Limbaugh's school of hard knocks for other guys

Palm Beach Post ^ | Sunday, May 9, 2004 | Frank Cerabino

[Torie]

Rush is a very bright, articulate, informed, but swallow man, of limited wisdom, who panders to his audience for ratings. The man has no depth. He bores the hell out of me.

[wagglebee]

Yeah, having Rush in the bastion of ultraleft, but too stupid to read a ballot south Florida really burns these Palm Beach Post elitists.

[tbird5]

"He bores the hell out of me"

Then don't listen to him.

[Pukin Dog]

Is there a post on Rush Limbaugh that does NOT feature your negative opinion? Who asked you?

[GreatOne]

I've been listening to Rush since about 1990, and was really surprised at his comments about this. There is absolutley no defense for what occurred there. I can understand "softening them up" for interrogation, but making these prisoners strip and then stacking them up, with these military personnel posing like idiots is way, way, way, over the line. These are the type of statements that Rush has been able to avoid making over his years, because they do damage to his credibility at being simply an administration shill, instead of a conservative commentator.

[Texas Eagle]

All those naked Iraqis must be guilty of something, right? There can't be any innocent civilians rounded up by overzealous authorities. That never happens.

Ahhhhhh.....the author finally reveals his true anti-American colors.

[holdonnow]

I guess the 21 million who listen to him are just stupid, and you're smarter than the rest of us. The Palm Beach Post defended Clinton and his crimes, they love Kennedy despite his Oldsmobile accident ... I detest you libs.

[quidnunc]

Rush is a very good communicator and is very entertaining, but he's no intellectual, that's for sure.

[jla]

Rush is a very bright, articulate, informed, but swallow man, of limited wisdom, who panders to his audience for ratings

Anyone besides me see anything contradictory about this statement?

[Torie]

I have not to my best recollection, opined on Rush previously. If I have, it was a long time ago. I have previously dumped on Sean and O'Reilly though. Cheers.

[Torie]

I don't much anymore, actually.

[wagglebee]

Don't forget William Kennedy Smith, they were all over the woman he raped back in 91.

[Anti-Bush Hater]

First of all they are clearly taken out of context.

He was talking about the photos of a pile ofIraqi prisoners huddled on one another. This before the allegations(probably false because they come Batthist terrorist and other prisoner types)of rape and stuff came out.

What he said looked true from the pictures first released.

Prankish and not really that inflammatory.

[Voice in your head]

This story was publicized in the Army Times back in January or February. It has been investigated since January and criminal charges have been in the works. The release of these pictures (aka evidence) did not expose this story, rather it just changed it. This was being handled by the appropriate authorities in the appropriate manner, until some treasonous piece of feces leaked the photos to the press. Now, the Arab world can hold up a picture for their illiterate masses of puppets to look at in horror and outrage. The scum who leaked these pictures to the press should be fed alive to wild dogs. The slime at CBS should be crucified. Other than that, I have no strong opinions on this topic.

[Texas Eagle]

....but he's no intellectual, that's for sure.

Thank God. I believe it was William F. Buckley who said: "I'd rather be governed by the first 500 names in the Boston phone book than by the entire staff and faculty of Harvard."

[new cruelty]

swallow man

I am sure you meant 'shallow' man.

[holdonnow]

Rush didn't defend this, he said this has been taken completely out of context, and he's right. The same people who opposed us liberating 25 million Iraqis, who barely say a word about the mass graves, are now offended by this. Don't be a dupe.

[mcenedo]

Most reasonable people expressed disgust by the sight of the bound, nude, hooded men in American custody being forced to degrade themselves sexually.

And Limbaugh surely would have, too, if it had been under the previous administration.

If it had been under the previous administration, the situation would have been reversed (think Sudan) and the previous administration would never put terrorists that murdered Americans, under arrest.

[blarneystone]

I've been a listener for many years too. He's fun to listen to...but he was wrong to come across as defending those actions. Now that the Washington Post is reporting some pictures and videotape involving rape, how is he going to defend that?