Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

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  • Boater14
    Banned
    • Sep 2011
    • 2896

    #31
    Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

    Thats just stupid. Can you envision Matthews calling someone a slut, prostitute or playing Barack the magic negro on his show?

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    • David G
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2003
      • 89764

      #32
      Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

      Originally posted by Paul Pless
      Just from what I've read here on the forum, I'd say its mostly enraged pinko wannabes. . .

      I can't think of a single conservative that I respect that has posted a thread or link that originated with praise for Limbaugh.
      Originally posted by BrianW
      Oh. As to the original question, which was actually less a question, and more a lead in to some hind sight benefited and slightly inaccurate boasting...

      The only people I know who listen to Rush, are liberals.
      OK - I've heard this enough times now that I have to call bs. Most of the conservatives here seem to regard me as a liberal. I have a wide variety of liberal and conservative friends. The only time I've listened to Rush with any regularity was when I used to carpool with a conservative buddy. When he drove - it was on. In fact - just anecdotally - I have to say that the only people I've ever seen listen to Rush regularly are conservatives. I don't know a liberal who does.
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      • Chip-skiff
        Wolves Without Borders
        • Jan 2008
        • 22781

        #33
        Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

        I'll not engage in a point-by-point pissing match. Sorry, but it's a waste of time, and tedious as well.

        I did read all your comments, and I honestly don't care whether you agree with me or not. Why are you driven to force some sort of agreement on my part? What's next, fire and the sword?

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        • ILikeRust
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2008
          • 1842

          #34
          Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

          Originally posted by Boater14
          Thats just stupid. Can you envision Matthews calling someone a slut, prostitute or playing Barack the magic negro on his show?
          1. See the video clip directly above, in which Ed Schultz, liberal commentator on MSNBC did exactly that - called right-wing commentator Laura Ingraham a slut - twice. As for offensively misgynistic statements made by Keith Olbermann and - yes - Chris Mathews, read this. See, this is what's known as "an inconvenient truth" - i.e., that your vaunted left-wing commentators are just as adept as their right-wing counterparts at uttering stupid and offensive things in the heat of their polemics.

          2. The term "magic negro" as applied to Barack Obama, did not originate with Rush Limbaugh. He was making fun of the term, which originated in the notoriously right-wing editorial page of the L.A. Times (this is sarcasm, BTW - the L.A. Times is about as right wing as the NY Times). See here.
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          • ILikeRust
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2008
            • 1842

            #35
            Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

            Originally posted by Chip-skiff
            I'll not engage in a point-by-point pissing match. Sorry, but it's a waste of time, and tedious as well.

            I did read all your comments, and I honestly don't care whether you agree with me or not. Why are you driven to force some sort of agreement on my part? What's next, fire and the sword?
            Hey, you're free to disagree, that's fine. I'm not going to call you stupid or ignorant just because you hold opinions different than mine. I'm just highlighting the disingenuousness and hypocrisy that is so rank here. A lot of people are arguing that the conservatives are all misogynists and racists and stupid and ignorant and hateful, blah, blah, blah - and seemingly implying - and in one case, outright stating - that their left-wing counterparts never would stoop to such things.

            And yet the objective facts clearly indicate otherwise.
            - Bill T.
            - Ashland, VA

            Motorcycles or sailboat; either way I'll be camping.

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            • LeeG
              Senior Member
              • May 2002
              • 72803

              #36
              Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

              Originally posted by ILikeRust
              Translation: yes, it is perfectly acceptable to refer to conservative women as c*nts and bitches, but incredibly offensive and outrageous to use any misogynistic or denigrating term towards a liberal woman.

              OK, thanks for the clarification.
              Ann Coulter is not a synonym for conservative women.

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              • BrianW
                not your average member
                • Nov 2002
                • 28191

                #37
                Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                Oh. As to the original question, which was actually less a question, and more a lead in to some hind sight benefited and slightly inaccurate boasting...

                The only people I know who listen to Rush, are liberals.
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                • Phillip Allen
                  new member
                  • May 2002
                  • 63618

                  #38
                  Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                  Originally posted by BrianW
                  Oh. As to the original question, which was actually less a question, and more a lead in to some hind sight benefited and slightly inaccurate boasting...

                  The only people I know who listen to Rush, are liberals.


                  and generally bilge rat liberals at that... it's been pointed out many times
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                  • Concordia 33
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2007
                    • 2815

                    #39
                    Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                    Originally posted by ILikeRust
                    Translation: yes, it is perfectly acceptable to refer to conservative women as c*nts and bitches, but incredibly offensive and outrageous to use any misogynistic or denigrating term towards a liberal woman.

                    OK, thanks for the clarification.
                    To which LeeG says.........

                    Originally posted by LeeG
                    Ann Coulter is not a synonym for conservative women.
                    That is exactly the kind of offensive language that I am referring to - how is that ever OK?
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                    • Dan McCosh
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2001
                      • 16375

                      #40
                      Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                      Originally posted by ILikeRust
                      Translation: yes, it is perfectly acceptable to refer to conservative women as c*nts and bitches, but incredibly offensive and outrageous to use any misogynistic or denigrating term towards a liberal woman.

                      OK, thanks for the clarification.
                      You might look up libel per se and you would understand the issue with Limbaugh's remarks, compared to what amounts to insulting language directed towards a public figure.

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                      • ILikeRust
                        Senior Member
                        • Dec 2008
                        • 1842

                        #41
                        Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                        Originally posted by LeeG
                        Ann Coulter is not a synonym for conservative women.
                        You're the first to mention Ann Coulter anywhere on this thread, so I don't get your point. Although I get a sense it was meant to be some kind of snark.
                        - Bill T.
                        - Ashland, VA

                        Motorcycles or sailboat; either way I'll be camping.

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                        • ILikeRust
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2008
                          • 1842

                          #42
                          Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                          Originally posted by Dan McCosh
                          You might look up libel per se and you would understand the issue with Limbaugh's remarks, compared to what amounts to insulting language directed towards a public figure.
                          Yeah, I'm pretty familiar with what libel and slander mean - we covered them in first-year torts class. Query whether putting yourself out there as an active advocate on a major public policy issue and testifying before Congress makes you a "public figure."

                          Also, this is a dodge from the original point. The fact that someone might actually be a "public figure" - e.g., let's say Laura Ingraham is - does that make it perfectly acceptable to call her a "slut"? Really? That's the distinction? Ed Schultz called her that evidently merely because she's a right-winger.

                          The cognitive dissonance here is pretty impressive. There's a huge double standard staring everyone directly in the face, and several here are pedaling like mad to rationalize it away.
                          - Bill T.
                          - Ashland, VA

                          Motorcycles or sailboat; either way I'll be camping.

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                          • Flying Orca
                            Ruth, feck, and gorm
                            • Jan 2007
                            • 21319

                            #43
                            Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                            I would like to go on record as saying that it is completely unacceptable and utterly deplorable to attack right-wing women for their looks, their ages, their sexuality, or anything else that is unrelated to the job they do or aspire to.

                            It's also unnecessary, given the wealth of legitimate criticism they make available through their own words, their ideas (ownership questionable), and their intelligence or lack thereof.

                            What are you doing about it?



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                            • Concordia 33
                              Senior Member
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 2815

                              #44
                              Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                              Originally posted by Dan McCosh
                              You might look up libel per se and you would understand the issue with Limbaugh's remarks, compared to what amounts to insulting language directed towards a public figure.
                              Actually given her public testimony before a Democratic House Committee on TV, she would likely be classified as a public figure and not subject to the libel issue. She has also been on the View and other public arenas. She could certainly sue Rush but would not likely get much traction in court.

                              More importantly, how is either any less or more civil?
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                              • Concordia 33
                                Senior Member
                                • Aug 2007
                                • 2815

                                #45
                                Re: Who makes up Limbaugh's audience?

                                Originally posted by Flying Orca
                                I would like to go on record as saying that it is completely unacceptable and utterly deplorable to attack right-wing women for their looks, their ages, their sexuality, or anything else that is unrelated to the job they do or aspire to.

                                It's also unnecessary, given the wealth of legitimate criticism they make available through their own words, their ideas (ownership questionable), and their intelligence or lack thereof.

                                So it sounds like you are in the group that is outraged at the things Rush said while full of moral confidence that your attacks on conservative women "and their intelligence or lack thereof" are civil and justified?
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