What to call what Rush Limbaugh does

[Paul]

paul johnson

What's wrong with propaganda, bombast,sophistry,casuistry, distortion,
incogitancy, bombast,  slanted. biased,  Tatuffery, confabulation.  Just
curious why are we asking for a  new word when there are so many old
fashioned,  readily available  ones?

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> This is not supposed to be political, but I would call it hate-mongering for
> money. Or lying, if you prefer.
>
> Rush racked up $400,000,000 to keep it going through 2016.
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> That's one thousand (1000) times the annual salary of President George W.
> Bush or President Barack Obama.
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> For that kind of money, any show-biz character would be inclined to stretch
> the truth.
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> JL
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:21 AM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:
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>> I incline toward "nattering nabob of negativity", myself.
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>> GAT
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>> George A. Thompson
>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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>> From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 0:46 am
>> Subject: What to call what Rush Limbaugh does
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>>> What do we call the type of nasty political commentary on radio
>>> exemplified by Rush Limbaugh?  I thought "shock radio", does that
>>> have more with sexual content?  On the other hand, NPR says "The
>>> firing of talk radio host Don Imus is a blow to shock radio. But the
>>> kind of edgy, often offensive commentary and entertainment Imus
>>> offered is not likely to disappear from the airwaves."
>>>
>>> Joel
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