Feb 22, 2021
MARK: The tone… You know, I won’t disguise it. The tone changed in the last year.
There were far too many appearances by us guest hosts. And when Rush was here, as I said, he often had deep and profound thoughts on his mind. Here is Rush from his last show before Christmas. It would be his last Christmas show. Here is Rush talking about what he has learned over the previous grim 12 months.
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RUSH: Folks, I want to tell you at the outset here, to me this is a very important program.
I have very much that I want to say to all of you today, and I’m feeling very pressured. Not pressured. I’m feeling stage fright kind of thing. There’s so much I want to say, and I want to say it correctly. I want to convey my feelings, and I want to do it right. I want to do it to the best of my ability. Now, I have found in circumstances like this that the best thing to do is not to think about it.
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“Even if I can’t make it back, know that this is where I want to be, I will always want to be right here with you and I won’t quit fighting to be right here with you.”
~ Rush Limbaugh, December 23, 2020, last show of the year
If you tuned into the Rush Limbaugh show on December 23rd, the last hour was very emotional. This was Rush’s last show of 2020 Supporters called in to tell him how much he meant to them. They think of him as family. One man was choked up as he talked about how much Rush reminded him of his father.
On Wednesday, during his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh highlighted his appreciation for the program's listeners as he grapples with late-stage cancer. | Clips
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh opened his final broadcast of 2020 on Wednesday pretty much the same way legions of Rushophiles have come to know and love for the last 32 years…
“And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. It is great to have you here today. Great to be with you. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Studies of All Things That Matter. Telephone number, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. We’re gonna do a version of Open Line Friday today, Mr. Snerdley.”