[george carlin]
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but sometimes it’s a big brown dick.
[/george carlin]
On today’s show, Rush announced that he had been getting progressively more deaf since May, and as of today has no hearing in his left ear, and such poor hearing in the right that he could no longer understand radio, tv, or telephone audio. What was odd was that he then went on to note that some e-mails recently claimed he was sounding like Buckley, but went on to say that must be due to some sort of technical problem, even though he also said he can no longer hear himself speak.
OK good-it wasnt just me, then. He’s not my favorite,
but I started listening again after a local station lineup change. Wasnt sure if I just never noticed the annoying
way he says “SHhEduuled”, or if his speech was becoming
a little slurred. Unfortunate about his decline in hearing
ability.
This thread answers all (or most) of these questions. Poor guy.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=91790
You know, about a month ago I was exploring the AM dial and heard a conservative talk radio guy who was speaking with enormous, enormous pauses of dead air. “You know what bugs me?.. I’m sick and tired… of all this abortion… stem cells… I tell you people… when are we going to respect… the life… of every human being?” (Each ellipsis here represents, quite literally, five seconds of dead air.) At the time I assumed (for some reason) that it was Mike Savage, but now I wonder if it wasn’t Limbaugh’s new style.
Anyway, I think it’s poetic justice that a hateful loudmouth like Limbaugh has now shouted himself into deafness. I wonder if this will change his stance on the handicapped? I remember Walter Williams once guest-hosted his show and went on and on about how horrible the Americans with Disabilities Act is, and how he had to suffer under the ADA’s “discrimination” against non-handicapped people. Someone called in to say that he was in a wheelchair and as a taxpaying American he felt that he should be able to get into the Post Office, to which WW replied, “So, you want to put a GUN to people’s heads just so they can scramble around to accomodate you?” “No, I just feel there should be federal guideli-” “Oh, so you want to put a GUN TO PEOPLE’S HEADS and force them to follow federal guidelines!”
Is there any hope that someone could shoot a quirine dart into Limbaugh’s fat butt and turn him into a homosexual?
-Ben
[Firesign]
Who is he talking to? How does he make his voice do that?
[/Firesign]
And if George Will actually wrote a tightly-reasoned column, I’d faint. Talk about a guy who’s coasting on reputation. :rolleyes:
Of course, Will presumably once wrote cogently enough to earn the sort of reputation that’s made him a regular at the best Georgetown soirées, which by itself puts him miles ahead of Limbaugh.
I don’t have a cite or anything for this particular instance, but that doesn’t do much for the needle on my Ring-of-Truth-O-Meter™. The technology to digitally alter speed and pitch independently of each other is no longer hard to come by — hell, I can do it right here on my PC. I’d guess the stations could slow or speed him without making him sound like a Chipmunk or James Earl Jones.
- Dave
Real nice. You might as well say that it’s poetic justice that a gay-rights activist comes down with AIDS. Yea, infidels with opionions we dislike shall be smitten with multifarious diseases. Where are you posting from, Kabul?
I hate Richard Nixon, but he’s * dead *, man.
I can see this thread going in only one direction-down.
Since there is already a BBQ Pit thread on this subject, I’m locking this down.