Thanks, Charlie, for pointing out that Limbaugh was a greedy, gasbag entertainer. I met him during my news career during a short dalliance with small-market television news when he visited the owner of the station, a close friend of his. I asked Limbaugh if he believed all the swill he was peddling and he said of course not. ``I’m sellin…
Thanks, Charlie, for pointing out that Limbaugh was a greedy, gasbag entertainer. I met him during my news career during a short dalliance with small-market television news when he visited the owner of the station, a close friend of his. I asked Limbaugh if he believed all the swill he was peddling and he said of course not. ``I’m selling soap, the more the better. Whatever it takes to get the audience in and keep them,’’ he said. This was around 1999-2000. He may have started taking himself seriously by the time Trump came on the scene, but he didn’t at that time.
I once saw Rush Limbaugh as a guest on Charlie Rose's show. I had heard Rush's radio program a few times because my mom listened to it sometimes. But he seemed like a different person with Rose. Instead of his usual appeals to the emotions, he was making intelligent, rational arguments. That's when I realized Rush is a really smart guy who knows how to size up an audience and speak to them in their own language. Unfortunately, his radio audience was not in the intellectual league of Rose's PBS audience, so he spoke to them in visceral rather than intellectual terms.
Thanks, Charlie, for pointing out that Limbaugh was a greedy, gasbag entertainer. I met him during my news career during a short dalliance with small-market television news when he visited the owner of the station, a close friend of his. I asked Limbaugh if he believed all the swill he was peddling and he said of course not. ``I’m selling soap, the more the better. Whatever it takes to get the audience in and keep them,’’ he said. This was around 1999-2000. He may have started taking himself seriously by the time Trump came on the scene, but he didn’t at that time.
I once saw Rush Limbaugh as a guest on Charlie Rose's show. I had heard Rush's radio program a few times because my mom listened to it sometimes. But he seemed like a different person with Rose. Instead of his usual appeals to the emotions, he was making intelligent, rational arguments. That's when I realized Rush is a really smart guy who knows how to size up an audience and speak to them in their own language. Unfortunately, his radio audience was not in the intellectual league of Rose's PBS audience, so he spoke to them in visceral rather than intellectual terms.