Happy Birthday Rush Limbaugh!

This is what it’s all about. 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/nn2dkff15U

— PragerU (@prageru) April 9, 2021

The greatest of all time.

Don’t skip the first two clips.

Limbaugh was born on January 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to parents Rush Hudson Limbaugh II and Mildred Carolyn (née Armstrong) Limbaugh. He and his younger brother David were born into the prominent political Limbaugh family; his father was a lawyer and a United States fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His mother was from Searcy, Arkansas.

Limbaugh was partly of German ancestry.  The family includes many lawyers, including his grandfather, father and brother; his uncle, Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr., was a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. His cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., is a judge in the same court, appointed by George W. Bush. Limbaugh’s grandfather, Rush Limbaugh Sr., was a Missouri prosecutor, judge, special commissioner, member of the Missouri House of Representatives in the 1930s, and longtime president of the Missouri Historical Society.

In 1969 Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School, where he played football and was a Boys State delegate.  At age 16 he worked his first radio job at KGMO, a local radio station. He used the airname Rusty Sharpe having found “Sharpe” in a telephone book.  Limbaugh later cited Chicago DJ Larry Lujack as a major influence on him, saying Lujack was “the only person I ever copied.”  In deference to his parents’ desire that he attend college, he enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University but dropped out after two semesters. According to his mother, “he flunked everything, he just didn’t seem interested in anything except radio.”

Excellent hit with William Buckley…

1992. Rush Limbaugh with William Buckley. pic.twitter.com/qjFUlBtq7D

— Maze (@mazemoore) October 18, 2022

Full speech.  It is long but feels short.