I’ve been thinking about Rush lately and how much I miss him. It would be so much fun to listen to him discuss what’s going on now.
Rush Limbaugh was that wonderful mixture of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine that comes along only once in a century. He’s irreplaceable. I turned off my radio the day he died, and I haven’t turned it on since.
I miss Rush..............
Now, I'm finally starting to think we have the big "mo" thanks to God and his instrument: Donald Trump.
I was hopeful that Mark Steyn would take over his show. The best guest host, and the one who could best combine wit with conservative principles in the fashion of Rush.
There are many people in many vocations that will always be one of a kind, considered the best at what they did with nobody coming in a close second. In talk radio it’s RUSH. Some would argue in late night TV it was Johnny Carson.
People that clearly were icons, head and shoulders above all the rest combined. In some vocations you can name two or three.
In golf, I’d argue it was Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
In Presidential politics I’d name Reagan and Trump.
Music - that’s a tough one, I’d go with The Beatles.
You can probably think of many others in various categories...
Thanks for this. I will never forget the first time I listened to him in the 80’s and how what he said made so much more sense than what was sad about him.
Rush created a legacy. We now have some very conservative talk show hosts who were probably inspired by him.
Charlie Kirk is one of those hosts who would be on my Rush legacy list.
Rush still available on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rush-limbaugh-timeless-wisdom/id1155318497
and the full shows go back over 10 years from 2021:
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/videos/free-video/
Mark Steyn and Walter E. Williams were my favorite Rush fill-ins.
Mark is right: talk radio is diminished without Rush.
Rush interviewed me for the Limbaugh Letter in 2004, (I think the February or April issue). Best interview I ever did. He didn’t interrupt, listened to my answers, played off them.
You can find the whole thing reprinted in the first paperback edition of A Patriot’s History of the United States, circa 2003 or 2005. We had to remove it from later editions because of the necessity for space in adding material from recent years.
Thanks for the post.
Talk radio is being dragged down by the radio industry itself into its current near-death status. And there was clearly no one to replace him.
as someone who has easily listened to 50,000 hours of radio in his life, I can state with confidence that the two best hosts, Limbaugh and Dennis Prager, have been taken from us. The latter, likely taken for good.
Whenever I make a tuna-fish sandwich I think of Weemsco Tuna.
Delicious, even the medical waste!
Thank you Rush!
I wonder what happened to Kit Carson.
There’s no other deceased public figure that I think about and miss every day. (Well, there is Jesus, but He is my Savior so that doesn’t count!)
The day after Trump won Charlie Kirk played the Rush intro at the start of his show. Super powerful!