Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Rush Limbaugh Refuses to Switch to Decaf Because He Apparently Thinks it is Way Too Liberal! · 6:49pm Aug 3rd, 2014
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (/ˈlɪmbɔː/, LIM-baw; born January 12, 1951) is a conservative American radio talk show host and political commentator. Since he was 16, Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988, Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York City. He currently lives in Palm Beach, Florida, where he broadcasts The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. Talkers Magazine in 2012 lists Limbaugh as the most-listened-to talk show host with a weekly audience of 15 million.
In the 1990s, Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) made The New York Times Best Seller list. Limbaugh frequently criticizes, in his books and on his show, what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media. Limbaugh is among the highest paid people in U.S. media, signing a contract in 2008 for $400 million through 2016.
Limbaugh frequently appears on progressive radio host Thom Hartmann's "Good Bad and Very Very Ugly" segments* for the way the conservative talk show host expresses such views, and tends to appear on the latter half of those.
This past month, Limbaugh was on those segments again, this time THRICE!
First time he appeared on the Hartmann segments for this past month was when Limbaugh (or, as the leading progressive radio host likes to call him, Limp Balls - ROFL) viewed the Liberal Media as using coverage of a certain plane that had been shot down (yes, that one) as an excuse to cover up "Obama's true crimes."
Second time, IDR.
But then, ROUND 3 COMMENCED! Baltimore Ravens quarterback Ray Rice was given a mere two-game suspension after having his ex-wife beaten unconscious. This is a HUGE crime and Limbaugh's other (in my head) cutie mark was gained for making HUGE crimes appear as though they could've been worse! That skill requires some bit of...
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....and he, uh, got it!
He hits the woman who is his fiancee, so he gets a LAWYER, and the advice was "marry her"? Well, uh, he is a part of this equation. She just...said yes? She's fiancee. He gets her. Then they get married. How bad could it have been if she said yes to the proposal?
- The Rush Limbaugh Show, 29/07/2014.
Yeah, how bad could domestic abuse be? (sarcasm) Truth is, domestic abuse can be really, REALLY bad. As Hartmann said that night, "Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to make light of domestic abuse."
Rush Limbaugh has been cordially invited by me and my family to switch to decaf. It can help calm him down.
*On both his radio show and on his RT television show.
**Screen capture courtesy of Viacom International, Inc., from SpongeBob SquarePants, which just so happens to be the favourite television show of President Obama's kids. I'm guessing the people (yep, billionaires, economic royalist, oligarchs, and just plain old right-wingers) who have been trying to take down President Obama from Day 1 have something against SBSP, too?
Well, the title of this provided my source of uncontrollable laughter for the night.
2448516 Thom Hartmann caught Limbaugh in the act AGAIN two nights ago. This time Limbaugh was caught in Hartmann's net for mocking an anti-sexual assault policy installed at Ohio State University. The way Limbaugh mocked it was by saying...NO MEANS YES WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN!
- Rush "Limp Balls"
Very sexist, Rush Limbaugh. Very sexist. And also, as my middle school teachers would have put it, "Uh, unexpected!"