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We need to be as confrontation to the Q-prick like these awesome protesters were against the pig man. I love those folks!
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underpants
(182,878 posts)On CBS. Many years before Dave moved over there.
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)and absolute control over who could get on the air anytime he hosted anything.
His whole tough guy bullying charade only worked when he had only straw men to oppose.
In anything like a real debate he was pathetically unable to cope.
Crowman2009
(2,499 posts)They were too chickenshit to debate Doug Jones for the Alabama US Senate seat.
He was an utter failure in situations that allowed for dissent.
His huge, fragile ego loved the comfy chair, the screened callers, and the safety of the unchallenged monologue.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)Ailes wanted Rush on FOX News, but Rush felt burned after his experience on this show and turned it down.
Bullies don't like it when people stand up to them.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)Bookmarking so I can watch it over and over and over...
Ohioboy
(3,244 posts)His show was one-sided by necessity since he had no real debating skills. Rush was the type of host that relied on call screening and the ability to dump out of any situation where he was being challenged. I used to listen regularly so as to be one step ahead of my Rush- loving brother. In all the years listening I never once heard him successfully debate, or make his point with anyone that disagreed with him. During the rare times when he would take a call from someone challenging him, his method was always to turn down the person's audio, talk over the person, avoid answering their questions and then dump out to a commercial break. His only real skill was in reinforcing a liked-minded audience to hate "liberals" and Democrats. Outside of that, his show's content did very little to inform or enrich. Sorry if it seems like I'm talking ill of the dead right now, but this was all true way before he passed. Too bad he never saw how much he was ruining and dividing this country.
JDC
(10,133 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)was an old .wav site that had clips of him whenever a liberal would get through his call screeners because gibbering was all he was ever capable of when someone disagreed with him.
He was truly foul. I am delighted to have outlived him.
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)I am two months older than him and always swore Id hang on long enough to see him go first. His hateful bloviating created a lot of tension between my co-workers at my workplace.