Yaelle, sounds like I missed something. What did Rush do?
About 3 years ago there was a NYTarticle on a weekend about how Schumer and Roger Ailes took Limbaugh to dinner, wined and dined him, and asked him to please stop using the word ‘amnesty’ in his discussions on the air about their immigration bill they were pushing. The article went on to say that in the months that followed, Rush no longer called the bill amnesty, and they were very pleased he followed through.
A lot of us were waiting for the next Monday morning to hear how Rush wold respond. I thought the Rush I thought I knew had only 2 possible responses. 1. It wasn’t true, he never went to dinner with them, this didn’t happen. 2. He would do an honest mea culpa and say that sometimes he did get wowed by the big guns and that he still talked about the pitfalls of the bill, etc. and apologize to us, his loyal loving listeners, because he understood how it looked to us. On Air he calls him Chuck You, but off Air he dines and does his bidding. I thought of Rush as honest and good.
But Rush came on the Air FURIOUS and DEFENSIVE that day. The dinner did happen, he admitted, but he said he never agreed to do their bidding. But he did. He lied to us. After the first break in his show, when he had obviously gone online to see that many of us were not buying his arrogant denials, he came back and called us HATERS. I was done with him in that exact second.
I subscribed to his site even though I never used it, for many years. I prayed for him, I supported him, l was thrilled when he stole my jokes off FR and used them as his. But in that one minute I realized he was pretty much an act, not the man I had thought him to be. It was quite disappointing to me.