Rush's Parents

[erpowers]

It seems to me that Republican try to make Rush Limbaugh out to be a guy who grew up poor without priveliged parents. I learned today that Rush's parents were both promeint lawyers. His father was a corporate lawyer. He also had two relatives that were judges. In addition, Limbaugh first got on radio due to his father's connections.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Just like W

And here they claim to be like us common folk. :eyes:

[theboss]

2. That's fairly well known

Rush's family was pretty well-connected in Missouri Republican politics. I learned most of this from his Playboy interview that ran 12 or 13 years ago.

[Fleshdancer]

3. can poor people dodge the draft because of anal cysts??

I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

[BOSSHOG]

That condition

is medically treatable and can be waived for enlistment purposes. The true medical condition limbaugh has (lack of spine) made him unsuitable for military service for several reasons. There are many in the conservative community who have the same malady. They can't serve in the military but they sure are badasses behind a microphone.

[BOSSHOG]

6. That condition

is medically treatable and can be waived for enlistment purposes. The true medical condition limbaugh has (lack of spine) made him unsuitable for military service for several reasons. There are many in the conservative community who have the same malady. They can't serve in the military but they sure are badasses behind a microphone.

[underseasurveyor]

9. Apparently his father had the same problem.

Heredity maybe, but at any rate limbicle's father wasn't going to allow such a poor excuse to prevent him from performing his military service.

[Warpy]

4. We need to drive a stake into the heart of the Horatio Alger myth

once and for all. These guys who went from rags to riches always seem to have started off with some pretty classy damned rags, along with a huge selection of family and family friends to tap for seed money and employment favors when it was time for them to make their own way in the world.

Gates came from a family that was wealthy enough to send him to Harvard, ferkrissakes.

Lamebawl's people were wealthy corporate lawyers with clients he could tap for all sorts of favors.

Even if the scions of the rich don't inherit a fortune when they turn 21, what they do inherit is family and family connections that no amount of lottery money can buy.

This is one reason the Horatio Alger myth is so destructive. It fails to take all this into account, and those of us who were born without money or family connections are left to blame ourselves for not getting rich.

[underseasurveyor]

5. Doesn't bill o'really claim that he too grew up

poor, under privileged and on the wrong side of the tracks? Yet he clawed and struggled with every fiber of his good hard working moral character, (eeeewwwwww that left a sour taste in my mouth saying that x( ) got him the success he has today?

When in fact he grew up quite comfortably.

Liars, fookin' liars and hypocrites, all of em :eyes:

[Southsideirish]

7. Because, for a period in his life he was low on funds, he acts like he

pulled himself up from "his bootstraps" to the position he has now.

There is no way in hell that a well-to-do person who is temporarily low on money has any concept of what its like to be really poor (and, God forbid, he or she has chronic health problems.)

At any time Limpy could have gotten on the horn and called mommy or daddy to come to his aid.

[Canuckistanian]

8. It's like lying in a 2" pond of water

And yelling, "I can swim!"

[UTUSN]

10. He Would Respect Women More If His Mother Had Been a Lawyer

If he had grown up with a female professional in the house. In the early stages of Googling, there is no reference to the mother of Satan being a lawyer.

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http://www.legalunderground.com/2004/07/trial_lawyer_in.html

His father Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr., was a judge. His brother, David Scott Limbaugh, who graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Political Science and was Law Review at University of Missouri, is a practising lawyer who has served as a member of Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. David has also had a career in politics, as distinguished from just talking about politics.

http://semissourian.rustcom.net/story/1077489.html

.... ...Rush H. Limbaugh Sr., a scholarly lawyer and civic-minded gentleman whose life spanned more than a century of changes in the river city. ....

His son, Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr., is a federal judge in St. Louis and presided over a major court case involving desegregation of St. Louis public schools in the 1980s.

Stephen Limbaugh Sr. said in a 1984 Missourian interview that a good judge needs a good disposition.

Limbaugh said a sense of power comes with being a federal judge. "It's very ego-gratifying to be a federal judge," he said shortly after being appointed.

Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. practiced law for many years with another son, Rush H. Limbaugh Jr., who died in 1990 at the age of 72. Rush Limbaugh Jr. loved to talk politics, a characteristic he passed down to his son, famed conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh III. ....

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[UTUSN]

11. "Threatend by Women" - "Needs Woman Subservient"

There's just no reference to the mother working outside of the house. Her parents were DEMOCRATS from Arkansas and she wanted to be a jazz singer.

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http://capegirardeaucvb.org/rush.html

Millie adored being the mother of the country’s most popular radio talk show host. She admitted that her son is controversial and provocative. In support of her son, Millie claimed that she was more than a Ditto Head, “I am ‘The’ Ditto Head!” She spent evenings spinning the satellite dish trying to keep abreast of political news. ....

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1995/05/talbot.html

.... During a 1990 guest appearance on the "Pat Sajak Show," then CBS' late-night program, Limbaugh was rattled by ACT UP hecklers. To restore order, the entire audience was ushered out and a dejected Limbaugh delivered his final words to an empty studio. A CBS executive said, "He came out full of bluster and left a very shaken man. I had never seen a man sweat as much in my life."

Since then Rush has recalibrated his act. ....

The typical Limbaugh listener is a white male, suburbanite, conservative," says Times-Mirror pollster Andrew Kohut. "Better-than-average job, but not really a great job. Frustrated with the system, with the way the world of Washington works. Frustrated by cultural change. Maybe threatened by women." ....

These enterprising conservatives are salesmen, engineers, computer technicians, accountants, independent truckers, realtors, and owners of franchise food outlets. They want to make money. ....

But what really seems to inspire Van Gundy is Limbaugh's personal success: "He was a loser 10 or 12 years ago. He didn't have two nickels to rub together. And for him to have done this is just phenomenal. I just want my turn next." ....

Rush's strength is that his humor and his conservatism both come naturally. Before there was Rush, there was Big Rush, his 300-pound father--a Goldwater Republican and "an imposing presence, physically and mentally," according to Rush's younger brother, David. "We were indoctrinated at an early age."

But Rush inherited his prankish humor from his mother, Millie. While the Limbaugh men are beefy, Millie is Long Tall Sally. She hails from Arkansas, her parents were Democrats, and she set out to be a jazz singer. "I was paid to be a singer for about four months of my life," she recalls with a smile, "and that's been the biggest joy of my life, besides my family." ....

...His mother confesses, "I can't imagine what it would be like to be married to him," and adds, "I think he needs a wife subservient to him."

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