Posted on 11/10/2001 6:05:37 AM PST by carlo3b
No, he never bought into supporting the truths that the Clintons are true killers of their enemies.
How could he? Without the "proof" - he could not do so.
But Rush did enough castigating and humiliating of the Clinton crowd without buying into the worst of the Clinton deeds. (He did once say that if only the true reason for Vince Foster's death could be revealed - that everything "Clinton" would unravel....)
Anyway - I am with you Carlo = I have been a Rush fan since he first came on the air in our area and still am.
His personal struggle right now with his deafness / disability will only help his legend grow and endure. His detractors cannot understand the impact. What a great man, with a great heart, and great courage - especially now.
Rush - I salute you!
I started listening to Rush 10 years ago. My babies learned to dance to his opening music.
When the Scumbag Occupancy Years began, Rush kept my family and me sane through his laughter and satire.
His good cheer through his present difficulties is inspiring to me.
Rush is outrageous. It works!
There are many things he is not; like all of us ... and Rush is GREAT
Long may he reign!
Hope Rush sees this thread. It is full of genuine praise nd heartfelt good wishes.
Thank you, you big, harmless, loveable fuzzball.
Anyone who refuses to allow a serious medical condition to change his life has my complete respect.
My prayers are with you El Rushbo!
"Who IS this guy?", I wondered.
So I listened as long as I could hold the station. Some caller said something hysterically funny about the Bush-Dukakis debate of the night before, and this guy was making so much sense, I just had to know who he was.
But I was frustrated, because the reception wasn't great, and I just heard something like "Rush Limbaugh," and I knew that couldn't be a real name.
But then I caught him again, and when I moved to Sacramento in '89 started listening daily, which I have done ever since to the degree I'm able. (My son Matthew tapes him for me now.)
I remember in those early days wondering how he could say what he did about Ted Kennedy without being sued or something.
But my closest to bonding with Rush, as I've shared here several times, came the day after Clinton's first election.
I was lower than snake piss, I must say. Truly. The night before, a good man named Bruce Herschensohn had lost to a very evil-minded, phenomenally stupid woman named Barbara Boxer; other elections had gone wrong, and on top of it, Bush had conceded early -- because it wasn't even close.
My wife and I held each other and wept. We knew what this said about the country. We knew that the very worst elements in America would be strengthened and affirmed by this election. We had some idea of what was coming (though who could have known ALL of what was coming?).
And Rush had predicted like a one-point Bush victory.
So I tuned into Rush, very low and blue and dejected. And he pulled me out of it. (That takes some doing, too.) He was human, encouraging, heartening; heck, at that moment, he was just a really good, smart friend.
That happened a lot through the Clinton years. I heard my thoughts coming out of Rush's mouth. What I wanted to say to the nation, he often said. I remember once he had been playing a clip of some of Clinton's hot, steaming BS, and he started to talk while Clinton was still talking, and he said to Clinton, with real contempt, "Oh, would you just stuff it!" I roared; oh, to be able to say that to the worst man ever to occupy the Oval Office!
Anyway, I've rambled, and could ramble more. Yes, I disagree with Rush on points; yes, he's exasperated me; yes, I'm to the right of him.
But no one does what he does as well as he does it. He is irreplaceable. That jovial voice has changed, but he still says a lot of what has to be said, and he says it like no one else is saying it.
A fellow once told me that his office's attitude was that, if you put your finger in a glass of water and then pulled it out, and it left a hole, you were indispensable.
Rush would leave a hole.
Dan
PS-- thanks to the Rush-bashers for letting this thread be!
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i hafta admit that i started listening to rush again. i got p*ssed when he said that hillary was not running for the u.s. senate and quit him.
but yes, i remember back to 1989 or more probably 1990 when i first heard him. there was someone that i usually agreed with who was taking on the liberal establishment.
Indeed it works, when he aired his parodies about the Dems, and it came out over the loud speakers throughout the bar and restaurant, the laughter and applause was unanimous and wild. The station that brought us the Rush Show, had a new station owner, Dan Patrick, a young feisty Irishman, and former Houston sportscaster. At the time he signed up Rush, he was a pathfinder, and gutsy. Whenever I would announce that we wanted to say thanks to him and his station for the show, they received a standing ovation by 95% of the guests ...Oh man, those were the days!!
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