Rush Limbaugh: American Hustler

Can you hear it? It's the sound of bling. The infamous cash register ring that reverberates with every purchase. It's the sound Rush Limbaugh makes every single time his name is uttered in the mainstream press. The Walrus of Talk Radio is swimming in doe and making good on that $400 Million Dollar contract he recently signed. But, it might as well be a bounty, because when someone or someone(s) pay you that kind of cash just to run your mouth, they tend to want results; and thus, far the unofficial voice and head of the GOP is making every dollar count.



Depending on one's perspective, he's either easy to love or very easy to hate, but, in the hot tradition of many o' polarizing figures there is no middle ground when it comes to Rush Limbaugh, leave that to those broke journalist, Limbaugh's cash flow resides on both ends of the aisle. "Don't hate the player, hate the game." Rush Limbaugh is an American hustler through and through. He knows his craft and his audience intimately. He is highly competent in stoking their passions. He's their pied piper. He speaks to their sensibilities. With coded language he strokes their subconscious and very conscious White insecurities. Despite his privileged upbringing, he leads them to believe he is just like them, one of the folks. Personally, I believe Rush Limbaugh is about as Conservative as I am a Vegan. No one who is a four time divorcee, glutton, drug addict can possibly be authentically Conservative. But, he's in too deep. He's preached his gospel for far too long to ever have a conversion; and with $400 Million, why would he become a believer now? His sponsors are not paying him to be objective, but, to continue in the reckless tradition of sowing discord. Unfortunately, for his beloved Party his gift of discord and rabble rousing comes eerily close to being the death knell of a Party which is already in a vegetative state.



Who would have ever thought that an innocent reference to Limbaugh from the President of the United States himself, reiterated by his Chief of Staff, would cause such a ruckus in the Republican Party? Some have suggested the move was quite Machiavellian on the part of our President and his Chief of Staff. Considering the present state of the Republican Party, if such a thing is true, then in the words of the late great Isaac Hayes, President Obama is one "bad mother...Shut your mouth!"






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