You're a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward.

[lame54]

http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-thanks.html

Andrew Klavan of the Los Angeles Times has a challenge for us liberals out there who have been dissing Rush Limbaugh:

If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration's recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That's the likelihood; here's the certainty: You've never listened to Rush Limbaugh.

Oh no, you haven't. Whenever I interrupt a liberal's anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: "I've heard him!"

On further questioning, it always turns out that by "heard him," he means he's heard the selected excerpts spoon-fed him by the distortion-mongers of the mainstream media. These excerpts are specifically designed to accomplish one thing: to make sure you never actually listen to Limbaugh's show, never actually give him a fair chance to speak his piece to you directly.

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Let me guess at your answer. You don't need to listen to him. You've heard enough to know he's a) racist, b) hateful, c) stupid, d) merely an outrageous entertainer not to be taken seriously or e) all of the above.

Now let me tell you the real answer: You're a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward. You're terrified of finding out he makes more sense than you do.

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Therefore, I am throwing down my gauntlet at your quivering liberal feet. I hereby issue my challenge -- the Limbaugh Challenge: Listen to the show. Not for five minutes but for several hours: an hour a day for several days. Consider what he has to say -- the real policy material under the jokes and teasing bluster. Do what your intellectual keepers do not want you to do and keep an open mind. Ask yourself: What's he getting at? Why does he say the things he says? Why do so many people of goodwill -- like that nice Mr. Klavan -- agree with him?

The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix) don't want you to listen to Limbaugh because they're afraid he'll wake you up and set you free of their worldview. You don't want to listen to him because you're afraid of the same thing.

Don't believe me? Well, then, gird your loins. Gather your courage. Accept the Limbaugh Challenge. See what happens.

I dare you.

[YOY]

1. I have listened to him. Took that challenged 15 years ago.

He's an asshole who never debates anything and lies like a motherfucker unchallenged. I figured that out when I was 18. I listened to him for 2 years before figuring that out.

He makes idiots feel as though they are better informed than intellectuals and spoon feeds their opinions to them all the while making them feel that they came to those conclusions themselves.

I remember him bitching about Sir Mix Alot's "Baby Got Back" and that Kurt Cobain was a piece of human garbage or some such and deserved to kill himself.

Fuck him.

[old mark]

2. I'm a lowdown, yellow bellied lilly livered intellectual coward,

well no one's perfect, but at least I don't have to listen to some fat,stupid son of a bitch.

I turn off the TV when any Republican is shown on the news-I won't have the dog shit on the rug, and I won't have republicans in my home, even via the media.
Oh and Mr. Klavan: Fuck you, you asshole!

sincerely,
mark

[Kalyke]

13. You must have your TV off 90 percent of the day, then.

Since, withe the exception of Keith and Rachel, that's about the only guests we ever see.

:hi:

[old mark]

40. Yeah, I don't watch a lot of news any more - I really get too angry

and I don't like to have my day spoiled by morons.
I also email the news channels to tell them this from time to time.


mark

[DBoon]

3. The LA Times is on its death bed

The morphine drip is inducing severe delirium.

RIP LA Times.

20 years ago you were a great paper.

[JHB]

4. Been there, done that...

... back in the '90s. Nothing's changed (and they're proud of that).

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. I can't take five minutes of ru$h, an hour would make my head explode, so no thanks.

x(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. I was force-fed Limbaugh during the early 1990s

when I was teaching and had my office in a building where the workers who were remodeling the building played talk radio all day. I doubt that he's changed very much since then.

[dbonds]

7. I have listened to him and am occasionally forced to listen to him.

The premise is wrong, and I won't be subjected to any more of that lame brains ranting that I have to endure by my neighbors loud radio while he works on his car.

[Ron Green]

8. I've listened to hours of him, to entire shows. He's dishonest.

Either that, or he doesn't understand the human spirit.

[blondeatlast]

39. It's both--and I've had the "pleasure' on more than one occasion of having to listen to the scar

encased in a cardiolyte (cardio stress test photography) machine, unable to move or speak.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. That's a good description of the OxyPig, except I'd add "bloated diddler"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. First Of All

First of all most of the time he's constructing strawmen only to knock them down. And even when he gets callers with opposing points of views he still controls the microphone and is more skilled at his craft than his interlocutor. It's not a fair fight!

[EstimatedProphet]

11. That's right - get brainwashed, and then you'll agree with him!

This is idiotic.

[Octafish]

12. Viagra for Republicans

Oxycontin, too.

I have nothing but contempt for drug-addled, child molesting draft dodgers.

Hey, Klavan! FUCK YOU, TOO!

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. He hides behind the line "Illustrating absurdity by being absurd".

It's how he defends his lies, his racist tendencies, and his obfuscation.

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. life is to short for this crap

I don't have to get the plague to know it is bad thing and I don't have to listen to Limbaugh for hours on end to know that he is a big fat idiot

[Kalyke]

16. Klavin - I've done that and one even better.

I live in Tennessee. We have nothing but right-wing media in this state, which is why we continue to slip right - literally - off the abyss and away from the rest of the country.

I've listened to Rush, to Hannity and to the local bloviating idiots until I was coming home with high blood pressure. Because our "news" radio stations were only talk - I had no choice if I wanted to catch up on local and state news on my daily commute.

Luckily, I have a husband who loves and respects me and purchased for me, just last week, a satellite radio. Now, I get my local news online during lunch and listen to left-wing talk shows for national news in my car, bypassing all the local advertisers who will no longer see my cash because I don't care to spend it with those whom support ideas that are bankrupt.

[Stevenmarc]

17. Andrew Andrew Andrew , do you think

that a full serving of bullshit will make someone acquire a taste for crap.

[Marr]

18. For *years*, Limbaugh was the only show I could get on my 2-hour drive from work.

I listened to him roughly 8-9 hours a week back then as occasionally, mind-numbing silence was more appealing.

Limbaugh is one of those people who can be summed up by a few soundbites. He is everything he seems in those little snippets. He's racist, hateful, and spends about 99% of his time demonizing "Liberals" in the most schizophrenic ways imaginable.

He literally blames *all* things bad on liberals, from talking with food in your mouth to gum on the sidewalk to macroeconomic crises. If there's a crime in the news, you can bet your ass he'll blame it on liberals, even when it's overtly right-wing, like the Oklahoma City bombing or that nut in the Unitarian church a few months back.

You don't need to actually listen to Limbaugh for any length of time to know what he's about. He's earned his reputation.

[WeDidIt]

19. I listended to him every day for five years

That was long enough.

[Winterblues]

20. There are more deer in America today than when the Pilgrims first landed.

That was something Rush said that made me 1st think about his integrity. Then he said how could Global warming even be a problem. Hasn't everyone had an ice cube melt in their drink? Did their drink flood over? That was when he lost me completely and that was in the late eighties. I then realized he was just plain full of crap and only a rebel rouser.

[tech3149]

21. Well let's hit the most important error first

You can't be an intellectual and a coward at the same time. To be an intellectual, you have to be willing to try and understand things you don't already know. That takes courage thereby falsifying the label as coward.
I will admit that I don't listen to Limpballs or any of the other bloviators out there. You want to know why? It's pretty simple, they just spew opinion without any basis or reference to facts to support their opinion. I've had to listen to a lot of talk radio over the last few decades because I spent much of that time on the road. I could deal with the bloviators for about five minutes at a time before trying to find some good music (try and find that on commercial radio!)

I feel like this asshat isn't even worth responding to because the whole thing is nothing more than instigation and incitement. I'm old enough that I have taken verbal abuse so long that my skin is tougher than a rhino.

I'm glad that the last few years have given voice to people like Hartmann,Rhodes,Skinner, and so many others that don't just spew their POV but have intelligent discussions and provide factual information to support their views.

I challenge Mr. Klavan to try and listen to and call in to argue his viewpoints on any of those shows. Even if he is an intelligent individual, I expect his arguments will be lacking in logic and supported by nothing more thanb "talking points".

[Blue_Tires]

22. fuck him...i had to listen to him every morning on the way to school

and that was before he was famous...i daresay i was listening to him before this piece of shit was...

[RB TexLa]

23. Worst part is the writer probably thinks "intellectual" is the worst insult in that line

[gratuitous]

24. Nonsense, Mr. Klavan

I don't have to stick my nose into a big pile of shit, either. I'm pretty sure it's going to smell like shit. Some people like to hit their thumb with a hammer over and over again, because it feels so good when they stop. Other people know it's painful, and don't have start in the first place.

But if Mr. Limbaugh is such a hero to you, Mr. Klavan, why don't you bring forth some of the more lustrous pearls from his intellectual fortress and dazzle us all?

[OHdem10]

25. Could the poster be pointing out that Liberals do not give a logical

rational argument to disprove his (Limbaugh's ) points of the day?

All to frequently, the comments posted here are simply name-calling.

What would happen if people actually stated. Here is why
Limbaugh is wrong on this issue. The spell out clearly
how you differ, why Limbaugh is wrongheaded.

Just saying Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, leaves Limbaugh
in the position of strength. At least he made a serious point.

[lame54]

31. no

[Ganja Ninja]

26. I've got a challenge for all the Ditto Heads out there.

Try going without Rush or Hannity or FOX News or any other right wing propaganda outlet for 6 weeks. See if your IQ goes up.

[ddeclue]

27. Hey Moron... I've listened to him and even called into his show to slap him down intellectually a

few times.. I've done the same to Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy and my local R/W radio hacks as well. I've no fear of listening to him and have listened to many hours of it - it is just annoying to have to listen to the non-stop avalanche of lies, bullshit and stupidity day after day when I now have more intelligent alternatives on the dial like Air America to listen to.

:P

[treestar]

28. Who has three hours per day to listen to junkie pedophie

run his mouth?

:rofl:

[BeFree]

29. Listen to that pill popper?

I make it a policy to stay far, far away from pill popping addicts. They lie. they cheat, and they steal. What, does this guy think Rush is different?

Now I know to not ever read anything from Klavan. Is he a pill popper too? Sounds like a pill popper.

[chemenger]

30. And I'll bet you that Andy Klavan is some 30+ year old, single keyboard kommando

loser living in mama's basement apartment with nude posters of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham hanging on the wall and who is in fact the real intellectual coward because he can't think for himself.

[riverdeep]

32. Here's my challenge to Kraven and Rush's followers,

listen to Thom Hartmann everyday for two weeks, and then continue to say modern conservatism is anything but joke. REALLY listen to him, especially about your beloved Reagan. If this guy wants to give LimpOne more listeners, two can play that game, no? And calling someone a feminazi or making fun of their Parkinson's isn't simply unPC teasing, it's a revelation into the black black soul of Limbaugh.

[Javaman]

33. sorry the repukes using reverse psychology is just plain pathetic.

sadly, I believe this is the best they got. defending a drug addicted wind bag.

That's pretty sad.

[Libertyfirst]

34. My doctor says listening to Rush can cause heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. c/t

[malaise]

35. I watched him for the first time at the CPAC crap session

and that alone was more than enough for me. I don't know how anyone listens to him. :puke:

[mitchum]

36. I lookk forward to listening to Limbaugh's eulogy

[alcibiades_mystery]

37. Failiest advertisement in history

Listen to the show! Please, God, listen!

:eyes:

Fuck you.

[chaska]

38. Used to have to listen to that jackass at work. Take it from me, Limbaugh isn't...

unfairly represented by the left.

[Ikonoklast]

41. Here's an analogy to consider, Mr. Klavan.

As annunciated by famed cinematic character Jules Winnfield, played by the great actor Samuel L. Jackson in the movie "Pulp Fiction"...

"Sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know, 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers."

I apply the same principle evoked above with regards to listening to racist scum.

[LooseWilly]

42. This article is obviously just more of the strutting that Republicans seem addicted to.

They all seem to feel some sort of tragi-comical need to be John Wayne. And here this asshat is trying to reinforce the Republican label of liberals as being both cowardly and intellectual.

Well asshat... I've listened to Rush, I listened to him while staying with a gun toting girl from Oklahoma who was something of a dittohead. Rush uses false assumptions as a foundation for spurious logical constructions... which seem like solid logic, as long as he manages to verbally dazzle the listener with the tricks of the trade while he slips the false assumptions underlying the logic to be employed past the listener.
I have listened, and I've spotted the trick floor in the magic transporter box of his rhetoric, and then I've explained it to a woman with an unlicensed .38 in her purse, over shots of whiskey.
That woman is no longer a dittohead. She may still lean right... but once the trick floor in the Rush rhetoric was pointed out, Rush was just a sweaty pill popper with a $2 magic wand that he picked up at a novelty store.

Luckily for Rush, as PT Barnum so eloquently put it, "There's a sucker born every minute."

[Blue_Tires]

43. the saddest irony is that if someone were to

suggest he follow his own advice and listen to a FULL sermon from Rev. Wright instead of harping on a media-hyped 10-second clip out of FORTY YEARS in the pulpit, he'd whine and complain and come up with the same excuses that he attributes to the left...

[Fuzz]

44. There really is no serious policy material on his show

[Iggo]

45. Never had the 'pleasure'.

[LynnTheDem]

46. That's how I discovered I despised rightwing platforms and became a

liberal.


After realizing how mean, up-tight, authoritarian, small-minded, petty, hypocritical -and total liars- the rightwingery is, I knew I wasn't rightwing.

[Mother Of Four]

47. Dear Mr. Klavan -

No matter how much you dress up a shit sandwich and call it roast beef-

It's STILL full of shit.

Have a nice day.

[edhopper]

48. Al pretty much proved that Rush is...