Stop Wallowing in Sadness: Time for Rush Limbaugh's show to look toward the future again

American Thinker ^ | 03/11/2021 | Leann Horrocks

[KarlInOhio]

Steyn is the only substitute host I would go out of my way to listen to before Rush's death. The other subs just weren't quite as good. To tell the truth, I never bothered to tell which was which. If Steyn doesn't take over with the Mark Steyn show (not Mark Steyn presents Rush Limbaugh's recordings), I hope my local station moves Dana Loesch to the noon show instead of the 9PM replay where she is played now.

[Eddie01]

It’s a Rush replay format now with added reverent commentary from the guest host.

I said I graduated from the EIB University a long long time ago, but Rush was entertaining and I loved how he could reach into the memory hole and pull out crazy stuff at just the right time.

That’s gone now.

[BradyLS]

I’d like to hear more from Mark Steyn. But more than that, I’d like him to have his own national show. NOT necessarily Rush’s.

It they’re trying out hosts as a permanent replacement for Rush, I don’t see how anyone can win. Neither the selected personality nor the producers. Because as much as I like Steyn, I get that not everyone does and it will turn off some the listeners. And I think he’s head and shoulders the best of the bunch so far.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I think there has to be a creative way....once a good (new) host is found (who is worthy of commanding the golden, EIB mic) to work in a “Pearls of Wisdom” spotlight, highlighting Rush’s proven and prescient take, on a topic/issue of the day/hour.”

My thought and hope for the show, too! Rush would WANT the ‘Torch of Conservatism’ to keep burning brightly!

That format would work well with Mark Steyn. And he’s intelligent and very funny. If they took a poll of listeners, he’d win as the new host, hands down.

Whoever is worried that Rush will be forgotten is flat-out wrong.

[Mr Rogers]

Since I’m still a 24/7 member, I emailed them and told them I’ve stopped listening and to cancel my 24/7 membership. If enough do, maybe they’ll get the hint.

[PA Presbyterian]

I’ve already stopped listening. The program used to be about current issues. Now it’s just replaying old shows with the guest hosts all falling over themselves to worship at the shrine so they’ll be elevated to permanent host. None of them is as good as Rush, of course. Mark Steyn is excellent and it’s because he’s being himself and bringing his own perspective. The only other possibility is Mark Levin but he’s stated that he doesn’t want to leave his own radio time slot.

[BradyLS]

About the “rerun” aspect. I could only listen to Rush, as an at-best average, five hours per week. He did fifteen hours per week and each hour was different. And he wasn’t always on for fifteen hours in a given week.

So I think there are folks like me for whom most “reruns” of clips can easily be never-heard-before material.

[BradyLS]

I’d listen to Dennis Prager if I could. The best any local station had in going head-to-head with Rush was Dennis Miller and that was yeeeears ago.

Rush in reruns is it for me because I won’t listen to Dave Ramsey telling me how evil and wasteful I am for eating a lunch I didn’t make.

[cornfedcowboy]

This is a great opportunity for new life and fresh voices in the conservative community. I for one am excited. A whole lot of air time just opened up waiting to be filled.

[Jane Long]

Agree!!

[Karliner]

Well, I think they’re losing listeners. Just have a rotation of folks and pic the new EIB guy. Done deal. People will keep listening.

[Yaelle]

I’m hearing this for the first time, that his show is still going on?? Sounds like a purely financial thing. I’m sure it’s hard to close down the corporation but it seems its energy would have to go in a different direction, maybe a network of new hosts that vy for local or syndicated airtime? I didn’t realize they were still keeping their airtimes indefinitely. How long would that go over with stations?

[gloryblaze]

“Wallowing” seems like a critical term. People are mourning and feeling lost... the audience, and certainly his family and his staff. What to do? It is an impossible task.

[Karliner]

There’s memorial coffee mugs? I haven’t listened much at all since he passed. Try not to dwell on it. Depressing.

[TexasKamaAina]

There is no more Rush Limbaugh Show, it died with him.

Yes - it was the Rush Limbaugh Show. I miss Rush. We need to look to the future as he always did.

[BradyLS]

TH is really grating in that department. I like Steyn because he treads lightly in paying homage to Rush. He doesn’t forget who gave him a break. But he doesn’t dwell on it either. Like I said, I think it would be better for him if he stepped out of Rush’s shadow and had a national gig that is all his own. Even if it were just a few hours on a Sunday night.

[BradyLS]

Zackly. At some point ya gotta get on with gettin’ it on.

[Republican Wildcat]

I’ve wondered if they would continue to have it be “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in name with a new host. “This is the Rush Limbaugh Show - this is your host, [host name]”

[\/\/ayne]

Same thing when Dr. James Kennedy died - his brilliant and witty personality turned to be what was holding his TV show together. When he died nobody could replace him.

[Starstruck]

In the early 80's Rush shared an afternoon talk radio show on KMBZ in Kansas City, Back then there was no internet. We wrote letters and he read the only one I wrote on the air. He later put the commentary in one of his books. It was about the Plaza in KC.

When he and the Kansas City Kings ended up in Sacramento I thought Rush was the biggest loss. That being said I think EIB needs to find the next guy. Not his replacement but someone who will take us in the future with wit and humor. Steyn is my guy.