I used to listen to Rush, quite a bit a few years back...
At the time, I was "feeling" down and I needed to hear, someone, ANYONE, that could console my soul without drugs (How ironic.), "shrinks" (I'm that tall, not that edumacated!
) or the usual amount of dispensation of my wealth to someone who was waiting for me to figure what my problem might be...
I found solace in Rush's words and works...
He was nailing the problem(s) "on the head" AND he was using humor to do it...
Yet, at the time, no one else was on the air doing the same thing...
Now, why should I expect CMAC2012, dculkins, RichC, Spamman450, tankdriver, 732002, or anyone else to like what Rush says or does? I don't expect that in the least...I'm interested in what makes me feel good...
Now, Al Franken decided he could write books and go on other "yak shows" to counter what he perceived as attacks on his "Holy Grail" of worship...leftist thinking and logic...
And the titles of BOTH books he ended up writing used his life's philosophy to its fullest...by personally attacking the subject and not the substance...he made some money, but not enough...once the substance was revealed within those pages, sales dwindled...
On to his next project...get some REALLY LIBERAL MONEY to back up Al's next plan - "AIR AMERICA" - Suck in the patriots with the word "AMERICA" in the title (Rush's show is using just HIS name - how "bloated" of an ego does that take? And it's so un-AMERICAN!) and spend HOURS tearing down the personalities of Conservatives and non-like thinkers and doers...
And, how well is that show doing today?
It ain't...
"AIR AMERICA" is now a piece of broadcast history and distant memories, almost like "Amos & Andy" - only more PC because a liberal thought it up.
But, Rush continues on...
Why?
Rush keeps his program going by staying fresh and attacking POLICIES THAT ARE FLAWED - WHETHER THEY BE LIBERAL, DEMOCRATIC, GREEN, REPUBLICAN OR TUTTY-FRUTTY...IT DOESN'T MATTER...IF IT STINKS AND THE PRESS AIN'T REPORTING IT...RUSH WILL DRAG IT OUT FROM UNDER THE ROCK WHERE IT GROWS AND HIT IT WITH THE LIGHT THAT THE DAMN THING FEARS...
And, if all that Rush is pulling out from under the rocks happens to be either Liberal, Democratic, Green or Tutty-Frutty, then THOSE FOLKS are going to feel threatened and offended. And occasionally, a Republican, or three, will get Rush's well-deserved "verbal boot" up their @55es as well.
In the meantime, "Where's Al?"
In Minnesota, where if Paul Wellstone could have done as well as he did, maybe he has a snow-ball's chance (God knows it's cold enough up this way!) to make it into Congress, where he can put on his "Don Quiote" (sp?) hat and cape and get Rush off the air and save AMERICA once again from the bane of DemoLibeReenTuFus around the nation. Harry Reid gave it his best and tried, but Al just knows that he will be able to do it better and this time, succeed!
NOT!
Now, Rush's analysis of any situation does have limits and he's smart enough to know when to quit, but he puts it out there, every broadcast day, for everyone to hear and analyze themselves.
He's not dictating policy from the microphone, he's lambasting it.
He's not passing laws that are short-sighted and ill-funded...he's pointing out the idiocy that passes those laws.
And...he's not above poking fun at himself, either.
But, I suppose that item is lost on the lost, because of themselves.
If you can't laugh at yourself, should you be laughing at others?
Just a "short" thought from a 65" tall (short) kinda' guy (At least the last time I looked!
)...