Posted on 02/17/2021 7:26:48 PM PST by Ennis85
I recently came across this clip from the Clinton Years of Rush calling out said President's crocodile tears during the Ron Brown memorial service which did bring a much needed smile to my face.
Now that we're looking back on his life, I thought would be a good time to ask people here for their favourite Rush moments that hold dear to them. Whether he made you laugh or stoked passion in you
I always associate Rush with the word Dittoheads.
Dan’s bake sale and Elvis song in the ghetto.
The Clinton years were golden with Rush
My favorite was the Paul Shanklin parody of Larry King interviewing Ken Starr.
I’d been listening to Rush since the late 1980s (I lived in Davis, near Sacramento), but my dad never discovered him until shortly after 9-11, accidentally on the radio, when “kids with guns” were patrolling in front of his job at the time at one of the US National weapons labs.
He said he parked for work, but then “couldn’t get out of his truck.” He was transfixed, mesmerized, by whatever Rush was saying at the time about 9-11. And it’s very hard to impress my dad (weapons engineer!).
Miss you Rush! Now: we all need to switch to Steve Bannon’s War room, including my dad. Get the word out. Podcasts are the new AM radio and there is much work to be done.
Dancing Queen sung in Barney Frank’s voice.
I loved Rush in any era, but I have to say the best days were during the Clinton administration.
The Jocelyn Elders updates along with others still make me smile. Rush was always insightful with a keen wit, but he was NEVER more effective than when he made fun of them.
I cannot think of any specific instance where I remember Rush - but I do recall listening to him numerous times and always thinking, he speaks what I’m thinking. Because he always spoke what I was thinking, and he did so with much more eloquence than my thoughts had.
My brain was always cussing up a storm, but Rush knew how to say it cleanly, and in a way that even a democrat could understand (if he’d only listen to El Rushbo). He’s going to be missed. I didn’t hear him every day, but I heard him many days and always liked listening to Rush.
Mine was his telling of the true history of Thanksgiving. He would tell every year around Thanksgiving and reading of George Whashington’ holiday proclamation.
Favorite caller: Mick from the high mountains of New Mexico.
There was also Rita X.
I knew her as Rita from Detroit from her local calls.
I still have the phony soldier letter on the wall. I was hoping Rush would outlive them all.
This goes way back. 1993-ish on his TV show. He ran a clip showing how the media sandbags conservatives and used himself as the example. He was on the Pat Sajak Show (daytime talk) but someone else was subbing for Pat. They went to take audience questions and, after one or two short, easy questions they went to an African American lady who had no question but just lit into him. He puckered up for the lady, the camera switched to show it for a second, and she went into incoherent apoplexy.
Why is it my favorite moment? It gave proof to Rush’s claim about how the MSM undairly treats deological opponents. It gave reason for his circumspection about every interaction with the MSM. It made his eventual dismissals from sports shows predictable. Not for anything he’d do but you already knew the game they would play. They would bring him on to “appear fair” and “give him a chance” and then drop him over petty trivialities that harmed no one and quickly forgotten.
He showed, using himself as the example, what he told the incoming Republican freshmen of 2009 what was in store for them in their dealings with the MSM and press. Don’t get sucked in because they will spit you out for having an R after your name.
And he was right. And they never learned.
Commenting on Ted Kennedy’s last wedding....”The bride is registered at Scuba World.”
I have been so depressed today like losing a member of my family, after 25+ years I will never hear him on the radio again having a hard time with that fact!!!
“In A Yugo” was another classic!
I read that for the next 90 days at least, Rush’s show will be a combination of guest hosts interspersed with best of segments every day.
Rush playing along, talking about“...the Chief Joints of Staff....”
His voice may be stilled, but the movement he spawned will live on. One of his funniest segments came when he had his TV show in the mid-90’s. He’d send a faux news crew to interview Robert Reeeiiisch, the Sec of Labor for klintoon,
who was about 4’10”. The camera was aimed as though the interviewee was about 5’10”. All you would see was the top of Reeeeiiiisch’s head, and they’d conduct the interview hilariously straight forward and the little twerp never even realized what was going down. The way I spelled Reich’s name is how Rush would enunciate it.
And I’m having the same feelings.
I sat in my truck all choked up today.
Paul Shanklin songs.
I first listened to Rush in 1989, I had just had my fourth child as a stay at home mom, and my mother called me and said “you have to listen to this guy! Find a radio station!”. Well, I could not find a station right away, (I was in rural LA), so I called my mother back, I told her that I had no luck finding a station (I later did and listened every day), and she put her phone up to her radio, and let me listen over the phone for the next hour!
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