When I retired about 12 years ago I was able to listen to Rush every day without fail. I spent more time with him daily than with anybody else except my wife. What a great man he was. And yes, we really do need him now…..
I was thinking about Rush this morning. He just popped into my head as I drinking my coffee and it hit me how much we could use his clarity & wit right now. What would he make of all this insanity? The parodies alone would be priceless.
Megadittos to what you said. I miss Rush. He was “Done Too Soon”. (Stolen from Neil Diamond)
Thank you for sharing this. I miss Rush very much. I was so brokenhearted on the day he passed. I knew we had lost a dear friend, and it just broke my heart. I mourned for days of his passing. There will never be another Rush Limbaugh. Thank God we had him while we did. He may be gone, but he’ll never be forgotten.
Rush Limbaugh was that once in a century amalgam of Ben Franklin and Mark Twain. Truly unique, he can't be replaced.
I started listening to Rush after a trip to Austin TX. I was reading their local commie rag newspaper, and came across an article which accused Rush of spewing hate. I knew what that meant: that Rush was saying the truth in a world that has criminalized the truth.
I listened to him regularly after that, whenever I was able to.
My hands are no longer nicotine-stained either, and the billowing clouds of cigar smoke have mostly subsided, and I can’t afford to tie half my brain (need it all) behind my back, but my memories of the words of wisdom from El Rushbo have not faded.
Right from the very beginning, with Rush:
The first word of the Torah is Bereshith [בראשית], "In the beginning"
The first four letters spell [בראש] -- in/with [ב] Rush [ראש].
(Rush is spelled the same as r'osh, meaning head/beginning/top/chief, et al.)
Furthermore, ית- also functions as a diminutive suffix, so the replay of the day is that God created the Heavens and the Earth... in a little bit of a rush.
Lovable Little Fuzzball!
There are many commentaries pertaining to the multitude of word plays, allusions, and permutations in that very first word of the Torah, but this one is an FR exclusive.
~ EZ 🤠
Weekday’s at 12:06 pm ET is a time that will forever belong to Rush.
He is indeed missed, and I think of him often.
Miss him so much.....
As an original listener from day one on KFBK in Sacramento in 1984 it was a great 37 yr. long ride that ended far too soon.
Its hard to believe that its been more than 30 years since I first heard Rush (1990)
I’ll always remember him starting one show saying “I’m thinking about voting for Bill Clinton”
LOL
My 14 yo daughter and I went to Dan’s Bake Sale, 1993 ...
Rush Archives, going back many years:
https://archive.org/details/rush-limbaugh-radio-show?&sort=date&page=1
...
Every day at noon, I still think to myself: it’s time for Rush..
Also, if I happen to see 3:00, I think: Ohh.. he’s over..
My wife was a hard democrat when I met her; she campaigned for both Kerry and 0bama.. but she listened to Rush with me and realized that what she’d been told about him was completely wrong. She’s on our side now.
That day when Kathryn opened the show to announce his passing, my wife broke into tears - as though we’d lost a family member (which we all did, didn’t we?).
I think all of this happening now would have started some time ago. Rush held it together for us using sanity, humor, and genuine insight. Nobody today seems to have that ability ... the “Rush Replacements” are all just “whiners” telling us how bad it is ... we ALREADY KNOW ... Rush guided us in handling the badness.
Rush held RINOs feet to the fire.
He would shame them on air.
If he was still with us, he would have talked about the plight of the J6 prisoners and Kari Lake's stolen election daily. He would remind everyone how nothing has been done about cheat-by-mail-in ballots and signature verification.
And this latest witch hunt with Trump -- Rush would have been playing sound bites of when prominent Democrats got away with far worse.
I miss Rush sooooo much.