Rush Limbaugh

Limbaugh apparently had an idea to make even more money. You could get on TV. You could get more advertisers. He's always been big on charging, which is fine.

So as was suggested, here, he took the idea of topics from his radio show, added some monitors, and basically did the same thing for the camera, with a small, selected studio audience. He was grating and insulting, depending on your point of view, or childishly arrogant, or defiantly confident, to others. You could see the mixed emotions on that even in quick shots to a friendly audience. Imagine if he had allowed the same screamers from his one-shot appearance on the cancelled Sajak 'tonight-show'-type show.

His show never got the start it needed. People say there is no anti-Limbaugh, anti-conservative, liberal conspiracy in the media. Well, there was when it came to his TV show. The thing was slated for 2-3AM in the wee hours of the morning, across the country. People had to set their VCRs (remember those?) to tape the show. This was before the explosion of the 'web' in 1998-1999, and the explosion of radio and TV conservative talk shows about the same time, most of them thanks to Limbaugh. You literally had frightened liberals, a couple of years before the Limbaugh victory in 1994, trying to silence his voice on TV. That's why Hillary is running as a conservative, now, and not a liberal. People have had it with delusional, control-freak liberals lying to them like Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, or trying to keep other views from them. A decade ago, the liberals thought people would go along, or wouldn't notice. Then came 1994. And Limbaugh was as grating, or as confident, as ever following that.

While O'Reilly turned out to be a quasi-liberal, and Hannity emerged as a rival to Limbaugh, both Hannity and Limbaugh remain not so much classic conservatives, Hoover conservatives, and certainly not bomb-throwing anarchic liberal ideologues, but simply average Americans, for the good and ill that implies. Hannity and Limbaugh are Americans as they've always been, for whatever political labels. And their fiercest liberal attackers are the poorly-educated, disenfranchised, trust-fund, entertainment and publishing business 'bohemians' that Americans have never historically trusted.

He had the face for radio. Besides, he had people on tv who disagreed with him. He could not win every argument which made him look weak.

The Rush Limbaugh Show was a really funny topical political show, certainly ahead of it's time. Think Meet the Press meets the Daily Show - and is actually funny! Was it slanted hard to the right? Of course, but it was still fun to watch.

Also, the staff was fun and very nice as well. So was Rush, as I had the opportunity to go to the show and see a taping. And unlike other shows, there were no signs prompting the audience to laugh. As others have stated here, the show was never given a real chance as the time slot was usually sometime after midnight. Again this proves how ahead of it's time it was, without a doubt it would now be on prime time and crush O'Reilly, Hannity, and Jon Stewart.

Those voting 0 for the show clearly never saw it and just hate Limbaugh, and while I have lost almost all respect for him after the drug scandal, the show was funny.

Before Rush had his show there, were other conservative talk show hosts. But no one was able to match the style and class of Rush's. He was topical, funny, and warm-hearted. It's too bad he never got a decent time slot. I would love to see some of the reruns. It would be neat to see how he was back then.

I first heard Rush on the radio back in 1991. When he went on TV I usually watched it well up to about 1996 or so when it was cancelled. He was never boring or dull and he kept even me interested in politics. It's a shame his show went off the air, I enjoyed watching it and was the best talk show of it's time. But the radio show is still a great listen after 9 years.