Posted on 01/15/2024 7:15:51 AM PST by raccoonradio
I went to elementary and middle school with a Steve West...............
That was a good 8 minute clip. Thanks for posting!
The time he got on the PBS news hour and referred to all the other panelists with varied opinions as "you all". The time he had a chance to get a gig on Monday Night Football and got caught up in the black QB controversy. The time when everyone started talking him up for a political office and he started punching down on Sandra Fluke.
It's as if he consciously or subconsciously decided he was happy just being the voice of conservatism and didn't want to play a larger role in US politics.
Same here.
West was defending him, but the point
is, everyone knows of Rush.
[West in radio since ‘80 and has
an aircheck—show/station recording—
site.
I always think of it when a tragedy occurs in our Country.
My current favorite talk show hosts are Grant Stinchfield & Jennifer Horn on KRLA, Andrew Wilkow on Sirius, and Stacy Washington, also on Sirius.
Is she related to William Raspberry?
I remember buying a device that Rush endorsed that allowed us to record his show and then listen to it later in the day.
I also had a list of stations around the country that carried Rush’s show so we could listen to him in the car when we were traveling - often he was easy to find because his voice was so loud and distinct.
And yes, so many who called us low IQ, uneducated “mind-numbed robots marching in lock step” when we “heard our master’s voice” - never listened to him.
I donated every year to his leukemia fund raising drive b/c my dad died of leukemia - I got a t-shirt for my $40 donation, collected several of them and wore them everywhere, including in California - got nothing but thumbs up.
I doubt this idiot has ever heard a word Rush said.
Was doing a search about Rush
and the preview for one article
said
>>Feb 20, 2021 — Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio host and peddler of health lies, including about Covid-19,
died...
Any guesses of source?
...NBC News.
I liked listening to Mark Steyn when he would guest host but haven’t really bothered with talk radio/podcasts since Rush died. The only thing I really follow now are Jordan Peterson videos.
Well Gwen: You start off each day as a wet clingy fart and end up the same at the end of the day.
I discovered Rush in 1989, and listened to him almost every day until his tragic death. I even called and talked to him once, and a friend of mine recognized my voice. I really miss him.
I sure miss Rush, I had the opportunity to talk to him once.
“Because nothing he ever did had any value.” etc.
I remember when the conventional wisdom was that AM radio was a thing of the past, destined to just fade out.
Then somebody turned up on AM, changed the political dynamic and cultural battleground, and in the process revived the AM dial. When Gwen Carter Clements can point to a similar legacy, then she can lecture me about Rush Limbaugh.
Gwen Carter Clements is fading like a fart in the wind.....
I’d listen to AA after the normal station left the air at 7 PM. Caught a couple of Franken’s melt-downs when he was still deigning to take calls from listeners. He had to stop letting people on the air because they were taking him apart. What a putz.
I was a young scull full of mush driving across the fruited plain from my summer internship back to college in aug 1988. I did one of those things a young man might do while alone but not tell his friends about - yes, i tuned into AM radio.
I heard a brilliant man giving eloquence to my still forming thoughts. I figured he was someone local and I’d never hear of him again.
A year or so later my girlfriend and I saw a billboard advertising his show. She said he sounded like someone I’d like listening to.
Amen!
Good Lord, people talk about Rush all the time. More importantly, they remember him all the time.
How nutty to say he created an empire that no one else can match, and say that means he isn't important. Oxymoronic. And just plain moronic. .
Where I live, when the clock strikes noon, EVERYBODY THINKS ABOUT HIM and says a little prayer for him.
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