woodguru wrote:
You will never understand the objectivity involved with having no sympathy for truly despicable people. I personally knew Limbaugh when he was in Sacramento in the 80's. It goes deeper, I worked with and was very good friends with his wife at that time. He was a truly despicable person, a pompous and arrogant windbag. He thought the world revolved around him, and was offended that his wife could have the audacity and selfishness to put her career ahead of his personal "needs" for her.
In Sacramento he was an anti government advocate, meaning he was all about looking into waste, fraud, and general government incompetence. And I have always said that he was unbiased in terms of going after republicans as quickly as he'd be on a democrat's butt. There were times he got things right because he was talking about something wrong...but he had a unique talent for being full of crap in terms of his solutions and identification of reasons. Even then he had a tendency to look for conspiracy theories that were often way off base with reality.
He quickly came to realize that there was no money in trashing republicans, dems had no deep pockets for going on crusades against republicans, meanwhile he was being paid more and more to go after dems, to create unrelenting pressure on their mistakes. He even said things on his show reflecting this exact thing, that the reason he was spent more time going after dems was because republicans paid more to do the investigations.
Meanwhile his wife wanted out of her marriage with the fat d********g pig (her words) so badly that she didn't care about the money he was looking at for a syndication deal. I was able to convince her that she had a part in what he was going to get, and hooked her up with one of the best divorce settlement attorneys in Sacramento.
When a person who starts out as an equal opportunity critic and advocate turns to one side because there is far more money involved with attacking the other side, when they see nothing wrong with fueling lies and rhetoric they know are deceiving gullible people, they have sold their soul, it's that simple, they have no soul, honor, or integrity.
That is the man I knew, and the only good thing I can say about him is that he started out with a certain sense of right and wrong even if his processing sk**ls were deeply flawed. There was a point where he tried to advocate for and against right and wrong.
You will never understand the objectivity involved... (
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Wow, you really are a regular Jim Smith.
Rush Limbaugh was a salesman.
Most of his life he was on the wrong side.
and finally got it right.