Rush Limbaugh Quotes
I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.
Limbaugh, Rush. The Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere Networks, 16 May 2014.
This was a new political phenomenon where a President was perceived as more important, more powerful, and preferable to his party. Note that the base of the scale is labeled “Public Opinion”.
Smithsonian: “Donovan, the chief of the OSS, was so eager to show off his agency’s latest lethal gadget—a pistol with a total silencer—that he took one and a sandbag to the Oval Office. While President Franklin D. Roosevelt was busy dictating to his secretary, Donovan fired ten rounds into the sandbag. FDR gave no notice and never stopped talking, so Donovan wrapped his handkerchief around the still-hot barrel and presented the weapon to the president, telling him what he had just done.” Donovan, Medal of Honor recipient and a wealthy Wall Street Businessman who recruited socialites, baseball players and other usual candidates, was a great favorite of Roosevelt’s, but his unorthodox methods and creative approaches tended to alienate him from J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and the Military Intelligence Officers. Yet he had amazing successes—especially in Europe. When Roosevelt died Donovan’s conservative enemies successfully lobbied President Truman and his cabinet to terminate the OSS, create the CIA and keep Donovan out of the CIA leadership.
There had just been a terrorist bombing in New York City and a suspect had been arrested. The suspect was a naturalized American citizen who had immigrated from Afghanistan. One of the then presidential candidates, Donald Trump, took to the airways and the internet to use the incident to support his view of prohibiting Muslim Immigrants and visitors entry into the United States. The governor was asked if it was appropriate for a presidential candidate to politicize the event.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host. He was best known as the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations.
