I was hard-core conservative before Rush. In fact, I think it was about one week after starting college at ESU, when I saw the what the Leftists there wanted (the same Leftists who now control the DNC, by the way).
Even so, there was literally NOTHING to listen to or watch for our side. The best we could do was watch debates with somewhat reasonably newscasters, particularly Ted Koppel and David Brinkley. Or, if we were on uppers, we might be able to stay away through Firing Line, with William F. Buckly.
Then Rush and my life changed. The first time I heard him was on Saturdays, during re-broadcasts. I was like “Crap, this guy is great, who the hell is he...and then I learned his name” and back then he was ridiculing the Left non-stop through his various ‘updates’ - they were HYSTERICAL. I was in Los Angeles when he first came there...he was in studio in Los Angeles for a week - he knew then that he just went from big time to HUGE TIME. And he never went back.
At one point I had three lamp timers running to record his show on cassettes - and believe it or not, I was always within a minute of each hour’s start time, often much closer. It was amazing what those mechanical devices could do.
When we finally got a car that played CDs, but not tapes, my wife was happy that my tapes wouldn’t work anymore...but along with CDs came MP3’s...so about 45 to a disk - I still remember her reaction (as in ‘damn!’). Anyway, she’s a good conservative, but thought that I was a bit nuts (obviously right).
“I had three lamp timers running to record his show on cassettes”
LOL! My husband did the same thing. And he became a conservative in his first month at Berkely.
and believe it or not, I was always within a minute of each hour’s start time, often much closer.
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Some of my earliest memories are Aids and Jessie Jackson, I think. Did he do those, and when?
After all that time, I still have an internal clock. On the West coast, 9:07.
And all the timing for commercial breaks, etc.
And I have a bunch of his TV shows on VHS.
Sitting dusty in the garage. (In the can.)
I always snickered at his visual aids, like when he capitalized CLINTON. In Arial font.
Oh good Lord....you're not alone, I do that now.
It's almost like I grew up with Rush.
He's more like a big brother than a talk show host.