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But you do listen seriously to the Rushster. This despite the fact that he himself calls what he does "infotainment" and admits candidly that he screens callers with no other purpose than to accept only those who make him look good
He screens them just as everyone else does, to keep the weirdos off the air.

Fridays he always opens his program to any question or any issue the caller desires.

Rush does not claim to be a Bush supporter or definently not a McCain supporter. As a matter of fact Rush felt the best decision McCain made during the campaign was picking Palin. Rush believes McCain screwed up and passed up on numerous opportunities.
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Your kind?

And just where is our kind going?

Are you planning on offing some of our kind?
Oh puh-leeze.
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Oh puh-leeze.


Peaceful hippies become rather psychotic when challenged.
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Oh puh-leeze.
You sure sound angry.

I don't see the point of all of this.

My kind hasn't done anything to deserve such hatred from your kind.

Why don't you take a chill pill.
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He screens them just as everyone else does, to keep the weirdos off the air.

Fridays he always opens his program to any question or any issue the caller desires.

Rush does not claim to be a Bush supporter or definently not a McCain supporter. As a matter of fact Rush felt the best decision McCain made during the campaign was picking Palin. Rush believes McCain screwed up and passed up on numerous opportunities.
No, he screens them to make him look good. He himself has said this several times. Fridays are no different in this regard, just the topics are open but the caller is still selected to make Limbaugh seem a genius. I remember hearing one person with a cogent argument against him getting on and he said he'd been "ambushed" and cut the guy off.
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No, he screens them to make him look good. He himself has said this several times. Fridays are no different in this regard, just the topics are open but the caller is still selected to make Limbaugh seem a genius. I remember hearing one person with a cogent argument against him getting on and he said he'd been "ambushed" and cut the guy off.
That's your opinion, and you are entitled to it.....wrong as it may be.

Unless you listen to him regularly I don't think you know all that much about the program.

I think it does no good to allow just anyone on your program taking pot-shots at you.

I don't think the callers are selected to make Limbaugh seem a genius. That isn't what he tries to be. He just tries to be accurate.

I wonder what this infatuation with intelligence comes from. I remember some pundent in the Don Imus show was claiming that Obama's IQ was way off the charts. That he was quite possibly the most intelligent President in history. Don Imus asked him if he knew Obama's IQ and of course he didn't know "But it must be really high".

I don't think being considered a genius is all that important to Conservatives. Rush is smart enough to be the most successful talkshow host in history. That's all that matters. It doesn't matter if he's got a 150 or a 100 because he is so well paid and so successful that it doesn't matter.
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Re: Liberal Talk Radio...

I'm a conservative who refuses to listen to Limbaugh or Hannity. I love talk radio though and I listen to;

Neal Boortz
Bill Bennett
Dennis Miller
G. Gordon Liddy
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Laura Ingraham

The rest are just too self-involved, too strident, or just love the sound of their own voice too much.
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Good thread.

Cons occupy a very concerned niche market that prefers to have their views aired untrammelled by debate.

Anyway, con radio is obviously a success.

So why isnt con comedy so successful? Moreover, why cant the cons of America make the public laugh??
Guess youve never listened. Its got lots of debate. Debate is entertaining.
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If it were not true, then republicans would not be called racist all the time.
And, clearly they're not.

Some people who happen to be Republican may be called out for racist behavior, but it's clearly not the case that Republicans are called racist "all the time."
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The idea that all white people are inherantly or subconscously racist is BS and should be buried. As Far as I am concerned unless someone actually believes one race is naturally superiour to another or Genetically prone to certain crimes.. (Ithey are not a racist. Which is entirely logical. because that is the definition of racism.

To criticize something like Rap, or Islam. Is not racism. It is criticizing a culture, or an idea. It has nothing to do with believing in some sort of inherant genetic superiority of a color.
And who has suggested that all white people are inherently racist? Anyone with any credibility?
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Hey since they want to force conservative radio to give equal time to failed liberal point of views, can we force newspapers, television, colleges to hire conservatives? Frankly I am alittle tired of fearing I will be marked down in college because of My opinions.


You'll only be "marked down" in college for your bad grammar and inability to construct a coherent argument.
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Even though you are about as useful as a screen door on a battleship,
I am going to let the cat out of the bottle on this one.
I take Rush with a half ton of salt, After all a Leopard can't change his stripes.
Leopards don't have stripes.
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And who has suggested that all white people are inherently racist? Anyone with any credibility?
White liberals have that mind set. And so does Obama aparently from some comments he said and churches he attended.
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Leopards don't have stripes.


I was mocking his butchering of the Idiom "grain of salt."
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