[carlr]

Rush is a pioneer and a man with vision.Looks pretty easy now but imagine trying to sell the concept of his show locally and nationally when all the airwaves carried was the opposite.How many programmers,many of whom were probably liberal,believed that the show would be a success.Why most,as all good libs do,thought all but a few kooks agree with them on issues.

In spite of all he did,they still try to portray Reagan as lazy,detached and uninformed.Rush has helped to show that conservatives are the intellectual thinkers in politics and that libs cannot debate intellectually because their positions don`t hold up to the scrutiny.

This forum is an offshoot of that and the pride that conservatives hold.We are winning the battle and even if we disagree with Rush at times we owe him a debt of gratitude for his refusal to accept second place.

[writer33]

Rush is a pioneer and a man with vision.Looks pretty easy now but imagine trying to sell the concept of his show locally and nationally when all the airwaves carried was the opposite.How many programmers,many of whom were probably liberal,believed that the show would be a success.Why most,as all good libs do,thought all but a few kooks agree with them on issues. In spite of all he did,they still try to portray Reagan as lazy,detached and uninformed.Rush has helped to show that conservatives are the intellectual thinkers in politics and that libs cannot debate intellectually because their positions don`t hold up to the scrutiny. This forum is an offshoot of that and the pride that conservatives hold.We are winning the battle and even if we disagree with Rush at times we owe him a debt of gratitude for his refusal to accept second place.

Well said, carl. Well said.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

One thing to emphasize Rush's very considerable talent, and his admiration for Rushmore-should-be RWR - but we should remember that talk radio as a conservative phenomenon has its roots in the Reagan decision to dump the Fairness Doctrine.

It's so easy now to look back and say, with 20-20 hindsight, that the Fairness Doctrine served no other function but to buttress the Establishment liberal monopoly and suppress the broadcasting of conservative opinion. That was however not how it was advertised; all liberals - and even some FReepers who think that they are conservative - think that the the government should enforce "fairness" in broadcasting and even on The New York Times.

In fact of course the Constitution in general and the First Amendment in particular says nothing about "fairness," - and the government is not capable of enforcing "fairness", and cannot be made to even want to.