I've been listening to Rush Limbaugh, and these are my notes. I have to store them somewhere, so I might as well share them. From here on, I'll make the daily notes as separate posts.
When it's in square brackets [ ], it's my own reflections, for example:
[In Rush's absolute world, ALL of the corruption is on the Left, and the Right holds no culpability. This is his focus, his continuous guiding principle.]
Snerdly is his imaginary friend, his prototype caller, a worshipful, softball throwing sycophant.
He has an odd thing that he does that I'm calling slash/cuts where he'll say a few lines with a punchline such as "Liberals destroy everything they touch" and then in the same breath without a pause switch to a completely different topic, or one of his pseudo-news story product pitches.
1/13/11
criticising rush = hating USA
Rush is our translator
Obama: "we don't know what jared thought"
Rush: "we do know, but we have to protect the slob"
Rush speaking for the left:
"This guy exists because america is unfair, we don't dare
lock him up, because we're PC"
use this to attack the right, first amendment
It was all to aggrandize Obama, not the families
too much applause, like a pep rally
Prediction:Civility a theme of SOU address"Democrats are civil, Repubs are not"
No backlash against Muslims, but a backlash against
Republicans?
We're minding our own business doing nothing, and they
attack our civility.
Obama: "I put the ME in memorial"
forced praise for the speech
why are there liberals? mars and venus
"Liberal ideals brought the economic crisis"
deep divide, never will be bridged
Hofstater - Paranoid Style
"They capitalize on any event, because its the only way
they know how to write. Purely agenda driven. They
believe they're objective. Their cocktail parties in DC and
LA
"when you're fighting evil, anything is justified" again,
saying what "they all" believe, they are mind numbed
robots"
'case closed, over with'
"Civility is the new word for censorship"
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Go To my PC dot comListen UpLifelock
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Criticising Palin is the true divisivness
extended riff about clinton faking crying at the Ron
Brown memorial
clips from the Wellstone funeral, how it sounded like a
political rally
what is the civil response to laws that take away
personal freedoms, that destroys our economy
"White house has released that civility will be in the SOU
humorous collage of democrats speaking at funerals
was Rev Wright , Bill Ayers civil, lots of examples of
incivility,
chanting "civility"
long sarcastic rant about uncivil democrats
"give me a civil reaction to "you're a bigot, you created
homelessness, if it was up to you, we'd still have
slavery, listing democratic firebombs
listing lots of bad economic news, sarcastically
pretending to be civil
a prolonged squeal of protesting too much, cracks about
civility
Extended riff of insulting questions for "The Sheriff," each one ending with "Sheriff," over and over, snarling, jeering, goading. 5 or 7 minutes, hypnotic, rambling.
Typical gun control talking points, quick switch to, Bill
Maher [troll] and his civility, abortionist and their nag
supporters, nag convention "embodiment of civility"
lecturing us about civility
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1/14/11
Obama wants to slash the military
Start Treaty, letting the Russians tell us what to do
he has designs on this country to lessen america's role
as a superpower
"school" is "screwel"
bumper:
"The Wonder of Rush"
Why don't they clean up HollywoodAll of his influences were deranged leftists
It's all political, left influences all media, "we must
identify with the depraved"
critique of Chinese robotic training of people and
children
the billboard is depicting liberals shooting at the
billboard
all the cult movies and violent video games are made by
democrats, they control the pulitzer prize
if we could just get a fox reporter a pulitzer /quick
segue/
nobel prize, obama, where's the peace
Obama's speeches, how it stands up
Which is more believable:1) A teabagger would do it2) the dems would pay someone to do it to frame the
other side
of course #2
caller says pelosi blames bush
limbaugh cuts to that all anarchists, terrorists, assassins,
are all leftists, 'democrats opposed the civil rights act'
we know the media will have to blame anyone but the
perp
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ignoring bad financial news, in preference to smearing
palin and rhetoric
discussing Barney Franks friction with Obamaland of Obamaville, where the leader lies about
everything[does imitation of Barney Frank]
all these stupid animal rights regulations, the regime
it's socialism, make everything dismal, don't let the
market decide
fishing and oil industries being destroyed by obama -
the reason the drive-bys won't report it is because they
haven't found a way to blame it on sarah palin
breaktalent on loan from god
maharushi
Chinese parenting article
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how dare they lecture usliberals: "we are defined by our imperfections"words in Obama's mouth: "we are not worthy"
what we have to do to make the country better is defeat
Obama
if disasters end partisanship, and they want to end
partisanship, then they want disasters.
Udall's proposal to sit together. he wants to dilute the
numbers to show how few dems there are. to disguise
how powerful Rs are.
megadittos. His callers are so psycophantic
"moving forward" infuriating, because the alternative is
"backward?"
democrats war on conservatives
January 18:
I'm not trying to be negative, can't be phony optimistic,
GOP has surrendered! "First black president, can't
criticize" - but we followed Tea Party principles "these
ideas"
Media used the shooting just to smear Palin, just to
influence the poll
Railroaded Delay, they want to do that to all of us
how can we pin tucson on the democrats?
Left constantly talking about how rotten america is,
create environment of misery, in this unjust society
obama apologises to anyone who will listen, lying
propaganda, we could say the left has blood on their
hands, the dems turn citizen against citizen, they love
talking about hate, they want people to hate each other
[civil rights is a "set up" war to allow Liberals to march
us to socialism]
"The message of the democrat party: "dispair and
pessimism"
We expose them because we love this country, and they
do not
the left creates victims
"every corporation wants to destroy you" [what they
say]
Rush "turn it around on them"
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democrats are protecting jared, that's why he's smiling
bumper:
Rush Limbaugh media tweak
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devoted to the truth 96.6% of the time
belittling the credibility of gallup polls, high
unemployment
bad news about the british health care system
to the feminazis, pregnancy is a disease, nicole kidman
"gestational carrier"
excerpts from Palin / Hannity encounter
you have to marvel at how wonderful Sarah is
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story about an orgasm/allergy syndrome - just creepy
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caller: Reagan book "alzheimers" just like me, he was a
great president even with that; part of the left agenda;
every family has whacko kids; petty and sad, that's real
civil isn't it
Rush just said this: "Liberals should have their speech
controlled and not be able to buy guns. They shouldn't
be able to use computers, or the internet. It would save
america. You would wipe out 95% of the hate, crime,
and lies from society. Society would just be fun and
peace loving!"
Bumper:
listen, learn, and spread the word
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if you are weak mentally, and are told america is bad,
that you haven't got a chance because you're black, what
would you do? If you're told by Michael Moore, that Bush
caused 9/11 what would it drive you to. The Left is
responsible for Tucson. Name calling environment. Self
hate and loathing. If you're unable to succeed, it's
because the founders were racists, the system was
designed to beat you down - this is all the democrat
party agenda.
Fake pictures of iceburgs melting, unless you drive a
claptrap junk car, which you'll do to be fashionable.
Repeating the litany of complaints about bush, "Lied
about afghanistan, iraq - " framing them as inflammatory
lies.
the job of a community organizer to tell people that you
don't have a chance, that we're going to get even with
those people, that we're going to make them as
miserable as you are.
Quoting predictions about overpopulation, climate
change hoax, no wonder people become shooters. You
gotta hold somebody accountable. Corn is being put into
cars - wasting food.
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January 19
Sliming Health Reform
numbers, lying about the cost of the bill [like Iraq?]
entitlements will always destroy the budget
sex change operations paid for by
sell off the land the government owns, cut EPA, FCC,
Berkeley is going to pay for "addadicktome" operations
they don't have orgasms in the ruling class, I don't have
time to go into that
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bumper:
"simply brilliant"
back
riffing on the evil of communism, democrats are
oblivious
no matter where you look, the news is bad about
Obamacare
the only blame AP can find is the weak economy is the
reason for slow home starts - no mention of Obama or
of the Democrats / slash to Aussie flooding, "what was
the role of warmists" Christopher Booker, made worse
by cockeyed decisions made by warmists.
what happens when Liberals run things.
plug for "askheritage.org" organizing to destroy
healthreform
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bumper:
"America's Anchorman"
back
obsequious caller
"the state of the union show"
confrontive caller, wacky yenta, funny, no concise points
cohen on rollcall record about nazi lies and propaganda
and healthcare
cohen is jewish he has free rein to compare the
republicans to nazis
David Frum, asked about Newt Gingrich, ceding election
because of Palin, Rush loves her
/ slash segue to extended advert
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My Letter to Cultwatch.org
Jan 19:
I wonder if you would consider including the Dittohead
phenomenon as a cult? I has all of the earmarks: a
leader who is adored and never questioned; an
absolutist, isolationist creed communicated by coded
jargon; stonewalling those not in the club; avoidance of
all comment or documentation from externals - the list
goes on.
A month ago I might have thought this excessive, but I
have steeled myself and have been listening to Limbaugh
daily now, and have a new awareness of the situation.
His act is pure P.T. Barnum style pseudo-religious
incantation, with preludes, crescendos, and codas. A
word, phrase, or nickname, all derogatory, will be
repeated thirty or forty times in a segment, to bludgeon
whichever Democrat Liberal he's targeting. He cuts to
break with "Liberals are Evil. Liberals want to destroy
America." Using hypnotic technique, he cultivates
outrage and fear in his listeners, in a thousand tiny
ways, with verbal winks, groans, and eye rolls. He does
it slowly, gently, and continuously. And he is magnetic.
I find myself eager to hear his latest, eager and slightly
nauseated.
When he takes callers, they are obsequious, and their
obviously coached questions simply tee up talking points
for Rush to riff on for the next hour.
I think it would be instructive for the world at large if
Rush Limbaugh was included in your venerable
collection. I am so glad for the work you do, and
re-framing the Dittoheads as a kind of cult would be a
useful addition to the memesphere.
kl;'l.,./
bumper:
"With half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair"
me: [Having half of your brain tied behind your back doesn't
prove anything when you only have half a brain to start with. ]
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Jan 20, 2011
"Dingy Harry" /on the cutting edge of societal education, if you're not
on the cutting edge, you're taking up too much space
Responding to critique of his feminazi remarks
"Sheriff Dipstick" just speculates
we are surrounded by institutional ignorance
snerdly: "does sheriff dipstick ever do his work?"
break""no agenda no wordgames""breakI'm your guiding light, talent on loan from God -
Moral Compass of the State Controlled Media
No talk about the political prisoners Nobel Prize winner,
about china's crimes, but criticising Rush
Steve Cohen Tennessee, comparing Repub noise to
Goebbels
A corrupt media with no moral compass
"Who are the new jews, congressman cohen? It's the Tea
Party."
The "Obama/Hitler" pictures were created by Leftists
who infiltrated the Tea Party.
The Klan was a bunch of racist pig democrats.
The KKK was the Terrorist arm of the Democrat party in
those days.
This guy is totally ignorant of his history.
F. Chuck Todd "history of throwing rhetorical bombs."
the media will justify the vitriol.
"The only way they can get noticed is to throw rhetorical
bombs." [you rush?]
"People will make asses of themselves just to be famous
- I've seen it."/
"The essence of civility"/
[Rush doth protest too much -] we're not the ones who do the society disrupting
how many abortions do the Democrats support
"These people are single handedly" *wtf******
caller: John Belushi racist for parodying Chinesecaller: critique that Rush criticised Obama for going to
the superbowl, Rush now explains that ALL presidents
present a huge logistical problem and rambles about
that, finishes with a swipe at the kennedys
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tiny one liner between commercials:
French news story: "General Motors investing green in Mexico" who owns GM? - Obama and the Regime do
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If Democrats regrouping requires associating a national figure with mass murder, they'll do it. Creating a false narrative of Palin's responsibility. Obama lets his supporters savage her.
How the Left wing blogosphere will do it in their systematic destruction of candidates. Not a single Republican candidate can survive.
The left is terrified of her, that she would wipe the floor with Obama. That's why they're desperate. Both sides fear the threat of Palin. If Repubs don't stand up for Palin, they will all be targets.
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"Life and death" meme on the left is a lie. "High Risk Pools" nobody is signing up for them.
incoherent caller: Who likes Obamacare, but can't explain it.
People are emotionally connected to the idea that Repealing Obamacare means they will die.
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Reads pro health reform essay derisively. "123 people die every day" - shouldn't that number be going down? He's outraged. Asks: Has anyone seen a death certificate that says: Cause of Death: No Health Insurance?
He's deeply offended that people actually believe that our health care system lets people die. We spend a fortune on people who don't have insurance. He rages about this for a while.
Long riff: "The truth is Obama's health care legislation kills health care for everyone, its aimed at all of us."
They believe it because they're Liberal Democrats. Take a cue from the Chicoms. Give 'em an aspirin. If they have a problem, shoot them and harvest their organs.
The leftists are shameless. "The Government Disease" George Will. Politics controls everything.
Government is a pool of incompetence. They want to regulate or tax every aspect of life. What don't they regulate. Snerdly: Prostitution.. jokes about that.
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Answering the callers question about colon cancer, who will decide? Katherine Sibelius. Health care will be rationed.
/ slash cut
a stolen identity story, that turns into an advert. He gets you hooked into the story, addressing you, scaring you, then offering the solution: Lifelock. This is a 3 minute segment. Mention the "Golden Promo Code - Rush"
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Last segment, 1 minute long:
Canada has their own version of Obamacare. Wait time for colonoscopy there is 6 months. We're coming to that, with "When the Secretary will decide" added on.
