Marcia A. Mulcahy: You are the second person to complain about the title of my essay. You’ve convinced me that I need to change it. Done.

Those began in 1989.

Rush’s show began in 1988.

Talk radio as we know it didn’t exist before then.

Rush was by no means the inventor of it, but he was unquestionably the biggest star in the radio universe. And everything we know about radio now — from good old AM all the way to internet radio and podcasts — was accelerated by Rush Limbaugh.

I do not know how they do it, and Rush is a master.

If Rush were to retire then I would assume that one of his stand ins would be a better or more likely choice seeing that they are already vetted by Rush himself. Today its Mark Steyn and he is a strong performer. Maybe a Sebastion Gorka would be on that list? More new to the radio but also a strong performer and a committed American / Conservative with a very interesting back story that causes that commitment. Or maybe even a stronger candidate is Mark Levin, but he is also not in the greatest of health.

I think we would have to just accept that there is only one Rush and that’s it, we move on. There will never be a true replacement for Rush, he stands alone on a very high peak.

If I can find the clip of him reading my piece I will post it here.

In 2008 I wrote something I called “America, Your Constitution And Capitalism” in my desperate attempt to communicate to people what I saw in someone like Obama and how he was becoming popular and became president and the dangers that I saw in him and the trend. “What are these people thinking” I thought. And of course everything for me comes down to properly understanding our foundation and better educating ones self.

I wrote and designed an expensive, glossy three fold pamphlet and had 500 printed and sent it out to many high profile and many not so high profile people and received many interesting and supportive responses.

Bob Grant thought it relevant enough to read the piece on his show, and I almost missed the entire thing because I chose to walk my dog. The Bob Grant show was about to start and the dog wanted go for a walk and so I took her out. Coming back the radio was on and Grant had just begun the process of reading my piece and I was hearing my words come out of the radio. That was a surreal experience for me.

Cotour–
Love me some Bob Grant!

I have no problem celebrating Rush, who I’ve also listened to for 30 years. May God grant him many more years!

Medal of Freedom is well deserved.

But their efforts will not have been in vain. They have educated 10s of millions who will still clamor for, appreciate, and reward voices such as theirs. And in our land of capitalistic liberty where there is a demand there will be supply, and eventually new voices will rise to replace them.

But they are going to be hard acts to follow.

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-rush-limbaugh-rushed-to-hospital-in-honolulu/

And all I could think was: “Uh, oh, with everything sooo screwed up, and Obama for some reason on the rise in America and the world, who is going to lead in Conservative media? This is a BIG problem.”. It seriously concerned me, he was really the only strong, sane American oriented political analyst that I agreed with for the most part, 80 percent anyway. He was no doubt thee Conservative leader in media in the world. Not everyone gets him, but he was the man, then and now.

That is really one of the only times that I became concerned about where the country was going and how we were going to get there. And my fear was based in not knowing. At the time I was in the middle of retraining myself in politics and coming to understand what in reality was underway and what America and the forces in play was really about (The initial S.O.M. realization days).

And not that I see Rush as actually being “All knowing”, but at any time when things were going down he was like a laser beam and had the best and strongest insights and analysis. And the most important element of Rush? He was and is unafraid to be himself and tell it like it was and as he saw it, pretty much no matter what. He could be goofy and hyperbolic, could get himself in hot water, but always fair and good natured with a focus on teaching related to his observations, interpretations and analysis. (It would crack me up when he would play the little girl with the squeaky little voice asking questions :)

And now Rush has shared that he is gravely ill with cancer and that is an earth shaking revelation, and I as well as many reading this share our best wishes in the process he must now undergo. And we all are hoping for the best results, and the best results are only possible in todays reality in America because of the power of two things, appropriately: 1. The existence of the American Constitution and 2. Capitalism! Two things that Rush fundamentally understood and communicated every day that he was behind that microphone. Well done Rush.

Today, thankfully there are many other people in media who are Conservative and are well educated in the subject of America and its Constitution, politics and the perversion and corruption that it fosters. They are for the most part all great communicators and they all for the most part stand on Rushes shoulders. And Rush stands on the shoulders of the likes of the great Bob Grant. (Who by the way took 4 plus minutes to read one of my first pieces abut the Constitution and Capitalism on his show. Surprised the hell out of me)

Rush, I personally wish you the best possible results in your coming treatment and I am optimistic that you will have many more years of your radio show, you are still very much needed. And hopefully someone that knows you will transmit my words and my sentiments to you. All the best to you, your wife and family. JGL

(And I have a further coincidental connection with Rush and his show, the Rush Limbaugh Show began on August 1st, my birthday :)