Rush Limbaugh telling me he was a fan of my work was the greatest single moment of my career. There will never, ever be anyone like him again. It was an honor just to stand in his mighty shadow. He was one of the greatest Americans that ever lived and our debt to him is immeasurable.
— Bill
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What is going to happen to his show? They are broadcasting archived episodes now but that can’t last.
It feels like hearing that Churchill died. That’s what Rush felt like to me, the only man standing between freedom and our bleak “progressive” future. He stood alone for many years taking all of the hate and vitriol that was always coming for all of us. Many others had joined the fight since then, but Rush was the first and he showed us the way to fight. He was like the first to run into a burning building, he gave us the courage to follow, and we are a richer people for his influence.
If there was any justice he would get a state funeral and burial at Arlington with the rest of our country’s heroes.
How about the hilarious discussion of women applying make up in their cars?
Bill has often told the golf club story, my favorite story is similar. Some columnist or something was making an issue of his lack of a college degree, on the air he mused ‘Hmm, we should talk, I can sent my plane to bring him to my estate’
All through the 80s I was rather apolitical. I mean – I started the decade 14 years old and in 1990 was 24. That period of time was just golden but I wasn’t paying attention politically. I did like Ronald Reagan though – mostly instinctively. I think my natural inclination was towards the conservative – but I could never have articulated it properly at the time because that wasn’t important to me.
In 1988 I was in Community College and had to take a course in Sociology.
Yeah – this is going where you think it is. I got brainwashed.
And then I wound up in California in 1991-93 and partway through took a job as a Security Patrol Guard. Company owned a fleet of trucks of VERY basic amenities. The only concession to a radio was AM only.
Guess who I found while semi-captive to talk radio? Yeah – Rush Limbaugh.
At first looking in from the outside – it might’ve been hilarious watching a young security guard in a truck traveling from site to site screaming at his radio at the idiot.
But after a while – Rush REMINDED me of who I really was and had always been. Broke me of the brainwashing of that evil Sociology teacher. Made me realize what had been done to me.
I’ve never been fooled again.
Thank you Rush. I never got a chance to say it in person. But you brought me back from the brink. Thank you.
Go home now and rest. You left countless warriors behind to take up the cause. Not a single one can do it as well as you did. But what we lack in quality we’ll make up for in numbers.
The local warrior chief here – Bill Whittle – is as good a protégé as you could ask for. You were right to be a fan of his work. As are we all.
I first heard Rush when I was stationed at Travis AFB, CA, in 1987. He was so funny with all his alerts. He was the greatest radio broadcaster. EIB is a legend. RIP
I was a teenage Rush fan in north Alabama, circa 1992. It was the most amazing expose of truth I had heard in years. He just had a way of pointing out what we instinctively knew…But with a specificity that allowed the collectivists no hiding place. He could call the shot without looking.
Truly, Rush was The Champion of Freedom in a post Reagan era. Just guessing here, but I’d say that he would want us to Rush forward like he did.
Peace and Rest to you, Rush.
I never really followed Rush Limbaugh, but the way you speak of him is the way I often feel towards you, Bill. <3
I became a dittohead in 1986. From the Reagan years to Trump’s defeat last year, he always reminded me I live in a great nation, and never let bad news get me down. He played a major role in my transition from Republican to conservative. I just posted my “Rush” story on his website, which I hope will be read by his family.
PS. My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer on Thanksgiving Day in November 1999. She died by my side on January 21, 2000. She wanted to see the turn of the century. Rush put up an admirable courageous fight for us – his listeners. And I believe he did it with strength “on loan from God.”
Sad to see him go, and sad that his last view of the world is this – censorship, an illegitimate president, lefties behaving like fascists but calling everyone else fascist …. we need his voice more than every – he made a great contribution to the world.
Rush made me understand how people were living in two completely different realities. Rush became a sort of litmus test it was easy to tell the difference between people who might disagree and those that only knew what the press had said.
I just watched an interview with the REAL president of the United States, Donald Trump with Fox news on you-tube. During the interview they showed the video-clip of RUSH receiving the medal of freedom during the last state of the union address. As I watched it, I realized that the bitch known as nancy pelosi wouldn’t even look up in that direction, she couldn’t be bothered to stand up or even clap for this great man because he was a conservative. None of these democrats have even the tiniest shred of integrity or class, they are all spoiled, petulant children in adult bodies.
I was just listening to him on the car radio on my way home for lunch. I didn’t realize he had died until I got home.
My husband has frequently had to press me into watching or listening to a thing he has been impressed by. And my husband tried for quite a while to get me to listen to Rush. My only explanation for resistance is that I never did much care for radio. And I am not easy to impress. After listening a few times, I went and picked up a copy of his first book, and read it… I liked the man that wrote the book even more than the one that we all heard on the radio. [Never could get my husband to read the book.] For decades following I would hear people berate the man they had never listened to, and didn’t comprehend. I heard family members accuse Rush of things that weren’t true, but they believed it because someone from a political leaning they shared said so. Anyone who had listened to his show a few times understood what the rest of them were missing.
We got to experience Rush in real time. That was a gift.
From the moment I first heard him on AFN Radio back I n 1992, I became a “Ditto” head. Sad day for America. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I am heartbroken but also filled with gratitude for this man and his life.
He changed me from a mind-numbed skull of mush to a conservative.
I am turning my back on the haters. They are not worth my time.
Thank You God, for loaning us this great man for too brief a period of time.
God bless Kathryn and family, Bo and staff. Rush is in the right place, with God.
I would bet that most of the people that hate Rush never listened to a single show. I think that they hated that there was an outlet for a conservative voice that they could not control.
They are the mind-numbed robots.
I listened to that man from 1990 on. He never once told me what to think, however, he agreed with me!
It’s hard to imagine anyone replacing him. He was “the big voice on the right”.
Maybe Conservatives should move into the Era of the Little Voices that roar.
The Big Voices have often been thwarted by the Big Liars.
Sad to hear of his passing. Some very large boots to fill for everyone else in the media game.
Well, get ready for another round of teabagging from the anti-americans in the media and the democrats. Sad day for the country and the Cause of Freedom.
It will just be another case of them showing the world who they really are.
Snakes hiss, scorpions sting, and radical leftists are devoid of empathy.
Great photo of two great Americans