Posted on 02/25/2021 9:56:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
I was sitting in the parking lot of my church on Ash Wednesday, just about to go inside to get my ashes, when the radio told me that Rush Limbaugh had died. With him passes both an era in politics, and an era in my own life.
If you’re a showman – and Rush was that above all else – they say that it’s best to go out on top. And he did, just at the moment when it became apparent that the approach to politics that he championed his whole life won’t be enough to save us; that superior arguments won’t win the day and that we’re not going to vote our way out of this. That he left the stage at precisely the right point so it could honestly be said that he never became irrelevant is perhaps the one small consolation that can be found within this. The future will always be able to look back on him and say: “He was a man of his time”. Yes, his time has passed, as it does for all men. But if we are to look back now and evaluate what he meant, it can only fairly be in the context of those times.
Those who think that the current censorship against the right is anything new don’t remember the days when a cartel of three television networks (CBS, NBC, ABC) and two newspapers (the New York Times and the Washington Post) had a monopoly on both news and entertainment, and controlled everything that anyone heard about about any issue at all. What we’re seeing now is merely a return to that status quo, with a new cartel (Twitter, Facebook, Google) in place of the old one. The censorship in those days was in many ways worse; it was just less obvious and more deniable because of higher barriers to entry. It doesn’t seem terribly oppressive to tell someone that their television script is rejected or that you’re not going to give them a weekly column in your newspaper – the opportunities there are few just by the nature of things, and if everyone who does get one of them turns out to be of (or at least acceptable to) the left, that can be easily enough written off as coincidence. To ban someone from Twitter when they had more followers than the old newspaper had subscribers looks different, but it really isn’t. The effect is the same: one message gets out, and the other doesn’t.
The leftists are not even ashamed of who they are. Maybe they never will be (before their judgement).
Leftists are proud of themselves, proud of their ideals, proud of inciting turmoil, proud of queering children, proud of censoring, proud of breaking apart marriage and families, proud of getting away with big lies, proud of playing the race card, proud of winning by cheating, proud of abortion, proud of Godlessness.
Of the seven deadly sins, theologians and philosophers reserve a special place for pride. Lust, envy, anger, greed, gluttony and sloth are all bad, but pride is the deadliest of all, the root of all evil, and the beginning of sin.
At age 70 he never lost a step. His show was as fresh and entertaining as it was on day one.
Losing rush is more than just losing a member of the cause, It was like losing a member of the family
This is a melancholy tribute befitting Rush’s passing at this time. Thanks for posting.
Rush was a really, really smart man. He will be missed.
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Thx for posting
I had that same thought with respect to the passing of Rush Limbaugh: The time for talk is past. Nobody did it better than he did. I don’t listen to any talkers anymore. That’s so yesterday...
Todd Herman is OK, but I don't go out of my way to listen to him.
Michael Medved is absolutely terrible.
I turn the radio off when he comes on.
AM talk radio is pretty much a wasteland now.
Nice post. I was on Free Republic almost all day off and on and I found out just before I had my monthly one-on-one meeting with my boss at 430 that Rush had passed. I mean I found out the minute before hand. Had to block it out. How I went all day without knowing Rush passed on February 17, 2021 I don’t know. Was a blessing I guess. This is the first time I’ve even been able to post about it his passing.
Nice post. I was on Free Republic almost all day off and on and I found out just before I had my monthly one-on-one meeting with my boss at 430 that Rush had passed. I mean I found out the minute before hand. Had to block it out. How I went all day without knowing Rush passed on February 17, 2021 I don’t know. Was a blessing I guess. This is the first time I’ve even been able to post about it his passing.
Dammit
I know. I think it hit all of his fans hard.
Thank you for posting.
He means a lot to me too.
He was always a principled conservative in these difficult days, and yet remained an eternal optimist, and that kept him going and us listening.
His positivity and humor while saying the right things in memorable and remembered ways made him easy and fun to listen to. I did from 1988 on, even talked twice on his show.
His consistent relentless 15 hours a week of greatness, plus more brilliance in his other venues, is amazing.
Rush: what a man!
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