Posted on 07/30/2008 8:52:08 AM PDT by Reagan Man
I distinctly remember when my phone at my Washington hotel room rang at 1 AM during the spring of 1996. A distraught President Clinton was calling. “We’re getting killed on radio,” he blurted into the phone as soon as I picked it up.
“What do you mean?” I answered blearily trying to get a grip on what he was talking about.
“Hillary’s mothe r just drove here from Pennsylvania and all during the trip she heard them saying the most awful things about me on radio,” the president explained.
“On whose show?” I probed.
“Rush Limbaugh,” Clinton replied.
“He’s been on your case for years,” I answered.
“Yeah, but its getting serious,” he insisted.
The next morning, I got in touch with Terry McAuliffe at the Democratic National Committee to discuss setting up a war room to feed talking points to liberal talk show hosts to counter the pernicious influence of Rush!
Now that the wind blows at my back – no longer in my face – Rush sure comes in handy when its time to put the liberals in their place. There is, quite simply, nobody like him.
After all, before there was talk radio, there was Rush.
And before there was Fox News, there was Rush.
And before there was NewsMax, there was Rush.
And before their was Sean Hannity or Neil Boortz or Michael Medved or Dennis Prager or Mike Gallagher, there was Rush.
No other modern political commentator can lay claim to founding a branch of political discourse.
Honoring Rush for his contributions to America is not an empty exercise. At this moment, the liberal forces that hope to come to power with Barack Obama are set on a course to destroy the very institution that Rush founded – talk radio. Through a rigid application of the so-called fairness doctrine, they threaten to drive talk radio off the air and onto the Internet. Who knows if the listeners and the advertisers will follow?
Their goal is not to assure that liberals will be heard on the airwaves, but to guarantee that conservatives will not. The liberals know that left wing talk radio does not attract an audience and is a financial black hole. The collapse of Air America attests to that fact. NPR, black radio, Hispanic stations, and radio aimed at young people creams off the bulk of the would-be audience for liberal talk radio. So if stations can only air Rush or Sean or Neil if they also air the likes of Al Franken, they’ll probably cancel all talk radio and play music instead.
In our new book Fleeced, my wife Eileen McGann and I also raise the prospect that the left will seek to enforce sections of the FCC law which require “community participation” in the “ownership and management” of radio stations. As the National Review has pointed out, this can be a cover for infiltrating boards of directors and programming departments with liberals – an effort to hijack talk radio.
The liberals wouldn’t be trying to destroy talk radio if it weren’t working. And it was Rush who founded it and Rush who still leads the parade. Having attempted to discredit him, imprison him, silence him, or cow him, they have failed miserably. And, as a result, Rush still rules….and rocks!
Man there is a string of em out tonight, sorta like watchin the eastern skies watchin the planes come in for a landing at BICA.
So close, but yet he left out the explosives...
Maybe you need to read his post again. Look for a clue, you need one.
Robinson should get rid of these losers!!
Wow, been here a whole month and you can already decide which people who have been here more than 7 years need to go.
Yeah, I thought you and the gang would appreciate that one!
Rush has already been taken down a few pegs.
He’s divorced for the third time.
He’s lost his real hearing.
He’s suffered the humiliation of drug addiction after being anti-drug for so many years.
Not everyone who likes Rush likes everything about him. For instance, I can barely listen to him for a few minutes myself anymore. I have to turn him off.
However, he has accomplished things I never will accomplish. Does this mean that I think he’s God? Does this mean that I go to him for guidance? No. Hell no. He’s flawed. Deeply.
But I don’t hate him.
Give it a rest, gunner. Really.
Well, he forgot to mention the exploding watermelons and cantaloupes, but yep, he sure seems to be of the "White Trash Hoedown Envy" crowd. ;-)
Not everyone, but with your comments about how awesome it would be if, because of the Dems political gains, Rush was off the air by March, you certainly qualify. Actually calling you stupid was a bit charitable on my part.
That's amazing. It must be nice to live in a safe, well-defined little world like that.
That's the problem with being stupid and saying stupid things. Your initial premise is totally wrong and that makes your follow-ups just drivel.
Let's get this straight for anyone reading this post to understand. Someone made the comment that if the Dems get anymore power that they wouldn't be suprised to see Rush off the air by March. You thought this was awesome. You also thought Rush needed to be taken down a few pegs.
This proves that you are both stupid and jealous.
Rush isn't going anywhere so you're going to just have to put some Vagisil on it Nancy.
I would much rather be shooting cans off of people's heads than pushing buttons at work.
You might feel the same way too if the very idea didn't make you run around in circles screaming and shouting while wetting yourself.
Have a tofu samich and be glad that there is a Texas. It will give you something to brag about if you ever travel abroad.
Let me guess..
You bought the Operation Chaos Devotional Shrine with Official EIB Kneeling Rug.
(Just $75.00 on Rush’s site, plus shipping...)
You bought the Operation Chaos Devotional Shrine with Official EIB Kneeling Rug.
(Just $75.00 on Rush’s site, plus shipping...)
BZZZZZZZ Wrong. Keep trying though, you're making my point...
...Or forced to go satilite or streaming internet radio.
If the worse happens, expect an angry backlash against any Dems socialists bigtime.
To be on the air 20 years, those 20 years are his best years. Happy 20th Rush!
But the libs better realized the high tech is now starting to leave even these “shouters” in the dust bin of history.
humblegunner is not a liberal. He just thinks for himself.
Spreadin’ the LUV again?
I don’t know why you’re so misunderstood... :)
To you, you want the party to be CONSERVATIVE
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