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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

In honor of the Rush Limbaugh Show reaching 30 years old today, I would like Freepers to post and collect their memories. Memories of when they first listened to the Rush Limbaugh Show, and why you kept on listening to it.

I'll start...

It was 1993. Bill Clinton was elected and he was on television, and the radio discussing his budget. He was talking about all the great plans that he had to remove man from space, end the "boondoggle" of the "Freedom " space station, and mothball the space shuttles so the money could be used "for the children". He was promoting what a great boom to the American worker that NAFTA and extended relations with China would be. He talked about how he was going to restore ethics to Washington, DC.

Every show and every radio station was gushing with praise for this man. It was sickening. The women looked like they were fawning and near fainting near him. The men was nodding vigorously and everyone was talking in excited tones about how America will lead the world by undoing Reaganism.

There was only one man who had a contrary view. That was Rush Limbaugh.

So while the rest of America praised the new America led by Clinton, and was looking forward to the new trade agreements with NAFTA and China, I was huddled in my living room, listening to Rush on the radio on a dark and stormy West Virginia night. Only Rush gave voice to how I felt.


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To: Tennessee Nana

I’d say 1990 i was on my home from work and l stumbled onto to a guy on the radio referring the “The REVERAND Jackson” and l thought finally someone else has noticed what a phony opportunistic race hustler Jessie was. Then he hit the femanazis and l have not stopped listening since.


21 posted on 08/01/2018 6:38:35 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: vannrox
The 1992 run up to the election. My Mom had been a devoted Republican and had become home bound due to ALS. The show kept her adrenaline up. It helped.

She passed before the November election was held, but we got to watch the debates together and follow the topics on Rushes show.

22 posted on 08/01/2018 6:39:35 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: cnsmom

I’d ask the kid if he wanted me to change the channel, at 8 he was like “No I like this guy” LOL


23 posted on 08/01/2018 6:39:46 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: vannrox

1993. I was told he was the devil incarnate when I was in college. Started working in the real world and saw how much I was getting jobbed and came across Rush. By next year I voted strait GOP during the Republican Revolution (remember it had been decades since they held the house). Never looked back.


24 posted on 08/01/2018 6:40:02 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: vannrox
Fall of 1992. I'd just started college. Happened to catch his TV show one night during the week of its premiere.

I went looking for his radio show the next day.

Within a few days I realized this guy was speaking common sense as few had the courage to do so.

I got to get a call in on his show a little over a year later. Still have the tape recording somewhere too.

25 posted on 08/01/2018 6:40:32 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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To: vannrox

Right before I got fired partially for telling my high school students about him years ago. The rest of it was being strict in class and having real expectations of learning. No one would defend us back then. Now, every 1,000 times or so some conservative will have the nerve to defend another conservative.


26 posted on 08/01/2018 6:42:46 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I seem to remember Rush Rooms. Weren’t they restaurants that played his show or something to that effect?


27 posted on 08/01/2018 6:43:19 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: vannrox

In November 1988, I was driving through the Central Valley of California. My company car only had AMFM so I was scanning through stations trying to find something to listen to. I found Rush and my first thought was, this guy saying what I think. I was so impressed I tried to remember his name to find him on a station in Southern California. Probably about february 1989 I saw KFI640 Billboard with Rushes name on it and I’ve been listening ever since.


28 posted on 08/01/2018 6:43:21 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: vannrox

I first saw him on his TV show during summer vacation. My Mom watched it, and I sat in for a few.


29 posted on 08/01/2018 6:43:30 PM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: vannrox

If I remember right he had a show on TV.


30 posted on 08/01/2018 6:43:49 PM PDT by vigilante2 (I fixed my flag)
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To: vannrox

I lived in VA, near Langley AFB, with several military family neighbors. I was all worried about the start of Gulf War I, and fretting way too much. My dear Auntie encouraged me that all would be well. She said I needed to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I said, “Who?” So, the next day or so, I tuned in for the first time, and the rest...as they say...is history. Have listened ever since, and enjoyed every bit!


31 posted on 08/01/2018 6:44:10 PM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: vannrox

1992? My father said “you’ve got to listen to this guy!”


32 posted on 08/01/2018 6:44:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: vannrox

I believe it was late 1989 or early 1990. It was in the winter in Yuma, Arizona.

I arrived there in September of 1989 to take over the leadership of the Meteorology Team at Yuma Proving Ground. I was visiting one of the upper air radiosonde sites (building 3555 on KOFA) when I heard Rush on the radio. I asked who was that on the radio?

I was told it was Rush Limbaugh.


33 posted on 08/01/2018 6:44:28 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: shelterguy

I remember those! None were near me though.


34 posted on 08/01/2018 6:45:03 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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To: vannrox
It had to have been close to the beginning when I first heard it. There wasn't anything even close to it on the air. I think my jaw dropped that I was really hearing it on the radio.

I don't think Rush does them much anymore, but he used to have the "update" segments with sound effects which were pretty funny.

Then there was the drive-thru fast food window with the unintelligible garble coming over the speaker.

Rush plays it safer now, and doesn't push the envelope like he used to. He's still great, just different.
 

35 posted on 08/01/2018 6:45:08 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: vannrox

Air campaign began in the first Gulf War. I was searching for news on the radio, and I heard a guy talking about how liberals were whining about how we were being mean to the enemy.


36 posted on 08/01/2018 6:45:20 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: vannrox

I was walking through my small town Walmart (pre-Super Center) in ‘93 and they had him on and he was going on about Clinton being a gifted liar. I was hooked.


37 posted on 08/01/2018 6:45:22 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: vannrox
Mine was way back during the lead up to the first Gulf War (1990). I was in high school and was obsessed with news about the coming war since this was the first real war I had ever seen in my lifetime (and to a 15 year old it was just a big adventure).

My parents had one of those huge console stereo systems, so I was fiddling with the dial one day and found this guy that was talking about the war so I stopped and listened and ended up listening for the entire show.

My parents were not really big into politics and being a typical teenager I couldn't even tell you what the difference between the two parties was let alone what a "conservative" believed. But this guy on the radio was talking about politics and not only did I find myself paying attention, I also found that I agreed with pretty much everything he said. For the first time in my young life I felt I somewhat understood why the country worked the way it did.

Then my parents started listening because I had the stereo on most of the afternoon and they agreed with this guy that was saying things even they had never heard or paid attention to before and he was entertaining at the same time.

So that is how Rush Limbaugh converted an entire non-political family into die hard conservatives. My mom, who is now 82 still never misses his show as do I, at age 44 now, (at least when my work schedule allows). And I'm sure my dad is still listening from heaven....

38 posted on 08/01/2018 6:45:32 PM PDT by apillar
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To: Rebelbase

Driving on Sunday to Telluride Co from Colorado Springs...Building a hotel there...

It was a rerun on a radio station in Grand Junction ....

I though he was a preacher.....did figure out it was on M-F

His show was great back then when he had parodies ....to many ads now


39 posted on 08/01/2018 6:46:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: vannrox

My husband discovered him first, although I don’t know how he found him. I hadn’t heard him yet, and we were walking through Disneyworld with our 4 children when we passed the Star Wars ride. They were playing the music that Rush used to play when he was talking about Gorbachev, and my husband blurted out “Gorbasm!” I thought he said something else and looked at him in disbelief and embarrassment. On our drive home, he was playing Rush on the car radio and he explained what a Gorbasm was. That was in 1991.


40 posted on 08/01/2018 6:46:38 PM PDT by murron
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