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Rush Limbaugh Is Just Getting Started
NY Times Magazine ^ | 03 July 2008 | Zev Chafets

Posted on 07/03/2008 5:23:25 AM PDT by txradioguy

THE ATMOSPHERE in the studio on the morning after our dinner at Trevini was relaxed, even festive. When I arrived around 11, Limbaugh was at his computer, wearing shorts and doing prep.

Augusto, his personal chef, was there, preparing lunch, signaling an occasion. Limbaugh skipped the meal, explaining that he doesn’t eat close to show time for reasons of “burp prevention.” Snerdly, Dawn and the engineer joined me in the dining room, which looks as if it were decorated by Nancy Reagan’s fussy aunt.

Limbaugh’s program that day was, as usual, a virtuoso performance. He took a few calls, but mostly he delivered a series of monologues on political and cultural topics. Limbaugh works extemporaneously. He has no writers or script, just notes and a producer on the line from New York with occasional bits of information. That day, and every day, he produced 10,000 words of fluent, often clever political talk.

There was nothing he said that was startling — he spent parts of the show mocking Obama’s “change” mantra and excoriating those who believe in global warming and talking about foreign affairs. But if you think it is easy turning ancient Greenland, the influence of the teachers’ unions or changes in E.U. foreign policy into polemical comedy that will hold an audience for three hours — try it for 15 minutes at your next cocktail party.

Limbaugh entertains, but he also instructs. He provides his listeners with news and views they can use, and he teaches them how to employ it. “Rush is an intellectual-force multiplier,” Rove told me. “His listeners are, themselves, communicators.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eib; elrushbo; maharushie; rushlimbaugh
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To: txradioguy

Yeah, he’s doing the same thing on all his website photos, and in the dozens of other such photos.


21 posted on 07/03/2008 5:55:09 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: Dick Bachert

I can’t see Pinch being too happy about this.

Which is a good thing BTW. :)


22 posted on 07/03/2008 5:55:15 AM PDT by txradioguy (Welcome Home Delta Company 3rd US INF The Old Guard Job Well Done!)
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To: Mr. Pumblechook

Rush, as I see it, is sticking his cigar in the face of the Nanny State and THAT, my friends, is cool.


23 posted on 07/03/2008 5:56:22 AM PDT by littlehouse36 (This adjustable font brought to you by the free market.)
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To: Mr. Pumblechook

Of all the things in the world to get your panties in a wad, you worry about people showing off with cigars? Yea, my only problem is I don’t understand you.


24 posted on 07/03/2008 5:56:27 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: OldSmaj

Yeah, I need to go to du cause I don’t like Rush.


25 posted on 07/03/2008 5:56:28 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: Mr. Pumblechook

Then leave it at that.

Like someone just said above...sometimes a Cigar really IS just a smoke.

Go call Cigar Dave and complain to him.

Otheriwise it looks to folks like you just came here to bash Rush.


26 posted on 07/03/2008 5:57:09 AM PDT by txradioguy (Welcome Home Delta Company 3rd US INF The Old Guard Job Well Done!)
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To: eddie willers

And sometimes, it is not.


27 posted on 07/03/2008 5:57:17 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: littlehouse36

Funny how he started when CA mag hit the stands.


28 posted on 07/03/2008 5:58:27 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: caver

Of all the things to get your panties in a wad, you worry about me worrying about somebody showing off.


29 posted on 07/03/2008 6:00:10 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: Mr. Pumblechook; Admin Moderator

Look...either find something constructive to say about the article or leave.

I’m tired of you trashing up my OP with your insepid raving about Rush Smoking Cigars.

Go read the damn article and THEN get back to us.

Ok?


30 posted on 07/03/2008 6:00:40 AM PDT by txradioguy (Welcome Home Delta Company 3rd US INF The Old Guard Job Well Done!)
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To: Mr. Pumblechook
A life.

Get one.

FAST!

31 posted on 07/03/2008 6:01:13 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: txradioguy

Yeah, you post something and I have to respond to it in a way that you approve.


32 posted on 07/03/2008 6:01:42 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: OldSmaj
I nominate this for the dumbest, most meaningless statement to be made on FR in quite a while.

I second the motion. What a maroon!

33 posted on 07/03/2008 6:01:42 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Mr. Pumblechook
Don’t like phony cigar smokers like Bill Clinton and Rush ...who started publicly puffing away the minute Cigar Afficionado hit the stands.

Rush was a cigar smoker long before he was featured on their cover in the spring of 94. In fact, one could argue that his on air discussion of that issue probably gave more free advertisement and subsequent subscriber enrollment than at any other time in the history of that publication......

36 posted on 07/03/2008 6:03:26 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mr. Pumblechook

“Yeah, you post something and I have to respond to it in a way that you approve.”

I posted a link to a 9 page article on Rush that will appear in the Sunday NY Times magazine.

And instead of having anything useful or constructive to say about the article itself...YOU have to go off on some hairbrained tangent about the pictures take of him SMOKING A DAMN CIGAR!

You didn’t post “something”...you posted (censored)


37 posted on 07/03/2008 6:03:56 AM PDT by txradioguy (Welcome Home Delta Company 3rd US INF The Old Guard Job Well Done!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

He started smoking AFTER CA hit the stands, just like the zillions of others.


38 posted on 07/03/2008 6:04:21 AM PDT by Mr. Pumblechook
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To: ozzie

As a football fan who follows the Philadelphia Eagles a bit, I was disappointed that the Times ignored Rush’s short stint on ESPN when he spoke the unspeakable: “(Philadelphia quarterback McNabb is) “overrated ... what we have here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well—black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well.”

All three points true, but none of them what ESPN wants us to hear on their shows. Rush resigned from ESPN shortly thereafter.


39 posted on 07/03/2008 6:04:40 AM PDT by flowerplough (Fred: Men are happy for men to be men and women to be women; women want us all to be women.)
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To: Mr. Pumblechook

At least you admitted in post 25 that you are a Rush hater. That’s all I need to know.


40 posted on 07/03/2008 6:06:20 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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