ICHEOKU says the man behind the golden microphone with half of his brain tied to his back just to make it fair and who more than 27 million listeners tuned in each day to hear what he was going to say next is no more. He succumbed to lung cancer affliction following a one year battle with the scourge to stay alive. He will be missed. Rush Limbaugh was fierce and fearless; and expressed his opinions without a care in the world nor apologetic about how anyone felt about what he said. He was many things to so many people but everyone agrees that he was extraordinarily gifted with the garb and he weaves it flawlessly and effortlessly. He held listeners spellbound and captivates his audiences who stay glued to their radio wondering what next will come out of his mouth.
Many people who had issue with him and his radio program are mostly people who never found the time to listen through his program to understand where the gist of his show. He did his show without malice, highlighting issues affecting the American society, especially conservative issues, with some panache and having fun doing it. ICHEOKU accidentally found his broadcast a decade ago and never missed a day since then and will surely miss the three hours daily engagement with the Guru Maharaja, whose talent was on loan from God and now he has gone to return the talent from where it came, back to God.
Some people said he was a racist but his producer and second in command cum assistant is a black man Bo Snerdley. Some said he was homophobic but Elton John sang at his wedding and this was the same man who made a joke about his mother feeding on cat food. He was just an equal opportunity offender if his show could be considered offensive, but it was not. Only those who selectively edited and listened to sliver segments of it got mad.
ICHEOKU recalls an incident when a fella called from the United Kingdom to confirm how to get Rush Limbaugh on the Internet. The guy had visited and on the way back to UK as we were driving to the airport, we tuned in to Rush Limbaugh's program and he was sold. He collected the information but apparently lost it and called back to get it. He later confessed that it was a very insightful program and was grateful to have been introduced to his show.
Anyway, with his death, the show has definitely come to an end as nobody can in actuality fill his very huge shoes. Some guest-hosts who sub for him each time he was not available struggle through with pleasing an audience who still tuned in, aware that they are just there on a temporary gig as their Rush will come back later. But with the finality of his death, the pain is simply too much for them to bear and part of the moving on process will be to simply tune off as that voice and ingenuity are no more.
Rush Limbaugh can never be duplicated or even closely imitated. Simply put, he was the show! What a season of despair it has been for the right side of American polity. President Trump lost the White House and now their mega mouthpiece, Rush Limbaugh, is gone. It is a double whammy, but life must go on. Mega Ditto goodbye to Rush Limbaugh for the many years of educating Americans in politics in his Rush Limbaugh tuition free political University where there was no graduation. Rest in peace Rush.
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