Posted on 03/11/2021 1:16:44 PM PST by libstripper
I loved the Rush Limbaugh show. I have been listening to it for years and have always been comforted by his ever-increasing audience. It showed that conservative ideas work. The show serves a purpose — a purpose that we need fulfilled more now than ever. Unfortunately, it is not serving that purpose fully now. Rather than building on his legacy, we are wallowing in the sadness of his loss.
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I agree, James should take over.
Great points.. Thanks for sharing. It is very depressing to wallow in loss, the past and to compare it to the uncertain future. I am ready to turn the page and speak about current events again.
Re-brand it and stick Andrew Klavan in there, with Steyn as Guest host.
Todd ****ing Herman again? I’m over it.
Has anyone heard Jesse Kelly’s show? I’ve seen him interviewed and he’s got a great sense of humor. Haven’t heard him on the radio. Just wondering if anyone has and their opinion.
Thank you for helping out our beloved Rush. You are a brilliant man and I always enjoy seeing you on Tucker.
Welcome aboard. Thanks for all you do!
I hope you become a Senior Fellow at Free Republic.
I think you do a great job. I miss hearing you and hope you’ll be back on EIB soon.
Does this mean we won’t be hearing you on EIB again? I sincerely hope not.
This will give “One and done” an entirely new meaning around here.
Me too
I cancelled 24/7 last week
Steyn and some guy from Little Rock I can’t remember are only ones I like even marginally
The rest are neoconservative GOPe rah rah types
No thank you
Tod Herman.....yuck
I disagree with Steyn a fair amount but he’s sharp as a tack and funny
Same as I was with the big guy
Who’s the guy from Little Rock
The late Tony Snow getting props on the thread. Tony was a poster boy for the soft left that calls itself neoconservatism. I recall him cheering on Dubya’s amnesty attempt.
I recall him battling Travis mcgee here sort of insinuating that if you opposed Bush amnesty you were a racist
Matt got zotted
24 hours later so was I
Folks here often don’t remember or choose to forget
You and Mo remember
I hope Tony Snow is resting in heaven but his politics were soft compared to what’s needed given our enemies
Works republicanism pretty much.....that failed
Snows stuff here got cleaned ....i understand that
My take...I've said before that I believe Rush's strength was that he was a conversationalist first. That's what made listening to him and his callers so entertaining.
The problem with Mark Levin and Dan Bongino is that they are subject-matter experts first. Their style is to lecture; while informative, it is not necessarily entertaining.
Mark Steyn is a conversationalist, too. What differentiates Steyn from Limbaugh is that his personal interests are different. Rush liked football, golf, cigars, and rolled with the great thinkers of conservatism. Steyn is steeped in popular culture, movies, music, theater. Their conversations with callers are different, but both are witty and entertaining.
Levin is the farthest thing from a conversationalist on the radio, with Sean Hannity right alongside. Levin is grating, yells at callers, and runs hot and cold. But Levin is an expert on the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the law. Hannity is repetitive, falls back on rote boilerplate clichés whenever a trigger word is mentioned, and interrupts guests with meaningless inside jokes at the worst possible moments in an interview. However, Hannity's Rolodex is large and he has access to top-tier people in government.
Bongino brings new keen insights as a former Secret Service agent, but I'm afraid that he will become a one-note song (full disclosure: I never listened to his radio show, but I have heard him as a guest on various shows). As a substitute host for Levin, Bongino would often take an entire show to detail the "big picture" on the plot against President Trump over the past four years. While it was a needed voice at the time, I'm afraid that it isn't sustainable radio entertainment unless we're in crisis mode.
Ken Matthews and Todd Herman are listenable and engage well with the callers, but they don't have the gravitas (in my opinion). That isn't to say that they won't in the future, but they were Rush's guest fill-in hosts and were purposefully deferential to him and his show. They will need to break out of that shell and define themselves without being in Rush's shadow if they want to be the next vanguard of advancing conservative thought.
All that said, Premier Networks needs to step up and make a final decision sooner than later, or events will overtake them and individual stations will peel off and make their own decisions on how to fill the noon to 3 time slot.
-PJ
“I recall him battling Travis mcgee here sort of insinuating that if you opposed Bush amnesty you were a racist. Matt got zotted. 24 hours later so was I”
Oh yeah- Snow was real nasty like that. He rarely missed a chance to accuse people of xenophobia or racism, just like his dimwitted boss Dubya still does now. Tony was Woke before Woke had a name. If you passed off some of Tony’s old talking points as Obama’s most people couldn’t tell.
I have no doubt that he was directly involved in getting you and Matt banned. I suspected at the time that the Bush GOP was running the show here and I was careful to avoid arguments with the Bush flunkies. And they were legion.
“I’ve said before that I believe Rush’s strength was that he was a conversationalist first. That’s what made listening to him and his callers so entertaining.”
That’s exactly right. Rush himself understood that, I don’t know why so many in the industry manage to completely miss it.
Your observations regarding our other Talking Heads are right on the mark. You didn’t hear Bongino’s radio show, I did, or rather I tried several times before giving. He’s not Hannity Level annoying but hes’s close, despite being a bit smarter.
Stated well. You’ve been a solid stand-in for Rush. I’m sure you would admit that, as radio talk goes, the man was magical. It’s a tall order to fill those shoes.
I think what made the difference with Rush was his personable nature. When I listened, I pictured him at the mic, but somehow I was in the room and he was talking to me. When he said “Folks!” in his booming voice, he was talking to us, me and you.
We need his “We’re going to win this” attitude - It’s something I feel you can do really well if you focus on it. I’ve heard you do it. It’s not about what’s going wrong in the world, though those things are important and have to be covered. It’s really about the inevitable victory ahead - because truth is on our side.
My 2 cents - No matter what you do, I always enjoy listening.
Welcome aboard. You were my favorite guest host. Always entertaining and smart.
Welcome to FR, FR Mr. Steyn.
If I can’t have Rush, you’d do just fine. Thanks for all you do for the cause.
Regards
Oh, look, it’s Free Republic ... no change in format or posters FOR YEARS ... I’m getting bored. Think I’ll go over to HuffPo or DU and look for some ‘action’ ...
Not!
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