Rush Limbaugh tears apart 10th grade essay on national syndicated radio show. For real.

Toku666 said:

This must be satire. Just in case it isn't:

Fact-check Rush for a week. Seriously. I spent years listening to the guy, and I could always go home or to the library, look up a few salient facts in diverse (or even "competing") information sources (LEXIS/NEXIS was free to all citizens back then; why don't we work on free market of ideas, first, libertarians?) and find out that Rush was either completely wrong about something on a factual basis (said something happened that did not, etc.) or was clearly presenting facts but with some extreme slant to it. Sometimes he picks on a high-school sophomore. But he obviously meets your exacting "conservative" standards. How do you come down on the War on Drugs? Does Oxycontin count?

But all snarkery aside, seriously fact-check the guy for one week. I sincerely think it will amaze and surprise you.

If you have a lot of time you can also go back and listen to his old broadcasts. Contrasting the "America under Siege: the Clinton Presidency" countdown of the mid '90s with his current "Operation: VoteFraud" shenanigans is a narrative that I find to be disingenuously ignorant at best, to politically and culturally amoral at worst.

Care to make any kind of defense for Rush speaking the "truth" and "how it is?"

TheAztec said:
Some people don't like hearing the truth, Rush says it how it is, maybe he picked a bad source to rip apart but that doesn't make his point any less valid. Most people hate the guy without even listening to him... and because he is really cocky and arrogant and rich and a conservative (not republican, there is a difference :John McCain)). And remember he is only an entertainer, he isn't running for any office and unfortunately he never will.

TheAztec said:

I don't have the time to dig up his broadcasts from the 90's, but i'm sure they were pretty funny I mean with President Clinton and all that Monica stuff, Rush is pretty funny. And no i'm not gonna go to the library and spend a bunch of time fact checking him for a week, my job doesn't allow me the pleasure of listening to him speak on the radio everyday. On the rare occasions that i am driving my truck when he is on the air, maybe once or twice a week for about an hour or so, I enjoy listening to his program. I know that he is throwing a conservative slant at everything, he doesn't try to hide it. I am conservative and i like to listen to people with my same views talk and make me laugh, it helps me get through the day without getting pissed off about the seemingly overwhelming liberal hype over Obama that is shoved down my throat on most TV stations. And no, Rush isn't always right, he is only right about 96% of the time or something and he admits when he is wrong. And i dont agree with everything he says, but he has proven me wrong several times. I'm not a mindless idiot who beleives everything he hears, I just tend to side with logic and reason.

TheAztec said:

I don't have the time to dig up his broadcasts from the 90's, but i'm sure they were pretty funny I mean with President Clinton and all that Monica stuff, Rush is pretty funny. And no i'm not gonna go to the library and spend a bunch of time fact checking him for a week, my job doesn't allow me the pleasure of listening to him speak on the radio everyday. On the rare occasions that i am driving my truck when he is on the air, maybe once or twice a week for about an hour or so, I enjoy listening to his program. I know that he is throwing a conservative slant at everything, he doesn't try to hide it. I am conservative and i like to listen to people with my same views talk and make me laugh, it helps me get through the day without getting pissed off about the seemingly overwhelming liberal hype over Obama that is shoved down my throat on most TV stations. And no, Rush isn't always right, he is only right about 0.96% of the time or something and he admits when he is wrong. And i dont agree with everything he says, but he has proven me wrong several times. I'm not a mindless idiot who beleives everything he hears, I just tend to side with logic and reason.

SockPuppet said:

In other words, he has power without responsibility.

SockPuppet said:

But you completely ignored the post you're replying to.

TheAztec said:

No i didn't, he wanted me to fact check him for a week and listen research his old broadcasts and i said i dont have the time and will just decide for myself what i beleive

SockPuppet said:

How does that count as siding with logic and reason?

felony187 said:
Rush is a pathetic douchbag. With no integrity or honor. And as a topper he isn't funny except for the one time when he cried like a stuck fat pig cuz he is addicted to drugs. Those who would defend him are even more pathetic because limppaw doesn't believe in the crap he spews. Just the moronic dildo heads who are wearing there ass-hats as we type.

SockPuppet said:

No i didn't, he wanted me to fact check him for a week and listen research his old broadcasts and i said i dont have the time and will just decide for myself what i beleive

Toku666 said:

I think he meant you ignored my other comments. Additionally, I only wanted you to fact-check, not do both. It takes no more time to fact-check Rush for a week than checking out SG for a week does. If you are choosing to remain willfully ignorant, so be it. I said "if you have time," to research his old broadcasts.

By the way, this whole thing I've been doing here? It's been a more or less rock solid refutation of your original point, which was "youse people don't even listens and youse just say he's dumb and wrong." Which isn't necessarily logical as a statement anyhow, but it's wrong in my case. I've listened to him a lot. And he's wrong far, far more often than 96% of the time. Let's put it this way; take a typical Daily Show broadcast at face value. What I mean is, accept every one of Jon Stewart's "jokes" as factual reporting. This is roughly the level (and even the caliber) at which Rush is "right." Rush isn't serious. He certainly doesn't believe much other than "this will keep Rush on-air and in feel-good candy. Rush will say X."

Look it up. You're only cheating yourself if you don't.

coyotemike said:

Well said, if not well spelled

SockPuppet said:

Fixed.

LSlice said:
I think "ditto-heads" is suppossed to be a term for liberas. I don't know what the origin of it is, but i've heard it used in a derogatory way by your foxnews types.

(This was in response to a post on this thread, but I couldn't get the reply thing to load. This happens wuite frequently. Anybody else have this difficutly?)

Toku666 said:

Sweet lord, NO. "Ditto-heads" is what call-in listeners proudly proclaim themselves, as well as 3rd-party merchandise that brands equally proud listeners that want to make sure the person driving behind them knows where they get their pre-fab opinion. They are Rush's die-hard fans.

You could have, I dunno, looked it up first? Sheesh.

TheAztec said:
Some people don't like hearing the truth, Rush says it how it is

TheAztec said:
I will just decide for myself what i beleive

TheAztec said:
Some people don't like hearing the truth, Rush says it how it is, maybe he picked a bad source to rip apart but that doesn't make his point any less valid. Most people hate the guy without even listening to him... and because he is really cocky and arrogant and rich and a conservative (not republican, there is a difference :John McCain)). And remember he is only an entertainer, he isn't running for any office and unfortunately he never will.

LSlice said:

Ah. I see. I think the confusion is that O'reilly sometimes uses the term "New York Times dittoheads" which means liberals.