Steyn by a mile. He is a scream.
Today, Walt Williams (subbing for Rush) was pretty good...and Thomas Sowell called in and I thought I’d hit an exacta.
I don’t think Sarah Palin would be that good as a host; not that I disagree with her, but I think her message would get very repetitive, she has a very folksy way of saying things and doesn’t have the twisted subtleties that Rush has. Which I really like!
Rush would be near-impossible to replace for plenty of reasons. Here he is, with the largest audience, yet he is so gracious to callers and allows them to speak quite openly and at remarkable (IMO) length.
If you sample the various talk show hosts, you can see about a dozen ways to go off the rails: Hannity: Too repetitive. Savage: Too abrupt. Levin: Kind of abrupt though I really like him. Tom Mahr: Too much low key anger. (I REALLY liked Mark Simone the other day) Kasich, kind of ran outta steam. There’s simply nobody like Rush.
Sometimes I'll start a stopwatch at the beginning of his show and check how much time elapses before he either starts flinging feces at other conservative hosts or tooting his horn about the degrees he got several decades ago. The quickest so far is about 20 seconds.
Levin: Kind of abrupt though I really like him.
He's cool. Sort of a cross between Don Rickles and Ann Coulter.