Thirty Years of Rush

[Foxfyre]

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

If you had ever researched anything he said, then you would know he is always wrong, so obviously you never researched anything he said. Like Donnie Dirtbag, he lies about the littlest things that are easy to check because he knows his DittoTards will never check him.

For example, the pathological liar claims he coined the term "Low information voter" in 2009. The term has been in publication since 1971.

I refer you to the highlighted paragraph in the OP. Have a great afternoon.

 

[Foxfyre]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

I can’t believe you people still dare to bring up tolerance. You killed it last election. Intolerance will now be met with intolerance, and I hope you choke on it.

I will refer you to the highlighted paragraph in the OP. Have a great afternoon.

 

[BlackFlag]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

I can’t believe you people still dare to bring up tolerance. You killed it last election. Intolerance will now be met with intolerance, and I hope you choke on it.

I will refer you to the highlighted paragraph in the OP. Have a great afternoon.

I will refer you to my earlier response, and continue having a great afternoon.

 

[Foxfyre]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

I can’t believe you people still dare to bring up tolerance. You killed it last election. Intolerance will now be met with intolerance, and I hope you choke on it.

Good. Lets get this war started.

Please no war here. I would really like to discuss the thread topic and not allow the trolls, idiots, and other exercises in futility to drag us into what THEY want to talk about instead.

Rush was a phenomenon when he came across the scene and he changed the political landscape in all forms of media as likely no other person has, at least since the printing press was invented.

 

[edthecynic]

Which is why to suggest that he is 'brainwashing' anybody is ludicrous. He made his mark by giving those of us who are not leftists a voice that represents who we are, what we think, etc. People who don't like him or resent what he says don't listen to him.

Hogwash, he brainwashes you and you don't even know it. Like your claim that people who don't fall for his BS don't listen to him was planted in your "skull of mush" by him. It is obvious that I know him better than he knows himself!!!

Here is my favorite bit of pure STUPIDITY that only a DittoTard could be STUPID enough to swallow, followed by my favorite bit of pure IRONY out of his own mouth.

April 3, 2007
RUSH: Mark my brilliant words on this. That's how this stuff starts. Now, the question is: is CO2 even a pollutant? Is it an air pollutant? Because if it is, then all the water vapor on this planet is a pollutant. The vast majority of CO2 that's in the atmosphere comes from water vapor.

March 01, 2012
RUSH: To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it." It's a blessing! You know, the worst thing would be to be dumb and to know it -- and there's evidence all over that the dumb do not know they're dumb.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I came expecting Geddy Lee, am disappoint.

 

[edthecynic]

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

If you had ever researched anything he said, then you would know he is always wrong, so obviously you never researched anything he said. Like Donnie Dirtbag, he lies about the littlest things that are easy to check because he knows his DittoTards will never check him.

For example, the pathological liar claims he coined the term "Low information voter" in 2009. The term has been in publication since 1971.

I refer you to the highlighted paragraph in the OP. Have a great afternoon.

Except I DID rebut his lie that he coined the term "low information voter," but he has you too brainwashed to see it. He plagiarised the term but he attacks others for plagiarism.

Hear is another term he plagiarised.
He claimed he coined the term "Generation Text" which he plagiarized from Dr. Michael Osit

 

[Foxfyre]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

And for 30 years liberals would say...



Any day now.........



Rush is going off the air.....






FYI: to the young ones the only reason why Rush got to be so big and popular was the end to stifling free speech, the end to the fairness doctrine the year before.


....

I don't really think that had anything to do with it. I think Rush philosophically was like most of the people populating this country and he tapped into what those people thought, believed, were talking about, were frustrated by etc. as nobody else could and nobody else had done for decades. Paul Harvey, in his 15-minute daily monologue, hit the same kind of nerve, but he had less time to develop the thought and he was less political than Rush.

With the mega millions/billions poured into the Air America experiment to give the nation a liberal voice, you would have though it could have gotten off the ground. But it didn't? Why? Because the left never has any message to offer, no ideas, no agenda that is appealing to much of anybody. All they have is hand wringing and condemnation, nitpicking, and vague promises of a bunch of free stuff that wears thin with the average listener, and therefore the advertisers, really quickly.

But yes, if Rush's ratings slipped the least little bit, the haters were immediately on it. He was done. He was finished. He was a failure. Never mind that his ratings became more diluted when he single handedly created an industry that produced his own competition. But he never lost his #1 slot in any market to any of that competition.

Rush had/has little or no power. If he did, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama would never have been elected--twice. Ross Perot would never have become the phenomenon he did--Rush did not like Perot at all--and McCain never would have been the GOP nominee in 2008. I don't think Trump was Rush's pick either--at least Rush wasn't promoting him in any way during the campaign. The candidate that came the closest to being endorsed by Rush was Ted Cruz.

But what he does is brilliant.

His 30 year run has been absolutely amazing and he hasn't suggested ending it any time soon. But the day he does decide to hang it up and play more golf or whatever, you can bet the leftists will all be singing one chorus: See? He failed and was forced out!

 

[Harry Dresden]

30 years of lies, ignorance, hate, stupidity, and demagoguery; the font of rightwing fake news and conservative reactionaryism.

I highlighted a paragraph in the OP which will be the appropriate response to a post like this. Do have a great day.

jones would never think of debating someone.....its a lot easier to spew out some bullshit and get over to another thread and do the same there.....the guy is a useless stroonge...

 

[Foxfyre]

30 years of lies, ignorance, hate, stupidity, and demagoguery; the font of rightwing fake news and conservative reactionaryism.

I highlighted a paragraph in the OP which will be the appropriate response to a post like this. Do have a great day.

jones would never think of debating someone.....its a lot easier to spew out some bullshit and get over to another thread and do the same there.....the guy is a useless stroonge...

He is entitled to his opinion. I just wish he would start his own thread to bash whatever his heart desires, and allow an intelligent discussion in this one. I don't fault anybody who doesn't care for Rush whose audience at best is 10% or less of the U.S. population and probably not that. So we can safely say 90% or more of the nation do not like Rush or are simply not interested enough to tune in. But more tune into his program than anybody elses nevertheless.

But I note that conservatives/libertarians/moderates can discuss the pros and cons of Rush intelligently and without rancor. And I find that refreshing over the inevitable insults and hate speech from the haters.

 

[Wyatt earp]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

And for 30 years liberals would say...



Any day now.........



Rush is going off the air.....






FYI: to the young ones the only reason why Rush got to be so big and popular was the end to stifling free speech, the end to the fairness doctrine the year before.


....

I don't really think that had anything to do with it. I think Rush philosophically was like most of the people populating this country and he tapped into what those people thought, believed, were talking about, were frustrated by etc. as nobody else could and nobody else had done for decades. Paul Harvey, in his 15-minute daily monologue, hit the same kind of nerve, but he had less time to develop the thought and he was less political than Rush.

With the mega millions/billions poured into the Air America experiment to give the nation a liberal voice, you would have though it could have gotten off the ground. But it didn't? Why? Because the left never has any message to offer, no ideas, no agenda that is appealing to much of anybody. All they have is hand wringing and condemnation, nitpicking, and vague promises of a bunch of free stuff that wears thin with the average listener, and therefore the advertisers, really quickly.

But yes, if Rush's ratings slipped the least little bit, the haters were immediately on it. He was done. He was finished. He was a failure. Never mind that his ratings became more diluted when he single handedly created an industry that produced his own competition. But he never lost his #1 slot in any market to any of that competition.

Rush had/has little or no power. If he did, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama would never have been elected--twice. Ross Perot would never have become the phenomenon he did--Rush did not like Perot at all--and McCain never would have been the GOP nominee in 2008. I don't think Trump was Rush's pick either--at least Rush wasn't promoting him in any way during the campaign. The candidate that came the closest to being endorsed by Rush was Ted Cruz.

But what he does is brilliant.

His 30 year run has been absolutely amazing and he hasn't suggested ending it any time soon. But the day he does decide to hang it up and play more golf or whatever, you can bet the leftists will all be singing one chorus: See? He failed and was forced out!

It had everything to do with it, Rush would of never got on the air or any of the others, to say what you said tells me how young you are or were not aware of the days before 1987




.

 

[Wyatt earp]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

And for 30 years liberals would say...



Any day now.........



Rush is going off the air.....






FYI: to the young ones the only reason why Rush got to be so big and popular was the end to stifling free speech, the end to the fairness doctrine the year before.


....

I don't really think that had anything to do with it. I think Rush philosophically was like most of the people populating this country and he tapped into what those people thought, believed, were talking about, were frustrated by etc. as nobody else could and nobody else had done for decades. Paul Harvey, in his 15-minute daily monologue, hit the same kind of nerve, but he had less time to develop the thought and he was less political than Rush.

With the mega millions/billions poured into the Air America experiment to give the nation a liberal voice, you would have though it could have gotten off the ground. But it didn't? Why? Because the left never has any message to offer, no ideas, no agenda that is appealing to much of anybody. All they have is hand wringing and condemnation, nitpicking, and vague promises of a bunch of free stuff that wears thin with the average listener, and therefore the advertisers, really quickly.

But yes, if Rush's ratings slipped the least little bit, the haters were immediately on it. He was done. He was finished. He was a failure. Never mind that his ratings became more diluted when he single handedly created an industry that produced his own competition. But he never lost his #1 slot in any market to any of that competition.

Rush had/has little or no power. If he did, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama would never have been elected--twice. Ross Perot would never have become the phenomenon he did--Rush did not like Perot at all--and McCain never would have been the GOP nominee in 2008. I don't think Trump was Rush's pick either--at least Rush wasn't promoting him in any way during the campaign. The candidate that came the closest to being endorsed by Rush was Ted Cruz.

But what he does is brilliant.

His 30 year run has been absolutely amazing and he hasn't suggested ending it any time soon. But the day he does decide to hang it up and play more golf or whatever, you can bet the leftists will all be singing one chorus: See? He failed and was forced out!

It had everything to do with it, Rush would of never got on the air or any of the others, to say what you said tells me how young you are or were not aware of the days before 1987




.

 

[Harry Dresden]

30 years of lies, ignorance, hate, stupidity, and demagoguery; the font of rightwing fake news and conservative reactionaryism.

I highlighted a paragraph in the OP which will be the appropriate response to a post like this. Do have a great day.

jones would never think of debating someone.....its a lot easier to spew out some bullshit and get over to another thread and do the same there.....the guy is a useless stroonge...

He is entitled to his opinion. I just wish he would start his own thread to bash whatever his heart desires, and allow an intelligent discussion in this one. I don't fault anybody who doesn't care for Rush whose audience at best is 10% or less of the U.S. population and probably not that. So we can safely say 90% or more of the nation do not like Rush or are simply not interested enough to tune in. But more tune into his program than anybody elses nevertheless.

But I note that conservatives/libertarians/moderates can discuss the pros and cons of Rush intelligently and without rancor. And I find that refreshing over the inevitable insults and hate speech from the haters.

well thats probably because most on the right would tend to either agree with him or think he aint that far off.....i notice that the righties here cant talk about something maddow says without not saying insulting things....it goes both ways....

 

[edthecynic]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

And for 30 years liberals would say...



Any day now.........



Rush is going off the air.....






FYI: to the young ones the only reason why Rush got to be so big and popular was the end to stifling free speech, the end to the fairness doctrine the year before.


....

I don't really think that had anything to do with it. I think Rush philosophically was like most of the people populating this country and he tapped into what those people thought, believed, were talking about, were frustrated by etc. as nobody else could and nobody else had done for decades. Paul Harvey, in his 15-minute daily monologue, hit the same kind of nerve, but he had less time to develop the thought and he was less political than Rush.

With the mega millions/billions poured into the Air America experiment to give the nation a liberal voice, you would have though it could have gotten off the ground. But it didn't? Why? Because the left never has any message to offer, no ideas, no agenda that is appealing to much of anybody. All they have is hand wringing and condemnation, nitpicking, and vague promises of a bunch of free stuff that wears thin with the average listener, and therefore the advertisers, really quickly.

But yes, if Rush's ratings slipped the least little bit, the haters were immediately on it. He was done. He was finished. He was a failure. Never mind that his ratings became more diluted when he single handedly created an industry that produced his own competition. But he never lost his #1 slot in any market to any of that competition.

Rush had/has little or no power. If he did, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama would never have been elected--twice. Ross Perot would never have become the phenomenon he did--Rush did not like Perot at all--and McCain never would have been the GOP nominee in 2008. I don't think Trump was Rush's pick either--at least Rush wasn't promoting him in any way during the campaign. The candidate that came the closest to being endorsed by Rush was Ted Cruz.

But what he does is brilliant.

His 30 year run has been absolutely amazing and he hasn't suggested ending it any time soon. But the day he does decide to hang it up and play more golf or whatever, you can bet the leftists will all be singing one chorus: See? He failed and was forced out!

It had everything to do with it, Rush would of never got on the air or any of the others, to say what you said tells me how young you are or were not aware of the days before 1987

Before Russia Limbaugh you had Morton Downey Jr spewing the hate. Your MessiahRushie is just a third rate Morton Downey Jr, who was able to make a success on TV at the same time slot Russia failed miserably at.

 

[Foxfyre]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

And for 30 years liberals would say...



Any day now.........



Rush is going off the air.....






FYI: to the young ones the only reason why Rush got to be so big and popular was the end to stifling free speech, the end to the fairness doctrine the year before.


....

I don't really think that had anything to do with it. I think Rush philosophically was like most of the people populating this country and he tapped into what those people thought, believed, were talking about, were frustrated by etc. as nobody else could and nobody else had done for decades. Paul Harvey, in his 15-minute daily monologue, hit the same kind of nerve, but he had less time to develop the thought and he was less political than Rush.

With the mega millions/billions poured into the Air America experiment to give the nation a liberal voice, you would have though it could have gotten off the ground. But it didn't? Why? Because the left never has any message to offer, no ideas, no agenda that is appealing to much of anybody. All they have is hand wringing and condemnation, nitpicking, and vague promises of a bunch of free stuff that wears thin with the average listener, and therefore the advertisers, really quickly.

But yes, if Rush's ratings slipped the least little bit, the haters were immediately on it. He was done. He was finished. He was a failure. Never mind that his ratings became more diluted when he single handedly created an industry that produced his own competition. But he never lost his #1 slot in any market to any of that competition.

Rush had/has little or no power. If he did, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama would never have been elected--twice. Ross Perot would never have become the phenomenon he did--Rush did not like Perot at all--and McCain never would have been the GOP nominee in 2008. I don't think Trump was Rush's pick either--at least Rush wasn't promoting him in any way during the campaign. The candidate that came the closest to being endorsed by Rush was Ted Cruz.

But what he does is brilliant.

His 30 year run has been absolutely amazing and he hasn't suggested ending it any time soon. But the day he does decide to hang it up and play more golf or whatever, you can bet the leftists will all be singing one chorus: See? He failed and was forced out!

It had everything to do with it, Rush would of never got on the air or any of the others, to say what you said tells me how young you are or were not aware of the days before 1987




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Will just respectfully disagree. I am not all that young and was still active in the media in 1987.

 

[Foxfyre]

30 years of lies, ignorance, hate, stupidity, and demagoguery; the font of rightwing fake news and conservative reactionaryism.

I highlighted a paragraph in the OP which will be the appropriate response to a post like this. Do have a great day.

jones would never think of debating someone.....its a lot easier to spew out some bullshit and get over to another thread and do the same there.....the guy is a useless stroonge...

He is entitled to his opinion. I just wish he would start his own thread to bash whatever his heart desires, and allow an intelligent discussion in this one. I don't fault anybody who doesn't care for Rush whose audience at best is 10% or less of the U.S. population and probably not that. So we can safely say 90% or more of the nation do not like Rush or are simply not interested enough to tune in. But more tune into his program than anybody elses nevertheless.

But I note that conservatives/libertarians/moderates can discuss the pros and cons of Rush intelligently and without rancor. And I find that refreshing over the inevitable insults and hate speech from the haters.

well thats probably because most on the right would tend to either agree with him or think he aint that far off.....i notice that the righties here cant talk about something maddow says without not saying insulting things....it goes both ways....

Then you don't listen to enough 'righties.'

 

[skookerasbil]

30 years of lies, ignorance, hate, stupidity, and demagoguery; the font of rightwing fake news and conservative reactionaryism.

And the progressive radio show you listen to has how many listeners exactly?

@www.areyousportingabumpy?.com

Hey Clayton.....just got to wondering? Were you one of those guys that needed crayon/coloring book sessions after the election? Your posts just exude this raw anger/misery sentiment....invariably.

 

[Darkwind]

This week marked the 30-year anniversary of the syndicated Rush Limbaugh show.

Love him, hate him, or indifferent to him, Rush has had more impact on media in general than any other single person in history. He came onto the scene in the 1980's just as the flower children of the 60's were coming into their own and had pretty well dominated most of the media. They were still doing journalism at that time but they were pushing more and more leftist ideology and concepts. Traditional American values and modern American conservative principles had pretty much vanished from the scene.

Entered Rush with a common sense, usually humorous and satiric, new kind of talk program. He was talking about politics, people, personalities, and concepts that millions of us had been thinking but were no longer hearing on the radio, television, or reading in the newspapers. No, we didn't always agree with him or appreciate everything he said, but we were hungry to hear much of what he had to say that nobody else was saying.

He was entertaining, but because of some very good scholarship, he was also informative. I know I found myself researching some of the facts he presented. And he got it right a whole lot more than he got it wrong.

Because of his amazing success, he paved the way for radio talk shows for many others and affected television as well. And because there were so many of us, he went from a handful of stations when he first started to hundreds propelling talk radio/news stations to #1 in their market pretty much everywhere in the country. Rush pretty much single handedly caused an entire new industry to be created.

Rush, like many highly successful people, is an imperfect person. He suffers from chronic obesity, has had difficulty sustaining personal relationships, became addicted to prescription drugs to the point it destroyed his hearing--he has cochlear implants in both ears that destroyed his enjoyment of music--but he overcame that which was a heroic feat as any recovering alcoholic/addict knows. And like many/most highly successful people, along with some valid criticisms, he has been misquoted, taken out of context, unfairly, dishonestly, mischaracterized.

The left, then and now, does not appreciate being challenged in anything and attack and try to suppress, harm, silence, and/or destroy the messenger rather than rebut what is said and/or offer a better argument. The left is neither open minded nor tolerant of ANYBODY who does not share their rhetoric and point of view. And they certainly went after Rush with a vengeance. And Rush didn't care. He went right ahead and called it as he saw it, did his thing, and has maintained the #1 slot in his genre for 30 years now.

That's pretty amazing. And it is right to acknowledge it.

I can’t believe you people still dare to bring up tolerance. You killed it last election. Intolerance will now be met with intolerance, and I hope you choke on it.

Good. Lets get this war started.

Please no war here. I would really like to discuss the thread topic and not allow the trolls, idiots, and other exercises in futility to drag us into what THEY want to talk about instead.

Rush was a phenomenon when he came across the scene and he changed the political landscape in all forms of media as likely no other person has, at least since the printing press was invented.

Actually, I was living in Sacramento when Rush first started a talk show, before he became nationalized and syndicated. I used to listen to him regularly. He gave people a voice that the left was desperately trying to take away from them.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I can tolerate Rush, he makes some good points. I just can't stand Hannity's smugness, though, Glenn Beck, either.

 

[blastoff]

If you think about it Rush and Trump achieved their success because they were saying what many folks were feeling about a variety of issues. Both of them filled a void created by the status quo of broadcasting and politics, neither of which realized there was a huge potential audience out there not happy with what was being served up. And the rest is history.