After 9/11 Rush referred to Peter Jennings quoting the man on one of the planes that helped attack the hijackers. The actual quote was “Let’s roll” but Jennings said “let us roll”. Rush said “let US roll Peter?! roll what Peter? A roll of hay? Roll a joint?”
When he was trying to decipher what Ted Kennedy said when he mumbled something while introducing Clinton.
Rush came to my town for one of his early “Rush to Excellence Tour” appearances. It was at a high school auditorium sitting about 1800 people. It was full.
Rush was incredible. He came out on stage in a tuxedo and proceeded to talk extemporaneously for over 1 1/2 hours. No teleprompter, no notes, no podium to hid behind. He gave an incredible talk touching on current events and conservative political philosophy. He displayed the sense of humor we love on the radio and several times the audience was in stitches laughing. It was one of the most memorable “speeches” I’ve every heard and demonstrated Rush was an outstanding entertainer as well as commentator.
January 1989...vacationing in Florida.Driving down I-75 near Tampa I happened to tune to WFLA 970 and there he was. After listening for 45 minutes to this guy who thought *just* like me...spellbound...I was hooked!
I recall Rush bringing this up on his radio show. There was if I recall some type of flyover and one of the cabinet secretarys mocked the military. And clinton said, those are our planes now. Or something to that effect.
The first time I saw him was on C-SPAN in the early eighties. Fascinating.
I was laughing like crazy listening to the commentary on Sandra Fluke!
I specifically remember it, washing dishes. BEFORE he was pilloried over it the next day by the butt-hurt libs.
Rush had just made a putt of about 10 or 12 feet. It was a tricky little side-hill right-to-left knee knocker which he drained with authority.
As he was walking past us to the 17th tee, I said, "Nice putt, Rush" and he said, "Thank youuuu."
Rush using a whole segment to talk to a young woman who was overweight about losing weight and the whole issue.
It was 100% non-political.
His kindness always stuck with me.
Don’t forget Dan’s Bake Sale.
By far one of my most memorable
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PppO7hF7ugY
Rush Announces eBay Charity Auction of Harry Reid’s Letter
Calling Obama “The Magic Negro.” No, he didn’t make that up, he was quoting someone on the left.
Sometime in the early 1990’s, an out of town colleague came to town. He came into my office and heard Rush on the radio.
He told me that his best friend was Rush’s producer. I said “prove it. Get me a personally autographed photo”
He made a phone call and a week later I got an autographed photo.
It’s stuffed in a box somewhere. I need to find it.
In the mid-90s, a teenager named Allan called in from Valley City, ND. It was quite a long conversation, but Allan was conservative while his parents were liberal. It was like he was being held in some kind of prison at home. It was hilarious.
Rush did a speaking tour years ago that I was lucky enough to attend one night. Great speech. Great evening. Thanks Rush RIP.
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.