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Please relate the first time that you discovered the Rush Limbaugh show (Vanity)
The Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 2AUG18 | Vannrox

Posted on 08/01/2018 6:26:11 PM PDT by vannrox

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To: vannrox
in my car going to get something to eat at lunchtime, almost dint go back to work, brought a radio to work next day
101 posted on 08/01/2018 7:26:11 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: vannrox
I was visiting my sister in Colorado Springs over Christmas in 1989 or 1990. Rush had not yet reached the Boston market. The day after Christmas, my sister couldn't resist a visit to the Broadmoor Florist, which traditionally had a sale on at that time. I wasn't interested, so I stayed in the car and began exploring the AM dial. I came across Rush and immediately realized, this guy is different! And good!

Certainly, I was familiar with conservative / libertarian talk radio. Boston has had it since at least the late sixties. E.g., Jerry Williams and David Brudnoy. But Rush represented something new — coast to coast daytime political talk radio.

102 posted on 08/01/2018 7:27:01 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Pappy Smear

Another show from way back that I remember is when KMOX in St. Louis picked up his show. Being from that general area, the pride and happiness in his voice to get on that “blowtorch” was fun to listen to. Was really happy for him.


103 posted on 08/01/2018 7:27:56 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: Conservative4Life
"He was doin “On Air Abortions”

Reminds me of when Rush took a condom and put it on his golden EIB mike. I'd almost forgotten that until I read your comment. I couldn't stop laughing.

104 posted on 08/01/2018 7:28:02 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Yaelle

Its a roll of the dice but you gotta teach em the rules!


105 posted on 08/01/2018 7:28:19 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: vannrox

I was in my car in a bank drive-thru, and I tuned to WIBC here in Indy and heard the animal rights update. the song Born Free playing with gunshots being heard. I said to myself this guy is good, I gotta keep listening. early 90s.


106 posted on 08/01/2018 7:28:39 PM PDT by isom35
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To: vannrox

The kitchen manager at the hotel had Rush on every day. Was flipping the remote at home and recognized his voice. Enjoyed the TV show, and that was my start...


107 posted on 08/01/2018 7:29:54 PM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum.)
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To: vannrox
Back 1988, a co-worker of mine asked "have your heard this Rush Limbo character?". I said "no", but by coincidence, we were within range of the little day-timer, WPOP in Newington, CT, and it was lunch. I was then 'exposed' to Rush Limbo (as I like many others first thought was his name).

I was fascinated! "How can he say these things?" and "That can't be true" and "I never read that." So when Rush mentioned he got his information off this new thing called the Internet with services like 'Compuserve' and 'Prodigy', I knew I would have to verify.

I dove into these services (dial up) and found that sure enough, the way the local media (like the Hartford Courant) was twisting the gist of the story, and I found out that the broadcast media was even worse. Two addictions were born; one to the Internet and one to Rush Limbaugh. Rush has now grown up to be able to be heard on WTIC and many surrounding stations as well as on the Internet. I have all his original books, and even a few of his TV show on tape, but the local station would never play the show at the same time, and it was difficult to catch. My grandkids are growing up with the Rush Revere books, and are little 'ditto heads'.

108 posted on 08/01/2018 7:30:52 PM PDT by Eric (Liberalism is what "SMART" looks like to stupid people.)
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To: vannrox

I heard him on his very first day on national radio on KFI in Los Angeles. He said what I was thinking. It was a revelation to hear somebody actually talk about conservative principles.


109 posted on 08/01/2018 7:30:53 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: vannrox

Late 1980s and I am visiting a friend in MN. We are pheasant hunting and took a break for lunch. Sitting in his truck he says “You have to hear this guy” and he turns on the radio. I have been a listener ever since.


110 posted on 08/01/2018 7:31:02 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: murron

Laughing at your story!


111 posted on 08/01/2018 7:32:44 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: MountainDad

Cool!


112 posted on 08/01/2018 7:34:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: vannrox

Jackson, Tennessee, is a bastion of liberal Democrats and the TV station, WBBJ, put Rush on at 12:30 at night. My fiance and I would stay up late to watch his show. He was like a breath of fresh air considering that we didn’t have cable and could only get the alphabet outlet news. I missed the TV show when it went off the air.


113 posted on 08/01/2018 7:34:22 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vannrox

August 1990 during the first gulf war.


114 posted on 08/01/2018 7:36:53 PM PDT by baldisbeautiful ("Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them", George Or)
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To: vannrox

Pretty easy to remember as I have as working at KHTR/KQQQ in Pullman, WA when the owners wife came in and said “you’ve got to hear this guy we added to the AM side.” And the rest, as they say, is history.


115 posted on 08/01/2018 7:39:26 PM PDT by M1078 (US ARMY - Overlanding since 1775)
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To: Windflier

(Shhhhh, don’t tell Larry Elder how I started listening to his show.... it would be wrong.....) I was already a new Rush listener, and used to listen to John and Ken on the way to grad school. And I picked up one of those free newspapers you see around LA at the stores, and threw it on my kitchen table when I got home. It fluttered down, back side up. I’m putting away the stuff, glance at the table, and see this hot guy smiling up at me. I go closer to see who this was. What? This guy is on the radio?? So of course I had to give him a listen. And got so hooked. Used to call in, email, met him a couple times. He’s so smart and brave and right and funny. I’d be super embarrassed to admit it was his looks that originally got me in. Sheesh.


116 posted on 08/01/2018 7:39:45 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: vannrox

I was in Japan and posting to a Tokyo BBS. Suddenly the depraved leftards started calling me a “Limbot.” I had no idea what they were talking about, but they were convinced that I must be his “disciple.”

Some guy was posting transcripts of Limbaugh’s show, so I started reading those, then AFRTS started playing one hour of his show. I don’t think he ever disagreed with me on anything until Rubio.

It seems to me that he has abandoned the fight against the forced legitimization of sodomy.


117 posted on 08/01/2018 7:40:14 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: vannrox

1986 KFBK Sacramento.
I joke that I was a regular caller...who was usually left on hold. Actually I did make it all the way through to on the air at least 3 or 4 times in the first couple years. Bo Snerdly would talk to me right up until I was on. Great guy.
Once Rush went national I tried to call a few times...Fugetaboutit. Perpetual busy signal.


118 posted on 08/01/2018 7:40:30 PM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: vannrox

Oddly, it was November 5, 2008, the day that he famously said that he hoped Obama would fail. I was actually driving home from Las Vegas having spent Election Day there monitoring polling sites on behalf of the Democratic Party. I was basking in the glow of Obama’s victory, and probably stopped on Rush flipping through the dial, maybe thinking that I would get to experience a sweet bit of schadenfreude. The irony, I know. Been listening to him ever since!


119 posted on 08/01/2018 7:45:31 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: shelterguy
I seem to remember Rush Rooms. Weren’t they restaurants that played his show or something to that effect?

Sometime back in the nineties, I was out for lunch, and the restaurant sound system began blaring "My City Was Gone" with exceptionally good audio quality. But my hopes were dashed when Chrissy Hynde's vocals came on (Rush always fades the song down before that point). I looked at the clock, and, sure enough, it was 12:15, not 12:06.

120 posted on 08/01/2018 7:46:08 PM PDT by cynwoody
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