Rush IS NOT trying to acome across like Bill O'Reilly - up from a lower-middle class family. Rush has always spoken of his background, and has NEVER claimed to be "deprived".
But Rush also speaks as someone who was a college dropout, and went out on his own. His parents didn't support him. He tried a variety of jobs . . .and he worked his way up. His boot-straps - if any - is the going from a college drop-out to many different jobs (and most he was fired from) ... to doing the Sacramento job where he could really do what he wanted, and how he wanted. He was "discovered" by Roger Ailes ... who got Rush to go National, got Rush to move to New York, got Rush syndicated. Roger felt that the brash and audacious local talk show guy would be very successful... and the rest is, as they say, HISTORY.
So Rush worked for his success, trying to do what he had a passion for. And Rush states that his failures were when he was doing something that others wanted, but he didn't have a passion for.
And I have heard Rush be critical of MANY Republicans who fail to stand up for principle.
Perhaps some of those who claim Rush isn't critical of Republicans and never challenges the "party line" need the hearing aids more than he needs them!!!
Mike
Nope. Roger Ailes produced the Rush TV show. Ailes is TV. Had nothing to do with Rush's radio or his rise to national fame. Rush was already on his success track in New York when the TV show started in 92.
You may be thinking of Ed McLaughlin, the radio guy.