Remembering Rush Limbaugh (Transcript)

By Bob Barney

“Rush had a good recall and when he came out with an opinion as to why someone was doing something, he could then recall incidents about that person that most had forgotten. He would shed a little bit of light on each person’s corruption and misdeeds that wasn’t being reported. Rush himself understood the populism that Americans needed. America First, Make America Great Again all of that is a populist message”.

This coming February it will be three years since Rush Limbaugh died.

You could say that the course of political history in America has changed drastically since that day we lost Rush.

Hello, this is Bob Barney with the Plain Truth today broadcast and I wanted to have a small tribute today during the last week of the y ear about a man who altered politics more than any other single person in the last thirty years and that is Rush.

He died on February 17, 2021. His voice on the radio is missing and I will tell you that right now. The closest person I think we could say is like Rush today is Tucker Carlson, but he is definitely not in the same caliber as Rush. Rush was easily listened to on radio in any market.

 I remember Tammy and I would be driving from Florida to Connecticut and all the way up you could instantly turn a station on and if it was getting cloudy or fuzzy but in a second or two do a search and get Rush right away on another station.  To listen to Tucker today you must really know how to find him on the computer, and it is cumbersome when you are driving in a car to search for him. Rush was a voice for millions driving in the car traveling to work and even being at work. His voice was just a sense of reality and something that the world is going to miss especially in the 2024 election.

Rush was sick during the 2020 election, but he still was on the radio and did his best to bring the sanity to an election that was stolen.  I am an election denier, not a conspiracy theorist like some might think I am but some conspiracies do happen.

 Kennedy was killed by the CIA and that is more plain now than ever. The 2020 election and other elections were stolen. It is a political Fact and a historical fact that the 1960 election between Nixon and Kennedy was stolen. Chicago Il mayor Daly rode around in a station wagon to find out how many votes he needed to submit so Kennedy could win Il and then the presidency. The next morning everyone knew in the Nixon camp that it was stolen. When they were thinking if they should contest it and demand a recount, Nixon supposedly said, he stole this election fair and square. Nixon didn’t want to drag the country through what Gore did. 

But Rush Limbaugh, many times over the year I disagreed with him as I felt some of the things I htou0ght were too simplistic. He thought all capitalism was good. There is no pure capitalism when you have corporatism controlling your media and politicians with large donations.

I don’t think until DJT came along that Rush really started to recognize that fact. In a way that is a shame because the truth of the matter is that conservatism often can be masked as pro big Business because it is conservative to want a free market economy. The Plain Truth is that when you have giants in an industry, they can easily overpower the small businessperson. Capitalism can only work if everyone is abou8t the same size and not one can take the lead over another because of their massive wealth. 

And so, Teddy Roosevelt, a populist, had it correct when he said our job in government is not to pick winners but to be referees and make sure that the playing field is level. So, you might need four people on one side when there is a giant one person on the other to make it level. Rush came along slowly, I will admit, but came along with the Donald Trump candidacy to realize there was a conservative populism. You could still be conservative and still stand for free market and capitalism, but you had to realize that the reality of big business corporatism is not true capitalist.  The other thing that I believe Rush started to realize during the candidacy is even more important is that when nations support their businesses for example, Germany supporting its own or China especially with big tariffs, Canada to a lesser degree, Japan…as a side note, Harley Davidson in Japan has so many duties places upon them so Japanese bikes won’t sell, make it hard to buy one in Japan unless you are very very rich. We don’t do the same thing to them coming into America btw, but when you have large countries with deep pockets baking their own corporations, capitalism cannot work in its true nature. So therefore, the job of the government is to take control of the situation like this I speak of that Donald Trump did as president.

He knew China was manipulating the currency and playing games with the economy, so he placed a large tariff on Chinese goods coming to America. He understood that we couldn’t through pure capitalism survive in a world where big governments are supporting their businesses at any cost, even at a loss because of their deep pockets. This is important to realize. Rush came along with that view because of DJT becoming president.

The thing that Rush had which is the most important thing in this tribute to him, nearing his third anniversary of his death, is that he had a unique ability to connect with the common person out there. That is because Rush himself was a common man. He would tell the stories about working for the Kansas City baseball team as their publicity agent and really making no money at the time and how certain players would be good to him or not be good to him before he became famous. He seems to be someone who after becoming a multi-millionaire, did not forget the people that brought hi alone.

Often too many celebrities forget where they came from and when they start to be well off, they decide or decide consciously or not, that they no longer relate to the little guy. Rush was able to connect with every bit of his listener as a common man. That is a very important notion. Because of Rush, Newt Gingrich was able to sweep the republicans in office in 1994 in their very first real onslaught of republicans over democrats over the last 50 years prior. Reagan was able to win the White House, but he never had a friendly senate or house for most of his presidency. Much of what he tried to do was either halt it in the House or Senate where when Newt was able to take control of the House with the famous contract with America, (under the Clinton Admin) stymied the Clinton Administration to go to the right and govern to the right and disband his very progressive, liberal agenda that he and his wife Hillary were promoting before the midterm elections in 1994.

If you go back when Bill Clinton took office in 1993, they were trying to pass the Obamacare then called Hillarycare, trying to do everything progressive…but after the huge win by republicans in the House of Representatives in 1994, which had  lot to do with Rush promoting Gingrich’s idea of this Contract with America and getting out to vote, that made Clinton run to the right…he was a politician first unlike ideologues like Obama, he understood he needed to act conservative to stay8 in the presidency; especially to win in 96 because was in trouble then and could easily be defeated. Therefore when George Busy called the second, whom I like to call King George the 2^nd, when he got control in 2001 after a bitterly contested election results with Al Gore, the Newt led House was able to promote many of the republican agenda when it came to the budget and the economy that Bush was able to push through, and they controlled the Senate sometimes getting support, but could get their spending bills pushed through and a lot of the tax cuts through that really did fuel a very aggressive economy in 2003 and 2004.

This was especially true after 9/11 debacle that really could have forced us into a depression or even a recession. Rush again had a lot to do with the aftermath of 9/11, number 1, and pushing the Bush agenda of tax cuts. This was all about helping the middle class.

Most republicans, even the RINO’s tend to be tax cutting republicans. The Bushes were, other than the father when he went along with the largest tax increase in history when he said, “NO NEW TAXES READ MY LIPS”, but most republicans and RINO’s tend to promote sound business practices and lower taxes which helps businesses along; big as well as little. I would contend that with the Bush’s especially, they were big business fanatics and that is who they were really trying to get tax breaks too, but triple down economics do work and if businesses have enough tax breaks prices come down and people get hired, and less jobs get sent overseas and the economy turns around.

The thing about Rush thought that I cannot forget, is not only his incredible knowledge and recall of what was going on, one of the things that gets me today is that I have a good memory, I seem to remember things that most Americans and media have forgotten about a subject. For example, all the people that were writing checks in Congress had no money to back it up. There was a scandal in the 90s where if you were a politician, you could write a check and the bank would approve it. There were people who owed hundreds of thousands of dollars and had bounced checks Many of the elites does the road that used that system which was revealed in the mid-80s or 90’s, I am forgetting exactly, but the press forgot who they were especially if they were democrats. The press loved John McCain for example, so the press forgot about the scandal that McCain was involved with in the 80s taking money from Arabs which was in pictures.

Rush would always remind people thought of things we had forgotten or that the media just never reported because they didn’t want you to know and wanted to change not only history but how you viewed history. Rush had a good recall and when he came out with an opinion as to why someone was doing something, he could then recall incidents about that person that people had forgotten. He would shed a little bit of light on each person’s corruption and misdeeds that wasn’t being reported.

The other thing that I really think gets most people who were Rush people, and that is myself, like I said, I quite a few times disagreed with his stances at first of his pure capitalism, but at the same time I just loved his sense of humor. People don’t know me that well listening to me, but those that do know me I have a very peculiar sense of humor myself. So did Rush Limbaugh. His commercials that he did, making fun of Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, you know the songs that he played where they rewrote the words to fit the asinine scenarios going on, he had them on Clinton, Obama, etc. The humor that he had in these fake commercials and songs, just again, endeared him to the average working guy and girl out there. More Americans have a good sense of humor than maybe we realize. That is because on tv we don’t watch real Americans, shows are most of the time show their interpretation of real America, so they are most often bigots or minorities that have the most brains.  So, when you are listening to newscasters you aren’t really seeing being represented very well, even talk shows, etc. Rush understood his audience was my point and they loved his humor. Americans in my opinion do like good humor.

That is why for example, Saturday Night Live, even though it has always been a liberal show, why SNL was so popular amongst conservatives in the late 70s and 80s…it was because they were able to ridicule both the left and the right equally. They had a leftist bent and slant to what they were doing in their comedy, but they could make fun of the ugliness of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea. They had a skit about that that they had to apologize for in fact, but for the last 20 years they really do not have a sense of humor; the show is pure leftist politics. The left has just lost its sense of humor. This is why most of the comedians today do not do tv or live stand-up shows, like Seinfeld had received boycotts, the left used to have a sense of humor, but they do not. So, Rush’s sense of humor poking fun at our leaders just struck a note with almost everybody that thinks the same way. When they listen to those commercials, they say to themselves that this guy thinks as I do.

Winding down this show today, I was just thinking whilst driving the other day…it was around noon fifteen…I was headed to the post office to check the mail, it hit me that four years ago on this same drive, I would have been listening to Rush Limbaugh. I would have had enough time to listen to one or two of his commercials, usually played during his opening monologue where he would speak about what he was going to talk about that day.  When you agreed with him or when you did not agree with him, he was fascinating to listen to. He was no dummy, he was no empty suit as most commentators on the radio are anymore. To give him credit, he was able to stop, seeing the errors of his ways and support Donald Trump from the get-go.

People think and maybe you do not remember this, but Rush did not come along as Jonny Come Lately to DJT. He was supporting him since the beginning of the primaries and even before. From the moment DJT announced his run, Rush was onboard.

I believe that you will see that means he was not going to support the standard fake republican who tells their constituency what they want to hear with zero intention of following through. He saw with DJT, a man that was going to live up to his promises as best as he could.

I think 5 presidents said they would move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for Israel, but DJT said it and he did it.

DJT said he would close the border and maybe he overstretched some of what he could do with that, but he still did what he said. Rush saw the need for the president in the likeness of Teddy Roosevelt and not the likeness of Reagan. Reagan was one of the greatest presidents that has ever been, and probably one of the most nation altering presidencies was under Reagan, but DJT was where it was at, and Rush knew that. In my opinion the reason Trump did so well is because of his populism, his caring for the average person out there and realizing that not all capitalism is good for the whole. His policies and his supreme court nominees that he got through, all of the judges he was able to get through that you don’t even realize and the promises that he was able to keep, really makes him stand far away from every other president in recent memory.

Granted, Reagan would probably been greater than he was if he had a House and Senate that were republican as Trump did for at least half of his presidency, I want to make that clear, but Rush himself understood the populism that Americans needed. America First, Make America Great Again all of that is a populist message.

We must become first again in our leaders’ eyes.

That is why I still support DJT in 2024.

I believe that if he is not elected, there is not a candidate running that can turn the nation around on a dime like DJT can.  Rush Limbaugh saw this in DJT and like I said as I was driving around, I missed his voice and what he would be say8ing now. I say to myself, what would he be saying now? Because this country since his death has turned into a dictatorship. We have no rights folks. You can have the FBI at your door without a warrant at any moment. They can interview you with no notes and say you said things you did not say and arrest you for lying to them on what they write in a notepad, not even recording it. If you do not think we aren’t living in a totalitarian state today, you are deceiving yourself. Rush started realizing this especially with the personal tax on him. It is abou8t time the American people realize what is going on and that we need to change this right now.

2024 is the last chance we must put a president in that does what he says and promises what he says.

If Rush were alive, he would be on the air promoting a second administration of DJT.

And so do I.

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