Still have a smarting heart for how Rush took us (me!) in for 15 years. I’m still wondering whether he cares or not. Is he privately sorry that people who believed in him and bought his stuff and paid for his site for many years without even going to it, now are disgusted to find he was pulling one over on them and faking to be one of us? Does he wish we still believed he was genuine, does he understand he blew it? Or does he not care because he’s so rich, who needs those losers.
I think of all the personal prayers I prayed for him. All while he was lying to us. I think of being honored he chose my words to claim as his own on the air, making $ without any attribution (Jay Leno paid $$ to people for good jokes). And I think of the stupid shopping cart deal.
One time Rush told a story of how he was sitting in his car in a grocery store parking lot while one of his people went in to buy something. And he was just sitting there people watching. He saw people come up to the shopping cart area and pull on one cart, that happened to be stuck to the one in front of it. He mocked their character from this. “They only give one tug. When it doesn’t come out, they move on to a different row of carts.” He thought something was wrong with us all for wanting immediate gratification. So I started to work really hard to pull stuck carts apart. I’m not a big strong woman. It was a pain but I thought of Rush’s words, and made that character-building effort.
Then one day he confessed to his oxy addiction. Right after that, I encountered a stuck shopping cart. Thought of Rush and his character statement, and went straight for an easier cart, as I have done ever since.
Great post - you should send it to him! If you want you can also let him know that he’s had many supporters on FR over the years and he’s losing/lost many due to his Trump bashing and obvious bias for Cruz - he’s not being neutral at all. He says he doesn’t endorse, but he is in a roundabout way.
I know how you feel re: Rush.
He had no bigger fan than me. In the early days before he went national I was a caller who got on air frequently. I quit listening a couple of years ago.
Something maybe a lot of people don’t know is that Roger Ailes was a mentor to Rush. He used to talk about Roger a lot early on. Roger set him up with his short-lived TV show and tried to get Rush to join Fox News.
They are very good friends which may go a long way to explaining why Rush is trying to derail Trump.