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Part One: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Robert is joined by Paul F. Tompkins to discuss Rush Limbaugh.
Original Air Date: March 9, 2021
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"He started smoking cigarettes, thank god" might be my favorite line from this entire show.
Divine intervention sparked that first cigarette. 🙏
Yeaaah.
I'd like to thank Rush for making me not a conservative. Listened to him my entire childhood and the constant hypocrisy drove me to look elsewhere. I'd also like him to stay in the deepest parts of hell for what he's done to my family.
I feel ya, I often think about how many families Rush Limbaugh (or similar) have destroyed through his lies and fear-mongering. I would wager it's in the millions, and that makes me pretty sad :/
I'd like to thank Rush Limbaugh for posing naked for Games Workshop so we could have the iconic depiction of Papa Nurgle...
Yeah, he took peoples frustration and used it to turn them into angry bigots.
When you think about it, almost no one talks about him anymore in a positive or negative light and I think that says a lot about how little he contributed to the world. He corrupted the minds of 10's of millions of people and just spread misery in general making the world a worse place for decades and when he died, no one cared. He was a horrible disgusting human being and the best punishment I can think of is for all that effort to make the world a worse place, in one or 2 generations almost no one will even remember him. A fitting end to someone who lived such a worthless life.
He's poisoned so many minds!
my parents listened to him. (my brother listens to Dennis Prager; IMO, he's as toxic as Rush.)
Big tobacco picked up a rare W giving Rush cancer.
My grandfather used to listen to Rush and made farting noises every time he said some ignorant shit. Which was like every thirty seconds.
His logic being that you have to be aware what your enemies are doing to be able to defend against it.
22:20 HE'S THE ORIGINAL INCEL
PopPop was an OG hate-watcher, respect.
My grandfather did something similar. He would hate listen to Rush and called him a "pus gutted dim wit" 😂
Such a based Granddad
Bet Grandma appreciated that on laundry day.
I remember in college one afternoon Rush was on the TV in the background and he was ranting about the national debt and what he said didn't seem to make logical sense. I asked my roommate if he understood and it didn't make sense to him either. That evening the show was replayed again and we decided to leave it on and pay close attention. It turns out that Rush was cleverly switching between National Debt and National Deficit in a way that what he said was 100% true but anyone who wasn't listening closely was left with a completely different understanding than the truth.
Hearing Mr. Peanutbutter discuss Rush is breaking my brain
just picture him in a studio with headphones and a mic.... doesn't help with the mind fk, but still very funny
“What is this, a crossover episode?”
Doggy doggy WHAT now?
He'll always be Randy the Documentarian/food truck driver from Bob's Burgers to me. I could place his voice immediately!
it is next level hilarious. these episodes are awesome
My hope was that as he left this earth, he in pain, alone and afraid. (I get chastised every time I say this. He was a vile human being).
He loudly celebrated people who died from AIDS, so I say turnabout is fair play.
People like Rush, who abuse painkillers, tend to develop such a high tolerance that no dose is effective for them anymore. And, apparently, the type of cancer he had is one of the most painful ones. So, there's two little separate facts that you might want to consider together and draw your own conclusions about.
I congratulate your fine and accurate take my good man, and chastise your foolish detractors.
Saying Rush was a vile human being is an understatement on par with saying the Milky Way galaxy is kind of a big place.
Rush WAS DEFINITELY a VILE human being.
I keep picturing Alex Jones instead of Rush Limbaugh.
And now I'm disturbed that my predictive text picked up both of those with way too few letters 😮
My mother listened to Rush every day of my life until the day he died.
This should be educational
I listened to Rush Limbaugh all the time growing up with my parents. I don’t know if I ever liked him, even though I was into other right-wing personalities. He was so unpleasant. I’ll never forget one particular segment on his show where they changed the lyrics of the Beach Boys song “Barbara Ann” to go “bomb Iran.” Absolutely despicable.
Some GOP senators thought that was so funny they repeated it in the halls of congress, embarrassing the entire nation before the world.
Hmm... that could possibly be from a parody from Pirate Radio that they put out during the first gulf war. I think it was called Wacky Iraqi. I don't remember, but that might be where Rush got it.
McCain was singing that as he skipped down the halls off Congress. Not John's finest moment.
@@francisnopantses1108are we the baddies?
Being from the UK I had no idea who this guy was and after seeing the Fox News obituary, oh my god he was the embodiment of the caricatured 80's US high flying "white guy* from film and TV. Actually hilarious.
You have it backwards. All of those cartoon images were based off the man himself. He caused that much butthurt, it was amazing.
So glad to hear Larry Lujack's response to Limbaugh. I listened to Lujack growing up in Chicago.
“Is the fish gonna be ok, uncle lare?” 😂
Little Tommy! Is that you?
sometimes, when my mom's feeling down, I'll cheer her up by saying "hey... its okay. dont forget: rush limbaugh is still dead."
and then we both breathe a content sigh of relief.
And now you can add Kissinger to the feelgoods!
@@vonriel1822 absolutely! :)
Both sidesing the Civil War would be a great card in Cards Against Humanity
The right has moved over more to "one side-ing" the Civil War..... aaaaand they're with the Confederacy. Oof.
The first time I heard of Rush Limbaugh I was 12. I was rummaging around in my mother's purse and found a paperback copy of Limbaugh's The Way Things Ought To Be. Curious, I sat down and started reading it.
I didn't finish it (I think I read about half) but I remember being absolutely infuriated with it. I had no idea a simple book could piss me off so much. Almost every page I was exclaiming "That's not true!" and I almost threw it across the room.
The moral of the story is: Even at the age of 12, before I had developed any kind of political worldview, I could tell Rush Limbaugh was full of shit.
your mom actually bought the book?
or was it a gift from a right wing org
most of rush's sales came in bulk
the big scam of how wingnut books get on the best seller list
@@thewkovacs316 I don't know what she was doing with the book. I think it was a gift from a friend or something. She didn't much like him either.
I was listening to him from very shortly after he got onto AM radio, due to an earthquake. He was on KFI-AM in the Los Angeles area and after a large-ish quake, that was the only station on the air (due to being a CONELRAD station) and after the hourly or so quake reports, there would be Rush Limbaugh. A guitar teacher I was considering taking lessons from also raved about him and told me about some other right-wing guys on the radio like Hew Hewitt I believe. I was young and boy was I ever an idiot.
I saw through Rush's facade though when I was watching his show on TV and he was trying to have an image of this man's man sort of guy, and he's gotten some sort of award from the NRA that was shaped like a bullet and the way he held it and said "Pghew! Pghew!" made it clear to me he'd never fired a gun in his life and that skill was utterly alien to him. I was pretty serious about guns and shooting at the time so he lost a ton of cred with me.
The only good thing he ever did was resurrect the career of Clarence "Frogman" Henry.
I remember when they put his show on kfi tom leykus promoted the hell out of it. Tom neglected to see how rush coming to kfi soaked the end of his time on the station, because tom was a lib
🎶 _I sing like a girl, and I sing like a frog. I'm a lonely boy. I ain't got no home._ ❤
" 'YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE FIRST DUTCHMAN ON THE MOON!' I don't know what he meant by that." is way funnier than it has any right to be.
Rush Limbaugh was an ambitious high school graduate. He became Archie Bunker in a suit. This may be responsible for the fact that in all the dozen episodes of his show that I heard (reluctantly) there was at least one major misstatement of historical fact.
Don't you dare compare him to Archie Bunker. Archie's bigotry was genuinely just ignorance, and when actually introduced to groups he didn't like, was quickly won over by their basic humanity. Because, as I said, Archie was *just* ignorant, but fundamentally still a decent man. Archie would give anyone the shirt off his back, no matter how much he'd make a show of grumbling and complaining.
Rush Limbaugh was nothing like that. Rush Limbaugh was a barely-human monster, who couldn't see humanity in anyone because *he had none.*
In my experience, the "I don't see color" people are the first people to complain about changing character's races in TV show adaptations/reboots.
My parents were conservative enough to put me in a religious school and ignore that school's abuse of me until they literally ran out of money for tuition. When I got picked up from school, my dad would be listening to the end of the Glenn Beck radio program. Rush always came on afterward, and my dad would always turn it off.
I have a saying when it comes to bad people, which is that I don't wish death on anyone, but there are some people I don't wish life on either. It's hard to remember, but I think Rush might have been the reason why I started saying that.
There are some people who are just a net negative on human well-bring. If Rush had been bit by a car before his career as a political commentator got started, then the world would be a slightly better place.
Man I went to high school in the Cape Girardeau area in the early 90s and this episode hit pretty close to home. One of the buildings where Ag and drafting and shop classes took place had Rush on the PA every afternoon it is wild that I never really thought about it too much back then.
Why was he on the PA ?
Too indoctrinate the blue collar kids in shop class...tratiors
@@jC-kc4si They played his radio show over the PA in that building.
That's ridiculous. That's literally the opposite of education. Did they do the 'Two Minutes Hate' as well? Was the principal referred to as the Minister of Truth?
@@MrBendylaw Not sure what to tell you it was the early nineties in Missouri and I was just another dumb high school kid at the time it seemed pretty normal to us back then I mean we also had Paul Harvey so it was kind of a wash to some of us and others liked it, I personally always thought Rush was a mouth breathing muppet. Another weird aside my freshman year of college I had one of Rush's first cousins as a chemistry professor and he was a really cool guy.
Being Catholic is what lead me to the left: just-war doctrine (opposition to Iraq War), preferential option for the poor, pro immigration, environmental justice, opposition to the death penalty, etc.
Everybody knows the Koopalings were named after celebrates in the eighties. Whereas I was named after Wendy O. Williams the lead singer of the punk rock band the Plasmatics, my younger brother Morton was named after famed talk show host and singer-songwriter Morton Downey Jr. And for the last 35 years, that's all anybody has ever said about that; but to find out that he was racist? to the point of being fired?! How has this never come up before? Morton Koopa Jr. (if one were to be overly reductive) is "the black one" of our group; our scales come in black, white, tan, amber, green, pink, and blue, just to name a few colors, so it's not like a binary thing. The main point is, he's definitely the darkest, if one were to do a racism (which you shouldn't), it would probably be against him. So, my question is, who's idea was it to name _him_ out of all the Koopas after the ultra-racist guy?
I know, Dayvv E. Brooks, the same guy who named half the cast of Mario 3 and World, who else? Okay, new question... was he _aware?_ There was no Wikipedia back between 1988-1990 when he was translating the original game. Was it a joke? Make the racist guy's legacy a big black turtle-dragon hybrid-thingie? Like how Wendy O. Williams hated processed sugar, and yet I rule over Chocolate Island... to the three people who care, there's like some irony there or something.
😂😂 I love how Kevin McCarthy ALWAYS gets forgotten. Even while talking about powerful republicans from Cali and he’s the actual speaker of the House, he’s still forgettable. This is what having a lack of any spine whatsoever gets you..
This comment aged... Perfectly.. 😁
Robert: Whatever river runs through Sacramento.
Me: You mean the Sacramento River?
I didn't know I needed to hear Mr Peanutbutter dunk on Rush for an hour, but here we are, and my life is complete.
Wow excited for this ep! Two fav podcast dudes discuss a supervillain
I always pictured Paul F Tompkins from VH1 while watching Bojack Horseman, but now all I can think of while listening to his voice is Mr. Peanutbutter
I remember J. Michael Strazynski actually put Rush's name in an episode of Babylon 5. An anti strike law called the Rush Act. He called Rush America's proctologist.
I'm guessing the "first dutchman on the moon" comment was a riff off of Jackie Gleason's "to the moon Alice", his frequent threat to punch his wife on the Honeymooners TV show
Break out the Vicodin and Oxycodone for this episode. 😂😂😂
It's not drug abuse if you're rich and white.
@@francisnopantses1108Just ask Jordie Peterson.
@@tjenadonn6158
'Ya'h kno-wwww, I see drug abuse as a very timid lobster thing to engage in... Therefore, I'm a timid lobster... ya'h know.'
Jordan Peterson, circa 2023
Jordan is such a tool. 🤭
@@francisnopantses1108
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I remember Morton Downey Jr when i was young and he didn't seem to be overly right wing politically just that he wanted to be provocative by being obnoxious and stirring the pot. When i heard Limbaugh i thought there was a lineage except Limbaugh was obviously right wing conservative. As much as I think Limbaugh made a huge impact on our politics as an extremist anti democratic toxic influence, i admit he was a very gifted orator. I agreed with probably nothing he ever said (i didn't listen to him enough to know what he stood for on all issues) but I have to say that he's compelling to listen to. Which is exactly why he's a big part of how this country got to the toxic place we are now. He's a talented POS.
Grew up with a grandparent who blasted him over the radio at all hours of the day, non stop. I had crontic migraines as a teen and I puked in her car because she refused to turn him down while I was having an attack. He's been associated with the scent of vomit for me ever since. It suits him
I lived in Sacramento for most of my life.
Can confirm it is indeed the mouth of hell itself.
I'm grateful every day that I was finally able to escape its grim clutches!
What was so bad about it?
57:07
"I have long argued that Sacramento is the very mouth of hell itself."
Just had to time stamp that since that is where I've lived for the last 20 years.
VERY happy to hear PFT on your show!
The only "it" one should ever stick to Rush Limbaugh is a modest size brick of plastic explosive.
Omfg... PODCAST WORLDS ARE COLLIDING!!!
I remember the wb cartoons tended to have jokes about rush. I could be misremembering which shows but I think tiny toons, pinky and the brain, freakazoid all made fun of him and a poka album.
I disliked Rush intensely before I first listened to this deep dive. Now, I believe he truly is one of history's greatest monsters.
My father listened to Rush all the time. Because of Rush my father and I stopped talking. We haven’t in 10 years.
Well done and an interesting show. Did not know as much about el Rushbo's history as I did here. It can be useful to know just how someone developed and became who they were famous or infamous for.
Rush was the MAN! I asked him once (long before fox news came along), "Don't you think we need more conservative outlets?" He said, "No, I can handle it."
I hope you guys looked up The Day of the Dolphin? I mean... what an amazing tag line "Unwittingly he trained a dolphin to ..."
The more i listen to this show the more i despise being from missouri
At least you're not from Florida. :(
I dig the way Paul is such s legend and he’s clearly also still so good natured
I love Paul's voice. It's so beautiful
My first political statement ever was when I was 5 or 6 but it is burned in my brain. I was with my amazing mom in our Buick cutlass cruiser wagon, yeah get jealous, leaving a Walmart parking lot, get more jelly, and I heard Rush Limbaugh use the term “femanazi”. My reaction was to call him a “Butt Head”. My mom,who would chastise me for calling people names, started laughing. That’s the day I fell in love with America.
I remember Rush. Hawaii has had a history of colorful radio personalities ever since the end of WWII. However, by the 80's, such characters had all but died off. Hell even the only news radio station was sold off. Soon, many stations were bought by syndicates who tried to push mainland programing, most of it failed. Consequently,mto save money, the rebroadcast Rush. He did not fair well. Everyone thought he was mealy mouthed and a blowhard. It wasn't until his move to New York that this more polished bag of wind made a dent. But we who remember his first foray remember this twoface jackanape not to fondly.
Rush would jokingly make some comment and when he got positive responses, he would double down and expand it, but if he got bad responses he'd complain an say, hey, I was only kidding! Also, it seemed that some of his callers, with who he'd debate, shills.
Back in the old days in Hawaii there were personalities like J. Akuhead Pupule (not the name he was born with) and K. K. Kaumanua (also not the guy's original name, lol) and hell, even Michael Qseng on FM. I'm happy to hear Rush didn't go over well back home, as he was a golden example of the very worst kind of mainlander.
@OuryLN his callers were ridiculous, would come on fawning saying "mega dittoes" and they started calling themselves "dittoheads". The original NPCs.
@@alexcarter8807Don't forget our own comeback kid, Ron Jacobs. I wasn't around the first time when he and Tom Moffatt were huge, so in the 70s when they had the whole "whodaguy" campaign I didn't know what to expect. He was a helluva guy.
I remember that era. Stern hadn't syndicated yet so I dont think he was out West yet but here in NY he would make fun of Rush all the time.
Never before had a man said nothing so well and to such an evil purpose. The words have no import but the tune will carry you to love hating your neighbor.
As much as i love Paul and his work and the clear effort he puts into it, the one quote of his that has stuck with me the most was his cake boss impression where he yells some gibberish and goes "witchcraft?!". Like the guy is a huge success and should be well respected and i should have something profound to say about his body of work and instead it's that single beat nonsense joke that's tattooed on my brain.
How I know you are in fact from my neck of the woods - you said "Missour-uh" which is exactly how it is said in the Bootheel. :)
The 1:12:50 bit about comedians with marketing degrees almost seems like a direct dig at Jimmy Dore lmfao. Lived with an old guy conspiracy theorist who always said he was a comedian as a cover for his nutso news coverage. I was like, 'IS THIS FUNNY????????'
If you want respect in death. You must earn it in life.
Nice! I remember the Sacred Fence! It was shitty, of course, but the meme was great and it did help to provide some much-needed levity for everyone involved (except F the cops, feds, & "Not Z's"). I was watching a livestream of the protests the day you said it, via a platform that would show multiple feeds on-screen in one stream (though it had the option to view the individual ones instead), and Portland was a regular. Audio would be toggled between them, depending upon which had anything of note going on, good or bad - and Portland often did. Overall most of the journalists & protestors videoing, tweeting, and/or in the chat were pretty connected, so The Sacred Fence got around fast. And it was a meme for a good while, too. The cops & feds wouldn't let it go, so neither did the protestors. And from what I saw (a lot), the folks there at the demonstrations found it quite amusing, and a welcome chuckle in an increasingly dangerous situation.
I also remember the big lit sign above the freeway entrance had been changed, & said "Feds go home". For at least a week iirc. Idk if that was the city or if someone messed with it, but it's a programmed thing, and I know _everyone_ was sick of them (sent in by the potus at the time) and the cops, too. The orange clouds of pepper spray were frequent and enormous, spreading wide to fill streets and often many storeys high on residential buildings. And the property damage! I couldn't believe my eyes as while officers marched the protestors, along the way, said officers would often take out their blade & go popping out tyres on parked cars. More than once! Clearly just to swing their lil PPs around. Smh my head. Seriously, just... They did way worse, but this is exemplary of the attitude. ...But...
Anyway, yeah. It was also fun to overreact whenever any cop literally just touched the fence, like, "Omg! That cop's _leaning_ on The Sacred Fence! He can't do that!"
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That drawing of the Sacred Fence is pretty funny. It also kinda makes my skin itch.
Interesting that the cops helped perpetuate the _wanton destruction_ they claimed to be preventing. 😒
Keith Olbermann recalled a conversation with Rush Limbaugh from the 1990s in which he said that his biggest dream was to be an ESPN host like Keith.
Becoming the thing you parody sounds a bit like what happened to Adam Carolla. How Adam went from Loveline hero to podcast bastard is heartbreaking.
did this get demonetized on youtube? I'm not getting any ads at all.
I initially had the same reaction to Limbaugh as Paul, when I was relatively apolitical recent college grad in 2001. That naive innocence lasted about three months. It stopped being funny when it hit me what he was really about, and 9/11 also happened. I've been liberal ever since. Thanks Rush!
I wish I could find part two, but I'm at work and I can flip through my phone. 😕
The world would have been a better place if Rush had become a shock jock instead.
He tried. And failed.
I saw this title and was like, when and why was Paul on Rush? I thought he was chill! Is this going to ruin The Thrilling Adventure Hour for me?
This is the happiest I've ever been to realize I've been a dumbass.
I like how one of the first things I think of when it comes to Rush was an ancient flash cartoon where someone spliced him to sing a song about how he was a nazi.
Paul first hit my radar as a stand-up comic and live-action actor a la Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny so it's odd to hear him referred to as a voice actor even though Bojack is one of my favorite animated shows of all time.
As a little kid on long island in the 80's I was a Stern fan. And if he taught me anything, it was that Rush was a no-talent moron.
Thanks Howie.
My now ex-husband listened to Rush in the last 80's - early 90's when he was in his heyday. I always hated his bullshit but I couldn't get away from it in the house.
12:40- Holy shit, that sounds like something my grandfather would've said.
12:37 "Kender, you're gonna be the first Dutchman on the moon! I dont know exactly what he meant by that."
C'mon, it's the famous catchphrase from The Honeymooners!
"One of these days, Alice! Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!"
He was saying the kid was annoying him to the point that he was going to punch him hard enough to send him all the way into space and land on the moon.
Rush's fully formed guest appearance sounds exactly like classic 80s wrestling heels like Bobby Heenan and Jesse Ventura, or to a much lesser extent, Jerry Lawler. where they're deliberately cartoonish, insulting, mean-spirited, bullheaded and boastful in a way that's meant to get a negative reaction from most people, but also gets a lot of people to side with them because they're such a larger than life personality and so insulting to anyone who disagrees with them. It's that half-satire thing where if you take them seriously and point out they're being stupid, you're not getting the joke, so you're an idiot, but if you happen to agree with them, then they were sincere all along and you're very smart for agreeing. Except those guys had the sense to never actually become their characters, and also they were usually just opining about who is the better wrestler, not about politics.
It's weird how so many people whose careers basically amount to saying their opinions in the media... all have the same opinion about how anyone can get ahead in the land of opportunity as long as they pull themselves up by their bootstraps... and also just so happen to have been airlifted into whatever job they wanted to do by their daddies when they were teenagers with zero work experience.
This whole toxic mentality just seems to be born out of people being desperately in denial about how little talent really had to do with their success.
Rush did one pretty rad thing by dying.
One thing that bothers me about people in new media is that they never bother to find out how to pronounce names
Ze'ev is pronounced zev....short e
It's a Hebrew name
Having grown up on NPR, I take it for granted that people who speak into microphones learn how to pronounce things properly.
But I also recognize it may take some effort to locate such information, which is not necessarily accurate.
55:40 For Robert in the past, Ze'ev Chafets is a Hebrew name.
Was Robert Evans at Cracked previously, Or am I imaging that? I remember enjoying the few on camera things he did.
Yes, he was the editor for Cracked.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_(journalist)
I kinda wonder if Big Rush met my great-great-grandfather at some point if he was a special ambassador for India's legal system. My great-great grandfather was a minister in 2 of Nehru's cabinets, and later on a governor general, so there's a decent chance he met Big Rush somehow.
Listening to descriptions of things Rush did as someone who never had to listen to him is like looking at famous medieval art. You're vaguely aware that this was revolutionary at the time, but it feels kind of plain when you're in a society where a million other people are doing it.
It's Mr. Peanutbutter!
One of his famous dumbass moments, he was trying to illustrate while the ice caps melting wouldn't be that big of a deal. Ice in a glass of water melts, and doesn't raise the level of water in the glass (much, it does a little measurable bit but not much by volume). That's it. That was his point. Bro.
Paul sounds like what would happen if Henry Zebrowski quit caffeine
Rush's dad wasn't supportive of his dreams, but backed him anyway... Something to be said for that.
Can we assume that episodes about Henry Lee are being planned for the future?
I hope rush is just wandering around hell trying to talk to any soul, demon, or spirit he can find and he is completely ignored and alone. Like he's there, and he perceives being there, but no one else does. And i hope it's making him infinitely depressed.
They got Mr Peanutbutter?? Im so happy this is gonna be amazing
wow....my entire post correcting the record disappeared
1:04:20 I remember the 1990s living in California. It felt like Republicans here had to be uber Republicans (including indoctrinating their children) because of SF and Berkeley, and that's still true today. I don't know if I've ever seen a whinier bunch of spoiled children.
I don't know about the political angle, but I've read enough Christian media to know that there's a fear in that community of the kids losing their faith when they go to college. It's the first time away from the protective shelter of the family, they probably won't be able to go to the same church, and they are going to be exposed to the evils of academia - which is known to all good evangelicals to be a hotbed of atheistic indoctrination. There's always that fear that the kids will leave as good Christians and come back three years later as filthy heathens.
40:25
The first shock jock, for me, was Steve Dahl in Chicago in 1979.
Was he the douche that invited everyone to 🧨 blow up their disco records at the baseball stadium?
@@crnkmnky That's the one .
TheOriginalShockJock UA-cam channel. Just found out about it. 😆
"He was scary smart"
I can't imagine how dumb his roommate was.
OMG u got Paul F "I don't get the Jazz joke" Tompkins?
I used to listen to Limbaugh in the days when I was a conservative, and Limbaugh was not nearly as much of a raging dick as he became later in life. It was around the time Obama came onto the scene and Limbaugh began the most closeted and later OVERT racist diatribes against Obama that I quickly changed my mind (well, that and meeting more people with different points of view that changed my way of looking at the world.)
When he started, he was indeed a bit of a caricature, and did not take even himself too seriously, making jokes at his own expense. But during the late 90s it was obvious he really began to believe his own BS, his own crap never stank, and conservatives never did anything wrong (and everyone else did).
So in the 80s when he would play music and celebrate and laugh while reading names of people who were dying from AIDs that was.... totally cool to you?
@@patrickmcpartland1398 when I listened I never heard him do any of that. Whether it was willful ignorance on my part, or I just never heard the shows where he did things like that, I couldn’t say. Most of the shows I listened to were him giving (ludicrous) dating advice, making jokes about “feminazis” and taking the piss at himself, whether about his weight, his smoking, his career, and taking about how infallible he was. He went from being over the top to actually believing what he said, and it was all downhill from there.
Say what you will about Rush Limbaugh but he got me very interested in watching Day of the Dolphin
Over the decades I attempted to listen to Rush Limbaugh several times. I couldn't last more than five minutes before I had to turn him off. Not funny, racist and dumb in all ways.
I had a friend back in 1992 who subscribed to the Limbaugh Letter. For $6 an issue he got 18 pages of large text, larger borders and at least a third of it was comics. The rest was regurgitated bile from the show. I showed my friend a copy of a magazine I subscribed to for $1 a month: 80 pages of dense text on a wide variety of subjects written by leading journalists and writers. He couldn't see the difference.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s. I watched a ton of shows such as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jesse Raphael, People are Talking, etc. They often had extreme right-wing guests on to talk about their views including plenty of Klansmen, Aryan Nations guys, libertarians, etc. I learned early how awful these people were and thus was quickly inoculated against the right-wing. I was never going to jell with Limbaugh.
Superego and BTB, peanut butter and chococlate.
I say to you he deyud!
All the time, I didn't know Paul F. Tompkins was a local guy.
It sounds like he gained an abiding cynicism for how easy the proles were to dupe and he never forgave them. Nobody would laugh at his satire so he decided they deserved to have the house burned down.
Makes him a tragic figure really. A victim of Dame Fate. Oedipusshole.
As someone from Sacramento, I’m sorry
did you know he wanted out of sacto from almost the day he got there?
he would send tapes to kgo on an almost weekly basis
think about that....rush wanted to move one of the most liberal cities in the usa just to get out of sacramento
My parents were IMMENSELY more politically active than Rush at the same time despite being 5&6 years younger 😅 (they did grow up in NY lol)
I kind of hesitate to make this comment, cuz maybe it'll sound like some defense of rush or w/e, but listening to you guys has just reminded me of how the last 7 yrs have really made me painfully aware of what little natural defenses the 'mainstream', or 'normies' or w/e you want to call them, have against trolling
like, you can just troll them repeatedly and they will never recognize it -- like some prey animal that evolves on an island with no natural predators
when I was a kid we'd go fishing and there was this one pest fish that was everywhere and you could just put a bare hook inthe water and they'd bite -- that's what the general public is like
and the reason I even bring this up is cuz it's a big problem for society imo, if we keep biting the bare hooks and can't even recognize + id our natural predators
People need to get wiser, quicker, to the fact that there are liars in the room. And I mean that some people are just _not_ like the rest of us. Any garden variety sociopath thinks about social interactions substantially differently from the majority of the population, and that's not even considering the truly malignant ones. There's a pretty good argument to be made for 'addition by subtraction' IMHO, but that's some pretty dark territory and the slipperiest of slopes.
to be fair to Limbaugh family.... "condolences at the loss. I am still going to dance on his grave but... I'll give you time to morn...." Was what I said when he died. Who's up for plane tickets to Rushs' grave for a rave!