Rush is BOMBASTIC in an intentionally very humorous way. This he does only to agreve the left. They HATE him and his bombastic ways. When he finds something that especially pains the left, he'll find something to say in a loud, bombastic, self important way to gore them more. And it works every time. He LOVES it! It amuses me.
I had been lecturing my two boys years ago about the crap they were being fed at school. They wqere trying to fill their heads full of mush as Rush says. So thte eldest, David was off at College in Virginia Beach. I drove down to see him with the rest of the family for Thanksgiving. David asked me to tune in a specific radio station, and there was this guy saying what I'd been saying for years. At the first commercial I said, well, boys, believe me now that some guy on the radio has said the SAME THING!
Dave was grinning, I'd been set up. I asked who it was, and he said Rush Limbaugh, and he was HOT STUFF in Va Beach. They had "Rush Rooms" in the local restaurants where only his show was on the sound system, and many business men went to these rooms for lunch. That he'd been listening almost since the day he started college. And most still do.