But, detested by others. You were the King of Talk Radio! May you find peace in God’s Kingdom! 😇
shareI listened to him every work day during the 2000’s. He will be missed. RIP
shareSorry, but I lost respect for him (not sure if I ever had any for him) after he went after Michael J. Fox. You don't go after MJF and expect to come out unscathed.
shareI was not aware of this. If I had heard Rush say this I would have cringed. Sometimes people put their foot in their mouth. This comment was inexcusable! Rush should have done a mea culpa.
shareI wasn't aware of it either. If Snopes has it right, Limbaugh did apologize for it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-michael-j-fox/
Limbaugh had a syndicated television show for a while, in the early 1990s. When Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, his daughter Chelsea was just shy of her thirteenth birthday. Adolescence is not kind to some girls, and she was the epitome of The Gawky Kid. The braces on her teeth and her God-awful frizzy hairdo certainly didn't help matters.
Rush spent some time every night lampooning the Clintons. Including Chelsea. Remember the violin shrieks in Psycho, as Norman Bates stabs Marion Crane? -- err, no, I don't have to ask that, we're all movie freaks here, of course you do. Once or twice per show, Chelsea's picture would suddenly flash up on the screen accompanied by those shrieks.
This went on for a few weeks. Then one night he said, "There's this new thing coming along, the Internet. I don't know what's going to become of it but I've got a Compuserve account. If any viewers want to email me, I'd love to hear from you; here's my address."
I immediately emailed him and wrote, "I enjoy your show but have one complaint. Lampooning Bill and Hillary is fine, but please, lay off Chelsea. She's just a kid, and her life's already rough enough from having those two as parents."
I didn't get a response from him, and so I have no way of knowing if he read the email. For all I know, others probably made the same complaint. But the Chelsea gags immediately stopped.
I'd say that everyone, including him, makes mistakes from time to time.
Good on you Bull
I recall Saturday Night Live also catching hell for making fun of Chelsea when she was just a little 13 year old kid
It's pretty messed up to dunk on an adolescent for looking a bit gawky and awkward...I'm sure most of these comedic geniuses were there at one point too
> I recall Saturday Night Live also catching hell for making fun of Chelsea when she was just a little 13 year old kid
I don't remember that, but I had stopped watching SNL by then. One reason was that it had become stale to me. It felt like I was hearing the same jokes over and over. Told by different people, differenly worded, about different topics, but somehow they were still the same jokes.
The other reason was my dislike for the way they treated VP candidate James Stockdale (Ross Perot's running mate) during the 1992 campaign. All right, Stockdale was awkward in his public appearances and invited satire. But at times they went too far. I wondered if any of those cooler-than-thou hipsters ever took a moment to consider that Stockdale spent seven years suffering the tortures of the damned as a Vietnam POW defending, among other things, their right to ridicule him.
> It's pretty messed up to dunk on an adolescent for looking a bit gawky and awkward
In all fairness, Chelsea looked more than just a bit gawky. She really was horrible. :)
I started listening to him in ‘92 and was hooked. I had every radio in the house tuned to him at 12 Noon EST. That way I was able to go from room to room and not miss anything. I agree with you about Chelsea...not a good thing to go after kids. Afterwards came Hannity. One of the best things Rush did was to “illustrate the absurd with absurdity!” Many laughable moments.
shareHad to look this up but yeah harsh. Dat's tuff.
shareI listened to him from time to time. I wonder who will take the place on my local station?
shareI never really listened to him but he seemed like a decent guy and genuinely cared for America.
RIP
Most conservative talk hosts are too hard. Rush was gentle and nice to everyone. Didn't always agree with him but he was the best source for Right Wing perspective. He would always include context. Lack of context is the biggest problem with nearly all partisan sources of info. It makes listening to both sides very difficult and oft infuriating. Most pundits (of whatever political lean) manipulate sound bites by addressing them without context.
Rush was friendly. Even in this current age of nastiness. I used to believe all the terrible things I heard about him until I listened to him.
The one thing I wish he had done differently was to have taken more callers.
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RIP Rush, he had a great voice!
I had a coworker who would listen to the Limbaugh show, so I would catch bits of the program whenever I was near his desk.
Seems all Limbaugh talked about was politics. Did he ever discuss other topics?
Not something I would listen to. When I have the radio on I want to hear music, not incessant blathering about stupid politics.