I forgot that he did football for a minute. Wasn't there some Jimmy the Greek type controversy that got him knocked off of there?

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It was something about black quarterbacks.

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That sumbitch talked smack about the Caravan legend Donovan McNabb!!!

Terry's Peeps sat for the anthem until Rush was given the boot.

Edit: I think Rush said that the NFL was doing some "social engineering" in pushing McNabb as a star. Terry's Peeps would have none of that.

Yeah! He said that the NFL wanted McNabb to be good because he was black or something close to that, right? He didn't even make half a season, did he?

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I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

He was gone after that comment. Shit that was nearly 20 years ago.

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Something like that--that the NFL was pushing black quarterbacks. It was a weird comment at that point in history. Everyone laughed nervously, but Rush was gone pretty soon after that and the hosts had to apologize for not telling him off.

I believe the line was "the NFL is desirous of a black quarterback doing well" and Tom Jackson had him fired for it.

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Just watched it again--funny, because today, everyone is ready to attack others at any moment. We are well-trained for doing so. I suppose if you are Tommy Jackson, you are in a lose-lose position. Do I act professionally, or do I tell the guy to eff off?

He's easily the most entertaining radio personality of all time. I guess the only question now is whether he regrets his love of cigars.

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His legacy really is being one of the main people that pushed the media into being unapologetically and overly partisan. People love listening to people that tell them things they want to hear and there was a big segment of America that wanted to hear how he would put it in ways they just so happened to always agree with. Others on both sides took it to more of an extreme but I think ultimately he will be remembered as a pioneer of the end of unbiased media.

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He became a huge football fan if I remember it right because he got his start in broadcasting under a different name in Pittsburgh. Like way back in their first four Super Bowls. Anyway, he got outsmarted and boxed i on the McNabb thing and that was that. He had to go.

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Pretty benign take by today's standards. Colin Cowherd wanted John Wall crucified because he danced one time.

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There have always been guys like that, just no one who was able to develop the influence he had. He was steering the Republican Party for awhile.

The thing about him though- and Zippy kind of eluded to it above- is that he was really an entertainer and it came off as if he was doing shtick. He was the kind of guy who could blast Democrats all day long and then have dinner with Tom Daschle. I think his listeners were true believers more than he ever was.

But that's par for the course with politics. Trump and Al Sharpton have always been friendly. I would bet a lot of money that when they meet up now there's a conversation that is close to this:

Trump: What are you doing, Al? Everyday you're killing me.
Sharpton: Come on, Donnie. You know I have to maintain my brand.
Trump: I guess you learned something from me.

These guys yuk it up together while their constituents want to kill each other. Once the people who support Bernie and the people who support Trump realize they are actually after the same thing, you'll really see a new America. Power to The People right now.

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With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That was it. Maybe more like the media were desirous of a black QB. I do not have perfect recollection of it but I don't even think he alluded to McNabb being shitty. Mostly the media part. This may have been around the birth of the Rooney rule and opening eyes that parts of the NFL were underrepresented?

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I had the impression he used to smoke cigs too. Hence his line of formally nicotine stained fingers while still doing cigars.

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In terms of media members, they at least tried to limit it. Rush seemingly didn't care at all about seeming unbiased. Now that is pretty much everyone.

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Maybe? He is certainly biased but I never likened him to a real side show like Hannity or Savage. I haven't listened in many years so IDK what he finally evolved into. You may be too young to recall but his niche was coming after Reagan and Bush into Clinton. He actually had a line across the screen every day counting the days America was held hostage by Clinton. It was tremendous entertainment for a while..

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Are you going to argue with me that Rush Limbaugh wasn't biased? As JORR said, he was basically running the Republican party at one point.

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I used to hear that Savage guy sometimes when I was waiting for the Illini to come on 560. What a nutjob he was.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think Jorr wrote it better than I did.

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My last thought about Rush was that Reader was a little right about something fishy. One thing he went deaf dud to his Oxy addiction and he may have even almost gone to jail for doctor shopping. Far be it from me though to get on someone and addiction. The other thing he was detained by customs or something returning from the DR and a "golf trip" with buddies for have non prescribed Viagra or something. I have never heard pedophile like Epstein/Clinton rumors or gay either.

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He was largely responsible for the Republican takeover in 1994.

PBS called him a Republican watchdog.

He's no longer conservative--he's an anti-Democrat fringe wacko. I used to agree with some things he and people like Ann Coulter said, but now they are so wacko right that it's hard to even take them seriously as thinkers (though you have to take their influence seriously).

He also mocked people who had addiction problems and then went ahead and got himself a lil ol habit.

I never thought he or Hannity believed what they were saying.

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GO BEARS!!!

They all understand their audience and what sells. I rarely listen but unlike religion hustlers I can't knock them for that.

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Sure. They are not dumb people...not intellectually honest, but not dumb.

Rush and Coulter used to actually be entertaining and funny, too. Them days is gone. Coulter writes for Taki's Magazine, which, and I say this without exaggeration, butts up against white supremacy.* And I mean real white supremacy and white supremacists, not the people who make a movie about medieval knights featuring an all-white cast.

Pat Buchanan is on there, but I think he's just a little nutty, not hateful.

*Asian wives seem to be ok, though.

another bad thought

He wouldn't have even been able to break into an on air role at the old Loop when Brandmeier, Stern, Dahl and Matthews were all on the same station.

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I've only heard Steve Dahl for about the last 20 years, but I can't imagine a point in time where he was ever funny or entertaining.

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then take a shroom and open your imagination

Stern learned a lot of what he became from listening to Dahl

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