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Is Rush Limbaugh a "conservative giant?"

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Just because Republicans rate him highly doesn't make him conservative.

Most conservatives however share similar values to Limbaugh and share similar values to what republicans stereotypically(not stupid liberal stereotypes of republicans) stand for.

You of all people know that the GOP is far from Conservative.

Limbaugh is not always a GOP cheerleader.As far as I know
Limbaugh wasn't jumping on the lets sell this country to illegals and Mexico bandwagon nor was he jumping on the bailouts bandwagon like many republicans did.
 
Most conservatives however share similar values to Limbaugh and share similar values to what republicans stand for.

Which is Exactly why Rush Limbaugh is a gift that keeps giving....and why I think Limbaugh should keep talking and get as much exposure as possible.
Please, let all Americans know what so called "conservatives" and Republicans stand for.
 
Most conservatives however share similar values to Limbaugh and share similar values to what republicans stereotypically(not stupid liberal stereotypes of republicans) stand for.
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Similar is quite a broad word in this kind of context but I'm quite different to him and quite Conservative.
 
Similar is quite a broad word in this kind of context but I'm quite different to him and quite Conservative.

You are a nationalist not a USA type conservative.
 
You are a nationalist not a USA type conservative.

What? That makes little sense.


A nationalist is a broad term but I'm not really one of those unless you mean I'm against giving up national soveriegnty to the EUroplot, which is certainly an Anglo-American Conservative position, and an American style Conservative is not a very useful description. In intellectual and academic terms Anglo-American Conservative could easily be considered a general category and often is. Anglican and American Conservatism, in intellectual terms, are quite close.
 
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Liberals are scared to death of Rush Limbaugh, that's why they insult him and are trying to shut him up. They are scared, scared, scared. You know it, and you know who you are. ******s!

When one thinks of the rich history of Conservative and Conservative oriented thinkers and works it almost makes one weep that so many American Conservatives seem to put so much stock into the likes of Rush or Hannity.

At least go up a notch to someone like Pat Buchanan.

In Britain thankfully our major, popular Conservative journalists like Peter Hitchens are somewhat better.
 
I once read that although he has a vast amount of listeners the average time spent listening to him was 11 minutes...which is sort of sad for a political commentator
 
I once read that although he has a vast amount of listeners the average time spent listening to him was 11 minutes...which is sort of sad for a political commentator



I once read that like you know unicorns are real and they burp rainbows!
 
Rep. Phil Gingrey called Rush "a conservative giant and one of the 'voices of the conservative movement's conscience.'"

Do you agree with Rep. Phil Gingrey?

I think at one time he was. But how the mighty have fallen. The Rush today is not the Rush of yesteryear. He is now a propaganda machine and nothing more, no better than the likes of Hannity. His show used to have some amount of intellectual integrity, but it's been destroyed. I think his backing of Bush so hard really took it down because before Bush, Rush was a real conservative. Small government advocate and such. But he held the bucket for Bush and betrayed much of what he had stood for in doing so. And through the course he discovered the use of horrible propaganda and thus his decent to the dark side was complete.

I still listen to Rush, almost everyday. I want him to return to that guy who got me interested in politics all those years ago. But currently he is nothing more than a clown for the current incarnation of the GOP; which is as far from actual conservatism as one can get it seems.
 
Rush is a bombastic type with an ego the size of Texas. He likes to flaunt his cash and his influence.

However, he makes makes solid arguements. He has a tendency to bring up good points with evidence to back it up unlike shock jocks like Hannity. He will often say things that we wish we had the cojones to say out loud. And he brings up news that is often stifled by the media because it doesn't bring in ratings despite its importance. What would we give for a politician that who wasn't insane. Ron Paul started to do just this and he gathered a cult following.

I think alot of people like to hate the man himself rather than what he says. I've seen people attack him for his social habits out of pure jealousy rather than ideology.

I personally can't stand some of his antics. But his points tend to be solid. And when you double check his stuff, most of it pans out...as opposed to many media sources which push their info out as fast as possible without double checking.
 
I think he likes to find isolated incidents and then attribute it to all liberals. I see it mirrored here every day.
 
I once read that although he has a vast amount of listeners the average time spent listening to him was 11 minutes...which is sort of sad for a political commentator
Sure, that's why wherever he goes there are crowds right? It doesn't make sense for a person to tune into Rush for 11 minutes. Everyone knows what time he comes on, so I think it's likely they tune in to listen.
 
Who is Rush? Rush is a talk show host with a large ego who has a lot of people under his thumb. But is this really what one can consider 'a giant'? If Rush Limbaugh were a rapper he'd be 50 Cent. He talks a HUGE game but at the end of the day he's just an employee of Interscope Records. If he's dropped tomorrow he'll fade into obscurity faster then conservatives can spell the names of their home states. When I think of 'giants' in the political world I think of the bosses. The people who move things. Sean Hannity is a nobody. Rupert Murdoch is a God when it comes to right wing politics. So are the Moonies. The people who move the strings are the giants in my mind. Not the employees. Irregardless of how loud these employees are.
 
So wait, Hautey, are you saying the Moonies "move the strings" of the republican party?
 
Who is Rush? Rush is a talk show host with a large ego who has a lot of people under his thumb. But is this really what one can consider 'a giant'? If Rush Limbaugh were a rapper he'd be 50 Cent. He talks a HUGE game but at the end of the day he's just an employee of Interscope Records. If he's dropped tomorrow he'll fade into obscurity faster then conservatives can spell the names of their home states. When I think of 'giants' in the political world I think of the bosses. The people who move things. Sean Hannity is a nobody. Rupert Murdoch is a God when it comes to right wing politics. So are the Moonies. The people who move the strings are the giants in my mind. Not the employees. Irregardless of how loud these employees are.
What are you babbling on about. The only thing obscure is liberal talk radio. The left doesn't have a single person like Limbaugh, that's what pisses you off.
 
Rush speaks the gospel of the conservative right. If every Republican felt free to express their true beliefs, they would all sound like Rush.
 
Rush speaks the gospel of the conservative right. If every Republican felt free to express their true beliefs, they would all sound like Rush.

They'd all sound like self-centered, egotistical assholes? News for you, I'm a lifelong registered Republican and I sound nothing like Rush, nor do I agree with a lot of what he has to say.
 
What are you babbling on about. The only thing obscure is liberal talk radio. The left doesn't have a single person like Limbaugh, that's what pisses you off.

That's what pisses me off? German. Dude. My car's radio doesn't even get turned on. Is this even serious? The only people who claim that radio is even remotely relevant anymore are people who can't see that radio audiences have been declining for the last 30 years due to the effects of television internet and now mp3s and iPods.

FMC | Radio Study | Executive Summary

Radio reaches a large portion of adults on a weekly basis, but time spent listening is at a 27-year low. In September 2002, Duncan’s American Radio reported that the “average persons rating” – the percentage of the U.S. population listening to the radio in any average quarter hour – has experienced a near-17 percent drop in listening over the last 13 years.

As far as me caring about Limbaugh, the only thing that sort of gets me thinking about him is how the right screams about patriotism yet they can't help but rally behind a draft dodger. At the end of the day Rush Limbaugh is just an employee. Nothing more. Nothing less.
 
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Rush limbaugh hates black peoplez oh noes....

What? Stay away from New Jersey factory fumes. Seriously.

What is your point?

That Rush Limbaugh is an employee and nobody of real importance as far as politics go? When he's got the money, resources etc. to do anything other then sit on his ass and talk. Then maybe we'll have something. But at the most he's got a cult following he gets paid to tell the same things every week. His scripted opinions are heard by right wingers in America and who else? Nobody. Then you have people like the Moonies and Rupert Murdoch who have so much influence that if they wanted to they could put out newspapers in every single country they operate in with their right wing opinions on the front pages. Not only that but then when you take into consideration that these are the people running TV Shows, TV channels, major right wing websites etc. where their opinions are certainly decisive in the course those ventures take then anybody who still thinks Rush is 'a giant' is living in such a small bubble it's not even worth mentioning.
 
20 million listeners a week, and such a giant that Obama can't stop talking about him?


Yep, a giant.

Fools trouble themselves to talk about him.
The One-Eyed Cyclops was also a giant..
50 million people may listen to religious broadcasting; does this make them 2.5 times more right than Rush ?
And do we have 70 million fools in the USA ?
 
What are you babbling on about. The only thing obscure is liberal talk radio. The left doesn't have a single person like Limbaugh, that's what pisses you off.
I would be thankful if I were a Democrat...
 
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