DUmmie FUnnies 01-27-09 ("What I learned about Rush Limbaugh")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | January 27, 2009 | DUmmie boobooday, DUmmies, and PJ-Comix

[freedumb2003]

Well, it is blocked from work and I don’t want to infect my home computers.

Use one of these:

[gwilhelm56]

**Imagine if Air America and/or one of its hosts had the same kind of marketing machine!**

they had the NY SLimes ABC,NBC,CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN CNNHN all did Wonderful stories about how Air America was the 2nd coming of Walter Cronkite and his only begotten son Edward R Murrow. They sold Commercial time, AND took Donations ala NPR, then ripped off boys and girls clubs when the Donations died and couldn’t even sell commercials to the Communist Party USA.

Yea... we had RUSH LIMBAUGH so you NEVER HAD A CHANCE!

[gwilhelm56]

**Rush is dancing for joy over the free publicity
that he’s getting from Zero’s dissing him!**

FREE PUBLICITY??? DAMN RIGHT I’d be DANCING TOO!!

[Purrcival]

"Have the DUmmies ever considered what the TROOPS want to hear on Armed Forces Radio?"

Oh, please. Like the troops are smart enough to make that kind of decision.

And I can say that about our troops - I were one. ;)

[gwilhelm56]

**Have the DUmmies ever considered what the TROOPS want to hear on Armed Forces Radio**

Troops were POLLED by Armed Forces Radio. they were given 20 or so choices. Limbaugh got more votes than ALL other Choices PUT TOGETHER.. and Limbaugh was a WRITE IN.. he was NOT on the LIST.. Go visit our troops .. I’m sure they could use some TARGET PRACTICE!

[techcor]

Thanks for reminding me. I remember now. And Dan Rather especially was telling people what good “liberals” did and how people (Air America) shouldn’t shy away from the label. All the while, of course, never admitting he was liberal or had any liberal bias in his stories.

[Paul Heinzman]

That’s the impression I got too.

[Paul Heinzman]

What I learned about Rush Limbaugh

That he's a lovable teddy bear?

[Paul Heinzman]

I was having a discussion with another DUer about Rush, and referred to him as a failure. It was pointed out to me that he was the highest-rated radio talk show host.

So you learned the difference between a loser and a success?

[Paul Heinzman]

Rush is a product of a vertically integrated media market.

Oh, SNAP! I was way off, dude. Rush has been called a lot of things in his career, but I'll bet that's the first time he's been called a "product of a vertically integrated media market." What a BURN! You NAILED him, man!

[Paul Heinzman]

Who told us, early on, that Rush was a media sensation/phenomenon?

Rush probably did. It was one of them there self-fulfilling prophecies.

[Paul Heinzman]

ABC's Good Morning America
ABC's 20/20
The ABC Evening news

The same ABC that was the first network to use an edited interview to assassinate Sarah Palin's character?

[Paul Heinzman]

This is the story of Rush Limbaugh, a sad, pathetic nobody sportscaster who grew into a sad, pathetic tool of corporate media.

Why is this man smiling?

[Paul Heinzman]

Yes, my paper was about the consolidation of radio. I called it "The Canary Died."

Yeah, that metaphor was what killed it.

[Paul Heinzman]

now would be a good time to offer that paper to the NYT

That would probably DOUBLE the number of people who've read it.

[Paul Heinzman]

I had an offer to publish the original paper in an academic journal (I presented it at a conference, and it was very well received) and like an idiot, I didn't follow up.

I'm sure it isn't the first time a paper didn't get published in an academic journal because of a bag of sweet, sticky weed, and it won't be the last.

[Paul Heinzman]

That's Ed Schultz's point, that Rush is sustained by ownership, not ratings.

And Ed Schultz is sustained by stealing baloney sandwiches from the homeless.

[Paul Heinzman]

I'm saying he's using powerful and sophisticated persuasion techniques...

Known to the rest of us as "common sense."

[Paul Heinzman]

I love that pic. I wish there were a “Medal of Humor” so they could award it to each of those brave and FUnnie men & women.

[Paul Heinzman]

Now would be a good time to pull it back out and make it ALL about Rush, and look for a publication people (besides academics) read.

I'll bet if you sent it to Rush, he'd read it on air. Guaranteed to get laughs.