From: clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge)
Subject: Re: Prediction: Limbaugh had hit his peak; He will soon fade out
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In article <Bz9IyB.113@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy) writes:
>In article <schlegel.724352440@cwis> schlegel@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mark Schlegel) writes:
>>prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
>>
[...]
>>>there must be an enemy. Clinton, by virtue of his middle-of-the-road
>>>approach, is not a good target. Rush, all of a sudden, sounds vacuous
>>>and stupid.
>>
>> How is Clinton "middle-of-the-road"?  That's an example of how he's fooled
>> the people and the press.  He's not a centrist or a moderate, he's a 
>> total liberal.
>
>Having read this, I'm begining to think that conservative wing of the
>Republican party is moving further to the right. This would make sense, since
>the majority  of the Republican Party is *not* antiabortion and yet the
>Republicans took a radically antiabortion stance.
>
	Yeah, probably not much doubt about that; the call for a ban on *all*
abortions that was placed in the Republican platform is demonstrably out of
synch with majority opinion.  But the post from the Limbaugh lover is
enlightening since it shows how mutable the definition of "moderate" (or
"liberal" for that matter) can be.
	To folks on the far right of the political spectrum, most of the\
country must look "liberal" while George Bush is probably regarded as a
"moderate".  And some of them seem to use the terms "moderate" and 
"conservative" interchangably, labeling anyone who diverges from their agenda
with the (to them) negative term "liberal".  What do you want to bet this guy
thinks Lloyd Bentsen is a "liberal"?

>>>So, watch Rush's ratings to fall and for him to fade. Dear friends, 
>>>he is suddenly yesterday's newspaper.
>>
	I doubt it.  Limbaugh has been shrewd enough to come up with a
format and approach to his talk show that appeals both to those who agree
with his opinions (and parrot both them and his catch phrases endlessly) *and*
those who find his politics ludricous but his style entertaining.  It's
hardly an original apporach (anybody remember Joe Pyne, the Limbaugh of the
1960s?  Sic transit gloria mundi, y'all..) but it works.  
	Sure, he'll get boring after a while and fade from popular attention.
So what?  That's show biz.  But it'll probably be a mater of years, not days.

>> Hmm, sounds like "wishful thinking" --- "let's just hope he goes away so
>> it can be business as usual for us liberals"
>
>Rush Limbaugh is going to prevent Bill Clinton, soon to be President of the
>United States, from doing anything? If all sort of people from Jello Biafra
>to Pat Buchannan couldn't prevent George Bush from starting the first war
>in twenty years, how can Rush Limbaugh prevent Bill Clinton from implementing
>the policies he was elected to implement?
>
	Probably just rhetorical hyperbole.  Either that, or another example
of how groupies tend to attribute near-supernatural power to the objects of
their worship.  I could never get into that mindset myself, but then I don't
believe in supernatural beings in general.
	With the exception of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, of course!  >:-)>

>***********************************************************
>* Rush Limbaugh? Isn't he some sort of used car salesman? *
>*                      -Karen Uru                         *
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	Who the heck is Karen Uru??

The_Doge
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(speaking of supernatural beings....) >:-)>