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Crowman2009

(2,494 posts)
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 02:16 PM Feb 2021

The time Rush got his ass handed to him!



We need to be as confrontation to the Q-prick like these awesome protesters were against the pig man. I love those folks!

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The time Rush got his ass handed to him! (Original Post) Crowman2009 Feb 2021 OP
That was one of the attempts at a Pat Sajack late night show underpants Feb 2021 #1
This is why Rush went to a single microphone thucythucy Feb 2021 #2
That's explains why those morons like Roy Moore and Tommy Tubbyville were cowards. Crowman2009 Feb 2021 #3
+33. Harker Feb 2021 #4
wow amuse bouche Feb 2021 #5
If I recall correctly, this show was a Roger Ailes production. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #6
Thank you for this wryter2000 Feb 2021 #7
Limbaugh called himself a highly skilled broadcaster, but he was far from it Ohioboy Feb 2021 #8
A face for radio. JDC Feb 2021 #9
Excellence in Gibbering Warpy Feb 2021 #10
My exact thinking, Warpy PlanetBev Feb 2021 #11

underpants

(182,763 posts)
1. That was one of the attempts at a Pat Sajack late night show
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 02:24 PM
Feb 2021

On CBS. Many years before Dave moved over there.

thucythucy

(8,045 posts)
2. This is why Rush went to a single microphone
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 02:33 PM
Feb 2021

and absolute control over who could get on the air anytime he hosted anything.

His whole tough guy bullying charade only worked when he had only straw men to oppose.

In anything like a real debate he was pathetically unable to cope.

Crowman2009

(2,494 posts)
3. That's explains why those morons like Roy Moore and Tommy Tubbyville were cowards.
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 02:35 PM
Feb 2021

They were too chickenshit to debate Doug Jones for the Alabama US Senate seat.

Harker

(14,012 posts)
4. +33.
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 02:50 PM
Feb 2021

He was an utter failure in situations that allowed for dissent.

His huge, fragile ego loved the comfy chair, the screened callers, and the safety of the unchallenged monologue.

Midnight Writer

(21,745 posts)
6. If I recall correctly, this show was a Roger Ailes production.
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 03:41 PM
Feb 2021

Ailes wanted Rush on FOX News, but Rush felt burned after his experience on this show and turned it down.

Bullies don't like it when people stand up to them.

Ohioboy

(3,240 posts)
8. Limbaugh called himself a highly skilled broadcaster, but he was far from it
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 03:54 PM
Feb 2021

His show was one-sided by necessity since he had no real debating skills. Rush was the type of host that relied on call screening and the ability to dump out of any situation where he was being challenged. I used to listen regularly so as to be one step ahead of my Rush- loving brother. In all the years listening I never once heard him successfully debate, or make his point with anyone that disagreed with him. During the rare times when he would take a call from someone challenging him, his method was always to turn down the person's audio, talk over the person, avoid answering their questions and then dump out to a commercial break. His only real skill was in reinforcing a liked-minded audience to hate "liberals" and Democrats. Outside of that, his show's content did very little to inform or enrich. Sorry if it seems like I'm talking ill of the dead right now, but this was all true way before he passed. Too bad he never saw how much he was ruining and dividing this country.

Warpy

(111,241 posts)
10. Excellence in Gibbering
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 06:29 PM
Feb 2021

was an old .wav site that had clips of him whenever a liberal would get through his call screeners because gibbering was all he was ever capable of when someone disagreed with him.

He was truly foul. I am delighted to have outlived him.

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)
11. My exact thinking, Warpy
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 06:53 PM
Feb 2021

I am two months older than him and always swore I’d hang on long enough to see him go first. His hateful bloviating created a lot of tension between my co-workers at my workplace.

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