On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show. He benefitted from the repeal of the "Fairness Doctrine" by the FCC that required TV and radio stations to air oposing positions every time someone expressed a political opinion on one of their programs. Limbaugh's radio home in New York City was the talk-format station WABC 770 AM, and this remains his flagship station.
Rush was discovered by a Cleveland disc jockey named Halper. Once this disc jockey began following and promoting Rush, his career took off and he soon had more listeners than any other talk show host.
No, he only visited Kenya and only briefly.
He was born in Hawaii and lived there while his parents attended the University of Hawaii. Later, after his parents had separated and his father returned to Kenya, his mother met and married a man who was from Indonesia and she and Barack moved there to live. Barack Obama stayed there in Jakarta from the ages of 6 to 10 before his mother sent him back to live in Hawaii with his grandparents to have access to better schools.
He lived as an adolescent and teenager in Hawaii. After high school he went to school in NY at Columbia College, then went to Harvard and, after graduating with his law degree with honors from Harvard Law, he moved to Chicago where he lived, married, bought a house, and began a family with his wife, Michelle. They lived there where he eventually entered politics and became the US Senator from Illinois. They moved from Illinois into the White House when he became President.
Rush Limbaugh escaped being drafted into the Vietnam War because he claimed to have a pilonidal cyst. He did not have an induction physical and was not examined by an Army Physician. He brought a paper from his personal doctor and based on that he got a classification that prevented him from being drafted.
He has denied the cyst was the reason since, but he admitted it earlier.
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I don't know but I just hope he has some sort of autodestructive system!
I am against any censure, but I wish there a way to shut him up!
He deserve to pay for all the hate and ignorance he is encouraging!
According to the Washington Post, Limbaugh referred to a female Georgetown student who testified a House hearing about contraceptives as a "slut."
It is made of gold colored metal, not real gold.
Rush Limbaugh goes by El Rushbo, Rusty, Maha Rushie, America's Anchorman, The Rusher, and The Pigman.
It's another way of saying, "For those of you in Realville". He's the mayor of Realville.
1 (800) 282-2882 Good luck getting on-air, though. As it is the top talk-radio program in America, the lines will be very busy.
Rush Limbaugh first said "I hope he [Obama] fails" on January 16, 2009. When asked by a "major American print publication" to write 400 words on his hopes for the Obama administration. Limbaugh responsed by saying he needed only four: "I hope he fails".