Posted on 02/26/2018 5:09:07 PM PST by gaijin
I love Rush Limbaugh. He's smart, articulate and wealthy, but that last part was not always so for Rush.
He grew up in a family of ambitious lawyers and storied judges. The pressure from his family was really on for Rush to hit the books, stay in college, become a Man of Letters. They wanted him to rake it in somehow, preferably in law but if not, to earn a living in some capacity that involved stable income, a necktie and not moving around the country like an overfed vagabond.
But Rush knew what he wanted to be in radio from an early age and made it only one semester in college before he quit. Most of those few days his mother had to personally drive Rush to campus to make sure he actually went, so clear was it that Rush loathed simply attending.
To the chagrin of his family, stubborn Rush pursued his passion, later getting fired from various radio jobs doing it His Way.
Rush stuck to his guns single-handedly ended up totally transforming AM radio; it had been a moribund electronic dumping-ground for dedicated weather stations and minor religious broadcasters but today, post-Rush, AM thrives on.
Now that Rush is going on almost three decades of record-smashing success and over 500 affiliates, everyone can see his huge Palm Beach home. All can see his huge private jet, hear of his lofty income.
But it was not always like that for Rush, not by a longshot:
Once when moving to Pennsylvania he had to periodically pull over and splash de-icing fluid on his windshield because he could not afford to repair his windshield wipers. Another time he got fired from a radio station simply for using the word, therefore. And even after Rush got hired onto a new gig, KFBK in Sacramento (the one that offered him the format he always wanted and would later really take off), he couldn't afford a proper bed..! Neither were proper engine maitenance affordable for Rush, and he had to periodically pull over his dilapidated but affordable land-barge on the steep, windy drive up to Lake Tahoe in order to let the engine cool down a bit before continuing.
Another time after Rush gained a little fame in Sacramento, a NorCal broadcasting executive invited Rush to a dinner party at his large mansion in the El Dorado Hills. Rush was excited that his boat appeared to be finally coming in, as attending this dinner would give him some face-time with local luminaries:
Instead, Rush's much more famous host ambushed him, stopping the whole dinner to shower Rush with insults for the next 90 minutes, denouncing his revolutionary new radio format as something That Would Never Succeed and How Dare You..?!
The whole point of the invitation and dinner was to belittle Rush and try to get him to give up on his dream; this rish executive wanted to crush The Little Guy.
But now there's something new:
One of Rush's sponsors is Simply Safe, a company providing innovative burglary alarms for apartment dwellers and those reluctant to spend considerable sums on installation for exotic, hard-wired alarms.
The SimpliSafe company founders are Harvard University graduates who made a really big deal about adhering to Parkview-inspired PC sensibilities: SimpliSafe prominently broke all relations with the NRA, the entity that safeguards the self-defense rights of the little guy, maybe in situations where 4 cops calmly oversee the mass-shooting that YOU get ensnared in.
Maybe you're like me:
Today did you hear Rush's Pearls of Wisdom? Only to then hear the high-brow, pusillanimous, 2nd Amendment-hating advertising by those elitist, cowardly slobberdigullions of Taxachusettes..? Did you feel an awkward incongruity..?
Do ads from SimpliSafe spoil your daily Rush Experience..? Do you find it pleasant that a company hostile to gun owners would use this great, hallowed venue to hock their stupid schlock..?
Emailed a one liner to Rush right after he went on the air:
“Re SimpliSafe-I will be very disappointed if you don’t address their future with you.”
He made some namby pamby generalizations, but he didn’t address the specifics.
Oh, wow. I didn't hear that part and I'm glad I didn't.
I'm very, very sorry, very disappointed to hear that.
Every time I hear their ads on Rush now, I feel like Rush now feels when every now and then he gives in and gives an NFL game a gander (for 5 minutes).
It just kills the magic.
Rush knows what is at stake with immigration and amnesty and yet he still extolls people like Rubio who are hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
It’s infuriating when he does it.
I don’t know but he was still pimping Liplock today.
Is Sleep Train even still in business? I don’t think I hear anything about them any more.
Smith & Wesson
The cops will hide behind their cars while you are killed.
Oh, wow, just found this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Train_Arena
When I was living there it was ARCO Arena..!
So apparently SleepTrain still exists.
I guess for coverage in the Sacramento area after Rush dumped SleepTrain, they instead fell back on this form of advertising.
When they lucked out and saved their company by first advertising on Rush they were verrrrrry near bankruptcy.
I guess that was their 2nd year in biz, or something.
I will be very sad if Rush doesn’t dump SimpliSafe.
Yep.
SimpliSafe and too many others two thumbs down.
Absolutely.
They’re not police officers; they’re shooting monitors
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