RIP Rush.
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@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:
I've never understood Talk Radio.
If you spent a lot of time in a car, or in the cab of a forklift, or some other job where you had some attention to spare it was a godsend. Most people can only listen to so much music programming on radio all day.
wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 20:26 last edited by Doctor Phibes@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:
I've never understood Talk Radio.
If you spent a lot of time in a car, or in the cab of a forklift, or some other job where you had spare attention it was a godsend. Most people can only listen to so much music programming on radio all day.
I grew up with BBC Radio 4. There's panel programs, comedy, discussion, news, plays, all kinds of stuff, and no music. I'd have it on in the background almost all day if I was by myself, and it's wonderful if you're driving. It's one of the things I really miss about the UK. I know, I can stream it now, but I don't seem to ever do it for some reason.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 20:39 last edited by
...and who can forget The BBC Shipping Forecast. It's got it all - suspense, sailors, a vague smell of fish, occasionally moderate!
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Who's going to pick up the mantle?
I first listened to him in maybe 88 or 89. He had just gone national I believe, or at least regional (carried on WLS).
At the time he had some qualifier he would use to say he was the biggest name in [qualfier] radio. I don't know if it was 'conservative', or 'political'. But it wasn't 'talk'.
Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Yet within a few years he was bigger than Williams ever was and now few of us even remember Williams.
wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 20:49 last edited byWho's going to pick up the mantle?
I first listened to him in maybe 88 or 89. He had just gone national I believe, or at least regional (carried on WLS).
At the time he had some qualifier he would use to say he was the biggest name in [qualfier] radio. I don't know if it was 'conservative', or 'political'. But it wasn't 'talk'.
Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Yet within a few years he was bigger than Williams ever was and now few of us even remember Williams.
I remember fondly Bruce Williams.
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...and who can forget The BBC Shipping Forecast. It's got it all - suspense, sailors, a vague smell of fish, occasionally moderate!
Link to videowrote on 17 Feb 2021, 20:52 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:
...and who can forget The BBC Shipping Forecast. It's got it all - suspense, sailors, a vague smell of fish, occasionally moderate!
Link to video
I prefer Question Time, honestly. It's like SNL but with more improv talent.
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Who's going to pick up the mantle?
I first listened to him in maybe 88 or 89. He had just gone national I believe, or at least regional (carried on WLS).
At the time he had some qualifier he would use to say he was the biggest name in [qualfier] radio. I don't know if it was 'conservative', or 'political'. But it wasn't 'talk'.
Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Yet within a few years he was bigger than Williams ever was and now few of us even remember Williams.
I remember fondly Bruce Williams.
wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 20:56 last edited byI remember fondly Bruce Williams.
I do too. I used to laugh at some of the business ideas people would call in with.
One guy called in and wanted to start a fax service. If you needed to send a fax, instead of sending it to the final destination you'd just send it to him - via fax - along with the destination fax number and he would refax the fax there for you. Keep in mind this was back when plain-paper faxes were still a rarity. So this would all have been down with those paper rolls.
I thought Bruce was kind for not skewering this guy.
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Who's going to pick up the mantle?
I first listened to him in maybe 88 or 89. He had just gone national I believe, or at least regional (carried on WLS).
At the time he had some qualifier he would use to say he was the biggest name in [qualfier] radio. I don't know if it was 'conservative', or 'political'. But it wasn't 'talk'.
Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Yet within a few years he was bigger than Williams ever was and now few of us even remember Williams.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 20:59 last edited by
Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."
What was the common phrase callers would use, "generally"? Bruce hated that. It was some word that indicated they weren't being specific. Bruce called them out over it every time.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 21:06 last edited by
One other thing that sticks in my mind is that Bruce would sometimes say that, given a truck, he could make a respectable amount of money in any mid sized or greater city in America. Then he decorated it by saying he wouldn't tell you how. Haha.
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Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."
What was the common phrase callers would use, "generally"? Bruce hated that. It was some word that indicated they weren't being specific. Bruce called them out over it every time.
wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 21:10 last edited byBecause, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.
Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."
What was the common phrase callers would use, "generally"? Bruce hated that. It was some word that indicated they weren't being specific. Bruce called them out over it every time.
I remember. "Basically".
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 22:21 last edited by
Word choice depends on what tribe you belong to.
Hollywood Celebrities Celebrate Rush Limbaugh Death: ‘Cancer Killed the Cancer’
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities wasted little time in popping the champagne following news of Rush Limbaugh’s death. As Breitbart News reported, the 70-year-old conservative radio legend died Wednesday morning following a battle with advanced lung cancer, his wife, Kathryn Limbaugh, announced at the beginning of Wednesday’s radio program.
Ignoring any sense of taste or decorum, the stars piled on with nasty insults, including actress Amber Tamblyn, who wished Rush Limbaugh to “RIP” — “Rot In Purgatory,” and her husband, actor David Cross, who declared that “cancer killed the cancer.”
Other Hollywood elies who celebrated Limbaugh’s death include John Cusack, Marc Maron, Larry Charles, and Star Trek veteran George Takei.
David Cross and Amber Tamblyn led the Hollywood hate parade with matching his-and-her insults aimed at the late radio host.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 23:09 last edited by
Yes, this is pop culture. Those of us who feel some responsibility for the ideas carried by everybody around them might want to fight against it.
If almost all celebrities are parroting exactly what you think, what exactly do you think you're doing by opening your mouth and telling us your words?
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 23:10 last edited by jon-nyc
Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?
I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty
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Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?
I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 23:30 last edited by
I think the last time I listened to him was about 1995. That said, I've read what he's said about various issues, but I didn't feel like listening to him talk.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 23:37 last edited by
I don't think I ever tuned a radio to a station broadcasting his show.
I saw him here or in sound-bytes on various cable shows.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 23:44 last edited by Renauda
Upon news of Limbaugh's passing today one wag up here commented:
"I bet Trump feels like Kermit when he learned Jim Henson had died."
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Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?
I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty
wrote on 18 Feb 2021, 01:05 last edited byHad he still been doing the show? Until how recently?
I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty
I listened to him a couple of weeks ago.
No, Rush was bombastic, but he was not a nutter. He wasn't 100% right, but he helped restart the Conservative movement and molded it for many years.
And most people who actually knew him, said he was not loud or brash in person.
I enjoyed listening to him.
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Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?
I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty
I listened to him a couple of weeks ago.
No, Rush was bombastic, but he was not a nutter. He wasn't 100% right, but he helped restart the Conservative movement and molded it for many years.
And most people who actually knew him, said he was not loud or brash in person.
I enjoyed listening to him.
wrote on 18 Feb 2021, 01:19 last edited byhe was not a nutter.
"They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
"Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"
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he was not a nutter.
"They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
"Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"
wrote on 18 Feb 2021, 01:28 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.
So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.
https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad
I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.
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he was not a nutter.
"They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
"Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"
wrote on 18 Feb 2021, 01:29 last edited by Horace@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:
he was not a nutter.
"They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
"Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"
Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.
