The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh

I was going to start reading and critiquing Rush Limbaugh's book "The Way Things Ought to Be" for my Story Time podcast this morning.  I instead read an article in the current issue of Imprimis adapted from a speech by Tom McClintock.  I changed my mind about the content of today's show because I found Mr. Limbaugh's book to be deceptively titled, anti-conceptual and contradictory.  The book's title suggests that the reader will encounter a dissertation on various political concepts and abstraction from abortion to xenophobia. What the reader gets instead is a memoir. A recollection of life events from the early days of 'The Rush Limbaugh Show. A blurb from the inside of the book jacket informs us that Mr. Limbaugh explains his political philosophy via anecdote.  In other words he is communicating by telling stories and "painting" verbal pictures.  As Ayn Rand has discovered story telling and verbal picture painting are anti-conceptual, atavistic and left wing.  Since Mr. Limbaugh is an avowed conservative and conservatism is inherently conceptual and abstract the communication style that Mr. Limbaugh chooses to use is contradictory to his professed political views and therefore not worthy of my time.