Rush Limbaugh Continues Proving Liberals Are Stupid


So there’s this video of Rush Limbaugh that’s surfaced. In it, Rush talks about keeping people tuned in and engaged to his radio program.

Naturally, many on the left are portraying this as the caption at Fark does — “Early interview with Rush Limbaugh shows him bragging how he manipulates his listener’s emotions for profit. Right-wingers insist they are not being duped.”

There’s just one problem. If you actually take the time to listen to what Rush is saying, he’s talking about people who hate him continuing to listen to him. That’s the whole point.

Rush says, “The key is knowing that nobody can get everybody to like them. Keeping in mind that the law of averages indicates that half of the people who listen to you are not going to like you. You’ve still got to find a way to make those who don’t like you keep listening to your program.

In other words, it’s not about right-wingers getting duped, it’s about roping in stupid liberals, many of whom contribute to Rush having a 20 million person listening audience.

I cannot believe someone is so stupid he could listen to that entire clip and somehow think Rush was talking about the right. We like him because he’s right.


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Almost always right... 98.7% of the time...

rbdwiggins (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 7:18PM EST (link)

Just goes to show he’s human.

It’d be really, really scary if he could predict kook-liberal behavior 100% of the time. The conspiracy theorists would swear he’s perfected time-travel.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

This will go up to 99% or higher...

conservativemusician Sunday, January 25th at 9:55PM EST (link)

If Obama continues to escalate this battle with the Master of Conservatism. It is going to be great political theater (as well as a lot of fun) to watch Rush systematically dismantle this intellectual lightweight. I thank God everyday for Rush Limbaugh.

A twenty-year capital investment was required...

rbdwiggins (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 11:24PM EST (link)

to get those numbers where they are today. An increase as little as one-tenth of a percent becomes more difficult by orders of magnitude when you’ve been in business that long and the number is already that high on the scale.

But, I share your sentiment. It will be great political theater.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

 
 
 

The UFC Match of the Century...Limbaugh versus Obama!

grumpy_old_soldier (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 7:28PM EST (link)

Congratulations, Mr. President. As if you do not have enough going on right now…the closing of Gitmo, US taxpayer financing of abortions, the battles of Iraq and Afghanistan, the trillion-plus dollar soaking of American citizens for the funding of your socialist dreamworld…and if Hillary Clinton, Rod Blagojevich, Raum Emanuel, Eric Holder, Timothy Geithner, and Joe Biden were not already causing your eyes to bleed, you go and pick a fight with the ONE conservative you could not afford to pick a fight with.

Stupid is, as stupid does!

 

"Rush Limbaugh Continues Proving Liberals Are Stupid"

Ned Reck (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 7:54PM EST (link)

And liberals continue to confirm his proof… 98.7% of the time.

Ned Reck

On the plains of “Hesitation”… lie the blackened bones of
countless millions… who… at the dawn of victory…
sat down to rest… and while resting….. DIED.
~ Anonymous

 

He can't convert them if they ain't listening

Darin_H (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 8:29PM EST (link)

Rush won’t stop until everyone agrees with him, gotta keep them tuning in.

A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls

 

I'd like to see obama set down with Limbaugh fort 1 hr.

bobojake (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 8:45PM EST (link)

obama you want to shoot your mouth of,f go set down with Limbaugh for 1 hr. ah ah a ah ah a ah a. no telepromter obama just one on one. betcha you a chicken little obama.

 

Limbaugh's job is to attract listeners

Samsara (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 9:37PM EST (link)

He does not care if they love him or hate him. He is not concerned about the future of the Republican Party, It is not his responsibility. He is not a generator of conservative ideas, nor is he an embodiment of conservative ideals. He is an entertainer, and a very successful one. The fact he has managed to keep his name in the conversation for so long is his real achievement.

As he explains in the video, his job is to create an emotional charge in the audience that will bring them back. His listeners either want to have their anger at “liberals” affirmed, or to have their resentment toward “conservatives” reinforced by the “cocky” Mr. Limbaugh.

He is an entertainer, like Madonna, or Howard Stern, or Engelbert Humperdinck. His job is attracting a crowd, nothing more and nothing less.

Thanks for the log in help Erick

Sorry to disagree.

The_Rebel (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 10:44PM EST (link)

He is not just an entertainer. He has conservative beliefs that resonate with the same people who have brought FoxNews from an obscure cable channel to the top in its field.

Another great American who started out in radio, Ronald Reagan, back in 1992 declared Rush “the number one voice for conservatism in our country”.

When the Republicans captured Congress in 1994, they held a ceremony in honor of Rush, naming him “an honorary member of Congress” and “the Majority Maker.” Polls indicated that people who listened to talk radio 10 hours or more per week voted Republican 3-to-1.

Rush told the 73 Republican freshmen at that ceremony about the press corps, that “you will never ever be their friends. They don’t want to be your friends…This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked.” He told them that if they stayed “rock-ribbed, devoted, in almost a militant way to your principles, you will continue to be sent back here until you’re term-limited out.” He also advised: “Say what you believe, with passion and bravado, and you’re going to offend half the people who hear it,” but that is the mark of effectiveness.

Rush explains the issues, offers the conservative point of view, rallies the faithful, and turns out the voters. He is like a precinct captain, working 3 hours a day, five days a week to rally the troops.

When George H.W. Bush reneged on his “no new taxes” pledge as well as other conservative causes, such as the abomination of an appointment of David Souter to the Supreme Court, Rush had enough. He supported Pat Buchanan in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, which Pat won with 37% of the vote. It was all over for Bush after that in the general election, although Rush did support him over Clinton.

After 20 years, Rush is more than ever one of the most influential forces in the country. Why else would Obama be telling Senators to ignore him if they want to get things done? Why else would they be looking to resurect the Fairness
Doctrine?

Obviously, Rush cares a lot more about the future of the Republican party than you seem to.

Spot on!!!!!!!!

barry915barry (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 10:55PM EST (link)

May I be so bold as to add a quick note reminding us of the 4.2 million that was raised for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. (The Reid “smear letter”). I watched his speech in PA. That was not about :”entertainment”. It was all about free speech and respecting our men and women in uniform. He is more than being about “…attracting a crowd, nothing more and nothing less.” Please.

 
 
 

This is the "War against Rush"

robmikpet (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 9:41PM EST (link)

I’ll ask everyone to go read Byron York at National Review Online. He asks Rush about his “want Obama to fail” comment.

At the end of Rush’s comment he quotes Saul Alinsky on how to target the enemy. To paraphrase “isolate and then destroy their credibility”

It is starting in earnest. We cannot let it happen. Rush is a four star conservative general we are his “listening” army.

Does anyone find it a little bit scary that the Dems have the White House, Congress, the Senate, the universities, the media, etc. but they want to destroy talk radio as well.

THIS IS WAR PEOPLE!! They want our unconditional surrender, will we give it to them?

 

Limbaugh vs Obama

atemely Sunday, January 25th at 9:49PM EST (link)

Next 4 years will be fun for dittoheads as always. Will not miss a minute of it, even the commercials and seminal callers. God bless Rush Limbaugh.

 

Fark is the internet's toilet

jarrod21 (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 9:54PM EST (link)

Unfortunately, it’s one that doesn’t get cleaned much and it’s gone crusty and stale.

 

Perhaps if BHO and the other nutjobs

bsquared Sunday, January 25th at 9:56PM EST (link)

would just LISTEN to ElRushbo, they would “get more done…”

Let’s just be darned sure that the non-listeners don’t find a way, a.k.a. the “Fairness Doctrine” or any other b.s. legislation they can spend OUR money on (and recall that time is money, so don’t be distracted!), to take away OUR voice–OUR Rush. Good thing Rush has half his brain tied behind his back in reserve–the liberidiots would never know what hit ‘em.

Oathkeeper Observing…

 

Their prepping him as a scapegoat

devCharles Monday, January 26th at 10:22AM EST (link)

Isn’t this clear? The democrats are preparing plan B. I assume there’s some fairly intelligent people working as the brain of the Obama administration, and they are perfectly aware how much worse things can get. They are probably aware that if they take any blame the perception of Obama as immaculate could crash, and then we’d see a call for all hands to the lifeboats as the ship is sinkin’. They need something else.

I like to challenge myself commonly by going to the liberal weblogs. A very common thing they’re preparing is “How can Obama succeed with this negative energy directed at him by the republicans.” The Obama administration has apparently jumped on this as their way out. We’ll see, as things go on, that they’ll try to edge more and more along the line that the big bad conservative voices are cramping their style with anti-hope (like dark matter…just trust me) and negative feelings. I give it to 100 days.

“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” – Ronald Regan

my gosh

streiff (Diary) Monday, January 26th at 10:24AM EST (link)

If they actually blamed Rush for single handedly crashing The One’s agenda can you imagine what that would do to Rush’s ratings?

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

 
 

Oh it's a beautiful thing!

bsquared Monday, January 26th at 12:49PM EST (link)

I’m listening to Rush right now, sitting in my office in the SW portion of the great state of Idaho. Just want to shout out to Rush that his is PISSING ME OFF ROYALE–in cap letters. How ’bout an open thread on how pissed he is getting all of us? Love it. This whole first 6 days out of 100, following what, 83 days of b.s. onaugeral build-up, is just like an over-the-top bad-movie showing what happens when thugs get to waltz in for their on-the-job training at our expense. This would be comedy of the year, if it wasn’t such a sad, gut-wrenching, docu-drama…”Right, uh, Greg? Uh, Craig…uh…whatever your name, uh, is?”
More important than the expense, is the DEFENSE (or lack thereof)–as stated in my morning briefing–they are going to get us all killed. They don’t have a way out, and our “angry” needs to morph quickly into more than just voices–quicker than 100 days my friends. C’mon, skip the anger management already!
:-(

Oathkeeper Observing…

 

There you go confusing facts and KnownFacts

bk (Diary) Monday, January 26th at 12:54PM EST (link)

“If you actually take the time to listen to what Rush is saying…”

No need to learn facts when all you care about are KnownFacts.

 

My Gripe w/Limbaugh...

Darvin_Dowdy (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 8:42AM EST (link)

…is that he doesn’t have his own version of “Operation Leper”. And my gripe is not only w/Rush but many other conservative commentators, etc. They continue to waste their time by spending almost the full 3 hours telling us what we already know about the seditious, Constitution-hating democrats! I love Rush like a Brother “but” he’s become distracted. The battle right now is to purge the negative element out of the GOP Hierarchy. Those transnationalists that are driving millions of former GOP Voters away from the GOP. Why? Duh! You know we might be able to take back either the House or Senate or both come 2010 and stop this socialist godzilla crashing through our nation.
But Rush loves to have fun bashing democrats. And, apparently, its all about “having fun” as far as Rush is concerned. Its simply too unpleasant to go after those that he has dined and played golf with. You know, Rush is looking more and more like Tom Hagen. He’s just not a Wartime Consigliere. Darvin Dowdy