even bothered to warn his seaside town. In fact, he seemed to even revel in, and benefit from (his contract was just renewed), its destruction.

For that abdication of responsibility, as much as it literally pains me to say it, Rush himself must be destroyed if conservatism is to survive this disaster. How ironic that it took a caller to his show (where Rush has said for decades that the only purpose of a caller is to make him look good) to finally make that sad reality all too clear."
Caller to Limbaugh Show Exposes That Rush Knows He Blew It with Donald Trump

It's going to be very interesting to see the morning after the election just how many will still believe they are still listening to Mr. Talent on Loan from Gawwwwd-d. But, let's face it there are a whole lot of supposedly conservative talk show hosts that have sold their soles for ratings and those obscene profit breaks. Sean Hannity, Ann Colter, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage & Laura Ingram. Less but not least, Sarah Palin who shows up every now and then to promote this Chimpanzee. In fact, the only time I am going to turn them on is the morning after the election to see what kind of bullshit excuse they're going to use.

These people are responsible for shattering the Republican party into pieces, by delivering 3 or more daily hours of ring wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions and enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling. They have continually violated Reagan's 11th commandment by attacking their own. Referring to good Republicans as Establishment & Rino's. This is no longer the party of Lincoln or Reagan it is now the Trump party because of them. The party of anger, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny & extremism. Their 2016 platform is even more extreme and divisive than ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/opinion/the-most-extreme-republican-platform-in-memory.html?_r=1


I truly hope that Trump takes them all down the toilet with him. Frankly, as a former Republican I am following the advice of a friend and former staffer of Ronald Reagan. You should too.




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This guy's a left-wing loon. Who cares what he thinks. It reads like it came directly from the Huff 'n Glue Post.
 
Pity it won't fit on a bumper strip,

Will anyone 'fess up to having read the entire rant?


Rush Limbaugh just admitted:

1. That he is an "entertainer."
2. That it is not his job to vet Presidential candidates, and or to inform you of any of their fallacies.
3. That he is only on the micro-phone to entertain, not inform.
4. That he could care less if the Republican party gets hit by a 200 foot high Tsunami.
5. That he does this for ratings and those obscene profit breaks.

And that the very worst thing that could happen to those obscene profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election and he has nothing to talk about for the next 4 to 8 years.
You forgot the source and thought a cartoon would cover for it. LOL.

He has said all along he's an entertainer, you are 25 years behind. But I never heard him say he didn't inform, just the opposite. He has said he isn't the one to pick the candidate for the GOP.

Do you do drugs?




Did Rush Limbaugh or any of other right wing talk show host tell their listeners why Republicans lost in 2012? NOPE

Republicans lost in 2012 because they lost women by double digits, younger women by 36 points. The campaign in 2012 was also about immigration. The last President to win was G.W Bush and he captured 44% of the Hispanic vote. Romney lost with 27%. They did tell you that the reason Romney lost was because he wasn't conservative enough--LOL
Gender Gap in 2012 Vote Is Largest in Gallup's History
The GOP's woman problem goes beyond Trump
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study

2016
1. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other right wing talk show host say STOP to Trump supporters? NOPE
2. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other tell them that at least 40%--this year 46% of the Hispanic vote is required to win the Presidency? NOPE
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study
3. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other, tell them that now an additional 17% of the population, (Hispanics) are now in Hillary Clinton's column? NOPE
4. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other, explain to them that Republicans in the entire Southwest of this country depend on Hispanics to win elections. And that there is a high possibility that Republicans will lose the Senate and a ton of seats in the house. NOPE & NOPE
GOP gains traction among Hispanic voters with aggressive outreach campaigns
The Ballooning Importance Of The 'Latino Vote,' In 3 Charts
5. Did Rush Limbaugh ever inform his listeners that the Republican party is the minority party today at around 41 million, Democrats are stronger at 46 million, and Independents (who won't vote for far right candidates) are the largest voting block in this country today, representing 40% of the electorate? NOPE
6. What does Rush Limbaugh spend most of his time doing? Attacking other Republicans with his anti-establishment rhetoric.
7. Who is Rush Limbaugh promoting now. Ted Cruz, another candidate that he knows with 100% certainly, doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the White House.
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and all the others--Friend or Foe?

Why?
Because the very worst thing that could happen to all of those Obscene Profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election.
Donald Trump broke the conservative media

And like little lambs you're being lead to a slaughter on election night.
 
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Pity it won't fit on a bumper strip,

Will anyone 'fess up to having read the entire rant?


Rush Limbaugh just admitted:

1. That he is an "entertainer."
2. That it is not his job to vet Presidential candidates, and or to inform you of any of their fallacies.
3. That he is only on the micro-phone to entertain, not inform.
4. That he could care less if the Republican party gets hit by a 200 foot high Tsunami.
5. That he does this for ratings and those obscene profit breaks.

And that the very worst thing that could happen to those obscene profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election and he has nothing to talk about for the next 4 to 8 years.
You forgot the source and thought a cartoon would cover for it. LOL.

He has said all along he's an entertainer, you are 25 years behind. But I never heard him say he didn't inform, just the opposite. He has said he isn't the one to pick the candidate for the GOP.

Do you do drugs?




Did Rush Limbaugh or any of other right wing talk show host tell their listeners why Republicans lost in 2012? NOPE

Republicans lost in 2012 because they lost women by double digits, younger women by 36 points. The campaign in 2012 was also about immigration. The last President to win was G.W Bush and he captured 44% of the Hispanic vote. Romney lost with 27%.
Gender Gap in 2012 Vote Is Largest in Gallup's History
The GOP's woman problem goes beyond Trump
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study

2016
1. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other right wing talk show host say STOP to Trump supporters? NOPE
2. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other tell them that at least 40%--this year 46% of the Hispanic vote is required to win the Presidency? NOPE
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study
3. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other, tell them that now an additional 17% of the population, (Hispanics) are now in Hillary Clinton's column? NOPE
4. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other, explain to them that Republicans in the entire Southwest of this country depend on Hispanics to win elections. And that there is a high possibility that Republicans will lose the Senate and a ton of seats in the house. NOPE & NOPE
GOP gains traction among Hispanic voters with aggressive outreach campaigns
The Ballooning Importance Of The 'Latino Vote,' In 3 Charts
5. Did Rush Limbaugh ever inform his listeners that the Republican party is the minority party today at around 41 million, Democrats are stronger at 46 million, and Independents (who won't vote for far right candidates) are the largest voting block in this country today, representing 40% of the electorate? NOPE
6. What does Rush Limbaugh spend most of his time doing? Attacking other Republicans with his anti-establishment rhetoric.
7. Who is Rush Limbaugh promoting now. Ted Cruz, another candidate that he knows with 100% certainly, doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the White House.
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and all the others--Friend or Foe?

Why?
Because the very worst thing that could happen to all of those Obscene Profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election.
Donald Trump broke the conservative media

And like little lambs you're being lead to a slaughter on election night.

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Christ almighty... new to the interwebs?
 
Pity it won't fit on a bumper strip,

Will anyone 'fess up to having read the entire rant?


Rush Limbaugh just admitted:

1. That he is an "entertainer."
2. That it is not his job to vet Presidential candidates, and or to inform you of any of their fallacies.
3. That he is only on the micro-phone to entertain, not inform.
4. That he could care less if the Republican party gets hit by a 200 foot high Tsunami.
5. That he does this for ratings and those obscene profit breaks.

And that the very worst thing that could happen to those obscene profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election and he has nothing to talk about for the next 4 to 8 years.
You forgot the source and thought a cartoon would cover for it. LOL.

He has said all along he's an entertainer, you are 25 years behind. But I never heard him say he didn't inform, just the opposite. He has said he isn't the one to pick the candidate for the GOP.

Do you do drugs?




Did Rush Limbaugh or any of other right wing talk show host tell their listeners why Republicans lost in 2012? NOPE

Republicans lost in 2012 because they lost women by double digits, younger women by 36 points. The campaign in 2012 was also about immigration. The last President to win was G.W Bush and he captured 44% of the Hispanic vote. Romney lost with 27%. They did tell you that the reason Romney lost was because he wasn't conservative enough--LOL
Gender Gap in 2012 Vote Is Largest in Gallup's History
The GOP's woman problem goes beyond Trump
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study

2016
1. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other right wing talk show host say STOP to Trump supporters? NOPE
2. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other tell them that at least 40%--this year 46% of the Hispanic vote is required to win the Presidency? NOPE
GOP Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino 2016 Vote, Says Study
3. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other, tell them that now an additional 17% of the population, (Hispanics) are now in Hillary Clinton's column? NOPE
4. Did Rush Limbaugh or any other, explain to them that Republicans in the entire Southwest of this country depend on Hispanics to win elections. And that there is a high possibility that Republicans will lose the Senate and a ton of seats in the house. NOPE & NOPE
GOP gains traction among Hispanic voters with aggressive outreach campaigns
The Ballooning Importance Of The 'Latino Vote,' In 3 Charts
5. Did Rush Limbaugh ever inform his listeners that the Republican party is the minority party today at around 41 million, Democrats are stronger at 46 million, and Independents (who won't vote for far right candidates) are the largest voting block in this country today, representing 40% of the electorate? NOPE
6. What does Rush Limbaugh spend most of his time doing? Attacking other Republicans with his anti-establishment rhetoric.
7. Who is Rush Limbaugh promoting now. Ted Cruz, another candidate that he knows with 100% certainly, doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the White House.
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and all the others--Friend or Foe?

Why?
Because the very worst thing that could happen to all of those Obscene Profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election.
Donald Trump broke the conservative media

And like little lambs you're being lead to a slaughter on election night.
You just move on to another smear. You don't like him, don't listen. How hard is that?
 
"Radio legend Rush Limbaugh, as he has on millions of conservatives, has had a major impact on my life. My late grandfather’s obsession with his show in the early 1990’s led me become an avid listener and to then change my career path from sports-casting to that of a “conservative radio talk show host.” At one point, I was even being groomed to fill in for Rush, but for a number of reasons, that never worked out (probably for the best, especially for him!).

I have never met or even spoken to Rush, but I have emailed with him on many occasions. I correctly warned him that he would eventually be taken off the powerhouse station I worked for in Los Angeles (KFI-AM), and even gave him golf “lessons” via email, which he seemed to appreciate. My current radio show, nationally syndicated on Sunday nights, probably would not have happened without Rush forwarding an email I sent to him on to an associate who set me up with a syndicator.

All politics aside, there has never been a more amazing unscripted broadcaster than Rush Limbaugh (Howard Stern wouldn’t even be close without great guests). What he has been able to maintain after the loss of his hearing is perhaps the most underrated achievement in the history of the medium.

With all of that said, I am very angry with Rush Limbaugh and have lost an enormous amount of respect for him. Last week I was widely quoted in this exposé on the conservative media where I lamented that Rush, sadly, needs be dethroned from his lofty position atop its ranks. It is becoming very clear that a large percentage of his shrinking audience feels exactly the same way.

The reason for this is that if there was one man who could have stopped the Trump trainwreck from handing Hillary Clinton the presidency and possibly destroying the Republican party, it was Rush. No one else had the credibility and the reach within the GOP base to scold the emerging temper tantrum and keep conservative eyes on the bigger picture.

Rush’s responsibility (as at least he led us to believe) was to see all dangers to the movement and do his best to destroy them. However, when faced with the Trump Trojan horse entering the gates to the kingdom, not only did he hardly fire a shot, he practically held the door open and then laughed as the carnage ensued.

Did he criticize Trump during the primaries? Sure. But only mildly, just as he did with all of the other candidates in the bloated field ripe for a celebrity con-artist to overtake it with less than a majority of support. Trump was an existential threat to the entire conservative movement and perhaps the country itself. This was not the time to hide behind some silly “I don’t endorse in a primary” rule or a desire to pretend to be “fair” as to not offend a significant portion of his already dwindling audience.

The Rush Limbaugh I used to admire would have immediately seen the obvious danger of the Trump candidacy and snuffed it out before it could even catch fire. Instead, he mostly stood back and watched the raging inferno engulf all that he had built and everything he claims to believe in.

Sean Hannity selling his soul to Trump for a few ratings points didn’t surprise me, but Rush doing nothing at all to stop him really did. Hannity is not a smart guy, but Rush is. To whom much is given, much is expected, and Rush Limbaugh came up tiny when the conservative movement needed him most.

So now, Rush is in a very difficult spot. Much of his audience is now fully able to see the betrayal that the conservative media inflicted upon their customers for their own entertainment and ratings gain. This has become crystalized by Trump’s recent apparent reversal on much of his plan to deport all of the illegal immigrants currently in the country.

I’m a big believer that if you wait long enough and keep your eyes pierced the truth will always eventually come out. That’s exactly what happened Monday when Rush was blindsided and demolished by caller “Rick from Los Angeles,” who took him and the rest of the “conservative” media to task for allowing Trump to “con” the base about what he would really do on illegal immigration. The most telling moment was at the very end when Rush, apparently by mistake, jumps to the obviously guilt-ridden conclusion that the caller was primarily blaming him (the caller probably was, but was just too polite to say it directly).

Exposed more dramatically on his conservative flank than at any other time I have ever heard of, Rush pathetically claimed that he never attacked Trump for making an obviously false promise on illegal immigration because he never took Trump “seriously” on the matter. Of course, you would think that it would have been the obligation of “America’s Truth Detector” to point that out about a hundred times during the primaries, but Rush never did.

Forced into a corner, Rush then inadvertently let his audience in on his own “con.” You see he’s just a radio host, he admitted. Just an entertainer. It wasn’t his job to take out Trump. That was the responsibility of the other fifteen candidates (who couldn’t get access to a large conservative audience because Trump was being given massive amounts of free advertising in exchange for the ratings he provided).

That’s all fine, and, to be fair, Rush has relied on that excuse to get out of jams in the past, but this situation was different. This was the 100-year storm and the guy who has made many millions of dollars pretending to be manning the lighthouse, never even bothered to warn his seaside town. In fact, he seemed to even revel in, and benefit from (his contract was just renewed), its destruction.

For that abdication of responsibility, as much as it literally pains me to say it, Rush himself must be destroyed if conservatism is to survive this disaster. How ironic that it took a caller to his show (where Rush has said for decades that the only purpose of a caller is to make him look good) to finally make that sad reality all too clear."
Caller to Limbaugh Show Exposes That Rush Knows He Blew It with Donald Trump

It's going to be very interesting to see the morning after the election just how many will still believe they are still listening to Mr. Talent on Loan from Gawwwwd-d. But, let's face it there are a whole lot of supposedly conservative talk show hosts that have sold their soles for ratings and those obscene profit breaks. Sean Hannity, Ann Colter, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage & Laura Ingram. Less but not least, Sarah Palin who shows up every now and then to promote this Chimpanzee. In fact, the only time I am going to turn them on is the morning after the election to see what kind of bullshit excuse they're going to use.

These people are responsible for shattering the Republican party into pieces, by delivering 3 or more daily hours of ring wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions and enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling. They have continually violated Reagan's 11th commandment by attacking their own. Referring to good Republicans as Establishment & Rino's. This is no longer the party of Lincoln or Reagan it is now the Trump party because of them. The party of anger, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny & extremism. Their 2016 platform is even more extreme and divisive than ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/opinion/the-most-extreme-republican-platform-in-memory.html?_r=1


I truly hope that Trump takes them all down the toilet with him. Frankly, as a former Republican I am following the advice of a friend and former staffer of Ronald Reagan. You should too.




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Blah blah blah. For almost 30 years people from everywhere have been predicting the fall of Rush Limbaugh, he's not only still here but he's still #1.

Rush's #1 concern has never changed, and if that idiot had ever listened to his show, he would know that Rush's #1 job is stopping liberals and progressives whenever and however possible. He has never ever endorsed a candidate in a primary and for good reason. Why should he try to take down Trump? The voters wanted Trump and that's that.

This blow hard is a never Trumper and a butthurt moron. Rush will continue on evwn after that idiot rejoins the ranks of the unknown.
 
It's been pretty amusing to see the very absolutist thought processes that conservative talk radio hosts have trained their fans to exercise come back to bite them square on the ass.

Limbaugh, Hannity & Levin have spent the last several years attacking the Republican "Establishment" with at least as much energy as they attack Democrats. So when the most ridiculous and annoying possible candidate pops up, they can't stop them from voting for him because he's so anti-Establishment.

Even more amusing, this mess coincides with the Democrats having to run their most vulnerable possible candidate. Holy crap.

You can't make this shit up.

You make the same ignorant mistake that the lefties here make. You assume that the GOP voters are controlled by Rush. I'm sure the hacks who think like you do don't realize that Glenn Beck had been fighting very hard against Trump since the beginning and still hasn't let up, yet Trump won anyway.

Yes, the GOP voters rebelled against the GOP establishment, but they didn't do it because Rush told them to, they did it because the establishment GOP betrayed them one time too many.
 
"Radio legend Rush Limbaugh, as he has on millions of conservatives, has had a major impact on my life. My late grandfather’s obsession with his show in the early 1990’s led me become an avid listener and to then change my career path from sports-casting to that of a “conservative radio talk show host.” At one point, I was even being groomed to fill in for Rush, but for a number of reasons, that never worked out (probably for the best, especially for him!).

I have never met or even spoken to Rush, but I have emailed with him on many occasions. I correctly warned him that he would eventually be taken off the powerhouse station I worked for in Los Angeles (KFI-AM), and even gave him golf “lessons” via email, which he seemed to appreciate. My current radio show, nationally syndicated on Sunday nights, probably would not have happened without Rush forwarding an email I sent to him on to an associate who set me up with a syndicator.

All politics aside, there has never been a more amazing unscripted broadcaster than Rush Limbaugh (Howard Stern wouldn’t even be close without great guests). What he has been able to maintain after the loss of his hearing is perhaps the most underrated achievement in the history of the medium.

With all of that said, I am very angry with Rush Limbaugh and have lost an enormous amount of respect for him. Last week I was widely quoted in this exposé on the conservative media where I lamented that Rush, sadly, needs be dethroned from his lofty position atop its ranks. It is becoming very clear that a large percentage of his shrinking audience feels exactly the same way.

The reason for this is that if there was one man who could have stopped the Trump trainwreck from handing Hillary Clinton the presidency and possibly destroying the Republican party, it was Rush. No one else had the credibility and the reach within the GOP base to scold the emerging temper tantrum and keep conservative eyes on the bigger picture.

Rush’s responsibility (as at least he led us to believe) was to see all dangers to the movement and do his best to destroy them. However, when faced with the Trump Trojan horse entering the gates to the kingdom, not only did he hardly fire a shot, he practically held the door open and then laughed as the carnage ensued.

Did he criticize Trump during the primaries? Sure. But only mildly, just as he did with all of the other candidates in the bloated field ripe for a celebrity con-artist to overtake it with less than a majority of support. Trump was an existential threat to the entire conservative movement and perhaps the country itself. This was not the time to hide behind some silly “I don’t endorse in a primary” rule or a desire to pretend to be “fair” as to not offend a significant portion of his already dwindling audience.

The Rush Limbaugh I used to admire would have immediately seen the obvious danger of the Trump candidacy and snuffed it out before it could even catch fire. Instead, he mostly stood back and watched the raging inferno engulf all that he had built and everything he claims to believe in.

Sean Hannity selling his soul to Trump for a few ratings points didn’t surprise me, but Rush doing nothing at all to stop him really did. Hannity is not a smart guy, but Rush is. To whom much is given, much is expected, and Rush Limbaugh came up tiny when the conservative movement needed him most.

So now, Rush is in a very difficult spot. Much of his audience is now fully able to see the betrayal that the conservative media inflicted upon their customers for their own entertainment and ratings gain. This has become crystalized by Trump’s recent apparent reversal on much of his plan to deport all of the illegal immigrants currently in the country.

I’m a big believer that if you wait long enough and keep your eyes pierced the truth will always eventually come out. That’s exactly what happened Monday when Rush was blindsided and demolished by caller “Rick from Los Angeles,” who took him and the rest of the “conservative” media to task for allowing Trump to “con” the base about what he would really do on illegal immigration. The most telling moment was at the very end when Rush, apparently by mistake, jumps to the obviously guilt-ridden conclusion that the caller was primarily blaming him (the caller probably was, but was just too polite to say it directly).

Exposed more dramatically on his conservative flank than at any other time I have ever heard of, Rush pathetically claimed that he never attacked Trump for making an obviously false promise on illegal immigration because he never took Trump “seriously” on the matter. Of course, you would think that it would have been the obligation of “America’s Truth Detector” to point that out about a hundred times during the primaries, but Rush never did.

Forced into a corner, Rush then inadvertently let his audience in on his own “con.” You see he’s just a radio host, he admitted. Just an entertainer. It wasn’t his job to take out Trump. That was the responsibility of the other fifteen candidates (who couldn’t get access to a large conservative audience because Trump was being given massive amounts of free advertising in exchange for the ratings he provided).

That’s all fine, and, to be fair, Rush has relied on that excuse to get out of jams in the past, but this situation was different. This was the 100-year storm and the guy who has made many millions of dollars pretending to be manning the lighthouse, never even bothered to warn his seaside town. In fact, he seemed to even revel in, and benefit from (his contract was just renewed), its destruction.

For that abdication of responsibility, as much as it literally pains me to say it, Rush himself must be destroyed if conservatism is to survive this disaster. How ironic that it took a caller to his show (where Rush has said for decades that the only purpose of a caller is to make him look good) to finally make that sad reality all too clear."
Caller to Limbaugh Show Exposes That Rush Knows He Blew It with Donald Trump

It's going to be very interesting to see the morning after the election just how many will still believe they are still listening to Mr. Talent on Loan from Gawwwwd-d. But, let's face it there are a whole lot of supposedly conservative talk show hosts that have sold their soles for ratings and those obscene profit breaks. Sean Hannity, Ann Colter, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage & Laura Ingram. Less but not least, Sarah Palin who shows up every now and then to promote this Chimpanzee. In fact, the only time I am going to turn them on is the morning after the election to see what kind of bullshit excuse they're going to use.

These people are responsible for shattering the Republican party into pieces, by delivering 3 or more daily hours of ring wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions and enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling. They have continually violated Reagan's 11th commandment by attacking their own. Referring to good Republicans as Establishment & Rino's. This is no longer the party of Lincoln or Reagan it is now the Trump party because of them. The party of anger, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny & extremism. Their 2016 platform is even more extreme and divisive than ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/opinion/the-most-extreme-republican-platform-in-memory.html?_r=1


I truly hope that Trump takes them all down the toilet with him. Frankly, as a former Republican I am following the advice of a friend and former staffer of Ronald Reagan. You should too.




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What a useless thread!

You don't start by saying what this verbose, uninteresting essay is about or who the person is calling for the DESTRUCTION of Rush Limbaugh. Then to top it off, you attribute the unread verbal salad to a New York Times article that has nothing to do with this garbage.

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Pity it won't fit on a bumper strip,

Will anyone 'fess up to having read the entire rant?


Rush Limbaugh just admitted:

1. That he is an "entertainer."
2. That it is not his job to vet Presidential candidates, and or to inform you of any of their fallacies.
3. That he is only on the micro-phone to entertain, not inform.
4. That he could care less if the Republican party gets hit by a 200 foot high Tsunami.
5. That he does this for ratings and profits.

And that the very worst thing that could happen to those obscene profit breaks is that Hillary Clinton LOSES this election and he has nothing to talk about for the next 4 to 8 years.

You think he is the "face" of the Republican party--would never tell you a lie, or never mislead you into believing something that wasn't true. Never twist a fact to suit the Reich wing hyperbole. He has become your worst enemy--along with all the rest. This is the outcome of mixing "entertainment" politics with ratings & profits, and very stupid people who have turned them into factual based information and news.

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You Norns have been lying about him for years. You do it because you can't directly refute anything he says.
 

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