I never knew the basis of 'ditto', and now that I do, I LOVE IT!
I share you experience, I first heard of Rush from my hubby. He had come home to our house in Gechingen, GE. (We lived there for seven years as he worked at Patch Barracks, second to NATO, an all service command just outside Suttgart in a community called Vahingen.)
He was kind of excited, said everyone was talking about this radio show at work, and that we could catch the hour of the show on the overseas military network (AFN) carried at midnight.
We listened.
We were hooting and howling during that first small portion of his show that we could capture.
Our conversations, political activism and love for this nation have gone only upwards as a result of FINALLY understanding that we were not alone.
You truly, cannot imagine, what bill klinton and his snake of a wife had done to damage the moral of our military. WE SAW IT UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.
Rush was like a wind under our wings, and he blew through Patch Barracks, lifting spirits everywhere.
And until we were transfered back home, his show was main source of information (fighting against the horrific mainstream media and their damaging, hurtful attitude towards our military) and inspiration.
I stand with you 100% on your post.
And I believe that hitlery, should she ever become president, would go after this website with such a vengeance (probably making it some kind of impossible to overcome money threat).
She is keenly aware of FReepers, as are moveon and MANY organizations that despise this forum.
FR not only hashes out the news, we are often up front in reporting the news as well as finding factual FAULT with the news....we are a great BIG thorn, stuck deeply and painfully into their fatuous bums.
Which is just about where I want to be.
"that we could catch the hour of the show on the overseas military network (AFN) carried at midnight."
There's a story behind that, too.
At first, AFN refused to carry Rush. They said, "We polled our listeners (which was a blatant lie) and they don't want Limbaugh."
So Rush went on his show and said, "BS. Know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to poll our military overseas *at my own expense* and find out if they want this show or not." (Or words to that effect.)
The very next day -- THE VERY NEXT DAY -- the liberal slime running AFN caved and agreed to run one hour of his show. Of course, with commercial breaks, that's only 40-some minutes, as opposed to the hours and hours and hours and hours of liberal filth they broadcast every day.
Then, instead of splicing the segments together and broadcasting them continuously, they used the commercial breaks to splice in things that constituted spitting in the faces of Rush's listeners, like Jim Hightower's mindless drivel.
And, as I expected, they managed to have frequent "technical difficulties" that would black out parts of that single 40-minute non-liberal broadcast, or would "prevent" them from putting it on at all.
Never with NPR or Garrison Keillor, never with CNN news or ABC or AP news--only with Rush. And, of course, they took James Dobson off altogether.
I would really love to see those treasonous b******s brough up before a Nuremburg-like court, with similar verdicts.