I questioned your analytical prowess. You threw out a gratuitous homo-phobic remark . OOHHH, that's exactly the same thing.

You don't even know what your saying anymore. Get a grip.

I love all the bold type. It makes your post so much more compelling.

Pathetic display.

I know precisely what I am saying, I am saying you are a self imagined intellectual without portfolio.

It's all you. It's all in your mind. Why don't you make another gay remark. Maybe it'll make your argument stronger.

Richie, I hate to break it to you, but that "sage" designation means only that you have made a lot of posts. For what it's worth, the term "manlove" is not homophobic, and not even a real word, but simply something I made up to describe your apparant love for limbaugh. Call it hero worship, dittolove, if that makes you feel better.

Who's better to stand up to the sanctity of multiple marriages than Rush?

Everyone knows what you meant. If it meant anything else it wouldn't have the word "man" in it.

I defended him, and knocked what I felt was your flawed analysis of him, and you threw a hissy fit. I would say it doesn't become you, but..........

Well, the fact that it's his show means that it has a lot to do with him; he's a business man and what I outlined is just basic marketing.

:)

Don't forget cleaver and calculating business man. He trashes anything that he doesn't hope to sell in his broadcast market. I remember years ago when he hoped to get a big contract to sell full size cars and/or SUVs. So what did he do? He kept trashing small compact cars. He called them "put-puts" and lawn mowers on wheels. And he ridiculed the drivers of small cars for "trying to save the planet" when most of us, I believe, were just trying to save some money. Did it bother him that he was insulting a lot of his regular listeners? No, because his goal was to earn some brownie points with the motor vehicle industry, where he hoped to score a contract to advertise full size vehicles or SUVs.

I think you nailed it.

:)

You haven't established how his show or his speech is related to anything you invented to show a correlation between his show and the consumption of fast food, as if that were wrong, anyway.

It's very fanciful.

give it up!
 

will you gentlemen please give this one up....we either love rush or we don't...if we do we are not necessarily ditto heads but just happy to find someone who agrees with us and expresses our ideas so well....make a date to meet at the watering hole and order some fast food and be nice to each other!

OK, but I was just starting to enjoy myself.

Does that mean you include yourself as one who loves Rush?

It sounds like you're saying you think for yourself. You already had certain values and beliefs and Rush agrees with you. So, does that mean you're on board with his outlook concerning health and longevity?

I can't meet at the watering hole to eat junk-food because I value my good health. :)

Do Rush fans agree with this one too?
 

Today, Rush said we can't have a brokered convention anymore (in smoke filled rooms) because there aren't any brokers anymore. "Heck, nobody even smokes anymore; we're a nation of freaking wimps."

Do you Rush fans enjoy that kind of talk? You may think that's just good ol' Rush being Rush. But I believe he says these things for a purpose. Just last week he said something to the effect that people don't just say things for no reason. Follow the money, he said. So, I took his advice and followed the money. Here's what I found:

It's him, again, creating an atmosphere and sending a message to industry. This message says, "no matter how vile, stinky, or health destroying your product is, if it's legal, I will proudly support it (and hopefully get paid to advertise it)."

That's why it's so important for him to make people believe that they have no control over their health. Don't even try to be healthy, he would say, because you will get sick and die anyway (eventually).

And, remember, he used to say that he was an exellent role model for the youth of America. So what happened? Now, if you don't smoke, you're a "freaking wimp."

He has an independent way of looking at things and detests being told what to do and how to live his life by "do-gooders".

I'd say it's very American of him.

You can't check your sense of humor at the door when you listen to Rush. Remember; all you Rush haters say he's only an entertainer. Why do you care what an entertainer says?

The problem is he incites violence and hatred thru his so called entertainment.

When has that ever happened?

If you can link to any violence propagated by Rush Limbaugh, please do it or cut out the hyperbole.

I don't hate Rush and I never said he's just an entertainer. What I hate is his constant promotion of an unhealthy lifestyle.

Rush Limbaugh mainly promotes himself. It's no sin and it's only his opinion and I'll defend his right to broadcast it.

Me; I go to the gym 3 times a week and have been a "gym rat" for years. Except for my love of adult beverages, on occasion, I try to eat right (but I'm not a fanatic)

Although, my partaking of a buffet lunch the other day gave me a good case of "food poisoning". It's why I'm at the computer so much today. My office is right next to my "facilities" if I have to run.

Feeling much better now actually.

If you don't know, god help you.

What a B.S. answer. A doltish response.

You make it sound as though I thought it was a sin or questioned his right to broadcast his ill- informed opinions on health and longevity. I was mainly questioning his judgement.

Good, it's very important to make sure that no one misunderstands and starts thinking you're a fanatic about eating right. It's okay to be a "gym rat" but not a health-food "fanatic." That would never be acceptable. :)


One thing to remember is that food poisoning symptoms usually don't show up until 24 hours after eating the food in question. Is that what happened?

Well then, here's another one for your enjoyment:

Back in 2006, Rush commented on a news story with the following headline: "Waistlines continue to grow in U.S." (I thought it was an interesting article so I saved it.)

The reason I bring this up is because he said something that surprised me. He said something to this effect: "What's the big deal anyway? Gaining weight is only natural." Well, I'm sure you will agree that gaining weight is natural, especially if looked at from an historical perspective.

Now, RichieLion, I have a question for you: Why doesn't Rush say the same thing about teenage girls who get pregnant and have babies out of wedlock? Isn't getting pregnant and having babies "natural?" This is what females have been doing since the beginning of time.

Why is one natural thing okay but the other not, when both have detrimental social and economic consequences?

There are many forms of food-related illness. Food-related illness can produce symptoms (cramps, diarrhea, vomiting, fever) from mild to very serious, with illness occurring from 30 minutes to 2 weeks after eating food containing harmful bacteria.-www.medicinenet.com

Thanks Villages PL and Katz for your concern on my short bout of intestinal discomfort. It did occur about a day after the lunch buffet I suspect. The only thing is that I'm the only one of 16 people I went to the buffet with that got sick. So I don't know what it was.

I had no fever and no vomiting, just intestinal pain and the runs. It felt a lot like what happens when you drink that gallon of awful stuff the doctor gives you before "you know what" testing.

I guess it'll be a mystery. I'm better now and hope I don't have to go through that again any time soon.

Have you had a colonoscopy in the recent past. Sounds a bit like diverticulosis to me. I should know, I suffer from it, and it is not pleasant.

Except the prep for "you know what" isn't painful, just a pain in the "you know where"...Still, I hope it was a passing (pun intended) bug! Take care :cool:

Plus. God only knows who coughed or sneezed what on that buffet OR what got left out too long...Happens to me at most buffets, so I have sworn off them.
I bet Mrs. RichieLion's food is much better anyway. If she makes you sick, she will feel obligated to nurse you back to health.

What does RichieLion's diarrhea have to do with Rush Limbaugh: Clueless about health or clever advertiser?

Nothing Jan, but I appreciated the concern.

I'm sorry for precipitating the discussion on intestinal problems.

You may go back to bashing Rush whenever you're of a mind to.

My wife has that condition and she doesn't think that's what I went through. Maybe if it happens again I check further. I'm not due for the colon test and I'm not going to rush that experience.

Thanks though, I appreciate the thought.

About as much as you calling the Governer of Florida a felon for committing Medicaire fraud in the middle of a thread concerning NEWT AT THE WATERING HOLE.

It is a phenomenom known as "free association"

Nothing's free Katz, you know that.

Oh, I think I'm off the topic again :)