It really is sad when a person loses the one thing he needs to do his job. I can only hope that Rush can have a successful cochlear implant in the near future and continue broadcasting with a fresh perspective on life.

That being said, I'm conservative in many areas, but even I've gotten a little tired of Rush over the past few years. It wasn't that I disagreed with any point in particular (though there are some I think he makes using flawed statistics and without thinking things through), it was really just that my time was too valuable to listen to him heap praise on himself, name-drop, and brag about expensive cigars during the two hours it would take for him to make a point.

But can you blame him? That's what worked for him. That's what got him a $250,000,000 syndication contract last year. And you can attack him for being a conservative all you want to, but I'll merely attribute it to the fact that his conservative views are actually popular enough to make a radio show profitable, while all liberals who have tried similar endeavors have failed miserably. In fact, the only nationwide liberal talk show forum I'm aware of is NPR, which is funded by me and the rest of America's taxpayers. So say what you will about Rush, but he never took a single tax dollar to get his message out. Then again, it would pretty tough to sell advertising on a radio show whose host ranted and raved about there NOT being ENOUGH government in the lives of everyday Americans.