BAD NEWS to have a JOY DANCE over - all together now... (Limbaugh in Ruins)

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62. It's part talent and part control that makes him a hit with his fans

I used to listen regularly back when I was younger and impressionable ( stupid )

He really is adept at sophistry and using speciousness ( even as he claimed counter-arguments against him as specious, but that's projection for you ) to generate talking points, but his ability to have total control over his debate environment on-air really solidified his position.

As both of you above noted, it's both fairly easy to discern if a person you're talking with is a dittohead and also frustrating and unpleasant. As noted, his fans lack his talent for sophistry and their arguments more or less self-destruct without the ability to control the discourse. Oh they'll try all right; interrupting, talk over you, speak with faux smug snarky-ness, but real people in real life won't put up with that garbage....and they can't hit the eject button to a commercial break or seek support in sycophants for counter arguments via screened calls. They don't like that. Not one bit. So they tend to get nasty.