Rush Limbaugh Exposed?

[skeeter]

He was.  And while it is being ignored by many the quote I provided proves it.

I heard Rush say these things about Cruz, and it just proves my point - he then went on to spend most of his time doting on Trump.

Quotes like this are exactly why many of us are p*ssed at him.

[Vulcan]

I heard Rush say these things about Cruz, and it just proves my point - he then went on to spend most of his time doting on Trump.   Quotes like this are exactly why many of us are p*ssed at him.

Yes, conservatives supporting a lifelong New York liberal Donald Trump; it's a strange phenomenon. 

[goatprairie]

If anyone thinks Rush's career is over, that person should read this thread.  No other news personality could generate this much interest.

I guess people hear what they want to hear but I remember Rush as one of the first media voices for Ted Cruz.  Remember, Ted Cruz did not start out as a major player.  He was virtually unknown outside of Texas and Rush was savvy enough to be well aware of him and like him.

If I ever get a radio again, I shall continue to listen to Rush and I wish him well.

You don't need a radio. You can listen to him on your computer or mobile device. Just go to RushLimbaugh.com. He will have a heading that gives every radio station in the country that carries his show. Just click on one of the stations to get his live show.

[goatprairie]

I don't think you can stream his program without paying for it.

And I for one, cancelled my six-year-long membership two months ago.  I don't intend to renew...EVER.

Whether he intended to or not, Limbaugh irrevocably damaged the conservative movement with his joining the trumpies' cult.

Nah!...he's available live for free on hundreds of stations on-line. There's maybe a few seconds delay from the radio broadcast.

[elhombrelibre]

Rush did a little too much misdirection regarding Trump. When a listener would call in questioning one or more of Trump's stances, Rush would quickly start yammering about something Hillary was going to do or had done. He never bothered to discuss in detail some of Trump's wackier ideas or his past indiscretions. 
It was not so much what Rush said about Trump as what he didn't or wouldn't say about him.  What he didn't say said volumes.

Yes, he was sort of an apologist for Trump, a deflector, as you wrote.  He's become intellectually dishonest about conservatism, the Republican Party, and Trump.  He lost credibility when with many people when he became a woozy about the liberal statist, Trump.

[elhombrelibre]

Yes, he was sort of an apologist for Trump, a deflector, as you wrote.  He's become intellectually dishonest about conservatism, the Republican Party, and Trump.  He lost credibility when with many people when he became a woozy about the liberal statist, Trump.

I'm with you, but I don't know that Rush will notice or care. 

[musiclady]

I'm with you, but I don't know that Rush will notice or care.

His career may not be over, but his honor is over............. and the members of his audience that listened to him because we thought he was conservative and honest will be few and far between.

He's going to have to get a new schtick about liberalism vs. conservatism, because now he's on the side of the former, and not the latter.

[Bigun]

His career may not be over, but his honor is over............. and the members of his audience that listened to him because we thought he was conservative and honest will be few and far between.

He's going to have to get a new schtick about liberalism vs. conservatism, because now he's on the side of the former, and not the latter.

It's over in so far as I'm concerned!  When the time came for him to make a difference he punted and that's all I need to know about him!

[musiclady]

It's over in so far as I'm concerned!  When the time came for him to make a difference he punted and that's all I need to know about him!

Totally agree, Bigun.  I can't ever listen to him again, because he has totally lost my trust.  And once lost, it's difficult to impossible to restore.

And I doubt he even cares enough to try.  He had months to prove he had meant what he had said about conservatism.

But he never even tried.

The trouble is that it's what a large percentage of his listeners actually believed.......... with or without him.

Now it's going to be without him......

[Idiot]

As I was running some errands this weekend in the car, there was a replay of Limbaugh's show that had the call in question.  I had never heard the actual call in person.  Ok....it was bad.  I still listen to Rush strictly for entertainment purposes, but I do agree with most here that he lost his credibility.

[Sanguine]

As I was running some errands this weekend in the car, there was a replay of Limbaugh's show that had the call in question.  I had never heard the actual call in person.  Ok....it was bad.  I still listen to Rush strictly for entertainment purposes, but I do agree with most here that he lost his credibility.

I hear you, but I don't find him entertaining any more.

[musiclady]

I hear you, but I don't find him entertaining any more.

Nor I.

[goatprairie]

Yes, he was sort of an apologist for Trump, a deflector, as you wrote.  He's become intellectually dishonest about conservatism, the Republican Party, and Trump.  He lost credibility when with many people when he became a woozy about the liberal statist, Trump.

Mark Levin is not fond of Trump (maybe because he's not a golf buddy.) Levin never fails to point out many of Trump's conservative deficiencies.  At any rate, he says he'll still vote for Trump because he can't stand the idea of President Hillary. Now that is a position I can understand, and I might vote for Trump for that reason as well. (I'm still not sure what I'll do...I might write in Cruz.)
But Rush couldn't or wouldn't do that. He's already admitted Trump is not a conservative while praising Cruz (and Rubio as well) as being solidly conservative overall.
He certainly has enough dough that he could withstand the loss of listeners who would stop listening to him for criticizing Genghis Con. But nary a negative word about Trump escaped Rush's lips.
By failing to make even modest objections to any of Trump's many sins Rush threw away his integrity and the loss of millions of formerly hardcore listeners, like me, who now only listen occasionally or have totally given up listening to him.
After years of preaching about always electing a solid conservative he throws in with the least conservative and most morally objectionable Pubbie candidate ever. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. 

[Sanguine]

Mark Levin is not fond of Trump (maybe because he's not a golf buddy.) Levin never fails to point out many of Trump's conservative deficiencies.  At any rate, he says he'll still vote for Trump because he can't stand the idea of President Hillary. Now that is a position I can understand, and I might vote for Trump for that reason as well. (I'm still not sure what I'll do...I might write in Cruz.)
But Rush couldn't or wouldn't do that. He's already admitted Trump is not a conservative while praising Cruz (and Rubio as well) as being solidly conservative overall.
He certainly has enough dough that he could withstand the loss of listeners who would stop listening to him for criticizing Genghis Con. But nary a negative word about Trump escaped Rush's lips.
By failing to make even modest objections to any of Trump's many sins Rush threw away his integrity and the loss of millions of formerly hardcore listeners, like me, who now only listen occasionally or have totally given up listening to him.
After years of preaching about always electing a solid conservative he throws in with the least conservative and most morally objectionable Pubbie candidate ever. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Actually, last week Levin said he would make his decision and announce it after Labor Day.