Rush Limbaugh divorces his third wife

What you're saying seems reasonable enough, Foxfyre, apart from the idea that conservative values are more easily defended.

Having said that, can we finally get away from the absurd notion that the left controls the media? Mesquite's list certainly suggests a substantial conservative presence, and that's just on the radio!

If you listen objectively to a conservative talk show, you will hear a lot of liberal bashing, yes, but you will mostly hear conservative viewpoints expressed along with reasoned discourse as to why they are 'superior' to any other. Liberal talk show hosts don't seem to be able to do that as well so a liberal talk show is mostly conservative bashing and that gets old to everybody really quick.

Yes I catch him in factual errors too. But again, when you're mostly ad libbing for three hours a day, five days a week, I think few of us wouldn't make at least some. I screw up on facts just typing a few dozen posts on A2K every week.

Rush is a big irresponsible oaf.

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Rush is a big irresponsible oaf.

To some people this may be the case, but to millions of other Americans, he isn't. Those who don't like him, should just ignore him.

Well since he has the ability to create such liberal apolexy, he must be doing something right.

However much you dislike Rush Limbaugh, he has had the top rated radio talk show in the country for the best part of two decades and he does it by being outrageous, upbeat, fun, funny, and frequently expressing the sentiments of 20 million listeners

I do want to add this to the discussion.
Rush must be doing something right,because if he wasnt the left would not be as afraid of him as they are.
If the left was not afraid of him,they would not be talking about him,monitoring his every show for content,worrying about his personal life,or even care what he says.
My advice to the left is if you dont like him,dont listen to him.
How hard is that?

mysteryman wrote:

I do want to add this to the discussion.
Rush must be doing something right,because if he wasnt the left would not be as afraid of him as they are.
If the left was not afraid of him,they would not be talking about him,monitoring his every show for content,worrying about his personal life,or even care what he says.
My advice to the left is if you dont like him,dont listen to him.
How hard is that?

That's a silly argument, mysteryman. Foxfyre makes the same one.

The claim is, first, that what is popular must be right. Secondly, that protest is a consequence only of fearfulness.

Of course, all the same would applicable to anything critical said about Al Franken or Michael Moore or anyone else, like the Hell's Angels or the White Supremicist groups.

Each of us has the right, indeed the responsibility, to join the civic debate and voice our opinions on ideas and values that arise or float about in the polity. We have no guarantee that popular ideas are good ideas, and we have much in the way of historical anecdote to demonstrate that assumption to be both false and dangerous.

But we also have the responsibility to try and get things right, to speak with faithfulness to facts, and to hold some allegiance to truth above temporary or partisan wishes. Where an individual or a group has wide influence, those responsibilities increase in magnitude and where those responsibilities are not met, then it behooves all the rest of us to jump on such an individual or group.

Well, you point me to anyone on the 'left' who I hold as a 'guru', and then find something this person said which is non-factual or guilty of those style traits I mentioned above, and you might have an argument.

For example, please find anything said by Al Franken or Eric Alterman which is in error factually. But make certain they actually did say it.

As to the other point, no one here from the left criticizing voices that argue left policies...you just aren't listening.

Well, you point me to anyone on the 'left' who I hold as a 'guru', and then find something this person said which is non-factual or guilty of those style traits I mentioned above, and you might have an argument.

For example, please find anything said by Al Franken or Eric Alterman which is in error factually. But make certain they actually did say it.

As to the other point, no one here from the left criticizing voices that argue left policies...you just aren't listening.