Posted on 08/01/2018 6:26:11 PM PDT by vannrox
I was searching around the dial looking for news of Desert Storm and ran across him.
Listened almost every day after that with a brief break when he went deaf.
He was hard to listen to until the got his cochlear implants.
I went back until his remark about Rubio being a deep throated conservative.
Only listen occasionally now if I happen to be in the car.
During the Clarence Thomas Hearings, driving Cross Country... I couldn’t get enough of his show, I’d keep searching until I found it again.
I did not know I was a Conservative, he just spoke like I thought and no one else did.
Been hooked on AM Radio ever since
I think so.
LOL, great, great stuff.
I first heard him in 1988, and was immediately captivated, as were my two teenage sons. It might have been before 1988, because he was still in California poking fun at Rio Lindo.
1988 - Rush was doing a combination of local and national on WABC in NYC from Noon to 3 and in effect opening for the legendary Bob Grant so it was 6 hours of conservative talk radio 5 days a week with Barry Farber on the weekends. Great times.
Oh, and yes, he is still on air.
Desert Storm...driving home from work. Don’t know how I found him on the car radio, but I did. My first thought was...Hey...this guy is saying things I feel and believe in. If I was in an area at work where I could listen to Rush, I did. Been retired since 2003, and believe it or not, I have less time now to do the things I’d like. Now I only get to listen to Rush when I’m in my car, but since I usually don’t head out on errands until after 3 p.m., I frequently miss him. Hannity’s on the radio by then, and I’m not crazy about him.
First began listening: 1991
Stopped listening: 2016
Congrats on 30 years, Rush.
Late 1988, or early 1989 working in Hawthorne, CA, just scanned the AM dial and picked up Rush. He became a regular 9AM companion to my programming tasks. DBrow(x), DBrow(y)
I completely agree with your assessment of Rush’s commercials. I, too, prefer he talks and then just lets the commercials be commercials.
I saw Rush on his TV show not knowing who he was, then hearing him on AM radio (somewhere probably Midwest) and finally came to my area locally at 12 PM (live). The rest is history. My Grandfather, Reagan and Rush solidified my Conservative roots.
I remember way, way back thinking, “Who let this guy on the radio?” because he actually makes sense. I thought Deep State would have his license revoked and/or the licenses of any radio station broadcasting him. Glad I was wrong.
I caught his TV program a few times. IIRC, it was on a UHF channel around 10:30 pm Saturday. That was in the early 1990s.
Then, it went off the air.
Later, I heard him occasionally on radio.
I have been a semi-regular listener for the last 15 years via streaming on the Internet.
I lived in Europe at the time, and only got USA news from the local news or CNN International, or the International Herald Tribune. I wasn’t political, so I just sucked in the lefty viewpoint of these news orgs. But my life was changing as I had just had a baby. I was also laid off and living happily home with my baby on unemployment at 90% of my salary. It felt so unfair.
And I had read about this shock jock Rush Limbaugh. A monster. A blood spitting, flame throwing liar who spewed hate over the airwaves daily back in the states. Every morning I would watch the previous day’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on the NBC international channel. One night he had Limbaugh as his guest. I was SHOCKED to see he was a normal guy, funny, full of common sense, got on great with Jay. What??
So when I moved back home I couldn’t wait to give him a listen. He was great. Those Clinton parodies just slayed me. I was hooked, listened every chance I could. And my politics changed. I do have to give Rush credit.
And yes, I know Rush hung out here. He quoted my posts verbatim at least 3 times when I was actually listening. Used my jokes as his. And I was nothing but flattered.
Was listening to him in Sacramento, 1530 KFBK, before he went national.
My first exposure to Rush Limbaugh was not hearing him on the radio, but seeing him on TV. I had a friend (a fellow conservative) who I frequently discussed politics with. He told me a few times:’ There’s this guy on the radio named Rush Limbaugh. You should listen to his show. I think you’d like him.” I said yeah, I’ll have to check him out sometime. One day I was at the gym, and they had a TV on the wall showing the Phil Donahue Show. Donahue announced that his guest was Rush Limbaugh, so I started paying attention. He asked Rush how he felt about women serving in the military. Rush responded that he was not only in favor of it, but then outlined his proposal for “The All-American Amazon Army.” Of course, Donahue and his audience were going nuts, and Rush was loving every minute of it. I’ve been a listener ever since.
I seem to recall WCHS didn't add his 3rd hour when he went to 3 hours whenever that was. So I would listen to WRVC in Huntington, WV, albeit very scratchy AM, because they picked up his 3rd hour.
My favorite show, and I taped it because I knew it would be a good one, was the morning after the election in 1994, when the Rs took the House of Reps. After 40 (50?) some years of D control, I never thought I'd see the day. I need to go dig that one up. Good times.
mom listened to Rush in 1988 regularly on AM 640 KFI (Los Angeles) in our kitchen, and the show would come blaring into my bedroom. I started casually istening on my own around 1989, but it was the C-SPAN simulcast June 1st, 1990 that made me a regular. That coupled with the 10 pm full replay each night on Sacramento’s KFBK AM 1530 (barely audible at times, with all of the original demented political commercials) got me hooked on his alternative viewpoint of what was really happening in DC, and being daily reported by mainstream media. Mega Dittos, Happy 30th Maha Rushie, El Rushbo & Rush Limbaugh!
C-SPAN Simulcast June 1, 1990:
https://cs.pn/2LTPxGy
My kids also grew up with Rush Limbaugh in their ears. Too soon to tell if that will mean anything for their future.
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