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Flush Rush

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If you love Rush, you'll hate this book for showing you what a lying dog he is. And if you think Rush is factually challenged, you'll find plenty of evidence to support your view. This book is likely to raise the ire of the faithful Rush followers. Because as with any criticism of a worldview founded on unchallenged propaganda, the proponents of said worldview become agitated as they find themselves unable to personally defend their beliefs. Rush is a leader -- a charismatic, energized fellow -- that draws disgruntled and dislocated people. In short, Rush has his very own cult, yet few acknowledge it as such. This book puts under cover what is readily available -- excerpts from Rush Limbaugh Show transcripts that demonstrate his uncanny ability to pawn off misrepresentations and falsehoods as "I'm not making this stuff up." It turns out that not only does Rush make this stuff up, but he does so with a vengeance -- always seeking to blacken the eye of those who disagree with him. But that's politics, right? Except that when Rush is taken to task for his propaganda, he says "it's just entertainment folks." Well, Rush, why don't you tell that to your followers who accept your every utterance as gospel truth? This book is short and to the point. It raises the awareness that Rush and his cult need to be watched closely, lest his followers become a danger to themselves or to society.

Flush Rush is a great attempt to chronicle Limbaugh's unbelievably poor record of telling the truth. The one setback is that there are so many twists of truths and blatant lies that one would need a book published daily to try to salvage some brain cells lost while listening to Limbaugh's garbage. I am happy that there are people who are trying to police this liar and attempt to stop the dumbing down of the minds of his listeners. Unfortunately, I feel that the hard-core "ditto-heads" will never even hear of this, as they are sheep led by their 12-3pm talk show god.

As evidence by the reviews, what most people think of this book depends on which side of the political spectrum they happen to be on. Whats most interesting is that people on the far right constantly talk about how liberals are liars and such, which sometimes is true, but they never want to talk about their own. When presented with the other side of the story (in this case the truth) they either dont want to hear it at all or simply deny reality, because often reality doesnt fit with "the way things ought to be". This book, although not nearly as funny or entertaining as "rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot", is more factual and still interesting if you have ever listened to his show. There is a good reason why he never has and never will have guests to debate the opposing view. Neither he or his listeners could stand it.

This book chronicles a number of Rush's memorable whoppers. Having always been dubious of many of his claims, and seeing so many people take him seriously, this book was a welcome addition to "The Way Things Aren't", another book on Rush's seeming inability to tell the truth. For anyone who listens to this show with disbelief, but is not quite sure why it's so hard to believe...here's why.

Folks, the facts speak for themselves. Before you label the left as a revisionist group of history book editors, check this one out. Every fact stated here is indisputable.

Of course, reviews from the left and right will be a bit biased, but no one can deny that each contradiction by Limbaugh presented in this book is based in fact. Faced with "the truth" (as Limbaugh so stubbornly claims to preach), Limbaugh's assertions over the years become quite contradictory indeed. Makes you wonder who's really the one with the knee-jerk reactions here.

The book itself does nothing artistic, nothing flowery; it states what it has set out to do, and nothing more. Flush Rush is accurate and well-organized, but it is the literary equivalent to plain yogurt. Sure, it's full of virtue, but who really wants to eat plain yogurt all afternoon?

An interesting effort gone awry. The book contains a number of statements by Rush Limbaugh which are analyzed and debunked. The problem is believability, on both sides. Many of the 'factual' sources for the debunking information are as biased and questionable (despite the official-sounding names) as the biased and questionable sources used by Limbaugh himself (again, despite the official-sounding names). They catch Limbaugh in a number of flat-out lies (or mistakes, if you're being generous), but the vast majority of the 'errors' aren't errors at all, but items spun to seem like them. See also "The Way Things Aren't" by FAIR, which does the same thing, with just as spotty a record toward real accuracy. Both books try to portray Rush as constantly spewing lies and inaccuracies, which is a false portrayal, just as Limbaugh himself portrays himself as consistently correct, an equally myopic view.
Basically, a book for those who wish to feel better about their ideological point of view, because Liberals will be able to accept the spun retorts as if they're correct, and Conservatives will be able to pick apart the inaccuracies in the book itself without letting themselves deal with the notion that they're all based off things Limbaugh misrepresented. If you're already firm in your beliefs, this book is for you; if you're looking for an unbiased approach to debunking Limbaugh's errors, keep looking elsewhere.

This book details how Rush is supposedly wrong according to people who have a dire dialike for him. This is not fair to Rush and is not properly documented enough for serious acreditation.

On a whim, I checked this book out of the library recently and found it to be more misleading than it claims RL to be. Those of you who consider yourselved to be to the left will not notice this problem, and those of you to the right will pick up on it easily.

I don't know what I was thinking when I purchased this book about ten years ago. It was a complete waste of time and money, who in their right mind would ever read such rubbish. The arguments against Mr Rush were completely off and erroneous. Don't buy into this media propaganda.

This book is nothing more than the splitting of hairs. What's worse are it's inaccuracies about Rush's inaccuracies. So he's not always right. Big Deal... who is? Want to read a real book pointing out errors on a person? Read the Starr Report.