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To grassroots political conservatives from coast to coast, his name alone is enough to bring on an adrenaline "rush." He is their media leader, their official voice. And, to the extent that his extraordinary public influence contributed largely to the Republicans' 1994 takeover of Congress, he is their political savior. No wonder the Rush Limbaugh show is a broadcasting phenomenon, reaching 20 million listeners each week over more than 600 radio stations nationwide.
Not even his most ardent fans would call Limbaugh shy or modest. With the air of one who knows his power, he devotes virtually all of his show's three hours, five days a week, to a one-man all-out attack on those he perceives as "the enemy" --- the nation's political liberals from the President on down, women's rights activists he calls "feminazis," and "environmentalist wackos" ---all the while reminding his audience that his talent is "on loan from God," and that he does his show with "half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair."
When he is not issuing his own conservative commentary, Limbaugh accepts phone calls from listeners. His rare on-air guests are among the upper echelon of the Republican Right, such as President George Bush who called Limbaugh to the White House in 1992 asking for the broadcaster's public support in the upcoming election campaign.
Aware that there are many in his audience who devour his every word as conservative gospel, Limbaugh provides them more than his daily political sermons: His two published books, "The Way Things Ought to Be" and "See, I Told You So," rose quickly to the top of the best-seller list. He followed them with an audio cassette, "American Dream," and a videotape, "Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh." It has reached the point where some restaurants have set aside "Rush Rooms," where Limbaugh devotees can hear his show even while dining.
As busy a schedule as Limbaugh maintains, he finds time to hit selected stops on the lecture circuit as one of the nation's most sought after --- and highly paid --- speakers. Limbaugh admits that, wherever he goes, he is "preaching to the choir," but keeping the faithful fulfilled has its own political and personal rewards.
The unprecedented success of the Rush Limbaugh Show has literally changed the face of talkradio, as stations throughout the U.S. take on an increasingly conservative stance in an effort to follow his high-ratings popularity. None have come close, because Limbaugh's extreme right-wing conservatism is only part of his secret; it's his in-your-face, take-no-enemies style of delivery that draws listeners who share his views and demand nothing less than such narrowly focused conviction.
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Kiddie Terror
Wednesday 07-23-2008 6:10pm CT
Some of our friends up north are upset, ladies and gentlemen, that their image is taking a beating. The angst is over the case of a Canadian-born terrorist, Omar Khadr, who is being held at Club Gitmo.
Khadr is the son of an Al-Qaeda financier. He was raised in Afghanistan. At age 15 he was captured on the battlefield, charged with throwing a hand grenade that killed one American Special Forces soldier and blinded another. Khadr's defense team recently released video excerpts of his interrogation by Canadian officials at Club Gitmo.
Now, in the video, this little kiddie terrorist is seen whining for his mommy, and begging for Canada to come to his aid. He complains that he's being tortured, and he begs for medical help for wounds that have not healed since his arrest. He doesn't bother to mention that he was near death when he was plucked off the battlefield, and that Americans saved his worthless little life.
Naturally, liberals in Canada's Drive-By Media and Parliament are up in arms. They're blaming Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper for allowing the supposed "mistreatment" of the youthful terrorist to continue at Gitmo. They are complaining that their national reputation as a kind and compassionate country is being ruined.
See -- all it takes is one accusing terrorist to get a country full of liberals to roll over and get on board the compassion train. But they have absolutely no compassion, or even a second thought, for those in the military who are killed by these terrorists while defending their freedom. They wouldn't have the guts to defend themselves.  Nothing New
Tuesday 07-22-2008 4:40pm CT
In the 2004 election cycle, Ken Salazar ran as a new kind of Democrat: a guy not beholden to liberal ideology -- a guy who would do what's right for the country. And that rhetoric proved effective in Colorado; Salazar won his Senate seat.
This week, the interior department will unveil new regulations to allow the sale of oil shale leases on federal land. In the western states, those leases could eventually unlock up to 800 billion barrels of oil. Last month President Bush spelled out what that would mean for America, saying that "one major deposit in the Rocky Mountain West alone would equal current annual oil imports for more than 100 years."
But guess who's standing in the way? Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat, Colorado. Last year he slipped language into a bill to bar the federal government from issuing final regulations for commercial oil-shale development.
Even with $4-a-gallon gasoline, Salazar and his fellow Democrats are still preventing America from using our own resources to lower gas prices and create new jobs. In fact, Democrats -- having killed off any chance of a gas-tax holiday -- reportedly now want to raise the federal tax that you pay on each gallon of gas by a dime!
The moral (in case you haven't figured this out) is that "new Democrats" don't exist -- except when running for office. In office, they're the same old liberals that they've always been, and they don't give a rat's rear end about you or what's right for the country... it's only about themselves. Failure!
Monday 07-21-2008 4:40pm CT
Last Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went on the attack. In a CNN interview, she said: "[The] President of the United States [is] a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject... [W]e are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again."
Now, Pelosi is deranged. I mean that. The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama The Most Merciful, was just in Iraq, pimping unearned foreign policy credentials off the backs of President Bush and the military. The entire Democrat leadership said the troop surge would not work; they never supported the war effort, or the troops. Now they're positioning themselves to take credit for crushing a terrorist threat they denied ever existed.
As for the economy: The "sub-prime" loans that fueled the housing crisis were demanded by... Congressional Democrats. Higher food prices are tied to wacko environmental policies that put biofuel ahead of fossil fuel production. The entire energy crisis can be placed at the feet of liberal Democrats like Nancy, Harry, Barack, and Algore -- who would rather see you ride a lawnmower than have affordable gas for your cars and your SUVs.
Public education. Health care. Immigration. The culture. You name the subject -- everything that liberal Democrats touch, fails. Their answer is to tell you to do more with less, embrace declining standards, and be happy about it.
There is one Party that owns failure -- lock, stock, and barrel: Democrat Party, United States of America... they seem proud of it.
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