Things I have learned from listening to Right Wing Talk Radio

I detect bias.

 

Facts have a liberal bias

 

"Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are all morons. This is why I vote liberal"
What happened to voting on a politician based on their substance instead of their party platform?

Everyone is socially conservative...until their rights to a wasteful lifestyle or their government subsidies get compromised, whether its tax breaks, direct contributions or indirect contributions.

Few were supportive of the post 911 secrecy programs. It was Obama who promised more transparency, but instead expanded these programs.

Its very common to ignore your teams faults and highlight the other teams downfalls. Americans are so polarized and the candidates in both parties are so much alike that I wonder why we bother having elections anymore. Our country would be better off if politicians were elected randomly than the people.

 

Another joke of a synopsis.

 

What happened to Republican politicians that they let the party platform and their substance be defined by Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck?

 

7) Obama hates freedom and america.

 

Here is my big conspiracy theory. Rush, Palin, and Fox are all acutally liberals crafted by the Liberals to make conservatives look insane.

I'm JK, but would be kinda funny!

 

What they say is actually ridiculous enough to believe they are actually trolling.

 

You didn't hear from me, but I heard from a very good source that Michael Berry is a moderate conservative and his show is an act. They say he is a nice and very reasonable guy...whatever gets you listeners/viewer. See: Skip Bayless

 

biased poster is biased

 

I don't agree with everything they said, but there is always a grain of truth in everything. One thing for sure though, I have never seen a country accommodate so much to their non citizens and people who doesn't work as the US and I think that is the cause of many resentment from the conservative.

 

bigtexxx post of the year

 

Confession: I really enjoyed listening to Rush Limbaugh during the Clinton years.

But after Bush was elected and Limbaugh defended the indefensible instead of going after him like he did Clinton, bye bye right-wing radio. His love affair with Newt Gingrich was disgusting.

 

Things I learned in the D&D: When unable to develop a rebuttal, deliberately misinterpret your opponent's position and argue against obvious misinterpretation. Maintain high level of smartassness throughout while insulting your opponent in a very dickish way, but not so blatantly that you can't later pretend you were never acting a dick. And, lastly, imply your opponent is a racist.

 

I don't doubt you've heard strawman arguments on talk radio. I was simply pointing out that it is common practice here as well.

Opponent was a lazy way of saying "the individual with whom you are currently disagreeing on said issue."

Of course I've never listened to that guy, and I never will.

 

So he's also gay?

 

I've listened to Limbaugh a lot over the years, and a bit here and there of some of the other Right-Wing talking radio heads, and what the OP said is dead center, right on target. It isn't bias, it's the truth. Rush used to be funny. Sometimes hilarious, but he's lost that humor over the last several years. I listened to him because he was funny, and it gave me a window into the thinking of the people he was primarily appealing to, the right-wing of his party. The more extreme his listeners and the party leadership seemed to get, the less funny Rush was.

You know what I think? He's in this largely for the money, he doesn't believe a great deal of what he says on air, and the more absurdly extreme that leadership and the minority in control have become, the more difficult it has been for him to maintain his sense of humor. He is easily the most influential of the Right-Wing/Republican radio talking heads, which is the main reason I still listen to him from time to time. Certainly not for the humor. As I said, he lost most of that long ago.

No foolin'. Know thy enemy, people.