I want to share a conversation that I am engaged in regarding my email / post regarding Rush Limbaugh. This is an older female customer who became a friend who I like very much and she likes me just the same. She replies to my Rush piece:
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Her response: “He was a racist and a bigot and I, for one am glad that he is gone.”
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My response: “1. Rush, as I mentioned I listened to Rush pretty much every day and he was not either a racist, nor was he a bigot. And you can not provide any evidence that establishes that, other than what the Leftist media told you to think about him that is.
Q: How often did you listen to his radio program?

2. I am willing to bet that you agree with most of all of his positions, just like I am certain you agree with most all of my positions on many issues.

3. Please don’t be so hateful. Why are those who characterize themselves as being on the Left / Democrat are so hateful and violent? I think it is an indicator of insecurity.

4. Luckily I no longer have my concerns about who on radio will lead the Conservative movement in America, there are plenty to fill the void now :)”
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My follow up after not receiving a response:

I am still waiting for all of the examples of where Rush demonstrated that he was racist and a bigot.

Other than your Liberal / Democrat indoctrination can you find any examples? I listened to him for 30 years and never heard any, but you say he was. How many hours / years did you listen to him on the radio?

If you are calling Rush a racist and a bigot, then you are calling me the same. And again, you can not find one person on the planet that will give you any evidence of that. Just like Rush.

Where things get stupid is the Democrats, the Liberals, the Leftists that you SAY that you agree with and support, they MUST have racism in order to control their base and keep them from thinking for themselves lest they not vote Democrat. “Racism” in politics is all about control and drawing bright tribal lines.

So I know you know NOTHING about Rush Limbaugh, all you know is what you have been told by those who in politics and media who need you programmed to think and say as they indicate. Rush Limbaugh (Just like Trump) plainly revealed them and was a threat to their power aspirations and that is why they did what they did in having to label him as a racist.

I think you need to think a bit deeper than what you have in the past.

For example: Do you agree that during a pandemic especially, the border should be opened and the government encourage illegal aliens to enter the U.S.A. illegally? You are locked in your home scared to get the virus, and your government that you have chosen is flooding the country with illegals, who may well re infect the country, who will have to be taken care of in your hospitals and possibly exclude you or your family members from receiving care. AND who will be taking the jobs of the lowest paid workers during a time of high unemployment caused by the virus?

And I know you not are insane and would never agree with the true facts that I have presented above, but that is exactly what you have voted for.

Does this make any sense to you? Again, I know you are not insane.

(I wait to see if she will respond)

Not from Rio Vista, but close enough,
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THE DELUSION OF THE ETITLED POLITICAL RINO ELITE

The delusion of the political RINO elite and those who see themselves as the next president in line by Right. (Just like Hillary) The Democrat and Republican professional politicians only see things from the perspective of Washington D.C. and their alleged power and electability. And sees nothing from the perspective of the voters.

Niki Haley wants a sit down with Trump AFTER she trashes him and says, “We should have never followed him”.

REPORT: Nikki Haley Tried to Get a Meeting With Trump — But He Shot Her Down (thegatewaypundit.com)

Niki Haley: “I think he’s going to find himself further and further isolated,” Haley said after January 6.”

“I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have.”

“I think he’s lost his social media, which meant the world to him.”

“I mean, I think he’s lost the things that really could have kept him moving.”.

“I don’t think he’s going to be in the picture,” she said, matter-of-factly.”

“I don’t think he can. He’s fallen so far.”

Does she really think?

1. Wake up call: Niki Haley has no chance of becoming the president, EVER. Not as a Republican anyway.

2. She sees Trump as being over and ruined. And Trump now in fact controls or has major influence with a majority of the Republican voter base, 75 million to be exact.

How dumb and self absorbed is this woman?

I rarely disagreed with his position on anything, but drugs were one. This is when he was probably at his heaviest weight and he is going on about how nobody should tell what he should put in his body. He would then go on a rant about marijuana and I thought, “you’re contradicting yourself, Rush”.

And then one day, I realized that he hadn’t said such a thing for quite some time. Later, we learn of his addiction. He had just stopped cold because he had that “humbling and ultimately a humanizing event” and now understood. One thing you can say about Rush, he was NO hypocrite.

Elevate celebrity, just to viciously tear them down.

But that didn’t stop that man, he learned and grew as he picked himself up and carried on.
Disagree with his views all you want, but you must recognize his contribution to societal discourse and his immensely relatable struggle with everyday life.

Rest easy Rush.

Here, Joe Biden is in a meeting the other day, and he is wearing two masks. Have you ever tried to listen to someone wearing two masks? I have, you can not hear anything. And to top it off, Joe has already supposedly received the vaccine! Now does that make sense to anyone? It does not to me.

AND are you telling me that sitting in the White House, the center of American government, that the environment can not be controlled in a safe manner in order that the “Most powerful man on earth” can have a meeting and photo op? Just more hollow bovine effluent virtue signaling. But then that is Joe Biden’s greatest personal super power.

And while this is going on he has had a two hour, I suppose instructional phone call with president Xi of Communist China. He says in an interview that the Communist Chinese documented systematic genocide of the Uighurs in China by the millions is just the result of a “Difference in cultural norms”. That is what president Joe Biden says about documented genocide, its just a difference in cultures. And I suppose he would have had the same opinion on Mr. Hitler also in 1936? And Pol Pot in Cambodia? They were just “Cleansing” their cultures as is accepted and now normal.

Joe Biden suggests China’s Uighur genocide is ‘different cultural norms’ (news.com.au)

If you voted for Joe Biden this is the leadership you have bought. Or should I say this is what the political parties in power and their minions had installed in the position of the president in our now dead Democracy. Well done Democrats and RINO Republicans, its all out there now. America is now officially pro cultural genocide. You consider yourself a great human Rights advocate?

Well you are a fraud now, as is your president, as are we all now. But do you feel good about yourself? Because that is really what is important.

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And a self-imposed silence because one side observed ‘socially acceptable’, and the other did not: indeed, re-defined ‘socially acceptable’. cf: Patrick Moynihan

As for ‘betters’: I’m an American. ‘Seldom equaled; never bettered.’

They keep telling us that the following of both men were cults-of-personality. They have it bass-ackwards – these two strong voices were/are a reflection of ordinary Americans who are not full of themselves, unlike our elites.

Much more can be said… but did Rush fail (I also heard that show a few weeks ago)? I think not – otherwise Trump would never have been elected (and GW Bush too). The man who created the template for Rush was Reagan (“Ronaldo Maximus”), it would behoove us to look at how Reagan and Rush connected with people.

The NYT characterized Rush’s work as misogynistic and racist language. It’s the meaning of the words. Blunt is misogynistic if I don’t like what is said. Hilarious and entertaining are clearly racist if I don’t like what is said. The abuse of the language is getting old, but they must still be getting some traction out of it. The sheltered ignorance it represents – on full display for those that can see – is disheartening.

Today is a sad day. The Leftists and their organs have to pile on with hyperbole, once again showing their qualities. Too much to show some respect for what a sizable fraction of America held dear? Just be silent if nothing more.

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/01/06/rush_on_his_health_scare_in_hawaii/

I thought: “CRAP! There is no other American on the radio at this moment in time to lead the rational American patriot other than Rush Limbaugh”. “Rush can not check out now!”.

“What are we going to do if he dies or is incapacitated right now?” I thought.

And I stuck with that thinking and concern and had no answer to my question until I learned that he was going to be OK. Close call I thought. I had recently just the other day suspected that he was not doing well and could die at any time because of all of the guest hosts that were in the line up covering for him lately. And now he is gone after a 13 month battle with cancer.

I have listened to Rush since he began his radio show, and I know the date that he started it, it was coincidentally on my birthday, August 1st. And I enjoyed his particular take on things and his style, which many people I know did not appreciate as I did. Many disliked and some even hated him. They saw his bloviating and hyper style as being only arrogant. I understood it to be unique and his technique in solidly communicating his thinking and interpretation on the subjects that he thought important and commented on. Rush was no dummy.

Rush was a master political analyst, he was like a laser beam when things were going down. I would also consider him an expert in football and baseball, he loved Apple tech products and technology in general and airplanes. Although I would catch him now and then talking about something he was not as up on as he might have been. For instance he was not a big supporter of going to and living on Mars. It did not make sense to him and I understood why, because Its a friggin wasteland 30 million miles away and there was no air to breath! Why would you leave the beauty of Gods earth for such a place? He did not get it, and I have to admit I do not get it for many of the same reasons.

I forget the exact comment he had made about Mars but he did not understand that it did not have a magnetic field and misspoke on the subject. And I thought, “No Rush, that is not right, you are going to have to correct yourself. And as I remember he did later in the show or the next day correct his misunderstanding. And as we all know Rush was documented to be 99.94% correct, and he would always correct himself when found to be in error.

But getting back to the general talk radio landscape and those who are here to help take up the slack now that he is gone is great, where at the time of his heart attack scare there were essentially none. And I did not agree with every position or interpretation that Rush had. But then again I do not agree with most anyone all the time. That being said I thought Rush was an intellectual force to be reckoned with and he served a vital purpose in America in keeping, in my opinion, the proper American oriented political perspective and the preservation of the Constitution and what the Founders intended. Simple.

And when I detect that as being genuine in anyone we are then brothers and on the same page and are one and true and I will follow that and support that 100 percent. I tell women when they admit that they agree with my positions on issues, and those who I know secretly agree with me (And Rush, and The Zman and all the rest) sisters of the brotherhood. I do not leave women out of this brotherhood, I encourage them and welcome them. As I welcome all races and creeds and orientations, we are all Americans first and if you do not understand that then you can be divided and conquered. And Rush understood the same, people would call him “Racist”, and like me I knew that Rush did not have one racist bone in his body. Rush understood mutual respect.

But that was the only thing that the Left could say to divide people against Rush and his growing power and influence, “RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A RACIST!”. Lie! Show me. And that could never be done.

Rush understood that its mutual respect that is what is important and the talk of racism was just a technique of manipulation that the Left used to keep the bright tribal lines drawn. Because the Left can not afford such rational and honest thinking to take hold, and Rush clearly understood this at his core, that is what he truly believed, as do I.

In closing, I will miss Rush and his analysis and his humor. He would crack me up when he would put on the little girl voice and would begin to riff to make a point. I would be laughing out loud picturing him as a little girl with the microphone in front of him utterly intellectually destroying whom ever need destroying at the moment. There was no other.

You will be missed Rush, but you have served your country and its people well, you are now I am certain in a better place and at peace. I will remember and honor your worthwhile efforts here on earth every day.

Thank you Rush.