Calling Rush Listeners -- A Question of Culture

[mstattersall]

Greetings from a libertarian Rush listener (libertarians being the 
OTHER conservatives with just a drop of "lib" for balance). I started 
listening to Rush right after the 1992 election, and for years he was 
the only one forwarding the astonishing conservative viewpoint that 
maybe there is too much waste in government, too little emphasis on 
traditional values, and other such shocking ideas. Later, when then-
President Clinton was caught with his pants down, Rush was one of the 
few voices shouting "It's not about the sex! It's about the perjury, 
and trying to fix a civil rights lawsuit!" over the multitude 
shouting to the contrary, and it was highly entertaining. 

*Entertainment* is the product Rush is selling, and people are buying 
it in droves. His schtick is political opinion, and yes, he leans 
farther to the right than most people (on either side) are 
comfortable with. But he's GOOD at it, and that's what people tune in 
for. Love him, hate him, give a flying handshake, people listen. And 
he sells tons of product for his sponsors. He's so good at it that 
his many imitators can only come close, and so far, no liberal 
personality has been able to command such an audience. Many have 
tried, none have succeeded. We all know about reality TV ... Rush 
invented reality radio. 

For quite awhile, I've found him very pompous and I tired of him 
easily. He was beginning to sound EXACTLY like the stereotypical 
image of the republican fat-cat. But this ESPN thing and the drug 
allegations have taken him down a peg and he is sounding more like 
the Rush of old. Still, more people are listening because, like the 
old publicist's saw says, "Any ink is good ink," and more people are 
tuning in to see what all the fuss is about. He will survive. 


Personally, I'm getting tired of the "us good/them bad" attitude and 
the nasty politics practiced by both sides and fanned by the 
predominantly liberal mainstream media on one side and the burgeoning 
conservative alternative media on the other. Everybody on both sides 
has forgotten that politics is the means of going about doing the 
peoples' business, and all the stuff on TV and radio is just theater 
of the absurd. 

IMVHO ... 
Ms. Tattersall, a recovered LIBeral, now a fervent LIBertarian