Is Limbaugh still Relevant?
I am not a daily three hour listener because I (yuk) work. However, I do listen to him in the car a few times per week for thirty seconds to fifteen minutes at a time. I find that over the past year my listening time is almost always of the thirty second variety and not the fifteen minute one. Why? He has become boring. And worse, he is not plugged into the world as I see it. His audience is a bunch of old farts who don't (or can't) work, people living in the past and dying in the present.
The stuff he talks about has no effect. The average guy is not going through life concerned about the evils of every liberal idea on the planet. Nor are we concerned about budget deficits. That is because the Republicans took over and spent our money like crazy, leaving us with nowhere to turn for any fiscal discipline.
Limbaugh, like the Republican Party, is now a negative. He is trying to stop Hillary, reduce her husband to dust, attack every liberal case while offering nothing constructive to replace them. Conservative legislators have proven one thing: that they are liars.
Self reliance? In the face of massive corporate welfare schemes? In the snoot of every phony non-profit tax evasion scheme ever devised? While corrupt bank loans may be wrecking the economy? While corporate failures "retire" with hundred million dollar severance payments? While business failures (movies, TV, auto companies etc.) collect raises while I get fired for failing to achieve quota? For people like Keith Olberman to be paid two million per while possessing last place on the last place TV Network? While the the best computer programmer in America is losing work to India where the pay is barely equal a living wage here? While political corruption at every level saps our strength? While college tuitions soar and free loading professors get paid $200k for not teaching? And for an all time disgusting example go to this link at Dirty Harry's referred to above; you will puke.
Limbaugh bores me because he fails to address the things I see in our country and economy. In fact the entire Right talk radio is in a time warp. Hannity is simplistic, communicating with zoo residents. I never ever listen to any of the rest because they are talking about stuff that has no interest to me and will not affect our economy in any way.
In other words, talk radio in general has become hot air and I'm not moved by it or by their practitioners any more.
In spite of the above I am supportive of Michael Savage's suit against CAIR; almost all the activities and crusades of David Horowitz at Front Page; the work of Emerson, Pipes and others involved in fighting militant Islam.
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Most radio talk show hosts who have achieved a certain amount of success become disconnected from their audience, even (or especially) Limbaugh. Grassroots Republicans are hopping mad about illegal immigration, and what does Limbaugh talk about? Golf. And when he does finally get around to talking immigration, it's only in the context of what it's going to do to the GOP. I guess what it's doing to the country isn't as important.
But Limbaugh is not the only offender among so-called "conservative" hosts. Hannity is a one trick pony. Prager is a pompous blowhard. Ditto for Medved. At least Savage displays some tongue-in-cheek qualities, as if he knows his show is over-the-top, and he knows his audience enjoys it.
I stopped listening to Rush a few years ago. He's got the same schtik that just repeats over and over. Part of the problem is he's not as interested in criticizing Republicans, so where they're in power he doesn't have much.
If we get a Democratic president later this year I think his show will improve tremendously.
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