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Why Isn't Tucker Carlson Taking Rush Limbaugh's Former Radio Slot?
Me | 5/3/2022 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 05/03/2022 11:24:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz

Lately, I've become hooked on Tucker Carlson's segments. I'm watching (actually, listening) on a regular basis.

Losing Rush Limbaugh was a body-blow for me. I miss the man; I miss his takes on thing; I miss his wit and his humor.

I've listened to many of the would-be replacements, and none of them could be even ten percent of the entertainer and conservative touchstone that Rush was.

Today, it occurred to me: Tucker Carlson could do the job. Oh, I grant you, Tucker would never be quite as good as Rush.... but he would be close, as close as anyone could be.

Tucker is insightful, and he has a good sense of humor. He is serving now as the conservative opinion-maker on Fox. I'd like Tucker to consider radio. I'd like him to try his hand at taking Rush Limbaugh's slot.

I have only one complaint about Tucker... his laugh sometimes seems forced and fake. Other than that, the man is completely capable of carrying on Rush Limbaugh's legacy.


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To: Lazamataz

He probably wasn’t interested. He has a great TV show, and a great life. He makes a boatload of money, but not more than Hannity. That will change with his next contract.


81 posted on 05/03/2022 12:04:50 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: Lazamataz

He actually subbed for Clay and Buck for a week over the Holidays, so he’s picked up some national notice. He does five hours of radio a day and I’m lucky if I get to hear one of them in a day. I don’t want to oversell him but I think folks would like him if they could hear his show.


82 posted on 05/03/2022 12:04:58 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Lazamataz

I am certain I saw many articles here that Tucker was good friends with Hunter and the Biden’s. Rush can never be replaced but there must be others better suited to fill his slot.


83 posted on 05/03/2022 12:05:08 PM PDT by M_Continuum
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To: Alberta's Child

Interesting perspective. You are correct. Thanks.


84 posted on 05/03/2022 12:05:10 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: Lazamataz

Radio isn’t being displaced by TV. It’s being displaced by on-demand audio content like MP3 music and podcasts.


85 posted on 05/03/2022 12:05:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Did not realize that Rush was not on live across the country.


86 posted on 05/03/2022 12:07:23 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Alberta's Child
Radio isn’t being displaced by TV. It’s being displaced by on-demand audio content like MP3 music and podcasts

For the second time on this thread, you are absolutely correct.

Knock it off!

87 posted on 05/03/2022 12:07:54 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Sorry — that’s 9:00AM in California, not 3:00 PM!!


88 posted on 05/03/2022 12:07:55 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: nascarnation

Sorry — I was wrong. Rush WAS on live across the country, but some local stations preferred to air him on tape delay to ensure a 12:00 start no matter what time zone they were in. So it wasn’t unusual to hear his show starting two hours “late” at 12:00 in Mountain Time if you were driving across the country.


89 posted on 05/03/2022 12:10:35 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Lazamataz; All

I like Tucky but unless he has stopped going into near-histrionics and gets off of Fox, I’m not going to start watching him again.

I found his “clueless” expression when he’s talking to a liar very funny ... but I got tired of that too.

Rush never hung around with Hunter Biden (or any of those demons).

If there’s going to be another Rush, we’ll hear about him. We can’t really pick him.


90 posted on 05/03/2022 12:10:49 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: Alberta's Child

Those hours worked for Rush because people listened at work. He was on desks and in shops all over the country.

The only thing that rated higher at my wife’s station was the Red Sox.


91 posted on 05/03/2022 12:10:51 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: old-ager; All

I think we’re at the point now where there will be a thousand Rushes (sort of), not one.

A lot harder for the enemies to take out.


92 posted on 05/03/2022 12:12:27 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: rfp1234

“Rush used to call him “Chatsworth Osborne III”.”

That’s funny.

Dobie Gillis reference.


93 posted on 05/03/2022 12:13:22 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Lazamataz

Tucker run for president. Not to win but to further drive the left insane. :)


94 posted on 05/03/2022 12:13:31 PM PDT by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Lazamataz
LOL. Thank you!

I became an avid talk radio listener when I would “burn the midnight oil” as a college student. I later got to meet a number of notable personalities in the radio business when I worked for a company located in the same building as one of the largest talk radio stations in the U.S.

95 posted on 05/03/2022 12:14:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: devane617

Tucker writes his stuff and then reads it on TV. Reading something and not sounding like you are reading is a gift. Tucker is pretty good.

Rush was the best at it. But Rush never read his own writing, he read what others wrote, then eloquently and artfully added his signature commentary with talent on loan from God.


96 posted on 05/03/2022 12:17:17 PM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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To: Lazamataz

His Fox contract may prohibit


97 posted on 05/03/2022 12:18:37 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Lazamataz

He has his own slot.


98 posted on 05/03/2022 12:20:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: Vermont Lt
I once took a long work-related road trip during the heyday of Rush’s radio career — the early 1990s. I covered about 9 states and 1,200 miles over the course of two days in May on a westbound trip out of NYC.

Rush was on for the full three hours on both days. It was great. As I drove across Ohio and Indiana I had this idea in my mind of two kinds of typical listener to his show: a retiree listening to the show while it was broadcast in a small-town diner, and a farmer listening in the cab of his tractor during that spring planting season.

99 posted on 05/03/2022 12:20:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Lazamataz

Dang good question, Mr. Mataz.

Not enough money on the table? O’Shannity does three hours on radio and three hours on the boob-tube. So it can be done.


100 posted on 05/03/2022 12:22:44 PM PDT by moovova
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