Posted on 07/05/2024 11:40:49 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
I miss him so much.
Rush lives on. Many of us can see the seams on the fastball now.
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He taught us how to identify the players, Congressmen, Senators, etc., and personalized them.
Which I still do today, thanks to him.
In a way, I’m glad he’s not around to see this. His heart would break to see the sad state the county is in now.
We’re lucky we were around to hear him.
I too wish I could hear his thoughts on what’s going on now.
Rush would have had a field day with Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. LOVE IS STRANGE would’ve been their theme song.
lol. Yes, it’s NEVER time to panic.
I miss Rush so much
I’d like to have his 30+ years of work on a flash drive and listen to it when I’m in an old folks home. Heck, 30 years worth I’d take it on the road with me now. In the rest hime I’d need ear phones so as not to upset the hired help.
LOL!
The default ringtone on my phone is Rush’s bumper music by The Pretenders. It’s funny when I’m in public. It goes over the heads of some people. Others will look at me and smile.
” if you have a “D” after your name you are the enemy “ Rush Limbaugh
Here are 5,731 of Rush’s shows at the InterNet Archive, to enjoy and remember. Change the page in the URL bar to get a new batch of shows:
https://archive.org/details/rush-limbaugh-radio-show?sort=date
No he didn't. He was attacked relentlessly, 24/7, by the left, every single day of his career since he first aired.
This site is filled with recovering addicts, either drug or alcohol. Would you condemn them too?
Thanks so much! That’s a keeper.
I have a couple of CDs with Paul Shanklin’s parodies from the show. Sometimes I’ll play them when nostalgic.
I really wonder what Rush would say about some of these Democrat “wonders” we have running loose these days.
You missed my point.
On FR, any leftist media personality that, essentially, presents himself as a beacon with three ex-wives and a substance abuse problem would get destroyed.
And yea…Rush was bashed by the left. That was par for the course.
But on this board, I have little if any recollection of anything but love, compassion, support, etc. for Rush. And to be fair, I remember the day before he went into rehab where he didn’t want ANY caller taking pity on him.
I also noticed the divorces got left out. Probably because many “conservatives” no longer consider divorce a sin. Yet they bash the left for subjective morality.
The double standards…that’s the point. .
I hope that helps.
A Salute between 12 and 3pm weekdays.
Thanks for the link!
But Hynde sort of got the last laugh. He ended up having to pay her for the rights to use the song and she donated all that money to PETA.
“In 1999, Rolling Stone magazine reported that, according to Hynde’s manager, neither KFBK (which owned the show prior to national syndication) nor Limbaugh had licensed the song nor asked permission to use it. According to Rolling Stone, EMI took action after Limbaugh told a pair of reporters in 1997 that “it was icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time.” EMI issued a cease and desist request that Limbaugh stop using the song, which he did. When Hynde found out during a radio interview, she said that her parents loved and listened to Limbaugh and she did not mind its use. A usage payment was agreed upon which she donated to PETA.”
“She later wrote to the organization saying, “In light of Rush Limbaugh’s vocal support of PETA’s campaign against the Environmental Protection Agency’s foolish plan to test some 3,000 chemicals on animals, I have decided to allow him to keep my song, ‘My City Was Gone’, as his signature tune.”
It’s a great song to me BTW.
And I didn’t see it as anti-capitalist but more as a lament of someone growing up in a small town, on the outskirts of surrounding rural areas, the small farms, the old downtown with all the local small family-owned business - the 5&Dime, the pharmacy, the diner, the hardware store, the little book store, the local movie theater, etc., all that she knew and had loved growing up and coming back to see it was all gone.
It was all replaced by commercial shopping malls, national chain stores and restaurants with their huge parking lots and all the cheap track housing and high-density apartment buildings, the huge warehouses, all built on all the former small farms that forced all the small farmers out, and the downtown was pretty much abandoned and shuttered, all the small business, all closed and never to return.
I once lived in a small town in PA (Elizabethtown) when I was a kid in the late 60’s and going back there a few years ago, it made me very sad.
It was once a wonderful small town. I remember my mother and I going to Moose’s 5&Dime that still had an old-fashioned soda fountain and were all the locals gathered and talked, and the 5&Dime had old 150+ old wooden floors that creaked when you walked on them, but they had just about everything you needed or could order it for you.
My mother bought me my first Nancy Drew book at Moose’s and my dad bought hardware and tools there and my mother bought cookware and incidentals there. It was also a place where the local Amish came to shop. There were hitches outside of the store for the Amish to tie up their buggies.
And the revolutionary era stone house where my best friend lived – gone. The apple and cherry orchards where we used to play and pick fruit – gone. The dairy farm where my best friend’s father worked, and I saw a calf birthed and learned about dairy farming and how to milk a cow – gone. It’s a huge track housing development now where all the houses look pretty much the same and the HOA tells you what color you can paint your front door and what plants and bushes you can plant.
That is all gone now. The downtown, all the small shops and meadows I once played in are all pretty much all gone and those still there are struggling. All the land and businesses are mostly owned now by multinational corporations.
And yes, like Chrissy, it makes me sad.
I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Well, I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrxxMBkfx4
I’ve always appreciated that story about Hynde the song, her father, etc.
One of my favorite Pretenders songs is Middle of the Road.
The middle of the road is trying to find me
I’m standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me
Well, I got a smile for everyone I meet
As long as you don’t try dragging my bay
Or dropping the bomb on my street
In the middle of the road you see the darndest things
Like fat guys driving ‘round in jeeps through the city
Wearing big diamond rings and silk suits
Past corrugated tin shacks full up with kids
And man, I don’t mean a Hampstead nursery
But when you own a big chunk of the bloody Third World
The babies just come with the scenery
The middle of the road is no private cul-de-sac
I can’t get from the cab to the curb
Without some little jerk on my back
Don’t harass me, can’t you tell
I’m going home, I’m tired as hell
I’m not the cat I used to be
I got a kid, I’m 33, baby
Get in the road
Come on now
In the middle of the road, yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVry7uMud1o
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