Posted on 02/18/2017 7:47:53 PM PST by AC Beach Patrol
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I am so glad Rush is on board and so supportive.
” President Trump had the full support of Dr. Savage from the very beginning. Border. Language. Culture.”
Yes , yes and yes . Trump borrowed Savage’s playbook and ran with it all the way to the White House .
Awesome that you’ve been in radio for 30 years. I love talk radio.
I was a Rush girl for a very long time. He broke up with me when he handled the doing Schumer’s bidding behind our backs situation so badly on the air. There were only two ways he should have come on the air the next Monday and handled it, if he was the good person I believed him to be. Say it never happened at all (if it didnt) or do a humble mea culpa and admit that sometimes he was respectful to these slimy weasels and did what they wanted. But he came on the air angry as anything. He was defensive and unpleasant. He didn’t realize how this looked to us. And during the first break, he looked on the internet to see that some listeners were not happy with his angry denials, and he called us haters.
I started to think about other subjects that never showed up in his stack o stuff, not just the amnesty Schumer asked him to go lightly on discussing (which he did to Schumer’s satisfaction). Like before the 2008 election, when we were discovering on FR that Obama didn’t have any documentation to prove his citizenship until he was a US Senator. Rush didn’t mention it. All the social security numbers. Hawaii not swearing his eligibility, changing the text of their document, and Nancy Pelosi signing it instead. Sean Hannity had the cojones to mention on his show that fellow hosts were literally threatened from mentioning such things, and no doubt he got slapped down by his bosses just for saying that, but Hannity clearly gives more of a rip for his audience than that. I feel that Rush always puts Rush first. He wouldn’t make any sacrifice for us or the country. He’s backing Trump big time now for his own interest.
For the record, I owe Rush hugely and bigly for my becoming conservative. I loved and adored him for many years and was so proud each time he chose to use my words (from FR) on his show. I just lost some respect for him this last year.
Thanks for your comments tonight. I have not listened to Rush that much lately but he is definitely been supportive of President Trump. It seems to be a unique characteristic of Conservatives in our country that we do eat our own. And I am not talking about McCain or Linda Graham who haven’t been on our side for a long time, I am talking about people like Rush, and Savage, and even Laura Ingram. No one is perfect, but these are people who are on our side and they should be cut some slack.
Thank you! Such a fantastic post! What all us listener dweebs must remember is we cannot conceive — nor would we want to — of the kind of influence and indeed pressure that someone like Rush must deal with in his various inboxes daily. I know from hanging around here during the primaries that he took all kinds of heat from people supporting one candidate or another. I suspect none of the naysayers were a DAILY listener, and that’s the point. I listen to the whole show daily because I work on my computer through my day and Rush and Steve Dahl get me through my drudgery. If I just got in my car and Rush was on and I heard him for the 10 minutes it took to drive to Burger King, I might get a COMPLETELY different impression of what he’s talking about. As I said, he has SO often talked of people —particularly mainstream media pundits — listening to five minutes of his show and going nuts about it when they didn’t bother to hear the context that five minutes are a part of.
I truly have no idea how how you combat that. It is a drawback of radio there may be no solution for.
FReegards!
Thank you! See my #86.
Savage is just one additional person who helped Trump win.
maybe he just resigned in advance of a storm , took a hiatus, and returned. I stopped listening to talk radio after the novelty wore off long ago.
I think Weiner is Savages real last name.
I agree. Savage was I think the earliest to teach the basics again and again: that Borders, Language and Culture are what define a country. Trump agrees. The Left do not.
I agree i think Trump podcasted Rush, Hannity, and Savage and based his campaign off that
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Pic in #6. Savage ping!
I also thought it interesting that Ruddy, who was on with Jones last week, reporting Trump’s doubts about Priebus, made a Freudian slip by saying Priebus is weak and and maybe Trump needs a stronger “counselor, er, I mean chief of staff”. Kellyanne is the counselor, and Savage has been critical of her.
Meanwhile, it looks like eating the meatloaf may have paid off for Christie, as the report now is that he will be joining the Trump admin, reporting directly to Trump:
http://nypost.com/2017/02/18/christie-tells-his-staff-he-is-taking-white-house-job/
If there is a job he could be good at, I would think it would be chief of staff. But perhaps he’ll go there first as something of a second “counselor”, while getting up to speed on the specifics of the WH role.
“True believer in freedom”
Except for the unborn.
Oh, no! Wait until Theresa May finds out about this!
GREAT!
Well then that’s something I didn’t know.
With that being said, DC is filled with people who say they are one thing, and are really not. For example, our representative has sent us about 6 form emails (to all constituents) saying how hard she is working to end sex trafficking since the October 2016 bombshell WikiLeaks emails about Podesta / Clinton / Silsby sex trafficking.
When in reality, it is merely a cover, and ZERO Congressmen and Congresswomen intend to investigate Hillary and her cabal.
Our rep is PROLIFE... at least she says. But is she (Rep Ann Wagner MO-2) really??? She publically dropped her support for Trump OCT 5 2016.
Reagan was technically not Prolife for a portion of his career prior to 1980, and he evolved into a champion for freedom.
Yes. You are right. Prolife is a huge issue.
But Washington has a way of making or breaking people, and someone like Savage could end up being a bigger champion of freedom for the born and unborn than our phony cake-eating Rep, who went to a private Catholic school in St Louis... but somehow doesn’t feel the need to speak against Hillary and her crimes against children.
I had the opportunity to speak directly to Hannity (He was on Fox News then but I don't think the national radio show had started yet.) about Vince Foster and he told me directly that discussing Foster wasn't a career enhancing move.
Rush on the other hand discussed it quite often until he flew a little too close to the flame and backed away. I believe I was the first caller to his show to have a "Foster call." It was the day the first Ruddy article about Foster appeared in the NY Post. I had several more "Foster calls" after that, before I was told by Snerdley not to bring up Vince Foster several times when calling on other topics. Rush was out of the country the week Foster was murdered. I think history might have been a bit different were he not.
Whatever. He reported a "rumor" about Foster, and then within an hour reported that he learned from someone he trusted (Ruddy?) that the rumor wasn't true. Only the first half got picked up by a Left-wing group that called itself FAIR (Fairnes and accuracy in reporting). They took out full page ads in major newspapers blasting Rush. I think Rush felt that his career was threatened and he stopped taking "Foster calls," though one guy did segue into criticizing Rush for not discussing Foster anymore. Rush said that was nonsense and played his Foster parody after dumping the guy. (I forget who he was but I knew him through our common interest in the Foster murder, maybe Hugh T? NOT Hugh S!) I haven't been on hold for a call in a couple of years, but the last time I was, I believe the Foster parody was still in Rush's rotation that is played to on-hold callers during commercial breaks. As the then editor of the WSJ once said to me, "We all know what happened," Rush included.
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