Rush Limbaugh, The Revolutionary Media Figure America Badly Needed
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“It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals—and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.” -Alexander Hamilton In an age where the Press/Media are corrupting political morals more and more, one man disrupted the evil infrastructure, became a beacon of truth, and changed history. Rush Limbaugh was a revolutionary in the best sense, the quintessential American individualist. He didn’t graduate from college, he was apparently a failure as a very young man, according to arbitrary elitist standards. He sounded like an ordinary man speaking common sense to ordinary people; but then, he made his own rules. And in an age where journalistic honesty is a joke and original thinking is condemned, Rush Limbaugh created a new kind of media. Suddenly, patriots and conservatives across the country who felt isolated, excluded, or hopeless had someone who spoke to and for them. Rush Limbaugh was not a great media personality and truth-teller because he was trained—he was great precisely because he was not trained. He was a sort of genius at talk radio, he was natural, he was charismatic. Even sincere journalists now are trained to speak and move and respond and act and write a very specific and (frankly) artificial way. Rules aren’t always bad, but Rush didn’t follow the rules because he didn’t need them—for him, the “rules of journalism” would have been a restriction, not a guide. He was unique. A year ago, when Rush died, Americans lost not just a champion, but a friend.
Rush Limbaugh, The Revolutionary Media Figure America Badly Needed
Rush Limbaugh, The Revolutionary Media Figure…
Rush Limbaugh, The Revolutionary Media Figure America Badly Needed
“It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals—and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.” -Alexander Hamilton In an age where the Press/Media are corrupting political morals more and more, one man disrupted the evil infrastructure, became a beacon of truth, and changed history. Rush Limbaugh was a revolutionary in the best sense, the quintessential American individualist. He didn’t graduate from college, he was apparently a failure as a very young man, according to arbitrary elitist standards. He sounded like an ordinary man speaking common sense to ordinary people; but then, he made his own rules. And in an age where journalistic honesty is a joke and original thinking is condemned, Rush Limbaugh created a new kind of media. Suddenly, patriots and conservatives across the country who felt isolated, excluded, or hopeless had someone who spoke to and for them. Rush Limbaugh was not a great media personality and truth-teller because he was trained—he was great precisely because he was not trained. He was a sort of genius at talk radio, he was natural, he was charismatic. Even sincere journalists now are trained to speak and move and respond and act and write a very specific and (frankly) artificial way. Rules aren’t always bad, but Rush didn’t follow the rules because he didn’t need them—for him, the “rules of journalism” would have been a restriction, not a guide. He was unique. A year ago, when Rush died, Americans lost not just a champion, but a friend.