Posted on 02/10/2020 9:11:28 AM PST by Kaslin
Leftists renewed their decades-long attacks on Rush Limbaugh last week as he announced a serious illness and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Leftists celebrate his illness and somehow deny that a non-soldier should receive this civilian award. They deny the worth of his contribution to the nation while castigating his political views. Conservatives try to support the award with reference to Limbaugh's charity work, the size of his audience, or his many years on the air. While the conservatives are correct, both sides miss the point.
In order to understand how important Rush has been to America, we must remember the early 1980s and before. Conservatives such as President Reagan were the subject of relentless attacks in the media, popular culture, and the education establishment. It would be years before the internet, with all of its opportunity for communication and information, became generally available. Cable television was in its infancy. When we wanted to read or hear conservative opinion to counterbalance the prevailing culture, we could read two or three columns in the newspaper every week from writers such as George Will, William Buckley, and William Safire (there were a few others). That was about it. Those columns were all that we had to bolster us as we endured our schoolteachers, professors, television news, sitcoms, movies, magazines, popular music, etc. Those columns had barely enough space to defend President Reagan's programs from the misrepresentations of the evening "news." They certainly were inadequate to respond to the entire weight of popular culture with its daily messages of appeasement, promiscuousness, secularism, and the ever-present demands for government handouts. They were even less capable of keeping up with the daily brainwashing from the public schools and colleges of America.
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George Will?
Obama gave them out like candy to Hollywood.
Getting Americans to once again think and act like Americans.
The left never listens to him but spouts crap based on what someone said he said.
I don't give a fat rat's ass what the left says about Rush {or anything else}.
I AM a cult member. Oh, wrong thread.
Great column. Thx for posting!
I started listening to Rush during the hanging chads/Florida vote recount when the Democrats tried to steal the Presidential election. Then and now, reading conservative reactions to the issues of the day helped me deal with the nonsense and calm myself. There are many good posters here on FR.
He was really a conservative in those days. I admired him then because he was the lone conservative on a news panel stacked with liberals. Same with Jerry Falwell. Falwell is no longer with us and Will has gone to the dark side but they were courageous back then.
Rush has the flu. Not on today. I’m going into withdrawal.
I’m old enough to remember when bow tie boy once wrote good, thoughtful articles on conservative policy. Now, it is only on baseball.
A really good column and a really good comment.
DeNiro made it admirable to wannbe an ‘effin gangsta
I remember the first time I heard Rush (driving around on the job in the late 1980s, listening to talk radio after he replaced someone who is forgettable) my brain lit up and I thought, “This guy’s got it!” Been listening ever since.
bmp
George Will was a conservative when it placed him in a select group isolated above the mere masses. When the population became educated by contact with Rush and Fox News, Will had to fall back on his inherent elitism to keep him above mere mortals. Will’s true nature is that he is better than you, not that he is a true conservative.
Great article!!
Thanks for posting
“When we wanted to read or hear conservative opinion to counterbalance the prevailing culture, we could read two or three columns in the newspaper every week from writers such as George Will, William Buckley, and William Safire (there were a few others). That was about it.”
There were others that were available in the ‘80s if you looked for them:
Human Events.
National Review.
The American Spectator.
Chronicles.
Accuracy In Media AIM Report.
The University Bookman
Modern Age
The Intercollegiate Review
The Rothbard Rockwell Report
Commentary
The World and I
not to mention a plethora of newsletters
“I’m old enough to remember when bow tie boy once wrote good, thoughtful articles on conservative policy. Now, it is only on baseball.”
George Will just did a better job of masking what he is back then.
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