Thursday, August 02, 2007
Another Grim Milestone
Rush Limbaugh's radio show is celebrating its nineteenth birthday today. From The Corner:
More importantly, listeners get a daily dose of the unbridled optimism and humor that is such a big part of the host's makeup. I always enjoy listening to his irreverent lampooning of the Pelosis and Obamas of the world (perhaps that last should be singular; there can be only one Magic Negro) , and the self-puffery that he knows drives the idiots insane with monkey anger.
It's simple, really: Rush's so-called competition simply can't compete. Not for ideas, honesty, content, relevance, humor, ethics, intellectual rigor or professionalism. He just gets it all right, every day.
Whereas Air America has stolen from a New York children's charity just to remain in the business of paying unhappy people to tell me day after day how much they hate America, its President and half its people. Brilliant stuff if your audience is in Hamburg or Ottawa or Caracas, maybe; not so much in oh, say, the entire United States.
Congratulations, Rush, and please, carry on running the country.
He also does more for conservative ideas than he typically gets credit for. For all the good and important opeds and policy papers and congressional and academic debates, he’s the one bringing these ideas we’re hashing out to a heck of a lot of busy Americans who are never going to have the time to be refreshing The Corner or money to be going to Heritage Foundation seminars or have any idea what the American Enterprise Institute is. And he does it with clarity and compelling passion and style.It's truly a testament to Rush's brilliance and arrow-through-the-heart skewering of the left that they so badly want to just shut him up at any cost, even at the expense of the First Amendment. That they can't do it is proof that Rush has had an enormously positive effect on America's national dialogue.
More importantly, listeners get a daily dose of the unbridled optimism and humor that is such a big part of the host's makeup. I always enjoy listening to his irreverent lampooning of the Pelosis and Obamas of the world (perhaps that last should be singular; there can be only one Magic Negro) , and the self-puffery that he knows drives the idiots insane with monkey anger.
It's simple, really: Rush's so-called competition simply can't compete. Not for ideas, honesty, content, relevance, humor, ethics, intellectual rigor or professionalism. He just gets it all right, every day.
Whereas Air America has stolen from a New York children's charity just to remain in the business of paying unhappy people to tell me day after day how much they hate America, its President and half its people. Brilliant stuff if your audience is in Hamburg or Ottawa or Caracas, maybe; not so much in oh, say, the entire United States.
Congratulations, Rush, and please, carry on running the country.
