Like you, I loved Rush’s TV show and was disappointed when he discontinued it. And I certainly busted a gut laughing when Rush kept replaying Clinton yukking it up with his Secret Service detail while walking towards Ron Brown’s funeral but then, catching the TV camera out of the corner of his eye, commencing to pretend to weep. Rush kept going back and forth on the video so that we could see when Clinton’s eye caught the camera and when he started to pretend to weep. And his play-by-play commentary, of course, was perfect.
The other hilarious bit that I recall was when Ted Kennedy introduced Clinton at a rally in Boston back in the spring of 1994 (during the second semester of my senior year in college, when polls showed Mitt Romney within striking distance of Kennedy), and Kennedy said (IIRC) “And after you reelect ol’ Kennedy, you’re going to do the same for Bill Clinton, as rrghgh rrgfhhgh rehrhjgfh” while Clinton nodded and smiled smugly in the background. Rush kept playing the video and audio over and over, to see if he could discern what Kennedy had said, and even played it backwards to see if, Stairway to Heaven-style, its true meaning could be ascertained. After fooling around with that for several hilarious minutes, Rush announced what he understood, to the best of his abilities, that Kennedy had said: “And after you reelect ol’ Kennedy, you’re going to do the same for Bill Clinton, as *unelectable as the rest of us*.” It was absolutely hilarious, particularly with Clinton nodding smugly in the background, and I remember thinking that Rush had nailed it. (Alas, while the 1994 midterms were glorious for the GOP and for conservatism, Kennedy was reelected that year, as was Clinton two years later, so that old drunk murderer’s specific prediction turned out to be correct.)
Rush was the best, and there will never be another one like him. May he rest in peace.
Mega dittos. I didn't listen to talk radio in the 90s, so my first exposure to Rush was also thru his TV show. My favorite bit is he'd play some clip of some liberal saying goofy liberal stuff and do reaction video to the nonscene the leftist wackjob was spewing. His facial expressions were hilarious.
My dad was the one who listened to Rush religiously, my mom never paid attention, so the opposite of Impy I guess (sadly my dad had about the same short lifespan that Rush had). My dad introduced me to Rush through his books like The Way Things Ought to Be, and the Paul Shaklin parodies from Rush's radio show, which were out on cassette and CD at the time. Sadly, it seems most of that stuff was discontinued a long time ago, as I've only heard updates about Rush from his radio show lately.
After Al Franken came out with that anti-Rush book, I felt Rush should have refuted it (another conservative did and wrote a response book called 'Al Franken Is Buck-Toothed Moron'), but it seemed Rush just concreted on radio full time after that. The mid-to-late-90s were Rush at his peek, even the 'Gus Baker' parody on Beavis & Butthead was embraced by Rush and played on his show. I can't imagine a snowflake liberal being willing to do that. They played David S. Zucker's "Michael Malone" parody for Michael Moore, and Moore simply denied he saw any resemblance of the character to himself.
I never saw that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8Y9qguTgc&ab_channel=BoonedogMusic
Haha, slick Willie.
What a bastard, I almost admire the POS.
Yup. Remember all that. And, of course, that was another winnable race Willard the Rat blew (was he trying to protect Ted the Swimmer from a viable challenger ?).