What do you guys think of Rush Limbaugh?

Question

If it's not too personal, state whether you're more liberal, conservative or centrist. And let us know what you think of Mr. Limbaugh.

Answer 1

Anyone who listens to him in the fashion of gathering information is being taken for a long ride. I have never heard so many lies in 3 hours of radio in my life. I turn him on when I want to laugh.

Answer 2

I am more conservative leaning- I think Rush is a great entertainer. He revolutionized talk radio and made it what it is today- that can't be disputed. However, I don't like when a republican does something wrong and he becomes an apologist for them. If they're wrong-- they're wrong. They are no better than democrats sometimes and I think his allegiance blinds him to that fact.
His political predictions are right on though. Uncanny how he seems to know what the next 'big debate' will be and how it's going to play out. I know he has made friends in Washington so he must get insider info. He's great for that!
Overall I'd have to say I like the guy and can even overlook some of his faults-- we all have them. Just wish he'd be a little more 'tough love' when a republican screws up.
Have a great day!!!

Answer 3

I'm rather conservative myself, though I'd say socially moderate. I've listened to him off and on over the years, and I think he's very entertaining. Hard to say he isn't, considering that he's had the top talk radio show for a long time.

He makes some good points, but some of them are spun enough to make you dizzy. I think it's mainly because of him that people misunderstand the terms "liberal" and "conservative", with his "Conservative = good, Liberal = bad" mentality.

It can be interesting to listen to him, if you don't take him too seriously. He's like the radio version of National Review or the Weekly Standard - worth the occasional listen, but if it's your only source of news, God help you.

Answer 4

I think I'm basically a centrist - registered Republican. Rush can often be right - and I thought a lot more of him 10 years ago - but now I'm getting very sick and tired of his self-promotion and failure to admit to, and, more importantly, take responsibility for, his legal difficulties. He just avoids it - he should wind up in jail THIS time. If he were some kid from the South Bronx he would have been in State Prison the FIRST time.
He's also extraordinarily rude to those who do not agree with him 100%. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and he has no right to make them feel so small simply because they do not agree with the Mighty Rush.
If I would bother to listen to his entire program, I bet over 1/3 of it is advertising of one sort or another. I'm sick of his self-promotion, this from a drug addict!!
I no longer listen to him AT ALL - if I can help it. It's often on the radio at my mother's "Assisted Living Facility" and I can't avoid it. I think those folks are all the audience he has left.

Answer 5

Conservative. I don't mind Rush Limbaugh, but can't listen to him very long. I realize his constant self-promotion and extreme partisanship is part of his "performance", but it gets tiresome nontheless. Regardless, he is right about a lot of things and most of the information (not opinion) that he provides is accurate. You just have to separate the nonsense from the meaningful content.

Answer 6

Centrist, I put him in the same class as Michael Moore. Too far to the extreme to be listened to by people of average or above common sense. Notice I didn't say intelligence. We're listening to too many intelligent idiots! They have the solutions to everything but lack the common sense to know who to put the solutions in to practice.

Answer 7

I judge people by the person, so I have no leanings.
I have ideals that are strongly portrayed on both sides of this political fence.

Mr. Limbaugh said that his show is for entertainment purposes only.
I think people take it as a newscast, rather then the entertainment that he is providing.
Limbaugh is sponsered by a political party.
He is an entertaining infomerical, with a limited scope.
A whole lot of spin and not a lot of geniune regard for the full picture of the subject being introduced.
He should be on the comedy channel as Jon Stewart is.

Answer 8

I agree with DeeJay. When I want a laugh, I listen, but can only stand about an hour of it. I love it when he starts stammering and "snaps" the papers.

I'm centrist. I wish they'd do away with all political parties.

Answer 9

i assumed it grow to be somewhat humorous. i have self assurance it also despatched a needed message that we should not be so reactionary and function a more effective common debate about the topic matters, a criticism of both cutting-aspect conservatives and liberals. I accept as true with the anti-institution flow that we opt to get the crooks out of Congress, yet i have self assurance our political divisiveness will in uncomplicated words replace them with new crooks. we are so in touch with choosing and protecting our area that we are not be careful adequate with who we enable signify us.

Answer 10

He's a little too much of a blowhard for my taste. He's entertaining and amusing at times, but too often he sounds like he's in love with this own voice. I have the same opinion of O'Rielly.

I'm conservative. I prefer to listen to the more reasonable conservative pundits, like Bill Bennett or Michael Medved, when I do listen to conservative talk radio.

The biggest problem with conservative talk radio is that they take a lot of commercial breaks, for which they earn a lot of money. But it makes it hard to listen to (I switch stations when commercials come on).

Answer 11

I've heard his show often, watched it when it was on TV. He's a typical arrogant, hypocritical, demagogical, narrow-minded blow hard. He makes a living 'preaching to the choir'. He never says anything that would ever change the mind of anyone that didn't already think that way. He blusters and bluffs in front of poeple who cheer him on, but he's scared to death of a real debate. If you ever see him in an interview or discourse with a person of intellect, he's timid as a mouse. He's a pedestrian joke, nothing special.