Rush on, arrogant as ever

[Bombtrack]

his voice is starting to crack, awwwwwwwwww

he's probably getting record numbers.

[xultar]

1. He's High!

[Timefortruth]

2. Sound a little speedy to me.

Any guess as to what it is?

[jenk]

3. eh, seems a little timid

[janx]

5. Well he hasn't been without downers for a long time...

so it would make sense that he would be timid.

[Turbineguy]

4. No drop in GNP predicted

during this great show.

[billbuckhead]

8. What mumbo jumbo. Now he's reborn as teenager..What B.S.

I've not been phony on this program , just elsewhere. Yeah.

[BringEmOn]

54. Reborn as a Bush teenager

[rasputin1952]

6. Poor Baby.......

Now we're going to hear how he conquered the evils of addiction. Right, in order to beat an addiction, the first thing you have to do is realize you have to change your core behavior, like that is going to happen.

:nopity: for those that do not accept reality

[StClone]

7. Not going to listen... wouldn't be prudent for...

...any DUer at least not for until we get a drift of his new tack.

[rasputin1952]

30. Well...

I already shut him off...smae old drivel, just 5 weeks later.

:nopity:

[Gman]

9. Rush is codependent

he's explaining why he can't be responsible for other people's happiness.

[La_Serpiente]

10. Tell me Rush

do you have a disease because you took drugs?

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Please, please,please don't give him the ratings he thrives on.

Turn that dial. :)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. Just don't tell Arbitron and he won't get the rating.

[tom_paine]

14. I agree...turn the vile Pigoboy off!

You know, one wonders what would have happened if people turned Julius Streicher off?

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Streicher.html

[Faygo Kid]

25. Fight the Streichers - no head in the sand

Ignoring the Streichers led to the Holocaust. Be aware, brave and fight back. Don't put your head in the sand.

[ant]

24. out of curiosity

How are the number of radio listeners measured? I can't imagine they actually measure ratings by the dampening of the signal or something physical like that - how do they know whether or not I'm listening?

Or are radio ratings done like a Nielsen's family thing, in which case it really doesn't matter whether or not *I*, as a non-Nielsen person, listen?

Edited to say nevermind, find my own answer:
http://www.rightplacemedia.com/redline/archive/issue3/article3.asp

In other words, unless you're a Nielsen family or sampled on the phone (in which case you can lie), it doesn't really matter whether or not you listen to him.

[beanball]

53. The return of that

evil man.I never listen to his BS and I suggest all sane men and women turn the slug off and say a little prayer for his salvation.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. He just claimed "The Court system tried to upset my return by announcing

John Malvo guilty but it didn't work."

This little pig f*cker is still sick.

[RobertSeattle]

15. He could read from the phone book

...and the dittoheads would love every word of it

[Sparkle]

50. lmao!

So true!

[janx]

17. If he keeps concentrating on himself like that, then yes,

he's still sick.

It will be impossible for him to hang onto his old personality on that show and remain clean.

He's going to have to make some major changes if he wants to stay clean.

[mac56]

46. Amen to that, janx.

Rushbo has to walk that lonesome highway.

[Qutzupalotl]

26. And that Arnold bastard--

the nerve of him taking office the day I get back. It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Everyone's stealing my thunder! But you're smart, you won't let them do that, will you? Of course you won't. Because you're smarter than that.
:eyes:

[jenk]

16. the effect isn't there anymore

Rush doesn't get me riled up like he used to

whatever "factor" he used to be is now gone.

[janx]

19. Do you mean the bravado?

How does he sound? (I'm not listening to the radio--his show doesn't start here for another hour.)

[Timefortruth]

18. Complains about the National Enquirer,

what a joke if they lied why didn’t he sue? His listeners really are morans. Other media outlets confirmed the story also; man I guess he will die with a needle in his arm.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Sounds nervous. Not handling it well.

He is "surprised" Ted Kennedy has not been kicked out of the Senate. C'mon, Rush. He is as nervous as can be; maybe hit the pills this a.m. and knows he should not be on. He won't kick it in five weeks, that's for sure. This is too soon for him, and it shows. I despise what he has done to this nation over the past 13 years. The chickens come home to roost. His career may indeed be over.

[billbuckhead]

22. EIB Northern Command? Now apologizing.....

Is this the future of Rush. EIB is now the show and now there will be even more guest hosts, like when Art Bell went away.

[Qutzupalotl]

29. Just trying to work in a few more "vacations".

:)

[Liberal_Andy]

21. he says he needs to apologize

duh!

[Cat Atomic]

23. Haha- he apologized for not being honest with *himself*.

But claims he was always honest with his audience.

Please. This guy's still on the pills.

[janx]

28. He actually said that he was always honest with his audience?!

I wonder what his sponsor would think of that...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. I Was Waiting For Him To Talk About His Inner Child...

Rush is a big "character" guy...


Does a guy who has been through three wives, who used to veg out on the couch smoking dope and eating junk food, who's trying to beat an illegal drug addiction have more "character" than

Howard Dean

Dennis Kucinich

Dick Gephardt

John Kerry

John Edwards

Wes Clark

I see he busted on Ted Kennedy.... He's flawed.... Like all of us.....

[Faygo Kid]

31. "Even more honesty to come"

His latest quote. Apparently, we have to wait for his honesty. Since it doesn't exist, we will wait a long time. Rush sounds whacked. Totally whacked.

[onecitizen]

32. He also said...........

it was some sort of media something(didn't use the "C" word but that's what he wanted to say) or other that they announced the verdict on the sniper trial 2 minutes before he went on air! Trust me here, he hasn't changed a twit.

[Faygo Kid]

33. OHMIGOD! HE IS A RAMBLING NUT!

He is making no sense at all! This is an embarrassment. Back to treatment, Rush. Makes no sense!

[billbuckhead]

34. Liberals don't like themselves

that's why they're all on Oxycontin.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. Democratic Dittoes

-:)

Thanks for the laugh....

I'm going back to work....

He's the same putz he was fifteen years ago when a right wing business associate of mine turned me on to him....

[Faygo Kid]

38. OK, I agree, but this is new

He has always been a hateful nut, but this is something new. He's gone.

[Faygo Kid]

36. What is he saying??? Fixated on Sen. Kennedy.

Bounces from one topic to another. Nothing coherent at all. I don't believe how bad this is. This is a person in trouble. The disintegration of a human being (yeah, I lose that term loosely) as we listen. This has got to be a shock to the Dittoheads, who of course will say he's great. This is pathetic. Wouldn't be surprised to see him pulled before the end of the show.

[Timefortruth]

37. This is painful to listen to.

He wants to be the stoned Rush, but he can’t pull it off. It was easier to listen to him when we knew he was stoned. This just isn’t coming naturally, he can’t do it sober. Wow.

At first I thought he was using speed or cocaine, but this might be the real Rush. If this is Rush thinking clearly it will be minutes before he finds the hidden stash, he may not even make it through the show.

[JHB]

39. How's his hearing?

A little better these days?

Not that it wasn't selective to begin with...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. What

NT

[Faygo Kid]

43. This is incredible. He is out of control.

Paris Hilton? Where did that come from. Can't keep up with this insanity.

[CO Liberal]

41. He Didn't Learn Much in Detox/Rehab

At least Imus came out a changed man when he went thru rehab.....

[Rose Siding]

42. I wonder how "the other side" is seeing it

[Faygo Kid]

45. They love him. Go to Free Republic, but. . .

Can they really think this is coherent? This is insanity. Now he is babbling about the EPA and California. He won't be back tomorrow.

[caledesi]

75. Well one of those Freeps was so excited about Rush coming back

she said "My nipples are getting hard." ROTFLMAO!

<think she's on drugs>

[Timefortruth]

44. Uh-oh, he is slurring, guess he found the stash.

Guess the caller had some question about where Rush has been.

[jurismark]

47. Rush continues his hypocrisy

This guy is amazing.  He talks about how it doesn't work to
try to manipulate others or change them, yet he trots out the
tried-and-true attack on Ted Kennedy to lather up and
manipulate his devoted audience of drones.  If that's not
hypocrisy, I don't know what is.  Oh, and look at how he says
that liberals "don't like themselves," and that's
why they "don't like us!"  Unbelievable drivel that
only a Dittohead could find persuasive.  

[spotbird]

48. Rush really is a megalomaniac.

Has there ever been anyone so self obsessed? No wonder he can’t keep a wife (that and the fact that he is gay).

Was the show always mostly commercials, I don’t think I ever listened to all of it before?

[rocktivity]

58. YOU'RE the one who dislikes himself, Rush

That's why you stay high. And that's why you're not rehabbed--only detoxed. For the time being. And is he going to be honest enough with himself to go to the police? Where is he broadcasting from, by the way?


rocknation

[Doug Decker]

65. Hi jurismark...

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[jurismark]

68. Thanks

Hi Doug! Thx for the warm welcome.

Mark

[newyawker99]

72. Hi jurismark!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DoYouEverWonder]

49. Why is this maniac even on the air?

They ran a half page ad in this morning's local mullet wrapper. They were broadcasting him live on FAUX. Why isn't this admitted drug addict either in jail or under house arrest? This is the third time he's been in rehad. He's not cured and it's a travisty of justice that he is still allowed to walk the streets.

[Faygo Kid]

52. He is self destructing. Listen. It's over.

I have listened to him for 13 years. And despised him throughout, but couldn't turn him off. Believe me, as a long-time listener - he is incoherent today like he has never been before.

[Ratty]

67. All he has to do is mention

Hillary and Bill, how everything bad in the world is their fault, how ugly Chelsea is, how evil liberals are ... Doesn't matter what he actually says, as long as he's got those elements he's got his rapt audience of retards.

I just can't agree with people here who says he's damaged us and the liberal cause. I really think he only ever preached to the choir. Normal intelligent Americans aren't going to be swayed by him.

[eleny]

51. "I look what I trying to find"

What was that? He comes back from break and the first thing out of his mouth is a mish mash.

I just tuned in but read all the postings here in the thread. Doesn't sound good at all.

[tridim]

55. Oddly enough, my WJNO player's says

that it's streaming "JFK MEDICAL CENTER".

He'll be talking about "tigers being tigers" any minute now.

[Zero Gravitas]

56. Rush: "I'm not a hypocrite"

saying its wrong to do drugs and then doing them is like saying "don't speed" then driving 95 m.p.h. Riiiiiiiiight.

Is he on drugs?

[eleny]

57. Now he's explaining away his hypocrisy!

Even though he didn't live the way he was telling other people to live, there wasn't anything wrong with his message. Okay. But he's trying to use that as an analogy to the fact that the military chose to be in the service and have to accept the consequences of that choice.

He's lost it. Or that's the most convoluted analogy. It's hard to explain because it's so wild.

[Fovea]

60. This alone will cause a renewal of the Draft

As millions of Dittoheads rush home to tear up their kids' enlistment papers.
/sarcasm

[Zero Gravitas]

59. Wormtongue: I'm a drug addict since '95

[Puglover]

62. wow, painful to listen to,

He sounds like he's trying to work the 12 steps into his bullshit and I think that's why he's stumbling and halting. He really does have 2 choices.....keep up the show and wowing the dittoheads with his lies and eventually relapse or work the steps which will make doing his show impossible...
I had to turn it off. The mixture of his hypocrisy and 12 stepping was nauseating.

[newyawker99]

73. Hi pjeffrey4444!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Zero Gravitas]

61. Thats it

I can't listen to any more of this hate-filled ignorant drivel. The callers on this show are beyond frightening. Have any of these people ever read a newspaper? They are delusional.

[grasswire]

63. msnbc...

...wants to know if americans think he should have waited longer to return to radio.

Hahaha.

[eleny]

64. I don't blame you a bit

We've got some remodeling going on around here. So I've been in and out of here and only hearing a few minutes at a time. It's awful.

Right now, his whole take on people wanting peace and not willing to risk being hurt is beyond what I can handle. Given his own wriggling out of the military, this line of admonition is insufferable.

He keeps saying he's having so much fun. That's lie #1.

[jurismark]

69. Time to go to work

I concur about Rush's show being unlistenable. I'm sure that we've been indulging a morbid curiosity about what the guy would do. Not surprisingly, he and his minions are worse than ever. The point is not to berate the guy, for that has been done amply. He has his core followers, and they will most likely remain so, regardless of his personal behavior, hypocrisy, and hideous ideology.

Our job as Democrats and people who want to fight ignorance is to get to work energizing our base and convincing persuadable swing voters that our views are better. We haven't done a good job of it lately.

Let's make 2004 the year that Americans wake up from this right wing nightmare and elect a Democratic president and Congress. There is no substitute for hard work, reaching out, staying focused, and consistently presenting a winning message of reason, hope, and justice.

[janx]

66. Wow, he IS babbling. He's trying hard, but he's babbling.

Geez.

[UTUSN]

70. Closing Words - Terroristic Threat Against Liberals

Caught bits, then the closing, where he said: "A final note to you Liberals out there:: The party's over. I'm back."

It was said in the most menacing, threatening tone.

He was more arrogant and hate-filled than ever.

[FredScuttle]

71. A note to Rush

If you're back, doesn't that mean the party's started? Where's the hillbilly heroin? Or haven't you found another source....you know, one who won't go blabbing to the National Inquirer?

[UTUSN]

74. Kick n/t

[Dr Fate]

76. It's higly likely that Rush was into needles (link provided)

http://www.oxycontinaddiction.info/injecting-oc.htm


Individuals who abuse OxyContin by injecting the crushed tablets quickly become addicted. Injecting OxyContin requires a preparation regimen similar to that of heroin. This allows the abuser to receive the full effect of the pure Oxycodone almost immediately. This creates an effect similar to illicit opioid narcotics, such has heroin. Such a regimen requires the removal of the tablet coating by either sucking on it or scraping it with the teeth or a razor blade, followed by melting the remainder on a spoon, adding water, and then injecting the solution. Dissolving and injecting the contents of OxyContin can slow down or stop breathing and lead to death. Injecting OxyContin can also kill the tissue around the injection site and trigger heart and lung problems.