And the resulting success spawned a host of imitators and a shift from local programming to nationally syndicated talk shows across radio at a time when the industry had been struggling.
The show satiated the appetite for a predominantly white male audience that didn't care for being talked down to by intellectuals. That folksy approach opened up a much wider audience to his views. In many ways he was to the conservative movement what Jon Stewart would be to the liberal movement." As a matter of fact, when Limbaugh started, he was funny. Buckley or a number of the conservatives that had been notable media pundits, who were very dry and very serious and very wonky. "The magic formula that made Rush Limbaugh the sensation that he became, with the influence that he had on the broadcasting industry, is that he was a conservative coming on the dial in the late eighties who was entertaining," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers Magazine, a trade publication. ambassador to India during the Eisenhower administration his uncle Stephen was a federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan and his father, Rush II, was a World War II fighter pilot turned attorney. His paternal grandfather, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, served as a U.S. 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Rush Limbaugh III emerged as the black sheep of a family already well respected in conservative circles. But the media didn’t make me and they can’t break me."īorn Jan. "Those are attempts to discredit me among people who don’t listen to me. "Nobody argues, they always say, 'God, you hear what he said? He’s this, he’s that, he’s outrageous, he’s bombastic.' "You’ll note nobody takes me on on my ideas," Limbaugh told NBC's "TODAY" show in 2010. But in presenting the nation’s highest civilian honor during his February 2020 State of the Union address, Trump indicated that the timing of the award was at least partly motivated by the announcement earlier that month that Limbaugh was battling advanced lung cancer.įor the tens of millions of listeners who followed Limbaugh's show, though, it's a medal earned for delivering right-wing ideology a voice absent elsewhere in pop culture.
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