Rush Limbaugh, “Maha Rushie”, gone much too soon. But perhaps he has inspired a whole generation of disciples, more than any can imagine, and his words will ring down through the future history still to be written.
Rush could expostulate almost endlessly, without notes and never repetitively, as more and more of his wisdom continued to gush all the time he was speaking, which made for uncommonly entertaining radio at the same time he was weaving a whole revelation of the honest history of our times. And unbelievably, three hours each afternoon had suddenly evaporated, and he was out of broadcast time with his stack of stuff still not exhausted.
In the end, was Rush ever wrong in his assessments and predictions? Well, yeah, but he was right some 99.87% of the time (or whatever the running figure was). But he never obsessed about it, just made the running corrections as necessary and with full explanation, transparent as always.
I was lucky enough to attend Rushstock, aka Dan’s Bake Sale, in the Spring of ‘93. Magic time!
I think he was right on the money 95% of the time. A lot of FReepers were badmouthing "Operation Chaos" but I think it worked beautifully and did exactly what was it supposed to do... drag out the RAT nomination in 2008 as long as possible and create bitterness against Obama from the Hillary supporters. Two notable times I DISAGREED with him was when he was touting Rick Perry for President, and encouraging Liz Cheney to carpetbag into Wyoming politics (and it appears he recanted on singing Liz Cheney's praises before his death)