[.ca] The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error (ISBN 156584260X)

The Way Things Should Be:
This book is like going to a fast food restaurant, it is fast, cheap and tasty yet you know the nutritional value is not the best. I am not a fan of Rush, thus my book choice, so reading books like this that spell out many of his errors are just a laugh a minute to read. If you have even found this book then you are probably also an anti Rush person and regardless of the content, as long as it was somewhat negative, you are going to like the book. This book should fit that need. To be fair the book is not really negative, other then a few funny shots at Rush's ego, the book is very fair. It simply takes statements Rush has made over the years and spells out the truth. The authors list out their sources and from where the Rush comment came from. I guess my only complaint with the book is that given the Rush comments where simple sentences, a Rush supporter could always make the claim that the comment was taken out of context. To avoid that I would have liked the authors to add a bit more of the Rush words before and after the comments. Yet this is a small complaint on my part and does not really take away from the enjoyment of the book. Toward the end of the book I started to appreciate a comment the authors started the book with. They stated that although they could list literally 1000's of errors, they were going to limit the book to 100 given that any more and the reader might lose interest. I certainly felt that I had hit my limit toward the end of the book. As I read the book I kept hearing Rush in my head and after about 100 pages, it was all I could stomach. Overall the book was a nice time waster, not too heavy and fast and easy to read. Did it provide any deep though or interesting conclusions about the effect Rush has on the current Republican Party or the public as a whole, no. It just laid out many of his more bone headed comments. Would this book change any minds, again I doubt it. If you dislike Rush then you will get a kick out of the book.

Something for the sequel:
This is something I caught at my blog (the link is on my reviewer name). Hopefully, FAIR will write a 10th anniversary sequel and put this claim among many others in it. I caught this a while back on my last blog, and I unfortunately couldn't get the word out much about it. On July 3, 2003, Rush Limbaugh pretended to mathematically prove that liberals are unpatriotic when he went on this vein: "...A new Gallup poll out for the Independence Day weekend, showed that 7 in 10 Americans are "extremely proud" to be Americans. If you go inside this poll, however, you find these astounding numbers: Eighty percent of conservatives are extremely proud of the country, compared with 68% of moderates and 56% of liberals. More than 8 in 10 Republicans are extremely proud to be Americans, while two-thirds of Democrats feel this way. Only 56% of liberals are proud of this country, folks. Meanwhile conservatives and Republicans are overwhelmingly proud. What does this tell you, my friends?" It tells us that either: A) Limbaugh is lying B) Limbaugh is an ignoramus can't perform the simple task of interpreting a poll C) Both (The most likely choice) Why do I say this? Because when you look at the actual poll, you find that 56% said they were "extremely proud" to be Americans, not "proud". "Extremely proud" was one of several choices: Extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, only a little proud, not at all, & no opinion. While 56% of liberals said "extremely proud" almost all of the rest said that they were very or moderately proud. All in all, 1% of all respondents said, "not proud at all", meaning that if they were all liberal, only 3% of liberals aren't proud to be Americans. Of course, "Only 97% of liberals are proud of this country, folks" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, so Limbaugh lied again, something not at all out of character for Rush. In fact, if they were to do a sequel, they could reprint much of the info at http://www.groups.msn.com/RushversusReality/ , it's almost too easy.

Loneyly Drug Addled Creep exposed:
A lonely drug-addled cretin gets to feel like a real man in the isolation of a radio broadcasting booth -- his ego fed by hundreds of morphine and oxycontine pills and scads of others. Whatever comes to his mind, he says, and he doesn't give a damn whether it's true or not. For the most part he makes it up as he goes along. Giving his listeners the kind of proto-fascist stuff these simpletons love. No wonder they hate this book. Apart from one fact. Most of them are too stupid to read. Those who can, only read books that fit their twisted little minds. It's not a question of liberal and right wing. It's what puts bucks in the Rush pocket to buy drugs. Get serious. This is unAmerican stuff -- and this book is one step toward exposing it.

Dittoheads, This one's for you!:
How's this irony to end all irony: The ACLU is backing Rush Limbaugh, down there in Florida. Apparently, the FBI seize a bunch of his medical records as part of their investigation on wether Limbaugh is a crack head or just a cracked head. The ACLU thinks this is an invasion of privacy and is illegal. Wonder what Rush thinks about the ACLU now? Anyway, this little booklet is a good acompaniment to your other books like, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" and "The Great Limbaugh Con." It is full of funny cartoons and illustrations with Limbaugh's interpretation on the Right and the factual facts on the Left. It is easy reading and hilarious. Maybe this book is specially written for his fans, since they seem to be the kind that can't manage to read a book without pictures. Writing this book must have been a no brainer because all you had to do is listen to Limbaugh's shows (maybe that's not too easy after all) and present the truth as it is written in newspapers and historical documents to refute anything that comes out of his blowhole. The Introduction is made by Miss Molly Ivins on which she quotes a dittohead "You know Rush is right, Racism is dead in America, I don't know what the \o*******\chave to gripe about now." Anymore reason to wonder why Rush is so Popular?? Well, I like this book. I found it informative and entertaining. It is too bad we don't see Rush Limbaugh as he really is, A cartoonish clown with a funny jibberish take on the our world. This is where the danger lies. What else can you say when you have Ted Koppel, Tim Russert and Ronald Reagan as fellow dittoheads. I can't wait for the day that Rush Limbaugh retires.

101:
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." -- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.