Military Service?
The two-sentence section on Rush's "military service" does not make sense to me. If anything, shouldn't the title be "Lack of Military Service"? If NOT being selected for the draft constitutes military service, then I don't know what Wikipedia is coming to. Denis Diderot II (talk) 06:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
"Draft Status" would seem to be an appropriate title. -HeatGeekEnvironmentalist Wacko
I think that statement needs to be modified because it's too broad. Rush certainly does not mean that ALL environmental/climate scientists are 'environmentalist wackos'. The reference cited could also be improved since it does not directly support the article statement. The reference does not give Rush's own definition of an environmentalist wacko, but must be inferred from the reference text. -- T F I TALK 15:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Elliott (talk) 19:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)Elliott7Elliott (talk) 19:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
"Draft Status" would seem to be an appropriate title. -HeatGeekFaulty Link
The term "school choice" down under The Rush Limbaugh Show links to "charter schools", not the Wikipedia article on school choice. I believe that Limbaugh was referring to actual school choice (as in choosing what schools one's children attend) rather than charter schools. 12.13.176.152 (talk)Lissa 17:37 23 January 2008
2008 Campaign
Should there be a mention of a statement Rush made saying that he may not support the Republican presidential nominee...assuming it was either John McCain or Mike Huckabee? WAVY 10 Fan (talk) 23:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Should we mention the last time he went to the bathroom? Is this article suppose to record every word and action the man takes? Hahahah. Let's not go overboard, I say. -- T F I TALK 02:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
No offense intended to anyone, but IMHO for some reason this article about Limbaugh is starting to look a lot more like a newspaper Sunday Section story or an underground biography than an encyclopedia article. Sorry, just trying to keep it real.--RogerR00 (talk) 00:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Personal life
Is there some reason that every section is negative? Why "Failed Relationships"? Do we do this for every celebrity? Somehow there seems to be a pattern here....portraying only the negative aspects of is personal life. -- T F I TALK 02:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Deafness
OxyContin cannot cause deafness because it doesn't have APAP. I believe that police records indicate that he only had received 90 days' worth of Oxy anyway. Vicodin & Percocet have APAP & police reports indicate that he had received thousands of them.
In fact, footnote 97 links to an article that contains this quote: "Harris, the San Diego doctor, says he has treated two patients whose hearing loss seems to be connected to Vicodin addiction. There's good news for patients who use the drug as prescribed, however. "I've only seen it in people who are really addicted and abusing Vicodin, taking way too many doses per day," Harris says."
I also believe that his father (who never took vicodin) started going def later in life...
Cochlear implants DO NOT restore a person's hearing. It simply allows them to hear when they have their cochlear implant on, but when it is off, the person still cannot hear anything. Trust me, I'm a cochlear implant recipient myself. A cochlear implant has two parts: an external processor which processes the sound through a microphone and a tiny computer. Then it sends the signal to an interal device, which is installed during surgery with a long tube called a electrode. The electrode takes the signal from the processor through magnets (an external and internal one) and stimulates the auditory nerve. Then the auditory nerve does the rest of the work. Again, it DOES NOT CURE DEAFNESS! It does a pretty good job and one can hear sounds just like a hearing person, but the person is still deaf. As I'm typing this, I do not have my cochlear implant on, thus I cannot hear the sounds around me. When I do have it on, I hear most sounds and I'm fully functional in the hearing world, so is Rush Limbaugh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.180.242 (talk) 15:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Cyborg
Why isn't this article in Category:Cyborgs? Rush Limbaugh has a Cochlear implant.
63.245.164.227 (talk) 22:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Armed Forces Radio
There are lots of stories about attempts to get RL taken off the Armed Forces Radio. How did he get on in the first place? Soldier votes? Congress deciding content? Director of AFR?
From Salon:Eleven years ago it was Republican members of Congress whose pressure put Limbaugh on American Forces Radio in the first place. In 1993, then Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., along with 69 other Republican House members, sent a letter to President Clinton's first secretary of defense, Les Aspin, demanding that both Limbaugh's radio show and his syndicated television show (on which Limbaugh compared preteen Chelsea Clinton to a dog) be broadcast to the military. "Limbaugh has been called by his liberal critics 'the most dangerous man in America.' It appears the liberal leadership at the Pentagon agrees with that ridiculous assertion," Dornan wrote. "The bottom line is that the troops want Rush Limbaugh, and you should see to it that they at least have that opportunity."
The Pentagon responded by pointing to an internal survey of 50,000 military listeners that found that only 4 percent requested more long-format talk radio. Most respondents overwhelmingly requested continuous music. The Pentagon also said that Limbaugh's daily three-hour radio program would monopolize too much of the network's limited airtime.
Notably, on Nov. 29, 1993, American Forces Radio and Television Services issued this statement: "The Rush Limbaugh Show makes no pretense that his show is balanced. If AFRTS scheduled a program of personal commentary without balancing it with another viewpoint, we would be open to broad criticism that we are supporting a particular point of view."
Yet just three days later, as the controversy was stoked in conservative media and Republicans cried censorship, Aspin called Limbaugh to assure him that the Pentagon would find a way to get his program on the then-named Armed Forces Radio.
Any other sources back this up?
And you point is?-- T F I TALK 12:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
DevorahLeah (talk) 18:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC) First, citation for the article about right-wing congressmembers putting him on Armed Forces Radio is here: May I add this on his web page? The reporter, Eric Boehlert, while a liberal, is a very credible journalist and media critic, in my experience, and while some may disagree with his assessments, he tends to have very accurate facts. Second, it IS a fact that the right wing in congress have actively prevented opposing views to the Bush administration from being heard. Howard Stern was kept off of AFRS,and liberal talker Ed Schultz was as well. (See for example, "Armed Forces Radio Tunes Out Liberal Show Host" By Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post, 18 October 2005; Page C1.
First paragraph below:
Liberal radio talker Ed Schultz was eagerly anticipating his debut yesterday on Armed Forces Radio, which agreed last month to carry his program to nearly a million soldiers around the world. But at 7 a.m., Schultz's producer got a call from Allison Barber, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for internal communications, who said without explanation that the deal was off..."
Kurtz, btw, by most accounts, leans right (his wife works for the RNC, I believe) but he's pretty accurate with the facts as well. There was ultimately a compromise reached that one hour of Ed's show would be carried, and to my knowledge, that has happened.
What does *any* of this have to do with Rush Limbaugh the *man?* Absolutely nothing. This sort of banter belongs on the Armed Forces Radio Network page, take it there. Payneos (talk) 04:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Romney and Rush wars
Should some mention be made of the fact that Hannity, Limbaugh, and other radio types came out strongly against McCain before the Feb 5th primaries, but yet their efforts didn't work and perhaps caused a backlash? OddibeKerfeld (talk) 19:37, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
"Our" Troops?
"...maintains a page where our troops can register for a free 24/7 membership"
I can't access the referred article (registration required). But does this really mean to say any country's armed forces, anywhere in the world? Or should it perhaps read "...American troops..."?
♠ It is for US troops. My apologies for forgetting to make the distinction when I wrote the section.-- T F I TALK 13:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
No mention of RUSH's Nobel Peace Prize nomination
I don't have the details, but Rush Limbaugh was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. It was eventually co-awarded to Al Gore and some other group. Rush talked about the nomination proudly on his show frequently.
Actually, it seems remarkably more significant than if a ran
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