The reality is that we National Review readers, conservatives, Firing Line fans, and Buckley fans, all loved Rush from the beginning, and while I couldn't watch Fox News on TV, my understanding and reading of the time tells me that they loved it when it appeared in 1996, eight years after Rush exploded on the scene. You should have just spoken for yourself rather than people that you can't speak for, when did Buckley give you permission to listen to Beck by the way?
Beck is a big embarrassment to many conservatives.
At least you are definitive and comprehensive: that “all” conservatives loved Rush from the beginning. Yet, as I pointed out, Rush has described his own staunchly conservative father as puzzled at how his son’s radio show could be successsful, with all the humor and the lack of a serious tone.