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Summary: Easy to follow
Review: I like this book lots. You see cuz I can only read at the fifth grade level, so this book won't insult me. I also like it because it doesn't chalenge anything I have been told since I was a little boy growing up in a mental hospital.
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Summary: An Entertaining Look at Today's Issues
Review: Rush Limbaugh is probably the most dividing character on the political scene in a long, long time. (Jump into any politically oriented chatroom if you don't believe me). I tend to be moderate on most political issues and generally believe that extremism on either side is dangerous. And though I think Rush falls a little far to the right for me, I can't help but laugh at his surreal take on modern-day liberalism and its sheepish followers. I too have always chuckled at the gilded faux compassion of Hollywood-types, the eggheaded blather of many collegiate professors (many of whom don't know anything about the *real* world), the not-so-subtle leftward bias of most major media, and the squeaky-wheel protests of the militant feminists. I was glad to stumble upon an entertainer who expresses his opinions of these funny little creatures in such a humorous way.If you're looking for an intellectual political discourse on today's conservatism....try reading Thomas Sowell, Dinesh D'Souza, or William F. Buckley. Rush is very obviously not a deep thinker or critical analyst (in fact, most of his opinions are feebly supported by hard fact). But if you're looking for a good laugh at the expense of the neo-hippies in our society and their twisted view of the world, check this book out!
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Summary: A Polemic
Review: Have you noticed that the conservatives who praise Rush Limbaugh's book as the gospel truth never provide even a single piece of evidence to support his claims? Rush Limbaugh provides the polemical nostrums that fan the flames of discontent, but his book does nothing to address the problems facing modern American society. I do recommend that you read this book. People who do their own issue research will find it uproariously entertaining, while those who don't will enjoy dancing along behind the Pied Piper of conservatism.
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Summary: Evidence refutes Liberalism!
Review: Have you noticed that the liberals who trash Rush's book as a pack of lies never provide even one example? Rush provides the evidence that refutes the lie that is liberalism! Love it, live it, read it!
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Summary: See, I told you so!
Review: Hear me now, you tree-hugging, pot-smoking, tax-hiking liberals. My place in America as the definitive voice of the conservative majority is now indisputable. With this novel, I seek to single-handedly dismantle the iron-grip of liberalism and restore the invisible hand of conservatism. Republican to the bone, the only freedom I believe the American people should not have is the freedom to kill unborn babies. Support conservatives everywhere by buying this book! Thank you for your time.
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Summary: all the bombast you'd expect from a snake oil salesman
Review: Limbaugh is at heart a promoter, not a political theorist. Promoters find products which tickle the public's fancy and market them. Rush here has stumbled on to a grudging amorphous resentment by people who feel abused and forgotten by this complex, anonymous modern world. His product is to package a simplistic villain onto which his ditto heads can project culpability for any personal inadequacy, incomprehension or failing to which they feel subjected. In this case its Liberals, a term that has meant many things over the last 2 centuries, but to Rush simplified into an alien ideologue, often associated with racial stereotypes, bent on taxing and forcing all sorts of immoral agendas on them. Rush is not to blame, as a promoter he's found a product that sells. Many of these issues need an erudite presentation, understanding and discussion, which Rush replaces with demagoguery and obfuscation. As a society letting this form of superficial, carping, low brow entertainment be confused with debate and argument, though, has indeed lowered the political dialogue to a level the Founding Fathers might have found very disillusioning.
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Summary: No one says it better than Rush.
Review: Rush's insightful view and slap in the face wit are what drives home his points in this right wing, but truthful and factual book. I read his book, then did my own research, and Rush is Right. Anyone who claims otherwise has no grasp of reality.
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Summary: Ridicule--the most effective form of political commentary
Review: Limbaugh has found the formula most of his Right Wing colleagues have missed out on. He dodges the pomposity which puffs the Buchanans and Buckleys up like balloons ready to be popped by approaching political theorism in the manner of an entertainment or art critic. Yes, liberals DO overindulge in wishful thinking--the fact that I refuse to succumb to that malady probably disqualifies me from having the right to call myself a real liberal. The criminal justice system's usefulness to protect society has declined over the years--we DO coddle criminals. I've long since gotten over the disenchantment with law and order caused by the right wing's abuse of it when they used it to try to crush the civil rights and antiwar movements of the '50s and '60s. That was then, this is now. There are some very valid points made in this book if you can get past Limbaugh's ideology as a whole. My liberal friends (and former compatriots) regard my purchase of this book and its sequel as a waste of money. They're welcome to my share of knee-jerk naysaying and facile rhetoric like "mean-spirited"--when I take issue with litterbox-trained fascism (that's all conservatism really is), I want FACTS to back me up. Churchill said it best; "Across the gulf of war, I salute a great soldier" (he was speaking of Rommel). I only wish my crowd had somebody of Limbaugh's gifts--Al Franken isn't that good a substitute.
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Summary: Stop lying about my people, Limbaugh
Review: As an Apache shaman I still encounter many lies and fallacies about my tribe and others. The most disgusting by far is that perpertrated by Rush Hudson Limbaugh III. Who in their right minds would believe that there are more Indians alive today than when Columbus landed? I DO concede that the primary causes of my people's deaths were the diseases contracted from the European settlers. However, this does NOT justify Limbaugh lying about our current population statistics.
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Summary: Rush, please shut-up.
Review: I am a libertarian. I only agree with Rush on economic issues dealing with government regulation and laissez-faire capitalism. This book is a turkey. Rush makes wild unsubstantiated claims and blathers nonsense about "liberals." We know the liberals are wrong, but we can use facts. In fact, I thought Al Franken's book was much better even though I am at odds with his man-hating liberalism.
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