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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2012, 05:40 PM Jun 2012

Thank you, Rachel Maddow (and Rush Limbaugh)!

I just finished all of my research for a paper I'm writing in my Sociology class about our favorite bloviating RWer and why people listen to him. Among other sources, I used Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" and Rachel Maddow's epic smackdown of Limbaugh after the Sandra Fluke controversy. Who says college can't be fun?

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Thank you, Rachel Maddow (and Rush Limbaugh)! (Original Post) Brigid Jun 2012 OP

Good for you. Tell them all about it! freshwest Jun 2012 #1

Hopefully your Soc professor is a liberal ;) jillan Jun 2012 #2

why do people listen to him? NewJeffCT Jun 2012 #3

Yes, I would like to know too. nt siligut Jun 2012 #4

I think his listeners think of him as their voice. They think he respects them. Brigid Jun 2012 #5

"They think he respects them." Interesting concept. AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #7

Rush respects, enables, and fuels their hate. ananda Jun 2012 #8

I am sure I speak for most of us when I ask if we can read it here? Dustlawyer Jun 2012 #6

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

1. Good for you. Tell them all about it!

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 06:18 PM

Jun 2012

jillan

(39,451 posts)

2. Hopefully your Soc professor is a liberal ;)

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 06:31 PM

Jun 2012

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

3. why do people listen to him?

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:01 PM

Jun 2012

just wondering what your opinion is of why.

siligut

(12,272 posts)

4. Yes, I would like to know too. nt

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:07 PM

Jun 2012

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

5. I think his listeners think of him as their voice. They think he respects them.

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:56 PM

Jun 2012

The world is changing around them, and they feel powerless and unable to adapt -- sort of like Walt Kozlowski in "Gran Torino," only not nearly as smart. And I can't help but think that at least some of his listeners tune in just to laugh at him. We dare not ignore him as we have done in the past, because too many actually take his bloviating seriously. They are probably the same ones who think Stephen Colbert is a conservative.