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Quotes of the Day: Mourning the Great Rush Limbaugh
The Greatest Talk-Radio Host of all time, Rush Limbaugh, died a year ago today, February 17, 2021. I mourn his passing every single day. He will be remembered forever on my personal blog at RushBabe49.com. As quotes of the day, I have chosen some of my favorite quotes from the Great MahaRushie, Truth Detector, Doctor of Democracy, and Mayor of Realville.
The Truth does not require a majority to prevail, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Truth is its own power. The Truth will out. Never forget that.
Character matters. Leadership descends from Character.
Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims.
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails.
I say what I mean. I don’t speak in code. That’s why I am a star and an ace communicator.
Why is Freedom such a hard sell? That’s the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That’s something I never thought would happen here.
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They’re political activists disguised as reporters.
I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world’s problems.
In August 2005, I was fortunate to be able to speak to Rush on his program (don’t tell anyone that I did it from work) and found him to be a very gracious host. He loved how I became a listener (he always liked to hear the stories), and I cherish that opportunity.
Rush Limbaugh was and remains My Hero. Let us all remember what a great Conservative he was, for the over thirty years he was a presence on the radio. Please join me in mourning, and celebrating the life of the Great Rush Limbaugh.
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I miss his voice on my radio. I like to imagine the mincemeat he’d have made of the current administration.
Do you have any idea what happened to Paul Shanklin? I miss his great parodies, too.
I believe Paul Shanklin has his own web site.
P.S., @thecynthonian, I miss the hell out of you, too!
It’s worth remembering that February 17, 2021 was Ash Wednesday. We all come from ashes, and to ashes we all return.
I miss Rush, even though I complained about his extensive shilling for Apple.
Isn’t that from Ron Paul’s farewell speech? Perhaps Rush was quoting that? If not it’s close, and fair enough. No clue who said it first, but both are right!
I miss Rush.
My sister lived in Sacramento when he was local there. She used to call me to tell me all about this guy on the radio who “says what I think!” She’d never heard such plain speaking before. So I already knew about him when he went national and we finally got him in Chicago, I think it was around 1990. I could not get enough. It was such a breath of fresh air. And then he got the TV show, and I loved it too even if it was a little rough around the edges at first.
A Rush quote that I say all the time:
“Words mean things!”
—Fun Fact: Rush and I have the same birthday.
Americans are only exceptional if they uphold the true meaning of American exceptionalism: a system of citizen self-rule with equality before the law, limiting the functions of government and bearing personal responsibility over the functioning of a society beholden to a Creator and not to man.
I miss Rush too. From Mark Steyn’s website today:
In addition to his nightly TV gig on GB News, Steyn does a weekly turn on Tuesday afternoons with Bo Snerdley who has his own show on WABC in NY from 4-5PM.
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Seems, especially here lately, not a day goes by that I don’t quote Rush in some fashion. I’ve even got the husband doing it now. I still tear up thinking about him. Thanks for this piece, Rushbabe.
It doesn’t seem possible that it’s only been a year.
I reread the final newsletter this morning. Sure, it was months after his death but the quality was just as good as when he was still alive . . .
Every morning when I get in the car, I still reach for the radio button that used to connect me to Rush and then I stop myself. He laid a great foundation, and none of us live forever, but I really miss him.
Dan Bogino was talking in Rush’s time slot today and he’d MUCH rather be listening to Rush, than doing his radio show. Said Rush was irreplaceable…
So, who will fill the void left by Rush? I nominate Greg Gutfeld.
I don’t think that person has come along yet. There are a number of folks I enjoy (Gutfeld–every now and then–being one of them.) But I think Mark Steyn hit the nail on the head when he said (paraphrasing):
I think Steyn has the right idea. But I understand he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. His GB News program may have too much of a British cast to it for many here. (I’ve got a foot in both camps, so I love it.) And he’s somewhat more abrasive than Rush.
But, who–to put it a bit differently–would you listen to on a day-by-day basis because you believed in his worldview, and no matter what the daily outrage told you you should pay attention to?
Because that’s what Rush’s replacement would expect.
I had the opposite reaction. I cannot believe that it has already been a year! But it may be all the same feeling. God knows the core is the same.
I love your comment, despite my position that the answer is “nobody”. Who shall hang the moon and the stars? etc
If Rush replace anybody, it was Paul Harvey. The disconnect between them is immense. What Dyed-in-the-wool Harvey fan would have foreseen Rush?
We won’t know who “replaces” Rush for a decade, and that person, program, style, and point of view will be as different from Rush as Rush is different from Harvey.
Which is not to discourage anybody from working on the problem. The field is far more wide open than anybody thinks!
Here’s a very nice tribute to Rush posted on American Greatness yesterday: https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/16/the-socrates-of-the-airwaves-remembering-rush-limbaugh/
He understood the left. I vaguely remember him making predictions about what they would do, and then they actually did it!
Here’s some Jeff Christie: From the AG story… WIXZ 1360 Pittsburgh – Jeff Christie (Rush Limbaugh) – 1971 – YouTube
I think people tend to over emphasize Rush’s “worldview” and “conservatism” as the reason people were drawn to listen to him. I think Rush always saw himself as a voice on the radio, and always wanted to sound like he was having fun, which is the way that old AM radio DJ’s sounded that made him want to be a DJ when he was younger. He was almost always in good cheer. I mostly listened to him to put myself in a good mood. Part of this was he had such a good intuitive sense about how things would come out that even when the news seemed hopeless, he found reasons to be optimistic. Most often it would boil down to how he knew liberals (as he used to say, “like every square inch of my glorious naked body!”).
Rush has inspired literally hundreds of people on the right (and even the left, even if they don’t realize it) who are doing their own take of the way Rush would take up certain topics on his program. For example, you might not think of Tucker Carlson as being inspired by Rush’s program, but Rush frequently illustrated an absurd policy or position by being absurd. This has recently been done multiple times on Tucker’s monologue segment. Liberals thinking is so ridiculous that they are so easy to make fun of. And they ought to be made fun of. Liberals have no sense of humor or how they appear to other people.