Please relate the first time that you discovered the Rush Limbaugh show (Vanity)

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[Skooz]

.....but he does not use his real name.

No way.

[Pelham]

I first heard Rush on San Diego’s KOGO, before he was picked up by KFI in Los Angeles. A friend on a political campaign knew of him from Sacramento and said to check him out.

That was probably 1988. LA morning talk radio was dominated by a British accented liberal on KABC named Michael Jackson, a darling of Hollywood and the national Democratic party. Jackson was a very big deal.

KFI picked up Limbaugh and ran him directly opposite Jackson. In 1997 Jackson’s 30 career came to a halt, finished off because Rush was now dominating the morning audience.

Before Rush SoCal conservatives weren’t entirely without a radio presence. Small private station KIEV featured George Putnam at noon- George was an LA newsman and friend of Ronald Reagan. In some ways Rush has never matched George Putnam. George was a driving force on passing California’s Prop 13. And more importantly George was a leader in the illegal immigration movement, more than a decade before Rush would even admit that there is any problem at all.

Both California and LA radio have changed a lot since then. The English speaking audience has been driven out of a lot of LA- Spanish language stations vie with American ones for market share. KFI dumped Rush, the guy who made KFI a talk powerhouse. Putnam died, as did Terry Anderson- KIEV was sold to the Trump despising GOPe Salem Radio group. And California continues its descent into becoming post-America.