Posted on 10/29/2021 11:22:30 AM PDT by Paul46360
Who do you think should have replaced RUSH???
They keep the bumper themes out of respect
And after talking to Katherine
They’ve explained them
I find them thorough and decent guests and mostly pretty good on culture
People here are being picky and scoldy
I don’t get the Levin love here
No way.
Shapiro ....but taller
Nobody can replace Rush. He was one of a kind.
Bannon is already number one influence wise and pols know it
Cause he has the effing King on speed dial
Steve Bannon is a warrior
Naked talk radio....I’m in
Why so much hate here for Buck and Clay....
Other than they are not Rush..
I was a Rush fan since Sacramento and TV....I didn’t like his TV much....
24/7 member over ten years I think
However I disagreed with him over the years
He made some big missteps trying to keep access especially with the Bush dynasty
He was a little slow onTrump though he claims he knew him forever and loved him....though Trump contradicts that ....so who knows
Rush was incredible the way he ran a three hour show...what a brain ..
One beef I know on a majority yankee board who cares
Listen to his mama talk
His brother talk...
So I’m like Rush are you ashamed of the southern accent you were born with and your whole family speaks with
Like i said....y’all don’t care ...I got that...
Rush meant well no question...and I miss him
This was my biggest gripe with Limbaugh. The *least* he could have done was take a position during the primaries, and he refused to do so.
Everyone complained about how the primaries were being manipulated, with open primaries where Democrats picked their Republican opponents to closed primaries where Democrats ran stalking horse libertarians to split the Republican vote.
Limbaugh could have used his influence to be a kingmaker in selecting who comes out of the primaries to run in the general election. And not just for President, too. He could have endorsed Senate primary candidates, too.
Instead, he chose to make his stand with "Operation Chaos," advising people to waste their primary vote voting for Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama.
This was Limbaugh's one blind-spot that I will never understand.
-PJ
No he wouldn’t. He isn’t a radio host.
I can think of one good reason to question Buck’s intelligence based on his fawning interview today with National Review hack David Harsanyi.
Harsanyi is a typical establishment Republican focused on economic issues, unconcerned about culture and just fine with flooding the U.S. with mass immigration. There’s a reason he’s a National Review senior editor.
Steyn had made it clear that he was not interested in taking over Rush’s show. He was willing to do it for awhile in memory of Rush but he was happy to end it when he did.
Rush was an experienced AM radio performer who understood what makes a radio program entertaining.
He had worked at perfecting his craft long before trying to introduce politics in it. And when he did, he still emphasized humor, music, and all of the elements that kept an audience listening.
This is what his imitators lack. They aren’t radio professionals. They are political enthusiasts. They lack Rush’s understanding of how to keep an audience entertained.
Hannity is a prime example of someone having zero understanding of radio. He’s strident, repetitive, he machine guns his listeners with talking points. He’s proof that a lack of talent is no barrier to success.
Until someone comes along who is as good at understanding radio as he is at political commentary there will be no equal to Rush.
What John Batchelor is, is an establishment Republican. Tony Snow was from the same mold. Hugh Hewitt is another. These are the foot soldiers of Bush Republicanism.
The outsiders are, and have always been, the conservative wing. Goldwater. Reagan. And Trump.
I can think of one time when Rush got involved in a primary campaign, in a California State Assembly election.
One primary candidate was a woman with long experience in grassroots conservative activism. Prop 13, Prop 187, that sort of thing.
The other candidate was an ex-GI with no history of conservative activism, and in fact he was openly contemptuous of conservative voters.
So which one did Rush endorse? Well his friend, the ex-GI, the open anti-conservative.
That was one incident that helped form my suspicion that Rush was a lightweight who really wasn’t as knowledgeable about conservative politics as he wanted people to believe. It’s why he was such an easy mark for the Bush family and they were able to use him as their waterboy (Rush’s own admission). I don’t think Rush was trying to deceive people, but the Bush crowd certainly was, and they were able to use Rush to get conservatives to support their agenda.
Nobody.
I missed that driving from injun country
Hewitt is definitely no good. I found it especially disgusting when he joined the Left in trashing Nicholas Sandman and his classmates from Covington, Ky. after they were harassed by black and American Indian racists. Hewitt & Co. were especially outraged when Sandman responded to the harassers by simply smiling at them.
He’s a great radio host.
But you noticed that the music fell off, and also the Paul Shanklin skits which were hilarious. Maybe Shanklin charged too much. So the show evolved into a daily political discussion with fewer tangents into Apple products and cigars. (which may have contributed to Rush’s health problems.)
I also liked Walter Williams, especially when hje teamed up with Thomas Sowell.
Rush also had Chris Matthews guest host. Imagine that. At least he did not pollute the Golden EIB Mic with Geraldo Rivera (Jerry Rivers). or “Hey! I was a Republican once!” Joe Scarborough or John Kasick,
I missed that but it shouldn’t surprise me. Hewitt wants to remain respectable in the eyes of his buddies on the Left.
Throwing Sandman under the bus would assure that invitations to the upscale Irvine dinner parties would remain uninterrupted.
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