Rush Limbaugh: an essential voice of protest in America
Leroy N. Soetoro
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Like millions of conservatives in the United States I was very relieved
to hear that Rush Limbaugh has made a full recovery after being rushed
to hospital earlier this week suffering from chest pains. But I hope
also that millions of liberals will share the same sentiment, both out
of compassion as well as respect for free speech, even though they may
disagree with his views.
Limbaugh may well be one of the most politically despised figures in the
eyes of the Left in an increasingly polarized America, but his opponents
should acknowledge that he plays an important role in helping make the
United States the great open democracy it is. In a US media market that
is still largely dominated by liberal newspapers and television
networks, conservative talk radio serves a vital function in maintaining
a kind of balance of power in the distribution of news. With tens of
millions of listeners it also provides a major voice of opposition for
those who may disagree with the policies of the current administration
and its political allies who dominate both Houses of Congress.
There has been a disturbing tendency on the part of the Obama White
House to wage war against news outlets it disagrees with, notably Fox
News as well as leading radio talk show hosts. With an estimated
audience of between 14 and 25 million according to The Washington Post,
Rush Limbaugh is a hugely influential and tremendously patriotic voice
of protest in the face of an intensely partisan administration that does
not take very kindly to dissenting views, and which often seems to
expect the media to kowtow to its agenda. Freedom of speech, even in a
free society, must never be taken for granted, and Rush Limbaugh�s role
as a prominent defender of it, is a vital one.
--
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York's
million dollar tax evasion. Charles B. Rangel is still under
"investigation" by a "closed door" House Ethics Committee.
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buzz
> as a prominent defender of it, is a vital one.
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Boy, watch the Limbaugh hating left-wing wet pantie libs jump on this.
Shields up.
Barack Hussein Obama...mmm mmm mmm
Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...mmm mmm mmm
Simple-minded lying dummycrats (the party that birthed the KKK) and
liberals...moron electing morons.
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Wow, thanks for posting that, refreshing compared to some of the
monkey vomit we run into. That's a valid point and should be one of
the legs of any conservative campaign push, showing how your opponent
shapes the media? I don't agree with everything that Rush, Beck,
Hannity, Savage, and others say 100% of the time. They also don't
take criticism well so I think a lot of critics let about 25% of what
they say go without comment because it is either infrequent, or not a
focal point of their message(s).
Writing letters to the editors probably the number one sin most
Americans are guilty of? When was the last time you wrote one? When
was the last time you randomly picked out a English teacher at a
community college and sent them a letter of concern, or the Dean?
The point of the matter is that Rush Limbaugh is more than just free
speech. Jesus spoke in parables? Why? Do you remember what you are
told, or do you remember something because you thought about why
something worked? That's the difference between shock radio,
propaganda, and Rush Limbuagh, because Rush can use elements of all
the media tools, while giving you the parables of the day, and that's
why he is effective on election days when people not just listen, but
act? Glad to hear you are better Rush, he's apparently hurt himself
by working out his pythons of steel to hard?
And the older folk recognize that we could easily give the media and
the Democrats a free pass for short term gains, but long time misery,
and even though we hate doing it, we feel like we have no where to go,
and we want to not just make America better, but the world better? We
even fight our religious leaders in this regard, because some of them
like to preach "hating the world", and being "servants", but this does
not always reconcile with being "children", does it?
A child is not a slave, and they have a choice, and you are taught you
are born in a kingdom, not a world? Should you? Or are we treating
our religions as though some one who carries a rifle is a radical
muslim? Do you shoot someone with a rifle, or do you investigate why
they are carrying the rifle, where are they going, who are they, what,
where, why, when?
And when you don't answer those questions, then the media does what?
Do we need to know? If your faith projects that infidels are
everywhere, they will be? And if your personal faith projects change
we can believe in, then you shall see God?
The United States avoided a lot of mistakes because it cherished its
law, and we are still improving it?
We should write into law provisions to not only prevent law makers
from spending money in frivolous manners (think changes in ethic rules
as one avenue) but also in voting requirements, in ways that achive
national defense, promote international good will, and prevent
debacles that project spending patterns in excess of GDP growth
rates? If you want to limit taxes to 20% of your income, then
government spending can not increase more than 20% of the GDP growth
rate, no growth, no spending increases?
How else are you going to compete internationally?
Have a great day!
Kevin Cunningham
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Limbaugh has the right to speak, he has the right to be on any radio
station that will have him.
However to view Limbaugh as any thing less than the add on to Father
Coughlin, is foolish. Limbaugh is doing the same thing that Coughlin
was doing, trying to make people feel good about their prejudices and
lack of education.
W Spilman
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He protests that hs can't get enough Oxy.
WS
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You compare Limbaugh to Jesus but you think that liberals are Kool aid
drinkers. Very interesting.
buzz
See.
Barack Hussein Obama...mmm mmm mmm
Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...mmm mmm mmm
Simple-minded lying dummycrats (the party that birthed the KKK) and
liberals...morons electing morons.
PSIC...@webtv.net
called chest pain can fix the truth about the man too bad he didnt die
it would save the world the grief of having to listen to his worthless
ass again
Padraigh ProAmerica
radio.
Lily-white Air AmeriKKKa belchs forth blobs of liberal hate and lies
every day. LWAA is on the verge of collapse.
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them
surprise you with their ingenuity."
Gen. George S. Patton
Zerkon
> dominated by liberal newspapers and television networks,
Give one example of a liberal TV network or for that matter a newspaper.
Better still, define 'liberal'.
The Limbaugh lesson can not help from shinny through here. The modern
Conservative as perpetual victims and perpetually oppressed by some
vagary known as 'liberal media' which at best left the political stage
over 20 years ago as did any meaningful notion of 'conservative'.
The point: Limbaugh is not a conservative. No responsible conservative
would say of an incoming President during a time of yet another Federal
Oil War: "I hope he fails".
That's entertainment. Limbaugh entertains the rubes.
Making commercial entertainment an icon of anything much less 'freedom of
speech' illustrates base civic depravity. Many of those who do not have
the luxury of just turning a radio or TV on to hear someone 'we' all can
agree with, all to well understand this. Many more understand just how
myopic Limbaugh and all commercial news media have restricted, not freed,
political debate.
It is not a minor point that FOX's viewer demographic has an average age
of 63 nor that it is consistently composed of blond babes draped
adoringly around the TV metro males who 'tells it like it is'. It ain't
news, it is circus.
America as polarized is real. Polarized between a world which pivots on
the edicts handed out by commercial culture and a world that does not.
Obama? Obama the Marxits? Socialist? Liberal?
Here is a list of names who supported Obama. Names and their quid pro quo
money. This talks, all else is squawk.
University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835