Limbaugh Bio: Essential Reading for Dittoheads
Author Zev Chafets realized the obvious after interviewing radio’s Rush Limbaugh for a 2008 New York Times Magazine portrait: Limbaugh deserved the biographical treatment.
It’s doubly fortunate Chafets proved to be the right person for such an assignment.
Chafets’ Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One is a rarity: a book that acknowledges the professional greatness of “El Rushbo” while putting his career in context.
The author respects the Limbaugh legacy without the equivocations a progressive scribe would bring to the project. That doesn’t mean the author is a tea party devotee, or even a card-carrying conservative. He is genuinely curious as to what makes the talk show titan tick, which makes An Army of One a necessary read for media-philes and Dittoheads alike. (Click here to listen to Ed Driscoll’s recent interview with Chafets, taken from PJM Political on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel.)
The portrait is exasperatingly thin at times, expending too much energy detailing Limbaugh’s radio monologues and not enough on the man behind the microphone. But the book eventually catches fire.
Chafets starts in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Limbaugh’s bucolic home town. The Limbaugh name first took hold there thanks to the radio host‘s grandfather, a local legend who practiced law up until the age of 102.
That’s sobering news for liberals praying for the day the man’s grandson steps away from the golden EIB microphone.
We get a peek at the town’s historic roots and some sterile quotes from Limbaugh’s high school pals. Perhaps there’s precious little dirt from Rush Limbaugh, the early years. But Chafets does a better job describing the host’s old stomping grounds than its most famous resident — for a while.
Limbaugh took to the radio in his teen years as “Rusty Sharpe,” much to the dismay of his father. “Big Rush” wanted his son to be a lawyer, or a similarly acceptable career. Spinning records hardly befit the Limbaugh name.
“Rusty” was a natural on air, even if he eschewed politics in favor of the day’s chart toppers. It’s understandable that a young man would prefer to focus on rock ‘n’ roll rather than breaking news, but it took an awful long time for Limbaugh to embrace the conservative chatter that would make him a star.
It’s also one area An Army of One doesn’t fully explore.
Limbaugh flitted from one small radio market to the next, and even spent time in the Kansas City Royals’ organization before finding his true calling: no-holds-barred conservative talk.
Toto writes: “A more liberal biographer would spend too much time taking apart Limbaugh’s arguments.”
And that liberal biographer would fail, because Limbaugh’s serious arguments are solidly built upon strong, factual foundations. Unlike the steaming piles of fertilizer that liberals call “arguments”.
Careful ! This author, and perhaps other “liberals” are responding to their “slash and burn” attacks no longer having knee-jerk effects of the sneer and dismissal of their subjects. AND~ even those “aristocrats” who sneer at “tradesmen” are not averse to making money selling their goods to those despised tradesmen. Especially when they outnumber the “aristocrat” and there’s is much to be gained by restraint in expressions of contempt and hatred of those who do not “bend the knee” or “bow the head” to their gods.
Chafets does grill Limbaugh on his allegiance to a colorblind society, with the author gently chiding him for not better understanding black frustration at years of prejudicial treatment.
As El Rushbo asserts, we conservatives must point out to our black brethren that their frustration at years of prejudicial treatment is the direct result of their near-total, multi-generational allegiance as a group to Democrat “plantation” politics. AA and PC reinforce the prejudices, to the continued detriment of the underclass.
Whitey is only indirectly responsible for blacks producing 70%+ of their offspring out-of-wedlock, thereby destroying the nuclear family. And btw, whites are fast-following. That Rev. Wright and Farrakan and Sharpton and Jackson still have congregations of 1 disgusts most honest folks, no matter their pigmentation. Making a living by hate-mongering is profitable?
Nonetheless, the white majority is primarily responsible for where we are today, with a large majority of blacks now dependent, enslaved as a permanent underclass. How did that happen? Both political parties collude to encourage and sustain this modern slave trade. It’s a spoils system. EG, raising the minimum wage invites illegal immigrants to take what jobs there are, for slightly less and off the books, while unemployed welfare recipients get to weigh the difference between working 40 hours for minimum wage and getting nearly the same for staying home, and employers are forced by economic realities to hire fewer workers on the books. Ergo, lower tax revenues all round. The pols remain unaccountable.
Freeing our slaves again, right here in River City, USA will be an even more daunting task. This time most don’t want to be unshackled, are unwilling to cooperate and some number will fight against it. All the while, the white tax-paying majority is rapidly being indebted into that same state of bondage by the political and bureaucratic classes. Precarious times, no? See Greece.
Mr. Toto: I have some bad news for you and the rest of eople who write for this site as well as those who read and comment here..
Rush Limbaugh is going to around for another year, two at the most.
Here is why:
Rush is almost 60 years old and just married a 33 year old.
Someone half of his age and in her sexual prime. Rush has hear problems and you know that he needs to take viagra to get his
pencil P… erected.. you see where I am going with this?
unless she is Asexual and Rush gay he will sooner or later will drop dead of a heart attck. so enjoy while he is around.
once he is gone, you all will be very sad, us liberls very happy
and the woman whom he married will walk into millions of dollars
at the ripe age of 35! This why I love America!!!!
Keep dreamin’ miriam.
Ever notice how liberal fantasies deal with conservatives being tortured, shot or dying?
Gotta love the tolerant left….I guess when you don’t have any original thoughts or ideologies that you can defend, you resort to hatred.
PS: sorry for the mispelling I was in a hurry.
eople=people
is NOT going to around
Rush ahs a heart
That’s all right Miriam dear. We expect spelling errors from liberals. Oh did you notice some verb tenses were incorrect as well as the spelling of “liberls”-yes that should be liberals.
Limbaugh is a racist and an opportunistic moron. His high profile association with the Republican Party today does more to hurt that party than any other single factor in my opinion. Limbaugh is just a more upscale and gentler version of Alex Jones who agitates for the sake of agitation under a guise of being some kind of Jeffersonian which he has no real interest in except insofar as it enables him to advance his own radio show’s profile. The Republican Party will move forward or back to the extent that it makes the wise decision of disassociating itself from Rush Limbaugh who has the ego of Obama with none of the smooth phony charm; with Limbaugh, phony is a step up.
“Limbaugh is a racist”
Huh. What did you think of Walter Williams’ guest stint, the latest of many that he and Thomas Sowell have performed over the last twenty years or so, whenever Rush is on vacation?
And dont forget Rush’s employee Bo Snerdly “black enough to be an obama offical criticizer”
You whacko libs can keep shouting racist all you want but it wont stick because it is YOU that are racists.
A rather slimy post there Miriam. But, its about what I would expect from someone aflicted with cranial-rectal inversion syndrome. You might try a small tractor to pull your head out.
GO RUSH, MAKE EM SQUIRM !
Liberals always scream that Rush is a racist. Translation: he wants to get as many people, blacks included, OFF the liberal plantation.
#6: there is no need to be impolite… I am just informing you of some fact, that is all.
Impolite, Miriam?
Let’s see, wasn’t it your original post that included:
1) commentary suggesting that someone is not well-endowed
2) commentary suggesting that someone is impotent
3) expression of happiness because of someone’s death
4) implication that American women only marry older men in order to inherit their money.
Crawl back under your rock, troll.
No, Toto, a liberal biographer wouldn’t waste time “taking apart Limbaugh’s arguments.” A liberal biographer would simply use the noun phrase “closet-case junkie” on every page.
Much as he would a biography of Jack Kennedy, I suppose.
And, even on drugs, Rush managed to beat the left with half his brain tied behind his back.
And Rush Takes Another Bride!
Ok, this isn’t Rush Hudson Limbaugh III’s first bride, not even close.
Although the 59 year old Rush-man hasn’t (yet) approached Larry King’s (Lawrence Harvey Zeiger’s) eight weddings, he has been wed four times, the last time to 33 year old Kathryn Elizabeth Rogers at the ultimate classy venue, The Breakers in June of this year.
Black minister Dr. Kenneth L. Hutcherson, Founder and Senior Pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, Washington, presided and homosexual entertainer Elton John entertained at the festivities that followed. I mention Hutcherson’s race and John’s sexual proclivities simply because Mr. Limbaugh has often been accused of both racism and homophobia. . .
(Read more and see the wedding pics at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1840)