Rush Limbaugh says the darndest things

[Tino]

The big difference is that the Daily Show can make a joke and everyone will know it's a joke but it will still make a legitimate point.

Tara, I think most of Limbaugh's listeners would say the same thing, that Rush can make a joke and everyone will know it's a joke but it will still make a legitimate point.

If you find it to be true for the Daily Show then I think this is due more to whether you tend to agree with the Daily Show's political ideology and less that it's an objective truth. It's clearly a left-leaning show. Yes, they make some token jokes about the left, but they're usually pretty lifeless and it's obvious that their heart's not in it.

Limbaugh has been very effectively demonized by the left, but he is no farther to the right, or no more extreme than Chris Mathews or Rachel Maddow of MSNBC are extreme to the left. And in comparison, he doesn't purport to be delivering an unbiased news commentary show. They do.