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Rush L says Merry Christmas and goodbye to 2020
Rush Limbaugh closing today:
“Even if I can’t make it back, know that this is where I want to be, I will always want to be right here with you & I won’t quit fighting to be right here with you.”
Pray for @RealRLimbaugh 🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸
— Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸 (@kelliwardaz) December 24, 2020
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His contribution to the broad conservative movement in America has been incalculable. We all owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.
His contribution to the broad conservative movement in America has been incalculable. We all owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.
[ Ricochet posted this twice. But it deserves to be said twice, so I’m fine with it. ]
Most if not all of his predictions about the cultural Left and Democrats have been true.
What he said in 1990 is more relevant today
Amen.
Amen.
Thanks for posting this, Mr. Bitcoin. I heard a little of his show yesterday, and in some ways he must be healing in his heart from the outpouring of love and good wishes.
End of an era.
I will miss him. I’ve been turning in at least 3 times a week for more than 25 years. I tried calling several times but never got through. He has had a blessed life. I can’t think of anyone who can replace him but someone will. This such a terrible time to lose him.
This is also my way of coping as Rush helped me stay relatively sane and optimistic in a year that was insane and pessimistic and still not over!
I think he will have successors, rather than replacements.
Irreplaceable
Mark Steyn does a good job
Chris Plante’s show is the most similar to Rush’s if that’s a consideration. No guests, and just deadly observations over and over.
Howie Carr would be really good, but he’s too old.
God bless Rush Limbaugh. He has brought so much good to people, not only through his show, his knowledge, his books, but in his charities. A shining star – blessings to him and his family.
I don’t know about all of the business considerations, but if they moved Mark Levin into that slot they wouldn’t lose a beat on ratings. As far as the top-tier goes, he’s the best on conservative public policy, as well. Rare level of comprehensive skill.
I believe Mark Levin has the same agent as Rush: David Limbaugh
They have different syndicators, though. Maybe there’s a way it can be made into a good deal for everybody.
I like Chris, but he gets a bit manic at times. He can start a topic, ramble off to a side issue, then detour to another one, and when he finally gets back to his point, he has to take a break. Needs a bit more focus sometimes.
I get what you are saying. I think Limbaugh is like that as well, just not as much.
What makes Rush unique (IMHO) is his irrepressible optimism. He really is the archetypal “Happy Warrior”—
–a poem that was written in 1806 upon the death of Horatio Nelson, and which purports to describe those characteristics most necessary in a man-at-arms. None of Limbaugh’s putative successors strike me as fully in that camp. So I shall continue to hope and pray for a miracle. They are rare, but I’ve seen one or two.
Meanwhile, I enjoy reflecting on the fact that, probably more than any other public figure in the past three-quarters of a century, he’s “mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.” I expect, when the dust settles, that people will be writing books about that for many years. What’s your favorite Rushism? Mine just might be “the Congressional Black Caucasians.”
**I have enjoyed some of Ken Matthews’s guest host stints, because he has a bit of a talent for that sort of thing too–from “Governor Nuisance” to “Don Lemming.”
I just saw a chiron on Fox news. They literally told him he would likely be gone by October. Ugh.
Happy Retirement Rush. You will be forever missed.
Why do you think my handle is RushBabe49?
https://ricochet.com/833889/gratitude-for-my-hero/
I will be bereft without him. He always said to us, his listeners, that he would tell us when to panic. So far, he has not said it’s time to panic quite yet. Right now, I think it’s time to panic.
Todd Herman did a very good job today. He could be the heir apparent.
Quote from yesterday’s show (copied from the Rush Limbaugh app):
Saying he doesn’t know when he will no longer be able to do the show is not the same as announcing it was his last show and he is retiring. He was expressing an awareness that any given show might be, given the day to day changing circumstances with his illness. I also listened to the show live and didn’t get the impression he knew for certain he wasn’t coming back. It stresses Rush out when people take words out of context (like when they tried to create the impression he was for seccession recently). Please be more considerate and don’t stress Rush out. I took this as his yearly heart felt seasonal/end of year good wish message which is extra poignant given his circumstances and how much Rush knows we all love him.
Edit: After re-listening, I think the tweet is paraphrased. It’s not what Rush said exactly. I would listen to it yourself or get the app and read the transcript. That much is probably on the free side.
Whether or not this was his last show I don’t think even Rush knows.
His courage has been evident for a long time; but the last year, while literally facing death, continuing his inimitable (the word stands however large is the legion of his imitators) work, being his irreplaceable self, he has been not less than heroic. We are witnessing him giving his life for us, for our country.
Now every time I hear his live voice I’m moved by the sound.
Too strident. I listen to him but often turn him off. Rush has a lot of humor, which will be hard to replace.I like Mark Steyn but I’m not sure he is up to the 15 hours a week. I listened to that show and agree he will probably not be back.
Same here, he’s smart, experienced (Reagan administration), and has all the right instincts, but he goes bananas sometimes.
I hadn’t realized that Rush’s doctors didn’t expect him to live out the year. He’s done amazingly well. But, just like with Alex Trebek, it has to catch up with him at some point. I think he knows this is his last Christmas. He’s often said he doesn’t like making the show about him, but he has to now and then. I listed to the end of his show live and it was moving hearing him express his gratitude in the face of his mortality. I don’t think he’s done his last show yet, but he did say he’s surprised when he wakes up in the morning to find he’s still here.
I like reading Levin, but he’s nowhere NEAR the broadcaster Rush is. He doesn’t have the humor either….and his awful screechy yelling voice…