Why libs will never have a Rush Limbaugh

Jewish World Review ^ | 1/9/03 | Marianne M. Jennings

[Mark]

But, But....D.U. gots gold stars on their site!(/sarcasm)

[Buckeye Bomber]

Excellent point. Big government is bad, small government good. Who honestly wants the government to have more control over our lives? Well, the Welfare liberals do it seems.

I always post this when I see it happen. Why do we need to use these idiotic names for anyone (Fool Dumbahue, Dumbocrats, Hitlery, etc...)? I mean, honestly, we know you disagree with their policies. So-called witty names have no place in intelligent political discussions. That's my only problem with talk radio. Those names are thrown about like they're so very funny, when in reality, they're just dumb.

[Mark]

When we no longer have liberals to kick around anymore, we no longer have FUN! I mean, what's the use of living anymore?

[Buckeye Bomber]

I say, kick em around all you want. Put adjectives before their names. There are many good adjectives in the English language to describe the democratic party and its policies. Use those, not some dumb name. :-)

[Lady Heron]

Why do we need to use these idiotic names for anyone (Fool Dumbahue, Dumbocrats, Hitlery, etc...)? I mean, honestly, we know you disagree with their policies. So-called witty names have no place in intelligent political discussions. That's my only problem with talk radio.

Because if you say it enough times it begins to stick in the publics mind. Think of what they call Republicans every night on the nightly news. Uneducated, racist,gun nut, right wing, homophobic, hate filled, heterosexual, K-Mart shopping, Bible Toting, conservative, Evangelical, Christian Taliban, anti choice, Nazi! Lets not forget the "angry white male" or the "vast right wing conspiracy". I much more of a problem with the "main stream news media".

Politics have never been a gentlemans sport

[Polycarp]

What about Doug Steffan ?

I just sent a nastygram to my local talk radio station programming director in protest against the Doug Steffan show. Here was his response:

...good news for you and many others who won't tune in until after the 6-9 Doug Steffan show. A change is coming. Very soon, in fact. It will focus on local, national issues along with current events. Strangely, this area...democrats outnumber the republicans by a 2-1 margin. This program on from 6-9 is centered around liberals-yet no one wants to hear it. I think it is humorous.

Morning programming is, to be frank, a real bitch to find. Our hands were tied when Imus was forced off the air.

Imus cost us monthly $1,600. His numbers were slipping and advertisers were not buying. So we were spending that much and not even hitting half of the costs to run the program.

Rush, Sean Hannity and everyone else on our station cost absolutely nothing to air their programs. We stuck with Imus as long as we could..but the boat was nearly sunk when we pulled the plug.

[1rudeboy]

Why do we need to use these idiotic names for anyone (Fool Dumbahue, Dumbocrats, Hitlery, etc...)?

Hear, hear. The sobriquets for Sen. Daschle bother me the worst. Like anybody here needs to be reminded who (or what) he is.

[Texas Eagle]

Those names are thrown about like they're so very funny, when in reality, they're just dumb

I've never heard a radio host use names like Fool Dumbahue, Dumbocrats and Hitlery. Those are all names I've only seen used by FReepers.

Here are some funny names I have heard radio hosts call Libs and other RATS, though:

Tom "Puff" Daschle

El Loco Poco Dicko

Algore

Grayout Davis

Gray Doofus

Gay Davis

Patsy "The Squint-Eyed" Schroeder (a blast from the past that still brings a smile to my face)

Calypso Louie

Serpenthead

The Forehead

[Buckeye Bomber]

I do like "Algore". I will tolerate that one. It's dumb, but at least it doesn't involve something stupid.

Gay Davis? Now there's a good one. I'm not actually asking for political correctness, but maybe if there weren't so many homophobic people in the Republican party, the Democrats would stop calling us homophobes. Well, knowing their modus operandi, they probably wouldn't, but even so, homophobia can't be good for a party that wants the government off of our backs.

[fight_truth_decay]

Chuck Adler, of WRKO in Boston, remarked that "conservatives more easily relate to the values of middle-class listeners. Liberals feel superior to working families. Conservative talk-show hosts champion the values liberals disdain, like the work ethic—work hard and you’ll get ahead."

[fight_truth_decay]

Rush completely spoils the fantasy that the Liberals try to project in dominating the mainstream media.

[driftless]

To be a liberal today you have to believe, against all evidence, that most Americans are starving in squalid lean-tos eating scraps of food thrown out of their SUVs by disgustingly rich and wasteful environment -polluting Republicans. You have to believe that the Klan, actually every white Southerner and most Republicans wherever they are, still lynches Blacks and other minorities by the thousands yearly. You have to believe that every last wild tree has been cut down and that all the wilderness has been paved over for corporate parking lots. You have to believe that all men, when they are not sexually assaulting women, are making them have babies while cleaning the house (excuse me lean-to) and cooking the meager fare they've got because the nasty Republicans ate most of the food. Liberals think all conservatives are armed to the teeth with guns that go off by themselves and make normally peaceful persons crazed killers by the mere possession of a firearm. Naturally the nasty white Republicans got to the big pile of money that was just lying there first and took the lions share without working a day in their lives. Republicans are itching to start wars and invade peaceful countries full of non-violent and humane rulers like Saddam Hussein.

To be a liberal today is to be at war with reality and logic. If you think I'm making these generalities up, just visit some of the Democratic websites like DU and others.

[motzman]

C'mon...tell me you didn't laugh the first time you heard "Hildabeast".

[Fiddlstix]

Good Post

[motzman]

Mario Cuomo is a far greater talent than Limbaugh

Wha..Wha..WHAT!

[Joe_October]

....Mario Cuomo is a far greater talent than Limbaugh ...
I respectfully and fully disagree with your statment. Rush is good because his message is good but also because he takes his craft seriously. He knows every detail of his business and has the inspiration and drive to succeed. Who else could carry on a talk radio probgram for months without the ability to hear!!!?

Rush is one of the few that could do the program as a liberal and still succeed. His talent and ability would make up for the shallow message.

[arthurus]

They need to stuff the Nielsen ratings ballot box and pretend there really are lots of liberals out there. Sheesh.

An excellent plan! They would be burning up money that would otherwise go toward buying and litigating elections and they would be heard by no one.

[The Wizard]

great piece

[altair]

Nope.

[lainie]

Good post!

It seems to me there won't be a liberal Rush, and I have evidence to support my theory. The sneaky evidence is the fact that there isn't one. If one could do what he does, one would be doing what he does. The market won't sustain it, for reasons that have been gone over and over.

It's not like it hasn't been tried, right? There's nothing stopping anyone from taking the red flag and waving it.