I was in grad school. I had read, either in the Nation, the New Yorker, or The Progressive, about this radio guy who was against everything I thought I stood for, who had a nice presentation but was evil. There was something called Rush-rooms out in the mid-west where the great “unwashed” listened to him.
So I was driving in to class and I searched the dial and found him, this had to be 91 or so. I listened and each time I was in the car, I listened more.
He used the term “feminazis” and said things that I had not ever heard said out loud. I found him funny and a bit subversive, in a nice way.
Since we had just adopted two black infants, I was just beginning to learn how racist the left really was, and he provided an interesting counterpoint.
I have listened to him throughout the years.
Although he can stop hawking wares on his show, and let them go to regular commercials, I find I turn him off when he is selling stuff. And I hate when he segues into selling while talking about other more political things. Ingraham does that too. They would be much better off running a series of real commercials at set times with more talk in between.
I completely agree with your assessment of Rush’s commercials. I, too, prefer he talks and then just lets the commercials be commercials.