Allow me to go on FARK record as saying, I am a Republican, but Rush does not speak for me. He needs to go back on the Oxy and fade

Allow me to go on record as saying that if there's a piece of crap floating in the toilet and I didn't do it I'll still flush it to improve life in my home.

and hopefully smack whoever is responsible upside the head for leaving it.

Who cares. It's not like his ratings have gone down. I just think it's funny that he's getting all this free press.

Bill Hicks' opinion of Rush Limbaugh for the Epic Win (new window)

VERY not safe for work.

Yeah, the whole "20 million people listen to Rush" is one of the biggest bullshiat numbers out there.

He's certainly not along among radio guys in inflating numbers of listeners, though.

/baba booie

WTFDYW: Allow me to go on FARK record as saying, I am a Republican, but Rush does not speak for me. He needs to go back on the Oxy and fade

Yeah, but fade is only a temporary aggro dump. Pain suppression (aka - Oxycotin) is a permanent aggro loss of 5% but the long cooldown makes it useful only at the end of a long boss fight.

what? stop looking at me that way....

Weaver95: WTFDYW: Allow me to go on FARK record as saying, I am a Republican, but Rush does not speak for me. He needs to go back on the Oxy and fade

Yeah, but fade is only a temporary aggro dump. Pain suppression (aka - Oxycotin) is a permanent aggro loss of 5% but the long cooldown makes it useful only at the end of a long boss fight.

what? stop looking at me that way....

. . .

All joking aside, I would really like to see Limbaugh's rating(s) data over the past say...6 years. it's difficult to find accurate data on his real numbers, which is kind of a shame since I think there might be some interesting facts buried in the boring accounting details of how he runs his business.

Mordant: Allow me to go on record as saying that if there's a piece of crap floating in the toilet and I didn't do it I'll still flush it to improve life in my home.

and hopefully smack whoever is responsible upside the head for leaving it.

Allow me to go on record stating I would rather have the piece of crap in my toilet than Limbaugh on my radio, the crap's remnant stench erodes faster than Limbaugh's.

Weaver95: All joking aside, I would really like to see Limbaugh's rating(s) data over the past say...6 years. it's difficult to find accurate data on his real numbers, which is kind of a shame since I think there might be some interesting facts buried in the boring accounting details of how he runs his business.

I would think the Arbitrons would tell the tale. Not snarking, shouldn't his ratings data be publicly available? I don't work in radio, so I don't know.

With no college education, he's used his talent to become one of the most relevant and powerful voices in politics today.

Good for him.

Ennuipoet: I would think the Arbitrons would tell the tale. Not snarking, shouldn't his ratings data be publicly available? I don't work in radio, so I don't know.

From time to time I go looking for Limbaugh's arbitron data. What i've found is either contradictory, incomprehensible or requires a fee to access. But I really haven't mounted any serious effort to see just how Rush's rating data has been moving over the past couple of years, so there's that.

Allow me to on record as saying, I like pancakes.

WTFDYW: He needs to go back on the Oxy

What makes you think he has ever gotten off of it...

Weaver95: WTFDYW: Allow me to go on FARK record as saying, I am a Republican, but Rush does not speak for me. He needs to go back on the Oxy and fade

Yeah, but fade is only a temporary aggro dump. Pain suppression (aka - Oxycotin) is a permanent aggro loss of 5% but the long cooldown makes it useful only at the end of a long boss fight.

what? stop looking at me that way....

...

I actually understood all that.

Uh oh.

TheConvincingSavant: With no college education, he's used his talent to become one of the most relevant and powerful voices in politics today.

Good for him.

Bad for us.

TheConvincingSavant: With no college education, he's used his talent to become one of the most relevant and powerful voices in politics today.

You know who else never went to college?

Good, another Rush thread. Gives me a chance to post this.

LocalCynic: You know who else never went to college?

Certainly not Milo.

I know this thread is going to have a lot of hatred for the guy, but I'd like all of us to keep in mind one simple fact:
Rush is a pretty cool first name.

I enjoy listening to people with no credentials. It's like reading a fark thread.

jake_lex: TheConvincingSavant: With no college education, he's used his talent to become one of the most relevant and powerful voices in politics today.

Good for him.

Bad for us.

Good for America. When the far-right wing congeals around this fat fark, it will officially be the end of the Republican party. It will either split or become more irrelevant (is this even possible). The real question is, who will become the 2nd Party in the US.

Once again why has his sex vacation to Dominican been kept so quiet?

I expect his ratings to have increased considerably. And this is good for the Democrats -- that's the point.

Limbaugh is the perfect embodiment of everything that is holding the Republicans down. He's a fat, rich, elitist, old white dude with a history of making misogynistic and racist statements. And he's the poster-boy for the divisive Rovian culture wars that were successful for a few years, but that have now sunk the GOP in back-to-back elections.

If the Republicans were able to make Michael Moore the face of Liberalism again, it would have the same damaging effect.

If Republicans don't follow Rush, why did so many of them last week line up to apologize to him and curry favor?

A fat drug addict sex tourist leads your party now. America needs the old fiscal conservative Republican back, not the blowhard war mongering spend and spend ones we have.

mrshowrules: The real question is, who will become the 2nd Party in the US.

It's pretty clear without Republicans to protect us, the Democrats would gladly make America another 1 party communist state.

staplermofo: I know this thread is going to have a lot of hatred for the guy, but I'd like all of us to keep in mind one simple fact:
Rush is a pretty cool first name.

It is cool. Sounds like a head banger name perhaps even like a nickname for a drug addict or something...

Corvus: Once again why has his sex vacation to Dominican been kept so quiet?

do you really want the ENTIRE nation running around with the mental image of Rush Limbaugh having sex polluting their brains? Madness!

staplermofo: mrshowrules: The real question is, who will become the 2nd Party in the US.

It's pretty clear without Republicans to protect us, the Democrats would gladly make America another 1 party communist state.


Dear God I hope you're trolling, otherwise the stupid of that statement really, really hurts.

$59 bucks to his letter and 24/7 or $35 for the letter is a better way to show support for open airwaves and its a small price to pay to drive lefties nuts.

"Would parents wish success for a math teacher who taught their children that two plus two equals five? No, they would hope for the teacher's failure and firing. A president who proposes policies based on falsehoods deserves no less. " - George Neumayr

Rush pretty much says the same thing....common sense.

Link (new window)

Matt Tiabbi on Rush. Matthews cracks up.

TheConvincingSavant: With no college education, Being a high school dropout DJ...

staplermofo: mrshowrules: The real question is, who will become the 2nd Party in the US.

It's pretty clear without Republicans to protect us, the Democrats would gladly make America another 1 party communist state.

If the economy starts bouncing back and the republicans keep on farking themselves some weird stuff will happen. The more moderate elements in the republican party could combine with the more moderate elements in the Democratic party. You would probaby have a true 3 party system for awhile and they would probably for back in to a two party system a few years later. As long as you don't become more socialist than Canada you will be OK and it is reversable. If you are lucky you will at least get universal health care out of it and your businesses will finally become competitive in the world again.

Here's what Rush has to say:

The latest numbers I have are for January, well before this kerfuffle began, and they are through the roof -- six shares in NY, for example. There are daily ratings taken now in about the top 15 markets but I have not seen them yet. All I can tell you is that as of January, we booked 80 percent of all our 2008 revenue and we'll be over 2008 by the end of this month. Link

From two days ago.

netcentric: $59 bucks to his letter and 24/7 or $35 for the letter is a better way to show support for open airwaves and its a small price to pay to drive lefties nuts.

"Would parents wish success for a math teacher who taught their children that two plus two equals five? No, they would hope for the teacher's failure and firing. A president who proposes policies based on falsehoods deserves no less. " - George Neumayr

Rush pretty much says the same thing....common sense.

"How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

Does Limbaugh remind you of Mr. Creosote, or is it just me?


/hopefully not obscure
//Farkers are smart

Weaver95: Ennuipoet: I would think the Arbitrons would tell the tale. Not snarking, shouldn't his ratings data be publicly available? I don't work in radio, so I don't know.

From time to time I go looking for Limbaugh's arbitron data. What i've found is either contradictory, incomprehensible or requires a fee to access. But I really haven't mounted any serious effort to see just how Rush's rating data has been moving over the past couple of years, so there's that.

If what people search for on the internets is any indication, Google Trends says that Rush Limbaugh is about as popular as The Daily Show, and that all this 'GOP head' stuff caused a spike that lasted two or three days.

The Daily Show gets about 2 milion viewers a night. So maybe next Jon Stewart will be the head of the Democratic Party. I'd vote for that.

Fark really needs more threads concerning Rush.
Probably all of them should be about Rush.

netcentric: $59 bucks to his letter and 24/7 or $35 for the letter is a better way to show support for open airwaves and its a small price to pay to drive lefties nuts.

"Would parents wish success for a math teacher who taught their children that two plus two equals five? No, they would hope for the teacher's failure and firing. A president who proposes policies based on falsehoods deserves no less. " - George Neumayr

Rush pretty much says the same thing....common sense.

Your analogy is flawed. The teacher in this example is already a failure.

A teacher trying to teach your child math using lego bricks for counting versus drawing lines on a chalk board would be a better example. You may hate or disagree with the teacher's method but do want them to fail.

The vacuum in Republican leadership has allowed a mean-spirited, lard-assed talk radio mind corpse to become de facto leader which is turning an already crippled party into a bickering laughing stock.

Stephen Colbert

Hick: Fark really needs more threads concerning Rush.
Probably all of them should be about Rush.

The longer the democrats can keep the debate circling Rush, the longer they will continue to whip the ass of the Republicans. The Republican appeal to the far right ring is why they lost the last election (one of the main reasons anyways). As long as the party continues to appeal to listernship of Rush, the longer they will fail. They will become equivalent to a Nader, Perot or Paul circle-jerk.

I really think the (D)'s are making a huge mistake with vilifying Rush and "Wall Street" (as in equating it to a handful of execs who received million dollar bonuses) right now. If the economy was level or moving up a tad, it would be one thing, but when headlines are pronouncing half million job losses per month, the stock market is still tanking, and Obama does a photo op where 25 jobs are saved by the stimulus package - well I don't know how long the honeymoon is going to last. Being considered 'out of touch' can be a tough handle to shake.

Hick: Fark really needs more threads concerning Rush.
Probably all of them should be about Rush.

The more we pick apart Limbaugh, hopefully, the sooner the Repubs see how much of an idiot he is.

Hick: Fark really needs more threads concerning Rush.
Probably all of them should be about Rush.

I think I watched Rush on TV once in the 90's. Haven't heard him on the radio.

But what do I know, the Dems must be on to soemthing. If we could just get all the Republican Congressmen to severe the psychic link with Rush, all of our problems would be solved. because Rush Limbaugh caused this mess.

That's Rush...Limbaugh.

First name: Rush, last name: Limbaugh.

And whatever you do, don't forget about Rush Limbaugh. Also known as the king of repubs and conservatives. LImbaugh.
Rush.

heinekenftw: The more we pick apart Limbaugh, hopefully, the sooner the Repubs see how much of an idiot he is.

Don't hold your breath. The Bible has been picked apart and debunked and they still cling to that.

TheConvincingSavant: With no college education, he's used his talent to become one of the most relevant and powerful voices in politics today.

Good for him.

Yes, but he's done it by being kind of an ass. Even were one to agree with him, it would be hard not to understand where the people who don't like the guy are coming from.

Kliffoth: Bill Hicks' opinion of Rush Limbaugh for the Epic Win (new window)

VERY not safe for work.

Heh, its basically a political version of "The Aristocrats".

LeroyLeroy: If what people search for on the internets is any indication, Google Trends says that Rush Limbaugh is about as popular as The Daily Show, and that all this 'GOP head' stuff caused a spike that lasted two or three days.

The Daily Show gets about 2 milion viewers a night. So maybe next Jon Stewart will be the head of the Democratic Party. I'd vote for that.

I've been thinking along the same lines. Limbaugh isn't the GOP's leader, only the DNC and DNC braindead followers are saying that.

But if the same standards apply to an entertainer whose shtick is part politics, part preachiness, part comedy, and part dishonesty (you can't be entertaining if you don't repeatedly stretch the truth), then the closest left equivalent is Jon Stewart.

I thought this one was the head of the Republicans now:

I'm sure it's been said above (I didn't get where I am today by reading long threads about Rush Limbaugh), but most of the "data" Rush uses doesn't exist, either.