RIP Rush.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Me/rry/Christmas
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@jon-nyc
Let’s just start with Social Media
7700 likes within the hour. I won’t even bother with the comments.On the NPR story on Facebook there are over 20,000 Likes,
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. Nice.https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10160346320476756&id=10643211755&anchor_composer=false
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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A man I've never met (or, to be honest, listened to), dies.
Lots of people I've never met get very excited.
Lots of other people I've never met get very angry about the people I've never met getting very excited.
My dog needs walking. I think I might do that. It's a bit chilly out, but it's quite sunny.
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The best the NYT could find was a 25-year-old picture of fat Rush:
I think that's doing him a kindness. Those photos were taken before he became such a polarizing nutter.
...and no, I don't think that's out of line to say. His passing doesn't make me a terrible person for believing he had a lot more professional integrity earlier on in his career.
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1993 was the first time I ever heard of Rush. He actually opened my eyes a bit as he pointed out all of the clips of Clinton campaign claims against Bush, and then how Clinton actually contradicted his own campaign claims during his inauguration. He played the clips and proved it beyond a doubt. While I never cared for his persona, he did get me to start paying more attention to the lies and hypocrisy on the left.
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I've never understood Talk Radio.
Maybe you have to grow up here to really appreciate it, like the NFL and American Cheese Product and Mocha Frappuccino , and concord grapes.
I've come to the conclusion that I'm never going to fit in here.
Pass the Marmite, somebody!
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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Education is extremely important.
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And there's a lot more to podcasts than Talk Radio, as Rush, and Howie Carr and what-not do.
I like radio where they talk to you, not at you.
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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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@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.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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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 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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...and who can forget The BBC Shipping Forecast. It's got it all - suspense, sailors, a vague smell of fish, occasionally moderate!
Link to videoProud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
