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dcnovice -> RE: The Voice of American Conservatism? (3/2/2012 7:34:18 PM)
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Hi, DC.
Hi, back! Hope life is treating you well.
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First off, this young woman is entitled all the same protections and respect for her character that Joe the Plumber got a few years back. Tough shit, to anybody who didn't whine when the bar got lowered to where it is, and doesn't like it now. Tougher shit to those who joined that party, and will now shriek and wail on her behalf, this time.
My memory of Joe the Plumber is hazy (I never gave him much mind, I must admit), though I did just read his Wikipedia profile. It sounds like there were some questions raised about his plumbing license and back taxes. But was there anything akin to his being called a "slut" or "prostitute"?
In any case, I've never found the "But they did it first!" argument particularly compelling, particularly since one can trace political invective back to the start of the republic.
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Who does Rush Limbaugh speak to? People in their cars, mostly. His job is to say anything that will keep them listening, loving him or hating him, or just chuckling a little at his jokes and song parodies, until the next ad for the Sleep Number Bed. Howard Stern has bragged that the people who hate him listen longer than anybody else, and I suspect Rush understands that formula very, very well.
On my last job, I was at the wheel anywhere from 9-17 hours a day, and I prefer regular installments of news and traffic reports to the greatest hits of the Carter administration, played over and over, that passed for a midday playlist on the classic rock stations I could get. (The repetition was even worse on the small market, modern rock station.) His show tends to be on the big, powerhouse AM stations that provide a strong, steady signal over hundreds of miles, and, around here, will penetrate the mountains and canyons of Southern California. Sometimes, he was all I could get. I hate country music, generally don't give the slightest shit about sports, and don't habla Espanol. Of my typically limited options, he was the most entertaining, so I had him on the radio for his whole show, most days. That followed either Stern, if I could get him, or Handel, who precedes Rush around here on the big AM. I'd always give Air America a chance, when I could pick up the signal, but then Al Franken would go with a schtick where he just sat on a dead mike, because he was watching the world series, or droned in a boring, ad-libbed, monotone monologue, and that would be the end of that. Rush understands his medium, and he's good at his job. That, more than anything about his political views, is why he enjoys the success he does.
Thanks for the firsthand perspective! I've never been a big radio listener.
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Who does he speak for? Himself. If the "dittoheads" and dumbasses who buy his merchandise and think he's special want to come along for the ride, I'm sure they are welcome to help finance his lifestyle.
What do you think of hs keynoting at CPAC in 2009? Would you see that as some sort of "establishment" endorsement?
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