Posted on 03/01/2021 3:11:28 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
I’ll never forget one simple ploy he used when debating progressives. Whatever they accuse the right of doing, just say “so?” Don’t defend the issue, which is what they expect you to do. That one little word makes them rabid which is hilarious to watch. I miss him so much.
It was such a hard loss. No one could replace him.
I had the privilege of seeing him at an event in LV.
Rush Limbaugh Eulogizes Andrew Breitbart (March 1, 2012): “He was far more effective than he probably ever dreamed”
Rush Limbaugh Eulogizes Andrew Breitbart (March 1, 2012): “He was far more effective than he probably ever dreamed”
This is where my rendezvous with destiny begins.
I turned on KFI 640 AM to listen to evil personified from 9 a.m. to noon. Indeed, my goal was to derive pleasure from the degree of evil I found in Rush Limbaugh. I was looking forward to a jovial discussion with Orson to confirm how right I was. One hour turned into three. One listening session into a week’s worth. And next thing I knew, I was starting to doubt my preprogrammed self. I was still a Democrat. I was still a liberal.
But after listening for months while putting thousands of miles on my car, I couldn’t believe that I once thought this man was a Nazi or anything else. While I couldn’t yet accept the premise that he was speaking my language, I marveled at how he could take a breaking news story and offer an entertaining and clear analysis that was like nothing I had ever seen on television, especially the Sunday morning shows, which had been my previous one-stop shop for political opinions.
Most important, though, Limbaugh, like the professor I always wanted but never had the privilege to study under, created a vivid mental picture of the architecture of a world that I resided in but couldn’t see completely: the Democrat-Media Complex. Embedded in Limbaugh’s analysis of politics was always a tandem discussion on the media. Each segment relentlessly pointed to collusion between the media and the Democratic Party. If the Clarence Thomas hearings showed me that something was wrong, the ensuing years of listening to Limbaugh and Dennis Prager — who at the time was also undergoing a political transformation from the Democratic to the Republican Party — explained to me with eerie precision what exactly was wrong. I swallowed hard and conceded to Orson that he was right.
And Rush was a huge fan of Andrew, as his eulogy of Andrew on March 1, 2012, demonstrated:
I had the privilege of seeing him at an event in LV.
Rush Limbaugh Eulogizes Andrew Breitbart (March 1, 2012): “He was far more effective than he probably ever dreamed”
Rush Limbaugh Eulogizes Andrew Breitbart (March 1, 2012): “He was far more effective than he probably ever dreamed”
This is where my rendezvous with destiny begins.
I turned on KFI 640 AM to listen to evil personified from 9 a.m. to noon. Indeed, my goal was to derive pleasure from the degree of evil I found in Rush Limbaugh. I was looking forward to a jovial discussion with Orson to confirm how right I was. One hour turned into three. One listening session into a week’s worth. And next thing I knew, I was starting to doubt my preprogrammed self. I was still a Democrat. I was still a liberal.
But after listening for months while putting thousands of miles on my car, I couldn’t believe that I once thought this man was a Nazi or anything else. While I couldn’t yet accept the premise that he was speaking my language, I marveled at how he could take a breaking news story and offer an entertaining and clear analysis that was like nothing I had ever seen on television, especially the Sunday morning shows, which had been my previous one-stop shop for political opinions.
Most important, though, Limbaugh, like the professor I always wanted but never had the privilege to study under, created a vivid mental picture of the architecture of a world that I resided in but couldn’t see completely: the Democrat-Media Complex. Embedded in Limbaugh’s analysis of politics was always a tandem discussion on the media. Each segment relentlessly pointed to collusion between the media and the Democratic Party. If the Clarence Thomas hearings showed me that something was wrong, the ensuing years of listening to Limbaugh and Dennis Prager — who at the time was also undergoing a political transformation from the Democratic to the Republican Party — explained to me with eerie precision what exactly was wrong. I swallowed hard and conceded to Orson that he was right.
And Rush was a huge fan of Andrew, as his eulogy of Andrew on March 1, 2012, demonstrated:
See my post 23.
Embedded in Limbaugh’s analysis of politics was always a tandem discussion on the media. Each segment relentlessly pointed to collusion between the media and the Democratic Party.
Yup, that was also the turning point for me, knowing this already and Rush crystalized it and proved it everyday on his program.
It's so sad that so many still think the media isn't biased and in bed with the democrats.
👍
perhaps the greatest loss to us in the 21c. a born leader who, when he came along side, taught us in our then very polite tea party that was ok to get in their face and tell them they were flat wrong on a cultural level—to state our case with no fear. and when we really didn’t know what our case was, he gave us eloquent words for our position. confident. convincing words.
he made it ok to be rude to them. to tell them flat out we’ll never give another inch of our culture to them, because their ideas were utterly bankrupt; to take back the meaning of our words in America; that we could fight back with ideas and words of our own. he taught us how to be confident in our position—in our expression, at a time when i personally knew we needed to oppose all of them—the bushes, the mccains of the gope, obama and the dems—with just our protests and our presence; but i really didn’t know how to confront them intellectually, to oppose them morally. that’s where Andrew stepped up.
thx Andrew. you helped put a spine in to us back then, and an intellectual and cultural respectability into our nacent activism. many of us were just working stiffs who didn’t really have a clue how to be political. a time when obama was the unquestioned, unopposed ruler of roost. our movement stopped him then and succeeded far beyond what we thought was possible. rest in peace.
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