Posted on 08/30/2022 6:21:12 PM PDT by Nextrush
Let me take you back in time, ladies and gentlemen. It's 1987. I am at the time working at KFBK in Sacramento, California and I have created this term, invented this term "Gorbasm", to describe the reaction of various people, primarily in America, but around the world, to the prospect that nuclear holocaust is at hand because Ronald Reagan is in the White House, but only Mikhail Gorbachev can save the day, can save the world, can save the planet!
He's reasonable. Reagan has an itchy trigger finger, right there poised above that button. Now all the time previous, from '81 to '87, Reagan had never met with the Soviet leader. He said there was a reason: "They keep dying on me." But Gorbachev came long; he was a young guy compared to the previous Soviet leaders.
But Jeanne Kirkpatrick nailed it. She said once in a speech that I heard at UC Davis, "The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet leaders is that he is alive." Of course the students at US Davis snickered in the audience.
But eventually a summit meeting was scheduled right in Washington, D.C. ladies and gentlemen. It was to occur in, I believe it was 1986 or 1987--and as this summit meeting approached, the anticipation and the excitement was hard to contain on the part of those who literally felt that Ronald Reagan posed a nuclear threat to the world.
I came up with a theme song that would introduce each Gorbasm as it occurred, and the Gorbasm was simply the expression of sheer delight that Gorbachev was on the scene. Whenever he said anything there were Gorbasms....
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
P.J. O’Rourke wrote about Gorbachev worship in one of his books.
I miss Rush’s wit.
Jeanne Kirkpatrick. One of the last patriotic members of Democrat Party.
“Jeanne Kirkpatrick. One of the last patriotic members of Democrat Party.”
Yep. She particularly hated the “San Francisco Democrats” who had taken over her beloved Democratic Party:
“And now, the American people, proud of our country, proud of our freedom, proud of ourselves, will reject the San Francisco Democrats and send Ronald Reagan back to the White House.“ — Jeane Kirkpatrick 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas.
Pelosi, Kamala Harris, and Gavin Newsome are the current incarnation of San Francisco Democrats. They run the state of California and the national Democratic party. Pelosi’s nephew Gavin Newsome intends to be the next President.
Great memory. Thank you. Miss him so much.😥
It came to mind the moment I heard the news about Gorbachev.
Rush foreshadowed how the media would beatify our Saints of the Current Things: Fauci, George Floyd, Zelenskyyy, Mueller...
I miss Rush so much.
But actually without Tiananmen Square, the Soviet Union may still exist today, it was actually Gorbachev’s visit to Beijing in 1989 that helped fuel the protests in Beijing.
It also inspired similar rebellions in the Eastern Bloc, which ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and with it, the Soviet Union a few years later.
Really miss Rush. Just think how bad things would be if we didn’t have Trump.
I was thinking about Rush yesterday when I heard the news.
Dana Loesch has an interesting article on Gorby...
https://danaloesch.substack.com/p/mikhail-gorbachev-is-dead-let-the
Wow, that was a real ad?
LOL yes, that was real.
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