Once upon a time long ago I was a DITTO HEAD. I practiced the sort of religion he preached, as he is like god - or maybe Hitler -  to all his loyal followers. If he says it is so, it is so, if he says hate, you’ll hate. He calls his non-followers "Sheeple" as if his people are not just  exactly that. I  suddenly realized I didn’t have a thought for myself, as his brand of hypnotism is all encompassing. If he says it is so, then IT IS SO! I know people who will say to me "Rush says……….." Well ,duh, what do YOU say?" I long ago saw him for exactly what he was - a fat man who wants to control people’s minds, and he does exactly that….preaches hate, if something is counter to his beliefs, which are all Republican oriented. It didn’t take me long to break away from his mind control, but he is good at what he does, but,oh so dangerous to our country. Wanting the current administration to fail is tantamount to treason. Where will we ALL be if it fails? Think about that before you wish for it.

I remember my late in-laws in the 1980s, hovered around the radio, all dewy-eyed about Rush’s latest pronouncement. I sat like a stone wondering how these otherwise decent people could be taken in by this charlatan. Eventually I had to ask, and their response was enlightening.  They said, as if in one voice, "he helps us to understand what’s really going on in America. He knows all the secrets and God speaks through him." Whew! Part black magic, part religion, part laziness of intellect. They were wealthy, Orange County, right-wingers, who up until the time they began listening to Rush, were not carrying the burden of hating liberals. That all changed, and they soon began "preaching" the Limbaugh party line. They lost friends and alienated family, but they were faithful to Rush until they died. I’ve always wanted to punch him in the face for his influence on these two people. I’m glad, Margo, you gave him the verbal dressing down he deserves. This man oozes hatred and egomania. He does not love this country. He hates it, and he wants only to cause upheavel and chaos. His "followers’ are deluded, jumping aboard the Rush train rather than thinking for themselves. I hope he fries in hell.

I stopped listening to Rush years ago when he complained incessantly about the Red Cross using donkeys instead of vehicles to get supplies to hurricane victims in the Dominican republic…ah Rush there were no roads left for vehicles to use, so the people should have just starved maybe?

His rhetoric is often so narrow and shortsighted yet people gobble it up..insane!