I Don't Care That You Care
Memo to callers to the Rush Limbaugh show. Get to the friggin' point. Don't tell Rush how glad you are that he's back, how you prayed for him when he was in rehab, or how you wish him well in the future. WE KNOW THAT. And please, please, I can't stress this enough, don't regale us with tales of your addiction, the addiction of a family member, or a really good story about addiction that you read in Readers Digest. WE DON'T CARE. If Rush wants to talk about his problems that's fine. But I'm not tuning in to hear you go on and on about how hard it was for your second cousin to kick heroin. In fact that's the reason I tuned out yesterday.
Dennis Prager often raves about how intelligent and informed the callers to his show are. Michael Medved attracts an unusual but interesting crowd of callers, whom he likes to engage in debate. Despite the fact that he belittles and lies about them, Hugh's callers are usually a cut about the average as well.
But Rush? The callers are by far the weakest link on his show. If Rush is going off on one of his lengthy monologues it really doesn't get much better. But the moment the phone lines are opened up, the show loses, rather than gains something. I don't know how to explain it, but the fact is that Rush has the worst callers in talk radio.
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