Posted on 02/28/2018 12:11:40 PM PST by gaijin
I love Rush Limbaugh. He's smart, articulate and wealthy, but that last part was not always so for Rush.
He grew up in a family of ambitious lawyers and storied judges. The pressure from his family was really on for Rush to hit the books, stay in college, become a Man of Letters. They wanted him to rake it in somehow, preferably in law but if not, to earn a living in some capacity that involved stable income, a necktie and not moving around the country like an overfed vagabond.
But Rush knew what he wanted to be in radio from an early age and made it only one semester in college before he quit. Most of those few days his mother had to personally drive Rush to campus to make sure he actually went, so clear was it that Rush loathed simply attending.
To the chagrin of his family, stubborn Rush pursued his passion, later getting fired from various radio jobs doing it His Way.
Rush stuck to his guns single-handedly and ended up totally transforming AM radio; it had been a moribund electronic dumping-ground for dedicated weather stations and minor religious broadcasters but today, post-Rush, AM thrives on.
Now that Rush is going on almost three decades of record-smashing success and over 500 affiliates, everyone can see his huge Palm Beach home. All can see his huge private jet, hear of his lofty income.
But it was not always like that for Rush, not by a longshot:
Once when moving to Pennsylvania he had to periodically pull over and splash de-icing fluid on his windshield because he could not afford to repair his windshield wipers. Another time he got fired from a radio station simply for using the word, therefore. And even after Rush got hired onto a new gig, KFBK in Sacramento (the one that offered him the format he always wanted and would later really take off), he couldn't afford a proper bed..!
Neither were proper engine maintenance affordable for Rush; he had to periodically pull over his dilapidated but affordable land-barge on the steep, windy drive up to Lake Tahoe in order to let the engine cool down a bit before continuing.
Another time after Rush gained a little fame in Sacramento, a NorCal broadcasting executive invited Rush to a dinner party at his large mansion in the El Dorado Hills. Rush was excited that his boat appeared to be finally coming in, as attending this dinner would give him some face-time with local luminaries:
Instead, Rush's much more famous host ambushed him, stopping the whole dinner to shower Rush with insults for the next 90 minutes, denouncing his revolutionary new radio format as something That Would Never Succeed and How Dare You..?!
The whole point of the invitation and dinner was to belittle Rush and try to get him to give up on his dream; this rish executive wanted to crush The Little Guy.
But now there's something new:
One of Rush's sponsors is Simply Safe, a company providing innovative burglary alarms for apartment dwellers and those reluctant to spend considerable sums on installation for exotic, hard-wired alarms.
The SimpliSafe company founders are Harvard University graduates who made a really big deal about adhering to Parkview-inspired PC sensibilities: SimpliSafe prominently broke all relations with the NRA, the entity that safeguards the self-defense rights of the little guy, maybe in situations where 4 cops calmly oversee the mass-shooting that YOU get ensnared in.
Maybe you're like me:
Today did you hear Rush's Pearls of Wisdom? But then in the last 5 minutes of the show you suddenly heard the high-brow, pusillanimous, 2nd Amendment-hating advertising by those elitist, cowardly slobberdigullions of SimpliSafe in Taxachusettes..? Did you feel an awkward incongruity..?
Do ads from SimpliSafe spoil your daily Rush Experience..?
Isn't it time for SimpliSafe to go somewhere ELSE and hock their newfangled schlock..?
I will be checking tomorrow, paying especially close attention to the last 10 min or so.
And if they are, I'll be making a fuss THEN, also.
I dunno. Limbaugh is taking their money. Raise the rates on ‘em or something.
I’m more concerned that Trump is selling us out.
$$$$$$$. Simple as that.
It’s all about the money.
The show is an enterprise, entertainment for enrichment.
And always remember that Rubio is a deep throated conservative.
Why not take their money. People who listen to him and still purchase that product are the ones I am against, not Rush.
It’s weird, but I was actually pricing out a SimpliSafe system the day I heard about their severing ties with the NRA. Wrote them an email, got a boiler plate “Welcome to SimpliSafe” as a response, so I wrote again. Haven’t heard back.
But, if Rush listeners are enough to drive him to drop them, they might change their stance.
It would depend upon how the contract is written.
They may have a contract. What would you have him do?
Rush is certainly not a gun guy, but has been a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment and the NRA from what I’ve heard on his program.
Take their money. It’s what liberals would do. Just don’t give them more.
I don't care who advertises where. SimpliSafe is entitled to their point of view and Rush is entitled to take their money.
I don't believe in boycotts, simply because the target of the boycott is never who ends up being harmed. It's the minimum wage employee who doesn't have a political opinion but does have a family to feed who feels the pain.
Is that old wind bag still on the air?
Is their money green? Then who cares.
I think you’ve had that same line for 13 years.
Agreed.
You have knowledge of min-wage employees at EIB...?
I know its great bait
Rush frequently sounds like he understands what is at stake in the fight against amnesty for illegal aliens and yet extolls the very GOP politicians who are trying to give away our country.
They may have a contract for advertising over a set period of time, and the contract runs both ways, SimpliSafe to provide X ads, and Rush to provide X ad spot locations. Arbitrary cancellations are generally not possible.
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