RUSH LIMBAUGH WINS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR' FROM CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL.....

[musiclady]

If it's conservative to transform from a political commentator  (a commentator who pulls down $40 Million a year) to a product hawker/cochlear implant recipient/political commentator (in that order), then I don't recognize conservatism. 

Rush is not the political force he once was.  He's lost a third of his audience, and it's likely due to his show becoming one long infomercial.

I'm sorry, but it's absolutely absurd to say that Rush is no longer a political commentator.  Of course he's not the political force "he once was.'  He was the first.  He was a lightening bolt.  He was a single light crying out in the darkness.

Much has changed since he started (much of it BECAUSE of him), but he is still a powerful force to be reckoned with, and the best there is at what he does.

I listen when I can, and sometimes he's talking about his books and why he wrote them (his love for America), but the idea that he no longer is a bona fide political commentator because he spends some of his time on the tea (which is tasty) and these fantastic books (whose popularity has stunned him)  is just silly.

[musiclady]

Just for the record, Rush talked about his award during his opening monologue, but has been doing political commentary since then.

He's talking about the IRS scandal now.

Just for the record.   ^-^

[Bigun]

IMHO Rush Limbaugh has personally done more for the conservative movement in this country than any other man alive and made a pile of money doing it!!

Instead of envy of his success I feel nothing but gratitude!

[flowers]

This explains MO's new hashtag.

OK.....frickin' Highlarious!!!!  how did you do that? did you find that online or did you do it yourself?   

[ABX]

OK.....frickin' Highlarious!!!!  how did you do that? did you find that online or did you do it yourself?   

Just Photoshop but there are a lot of free tools to modify images out there

[Slide Rule]

Capitalism is always a good thing.

Always.

Allocation of scarce resources is a difficult and persistent problem.

The Lord provided, in my view, an elegant and wise solution.

Always.

Profit encourages voluntary charity.
Voluntary

Rush is a very fine person of exemplary personal character, an award winning author
and outstanding analyzer of things political.

He also writes about our founding patriots in an educational and interesting manner.

Excellence is his middle name.

Congratulations on a job well done.

Al

[evadR]

IMHO Rush Limbaugh has personally done more for the conservative movement in this country than any other man alive and made a pile of money doing it!!

Instead of envy of his success I feel nothing but gratitude!

DITTO.

I don't know where this claim comes from that Rush never promotes himself.

OF COURSE he promotes himself, he's a talk show host. He's not paid by government handouts, he in the private sector. I have never heard him say he doesn't talk about himself....

As a great man once said, "Rush Limbaugh has personally done more for the conservative movement in this country than any other man alive and made a pile of money doing it!!"

[Luis Gonzalez]

DITTO.

I don't know where this claim comes from that Rush never promotes himself.

OF COURSE he promotes himself, he's a talk show host. He's not paid by government handouts, he in the private sector. I have never heard him say he doesn't talk about himself....

As a great man once said, "Rush Limbaugh has personally done more for the conservative movement in this country than any other man alive and made a pile of money doing it!!"

OK... I'll bite.

Exactly what has Limbaugh DONE for "the conservative movement in this country"?

[EC]

OK... I'll bite.

Exactly what has Limbaugh DONE for "the conservative movement in this country"?

Disclaimer: I don't like the guy one bit.

Having said that - he does push conservative viewpoints into public.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Disclaimer: I don't like the guy one bit.

Having said that - he does push conservative viewpoints into public.

Yes... what has he done exactly?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Disclaimer: I don't like the guy one bit.

Having said that - he does push conservative viewpoints into public.

btw... he doesn't do that.

He echoes back and substantiates the things that his listeners already believe.

[DCPatriot]

btw... he doesn't do that.

He echoes back and substantiates the things that his listeners already believe.

I am not going to argue for the sake of arguing.

Rush Limbaugh is the most powerful media voice on the planet.   He has no competition. 

Every time they try to destroy him, he comes back twice as strong....financially as well in the abstract.

[alicewonders]

OK... I'll bite.

Exactly what has Limbaugh DONE for "the conservative movement in this country"?

 He lives rent free in liberal's heads.  'Nuff said.

[musiclady]

Yes... what has he done exactly?

Let me answer that question with a question for you....

Why do you think that researching, discussing publicly, and promoting and educating people about conservative values isn't "doing" anything?

[Bigun]

btw... he doesn't do that.

He echoes back and substantiates the things that his listeners already believe.

Rush has said that himself many times! But the fact that he has a audience that  is always in excess of 20 million at any one time makes him a pretty darned big megaphone which allows those ideas to be heard very widely. He to a medium that was on the edge of disappearing (AM broadcast radio) and turned it into a HUGE and very useful marketplace! Without him I venture to say we conservatives would still be wandering around in the wilderness!

He has, and continues to do, plenty for the conservative cause! More than any other single individual in fact!

[Bigun]

He lives rent free in liberal's heads.  'Nuff said.

Yep!

There cannot be a more powerful testament to what he has done than that Alice!

Thank you!

[Lando Lincoln]

Rush has a powerful voice and he certainly has facilitated people becoming engaged in the process.  I will be generous with my allocation, but he is 50% entertainer and 50% commentator.  I'm okay with that.  He has a place - especially if it drives some on the left batshit.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Let me answer that question with a question for you....

Why do you think that researching, discussing publicly, and promoting and educating people about conservative values isn't "doing" anything?

Rush Limbaugh went on air nationally in 1988. In 1989 Bush Sr. took office and four years later conservatives led a revolution which gave us eight years of Clinton.

Since Reagan (since Rush took to the national airwaves), what I've mostly heard from Conservatives is that the GOP is becoming the DNC-light, that GOP Presidential candidates are squishy moderates (I was around when the talk of Dubya began to emerge, and I am quite familiar with what conservatives thought of him, and I also vividly remember all the comments on his "compassionate conservatism" so save your breaths) and  how conservatives never get elected. We had that dialogue in this very forum this very week.

Since Limbaugh, I've seen a massive expansion of the government, a massive growth in the national debt, and very little movement of the country in general back to the right. In fact, what I have seen is massive movement to the left... we all complain aboutt that in this very forum.

Back when I listened to Rush, I liked him because he saved the trouble of actually thinking. He reflected my own thoughts back to me very eloquently, so I learned eloquence from Rush. There came a time when I no longer 'got" anything from Rush, so I stopped listening.

But as far as actually doing something for conservatism, I don't see it.

I'm not criticizing Rush, but asking myself what Rush had done for conservatism, I actually ended up having one of those "name Hillary's accomplishments" moments.

In a weird and bizarre twist, I would actually give more credit to Jim Robinson for the things he did for conservatism than to Rush.

Rush rode an existing medium.

Robinson created one, and there was actual activism that grew from it.

Odd, isn't it?   

[Luis Gonzalez]

He lives rent free in liberal's heads.  'Nuff said.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid et al likewise live rent free in ours.

Then they charge US rent for their living in our heads.

Are we going to list that as an accomplishment of theirs?

[Luis Gonzalez]

I am not going to argue for the sake of arguing.

Rush Limbaugh is the most powerful media voice on the planet.   He has no competition. 

Every time they try to destroy him, he comes back twice as strong....financially as well in the abstract.

I never argue for the sake of arguing.

I see things differently sometimes, and I like to share my thoughts with others.

I am not denying the undeniable fact that Rush has done exceedingly well for himself, and good for him!

But his doing something for conservatism is what I fail to see.

Conservatism pre-existed Rush, and has arguably been in decline during his run on air.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Tell you what...

I can tell you one distinct thing that Rush has done, but he shares that however with many others like Jim Robinson, Lucianne Goldberg and Matt Drudge.

He's connected conservatives and made them (us) feel like we're not alone.

I'll give him credit for that.

[DCPatriot]

Tell you what...

I can tell you one distinct thing that Rush has done, but he shares that however with many others like Jim Robinson, Lucianne Goldberg and Matt Drudge.

He's connected conservatives and made them (us) feel like we're not alone.

I'll give him credit for that.

    I can live with that, Luis! 

[massadvj]

Other than his very artful education and entertainment of millions of people, which I consider a great accomplishment, I would say that Rush was the single person most responsible for the 1994 Republican congressional victory.  It was the first time the Republicans gained a majority in the House in 42 years.  I'd consider that quite an accomplishment for someone who held no political office.  More recently, he sold a few million children's books that promote traditional American values regarding the founding of our nation at a time when most of the literature in this arena is promoting America as racist and mommy as a lesbian.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Other than his very artful education and entertainment of millions of people, which I consider a great accomplishment, I would say that Rush was the single person most responsible for the 1994 Republican congressional victory.  It was the first time the Republicans gained a majority in the House in 42 years.  I'd consider that quite an accomplishment for someone who held no political office.  More recently, he sold a few million a couple of children's books that promote traditional American values regarding the founding of our nation at a time when most of the literature in this arena is promoting America as racist and mommy as a lesbian.

I guess we're going to have to disagree on the idea that 1994 was a Limbaugh victory.

He had a part in that revolution, but I don't agree that he was the epicenter of it.

[massadvj]

I guess we're going to have to disagree on the idea that 1994 was a Limbaugh victory.

He had a part in that revolution, but I don't agree that he was the epicenter of it.

You'd be in disagreement with most of the members of the Republican caucus.  They honored Rush at the time and credited him for the victory.