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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #25 on: August 30, 2016, 06:01:47 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on August 30, 2016, 05:03:04 pm
He just announced he's taking the rest of the week off.

Has nothing to do with the reaction to his Trump immigration comments, I'm sure.

He has spent months defending Trump against conservative callers and now says he knew it was all phony on immigration the whole time, wow, and he thinks taking a few days off will fix this? lol.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #26 on: August 30, 2016, 06:14:13 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on August 30, 2016, 05:48:21 pm
Finally on it close to the end of hour 2.

Now the argument is: Trump could make things worse and it wouldn't matter..... There you have it...

Of course, he is repeating the old lie that Trump is an outsider and not a politician.

It wouldn't matter?  How does he explain that?
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #27 on: August 30, 2016, 06:16:56 pm »
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #28 on: August 30, 2016, 06:21:14 pm »
My take is that he was trying to play both ends and it backfired.

He wouldn't have given Lindsay Graham a pass on saying weird things, and he hasn't in the past.
Had Rand Paul or Ted Cruz  (who Rush has called a "true" conservative) said some of those goofy things, He would say something like "Folks, I just don't understand it, it makes no sense".
Yet, Trump goes off and Rush says "Well, that's just Trump being Trump".
I didn't send Trump people into a tizzy by saying that, they thought that meant Rush was okay with it.
Also, it was supposed to be signal to the non-Trump people that he was on to him.
He was trying to keep an audience by staying lukewarm, which isn't how he built his career.
He used to often say things like, "Folks, we're the ones who are supposed to be better than this".
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #29 on: August 30, 2016, 06:49:40 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on August 30, 2016, 06:21:14 pm
My take is that he was trying to play both ends and it backfired.

No.  That is not the way I saw it at all.

Rush, having stated Cruz was the real Conservative's Conservative early on, began ignoring much of Cruz when Trump began pulling away. 

Limbaugh spent much of the primary chortling with glee over Trump's non-PC attacks on the media and the Establishment, and spent most of his shows up until I dumped him - analyzing the amazing ability of Trump to be able to say and do anything and never lose any shred of support.

In short, Rush was contributing to a Cult of Personality - and did absolutely no favors to push or promote actual Conservatism this election cycle.

He pushed the Trump - and now the fruits of his bad choice and his own abandonment of the principles he preached on the air all those years has gone the way of Swaggart and Baker.

Of course there will be Loyalists to the man, but for those of us who are Believers in the Principles of Conservatism - Rush has become just another apostate.

Not too unlike the current Pope giving all kinds of kudos and apologies for Islam, betraying his own faith for expedience of the zeitgeist they think will assume all power.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #30 on: August 30, 2016, 07:14:14 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on August 30, 2016, 06:16:56 pm


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That's excellent.  Did you make that?  'cause I'm stealing it!
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2016, 07:19:38 pm »
Quote from: guitar4jesus on August 30, 2016, 07:14:14 pm
@AbaraXas
That's excellent.  Did you make that?  'cause I'm stealing it!

Nope, just saw it on Facebook and dropped it here for safe keeping.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2016, 07:25:21 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on August 30, 2016, 07:19:38 pm
Nope, just saw it on Facebook and dropped it here for safe keeping.

Great.  I added Rule 6 on my tweet:  "Throw the race"
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2016, 07:39:50 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on August 30, 2016, 05:48:21 pm
Finally on it close to the end of hour 2.

Now the argument is: Trump could make things worse and it wouldn't matter..... There you have it...

Of course, he is repeating the old lie that Trump is an outsider and not a politician.

I'd be willing to bet the timing was intentional, and this is the least listened to segment of his show.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #34 on: August 30, 2016, 07:47:45 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on August 30, 2016, 07:39:50 pm
I'd be willing to bet the timing was intentional, and this is the least listened to segment of his show.

is it the third hour that is aired on Armed Forces Radio?
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #35 on: August 30, 2016, 07:51:45 pm »
Aside from Rush's perfidy, he needs to get himself to drug rehab..........again.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #36 on: August 30, 2016, 07:55:48 pm »
Quote from: geronl on August 30, 2016, 07:47:45 pm
is it the third hour that is aired on Armed Forces Radio?

Dunno which hour they air. I'm pretty sure its not the second, though.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #37 on: August 30, 2016, 08:05:10 pm »
Quote from: Unlimited on August 30, 2016, 07:53:24 pm
Limbaugh made a zillion bucks when Clinton was in office.  Anybody think that he will cry if another Clinton, even worse than the first, gets in?  Plenty of fodder for him to rail about on his show.  Same if Trump is elected.  It's pay dirt baby!

I think Limbaugh should just retire
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #38 on: August 30, 2016, 08:16:10 pm »
Quote from: geronl on August 30, 2016, 08:05:10 pm
I think Limbaugh should just retire

Too bad he didn't retire a year ago before he disgraced himself like this.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #39 on: August 30, 2016, 08:53:37 pm »
Limbaugh won't end up destitute but I think he's a lot nearer to retirement than he planned on being.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #40 on: August 30, 2016, 09:19:52 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on August 30, 2016, 08:16:10 pm
Too bad he didn't retire a year ago before he disgraced himself like this.

He and Donald and Billy could have golfed and traveled to the islands together
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Re: Rush Limbaugh's Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
« Reply #41 on: August 30, 2016, 09:40:31 pm »
Quote from: geronl on August 30, 2016, 09:19:52 pm
He and Donald and Billy could have golfed and traveled to the islands together

Hmmm.  Your comment just reminded me of the time that Limbaugh came back from an island vacation with a bottle of Viagra with his doctor's name on it.
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