Rush Limbaugh dead

I remember it coming on after the 11 o’clock news on our local ABC affiliate and just how fuckin weird it was. He literally sat at a desk in the center of a stage and lectured a bunch of audience Goobers, then hocked the ties he wore.

 

Nods his head.

 

Between Rush's punching-out and Twitchy's deplatforming, we are partially on the way to recovery. But unfortunately, AM radio is lousy with toadstool lappers. We'll just have to ride it out until the actuarial tables play out. (ie the olds die)

 

Seems among all the grave pissing we've ignored the burning question.

Yes, it was 1A in my paper.

 

Oh, no question. If anything, we’re underplaying how much he shaped the 21st century. He paved the road to November 2016.

 

I know for a fact that when Limbaugh was on a private yacht or jet spending my annual salary on a weekend's worth of hookers and blow, he didn't give a shit about my opinion.
I also know for a fact that when I die, there won't be millions of internet posts celebrating my demise.

 

IIRC, he talked about the TV show a few times on the radio show in recent years and admitted how bad it was. He mostly chalked it up to it being a case of one set of skills not transferring over to a different medium, like when Don Johnson or Bruce Willis tried to put out an album.

 

Weird take about Limbaugh's TV show: The biggest problem was the audience. People don’t like to be reminded of who their peers are when listening to something like that.

We all do it. We convince ourselves we’re part of some very cool group listening to a podcast or radio show or a band. Then you see see a get together or a studio audience and — oh, these are dorks. Or you go to a Hold Steady concert and realize there are no women there.

I think Rush listeners in the 1990s thought they were an intellectual group. (That seems funny now.) But they were suddenly confronted by the fact that their peers were your aunt and uncle from Wisconsin.

 

Making Bannon uncomfortable? Not sure if Rudy's shrinks belongs here or on the golf thread.

 

I was a Rush listener in the 1990s. "Everyday Glory" is seriously underrated, and "Leave That Thing Alone" was not dedicated to Limbaugh. "Where's My Thing?" was also not about Limbaugh and the vibe with "Dreamline" is pretty much the antithesis of what Limbaugh spewed.