I meant to talk about something else this week, but my thoughts keep circling back to Rush Limbaugh. His obituaries in the mainstream press were mostly judgment, no mercy. It’s not nice when malice gets a final, unanswered shot. On the conservative side, TV commentaries were cloying to the point of cultish. It gives a sense of horror to see people who are essentially cold enact warmth of feeling.
So here I give Rush without tears, and I guess the subtext has to do with the words “the base” in both a broad and narrow sense. He was a remarkable figure, a phenomenon. At his height he was the most powerful radio personality since Walter Winchell, who rose in the 1930s after radio’s beginnings. Limbaugh helped save radio and certainly saved the AM band by pioneering a new form, the national conservative call-in show. This spawned an entire industry.
To create a community of tens of millions of people in fractured, incoherent America was an astounding feat. To pretty much sustain it over 30 years was equally astounding. It is perhaps ironic but probably inevitable that that community was created by a man whom one of his closest friends this week called “an isolate.” Knowing him slightly over a few decades, I believe the most important thing to him was his profession, his show—three hours a day, five days a week, unscripted, with sound elements and callers. Preparation was all-consuming. He had to be constantly plugged in, staying on top of the news, monitoring opinions, settling on the one he’d put forward.
opinion Peggynoonannyc A hater and troublemaker who made money being a dishonest pig. Don’t come back.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Flaws such as he was a racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, pig?
opinion Peggynoonannyc Gifted! 🤦🏻♂️ y’all done sold your soul
opinion Peggynoonannyc peggy noonan isn’t even a post it note in rush limbaugh’s career
opinion Peggynoonannyc what did he advocate for, other than hatred? That's a weird way to say that.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Complicated my ass. The guy was destructive to American democracy just as is the cowards in the Republican party who refuse to stand up to Trump.
opinion Peggynoonannyc restinpiss
opinion Peggynoonannyc He proudly championed Chauvinism, Racism and Bigotry. Those are some glaring flaws. The world is a better place without him. '...And he died as he lived, a raging lunatic!'
opinion Peggynoonannyc only you guys would pub something like this -- the damage that Limbaugh did to this country is incalculable.....you should be ashamed of pubbing this piece of crap
opinion Peggynoonannyc Oh, I think it’s pretty straight forward, not complicated at all: a racist, chauvinist, far-right agitator.
opinion Peggynoonannyc rush, trump, cruz, hawley, mccarthy, mcconnell too may trump republicans to mention.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Rush's legacy
opinion Peggynoonannyc he psycho babbled all these yrs with one purpose---to have his sheep followers feel good ---that liberals have no value--i am glad i don't have to hear his babble.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Saw part of an interview where he said, “if I’m not entertaining, I‘m not on”.
opinion Peggynoonannyc His gift to us was his death. Good riddance!
opinion Peggynoonannyc Certain flaws...really 👀😎
opinion Peggynoonannyc U might want to retract this whole article. Gifted? At what, being a jerk?
opinion Peggynoonannyc He was a hater from day one.
opinion Peggynoonannyc ugh…please stop…he was a misogynistic racist
opinion Peggynoonannyc Gifted? More like “grifted”. Made lots of money spewing hate and devision!
opinion Peggynoonannyc He was “gifted “ for supporting conspiracy theories, I prefer Truth, we as a country and so much stronger.
opinion Peggynoonannyc ya think? The man was a monster.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Another indicator where WSJ really is. This agitator has spread lies, hate and racist division and has done tremendous damage to our Union. He made us weaker in the world and he promoted all those traits that we don't want to see in our children.
opinion Peggynoonannyc What's complicated? He said horrible sh*t for money and power and inadvertently created the modern conservative 'news' model
opinion Peggynoonannyc More flaws than “gifts”. Way more.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Are these the “flaws” you’re referencing?
opinion Peggynoonannyc If your idea of a gifted entertainer is to spread hate and divisiveness. Hate spreading is not entertainment in my book--it only appears that way to the most hateful.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Wow, talk about whitewashing his flaws. Limbaugh weaponized outrage. He was the single biggest driver of the culture shift that climaxed in a bunch of Q loyalists sacking the national Capitol.
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opinion Peggynoonannyc The satisfaction isn’t in his death. It is in the suffering he did prior. The elation is but a bonus
opinion Peggynoonannyc Nothing complicated about it. He was a terrible person.
opinion Peggynoonannyc When was he a gifted entertainer? Whom was he a gift to; white supremists?
opinion Peggynoonannyc There is no gift or entertainment in Limbaugh’s hateful rhetoric. What a load of drivel.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Flaws = racist. Let’s call it what it is.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Sounds about white
opinion Peggynoonannyc And advocate of hate.
opinion Peggynoonannyc whatever happened to the Paul Harvey conservatives? the Rush Limbaugh ones kinda suck, can’t even debate anything.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Opinion: WSJ says all independent media calling out the oligarchs controlling media is hate speech.
opinion Peggynoonannyc If you can overlook his misogyny, racism, bigotry and overall repellent character...he was still an odious man.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Noonan's description of Limbaugh is how we got Trump. The right has been pretending it's the party of Lincoln while turning a blind eye to racist voters in its midst and sanitizing hate speech for decades. She's an indecent, incompetent peddler of nazi normalization.
opinion Peggynoonannyc A gift for racism and derision, perhaps.
opinion Peggynoonannyc There were no complications. He dominated by articulating what so many Americans couldn’t, and he pushed back and correctly pointed out the liberal media and their hypocrisy.
opinion Peggynoonannyc Blatant hatred for women, brown people, black people, lgbtqia people are just “flaws? Wow.
opinion Peggynoonannyc This is definitely an OpEd I would expect from WSJ
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