Chillin', Not Trillin (No. 4) - "Rush lied!"

On The 1/2 Hour News Hour

Rush Lied

"Rush lied!"
Liberals cried.
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In the debut episode of THHNH Rush Limbaugh played the next president of the United States, using a cigar in the Oval Office in an appropriate manner and meeting with Vice President Ann Coulter. The pair do have a certain star power, WaPo concedes.

Per Robert at Seraphic Secret, this explicitly conservative comedy pilot is racking up great ratings for Fox TV and is immediately competitive with the aggressively anti-Bush, anti-conservative Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, etc.

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(For previous entries in this series, see the "Chillin' Not Trillin" category in the left column.)

Comments

[isirota1965]

Sorry, conservative though I am, I do not like either Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter..........

[Layla]

Great video! Great find. I am not necessarily a fan of Rush, but he is conservative so I do listen when he speaks-though I do not always agree with him.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Jeremayakovka]

Very interesting to hear how they're not some people's cuppa tea.

FTR, their provocative styles did *not* persuade me to think harder about conservative issues, although once I gained new opinions I began to view them generally favorably.

[JMK-II]

Funny thing about Limbaugh is that his pompous style is supposed to be an act, it reminds of a lawyer I knew awhile back - he had grown up painfully shy, but when he decided on law as a profession, he knew that he'd have to change his ways or fail.

He developped a persona, through shear will which was the exact reverse of his actual one. This one was boisterous, pushy and abrasive, in short perfect for lawyering.

I didn't like him much when I first met him. I didn't care for that style at all, but when I heard his story, I had a lot of admiration for his changing himself via discipline and will-power, something most people want, but few accomplish.

Coulter is abrasive as well, but I have to give her credit for knowing history and for actually being right on most issues.

For instance, people made a big deal of her going after the four NJ WTC widows, but all four of them put themselves out there as spokespeople for a particular point of view.

Once you do that, you can't hide behind a "widow's status" as protection from criticism from those who disagree.

I personally knew around fifty firefighters killed that day, some I trained, some I worked with and I KNOW that many of their families strongly disagreed with the likes of the "Jersey girls."

Once you put your views out there, they are free to be challenged and it's up to each of us to defend our own views on their own merits.