Saving Rush Limbaugh's Legacy

11/12/03 | Andy from Beaverton

[Andy from Beaverton]

Is anyone else seeing the same propaganda on Rush’s show? Ever since Rush has been gone for the first time ever all of the fill in host have been required to play a Rush sound clip from the past. It is almost as though the show has been scripted. These sounds clips have come from a long time ago and couldn’t have been that easy to find. Who do you think is driving the topics, the producers or the fill in hosts? I’m also tired of the fill in hosts putting Rush on this Rushmore platform. I have never heard such total butt kissing before. I have no idea why they are doing it? Rush will dominate the market again once he comes back. It is not like we are going to stop listening because he is gone. Have you heard the new promo about Rush’s return? All of this is making me want to turn the dial again. One last note, the producers can find all of these great clips from the past but do you think they can find anything Rush has ever said about drugs and drug addiction?

[glaseatr]

Well Andy, Monday is the day when Rush comes back. Hold onto your panties it's gonna be something.

[EggsAckley]

Oh you poor dear. Sounds like you got stuck with one of those naughty radios that only have one station and no off switch.

[Onelifetogive]

Oh, please.........

It is perfectly understandable for the show to run past clips to keep Rush before the public. Many, many, many shows run "Best of" or repeats when the host is not available.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Please don't hesitate to turn the dial. I'm sure that Rush's success does not depend on you or me. I hope that, with the drugs gone from his system and mind, he comes back with the old fire in his belly of ten-ish years ago. He has more nearly lost me for his trite pro-business platitudes than for his feet of clay.

Conservatism is more than commercialism or capitalism, Rush.

[OldFriend]

Disgruntled are you?

LOL

[AxelPaulsenJr]

One last note, the producers can find all of these great clips from the past but do you think they can find anything Rush has ever said about drugs and drug addiction?

I have listened everyday for years to Rush. He has said very little about illegal drug addiction.

[Maria S]

Andy, it sounds like you're gonna have to wait for Gore (or whoever they can find) to host the new liberal radio network. Meanwhile, you might check with Juan Williams, Ellen Ratner, et al, on NPR.

[mass55th]

"Hold onto your panties it's gonna be something."

Oh gee, sorry I'm going to have to miss it.

NOT!

[Liberty Valance]

E I B

Can't wait till Rush is back!

[Andy from Beaverton]

Spare me with the liberal crap. I'm 100% conservative. I'm also proud to be a classical liberal (look it up, the definition is probably different than you think). Rush's show lately has been talk radio for beginners. I prefer to listen to Dennis Prager at this time slot, but his is off the air in the Portland market.

[nothingnew]

BINGO!

I was commenting on the Rush clips to my wife last week. I think it's a great way to keep him in the forefront of his listeners during his absence.

FMCDH

[Veritas_est]

I had a snappy comeback for you Andy. However, it seems I was beaten to the punch by nearly everyone else. Anyway, don't be bashful. Tell us how you really feel about Rush.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Well you told us to look up liberal so here goes:

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines liberal as (among other things): "lacking moral restraint ; LICENTIOUS"

And The American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition defines liberal as (again among other things): "Morally unrestrained"

Yep, guess you told us!

[RunningJoke]

I like quite a bit of Rush Limbaugh's arguments. I just don't like him. I didn't start disliking him when he fell from grace, but before that. I found him to be an unctuous, egotistical braggart. Talent on loan from God indeed, I hope God isn't chemically dependent.

Is it possible to agree with someone's arguments but hate the messenger?

I truly hope he gets better and then hands the show over to someone who doesn't lack for credibility. Yes, when one lays claim to the moral high ground, goes the saying, one should be "as Caesar's wife: above reproach."

[Maria S]

"Talent on loan from God indeed..."

I was visiting with a liberal friend awhile back; he was smart-mouthing about how Rush always said his talent was "on loan from God". I asked said friend who HIS talent was on loan from...he shut up after conceding that I HAD made a good point!

[RunningJoke]

Perhaps we're from different faiths, but I believe in the following:

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse." --Carlos Castaneda

[Andy from Beaverton]

What is wrong with all of you people? Did I offend your God? I used to like Rush, but he became quite boring and there were other shows at his same time slot that were more satisfactory.

The reason I created the post was because a talk show host usually defines the topics. Ever since Rush has been gone it was like the producers didn't want us to forget about the most popular talk show host in history. The would dig up sound bites from several years ago. But if you know any talk show host personally (I know several), everyone of them will tell you that they never are told by the owners or producers to speak about certain topics. That is what is happening or appears to be happening. Never before have I heard a Rush sound bite everyday being played for by the fill in host. It just smells to me and I thought I would ask if anyone else feels the same.

I only hope when he does come back he talks about his road to recovery. When we all learned of his problem Rush said he was going to tell us more when he could. He didn't say a word until the last segment where he told us he was going to get help. Reagan helped the men of this world address colon problems by making it public. Time will only tell if Rush will do the same by helping other people deal with addiction problems.

As far as my conservatism is concerned I'm sure it matches up to any of yours. cuz_it_aint_their_money seems to have a problem reading because I said I was a "classical liberal" not a "liberal". This is as big of a difference as black and white. Classical liberals are always to the right of every Keynesian conservative. Only the classical liberals will stop the direction we are heading down this road to serfdom.

Encyclopedia: Classical liberal

Classical liberalism is a term coined by libertarian political theorists in the 20th century to distinguish their ideology from that of 20th-century liberals while implying that libertarianism, not liberalism, is true to historical liberal thought. It follows a tradition of thought from John Locke to Adam Smith to Frederic Bastiat to Ludwig von Mises to Friedrich Hayek to Anthony de Jasay, of philosophers, economists, and political thinkers, who study and promote individual liberty, notably against the arbitrary power of governments. See Libertarianism.

Classical Liberalism vs Political Liberalism

Classical liberalism is a tradition of thinkers who developed an ideology opposed to politics. Political liberalism on the other hand, is a tradition of politicians (particularly from British and American liberal parties), who only claim a vague relationship with some liberal thinkers. There is little common ground between the two.

For instance, John Stuart Mill, whose works were notably influenced by his socialist wife, is considered by libertarians as a fringe author in their philosophical tradition, whereas, as member of parliament, he is considered by political liberals as a key person in their tradition. Lord Acton, a classical liberal author, also had some acknowledged influence on Gladstone, a liberal politician. Finally, some renowned economists and politicians in the 1920s and 1930s, such as Keynes, at the time when collectivist theories were at their highest influence, renounced to basic principles of classical liberalism while still claiming the name "liberal" in contrast with overtly collectivist economists. That's as far as the relationship goes between these two traditions.

Disputed meanings of the term

Some try to restrict the term classical liberalism so as to stop in the nineteenth century or so. Libertarians argue that there is no interruption, no massive rejection of the past and no fork in the classical liberal tradition - only a single uninterrupted tradition, the only one which does lay claim to such theorists as Locke, Hume, Smith, Say and Bastiat, as opposed to Hobbes, Rousseau, Proudhon, Marx.

Similarly, some split classical liberalism into a political liberalism and an economic liberalism, so as to be able to consider liberal justifications of democracy independently from liberal justifications of capitalism. But libertarian thinkers themselves claim that this is missing the point, because the classical liberal tradition is neither political nor economical: it is a theory of Law - of what is or isn't legitimate for people to do.

• See libertarianism, capitalism, libertarian theories of law.
• Related topic: anarcho-capitalism, minarchism.
• Parts of the classical liberal tradition: Austrian School, Chicago school.
• See also liberalism, political liberalism, new liberalism
• Opposing views: socialism, mercantilism, conservatism.
  
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  External links and references

• F. A. Hayek: Liberalism

[OldFriend]

Frankly my dear, you simply sound meanspirited.

Most of us consider Rush family. That means sometimes he drives us to distraction and sometimes we just love him to death.

We hope he gets better and wish him well. If we don't listen every day it doesn't mean we wish him gone.

[halfdome]

The last thing they'd want to do is play a Rush Limbaugh quote on drugs and/or addiction.