Miss you Rush. Been a ditto head since the 80s when my dad introduced me to you. You really helped shape my political world view. God speed.

How refreshing.

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Learn something everyday - did not know Chrissy was all for Rush using "My City Was Gone" - figured she begrudgingly allowed it for the cash. She did get paid a royalty every year but this is a good story.

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Wow. I've never seen this.

That is news to me as well. A good buddy of mine that's an insanely talented musician (Don Henley's road guitarist) played my bday party last summer. I asked him to soundcheck "My City Was Gone" before the party. He's pretty apolitical but hates Trump but said he loves the song. I knew he would tie my request to Rush though since he knows where I stand on politics.

He obliged and it sounded amazing. Then afterwards he asked me not to post the video on FB because his liberal friends would lose their minds which is sad but typical.

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Learn something everyday - did not know Chrissy was all for Rush using "My City Was Gone" - figured she begrudgingly allowed it for the cash. She did get paid a royalty every year but this is a good story.

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Wow. I've never seen this.

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They played a clip of Rush talking about this on Friday I think.
There are still some "liberals" in the classic mold but they are getting to be few and far between.

Rush's public acknowledgement of his personal relationship with the Lord will produce a lot of fruit imho.

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They played a clip of Rush talking about this on Friday I think.
There are still some "liberals" in the classic mold but they are getting to be few and far between.

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Agreed. Camille Paglia is one, and she was a fan of Rush.

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Learn something everyday - did not know Chrissy was all for Rush using "My City Was Gone" - figured she begrudgingly allowed it for the cash. She did get paid a royalty every year but this is a good story.

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Around 1998 there was some confusion over his use of the song and they didn't play it. Word was Hynde had forbidden it. Turned out that was wrong and she was fine with him using it. Seems an overzealous underling was speaking for her, incorrectly.

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Big Al 1992 said:

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Learn something everyday - did not know Chrissy was all for Rush using "My City Was Gone" - figured she begrudgingly allowed it for the cash. She did get paid a royalty every year but this is a good story.

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Around 1998 there was some confusion over his use of the song and they didn't play it. Word was Hynde had forbidden it. Turned out that was wrong and she was fine with him using it. Seems an overzealous underling was speaking for her, incorrectly.

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I remember that. He spent like a week trying out different music (including some Stevie Ray) but none of it worked because his show was just so identified eith that bass line intro. He was very gracious about it though.

If I remember correctly (and I could be wrong) Chrissie called in to the show and apologized for the confusion and said he was welcome to use the song.

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So I looked this up after I posted the above (of course) and I was a bit off. She didn't call the program but I think he played audio of a radio interview where she was asked about Rush using the song and saying she was fine with it.

I found the following on Rush's website from when she tweeted the above:

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She was on PLJ in New York and they asked her about it. "I don't care. If Rush wants to use it, fine with me," which totally confounded her publishing company. So, we got the song back. The reason is that her dad was a huge fan of this program. Her dad's name was Melville. His nickname was Bud, and Chrissie Hynde says that her late father, Melville, would have loved Trump's presidency, would have absolutely adored Trump, and would have just been excited as he could be when Trump presented to me the Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union.

"Liberal rock star" She's a big animal rights aficionado. Of course, you know, we've had our fun with the animal rights activists over the course of this program's tenure. "Liberal rock star Chrissie Hynde has shocked her fans by praising Donald Trump for honoring conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, saying her father 'would have been so delighted.' Hynde, the lead singer of The Pretenders, wrote an open letter to President Trump on Twitter Monday in which she says her late father Melville would have 'enjoyed' his presidency.

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So, I just wanted to play a portion of the song, wanted to let you know where it comes from and to thank Chrissie Hynde for her comments in the Daily Mail today.

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https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/02/18/a-big-thank-you-to-chrissie-hynde/

I remember on a road trip I was cycling through stations and I came across that familiar tune. I was confused for a moment (It wasn't anywhere close to Rush's time slot, and not the top of the hour in any case) before realizing that it was an actual song and I had stumbled across some random radio station that had it in it's rotation.

The first (and to this day, only) time I heard it in it's entirety.

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I remember on a road trip I was cycling through stations and I came across that familiar tune. I was confused for a moment (It wasn't anywhere close to Rush's time slot, and not the top of the hour in any case) before realizing that it was an actual song and I had stumbled across some random radio station that had it in it's rotation.

The first (and to this day, only) time I heard it in it's entirety.

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I listened to Rushes CPAC speech from 2009 and was confused when the words of her song started lol.

I miss Rush.

I hope at some point his wife will reveal the whole story behind Trump getting him to the captiol for the SOTU last year. He mentioned serval times that the efforts Trump took in the background were pretty extraordinary, but never went into full detail.

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I miss Rush.

I hope at some point his wife will reveal the whole story behind Trump getting him to the captiol for the SOTU last year. He mentioned serval times that the efforts Trump took in the background were pretty extraordinary, but never went into full detail.

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Rush went into it during one of his shows.

Rush had an appointment with his oncologist for further tests or to begin his treatment and it was going to be an all day affair. Rush was noncommittal to President Trump due to time constraints. Trump either called, or offered to call, his oncologist. Trump also said he'd send a plane, not sure if it would be AF1, to pick him up. Even though Rush had his own jet, this might have sped things up.

I might have left some out, but that's the gist of the story.

I will never again hear this song and not get a little misty-eyed thinking of Rush's sign-off on his last show of 2020:

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This IS his real death certificate. Note occupation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9336647/Rush-Limbaughs-death-certificate-says-greatest-radio-host-time.html

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Where does it list COVID as cause of death?

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This IS his real death certificate. Note occupation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9336647/Rush-Limbaughs-death-certificate-says-greatest-radio-host-time.html

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Wasn't his given name Russell? Did he have it legally changed to Rush?

Nope, Rush was his grandads name. When he was a kid, they called him Rusty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbaugh_family

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They played a clip of Rush talking about this on Friday I think.
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Agreed. Camille Paglia is one, and she was a fan of Rush.

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I didn't know that! I just love and respect her more than. Her writings are great. Somewhat like Gore Vidal, the kind of liberal you can learn a great deal from, and not some West basher.

And from the quote, Chrissie Hynde understands the real American Ideal perfectly.

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I didn't know that! I just love and respect her more than. Her writings are great. Somewhat like Gore Vidal, the kind of liberal you can learn a great deal from, and not some West basher.

And from the quote, Chrissie Hynde understands the real American Ideal perfectly.

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All the traditional Liberals have been or will soon be eaten by the SJW Cancel Commissars.

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They played a clip of Rush talking about this on Friday I think.
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I didn't know that! I just love and respect her more than. Her writings are great. Somewhat like Gore Vidal, the kind of liberal you can learn a great deal from, and not some West basher.

And from the quote, Chrissie Hynde understands the real American Ideal perfectly.

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No doubt. But has Camille Paglia been attacked yet, I wonder. She would probably be able to take them apart. With wit and wisdom in equal measure!

Interview with the Vamp Why Camille Paglia hates affirmative action, defends Rush Limbaugh, and respects Ayn Rand

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During this meal, Rush Limbaugh came up casuallysome woman who was a radio person in Connecticut mentioned that her competition was Rush Limbaugh, and there was a snicker throughout the entire room.

Well, I lost it, I went totally bananas. I lit into them, and I said: "This is outrageous, this kind of demonization of Rush Limbaugh! How many people in this room have actually listened to his program?" One hand, all right? "How many people here have looked at his books, which are bestsellers?" No one. "You are supposed to be here at the Kennedy School of Government as experts in contemporary politics, contemporary cultural issues, right? Do you understand that when you have that attitude toward Rush Limbaugh, you are insulting and demeaning and excluding the millions of his listeners? There's an entire world out there in America that you have no knowledge of!"

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Rush Limbaugh 1993 The David Letterman show

Rush Limbaugh: The 1991 60 Minutes Interview

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Interview with the Vamp Why Camille Paglia hates affirmative action, defends Rush Limbaugh, and respects Ayn Rand

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During this meal, Rush Limbaugh came up casuallysome woman who was a radio person in Connecticut mentioned that her competition was Rush Limbaugh, and there was a snicker throughout the entire room.

Well, I lost it, I went totally bananas. I lit into them, and I said: "This is outrageous, this kind of demonization of Rush Limbaugh! How many people in this room have actually listened to his program?" One hand, all right? "How many people here have looked at his books, which are bestsellers?" No one. "You are supposed to be here at the Kennedy School of Government as experts in contemporary politics, contemporary cultural issues, right? Do you understand that when you have that attitude toward Rush Limbaugh, you are insulting and demeaning and excluding the millions of his listeners? There's an entire world out there in America that you have no knowledge of!"

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Her takes are pretty amazing. Some will completely offend and out there, but all are thought out. And she nails the Clinton dynamic then. (Note: this is pre-Monica, and no later than July 1995 as magazine covers back then meant display through the month before the cover date' generally. So Aug/Sep cover -- Probably the interview is start of summer '95 )

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Reason: You repeatedly call yourself a Clinton Democrat. What do you mean by that?

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Sound familiar?

Prophetic of the 21st C behavior too:

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He needs her to be like the mastermind, to discipline staff and keep him on a schedule. And I think that the fall of the Clintons came the moment he split her off from himself and put her in charge, very hubristically, of health care. A job for which she had no real credentials, a process in which she behaved like Evita Peron and totally lost my respectthe secrecy and the high handedness, the arrogance, the simplistic political judgments that brought down the whole enterprise.

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But I regard affirmative action as perniciousa system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. And the number one sign of it is in the universities. The elite schools were destroyed by affirmative action for women, not for blacks. I want to see more African Americans everywhere, but I do not want to see any kind of quota system. The way the Ivy League just absolutely, servilely pursued candidates because of the nature of their gonads, not the nature of their mental life or of their intellectual accomplishments: Every single humanities department faculty in the Ivy League was polluted and destroyed by affirmative action in the '70s and '80s, and we are paying the price for it now.

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I always thought Camille would be a great person to sit down with, share a bottle of wine and talk politics, pop culture & life in general.

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Learn something everyday - did not know Chrissy was all for Rush using "My City Was Gone" - figured she begrudgingly allowed it for the cash. She did get paid a royalty every year but this is a good story.

The other day when you gave that award to Rush Limbaugh, my father would have been so delighted. He loved listening to Rush, which is why I allowed my song, 'My City Was Gone', to be used on his radio show.
My father and I didn't always see eye-to-eye. We argued a lot.. [p2.]

— Chrissie Hynde (@ChrissieHynde) February 17, 2020

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Outstanding.

No disrespect to Buck and Clay, but I miss Rush tremendously.

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I always thought Camille would be a great person to sit down with, share a bottle of wine and talk politics, pop culture & life in general.

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I had not seen that article from 1995 before, but it was a fascinating read. I would imagine that some of her positions have evolved in the last quarter-century since that article, too, and that is to be expected.

One thing she is not is boring or milquetoast.

Calling people out for blindly pooh-poohing Rush Limbaugh is totally in character, and should be the norm for people who rail mindlessly because the zeitgeist of the uninformed tells them to.

miss Rush a lot as well