Rush Limbaugh openly admits that he has no obligation to be fair, balanced, or objective in his commentary. Although he also admits that he is a defender of conservatism and wealth, his words and actions betray a more historically malignant philosophy. He believes that the royalty of our society, those who make their livings by taking advantage of our least educated and hardest working citizens should control our country and reap most of its benefits.
The most important thing to educate the public about Rush Limbaugh: he pretends to fight for working-class Americans, but actually cons them into voting against their own best economic interests.
His demagogic techniques and his deliberate distortion of economic issues are clearly described in the book: The Great Limbaugh Con, and Other Right-Wing Assaults on Common Sense. It’s out of print now, but I’m its author and I’ve made it available for totally free download at books.google.com. Hope you enjoy it, and I welcome any comments, questions or objections about what you read in the book, or here.
Postscript: Some of the issues dealt with in the book:
Rush asks us to name one country that ever taxed itself out of a recession. How about the U.S.--from 1941 to 1980, our most prosperous years for most Americans.
Wealth is a zero-sum game at both the front end, when it is divided up--and at the back end, when it is spent (we live in a world of auction markets).
The news media is liberal biased, because as Stephen Colbert says, reality is liberal biased. And conservatives can't stand it.
Conservatives, not liberals, are conducting class warfare. And when liberals respond, it's not out of class envy, it's out of righteous anger.
Right-wing conservatives use capitalism as a cover, and actually are closet aristocrats.