{"id":1060,"date":"2021-02-18T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2021-02-18T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:32:44","slug":"thoughts-about-rush-limbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/thoughts-about-rush-limbaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about Rush Limbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never listened to Rush that much, mostly because I had a job, and he was on air in the middle of the day. <\/p>\n<p>When I did get a chance to listen, I was always impressed by a few things. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> He was, of course, nothing like the caricature of him you hear from his detractors.\n<li> He almost always had an interesting, insightful take on an issue. Something you didn&#8217;t hear from anybody else.\n<li> He was extraordinarily smart, and pulled his insights from a very deep well of knowledge.\n<li> He was simultaneously pompous \/ arrogant and very humble. It was an odd and likeable quirk.\n<li> He was enormously talented. Not only did he create the talk radio industry single-handedly, he was able to keep a huge audience engaged while he talked for three hours &#8212; almost always with no guests. That is simply incredible. <\/ul>\n<p>Rush had an enormous impact on conservatism, and on America. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t listened yet, but I understand Ben Shapiro&#8217;s show yesterday was dedicated to all the ghoulish delight from the left over Rush&#8217;s parting. (Evil cretins.) <\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Rush. It will be a long time before we see your equal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never listened to Rush that much, mostly because I had a job, and he was on air in the middle of the day. When I did get a chance to listen, I was always impressed by a few things. He was, of course, nothing like the caricature of him you hear from his detractors. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/thoughts-about-rush-limbaugh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts about Rush Limbaugh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}