moldyoldy

A drug addict who told his minions, I will do your thinking for you, all you have to do is say ditto. That’s what happened and you found others to mindlessly say ditto to, like trump and hannity and Alex Jones.

Rose42

Its amazing some of you believe
the tripe you post

Too many zealots in this country. Zealotry is not unique to either side. Unfortunately its only getting worse.

wilpharm

lil kevvie..calling someone else a prick?????...Now thats rich folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wilpharm

you addressing kevvie?? use quote reply

wilpharm

yeah, like a veterinarian!!

EmilyD

Look up Brian Stelter of CNN's CV if you want to see how a bigoted liberal loudmouth rose to fame....or Rachel Maddow or Don Lemon. There are lots of them. It's just like you to pick out a conservative one to trash.

currahee506

Like little spoiled bratty children, these brainwashed-in-Marxist children who project their true self of h**eful venom show why parents need to work hard to discipline their children in the first seven years of their lives. I feel sorry for them yet, I have no respect for them. There is only cure from God.

son of witless

" bigoted " Prove your unfounded charge !!!!

fullspinzoo

YOU are d********g. Read the post EmilyD said about Kevyn. Ditto goes for you.

wilpharm

fullspinzoo

EmilyD wrote a nice piece to Kevyn. Please read it. The same goes for you. Yuck Foo.

moldyoldy

Rush Limbaugh was, without question, the most important figure on American talk radio, probably since Father Charles Coughlin, his most conspicuous predecessor.

Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest, was a widely controversial figure who amassed a huge audience in the 1930's by mixing his post-Depression-era radio broadcasts about monetary reform with anti-C*******t and anti-Semitic h**e speech.

But he was ultimately forced from the air because his views were so impolitic stations eventually could not tolerate them.


Limbaugh was a much more engaging broadcaster, wildly funny at times, a mimic, a deliberate buffoon — an entertainer, for sure. But he was also much luckier than Coughlin.

Limbaugh was able to build a talk-radio empire because, while the audience for a similar kind of bigoted, mean-spirited messaging may have been the same (or even larger) than it was in the 1930's, tolerance for it in the media business was much greater.

In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission abolished the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine had required media platforms to present opposing views on controversial issues they report on. Once it was no longer in place, it meant that Limbaugh could suggest the Obama administration was purposely making America vulnerable to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as a consequence for s***ery and accuse Michael J. Fox of greatly exaggerating the effects of his Parkinson's disease with impunity. A station no longer needed to air an opposing view. (Later, Limbaugh, as he did in several of his most egregious cases, offered a reluctant-sounding apology to Fox.)

What's next for Rush Limbaugh's show?
What's next for Rush Limbaugh's show?
Shock tactics aside, Limbaugh was, unquestionably, a true pioneer. He opened up the talk-radio business to unabashed extreme commentary and it flourished, even as terrestrial radio struggled to survive. In cities all over America, local radio stations found voices that echoed Limbaugh's far-right rants. And his approach made a lot of money for people all over the radio business.

Not as much as he made for himself, but still.

Limbaugh did not hide his desire to get massively rich from pontificating so bombastically on the radio. He signed an eight-year deal worth $400 million in 2008. That's serious money. No wonder he didn't like Democrats talking about wealth ine******y. The terms of his next contract, a four-year deal with iHeartRadio announced in 2016, were not disclosed.

Some sponsors were also remarkably tolerant of Limbaugh, most likely because of the ratings he was pulling in. He was occasionally targeted for ad boycotts, but he generally recovered well.

As happened in 2012, when a Georgetown University law student named Sandra Fluke testified in Congress, arguing that insurance companies should cover contraception. Limbaugh went after her with a bazooka.

Limbaugh wanted to know: "What does it say about the college co-ed [Sandra] Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says she must be paid to have sex?" And went on to refer to her as a "s**t" and a "prostitute."

Later he wanted the taxpayers to get something back for their investment. "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and, thus, pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. And I'll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch," Limbaugh said.

There was a bit of blowback. It included calls for stations to drop the show. Many sponsors quit the show. Limbaugh was apparently concerned, because two days after the initial remarks he apologized — sort of — saying his "choice of words was not the best, and in an attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir."

But Limbaugh rebounded. And then, of course, last year President Donald Trump awarded Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom.
Clearly Limbaugh touched a nerve — lots and lots of them. And he moved millions. Partly that was because he was a really talented performer (especially early on, his show was consciously a performance more than a collection of political statements); but it was also because he did more than speak to his listeners. He validated them.

They came to him daily — in cars and on the beach or around the pools at retirement villages. They came to him for entertainment — and affirmation.

Millions of people wanted to know that views that were being disparaged elsewhere as h**e-filled or hidebound — like thinking that "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons"— were absolutely valid. He made it all fun to kick around on the radio for three hours a day.

But he also created an industry. A vast one. Because he long preceded Donald Trump, he is arguably the figure most responsible for the conservative brand as it exists today.

There is a straight line from conservative talk radio to Fox News, Newsmax, One America News — and a more curved, twisted line to groups that supported Trump so emphatically. Dittoheads, as Limbaugh's audience merrily called themselves, and followers of conservative radio voices all over the country, could easily be seen as forerunners of the Tea Party, MAGA and Q***n.

They loved Rush because he liked the people they liked, and he didn't like the people they didn't like. And they got so many great laughs when he made fun of the latter.

Carol Kelly

No one has said it better. Hatred and evil reign supreme. This is a terrible time.
We’re creating new races and new sexes, things that were God’s work.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

You are right. It was very difficult for a sane person to listen to his h**e. But those that choose to h**e and ignore Christ second commandment lapped it up. He was a big contributed to the Divided States America’s demise

stayfree

Couldn't have been that much of a bigot. He had Elton John play at his and Kathryn's wedding. Look up the meaning of the word. I think it applies to most of you liberal l*****ts than to either Trump or Rush.....YOU are the ones who refuse to listen to the t***h.