I don’t know how long Rush has been a sell out. I completely bought into Rush being “one of us” for more than a decade. Fifteen years, at least. But that NYT article coming out last month, telling of how Schumer and Ailes wined and dined him on illegal immigration, getting him to talk about it less and call it amnesty less, and how satisfied they were with his dropping the subject after their tete a tete... I was shocked, hurt, disgusted. But I gave him til his next show that Monday to defend himself. A lot of us were tuning in with sharp ears.
I expected he would either rail against it as being a lie or possibly apologize to us, his loyal book buying, mattress using customers, and admit he got swayed by all the puff and attention from the cool kids in DC. Boy, was I wrong. He was hopping mad and defensive like a 5 year old with his hand in the cookie jar. He had no truthful defense but he kept doubling down. It was not even close to being believable. And after a station break, he came on and called us who questioned him “haters.” I was done trusting or even liking Rush that day. It was like a serious breakup. I’d loved him for years. If you’d asked me, which living person would you most like to dine with, I would have told you Rush Limbaugh.
Sad but I fear he has been lying all along to us and doing the bidding of the exact people he pretended to disparage. He never even MENTIONED that Obama doesn’t pass eVerify. Our President has serious citizenship issues, and it was never worthy of mention from Rush. And he does the bidding of Schumer privately, over champagne and steaks, but calls him Chuck U Schumer to us on the show, chuckling at his own cleverness.
What did you sell us out for, Rush? Just money? Hope it was worth it.
Rush’s driving ambition has always been success and to be able to move in circles far above that of Cape Girardeau. His head still gets turned when the rich or powerful dote on him, whether it’s the Bushes or Alan Greenspan or Schumer and Ailes. Clinton, for being as politically smart as he is, only used Rush’s vanity to his advantage during NAFTA. I suspect he could have exploited it many times more
A guy who never bothered to vote until he was 37, who entirely missed voting for Ronald Reagan, isn’t really like the rest of us. His interests are success and he is using conservatism as a business. I don’t doubt that he believes the positions he espouses but he never sacrificed his time or money to show it when there was nothing in it for him.
That is so well stated. I agree with every word. I think it was common avarice. I no longer listen to rush.