They say remembering the first time you heard Rush on the radio equates to remembering where you were when you heard about JFK's assassination, or watched the moon landing. For me, that is absolutely true.
I have a lifelong friend that for years warned me of how dangerous #LIBTARDS and their ideology is, as well as the dangers of big government. I would tell him I didn't care and it doesn't matter, because they were gonna do what they were gonna do, and we couldn't stop them. Sure, I would vote in every election, but felt like I was just pissing into the wind. That changed in February 1991, exactly 30 years ago.
At the height of the 1st Gulf War in February 1991, every day at noon eastern time, General Norman "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf would give a live press conference from The Pentagon on the previous actions against the Iraqis. It was broadcast locally on WPOP News Talk 1410 in Hartford and was my workday lunch time entertainment. The rest of the day I listened to nothing but hard rock as I drove around to different customer sites. This one particular day I went to lunch a little late. I parked my company truck at the WaWa Market in Wethersfield, CT to buy a sandwich, and shut my truck off as General Schwarzkopf was wrapping up the press conference. When I came out and restarted my truck, there was talking going on but I wasn't paying close attention, I was busy getting my lunch unwrapped to eat. After a few minutes, I realized that was not the press conference, it was something else. I turned up the volume to hear better.
My experience with AM talk radio of the time was BO-RIIIIIIIING! I equate it to what NPR sounds like today. Or it was sports, mostly baseball. This was neither. This was a guy saying things I thought and agreed with, and it sounded like he was talking to just me! He was loud, bombastic, and confident in what he said. I was intrigued and continued listening for the next few days. Then I discovered he was on more than just WPOP, he was on several stations at once in the New England area, so I could pick him up clearly no matter where I was. That was weird, because most talk shows were one guy on one station and blathered about gardening or local issues. He was taking on national topics and government and he was fearless. Those days turned into weeks, then months, then 30 years.
Because of the nature of my job, for most of the last 30 years I did not get to listen to every hour every day. Since my career change in 2016, I did get to listen to him more and am now able to listen at work on my down time until I get an emergency call. Thanks to Rush's changing the landscape of talk radio, I listen to conservative talk radio in large chunks of time from 09:00 to 21:00 Monday through Friday. At 09:00 to 12:00 I stream Pastor Will Marrotti on WTIC AM 1080. Then Rush's show until 15:00. From 15:00 until 18:00 it is Todd Feinburg on WTIC AM 1080. After I get home it is "The Great One" Mark Levin from 18:00 until 21:00 on iHeart Radio. Pastor Will and Todd Feinburg are CT shows dealing with CT issues, while the other two are obviously national.
While I feel a great deal of loss for Rush, because he seemed like an old friend; he had a cadre of great substitute hosts. Tonight on Newsmax, Greg Kelly interviewed President Trump, and asked him if he thought about being the new host. President Trump praised Rush's ability to talk for three hours every day, as well as all the hard work Rush did for show prep. He said he wasn't interested because he didn't think he could do what Rush did. You can watch the whole interview here.
The show will go on. It must.
My brain being what it is does not remember when I first heard The Great Mah Ha Rushie...
ReplyDeleteBut I do remember being addicted to the show when I had my second long school with the Air Force. I got out for lunch to catch part of the first hour, and technology being what it was (Feb 1992)I set up my tape player to record most of the last two hours.
I will miss his voice of reason,
One of my favorite points of view I heard often during the show is something I try to do,
and is in desperate need during these dark times...
Illustrating and illuminating the absurd ideas of the left
by being absurd.
My favorite was the stupid minimum wage debate (and associated equally absurd "living wage" debate championed by caring leftist)
The example is simple and easy...
If 15 dollars an hour is the minimum we should accept as a caring society...
Then why be cheap about it?
Why not mandate that everyone be paid 100,000 per year?
If forcing people to pay more to produce anything is good,
Then why don't we do MORE good?
But, the leftist complain, that is silly, and where would the money come from to pay it, how could businesses afford it?
Exactly.
Forcing other people to spend their money so that a leftist can feel compassionate is evil.
If they are so compassionate let them spend their own money.
But compassion to the left is defined as:
How much of other people's money they can spend.
But then again we have allowed our Abusive Public Servants to become our Masters by simply spending other people's money.
My favorite saying (especially since the lockdowns and mask orders)
HOT TAR
Feathers
Abusive Public Servant
(Some assembly Required)
America WILL go on, thanks to Rush Limbaugh and every single American Patriot that refuses to kneel, that stands UP for what is right, that DEMANDS that our Public Servants OBEY the restrictions on government enshrined in our Constitution.
I gave an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and follow all LEGAL orders of those appointed over me.
That oath has NO Expiration date.
For those who follow the Constitution, I may disagree with them,
but we can agree to disagree...
For those who do NOT follow the Constitution,
Or those who violate our God Given Rights?
WOE be upon the politician who dares to step upon our God Given Rights, May GOD have mercy upon their souls.
Because I won't
"I aim to misbehave" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCoo08z_f30
MSG Grumpy
I literally do remember the very first time I heard Rush on the radio. In the later years, he always denied it, but in the early days he was louder/angrier.
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