Why does Rush never use statistics and professional studies to make his "arguments"?

Question

Is it maybe that he can't read statistics, hasn't any data, and appeals to the crass and ignorant. Oh, I forgot, all math and statictics and professional studies have a liberal bias...you guys are so blind it is ludicrous

Answer 1

Maybe the actual numbers, without bias, do not support his arguments. After all, the man's a demagogue, and he's much more concerned with winning than with the effects that his victory might have on the rest of us.

Answer 2

Right on. I'm sure it's a combination. Rush didn't graduate from college. Did he make it past freshman year even?
I know he said he did well in government.

Rush does what any person could do. He knows what to say to appeal to the masses that probably don't have much of an education or "cheated" through college. I saw my share of cheaters. Unfortunately, I worked on a project with 2 of them. They didn't care because they were already hooked up with employment. Waited to the last minute, didn't know how to do research so I did it, and I'm sure they are Republicans because they are from the south. They were frat boys. I hated them. They told the professor that I didn't contribute that much. BS! I did the research and I showed them how to use powerpoint. I also found clever add-ins to make the presentation more lively. The only thing they contributed to was putting my work together. They did most of the presentation. It took them all of an hour to do that I'm sure because they had to keep running out for either cigarettes, a drink, or snacks. BS on the whole Republican thing.
They know how to cheat the system. (I am generalizing but I am really p'od because I work hard. I'm a liberal democrat. I haven't stopped studying since the day I graduated from college the first time. I haven't stopped working since I was 11 years old. I have never received government assistant. I grew up in an upper middle class family in a very rich town.)

Answer 3

i'd really take speech. I have taken Spanish (dos anos*) and Speech. I have also finished sculpting in paintings class and statistics in Algebra (both I and II). I even ought to say that I disliked speech a lot less. Speech, alongside with Spanish, are also the further functional of the alternative. *that extremely says anus, yet i could not locate the tilde to positioned over the n to make it recommend years

Answer 4

Rush Limbaugh does cite studies and statistics when he makes his points. The studies and statistics that he does cite agree with his point of view. All commentators worth their salt do this. Being liberal or consevative does not make any one set of statitics right or wrong. I do not always agree with Limbaugh, and in fact I rarely take his side. He is biased, yes. His bias is unabashedly right wing, but he does do his homework and he does cite real studies, by real professionals and real statistics, assuming that statistics are actually a real sort of thing.

Answer 5

Oh, he does! But he uses several sources and not just from the news. He consulted with several climatologists and was referred to many around the world that debunk Al Gores, "inconvenient truth." The leaders in climatology, I might add like the ones working for NASA, M.I.T., etc.
It seems more liberals than conservatives listen to him!

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Answer 6

When you grow up you might realize that relying on common sense is a good tool to use in making decisions. Looking at a situation from a teenager's perspective isn't going to furnish you with any usefull answers.

Answer 7

I haven't listened to him in 15 years, so I couldn't tell you what he does.

But why do Liberals feel that bashing Rush helps them politically? It makes you look intolerant of free speech, which only strengthens people like Rush. Furthermore, the majority of people who listen to Rush are already staunch Conservatives, so why bother?

Answer 8

Rush has been on the 'air' for I don't know how many yrs and you expect any one to agree with your statement??? If what you said was true he would have been off the 'air' yrs ago.

BTW that is what happened to Air America.

Answer 9

Repetition works better.

Edit: I looked on his site for how he treats statistics. He discussed a recent NY Times article on how the rich benefited the most from the Bush tax cuts.

First, he reads from the NY Times:

"Though tax cuts for the rich were bigger than those for other groups, the wealthiest families paid a bigger share of total taxes. That is because their incomes have climbed far more rapidly, and the gap between rich and poor has widened..."

Then he says:

It has not, and we had the story last week. The gap between rich and poor has remained statistic for a number of years. It's another myth that is out there. But so what if it has? When has it not? Where is the law that says the poor are supposed to be as rich as the rich? Would somebody give me that law of physics or economics or any other law? Somebody explain this to me. These are stupid presumptions made by a bunch of Marxist liberals, all for the purposes of exploiting class envy.
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Did you follow that?

Answer 10

Here's a point that you may have overlooked......if you don't like Limbaugh THEN DON'T LISTEN!
I will never understand people like you.
It isn't that hard to change the station, or maybe you're just waiting for the day when your LibDem heroes succeed in killing conservative radio with the so-called "fairness doctrine"?