Rush Limbaugh dead

Imagine how many people unironically said today "I don't think the Republican Party is what it is today without Rush Limbaugh."

 

4 wives, no kids. Shot blanks or couldn’t perform with adult women. Either way, his DNA won’t be replicated.

 

One of the few radio people who actually looked like he sounded on the radio.

 

When I first heard him (1989 or 90) I figured he was overweight with a square face, gray hair and a small beard/goatee).

Got one out of four.

 

I'd never even heard of the guy until a college roommate started listening to his show in the Clinton years. I didn't understand it either.

There's something fundamentally weak about needing a radio personality to give animation to your convictions. Dittoheads were needy people.

I don't dispute the talent - speaking into a microphone requires skill - but there have been national radio hosts who have brought more to the table.

For his pomposity he was not a learned man and yet very easily could have been. But he knew he didn't need that in our country to back up the money trucks.

 

Seriously, though. Where would Dittoheads have heard anything to confirm their convictions in 1989? Alex P. Keaton was it. Rush had to feel like some kind of revelation.

 

Ah, but Alex was a real Republican. He could also defend his arguments.

Rush could have been Trump in 2016. Less liquidity but more steady cash flow ($85M profit in annus horribilis 2020 - with AM radio on a respirator).

Certainly more shrewd than Trump. There's another compliment.

 

There was certainly no shortage of major media outlets honking the horn for right-wing Reaganism in 1989.

 

I've yet to find an audio clip, but there are enough disparate mentions of it from the time to suggest it's more than just urban legend.

Snopes (with apologies to Starman)
Did Rush Limbaugh's 'AIDS Update' Mock the Deaths of Gay People?

The Washington Post from 1994
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...ttohead/e5723f05-04d8-4ccb-98c9-8b1ba6c358d2/

The Cedar Rapids Gazette from 1990
Clipping from The Gazette - Newspapers.com

The Missouri Biographical Dictionary
Missouri Biographical Dictionary

And from the man himself
Rush Limbaugh

 

Speaking of which . . .

Newspaper presidential endorsements, 1980 to present

Hint: switch to "party history." A lot more red-to-blue shifts than blue-to-red.

 

Morton Downey Jr