Rush has done some thinking and has come to the conclusion 90% of tech bloggers are liberals and hate Apple. In his mind, “… in the mainstream media, the Republican Party is Apple, and the Democrat Party is Samsung, Google, and Android.”
He rambles on, also concluding that sports reporters of the NFL are liberal, and when asked to name some of these liberal Apple-hating blogs he declines, citing a reluctance to give them any free publicity.
I also noticed on his page an advertisement for the “Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting” but I could not get it to work. :dubious:
The old fellow appears to repeat himself a bit, and is light on evidence. His website is a trifle garish, and as a clinical diagnostician I would conclude he has a high opinion of himself.
As evidence there is one link entitled Rush, I’m Sorry I Believed All the Lies About You.
Plus it’s not just techies hating on vulgar capitalist brutes such as Apple, but also according to him, sports journalists are 95% liberal, when to be frank most sports journalists don’t think about anything at all.
In all, although undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the Republican Party, he’s probably someone you would not sit beside on public transport were he poor and shabby and rambling away like a loon.
Probably a waste of Brain-cycles to spend time deconstructing Limbaugh blather (he basically just takes random proper nouns from the news and sticks “liberal” and “conservative” infront of them and then goes off on some boiler-plate that vilifies/praises them accordingly, with the patter depending almost not at all in regards to what ).
But its kind of funny that he chose Apple, of all things, to be his stalking horse for “conservative”.
I am not a fan of Mr. Limbaugh as he is, in my opinion, emblematic of what is wrong in the current wave of political discourse. He is, however, unintentionally funny at times, and this is one of them. The idea that Apple is somehow ‘conservative’ really seem absurd to me. If Apple is conservative, then IBM is liberal and the whole world has gone topsy-turvy.
<mangled quote from Ghostbusters>
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
</mangled quote from Ghostbusters>
Even before this, Limbaugh has been on some weird crusade to defend Apple from “attacks” that probably only a slim percentage of his audience knows about. Reports of market share, new Android features or what have you. I can’t imagine that his average listener is worried about iPhone vs Galaxy sales but an outsized portion of his program seems dedicated to discussing it. And discussing the vast liberal media conspiracy behind its reporting.
Who knew that Ars Technica was a liberal propaganda machine?
Well, it is true that Reddit, for example, is an overwhelmingly liberal site, being composed mostly of younger males. And it is very hip among younger males on the internet to be dismissive of Apple, apparently because Apple refuses to make super-powerful customizable gaming machines and sell them at zero margin. Or something like that.
But that doesn’t mean that Apple is a company with conservative values – it means that a lot of people on the internet are poor college students who don’t want to shell out (what they see) as too much money for a laptop (and I’m not going to argue that they’re 100% wrong there.)
Reddit users may tend to vote for Democrats (although I’d like to see a cite on that) but the site is hardly liberal. Creepshots and jailbait and misogyny and gaybashing aren’t really liberal positions.
Well, in the conservative world-view everyone and everything is by default liberal until proved innocent; accounts for the suspiciousness and paranoia that some — not necessarily Mr. Limbaugh, since I’m unlikely to listen to him or read him, so can’t say — right-wing commentators put on; delightfully, and by no means singular to that spectrum, they sincerely also believe that the vast majority of folk are staunchly conservative or willing to be once it has been explained very slowly to them.
Limbaugh’s beef is with actual tech blogs (not Reddit) and their reporting of phones and tablets. Not really about the desktop or laptop computer markets.
I remember him spending way too long one afternoon talking about how Samsung’s sales numbers were being ginned up by tech blogs just to make Apple look bad. Samsung’s not a player in the traditional computer market but is Apple’s chief competitor for mobile devices.
In a sense it’s not weird – I’m sure you can find the same Apple/Samsung debate among “lesser” men in a billion internet forums. And God knows Rush is no stranger to tribalism. Just seems out of place to have him spend so much time on it during his talk show or to put the conservative vs liberalism ideological spin on it.
How odd. The Apple App Store is high regulated compared to Google Play.
I don’t like Apple very much, but political ideology has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Is there any reason why we need to rule out dementia, early onset or otherwise?
Now I am burning to find out which console Rush considers to be liberal, so I can go out and buy that one. Rush provides a very valuable service for me.
Some of my best friends are, or have been, sports reporters. Heck, I’ve been one myself for a couple of years at a low rung on the professional ladder. And I’ve spent a little bit of time today trying to remember the last discussion I had with any of those people which might have revealed their political persuasion.
So I’m gonna need a Dittohead to come in here and explain to me why sports reporters are regarded as “liberal.”