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March 10, 2023
"There’s absolutely no one on the radio that can do it like him. All of today’s hosts, including his replacements..."
"... basically just repeat the news and offer a little insights. He would not only tell you what was happening, but why it was happening, and what will happen next. And he was always right."
That's the top-rated comment on the NY Post article "Rush Limbaugh’s wife sells his longtime Palm Beach home for record $155M."
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but, there was MORE!
Rush wouldn't just tell why, and what next.. He'd make you LAUGH while he was doing it.
You could listen to the radio, and smile.. Not Just smile, but LAUGH
Rush made me feel good about myself...
Rush made me feel good about Rush.....
Rush made me feel good about America..
And he was a regular reader of the Althouse blog.
"Ann Althouse. She's from Wisconsin. She's had a blog for a long time."
a lavish Hawaiian-themed wedding bash headlined by none other than Sir Elton John . . . . Rush himself decorated the homes, inspired by Versailles . . .
Fabulous.
Today's hosts are after the stupid right, perhaps people who have left the left and so on the average lower the IQ of the right.
Rush's secret was self-deprecation (larger than life persona) and being a prankster.
The two motor-mouths who have succeeded Rush aren't worthies of what Rush was.
Never listened to Rush at all, TBH. Hugh Hewitt does a fine job, IMHO.
Tim Dillon is the new Rush Limbaugh.
I don't think anyone could skewer the pretensions of the liberals with the wit of Rush. He was genuinely funny and, for many years, he was the only one doing it or, at least, the only one doing it with his level of humor. He was smarter and funnier than Jon Stewart.....He wasn't always right though. I think his decision to become a cigar aficionado was in hindsight a very poor one.
There’s absolutely no one on the Blogosphere that can do it like her. She would not only tell you what the etymology of words were and when they had been used, she gave us details of every sunrise and sunset in Wisconsin . And she was all ways gracious to her commenters.
Too bad she didn’t star on the Mickey Mouse Club.
I miss him.
Rush was one of a kind but clay and buck are good so is beck and tucker
I never trusted the people either (1) bowed down to Rush Limbaugh as perfect or (2) who hated everything he said. He was always a humorist and an absurdist (e.g., "practicing safe-talk" by putting a condom on his microphone). When taken for what he was...funny and absurd and right-wing...enjoy him if you like him... When taken as an infallible guru or the devil incarnate...nope...seek professional help...
"'Can somebody point to me the conservative on the ballot?" Limbaugh asked on his radio show, according to a transcript posted to his official website. '"What do you mean, Rush? Are you admitting Trump is not a conservative?" Damn right I am!'
"He continued: 'Folks, when did I ever say that he was? Look, I don't know how to tell you this. Conservatism lost, in the primary, if that's how you want to look at it. We had [Ted] Cruz; we had [Marco] Rubio.'"
Link.
I wondered if the link to Rush's old website -- a transcript link -- would still be active. thank goodness it is. That, I will say, in the interest of interesting things being interesting; is cool. Transcripts of what Rush actually said on-air. For a very long time, it has been something of a guiding principal in rightwing talkradio that they could do and say stuff that you can't in print, because what gets said (this was more in the early days) goes out there into the airwaves, and it has the desired effect, and then it's gone and who has any sort of quote that can be cut-and-pasted? Rush followed that at first, but then did the whole Rush-World-Transcripts-And-Merchandising-Lifestyle thing.
I'm not certain of the chronology, but I believe that he started it after Media Matters and others started listening to Rush daily and recording all of it.
You posted about legacies yesterday.
Rush is a true legacy. He never seemed to be striving for any legacy. That must be the key.
Rush turned commentary on its head. His influence far exceeds JK Rowling. I went to his Rush to Excellence Tour. A fun night. Nobody works that hard. Who would subject themselves to such a grind and still do 3 hours of extemporaneous talking. Remember Air America? The lefts answer. They couldn't find one host that could talk one hour. The ones they tried suffered from terrible dead air events.
Rush was also the most decent talk show host. He treated all his callers, esp. the few weird ones that got through, with genuine kindness.
There was so much that was prescient about what rush saw, this bizarre dystopia he warned us about sadly obama succeeded more than he failed in weakening this country
And then they moved them to msnbc
He is sorely missed, Carlson has "sort" of tried to take up the mantle. But Rush was on the air, 5 days a week, for 3 hours analyzing and explaining. And his compass point was unerring.
We do not have anyone anywhere close to that. He might have been able to stop the huge move towards totalitarianism that we have experienced since Biden.
In the same way I miss Trump saying "Chy-na," I miss Rush saying, "the Rev-uh-rund Jesthe Jackthon."
Rush kept me sane in the 1990s, and helped me realize I wasn't alone. He cut through all the crap from the political and media elite, and he did it with a smile. I'll always be grateful for that. No one compares to him. He was the Mozart of talk radio.
Not only were Rush’s prognostications Right, he was “dead-on-balls accurate.”
Rush was the OG. All kinds of phrases people say regularly originated with him.
I didn't click through, but I hope no one's blaming Kathryn for selling. The memories would be painful.
Rush was the reason I thoroughly enjoyed my travelling sales job. Listened pretty everyday since 1993. He was definitely the best that I've ever heard.
It is disappointing to see the degradation of today's replacements. No one can replace Rush., so give it a rest.
And then Chuck shows up to toss a turd in the punchbowl. Chuck quotes a transcript: "Trump is not a conservative?" Earth to Chuck: check out the make up of the Supreme Court. You really are a doofus.
In the 90s some restaurants had "Rush Rooms" where people could go to eat lunch and listen to Rush.
In the late 90s I was visiting a principal in Spokane. They had luch at some wierd hour so that they could play Rush in the Cafeteria.
John Henry
I remember when Rush appeared as a guest on Nightlife. Ted Koppel introduced him as the voice of conservatism, or as representing some right wing faction, essentially as a politician. Rush demurred. "No, Ted," he said. As I recall, he said:
"My job is the same as yours, Ted. My job is to deliver an audience."
As it happened, because the MSM had nothing for conservatives, that segment was wide open for him. It remains pretty wide open to this day.
The highlight of the Trump Presidency was when he awarded Rush the Medal of Freedom. Not only did Trump make the much-deserved award, he got all the Democrats in Congress to attend the ceremony.
There's never been a better history of the business of right-wing radio than this (five, plus one bonus, fantastically-listenable episodes):
WNYC's podcast series on "The Divided Dial."
Rush's producer, James Golden, aka 'Bo Snerdley' has an afternoon talk show on WABC in NY.
Chuck, like Rush I was not impressed by Trump before the election and I agreed that he was not "conservative." After he was elected and began to govern, in spite of the obstruction by people like you, I realized that he was acting conservative and doing everything he could to keep his promises. The frantic opposition by phonies like Romney and Ryan exposed them as part of the ruling class that Codevilla described. Limbaugh realized that he had been wrong about Trump, like millions of us, and supported him.
"Right on target, so direct
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go"
Rush used his “intelligence guided by experience”, as he was known to say so many times. Maybe not many people could put it together, model it and clearly articulate it like he could, but that phrase “intelligence guided by experience” told me I could intuit stuff if I payed enough attention.
charisma
The commenter is correct. There is no one, not anyone close, to what Rush Limbaugh was. He offered insights and perspectives you simply do not get from anyone else anywhere in the media. He did it with humor. He did it with facts, and he did it with a great instinct for who people are and how they act. He did that for decades. He changed radio, gave AM radio additional life, established the standard for syndication, quality in broadcasting, and not bending to the angry whims of the left-wing mobs.
His replacements are fillers, as far as I'm concerned. They're smart and talented guys. But after Rush, everyone else is amateur.
Dave Begley said...
And he was a regular reader of the Althouse blog.
"Ann Althouse. She's from Wisconsin. She's had a blog for a long time."
Sorry Dave, he likely had little time with his physical ailments and broadcast preparations to regularly read blog comments. Rush's research was done by his staff and if Althouse contained a favorable article or comment pertinent to the current subjects discussed, he used the material and sourced his comments.
One of the times Rush mentioned the blog when Althouse posted about Henry Louis Gates, Jr. trying to break in to his own house was approached by police who had been called. I remember it made National news. And even Obama asked the cop and Dr Henry Louis Gates, Jr. over to the White House to join him for a beer. The whole thing, now looking back on it, could have been made into a Seinfeld episode.
Yup, Trump earned my respect by his actions as president. Nobody has ever come that close to my philosophy ever. If you’re calling yourself a Republican or conservatives or whatever and you have a problem with his presidency then you are neither.
I respected Rush, and was grateful for what he did for the conservative movement, but I personally couldn't stand to listen to him on the radio, or watch his TV show. It was his constant Muhammad Ali routine... I just couldn't take it. I understand that it was just his shtick, but I didn't watch much Letterman either.
I was much more of a Breitbart guy.
Darconville said...
Tim Dillon is the new Rush Limbaugh.
So how much money does Tim Dillon, a mediocre comedian, make?
And the answer to any such questions is that there will never be another Rush Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau.
Gilbar nails it at the top.
gadfly: "Sorry Dave, he likely had little time with his physical ailments and broadcast preparations to regularly read blog comments. Rush's research was done by his staff and if Althouse contained a favorable article or comment pertinent to the current subjects discussed, he used the material and sourced his comments."
LOL
Gadfly is working overtime to outdo LLR-democratical Chuck and Russia Collusion Truther Inga in the mindreading category.
As others have said there really is no replacement for Rush. The first time I heard his intro music after he had passed, I felt actual grief. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually felt grief for a celebrity passing. He was a happy, congenial guy. The other conservative radio hosts come off a little bit too mean for my liking. Sure, Rush was conservative, but if there was a target of his show it wasn't Democrats, or the Left, or culture wars, it was the media. He opened up the eyes of probably tens of millions of listeners to just how bad a job our media establishment was doing.
I never trusted the people either (1) bowed down to Rush Limbaugh…
Typical lefty projection and straw manning. Rush was a Christian who worshipped no one but God as you would know if you listened. Conservatives are largely the same. Only leftists worship politicians and other public figures. You guys consistently get that wrong when commenting here. We know all (as in all) humans are flawed and don’t deserve worship. Same for Nature. We save that for the Creator not things He created. Fucking idiot lefty projection!
Michael K: "Chuck, like Rush I was not impressed by Trump before the election and I agreed that he was not "conservative." After he was elected and began to govern, in spite of the obstruction by people like you, I realized that he was acting conservative and doing everything he could to keep his promises. The frantic opposition by phonies like Romney and Ryan exposed them as part of the ruling class that Codevilla described. Limbaugh realized that he had been wrong about Trump, like millions of us, and supported him."
LLR-democratical Chuck is back to his old tricks, pretending things that were written or said in 2015/2016 are relevant today and override all that we witnessed from 2016 to present. You see the same things from the rest of the lefty usual suspects, linking to articles and reports from years ago to avoid what has been discovered since.
I will give LLR-democratical a little credit though for not trying too hard to resurrect his failed "true conservative" schtick which was inoperative far before the 2016 election.
And Gadfly comes along to knock down another straw man. Leftists are so brave! Show me where Begley said Rush read the Althouse comments regularly Dude.
gadfly:
Rush's prep involved and required reading. No doubt in my mind he was a regular reader of the Althouse blog.
I wrote the Rush read the Althouse blog. He never said anything about the comments.
"Ann Althouse. She's from Wisconsin. She's had a blog for a long time."
I know Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer and many US Senators read Power Line, but they never once referred to my campaign posts.
"When taken for what he was...funny and absurd and right-wing..."
Funny, yep! Right wing, nope! Rush was a conservative. And more than anything, he loved his country.
Rush, "Ann Althouse. She's from Wisconsin. She has a blog -- she's had it for a while -- and she wrote a blurb last night, a post, about two political science professors who have recently discovered the term "low-information voter" and sought to define it."
8/1/17, 8:16 AM, DDB
Among his other attributes Rush was a canny real estate investor. Even in 1998 he bought the property cheap.
Rush was clearly a partisan commentator, but made no bones about it.
He also did very good analysis that goes well beyond anything being done today.
He earned every penny and apparently bought a really nice house along the way...
Talent on loan from God. What a crater he left in my afternoons! I remember this epiphany I had about people from listening to Rush. I always thought conservatives were like my Dad, who might as well have been William F Buckley. But then I started to notice how often it was that the blue collar people I encounter throughout my day— a plumber, contractor, ac serviceman, hotel clerk, ups store owner, cab driver—;they all listened to Rush. Every once in a while he would take a call from a truck driver— golden moments.
Last week during a long drive I listened to a few Joe Rogan podcasts. I know there are significant differences between the two, and God I wish joes momma would wash out his mouth with soap— but in terms of compelling material, presented with humor and humility, I think Joe will grow i to a Rush-sized influence. No one else comes close.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
I never trusted the people either (1) bowed down to Rush Limbaugh…
Typical lefty projection and straw manning. Rush was a Christian who worshipped no one but God as you would know if you listened. Conservatives are largely the same. Only leftists worship politicians and other public figures. You guys consistently get that wrong when commenting here. We know all (as in all) humans are flawed and don’t deserve worship. Same for Nature. We save that for the Creator not things He created. Fucking idiot lefty projection!
Well nothing says "Christianity" quite like "fucking lefty projection."
Rush's faith always interested me because he was reportedly a United Methodist. Like I am, like Hillary Rodham Clinton is, like George W. and Barbara Bush are, like the Cheney family are, as President Grant (and Presidents Polk and McKinley, as well as Senator George McGovern) was. And as current Senators Cotton, Kennedy, Stabenow and Warren are.
But I can't find any record of Rush being involved in the United Methodist Church, or attending any church in Palm Beach.
You got any info on that? Nobody ever seemed to know.
Rush's brother David Limbaugh, in the Christian Post:
He started witnessing to his older sibling, even asking him straightforwardly whether he truly believed. Rush Limbaugh answered, "yes." David Limbaugh asked why his brother didn't discuss his faith more. Rush Limbaugh allegedly replied that he didn't talk about it much because he didn't think he knew enough about it. He didn't want to make something he wasn't an expert in the focus of his talk show.
"It makes you wonder why you didn't study it more and all that," David Limbaugh said.
Rosenberg pointed out that it was interesting because Limbaugh was known to be a "student" of everything he was excited about to become an expert in those areas. David Limbaugh agreed.
"Even though he was not being intellectually dishonest about it, he didn't quite yet get it in my view," David Limbaugh said.
“dead-on-balls accurate.”
"It's an industry term"
- M. L. Vito
I will say that Rush's humor seemed to disappear the last few years. Maybe with Trump he had less to mock.
Odd coincidence: I haven't thought of Rush in quite awhile, but today I happened to glance at the clock while driving at 12:05 PM, which was when his show would start in my area. I was surprised when I realized how much I miss hearing Rush's voice and the "My City Was Gone" intro.
$155 Million.
They must have gotten rid of the cats.
He was the best.
Mark Steyn isn't Rush (no one I've ever heard of could talk for three hours daily for decades about anything and everything), but he's a reasonable substitute IMO. (Which includes actual substituting -- in the last few years of Rush's life, Steyn was an increasingly needed guest host.) Bo Snerdley (a.k.a James Golden) also has Steyn on as a regular guest.
I never listened to Rush, but I did watch some of his brief foray into television in the (?) early 90s.
In fairness to Rush, and, I suppose, to Chuck, Trump did not really govern as a “conservative.” He governed as a common sense pragmatic centrist. This appears conservative because anyone to the right of Tulsi Gabbard is now an Extreme right-winger. Actually Tulsi is now a right winger. Without changing any positions.
And the alleged “conservatives” in the GOPe are Big Government State Power advocates.
#24 of Rush’s First 35 Undeniable Truths of Life is the one with the most effect on everyday life. They are all true.
Rush wasn't always right. There were particular topics, like education and religion in culture, where he wasn't actually very good. But he was like Babe Ruth. He changed the game forever. I listened from about 1988-98, which was a dark time for me and Rush one of the few rays of light. He was Doonesbury on the radio, but from the right-hand side and frankly, better researched and more three-dimensional.
He does it differently, but Ben Shapiro does a good job of putting the days events into the larger societal context of things.
Not on the radio though. You have to go find it.
Best ever Rush thing was Dan bake sale back in the early 90s. Schools were having bake sales to help Clinton pay off the national debt. And a caller was interested in getting Rush’s newsletter and rather than give it to him free, Rush challenged him to make $100 dollars having a bake sale. It turned into a thousands of people event because so may people wanted to be a part of it.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/12/08/the-story-of-dans-bake-sale/
to me it is nails on chalkboard = conservative >> is it really an informatvie label?
to the extent it hearkens/harkens to the past exudes air of 'loserism'/nostalgia
and also an attempt to cast US politics into Britsh bespoke jargon.
it is time to adopt and adapt to "MAmericanismGA' which harbingers(?) the future
Joe Smith said...
Rush was clearly a partisan commentator, but made no bones about it...
I very, very strongly disagree. Rush was one of the least partisan people in all of right-wing media. How so? Rush had absolutely no respect for, and no admiration for, much of Republican leadership.
Of course Rush hated the Democrats. All of them. All of the time. He ridiculed them without mercy every chance he had. But for Rush's own purposes, he rarely gave credit to Republican Congressional leadership. Mitch McConnell got almost nothing favorable from Rush. Rush railed against McConnell.
So it that sense, you could say many things about Rush -- good, bad, indifferent -- but he was unusually NOT "partisan."
(In the waning days of the Trump Administration -- that is to say, the last three years -- Rush quit referring to his show as "The Institute for Advanced Conservative Thinking." He knew that "conservatism" had lost all meaning with Trump. Rush made a point of calling his gig "the Institute for Advanced Anti-Democrat [or "anti-liberal"] Thinking." Dedicated listeners will recall that.)
His house predicted to be a tear down. Rich people.
I first heard Rush about 1991 while driving through Idaho on my way to Pasadena. He was so naughty and wild in those days! I could listen to him off and on all the way to San Bernardino.
Missoula didn't get him til about 1996 because local talking heads thought he just wasn't right for us. You know, nice, moderate, reasonable. And boring asf.
Finally the station *owners* made their wishes known. Lol.
I often recall the dry wit of Rush's substitute host, economist Walter Williams (who died just two months before Limbaugh passed).
For instance, Williams would casually mention that he had given Mrs. Williams a thoughtful birthday present, some ice cleats to "help her do a better job" while shoveling out their driveway after a winter storm.
On another occasion he disclosed he gave Mrs. Williams one of those long polls with a saw blade at the end, "to help her do a better job" trimming the trees and shrubbery on their property.
The thing is, some listeners believed him, and called in to register their outrage and dismay.
Pure gold.
Blogger boatbuilder said...
In fairness to Rush, and, I suppose, to Chuck, Trump did not really govern as a “conservative.” He governed as a common sense pragmatic centrist.
Agreed. I thought he governed like a drug free libertarian, which is the same.
Rush had an uncommon skill in simply speaking obvious commonsense.
Rush was unique. He was funny and open. It’s good TV never worked out for him. Radio was his natural home. I grew up before TV listening to Ohio State Wisconsin football while picking corn in Dane County. Bob & Ray and Rush were always a treat.
Love, ideally, commitment, and fidelity have their benefits in life and thereafter.
El Rushbo was the best.
Think of all the time the Left wasted trying to scare off Rush's sponsors.
I wonder what Rush would have thought about This?
Inspectors General Estimate $276 Billion of Fraud, Waste in Pandemic Relief Funds: ‘Biggest Fraud in a Generation’
I suspect he would have said something like:
A Quarter of a TRILLION here, a Quarter of a TRILLION there.. Pretty Soon, you're talking about Real Money
Back when Rush was just beginning his meteoric rise to fame as a radio host, I had a chance to hear him in person at a lecture hall. Several people in the audience asked him why he didn't run for political office, like President. He replied that the reason he would never do that is because he was, at heart, an entertainer. I respected him for that. Would that Trump would have heeded that advice.
"I wrote the Rush read the Althouse blog. He never said anything about the comments."
It's Gadfly, David- if you had written "Rush took a piss every day", he would have disagreed with that, too.
Correcting myself just above; it's the Limbaugh "Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies", not "Thought".
https://www.acronymfinder.com/Limbaugh-Institute-for-Advanced-Conservative-Studies-(LIACS).html
No one has replaced Rush. He was simply too big, and too unique. At one point, i thought Glenn Beck was his natural successor (sic), but Beck showed himself to be a weirdo and a fraud. Unlike Beck, who jumped on the Never-Trumper bandwagon in 2015-2017, and then flipped to supporting Trump in 2018, Rush did what he always did, he didn't play favorites in the Republican primaries, and when trump was the nominee and POTUS, he supported him.
If he thought Trump was going too much against Rush's conservative beliefs, he criticized Trump for doing that. But he stopped there. Unlike Beck or Shapiro, he was NOT Ok with Hillary as POTUS.
BTW, Rush also served another good purpose. WHenever you saw someone claiming to be a (A) Conservative and (B) attacking Rush was being "bad for Conservatism", you knew you were dealing with a phony and a FakeCon. Examples were Burt Stehpens, David Frum, Michael Brendan Doughtery, David Brooks, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, Jen Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Bill O'Reilly, Rod Dreher, and Kevin Williams.
Lauder bought it.
Blogger Chuck said...
Fair point about Rush not being partisan per se, but more anti Democrat. Sort of like the South Park creator who said "I hate Republicans, but I FUCKING hate Democrats!" This sums up my feeling about the respective parties very well.
However, when you say "He knew that "conservatism" had lost all meaning with Trump.", I would differ a bit in my interpretation. The mainstream Republican party had been exposed as insincere frauds, and Trump to everyone's surprise had achieved more for the stated goals of conservatism than any "proper" conservative had in recent memory. Just imagine what might have been accomplished if the house and senate had worked with Trump on anything besides tax cuts. Obamacare? Could have been gone. I was contemptuous and dismissive about Donald Trump when he ran. I didn't even bother to vote. He turned out to be the best thing to happen in the presidency since Reagan. It was a shame about his personality, but hey, that's what got him elected in the first place...
"Would that Trump would have heeded that advice."
Hillary Clinton approves this message.
It was a secret that Trump was a Dem darling?
Hmmmm- until he started running- and speaking.
Big deal.
...Just imagine what might have been accomplished if the house and senate had worked with Trump on anything besides tax cuts. Obamacare? Could have been gone.
The pledge was "repeal and replace." The promise, made ad nuaseum would be that Trump would formulate "something great." "Something terrific." "You're going to love it." And, my favorite taunt, "It will be easy."
There was never any replacement plan. The only actual proposal was to legislatively vandalize the Affordable Care Act. Trump's "replacement" plan became one of the longest-running jokes of his presidency. In "two weeks" he would be not just proposing something (that never happened); he would actually be "signing" something.
My second favorite Trump presidential quote (second place to Trump's utterly fantastic misguided bloviating about 'Western liberalism') is his quote about healthcare reform:
"Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated."
BTW, Rush also served another good purpose. WHenever you saw someone claiming to be a (A) Conservative and (B) attacking Rush was being "bad for Conservatism", you knew you were dealing with a phony and a FakeCon.
Hugh Hewitt used to do this well. I remember one time a new reporter called to interview him. He told her that he had one question he would ask first to determine her political bias. He asked her if Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy. She hung up.
Chuck finally said something I agree with.
Rush was one of the least partisan people in all of right-wing media. How so? Rush had absolutely no respect for, and no admiration for, much of Republican leadership.
This is what drove the Trump election and you can't see it.
lonejustice said...
Back when Rush was just beginning his meteoric rise to fame as a radio host, I had a chance to hear him in person at a lecture hall. Several people in the audience asked him why he didn't run for political office, like President. He replied that the reason he would never do that is because he was, at heart, an entertainer. I respected him for that. Would that Trump would have heeded that advic
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That claim---that Rush was "just" an entertainer----was falsely used by many libs to claim that he didn't believe a word he said, and was just tossing red meat to "the base".
But is there anything he ever did or said in his public or private life to show he WASN'T a political conservative, and didn't believe what he broadcast?
FREE CLUE: Limbaugh ALSO SAID many times that he couldn't be a politician because he couldn't tell people just what they wanted to hear, in order to get elected.
Wanna square that circle?
rcocean: "BTW, Rush also served another good purpose. WHenever you saw someone claiming to be a (A) Conservative and (B) attacking Rush was being "bad for Conservatism", you knew you were dealing with a phony and a FakeCon. Examples were Burt Stehpens, David Frum, Michael Brendan Doughtery, David Brooks, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, Jen Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Bill O'Reilly, Rod Dreher, and Kevin Williams."
And LLR-democratical Chuck, gadfly, amongst others.
Derek Hunter comes closest to filling Rush's shoes. Check out his podcast!
btw a lauder heir bought the property
People who didn't listen have an opinion shaped by jealous leftists. What I was amazed by was his 2016 Republican primary coverage. He actually provided more balanced coverage than any of the media did. Once saying that if you wanted the modern embodiment of Reagan, vote for Cruz & that Trump is not an ideologue.
I think his support from Trump started with his handling of the press.
RIP El Rushbo
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