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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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When I first heard Rush he’d just started nationally–1988. It was hilarious!! But, I did have to turn the sound down once in a while when my children were in the car–do you remember the Caller Abortions??
And do you know why people say “ditto” to him? It’s because so many callers were saying how they loved how well he could state what they were thinking, and that they felt and thought these things, too, but couldn’t articulate it like he could. So, anyway, it was quite repetitious, so a caller just said, “I want to say “ditto” to what that other caller said before me.” And there it was: there was a lot of air-time saved by “Ditto”!
He did NOT tell me how to think. He did NOT give me ideas. He simply said in a very clever, intelligent, cogent way what I ALREADY thought. None of his listeners were “mind-numbed robots”– we were avid listeners because he was so articulate.
I didn’t agree with everything, nor did I think some of the things he thought up about certain events/people. But he was right-on so often, that I just agreed to disagree with him now and then. I’m really going to miss him.
Somewhere about ’92 or ’93 a Friend told Me I need to listen to some dude named Rush Limbaugh, because He sounded just like Me. I said, “first, why would I listen to talk radio? Second, why would I listen to someone Who sounded just like Me? I already know what I think.” I gave it a shot and listened for years.
I can recall so many moments, so I’ll just share this one: Right around 2000 He resigned His contract, made international news for how big it was. I remember exactly where I was driving when I heard Him take this call:
Old Man agitated and ranting: I can’t believe a DJ could make $100 million dollars in 18 years! Really?! $100 million dollars for 18 years as a DJ?! That’s crazy! Who would ever pay a DJ $100 million dollars for 18 years?! We have teachers out there that can’t survive, but a DJ is going to make $100 million dollars over 18 years….
Professor Limbaugh: Now, now. Y’all know We put the liberals at the head of the line. And They can say anything They want to, but there is 1 rule They have to follow and that is: They have to have Their facts straight.
The contract offered to Me wasn’t for 18 years and $100 million dollars. No, no, no. No one in Their Right Mind would offer Me a contract for 18 years and $100 million dollars. The contract is for 10 years and $180 million dollars! Snerdley, Who’s next!
I about ran off the road I was laughing so hard.
Someone who might be available for a new gig: Donald Trump.
Calypso Louis (Farrakhan)
It will probably be a set of radio guys who rotate for at least a year: Steyn, Todd, Ken, Michael Knowles
I like Mark Levin but he is too strident. I think Levin is better on TV than radio.
Trump is a TV guy not radio
Kelli Ward (author of tweet) is fighting for Arizona!
Main Feed???
Do you believe in miracles?
Regarding Mark Levin and everyone else I’m talking about, I’m just telling you guys my opinion who is most similar or who is going to maintain the ratings. I’m not saying anything else.
Limbaugh’s current crop of substitutes put me to sleep, mostly. Part of what’s going on is, they never take people with regional shows as substitute. It cuts down the field a lot.
Mark Levin compensates for his deficiencies by being very educational.
The only time I’ve ever heard him, he’s really good. I’m pretty sure he has a regional show, now.
I really wish he would get a weekly TV show on Newsmax or something.
I would look out for Jason Lewis being part of the rotation. He’s really good but he’s retired right now.
If I was in control of the situation, I would put Jason Lewis in until he doesn’t want to do it anymore and then put in Michael Knowles.
I like Michael, but he’s a kid with a youthful temperament. I occasionally listen to his podcasts, but I’m waiting for him to mature a little and lose the harsh edge that a lack of experience often brings to smart, idealistic young men.
I know that Rush caught a lot of heat over the years, and particularly in the earliest years (which was when I listened to him), for his mocking and occasionally rough humor. I think he dialed it back as he took on the mantle of conservative spokesman, though he will always be vilified by the left, to whom he’s simply a caricature of hate, because the left is foolish and undiscerning. But one could always tell (I could, anyway) that Rush is a compassionate man possessed of a simple love for his country and his audience. That basic and obvious decency, combined with his sense of humor, is I think what makes him stand out. Well, that and a genius for the business of radio.
Those who hope to inspire what he inspired in his audience will, I think, have to mirror that simple love and decency, and will have to make it clear that it’s that positive, optimistic feeling, and not the anger many of us feel at the left’s pointless destruction and awfulness, that motivates them.
But for now: Merry Christmas, Mr. Limbaugh, and thank you.
Well, it’s pretty interesting that his first contract is with a syndicator. He seems really sharp in every way on that Ted Cruz podcast.
He’s very smart, and I agree with most of what he says. I don’t want to detract from the fellow; I hope he goes far and has a terrific career. It does take maturity, I think, to make one simultaneously effective and gracious, to temper judgement with compassion. He’s smart and young and well-educated, and has plenty of time.
Rush has always been the epitome of “gracious”. I should know, since I talked to him, and at the time I described him as a gracious host.
The left tried very hard to force Rush off the air. I still remember the Florida orange juice thing. He did a thing that would be impossible on TV. He syndicated himself and all his sponsors are local. No national sponsors. Fox News, back when they were still trying, was bombarded with boycotts to drive O’Reilly off and other hosts off. They even got Roger Ailes in the early Me Too era.
Trump TV, if he does it, should get Tucker Carlson and , maybe, Bill O’Reilly to do prime time shows. Maybe Gutfield and Watters. That would get them started. I wonder when Carlson’s contract is up? The rest of Fox is average and less.
I don’t know how to Google it, but this is a pretty interesting story. Rush hired a bunch of detectives to get those guys. It was pathetic. If you can’t counter him with speech and ideas you are disgusting.
I was an occasional listener so I may have missed it, but I never once heard Rush be rude to a caller the way a jerk like Levin was, or a jerkette like Ingraham was, all too often. I tried listening to Hannity, but he is a broken record. If you’ve heard one show of his, you’ve heard them all. Rush will be missed.