Is Rush Limbaugh headed for a big fall?

[Archae]

I've seen this before, including with political pundits.
They get far too "full of themselves" (as my Mother puts it,) and sooner or later they crash and burn.

Remember Morton Downey Jr? He got drunk and tried to fake an attack by neo-Nazis, dying of lung cancer after ending his career playing an obnoxious TV reporter.
(Like in Predator 2, where Danny Glover Jr punched his lights out.) :-)

Geraldo...Al Capone's vault and his TV series talk show that went off the deep end with "Satanic abuse."

Any ideas as to what will happen to Rush?
I say one of these days he is found OD'd on his Oxycontin.
He ends the rest of his days doing late-night infomercials for OTC boner pills. (like the ones pitched by "Smilin' Bob.")

[BuyingThyme]

1. How often does a pile of shit fall?

[704wipes]

7. he will make a nice plop if they don't keep propping him up...

I really think this is the time to bring up all the old DJ 'Jeff' stuff from Pittsburgh and that arrest on the river walk for soliciting an underage male who was, what, a police decoy?

But with Rush that whole sordid episode still seems to be 'don't ask, don't tell' for some odd reason. Based on that there are a lot of neighborhoods he can't live because they are too close to a school or church, or day care.

[BuyingThyme]

10. Damn. I have no idea what you're referring to.

[Ikonoklast]

43. Google 'Jeff Christie Arrest'.

Lots of interesting stuff there.

Surprised more people don't know about this, but I'm sure a lot of money has gone into suppressing it.

[ingac70]

2. I don't think Rush is doin' pharmies any more...

He's packed on a shitload of weight since his rehab stint. Heart attack from morbid obesity perhaps?

[Dr Fate]

5. Then again, some junkies are fat. Elvis & Lowell George come to mind. n/t

n/t

[Donnachaidh]

11. uhh, he can pack on the weight and still be popping Oxy

It does nothing to speed up the metabolism, or keep him from stuffing his face with whatever he wants. Just saying....

[rurallib]

3. Well if he falls it will be a big one.

might want some volcano - er -earthquake monitors ready.

[cherish44]

4. With any luck he'll end up in jail for something

His big mouth and big ego could easily get him in trouble with the Feds someday.

[Fuzz]

6. Yeah, he can't handle the pressure, therefore the tactic. Folks like him can't possibly

come up with solutions because they don't know how to look at the problem in the first place.

[timtom]

41. That's precisely the problem.

[spotbird]

8. No. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

9. If/When Democrats win more Senate seats in 2010 Rush will go off the deep end

That could push him over the top.


After almost 2 years of ranting, to have Repukes lose any semblance of having influence in D.C. might then cause him to step over some lines that even 20,000 ditto heads won't be able to pull him back from.

He will end up on a satellite radio station that almost nobody will listen too.


Our focus should be on getting things done for the people and winning more seats in 2010. Little else matters.

[phaseolus]

12. It's a race

He's morbidly obese. Morbidly, as in fat enough to cause his early death.

Or, he could get caught up in another scandal or two before his heart explodes. There's his combination of the monstrous ego and the lonely-guy-who-fails-at-relationships thing, and that's gotta be almost as deadly as the couple hundred pounds of fat...

[spindrifter]

13. Did you notice how he was totally unable to be still

while giving his speech? He was bouncing all over the place. He doesn't seem to do that when he's sitting on his radio station throne. Then he seems able to remain relatively calm.

[jwirr]

35. The more I see of that jumping around the more unnatural it looks

to me. He is on the edge of out of control. I wondered about drugs. I know that when you are on oxy you have more energy than usual and that is what it reminded me of. One of these days he is going to go down to the islands and someone will follow him and take pictures. Then he will end up on the long list of sex offenders or drug addicts that comprise the GOP.

[Turborama]

38. You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL_Qf-3cWE">Rush Limbaugh: "Jump Around!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Yes, just like... father coughlin did

that is your correct reference here

[Tangerine LaBamba]

22. I agree, but don't forget

that it was the administration that intervened when Coughlin tried to keep his evil ministry going by mailing out a newsletter. THAT was the move that finally silenced him for good.

I don't see anything like that happening to Limbaugh. I'm not convinced he'll fold unless his health does him in.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. He will, when he finally crosses the same line

Savage and the Manitty have... open rebellion is now a meme

Notice Rush has been the only one NOT to go there

But the third tier, second tier and a few first tier have

[backscatter712]

15. He's probably gonna get some knives in his back from fellow Repukes.

With Rush now officially tagged as the GOP's leader, it's becoming increasingly clear that he's leading the party even further into the ditch.

While Rush is popular with the base, with his dittoheads; among the general public, he's one of the few political figures that is actually more unpopular than George W. Bush.

On top of that, what happened with Michael Steele showed that the entire party is beholden to him, and is currently forced to kiss his ass. I don't know about you, but if I was someone like Boehner, McConnell, or any of the other GOP bigwigs, I'd be getting jealous of Limbaugh's power.

If the GOP wants to win elections, they're going to have to get rid of him. Rush, by becoming such an influence on the base and forcing traditional party power-mongers to kiss his ring, has made himself a target.

I'll bet that they'll get real creative in finding ways to knock him down a few pegs. Maybe we'll hear more about his Viagra vacations in the Dominican Republic...

[madinmaryland]

16. Not like anyone here is proposing, but he will. It will make his

"Donovan McNabb" moment look tame.

[quidam56]

17. Their Patriotic America sure ain't My America,

all these people are getting dangerous... http://www.wisecountyissues.com Stop the bombing and toxic terrorism in Appalachia !!!

[caty]

18. I still can't get over

the fact that this man has followers. He acts insane.

[bluethruandthru]

21. So are his followers!

I work with people who truly believe every lie out of this turd's mouth. They parrot him exactly and are as full of hate and venom as he is. It's really scary to see what can happen to people who don't have enough brain cells to realize what a pantload Rush is.

[susanna]

25. I still can't get over the fact that his "followers"

call themselves "dittoheads"... and even proudly! Strange crap right there.

I'm not sure I could ever be the sort of person who would enjoy being a lapdog follower. I find it bizarre.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Interesting factoid: The person that replaced Morton Downey on KFBK-AM was...

Rush Limbaugh.

What a coincidence!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

20. He looks like a heart attack waiting to happen.

Not that I would wish that on anyone. ;-)

[pscot]

33. I was thinking stroke

but either way I believe my grief will mbe manageable.

[B Calm]

23. The Pig Man and his republican party are history!

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. Between being a bag of blubber and chain smoking those cigars...

...I give him 12-18 months, tops.

He's ripe for the big one.

[Mira]

26. Have you ever seen a smashed watermelon? Yup - it will happen.

[goforit]

27. Bottom line, Limbaugh makes $40,000,000/year with 20,000,000 listeners.

Who's kidding who.

[HughMoran]

30. His dupes like his comedy act

He was a minor player until recently - funny how that works.

[Golden Raisin]

36. Exactly. Laughing all the

way to the proverbial bank and a true American "success" story. Even the totally repulsive can achieve great success here.

[HughMoran]

29. I think it's funny that he's been elevated to the mainstream lately

I feel like we're all dupes in some sort of game of manipulation. Even the Republicans are falling for the bait. I'd hate to be a Republican at this time.

[upi402]

31. Rush is a gift to liberalism

The doughy middle will turn from these rightards more and more.
Yum. He's the wingnuttiest!!

[Zen Democrat]

32. He's the Republican Godfather ... or maybe he's just their Vito Spatafore.

To me, it's all just Douchebag and the Dittoheads.

[Ernesto]

34. Nope!

If fecal matter like paul harvey can hang around for a life time.... rush has many years ahead.

[Raine]

37. His time is coming

he's becoming nothing but a pathetic parody of himself. :silly:

[eridani]

39. Doesn't matter. There are others to take up the banner of the 20% dead-enders n/t

[MrSlayer]

40. No, I think not.

He controls the "base". That base will always be there unless the Republican party as a whole repudiates the guy, calls his policy ideas dead and moves on. That is never going to happen. Limbaugh will have his audience no matter what, he'll take this party down and feel good about it. He has turned the tables on them in a way they never expected. Instead of the party using his show to facilitate their message and views, he is now using the party to facilitate his message and views. You have to grudgingly admire someone who can make themselves the most important person in a major political party without ever having been elected to anything. He's not going away anytime soon.

[Philosoraptor]

42. "A face in the crowd" by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith, GREAT MOVIE