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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 5, 2020 9:36:22 GMT -8
I’m an Anglophile so I’m used to the standard where it is “Mr. Green” and “Miss Simpson” practically until they are undressing and doing the dirty deed. But I like that. Teachers should be “Mr. Gardner” and “Mrs. Turner.” First-name familiarity is all the rage because of this idea of egalitarianism. But I like the old ways and use them whenever appropriate…..errr….Mr. Kung.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 5, 2020 9:39:02 GMT -8
This is a good thing then. Surely Rush had an amazing father.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 5, 2020 9:39:42 GMT -8
And so you should!  |
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Post by timothylane on Feb 5, 2020 12:40:38 GMT -8
I started listening to Rush in 1992 after hearing him on a friend's radio at work, and also regularly watched his TV show (on videotape because of when it was one) while it was on. However, I don't have a radio here in the nursing home, so I only catch him when he appears on FNC.
Leftists, of course, have hated him for a long time. They invented a false claim that he referred to Chelsea Clinton as the White House dog on his show (as it happens, I saw the scene in question shortly before the smears started, and therefore knew better). Over the years there were other scattered smears. His struggle with addiction to pain killers over his ear problems have led to him being mocked as a druggie even after he dried out.
And after he announced he has advanced (stage 4) lung cancer, they cheered. Of course the Demagogues didn't cheer his Medal of Freedom, but I wouldn't be surprised if many booed. Certainly She Guevara was quick to denounce the medal on Twitter or Facebook.
A friend of mine gets e-books at various sites and sends them out to a book club of friends. Yesterday he sent out Rush's books -- not only his original 2 political works, but the 3 Rush Revere stories. (There was also a book about him that I've probably read.) I archived it, and downloaded the Rush Revere stories. Of course, I still have a long way to go in my current read (an alternate history by another friend), and some other high priority books.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 5, 2020 15:35:20 GMT -8
I started listening about the exact same time. Rush came on the air on 570 KVI-AM in about 1991 or 92 in Seattle. Word fairly quickly spread although I can't remember how I happened on to him exactly. After 12 years at KVI, his show moved to 770 KTTH-AM where it still plays. KVI used to have an amazing lineup: Kirby Wilbur in the morning followed by Rush followed by John Carlson and then (and he was better in his earlier days) Michael Medved. This was likely the best lineup in the country at the time. All were local guys except for Rush, of course.
As for what I got from it...
Leftism is an emotional commitment with undercurrents of ego self-flattering. As I’ve noted many times before, I was as dumb-in-a-bubble as any other typical 20-year old yute. I was stupid and impressionable. But never were politics my religion. I didn't cling onto any views for dear life. That is, I was not as stupid and as impressionable as many, although there was a good deal of that. But mostly, at least for me, my views can be explained as garbage-in, garbage out. If all the premises I read in the newspaper were true (and that was the primary print media back then), then my views were good, rational, and solid. What I learned from Rush wasn’t how to “think different” (as with Apple’s completely asinine and hypocritical slogan of some years back). I simply learned how much I’d been lied to. It’s as simple as that famous William F. Buckley Jr. quote: This aspect is what opened my eyes. And not for a minute was I angry about hearing another side. Never was I ever any kind of committed liberal. I simply inhaled, like secondhand smoke, the basic premises of liberalism without a thought. And those premises lead to self-evidently right views…if the premises are true. Rush showed that not only weren’t the premises of liberalism true, but that these were the guys prone to pushing people into the way of buses. |
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Post by timothylane on Feb 5, 2020 17:22:04 GMT -8
At some point Rush switched stations in Louisville, and no doubt other places. This was unfortunate -- I had gotten his list of radio stations, which became increasingly inaccurate over time. He started with a station that had various other people I didn't much listen to. The morning guy once explained his show by bringing up tabloid TV (Jerry Springer, I guess) and asking about things that were too disgusting even for that? "That's where I come in." I was tempted to listen, but never did. In the afternoon, they had Allen Colmes's radio show. He was a solid liberal, so once he came on I soon turned the radio off.
Then he switched to WHAS, where he still is. At the time they had local radio hosts in the morning (Jane Norris) and afternoon (Terry Meiners), both interesting. (Norris once brought in the creator of the game Public Assistance and played it on air.) Meiners would have Paul Harvey's "Rest of the Story" at about 6:15 or so. They also did a tape version of A Christmas Carol with various WHAS personalities, including Rush as the man asking for a charity donation at the beginning. (Very apt.) Meiners was Bob Cratchit and Norris was the Ghost of Christmas Past, as I recall.
Norris also would interview people, such as a conservative Republican running for a local legislative seat (I think in 1994), as well as occasionally reporting "random acts of senseless kindness"). Meiners (who once showed up at a local GOP victory party) during Christmas played (among other things) Christmas novelty songs, many of which I first heard there. (His background was Catholic, having even gone to a parochial high school.)
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Post by timothylane on Feb 17, 2020 21:03:22 GMT -8
A friend sends a group of us books th sat are available on Kindle at a website -- for free. The result is a lot of books (most of them archived). One recent delivery included the first 3 Rush Revere books by Rush Limbaugh (whose pictures in the illustration look very familiar). These are technically for children, but like many juveniles (see Robert Heinlein's juveniles, from Rocket Ship Galileo through Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars). I just finished the first, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
In this, Rush Revere is a substitute history teacher who decides to use his talking, time-traveling horse Liberty (aptly named, because he was raised in the American Revolution era until a lightning bolt made a big change in his life) to give the class a rather unusual lesson on the Pilgrims. He goes to the period when William Bradford and his group of Puritans (the term Pilgrims came into use later to differentiate them from the Massachusetts Bay Puritans) were about to leave Holland, meeting briefly with them before going back to his class.
Due to various misadventures, he ends up keeping Tommy, a notorious troublemaker, after school. It may come as no surprise that he's on the football team, but it turns out he's also a "science geek" (though he keeps it hidden from his fellow students). Also interested is an odd girl named Freedom, though she has to go home and can't stay for Tommy's detention.
Rush and Tommy use Liberty to travel to several dates, meeting the Pilgrims as they're about to leave on the Mayflower, as they're on board, and later as they arrive. The next day, before school, Freedom is with them as they visit the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony. They're present as Samoset first approaches the Pilgrims, and arrange to be there as he returns with Squanto. They also get invited to the first thanksgiving dinner (even though at that point Bradford would hardly know that there would be one).
Naturally, they all attend. Tommy gets a sword-fighting lesson from Myles Standish, they have a good bit of food (always a major concern for Liberty), and receive some gifts before returning to their time.
Limbaugh has some interesting illustrations. Some are based on the book, but there are also many real historical ones. He also covers important themes, such as Bradford's and the others' realization that their effort at communism was a flop and they would need to let each household produce for its itself. On the other hand, I doubt he ever considered the matter of calendar differences (England didn't adopt the Gregorian Calendar until 1752).
This is a fun book, and informative, albeit in a way most of us would probably already know to some extent. But he also gives a good idea of what the Pilgrims' voyage was like, and why the book has the title it does.
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