Even since his Sacramento days rush has been made to weather this kind of liberal media bullying.
he came out of absolutely nowhere and was an instant hit and all of his Media colleagues in the government-centric city of Sacramento were all extremely jealous of him —AM at that time had long been loosing out to FM and had become a backwater preserve for weather kooks and bedridden people.
remember the movie Back to the Future? I would say that in those early days rush was rather a lot like the beleaguered geeky father character McFly, who was always getting his books slapped down in the hallway by the rowdy lettermen jacket clique.
Except also really fat.
Needlessly maligning Rush was an easy way for local media failures to look good to their fellow liberal Media colleagues an important thing is to know that Rush was friendly and classy and tolerance in the face of all of this.
He remembered and took care of all the people who were nice to him and he was even nice to a lot if the really mean ones.
One time a local media tycoon invited fat Rush to a fancy dinner with the cool rich people - rush felt flattered. But the host stopped the whole dinnner and used the next couple hours to scream at Rush about how stupid his ideas were and how he would never amount to anything, evar.
Rush is probably the nicest, classiest person in US media today.