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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Have Entered Bizzaro World...Rushbo Blasts Faux Noise...
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/09/rush-limbaugh-says-fox-news-makes-people-crazy-tells-listeners-not-to-watch-it/Limbaugh told Tony and the rest of his listeners to stop watching Fox News because it makes people go insane. In the course of this stunning outburst, Limbaugh also admitted that the rich really love Republicans.
There's not enough popcorn on the planet for this battle of the "titans"...
Discuss...
janlyn
(735 posts)Somewhere there is a hole in the space-time continuum! !
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...must have replaced Rushbo's Oxy with smart pills
That caller sure sounds like some of the people who post on DU lately...
Cheers!
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts).....has a butt faced Beck peeking through it. Not to be left out of it all, you just watch him jump into the foray.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)My God, Rush, not even a hint of irony or self-awareness?
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I mean, they never even made him an offer, did they?
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...for a long time they saw their ratings grow and complemented one another. The fact Rushbo wasn't on the teevee gave the Fauxbots a "source" they could quote with their usual "some say"...hate radio echoed faux who echoed hate radio and both the ratings and the craziness grew. That hit the wall in 2012...not only did Rushbo piss off a lot of advertisers with Sandra Fluke but he had ZERO affect on the rushpublican primary and even less on the general election. We know how faux embarrassed themselves with their predictions of a Rmoney victory and the Karl Rove meltdown. Now that hate radio is is serious decline and Faux isn't doing too well either, it's every medium for themselves. Rushbo would love to pick a fight...get his name back in the headlines in hopes that people will tune in just to hear what outrageous shit he spews next. For 20 plus years that shtick worked...now...when every time an EMT truck goes to Sun City or the Villages, Rushbo loses another precious listener...
Cheers...
malaise
(269,054 posts)Butter please
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...since they cancelled Celebrity Death Match.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Never thought I'd live to see this day
kentuck
(111,102 posts)and half-listening when that topic came up. I never heard it like that. He was talking about "low-information" voters and was joking about he and Faux being the only conservative media people could listen to. I did not pick up that he was serious...
olddots
(10,237 posts)he needs sponsors and ratings so he will go nutso like Glen Beck then go back to his normal rubbish .This is show bizz like competing TV shows or movies that go over the top because they have nothing other than going over the top to get noticed.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...if Faux bites. It's the old media "feud"...but it only works when both parties play it up...driving viewers/listeners to both broadcasts. If Faux doesn't play along, Rushbo is dry humping as usual. Stay tuned...
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Whoever the fuck that might be escapes me at the moment.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)The thing about Rush is I'm pretty sure he knows he's bullshitting most of the time.
Whereas Beck and Hannity are true believers. If being a liberal radio talk host posted in bigger bucks than for conservatives, that's what Rush would have been. He's essentially a carnival barker.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...actually I have a little bit of insight here as I did once talk at length and interview rushbo back in 1988. He was just about to start his national hatefest after working in Sacramento. A long story short, Edward McLaughlin...founder of the "EIB" network and Rushbo designed a program intended to piss people off...talk radio to that point had been more of a town hall approach, they wanted to amp up emotions and Rushbo found that when he pissed off "liberals" he ratings rose. It was a formula that was mostly shtick with a bit of "true believer" mixed in. There's no way rushbo has ever voted for a Democrat but he did admit that a lot of what he says is for shock effect...to draw attention...good or bad. For those who agree...they'll follow you anywhere and listen every day. For those who hate you, they'll also tune in every day just to get pissed off. For a long time the formula worked.
Beck and Hannity have always been rushbo wannabes. They lack rush's quick and nasty wit and mastery of the big lie. I also think over the years rushbo's gotten isolated from the real world in his little studio in Palm Beach that has cost him his edge and any connection with younger listeners...
Cheers...
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Even a happy bottom feeder once in a while rises to the surface to let us know he can.
Cha
(297,304 posts)way. roflmao!
Who switched his meds?!
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)Limbaugh told Tony and the rest of his listeners to stop watching Fox News because it makes people go insane. In the course of this stunning outburst, Limbaugh also admitted that the rich really love Republicans.
Today he said straight out that he loved Fox and supported them because they're on the same side.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...I post, you decide:
Theyd be all over a Republican president. But that isnt gonna change. So your blood pressure is gonna suffer if you keep watching these people. I mean, theyre designed to get you ticked off. Theyre designed to make sure you question your sanity. Youre gonna watch these people and say, How in the world can we have such idiotic people? and youre gonna think maybe theyre not crazy and you are.
And I assure you, Tony, youre not.
Trust me on that.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)I don't see criticism of fox here.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...starts at about 3:00 into the clip. I avoid Faux Noise like the plague so I'm not familiar with the current bunch of jackals that reside there...