by Rush Limbaugh
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The popular radio talk-show host and right-wing reactionary speaks out on a variety of controversial issues, including AIDS, teenage sex, abortion, the environmental movement, Congress, the IRS, feminism, and more. 150,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Rush's First Book, 2009-01-01
Rush Limbaugh wrote "The Way Things Ought to Be" in 1992, after his national radio show had been on for four years. In this book, El Rushbo tells the story of how his show went national and comments on many of the issues that were part of the national conversation in the early Nineties. While many of the issues are no longer topical, the principles Rush uses to address them are timeless.
As Limbaugh warned then and still warns now, the GOP gets into big trouble when it abandons those principles, as evidenced by the last eight years. The grandees of the Republican Party would do well to read this book and return to the conservative agenda that resulted in the historic victories of 1980 and 1994.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 A Qualified Depiction of Right Wing Values and Talking Points, 2008-08-25
Limbaugh presents the classical conservative arguments offering details on a vast number of topics. He provides a very logical presentation of his reasoning outlining conservative strong points such as the economy, defense of the 80s, and counterviews to environmentalist and ozone enthusiasts.
For Conservatives and Liberals alike, discovering an in depth analysis that represents the backbone of the Right Wing values will be enlightening; as long as one can get past the tone of self-importance so associated with Limbaugh. Thus even if you disagree with every point he makes, one cannot refute the fact that Limbaugh has put together a very good case for his points backed with a large amount of statistical evidence that although perhaps refutable in some areas would be a challenge to undertake.
If there is a drawback to this book it is the polarizing approach that Limbaugh utilizes based on the apparent belief that the Republican Party line is absolutely correct on every issue and is intolerant towards any opposing thought. However, the book's intent clearly was based on providing Limbaugh's reasoning behind his and the Rightwing party values; of which Limbaugh aptly accomplished. I recommend this book to anyone seeking to better understand the Rightwing or wishing to undertake the challenge of refuting the party's positions.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Mindless egotism the size of Mt. RUSHmore, 2008-05-17
"The reason I do what I do, the way I do it, is to get the largest radio audience possible and to get the largest dollar amount I can for commercials. It's a business -- strictly a business." - Rush Limbaugh, in a speech at Daytona Beach
Like the preppy goody-two-shoes from high school who piously rattles off his favorite preferences of purity, Rush Limbaugh trumpets the superiority of "Talent on loan from Gawd" over the wandering masses he so panderingly courts in the quest for the almighty dollar. As if television pundits were not laughable and egotistical enough, Rush believes that on his radio show, which he brands as "entertainment" and sustains for three hours each day, conservative truths and reasoned conservative analysis cannot compete against shameless self-promotion. How sad it is that millions of Americans accept Rush Limbaugh's words as Holy Writ without understanding that he does not care a whit for you.
Rush directed this ghost-written 1992 manifesto, "The Way Things Ought To Be," before he decided to submit willingly to the Powers That Be that same year after he occupied the Lincoln Bedroom on June 3rd. He met one of his antagonists: President George Herbert Walker Bush. Indeed, "starlet" Rush Limbaugh vocally supported the 1992 campaign of Pat Buchanan and threw devastating criticism against the Republican Party and the elder Bush for their abandonment of the conservative cause. In short, Rush submitted himself to the Establishment Elite the way many others do: For power. Limbaugh thus became a shill for the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole. He now occupies the title of unofficial spokesman for the modern Republican Party.
Rush openly opposed conservative positions on issues for which he refused to rock his powerful benefactors for supporting both before and after the Republicans' historic takeover of Congress: GATT and the balanced budget amendment. On GATT, Limbaugh sided with blind acceptance the Gingrich party line that the Republican leadership's arguments refuted the protest against such an unconstitutional transfer of Congress' power to regulate commerce. Limbaugh blithely shrugged off concerned callers to his radio show who expressed uncomfortable dissatisfaction with GATT. The balanced budget amendment, an unnecessary insertion apparently to "correct" supposed "deficiencies" within our Constitution, would not ensure balanced numbers because it allowed any kind of imbalance with a 60 percent majority of Congress. The Constitution requires no such amendment because the document already outlines what can and cannot be appropriated by the federal government. But doesn't Limbaugh APPEAR to be looking out for the people's interests?
"This is my program. I have always run this program using my interests, my desires, and my instincts. This is a program, where I set the agenda .... I am in total satisfaction with my attitude. I'm not going to change mine. I'm happy." - Rush Limbaugh responding to a caller who urged Rush to save by the country and its citizens by exposing the globalist agenda.
Is not the above quote a fitting representation of the difference between We the People and those who sell out our constitutional republic for power? Many Americans otherwise educated and very patriotic express rejoice at the opportunity to listen to an enthused and passionate protector of conservative values and the common man. Unfortunately, they are deluded by this spinmeister and his dastardly deeds. RUSH LIMBAUGH is a preening self-promoter and a shill for those who do not protect your interests. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Highly recommended reading: "The Revolution: A Manifesto" by Congressman Ron Paul, The New American article "Establishment Dittohead" from July 10, 1995, which served as the primary research for this review, and "Day of Reckoning" by Pat Buchanan.
9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
This book opened my eyes, 2007-08-21
I have always been a Patriot and came from a military family. Yet the mass media always seemed to be putting out the message that it was wrong to be Patriotic, that there isn't really any such thing as right or wrong, that serving in the military is a waste.
So, who was right? I was like Smith in 1984: I didn't have any proof in the face of all this propaganda that things should be different but a FEELING that patriotism is a positive attribute, that you could disagree with the picture being painted and NOT be labeled a bigot/homophobe/fascist.
I never listened to Rush until after I read this book. It was right after Desert Storm and despite liberating Kuwait from a brutal, bloodthirsty tyrant who's treatment of the Kuwaitis rivalled anything the Nazis dished out in the USSR I was hearing this same negativism. But Rush put it all in perspective for me. I've been an avid fan ever since.
4 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
 Limbaugh-er cheese. , 2007-07-28
A delusional hypocrite sounds off. Save your money. Go to the press releases sections of the American Enterprise Institute and the Republican National Committee Web sites if you want this guy's philosophy.
The book is useful if you need a primer on the language used by big government neoconservatives.
It saddens me to write this. I considered Limbaugh a teacher and an inspiration until the Republicans assumed power in D.C. and he showed what he really is (a partisan political hack albeit an articulate and entertaining one). Limbaugh does not believe in "freedom" or "limited government" despite his many pretensions to the contrary in this book and elsewhere. He believes in electing Republicans and hoping for the best. It's a simpleton's philosophy, really.
If you want to get a glimpse of the real Rush Limbaugh then tune in to his radio show a few days before a presidential election. What you'll hear is Limbaugh running down the Democratic candidate while pretending that the Republican nominee is sweetness and light.
Limbaugh can't resist the siren song of party politics but, in fairness to him, he's not the only person who suffers from this malady.
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