Jeez, has it really been four years?
Remembering Rush Limbaugh, America’s Anchorman
It is hard to believe that it has been four years since America lost the greatest of all time, Rush Limbaugh, mayor of Realville and America’s Anchorman.And what a time would he be having now in a second Trump presidency, laughing at the Democrat derangement and cheering on the great federal reform. Rush Limbaugh was truly talent on loan from God, as he jokingly put it, and it feels as if God took back the gift too soon. El Rushbo, the “doctor of democracy,” singlehandedly launched alternative media and created multiple generations of American conservative warriors. Our nation owed him an immense debt, and he certainly deserved the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President Trump awarded him.
For the millions of all ages who listened to Rush over the years, it is remarkable that we all thought of him as our friend. For many of us who never met him or talked to him in person, his death left a gap in our lives and our hearts. For Rush Limbaugh really was unique and unrepeatable, an American original. There are other excellent show hosts, but Rush was the gold standard — literally. Who can forget the golden EIB microphone?
But Rush wouldn’t want us to mourn today. He was an eternal optimist, who brought hope to his fellow Americans even when the political outlook was blackest. Today we should remember his jokes, his laughs, his parodies, his witticisms. Thanks to Rush, America’s truth detector, we know to define a bigot as a “person who wins an argument with a liberal,” and that “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of pop culture.” Rush kept “half my brain tied behind my back, just to make things fair,” and it is a tribute to Rush that alternative media — which used to consist basically of him alone — has now vanquished mainstream media.
Rush always believed it would happen. “Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims,” he stated. And again, “Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.” Americans are finally realizing that the latter view is the only one that truly helps people become prosperous.
True, every last word of it—especially the bit about how much fun Rush would be having if he were still around to witness the last month or so. Follows, an embed of one of those totally brilliant Paul Shanklin parodies that formed such a YUUUGE part of the Limbaugh program:
Kinda refreshing—comforting, almost—to hear Limbaugh’s voice again during the lead-in to the Shanklin parody, no? The rest of the article is a worthy remembrance of the Titan of Talk, of which you should definitely read the all.
Update! On further reflection, it occurs to me what a powerful tool Rush Limbaugh would have been in the Team Trump toolbox were he still with us. Imagine: rallying the troops, so to speak; putting needful information into literally millions upon millions of Real American hands; exposing and/or debunking various shitlib shibboleths, lies, and general perfidy; twisting “transgender” tails unmercifully; reminding Losercrats numerous times daily that yes, they did in fact fucking LOSE, and not by just a little bit either; providing moral and rhetorical support for Trump, Musk, Noem, Bondi, Patel, Homan, et al. Really, the possibilities are endless.
Did I say “tool” just now? Correction: a fucking FLAMETHROWER, more like.
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A friend put me on to him on our local station in about 89 I think. I listened for years, really liked the fake commercials like spatula city as well. Time wore me out so I eventually stopped. TV show was okay for a brief period as well. He did command a large audience. I always wondered who was bigger comparatively, him or Paul Harvey
“For Rush Limbaugh really was unique and unrepeatable, an American original.”
That he was, irreplaceable in fact, as can be seen by the fact that he was not really replaced.
I “discovered” Rush back in 1988 when I took a new job in Charlotte and the boss took me to get a company car at the Ford dealer. With 4 kids and sales calls in mind we had decided I would get a mini van, A Ford Aerostar. The nicest one they had came with an AM radio, because it was assumed the purchaser would want to put in their own super stereo system. Rush was on AM, and I had not listened to an AM station unless I were trying to get a Heels game broadcast. I remember the first time I discovered his show – amazement would be an extreme understatement. Finally, finally, someone that got it. He is missed and will always be missed.
Trump 2nd term + Rush would be amazing.
Four years ago I was an active member of a forum which was explicitly non-political. Some people got booted for bringing up political topics after being warned not to.
When Limbaugh died, one of the admins posted about it and said that he wouldn’t hoist a glass to celebrate … not until he got home.
A number of people put up comments along the lines of “I’d never wish cancer on anyone, but I’ll make an exception.” The post and the comments stayed up, at least long enough for that post to roll off the front page.
Not long after, some libtard scum politician died. I posted about it, saying that I wouldn’t celebrate … yet.
I got kicked from the site.
My opinion regarding them rhymes with “fuck them all”.
It’s a cryin’ shame that every group, corporation, and institution gets taken over by scum with the same mindset. The only solution I can see that will actually work is to kill the scum whenever you identify them. “She needed killin’, yer honor.”
Left wing marxist scum are basically all the same. Supreme assholes.
I had a similar experience with a topic getting closed but not getting booted. Something came up and the BBC was being lauded. It went on and then I stated the BBC was an anti-American bunch getting tax dollars from the Americans. That thread got locked down within 5 minutes…
I remember the Cliff Kincaid show on some Charlotte AM channel ripped off Rush’s Pretenders riff. That Station died when WBT took on Rush from 12-3 PM. I was sad when the liberal weenie Mike Collins left WBT as I would win and win big at least once a month.
WBT isn’t the same without Rush.
To this day, I cannot hear Andy Williams’ version of Born Free without filling in the background of machine-gun fire and animal screams he used as bumper music for animal stories to roast the animal rights hacktivists and explode their heads.
That said, El Rushbo had a YUUUUUUUUGE blindspot to the perfidy and double-dealing of Dubbya’s “the border is secure” bullsquat, and I played no small part in pulling 43’s pants down and spanking his ass over it, via Lou Dobbs.
Limbaugh was great, but he was not perfect.
I prefer to think that a merciful deity spared him witnessing the spectacle of a fraudulently installed Resident of the US, and the four-year pretend-a-thon that such a senile, shambling old criminal fucktard was ever legitimately elected to the nation’s highest office.
Limbaugh’s head would’ve exploded on a daily basis, and he would have died in screaming agony, while liberal hyenas cackled in his ears.
And the Clay and Buck Clownshow placeholding Rush’s spot on the dial needs to fold their tent, and settle into a richly deserved fourteenth-class status. They amount to less than a pimple on Limbaugh’s nethers, on their best day.
If the inheritors of the legacy want to hold that place, they should be looking for someone far more worthy to take up the mantle of such a one-of-a-kind host.
There’s nobody at his tier to this day – not Hannity, nor Glenn Beck, nor Tucker Carlson. But if we’re very, very lucky, they might eventually find someone with far more potential than the two accidents currently holding down the fort.