toobfreak
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I just heard that Rush passed away a few hours ago. I actually turned on his radio show around noon and they were talking about it. I had a feeling something was wrong.
I missed his show all last week because of the impeachment hearings. They started at noon or 10AM so I didn't even try to see if Rush was on. Fortunately, I found out now that he wasn't on anyway. Years ago there was a news station here that carried Rush and a bunch of other top conserv talk radio all day long including Savage and others then one day they dropped it all for COUNTRY MUSIC. I live up in the North! WTF. So I missed Rush for years after that.
Then last Fall, Summer or whenever, Angelo I think said something on a thread somewhere about something Rush was going to do live, maybe it had something to do with him appearing at Trump's SOTU address, anyway, it lead to my finding that Rush was still on a local radio station here, a different one, and my being able to catch his show again these past several months! So for that, I thank him!
But as time went on recently more and more, Rush's days off became increasingly the RULE rather than the exception, no more the rare day off here or there but a question of whether he would even be on day by day; --none of his guests really hold a candle to him as good as a few of them are. So after catching Rush's show a couple weeks ago, more and more often, if Rush wasn't on, I simply just turned the radio off.
Years ago, Rush taught me how to critically analyze the Left and cut through all the circus BS, clear the smoke and see to the real issue at hand. Time came when I realized that when something happened, I would assess it and draw my own conclusions about what it was really about, and when I listened to Rush, he was saying pretty much the same things! So I both knew that I was seeing things clearly and that Rush had taught me how to cut through all the media BS. I always wished I had been able to tell Rush that, that I had learned how to analyze things listening to him rather than depending on him to tell me these things, though I was always happy to do both. I don't see anyone able to step in to fill Rush's shoes now other than maybe Mark Levin or maybe Tucker.
THE VINDICATION that Rush was right about most everything and was seeing things clearly was the vitriol the Left had for him. Had Rush been way off all the time, the Left would have simply ignored him as irrelevant. But they hated him so much because HE WAS SO RIGHT: like a vigilant security light over the treasured goal, he peeled away all the layers of fake news and subterfuge they put out there trying to HIDE what they are really doing! So when you see all the usual pieces of shit here like Synthaholic celebrating his death, understand why. When the Left takes anyone as seriously with a white, burning hate as they took Rush (or Trump), millions of them following his every word every day attacking him on everything, that is really their highest vindication of how SPOT ON he really was.
So I missed Rush's show last week. I find out now that I actually DID catch Rush's last show on Feb. 2 and am actually listening to it again right now. But when I tuned in again yesterday after his not being on Wed, Thur, Fri, then Monday last week, and he wasn't on yet again yesterday, I felt something was wrong. I didn't expect Rush was about to die because he sounded so normal and himself last time on the air! But I thought maybe if he was going to be OFF the air more than on, that maybe he ought to just hang it up, that his show was pretty much over.
But cancer is funny. People usually have a comeback and look stronger and better than ever right before their final decline. Between Feb 3 and today was Rush's final decline. He will be sadly missed by millions and millions. There is no substitute. I'm just glad I got to follow his show these last several months--- maybe the better part of the last year.
So Rush is gone. Out of respect for him, I'm not posting or reading anything else today, nor going to attack any of the idiots here predictably jumping with joy over his death. I'm going to just listen to his last radio program and reflect back on his greatness and the loss to us all. With Rush, you never knew what he was going to come out with and reveal next; with Hannity, one show sounds predictably like any other from five years ago. Or ten years ago. Rush had more meat in just one hour of his program than Hannity has in a month. With other hosts, all they talk about are the things that have just happened; --with Rush, he always told you about things as they WERE happening, behind the media smoke, or were ABOUT to or GOING to happen! It was Rush's near perfect PREDICTIVE ability to tell you what things really MEANT and what to EXPECT from politicians that was his true gift to us that made him SPECIAL.
I missed his show all last week because of the impeachment hearings. They started at noon or 10AM so I didn't even try to see if Rush was on. Fortunately, I found out now that he wasn't on anyway. Years ago there was a news station here that carried Rush and a bunch of other top conserv talk radio all day long including Savage and others then one day they dropped it all for COUNTRY MUSIC. I live up in the North! WTF. So I missed Rush for years after that.
Then last Fall, Summer or whenever, Angelo I think said something on a thread somewhere about something Rush was going to do live, maybe it had something to do with him appearing at Trump's SOTU address, anyway, it lead to my finding that Rush was still on a local radio station here, a different one, and my being able to catch his show again these past several months! So for that, I thank him!
But as time went on recently more and more, Rush's days off became increasingly the RULE rather than the exception, no more the rare day off here or there but a question of whether he would even be on day by day; --none of his guests really hold a candle to him as good as a few of them are. So after catching Rush's show a couple weeks ago, more and more often, if Rush wasn't on, I simply just turned the radio off.
Years ago, Rush taught me how to critically analyze the Left and cut through all the circus BS, clear the smoke and see to the real issue at hand. Time came when I realized that when something happened, I would assess it and draw my own conclusions about what it was really about, and when I listened to Rush, he was saying pretty much the same things! So I both knew that I was seeing things clearly and that Rush had taught me how to cut through all the media BS. I always wished I had been able to tell Rush that, that I had learned how to analyze things listening to him rather than depending on him to tell me these things, though I was always happy to do both. I don't see anyone able to step in to fill Rush's shoes now other than maybe Mark Levin or maybe Tucker.
THE VINDICATION that Rush was right about most everything and was seeing things clearly was the vitriol the Left had for him. Had Rush been way off all the time, the Left would have simply ignored him as irrelevant. But they hated him so much because HE WAS SO RIGHT: like a vigilant security light over the treasured goal, he peeled away all the layers of fake news and subterfuge they put out there trying to HIDE what they are really doing! So when you see all the usual pieces of shit here like Synthaholic celebrating his death, understand why. When the Left takes anyone as seriously with a white, burning hate as they took Rush (or Trump), millions of them following his every word every day attacking him on everything, that is really their highest vindication of how SPOT ON he really was.
So I missed Rush's show last week. I find out now that I actually DID catch Rush's last show on Feb. 2 and am actually listening to it again right now. But when I tuned in again yesterday after his not being on Wed, Thur, Fri, then Monday last week, and he wasn't on yet again yesterday, I felt something was wrong. I didn't expect Rush was about to die because he sounded so normal and himself last time on the air! But I thought maybe if he was going to be OFF the air more than on, that maybe he ought to just hang it up, that his show was pretty much over.
But cancer is funny. People usually have a comeback and look stronger and better than ever right before their final decline. Between Feb 3 and today was Rush's final decline. He will be sadly missed by millions and millions. There is no substitute. I'm just glad I got to follow his show these last several months--- maybe the better part of the last year.
So Rush is gone. Out of respect for him, I'm not posting or reading anything else today, nor going to attack any of the idiots here predictably jumping with joy over his death. I'm going to just listen to his last radio program and reflect back on his greatness and the loss to us all. With Rush, you never knew what he was going to come out with and reveal next; with Hannity, one show sounds predictably like any other from five years ago. Or ten years ago. Rush had more meat in just one hour of his program than Hannity has in a month. With other hosts, all they talk about are the things that have just happened; --with Rush, he always told you about things as they WERE happening, behind the media smoke, or were ABOUT to or GOING to happen! It was Rush's near perfect PREDICTIVE ability to tell you what things really MEANT and what to EXPECT from politicians that was his true gift to us that made him SPECIAL.
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