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re: The 1st Time You Listened to Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 2/3/20 at 8:55 pm to Tarps99
Posted on 2/3/20 at 8:55 pm to Tarps99
Riding around with my dad. I was too young to understand it all, but I listened anyway. I was hooked on that opening beat and bass line. And I knew we didn’t like that Clinton guy. 
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Posted on 2/3/20 at 8:57 pm to Tarps99
I listened to him during the 2008 election in my democrat years. I wanted to see what he would say about how well Obama and Hillary were doing against McCain. I tuned in each day wanting to hear him finally lose it and he never did. Instead, I heard him bring up valid points and the tiny crack in my democrat wall around my brain started to form because for the first time I started to wonder if I really was a democrat or if I was voting democrat only because my parents voted that way.
Then after Obama was inaugurated I kept listening to him and my transformation started to really begin and take off. I’ve been staunchly conservative since around June or so if 2010 when I could no longer defend the actions of the president I not only voted for but actually donated $75 of my own, poor college student money. I will always thank Rush Limbaugh and his way of explaining real world goings on for converting me to the good side.
Prayers to him.
Then after Obama was inaugurated I kept listening to him and my transformation started to really begin and take off. I’ve been staunchly conservative since around June or so if 2010 when I could no longer defend the actions of the president I not only voted for but actually donated $75 of my own, poor college student money. I will always thank Rush Limbaugh and his way of explaining real world goings on for converting me to the good side.
Prayers to him.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 8:57 pm to Tarps99
It was under Clinton I know that, because I went to one of his sponsors and bought a "Clintons Amerika" shirt with a hammer and sickle instead of the stars on the flag. I think they advertised in the Limbaugh Letter, which was a hard copy you got in the mail back then, or maybe it was on his 30 minute talk show.
Because yes, I used to be a little GOP clone too, just like all of you.
Because yes, I used to be a little GOP clone too, just like all of you.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:02 pm to ItzMe1972
I used to listen to KPEL when Owen Spann had his show. He was liberal but had a format where he would interview guest and the shows were usually pretty interesting. Spann left the air to get some type of medical tratment, then Jackson took his place for about six months. I still remember when Rush came on with his first show as well as the lady who called in from Schenecktady, New York and started out her call with "Dittos to that last caller, Rush" and Rush interupted her and said to the audience that to save time on calls, if you agree with Rush, etc, simply start your call with the word "ditto". This is when he started referring to his listeners as "Dittoheads"
He used to begin his show with Clarence Frogman Henry's "Ain't Got No Home" and didn't have a theme song of his own. When he came to Lafayette on his Rush to Excellence Tour, he spent an hour at the KPEL studios answering local calls that afternoon before appearing at the Heymann later that night.
While he was at KPEL, I got to meet him and present a song to him that our studio ghost band had written entitled "Ditto Head", thinking he might like a theme song for his show. He liked it but said that since we had not gotten a copyright (we had finished it that week) that the network probably wouldn't allow it's use. Rush was a very down to earth fellow and I am proud to have met him and get a chance to shake his hand. My wife and I attended his show that night as well.
He used to begin his show with Clarence Frogman Henry's "Ain't Got No Home" and didn't have a theme song of his own. When he came to Lafayette on his Rush to Excellence Tour, he spent an hour at the KPEL studios answering local calls that afternoon before appearing at the Heymann later that night.
While he was at KPEL, I got to meet him and present a song to him that our studio ghost band had written entitled "Ditto Head", thinking he might like a theme song for his show. He liked it but said that since we had not gotten a copyright (we had finished it that week) that the network probably wouldn't allow it's use. Rush was a very down to earth fellow and I am proud to have met him and get a chance to shake his hand. My wife and I attended his show that night as well.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:07 pm to Tarps99
Remember when Chrissy Hynde tried to sue him over playing “My City Was Gone” and dumbing things down for those of you in Rio Lindo, California.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:08 pm to ItzMe1972
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Heard the first day he went national in Fall 1988.
He replaced a guy named Michael Jackson.
Saw him in Lafayette at his Rush to Excellence Tour shortly thereafter.
All of this.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:12 pm to Tarps99
Summer 1990 I had just graduated from LSU and some friends were talking about this guy Rush and all the things he said.....I thought they were talking about Keith Rush who was on New Orleans radio
They were like "no, this guy is not a fool, listen." I did, I have listened faithfully ever since.
PhD in Advanced Conservative Studies. I can remember the days when B1 Bob Dornan used to guest host . Walter Williams giving out white people certificates of absolution so they would stop acting like fools.
Anyone remember Rita X and Colonel Colin Powell and the space wheel?
They were like "no, this guy is not a fool, listen." I did, I have listened faithfully ever since.
PhD in Advanced Conservative Studies. I can remember the days when B1 Bob Dornan used to guest host . Walter Williams giving out white people certificates of absolution so they would stop acting like fools.
Anyone remember Rita X and Colonel Colin Powell and the space wheel?
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:13 pm to Tarps99
August 2, 1990 trying to find news about Desert Shield. First time I left FM.
This post was edited on 2/3/20 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:18 pm to Tarps99
I was 11. The 1991 Louisiana governor election drew my interest, and the Presidential election of the next year was gearing up, and I tuned into Rush here and there through my teens.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:21 pm to Tarps99
I started listening in 1988 when he was on WIBR in Baton Rouge. He was a definite change of pace from Michael Jackson. Bruce Williams was popular on the radio at the same time and I saw him at an event at LSU. Good times.
My parents knew I was a big fan and were traveling through Missouri. They stopped at a phone booth in Cape Girardeau and ripped the page with the Limbaugh listings on it out of the phone book and gave it to me. It’s crazy to think that the family’s home addresses and phone numbers were out there for all to see but no one could have foreseen the success that Rush would have.
My parents knew I was a big fan and were traveling through Missouri. They stopped at a phone booth in Cape Girardeau and ripped the page with the Limbaugh listings on it out of the phone book and gave it to me. It’s crazy to think that the family’s home addresses and phone numbers were out there for all to see but no one could have foreseen the success that Rush would have.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:23 pm to Tarps99
Had to be early 1990, driving to see my grandma and spend some time in New Orleans, tuning into to WWL 870 AM on the way.
I remember getting so fired up... "Who is this guy???" "Finally, somebody saying what I think!" -- which was always misrepresented by the media at the time.
Rush is a freaking legend.
I remember getting so fired up... "Who is this guy???" "Finally, somebody saying what I think!" -- which was always misrepresented by the media at the time.
Rush is a freaking legend.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:41 pm to Tarps99
Got to interview Rush on the air in 1988 when the owner of our Austin, TX AM station decided to carry his show right in the middle of the 24/7 reel-to-reel delivered beautiful music format.
Part of the affiliation agreement was that the local station would get a localized 10-15 minute phone interview with him.
Only problem was that this was Austin, Texas, USA. Even back then, I think that the awkward station engineer (me) was the only conservative they could round up within 100 miles.
So-o-o, on the mic I went. Even back then, I knew who he was and what he was about to do for talk radio, so my part of the interview was mostly "so, um, wow, like you're Rush Limbaugh..."
I recall him being gracious to this rank-amateur. Later in my career, I had occasion to visit his original California anchor-station KFBK. My engineer-host understood when I requested to sit in Rush's chair for a while.
God bless you Mr. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
Part of the affiliation agreement was that the local station would get a localized 10-15 minute phone interview with him.
Only problem was that this was Austin, Texas, USA. Even back then, I think that the awkward station engineer (me) was the only conservative they could round up within 100 miles.
So-o-o, on the mic I went. Even back then, I knew who he was and what he was about to do for talk radio, so my part of the interview was mostly "so, um, wow, like you're Rush Limbaugh..."
I recall him being gracious to this rank-amateur. Later in my career, I had occasion to visit his original California anchor-station KFBK. My engineer-host understood when I requested to sit in Rush's chair for a while.
God bless you Mr. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:46 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Then why reply?
Because I can, thread police.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:50 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Rush has said on his program that Chrissy’s parents are huge Rush fans and listen to the show all the time. She gave the ok for him to use that song. It’s one of The Pretenders most requested songs to.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:53 pm to Tarps99
I've listened to El Rushbo since the lead up to Gulf War I in 1990. Discovered him quite by chance as I was scanning the AM dial for news, WMC 790 in Memphis. Never really listened to much talk radio except for Larry King while driving late at night. Rush changed that. I've listened daily since then.
Jimmy Carter made me a conservative. Rush affirmed it.
Jimmy Carter made me a conservative. Rush affirmed it.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 9:58 pm to Tarps99
My old high school guidance counselor's office. Don't remember the particular day or what the subject was.
eta: Remember his TV show? That would be syndicated and shown really late at night which I would watch at times.
eta: Remember his TV show? That would be syndicated and shown really late at night which I would watch at times.
This post was edited on 2/3/20 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 2/3/20 at 10:26 pm to Tarps99
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Posted on 2/4/20 at 6:28 am to Tarps99
Rush is so powerful his very name triggers America hating Kap loving soy boy leftists to come on here and downvote!
Posted on 2/4/20 at 6:42 am to Tarps99
I started listening to Rush while I was in college. I answered the phones for my dad’s office and sometimes I was the only one in there.
I’m completely blown away by this news. He has no peer. Prayers his way. He needs them. We need him.
I’m completely blown away by this news. He has no peer. Prayers his way. He needs them. We need him.
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