Now that we know that Rush reads DU, let me just say,

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86. "It's the weight of his spew"?

Actually, the important weight here is the weight of his massive audience.

He's the most-listened-to talk radio host in America with a weekly audience of 15 million.

You also said: "He's a lot of things, but he's not nuts..He's very shrewd and calculating in spreading the lies and propaganda.'.

Joseph Goebbels was also "very shrewd and calculating in spreading the lies and propaganda" for Hitler.
In fact, Goebbels earned a Ph.D from Heidelberg University in 1921.

Isn't it possible that one can be "very shrewd" and still be "nuts' as well?

Others above have made references to "Moby Dick" and Limbaugh's "sweaty rolls", so what's wrong with my wondering just how much the fat bastard actually weighs?