I’ve been listening to Rush, off and on, for some 22 years or so, ever since my bride told me that some guy had been on Sixty Minutes and he said the things I had been saying for years. So, of course, I sent for the transcript to find out who this alter ego of mine was all about. I discovered the bride was right.
I don’t listen for all 3 hours of his syndicated broadcast; some days I don’t listen at all and on others I catch him for just 5 or 10 minutes but, with few exceptions, I usually agree with what he says.
I refuse to subscribe to his Rush 24/7 service, however, primarily because I have enough to do and also because I think he’s an unashamedly greedy SOB. When he hid his severe hearing loss before landing his first hundred million dollar contract back in 2002, ($285,000,000, to be precise), I thought that he had pulled off a gem of deception. Now, cochlear implants in place, he has been rewarded by Clear Channel Communications with a fabulous, new eight year deal for $400,000,000 over the next 8 years. (http://www.theledger.com/article/20080703/ZNYT01/807030570/-1/news36&title=A_Lucrative_Deal_for_Limbaugh)
I congratulate him. I think he’s worth every buck as the premier voice of conservative thought, despite his greed. What I don’t get is why he doesn’t get the point that there must be millions of his loyal 22,000,000 listeners who maybe can’t afford the subscription cost of Rush 24/7: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html.
Charging for those extra internet tidbits in view of the fact it was his loyal fans who made him, probably, a billionaire or close to it by now, is not only unconscionable but it reinforces the leftist drivel of rapacious righties.
I’ll still listen to his show when I can since, as I say, he may be a bombastic–and avaricious–blowhard but he’s Our bombastic, avaricious blowhard and America needs him but the man needs some perspective!
Even those people in Rio Linda know that.