Posted on 02/17/2022 2:04:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Rush Limbaugh passed away. He loomed large over the conservative movement for three decades, serving as a spokesman for the right as well as the man who singlehandedly resurrected talk radio.
The first time I ever heard Rush was the day after Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election. It was a “best of” show, and I was hooked. Listening to Rush helped me articulate my conservative beliefs clearly and convincingly as a college student. I learned about issues that I wouldn’t have otherwise known about.
I laughed at the news in a way that I never thought I could have. I didn’t always get to listen to Rush regularly, but you better believe I tuned in when I could. And I firmly believe I was a better, more informed conservative for listening.
There was nothing like Rush Limbaugh. He changed the game for conservative news, information, and entertainment. He showed generations of conservatives that they weren’t alone. When he passed away a year ago today, there was a void. We didn’t know who, if anybody, would step into his shoes.
Nowadays, depending on where you are, if you tune into the radio from noon to 3 p.m., you can hear Erick Erickson, Dan Bongino, or the combo of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Each one of these shows is a phenomenal success, even though none of them have the same audience that Rush did. Heck, nobody will ever have that kind of success, because Rush was a singularity.
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A few guys can’t be replaced.
Rush definitely in that category.
Erick Erickson, Dan Bongino, or the combo of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Nah.
Just before he passed away, I received a package of Limbaugh Institute ‘goodies’, including a couple of T-shirts, coffee mug, and a few other items with no explanation. It was as if he was sharing his wealth with his customers just before he died. I am not anything special, so he must have done that with millions of others.
No one could replace Rush, but Chris Plante is carrying the torch well.
I remember Rush in 92, “America held hostage, Day.1”. We suffered through Clinton for 8 years. Lol
That’s great! So many stories through the years about Rush’s generosity.
Dan Bongino is good. "Clay and Buck" are OK if somewhat GOP-ish... One guy who's getting some play in a few markets is a cat named Mark Kaye... quick-witted but a political lightweight.
Charlie Kirk is good.
Erick Erickson, given his anti-Trump pure GOP bullhsit, is D*L. Here in my market he comes on in the late night shift, which seems to be a charity act from the local AM radio station.
Honorable mention goes to Dana Loesch, who is talented but gee... what happens to Mr. Loesch when he messes up? Never mind, I don't think I want to know...
Agree about Chris. He is the best of the bunch and LOL funny. He should be on more stations.
RIP ElRushbo...You are painfully missed.
Bob Grant and Rush are irreplaceable.
Now, get off my phone you fake, phony, fraud!
Haven’t heard him. Some may be able to come close to matching Rush for commentary, but none can equal him as a DJ. Whether playing Klaus Nomi, chattering like a dolphin, talking golf or football to stick it to the “stick to the issues crowd,” or snapping his news copy to tweak the audiophiles, there was always something to make you smile.
I spent from 3 years old to 18 years old living in the Diamond
Grove and Joplin, Missouri area. Across the state and a little
bit more North than I, Rush was waking up to the same type of
schooling. He had a great set of parents.
I can’t say I totally identified with him based on this, but
I did develop sort of a kinship with this in mind.
He was born in January of the same year I was born in May.
At the core, we saw things the same way. Every once in a
while we would diverge on certain ideas and concepts. I
could never stomach George W or James Kallstrom. I was not
accepting of the RNC, and I believed in the fallibility of
the GOPe.
I don’t think we could have asked for much better. I will
never forget him, his face, his voice, his special ways of
talking about things.
The bravado didn’t bother me anymore than Trump’s does. It’s
what you do when you are in the public eye, and are trying
to attract listeners.
I don’t know what Rush’s final listener tally was, but I am
quite sure it was higher than at any other time in his time
on air.
He took radio, and maxed out what anyone could do with it.
In our lives we all have a drive to do some type of work.
Very few people take a slot and turn it into something so
far beyond what others had done in the same type of position.
I miss Rush.
The worst part of growing older, is that so many valuable
people drop off along the way.
We live today in an Alice and Wonderland Nation, with
unbelievable characters who all think they are Alice, with
most of them being the Red Queen or worse.
I am glad that Conservative hosts have filled the void as
best they could.
They will voice a lot of things he would have, and miss the
mark on many others.
He had quite the mind for observing and pointing things out.
Some things that were important, I didn’t see until he
touched on them.
I appreciated that he did that for me, and tens of millions
of others.
I know that Rush had a feeling toward the end, that in one
way he had been a failure. When things were falling apart
in 2020, he had hoped his program would have help to prevent
people thinking as so many did in those days, hating our
nation and loving the idea of Marxism.
It’s probably a blessing that Rush was spared some of the
things we have seen.
I think back on my parents who both died in 2018. Thank
heaven they were spared.
Chris Plante is the only talk show that I listen to because he is funny and lives right in Washington DC. He also worked for CNN for many years. I listen to his podcast posted at least the following day sometimes the same day as broadcast There are almost no ads on the podcast. Definitely no traffic and weather etc.
I was one of those “skulls full of mush” before listening to Rush. I didn’t like Rush at first, but I couldn’t argue with the facts as he presented them. Thanks El Rushbo. Bongino isn’t bad, but not Rush.
I've been a Chris Plante listener off and on for almost twenty years. He's great. But I'm sure he would readily admit he's no Rush.
For sure, he’d be the first to admit it.
Many years ago an out of town colleague came into my office and heard me listening to Rush. He told me his best friend was Rush’s producer.
Prove it. Get me an autographed photo with my name on it.
About a week later I got a Fed Ex envelope. The photo hangs on my wall today.
Bongino is AWFUL.
‘...or the combo of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.’
Clay and Buck replaced Limbaugh’s show in my area, and I find them markedly better than Rush, at least the Rush of his latest five years...he seemed to become more rigid and and unwilling to rely on the humor that marked his show as a breath of fresh air in 1988, when I first heard him; the latter Rush reminded me of Sean Hannity, whom I like, but whose show is so repetitive and negative half of it could be cut with little loss of context...
Buck and Clay, as a pair, bring varying takes on current events, and do so without rancor and with a modicum of humor, and, thankfully, rely very little on callers to move the show along...
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