I started with Rush in 1990 when he was first picked up in my area.
I first heard Rush in 1989, about a year after his national debut. It was during my Air Force days; I was an intel briefer who went to work in the middle of the night (so the four-star could get his update at 8 am), but finished my shift at mid-day. Flipped on the local news/talk station on my way home, just after 12 noon eastern. And there he was; coming from a broadcasting background, I was instantly captivated and amazed. I had never heard anything like it, before or since, and his talent was extraordinary. Pulled my car over on the side of the road and spent the next hour listening, laughing and nodding my head. For once in my life, someone was articulating the positions and values I embraced.
Rush has been a constant in my life ever since. He saved AM radio, transformed American media and the conservative movement. Not bad for a former DJ from Cape Girardeau, MO.
Prayers up for El Rushbo.
Been listening to Rush since 1990 when I saw him on C-SPAN’s Talk Radio Week. Not only was it great hearing conservative politics aired when the MSM & NPR held full sway, but in the video Rush was just plain having FUN annoying the libs. His Updates & update themes were priceless.
Would have started listening sooner, but I was in graduate school in 1989 and a leftie prof who didn’t like my views told me about him and added, “You’ll like Rush Limbaugh, he’s a real fascist!!” What a jerk.
Well, I wanted conservatism, not fascism, so I didn’t try to find Rush on the radio until that C-SPAN special.
But have I been listening for thirty years, now? Sure doesn’t seem that long.
Prayers up for Rush, but if worse comes to worse his best sub host Mark Steyn could, IMO, fill his shoes. Mark became a U.S. citizen last year; he was subjected to Stasi-style persecution by Canadian courts just for being non-PC, and he relentlessly deploys his dry wit to devastating effect against the freedom-killers on the Left.
I first heard him on a business trip to Iowa around 1990. Became a fan from the first day I listened to him. This is such sad, sad news. He is so unique and I still get a kick out of listening to him. I remember my own dad, late in his life, listening to Rush on a small radio in his study.
One of my brothers was staying with me back in the nineties - he was working odd hours and would usually be home at lunch time and I was fortunate enough to be able to come home for lunch sometimes too. He always had Rush on... The first couple of time Is thought who is this guy? But after several listenings I was hooked and have been ever since. Till fairly recently I was working overseas. First thing every morning I played the previous day's podcast.