Posted on 02/02/2017 1:11:57 PM PST by TakebackGOP
You’re right, I don’t listen to his show anymore. But I used to, and I know he didn’t support Trump well after the primary. He had nothing to do with Trump nominating a conservative.
“There was nothing in Trump’s history to indicate that he would be the courageous defender of America that he has turned out to be.”
He was the only one who challenged Obama on his birth issue.
Thanks for inserting facts into this Fantasyland of comments, on this thread.
And in fact none other than Russell Kirk, author of the 1953 'The Conservative Mind', said that conservatism is the antithesis of ideology.
Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles.
You saw the personality flaw right from the start. He craves being idolized.
Mark is back in primary mode tonight on the Mark Levin Show.
“But Trump could not have been elected without the new media that Rush helped to create and is a large part of.”
Rush is a talk show host, about the oldest media other than newspapers.
What new media are you giving him credit for “pioneering”? Is this like Al Gore inventing the internet?
Did I miss some massive Rush presence on twitter? Facebook? YouTube?
I heard that. I caught about 10 minutes of Levin’s show.
He was giving us “Nationalist-Populists” hell.
I didn’t even know that we Trumpers were Nationalist-Populists. I musta missed the organizing meeting.
I will accept at face value that you have not understood the revolution in communication that occurred in the last 30 years.
Before Rush, there was the Orwellian named “fairness doctrine” that effectively squelched political discourse on the radio. When the Reagan administration did away with the fairness doctrine, the left attempted to do political talk shows. They bombed. Rush Limbaugh pioneered his format of entertaining and politically educating talk radio in the late 1980’s. He became an enourmous success. His show spawned dozens of others. Conservatives came to virtually own talk radio. It was one of the very few media for getting conservative ideas out to the public.
In 1994, there was the Republican revolution, where a Republican Senate and a Republican House were elected for the first time in roughly 40 years.
The House Republican bestowed an honorary title on Rush “The Majority Maker”.
Rush Limbaugh has been one of the major parts of Conservative media in the United States for close to 30 years.
Yes, political talk radio is part of the “new media”.
The “new media” is any media that is not part of the old “Establishment media” that dominated the information flow in the United States from about 1960 to 2016.
It includes Conservative talk radio, much of the internet, and now, to some extent the social media of twitter, facebook, instagram and others of their ilk. May would argue that includes Fox.
Nice deflection there Samuel Clemens, but none of what you just wrote has anything at all to do with Rush “pioneering new media”. The only media you mention is talk radio, which is Old Media.
“Rush Limbaugh pioneered his format of entertaining and politically educating talk radio in the late 1980’s.”
The same field that Joe Pyne, Bob Grant, George Putnam, Ray Briem, and others had developed as early as 1950.
You persist in ignoring the obvious.
Talk radio as a conservative media force did not exist in the 60-80s until Rush pioneered his show.
Conservative talk radio could not because of the “fairness doctrine”.
No one has had the impact that Rush Limbaugh has had in the field. Not. Even. Close.
He is, literally, credited with “saving” AM radio.
http://www.radiohof.org/rush_limbaugh.htm
He is part of the new media because he broke the hold on information dissemination that the Establismend media held.
“New media” is not only a technological advance. It is a way to move information around the gatekeepers who controlled the information flow in the Establishment media. The “fairness doctrine” was part of that control.
I credit Levin with making me discover better talks shows in his time slot.
And who have you found? I’m going to start looking to replace him tonight?
Mark Levin Show is great when there’s a guest host
Are you very young or something?
I’m the same age as Rush, I know exactly what the political landscape was like since I started following politics in the early ‘60s. And Rush was a non-entity until after the election of GHW Bush. No one had ever heard of him. His mother had probably forgotten that he existed.
Despite your (ignorant) belief that political talk radio didn’t exist before the end of the Fairness Doctrine it most certainly did. George Putnam and Ray Briem both had conservative shows in Los Angeles, and they played a major role in the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978.
Radio stations were free to have political talk shows if they chose to. There was no prohibition on it. Quit the foolish posturing as if you’re some sort of expert. You’re not.
I havent seen Levine show threads in a while. Am I just missing them or have they stopped? Just as well. I tuned in tonight for the first time in weeks and lasted about 2 minutes.
He admitted he was a NeverTrumper until right before the election. There’s no reason to listen to him. No one listened to Levin because of his views on the economy. He’s a lawyer.
He admitted he was a NeverTrumper until right before the election. There’s no reason to listen to him. No one listened to Levin because of his views on the economy. He’s a lawyer.
Rush said that his show led to Fox News, because the national success gave Roger Ailes the idea for a conservative network to go against the liberal media. But Fox News wasn’t really pro-Trump, and you’re right that there were hosts before Rush.
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