Who will substitute for Rush Limbaugh?

October 10, 2003

[ConservativeMan55]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his radio show Friday that he is addicted to painkillers and is checking into a rehab center to "break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me."

"Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me," he added.

The show will continue during this time, of course, with an array of guest hosts you have come to know and respect. I am not making any excuses. You know, over the years athletes and celebrities have emerged from treatment centers to great fanfare and praise for conquering great demons.

They are said to be great role models and examples for others. Well, I am no role model. I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes.

Prayers go out to Rush and his family during this time of need.

But a question that lingers in my mind is...who's going to fill in for the great Maha Rushie while he's gone?

Who are some of your favorite guest hosts and who would you prefer fill in? I know there will probably be many different people over the next 30 days but I'd like to see a possible list of names of talk show hosts and celebrities that would jump in to help their friend.

Tony Snow filled in for Rush when he had his hearing surgery. That was excellent to help a friend in times of need.

Nothing against Walter Williams or Michael Hedgecock? But those guys always fill in for Rush.

I'd like to see Rush's brother David fill in for him. Maybe even Rush's wife whom Rush mentions on occasion.

David has proven to be an excellent man.

I'm attempting to think of other Conservative commentators without 9-5 jobs? Its pretty hard to find those Conservative Commentators that don't already have a full time job.

How about Dennis Miller or Al Michaels.
I would LOVE to see Al Michaels fill in for Rush while he's gone.
Ted Nugent?
Ann Coulter already has her own radio show I believe.

Laura Ingrahm already has her own radio show.

Hannity's already got his plate full. Brit Hume has his plate full.

I think the final analysis is that there isn't anybody that can rip into the liberals like Rush can.
Rush did indicate on his show today that his brother David might be on the show.

[Consort]

My suggestions.

[Joy Angela]

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[ConservativeMan55]

Kelsey Grammar
Dennis Miller
Tony Snow
Toby Keith
Ann Coulter

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL

[Kudsman]

Answer.........................................Ann Coulter!

AYE!

Oops sorry. I will work on that yelling thing. :-)

[Tunehead54]

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

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My only thought there was how nice it'd be to have Rush back on the air on my birthday. Its going to be a long wait ... Hang in there Rush. We love you. And I'm a guy so that says a lot!

[PokeyJoe]

as the great one would say, "i hate you guys. screw you guys. I'm going home."

Say, do you think Sean Hannity would pull a six hour show? Hmmmmmm?

[hosepipe]

the ONLY CHOICE------ considering the attacks...

ANN COULTER.....

[BradyLS]

Be Stein would be a great fill in for Rush.

[wstojock]

Bill Cunningham or Mike McConnel of Cincinnati's 700 WLW will probably fill in for Rush on the Clear Channel stations of Premier. They are two of the best non-national talk hosts in the country(though Cunningham is on XM and McConnel is on "The Weekend" which is also on XM).

While I like Cunningham getting the exposure, he is much more entertaining locally here in Cincinnati, especially with his "sidekick/sports guy" Segman Dennison".

The whole Rush fiasco was mainly a political and radio power move to try to gain some of the audience for the new Democratic Radio Network which few stations will actually carry. Sirius Satellite Radio may be the only one as they seem to carry anything, though with only 70k subscriber base it won't reach as far.

Haven't heard David Limbaugh before though do know that James Limbaugh does some radio work with updates that are heard on XM Satellite radio. Though don't know his political views.

[Brian Allen]

Years ago, at the time of the suicide death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobane, whose tragic life and death Mr Limbaugh spent days referring to as "a waste" and that of "just another dead doper," I wrote to him for about a year and warned him that a man whose own weight and girth was that of an imperfect man and whose own admitted earlier illegal drug use was that of a person willing to compromise himself criminally on the basis of nothing more than self-will and that, especially, his constant reference to his own cigar-clenching "formally-nicotine-stained fingers" indicated he was an ego-driven unmanagable man who was totally in the grip of whatever demon chose to take him over.

Although I long ago quit offering to help him, [But not to be willing to do so] the increasingly audible effect of his continued smoking through the years since, his continuing to boast of having quit smoking -- and the shrillness that crept into his delivery all pointed to his ongoing degeneration.

I many times warned him to reverse course and to face trace and erase the ego-driven Godlessness that possessed him -- or to look forward to the inevitable consequences.

The consequences of the kind of Godless, self-willed, ego-driven, self-destructive behavior that lead only to the place at which Mr Limbaugh now finds himself, Absolutely do not give a shit who you are and/or what you do for a living.

As Mr Limbaugh now knows for himself.

That he reckons he can go off and get thirty days "treatment" [Which has never worked and never will] for the consequences of the content of his character proves only that he has learned nothing from the past few years -- and likely never will.

Mr Limbaugh's only chance of surviving the content of his own character is to surrender his powerlessness and his unmanagability to God and to pray for the Absolute physical and spiritual anonymity he will need if he is to have even half a chance with the consequenses of his own behavior that the totally-frudulent and abjectly-corrupt "treatment center" industry calls "addiction."

And his chances are less than average.

Perhaps he stands ate the Crossroads?

More importantly, as a radio host, former Limbaugh stand-in, Mark Levin always has stood both intellectually and morally head and shoulders over Mr Limbaugh.

[Brian Allen]

<< the ONLY CHOICE------ considering the attacks...

ANN COULTER..... >>

Brilliant option.

Almost Right up there with MARK LEVIN.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

The article said, "Ann Coulter already has her own radio show I believe."

Does she? Does anyone know when or where it is on... I can't find it?????

[staytrue]

Some unconventional choices that I would like to hear.

Ronald Reagan son (name eludes me), charles barkley, pat buchanan, Gov. of Maryland Robert Ehrlich, Tom Mcclintock, Steve Largent, JC Watts, Newt Gingrich, John Rocker, dc chapter's Doctor Raoul and Kristinn, Ted Nugent, our own Jim Robinson, former senators Fred Thompson and Connie Mack, Ward Connolly, Gov. Jeb Bush, Fuzzy "foot in mouth" Zoeller, Phil Gramm, Bob Dornan, Ollie North, Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw, Tom Davis (Baltimore HTS sportscaster).

Really, just about any good conservative with a lot of life experience and a good sense of humor will do.

[CyberAnt]

One little correction .. It's Roger Hedgecock, not Michael Hedgecock.

[VRWCRick]

My choices for Rush substitutes.
Barbara Simpson (KSFO 560) great host with an awesome voice!
Matt Drudge - no one will sleep through a show with Matt
Dennis Miller - second only to Rush in skewering liberals.
Roger Hedgecock - My favorite of Rush's subs so far.
Oliver North - Great American that really infuriates liberals.

[PokeyJoe]

So he should become a muslim?

[InterceptPoint]

JohnHuang2 gets my vote.

[ampat]

How about Walter Williams talking about McNabb.

[Burr5]

David would be interesting.

Tony Snow can't do it any longer, or he wouldn't have been absent for all these years.

Tom Sullivan might be a good choice for all you CPAs out there, but tax-talk becomes dry as toast after about 30 minutes.

Celebs like Dennis Miller would be great, but schedule them in short doses in case they really aren't as much of an ideological match as we hope.

Ted Nugent would be train wreck waiting to happen. He's been getting plenty of flack from Libs in the towns where he's been playing (like here in Fort Wayne) for all this "go the hell back to Mexico" stuff he keeps repeating on stage. Rush's show doesn't need THAT controversy swirling around right now.

Walter Williams is sometimes pretty funny, but for some reason, when he's on, I miss Rush the most. Maybe its the gratuitous defense of the Confederacy or the sheer asininity of some of his paleo-conservative positions. Interesting for a Libertarian slant but only in small doses.

Mark Belling is a complete snore. Sorry Mark.

The only guy who substitutes for Rush without any sacrifice in the quality of the show, IMHO is Roger Hedgecock.
He's a pro and is well-rounded, well-informed, and funny.