Rush speaks: His big day

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Power Line

Scott Johnson

Feb. 8 2020

In the first hour of his show yesterday Rush Limbaugh told the story — the story as he experienced it — behind his appearance at the State of the Union address this past Tuesday evening. Rush has posted his monologue telling the story under the headline “What a week! I’m one of the luckiest people alive.” Even with what he acknowledges is left unsaid (“someday I hope to be able to tell you the entire story. I can’t tell you the entire story now without divulging medical details that I, frankly, don’t want to give”), the whole thing is interesting from a variety of perspectives. Here is a brief excerpt in which Rush deliberates over his acceptance of the Presidential Medal of Freedom:

And, folks, I don’t know if I should — I’m gonna go ahead and tell you this. I realize that it’s gonna open the floodgates of a bunch of people in the media, but at this stage I don’t care. I never have cared, and I’m not gonna start caring now what they say. One of the reasons I was reluctant was I just wasn’t sure I deserved this. I mean, it’s the highest civilian honor that the country awards….

And there was a part of me, I’m a radio talk show host, and I sit here behind this microphone and I talk. And this is, by the way, nothing new.

(Snip)

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[Geee]

I listened to Rush for many many years, starting about the time of the Clarence Thomas debacle. I haven't listened to him for about 5 years though - and its his fault. He taught me how all the news outlets slant the news to their way of thinking and how the mostly don't report stories that don't support their view of things - that you must not believe every thing you read or see on the news and think for yourself. Thus, I try to read the news articles myself and come to my own conclusions. He taught me that. 

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16 minutes ago, Geee said:

I listened to Rush for many many years, starting about the time of the Clarence Thomas debacle. I haven't listened to him for about 5 years though - and its his fault. He taught me how all the news outlets slant the news to their way of thinking and how the mostly don't report stories that don't support their view of things - that you must not believe every thing you read or see on the news and think for yourself. Thus, I try to read the news articles myself and come to my own conclusions. He taught me that. 

If I see a story that mentions Trump..Collusion...Ukraine i just assume they are at best spinning and likely out right lying. And to be perfectly honest I'm having Real Doubts about anything they write about.

[Geee]

The Limbaugh Letter: 28 Years of Conservative Excellence

If Ronald Reagan brought large swaths of our nation home to traditionalist America First values after he was elected president in 1980, it was Rush Limbaugh who consolidated and upheld contemporary conservatism and those same values after Reagan left office.

George H. W. Bush had ascended to the highest office by the time Limbaugh hit the airwaves, and while 41 was due significant respect for his heroic military service and his administration’s mostly-adroit performance after having to follow a stellar figure like Reagan into office, his tenure was ultimately anticlimactic. For reasons too lengthy to address here, he was not reelected.

 

Into that conservative void came The Rush Limbaugh Show. Limbaugh’s targets on the day I first (by sheer chance) tuned in were President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Mikhail Gorbachev and the soon-to-be-collapsed Russian Politburo. Drawn in by one of Limbaugh’s favorite musical bumpers at the time, the Star Wars “Imperial March,” it was refreshing to hear, after so much happy talk about a new era of reconciliation with the Soviets, an authoritative voice still possessed of healthy skepticism about the wiles and wherefores of what Reagan had called an “evil empire.”