Why rush limbaugh hates ron paul

Then, of course, after he dramatically made the case that there was no violent insurrection on January 6th, Limbaugh justified and praised the violent insurrection on January 6th. I was attempting to take the flak and the incoming for Donald Trump.

The plain, observable events of January 6th had not merely been denied and deflected, but transcended — wafted into the bubble of alternative right-wing reality that Limbaugh first began blowing up 32 years ago. Of course, this new narrative or narratives — you can choose Republican innocence or justified violence, as you please had absolutely no contact point with reality.

And of course, Limbaugh spun his tale as always from the flotsam and jetsam of post-riot rumor and innuendo, subreddits, and Gateway pundits. Inside the bubble, sources matter as little as facts or logic. What makes sense in this parallel universe is whatever distracts and absolves white, non-liberal Americans from blame, guilt, or responsibility. And that is what Limbaugh delivered, once again, for Republican America in the wake of the insurrection. To paint a lawless and lunatic president as a wronged and heroic savior of the republic, a symbol of all the myriad wrongs done to Team White America.

And, ultimately, to lead the cheers and comfort the troops as Republicans turned against democracy itself.

He did it all so well, in fact, that Limbaugh — despite frequent absences — shot back to the top of the Power 50 radio rankings for audience and influence. It was the strangest sort of comeback-slash-curtain call.

And it should be career-defining now that Limbaugh, who died on Wednesday, has had his final say. Limbaugh might have begun as a ratings-obsessed provocateur, but he became one of the most influential subversives in American history. No single person — not Reagan, not Cheney, not McConnell, not Trump, not Q — has contributed more than Limbaugh to the mass derangement of white America.

C-SPAN was devoting a week to that hottest of new media trends, talk radio. He was only joking, Limbaugh insists. Limbaugh had blasted into national syndication two years earlier, at age 37, with a talk show that sounded like no talk show before: faster, louder, ruder, and way more opinionated. Also, very quickly, way higher-rated.

It was intentionally irrelevant. Before him, the only successful syndicated radio talker was Larry King, and that was a very different thing. It was about callers and guests. Within a year of the C-SPAN telecast, Limbaugh was beaming out to stations, with 25 million listeners, and hosting a minute syndicated TV show also with no guests produced by Roger Ailes, who would go on to launch Fox News in His moon-shaped mug smirked over Broadway on its biggest billboard.

It was a little of both, actually. When Limbaugh landed his first local talk gig in , rescuing him from a dead-end sales job with the Kansas City Royals, he started boning up on politics, he later claimed, by reading George Will and William F. Essentially, when Limbaugh opened his mouth to start opining about politics, Big Rush came flowing out. Once Limbaugh had his own show, he added his DJ skills to the talk-show mix — and the bluster — and launched a whole new genre. Let me get this quote in front of me.

I always put this stuff the bottom of the Stack. Bill Kristol says Romney was "stupid and arrogant," and every Democrat under the sun is retweeting it. You know what struck me about this? During the primary, all these people -- not all of them, but a lot of the people -- who were telling us, "Romney's the only guy.

He's the only chance we've got! Romney's the one," they've bailed. They've bailed on him. Now they're running around saying, "He's not the candidate we thought he was gonna be. He's stupid and arrogant," and all these things. And those of you, you and me, who were said to be problematic during the primaries? We're the ones supporting Romney! We're the ones trying to do everything we can to help get the guy get elected, because this election's about stopping Obama!

This election is about stopping the Democrat Party. This election is very important. It's very crucial. I say it again: I don't think that the inside the Beltway glitterati look at it all that way. I found it encouraging that only one or two dittoheads commented in defense of Rush Limbaugh in response to the Tuesday column in which I called him a dimwit.

Years ago I would have been inundated with comments from supporters of Limbaugh. I credit Ron Paul with much of this progress in educating the public about these radio talkers. You may have noticed that Ron Paul was the only one of the four contenders for the Republican nomination to criticize Limbaugh for that massive publicity boost he gave the Democrats.

Limbaugh's personal attacks on political activist Sandra Fluke took attention away from the real issue, the nuttiness of her economic arguments and, even worse, her ingratitude toward the Catholic law school that's giving her an education:.

Here's Paul's comment on Limbaugh's apology:. Rush's real goal is not to advance conservatism. Apparently Limbaugh slept through the entire Republican primary campaign. Reacting to a self-identified tea party caller that suggested Rep. Ron Paul , Rep. Michele Bachmann , and former Senator Rick Santorum were the only true conservatives left in the race, Limbaugh reacted in shock at the idea that Rep.

Paul supporters.