I also engineered Rush’s show for a local station. It was a pleasure listening every day, though sometimes I’d get so involved with what he was saying, I’d forget to set up the commercials for the next break!
Rush’s real story of Thanksgiving did it for me. I honestly believed the Pilgrims were starving and the Indians rode to the rescue and saved them.
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Still, Miami had Alan Courtney on WIOD-AM. Wife, Bernice, was producer and call-screener. Alan, out of New York, was described as "gruff".
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/alan-courtney-early-conservative-radio-host.722809/#:~:text=Did%20anyone%20hear%20Alan%20Courtney's%20radio%20show?%20He,her%20own%20on%20WIOD%20after%20he%20passed%20away.
Rush, of course, expressed the identical conservative positions, but in a comforting baritone. It was very comforting to know the entire nation was listening.
He absolutely did change America and me in particular.
After voting for Clinton’s first term, I got in my car and drove from Florida to California. Listened to Rush all the way because that was the only station my car radio could pick up in unpopulated areas. By the time I got to California I was a Republican and have been one since.
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A great man has been lost. Nobody will be able to fill his shoes. RIP Rush.
I really loved his early years. They were hilarious and he constantly pushed the envelope. Rush’s passing also reminded me of my own mortality. I started listening to Rush in my mid-20s over 30 years ago. I am now 57 and am no longer a young man.
I’m not sure how our weekdays will go without him.
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I was driving to Scranton on Business and I used to listen to Joy Brown from 10a-12p. On July 1, 1988 Joy wasn’t there, This guy named Rush. WTH? Then after several days of listening I got it. Good. RIP, Rush.. I’m an East Coast Lifer.
I had just finished reading his final essay in the Limbaugh Letter “God is With Me” when my wife told me the news.
“There is good in everything that happens. It may not reveal itself immediately, but even in the most dire circumstances, if you just wait, if you just remain open, the good in it will reveal itself. And that has happened to me in countless ways.”
If you think about it... Remember the closing scene in “Second-Hand Lions” where the sheik’s nephew asks “so they really lived”? That was a fictional story... BUT! RUSH ACTUALLY EXISTED!
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I wrote an impassioned nomination for Rush Limbaugh. Other than a few guys, like Steve Jobs, I STILL don't think any other person had as much impact on this country as Rush.
He changed the radio business, for sure. But, he changed the very nature of politics and the way we all view the media.
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