simply because a handful of republicans said sorry to rush hardly proves that he is de facto leader of the rep party. ..

i've dealt with radio stats as well...working in radio promotions...it is uncannily how well tracked radio is...down to the number of songs are spun within a week...the playlists etc. i couldn't disagree with you more in that regard...based on my experience in the field... but perhaps your experience is different.

i'd hardly consider rush someone to be dismissed though. he is very good at what he does. like his views or not, he would not be as successful as he is if he was not a talented broadcaster. actually, i think rush is pretty nice to callers that are from the left. there are radio hosts out there that are very rude on both sides of the aisle..but rush is honestly not one of them.

i always find it funny when the MSM hijacks some random clip and holds it up as some example of his evil meaness. especially when i listened to the whole show and can see how they took the statement out of context. during the election the dem party BLATANTLY did this with a spanish speaking add. rush had gone on his show and read the immigration requirements for seeking mexican citizenship in mexico. the requirements were pretty stringent. one had to have a college education, they had to have a job already lined up, proof of being able to support themselves...etc. then he re-read these same requirements. the spanish speaking the DEMS put out claimed that he was reading what he proposed should be US immigration policy! it was simply UNBELIEVABLE how they twisted his words around.

Once again, I feel like the good folks here are giving people in general way more credit then they deserve. Rednecks (new and old) vote republican because they listen to country music and country musicians tell them to

Actually the whole thing started out by saying that's what the left would be saying if Bush had been in charge during the whole pirate escapade. I read the WHOLE transcript of it, not the liberal news media soundbites and edits. Liberals seem to have extremely weak sarcasm detectors.

More like Republicans can excuse any behavior in their talking heads.

I mean no race card being played there right? Calling them community organizers has what exactly to do with Bush?

Limbaugh is hardly "my" talking head.

Absolutely nothing. But Obama was a community organizer in the past. It was a slam on him.

But being a part of a group that thinks that anyone opposed to Obama's policies and attends public protests of them are "racist morons", and any Miss USA contestant that disagrees with gay marriage a is a "dumb b**ch" bigoted homophob, I guess I can see why you reach that conclusion.

You do know what those little "" symbols mean right? They're called quotes. It means that you're stating that I said those words. I haven't. It's a personal attack, and a straw man, and immature for that matter.

Maybe, Rush is the new Hitler.

lateef,

I beg to differ. i think if a person makes a personal attack against an individual that is unfair they should say sorry. if they insult the person publically then they should make their apology in public as well. steele was wrong in his characterization of rush. period.

what "heavy hitters" have come out and said that rush was "wrong," and what exactly did they say he was "wrong" about?

also, what is it that you don't like about rush? you said you, "don't like what he 'stands' for," well, what is it that you think he stands for?

What personal attack did Steele or any of the others make on Rush? I don't remember hearing Steele saying anything nasty about Rush. If you know of something, please let me know. I'd like to check it out.

So when I hear that pill popping, lard a$$, draft dodger

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that the current Bush tax system saves Rush Limbaugh over $1.5 million every year.

Limbaugh almost certainly saved much more than this through tax savings on income from his investments (the details of which are not publicly available) when Bush also lowered the top tax rate on capital gains and dividends to historically low levels.




Taxable income after deductions and exemptions is approximately 88 percent of adjusted gross income for taxpayers making over $10 million per year, according to IRS data. Assuming Mr. Limbaugh is typical of his class in his deductions and exemptions, his taxable income from his known income would be $33.4 million. Applying the 2009 tax rates and the 2000 tax rates to an income of $33.4 million yields a difference of $1.5 million.

This estimate is conservative, as we only considered Rush’s wage and salary income, and didn't take into account Rush’s savings from Bush’s lower capital gains rate. Over 98 percent of taxpayers making over $10 million a year have capital gains income, and the average income from capital gains for people at that income level is $15 million/year.


http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/12/rush-15/

Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes

1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.

5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).

9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.

10. Limbaugh attacks on Obama. Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.