Posted on 02/18/2021 9:46:34 AM PST by Onthebrink
I only spoke to Rush Limbaugh once. He interviewed me for his magazine. He was—as anyone who knew him will tell you—quiet, intelligent, self-effacing. I think back now on our long phone conversation, and I’m glad I got to tell him this story.
My father was a famous disc jockey in New York. He was good, very good, as good as any broadcaster I’ve ever heard. He was a liberal—of the old style, back when liberals were liberal, not like now. But oh, he hated Rush. Hated everything Rush stood for. To him, Rush was Father Coughlin reborn. A demagogue. One step away from Hitler. All conservatives were one step away from Hitler as far as my father was concerned.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
A monument is in order.
Not only to memorialize Rush, but to also magnetize those who want to tear it down. A few of us could have some fun cleaning that up!
Today’s show could be played everyday for the remainder of THIS YEAR.
God bless Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
I almost expect Rush to come back on the air and tell us what heaven is like. Like he told the story of getting the medal of Freedom.
Let's rename Mount Rushmore to Mount Rush Limbaugh.
-PJ
Great article thanks for posting.
We’ll see him again. He’s an old soul.
Ditto, thanks for posting.
I hope someone can create something as meaningful for Rush.
Ping!!
Let’s rename Mount Rushmore to Mount Rush Limbaugh
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Maybe we can chisel our Franklin Roosevelt, Communist, and replace him with Rush Limbaugh, American Conservative!
-PJ
Key paragraphs in the article:
I was out of the country during Rush’s rise to fame, an expatriate in England for most of the nineties. Distant from day-to-day American politics, I was not even aware that my position on the ideological spectrum had changed.
...It was voices like Limbaugh’s that were being unfairly silenced and excluded. He and others like him should be allowed to have their say. This seemed to me the proper liberal point of view. Little did I realize.
When I moved back home at the turn of the century, that version of liberalism was gone and the current version—with all its meanness, hate, and shut-uppery—was on the rise.
i’ll defend to the death...the right of any individual to think and speak their mind. I hope that they would do the same for me.
judge and expect to be judged
i’m an anti-federalist, Emersonian - individualism, independence, and self-sufficiency, with a touch of Simo Hayha’n heritage who lives by the Golden Rule, Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23.
on top of all that, i’m a nice guy
: )
love
RIP Rush
Great article, thank you.
I love the story of his getting the Medal of Freedom. He and President Trump, because of that story, encouraged me to persevere against the odds on a special surprise I had wanted to share with my sister for 21 years. I won’t go into the details, but I’ll tell you, there were a LOT of obstacles in my path, and only a short amount of time to make it all happen. I was able to be with her for a very special event, and she knew nothing about it, until the reveal happened. I shed tears of joy being with her that weekend. It was glorious! Thank you, Rush, for sharing your Medal of Freedom story with all of us!
Cool!
What turned me from a Lib to a Rep was President MAGA Reagan! What kept me there was MAG Rush and then President MAGA Trump!
Unfortunately I have now become unaffiliated because of the disgusting outted RINOs in the UniParty.
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