10 Things You Didn't Know About Rush Limbaugh
1. Rush Limbaugh III was born on Jan. 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. His grandfather was a prominent attorney who practiced law past the age of 100 and has a U.S. courthouse in Cape Girardeau named after him. His father was also an attorney, as well as a Republican activist.
2. When Limbaugh was 16, his father lent him money for a summer course in radio engineering. Two of his early radio aliases were "Rusty Sharpe" and "Jeff Christie."
3. Limbaugh attended Southeast Missouri State University but dropped out after a year of poor performance.
4. In the '80s, he worked in the office of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team, where he made $12,000 a year; he almost quit to take a more lucrative job as a potato-chip distributor.
5. He was so influential in the "Republican Revolution" of 1994 that he was dubbed by the new GOP members of Congress the "Majority Maker" and deemed an honorary member of the group.
6. Despite naming Ronald Reagan as his greatest influence, Limbaugh never actually voted for him because he didn't register to vote until he was 35.
7. After he went deaf in 2001 because of an autoimmune inner ear disease, Limbaugh hired a stenographer who sends him real-time transcripts of on-air conversations. He also has a cochlear implant that enables him to hear callers.
8. In 2006, Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in someone else's name in his bag.
9. Limbaugh has been married and divorced three times. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas officiated at his third wedding.
10. Limbaugh shares a secluded 24,000-square-foot beachfront mansion in Palm Beach with his cat, Pumpkin. A life-size oil portrait of Limbaugh hangs on the wall of the main staircase. The property contains four other homes, all owned by him.
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Sources:
- New York Times
- The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan From God
- Southeast Missourian
- Time
- Associated Press
- St. Paul Pioneer Press
Reader Comments
Rush Good for America, good for freddom
Since the education of what made America a Great nation where every man has the opportunity to rise to the level of their hopes and dream is sadly lacking. A voice who understands those principals is a voice crying in the wilderness in most today's media. Government can not and will not represent the path to move America forward, only a free market economy can do that. Those who see themselves as enlightened voicing larger government mandates, funded by evcr increasing taxes, handouts favoring one section of the economy, special groups of the population, completely miss the lessons history has taught us, or as in the case of our educational system, chosen to not focus on that part of our history where the yeoman, the trades man, the shop keeper, the farmer, rancher, build this nation to the prominence it has in the world today. What other country is know as the land of opportunity, is that still true today? Rush understands that evcr growing restraints placed on our citizens, by those subscribing to the Obama left wing agenda, where opportunity is granted by the government, where peoples rights are no longer inalienable, where the working man fruits are seen as a resource to fund the next great government handout, or program strangling the very vine from which the fruit was produced. Go ahead rail against Rush and those voicing a similar message, but to do so we look at what countries who have chosen the path that a small group of ruling party members know what's best for the worker, have left the worker in dismal straits, economies stagnant, where a mans spirit sags to the level field of hopelessness, and despair, where no one is free to change their stars, once America becomes that place, the place of Obama's true vision, where on this globe will the dreamers spirit yearn to flee. Where will the next beacon of freedom beckon, It doesn't exist, It's here, and we have been blessed to be a part of the one great moment in history, where a place exists that a boy can arise in the morning, put his boots on, and go forth and change his stars. Rush understands the reality of these words, and has the guts to speak them in a public forum. We need alot more like him. When our news media fails to speak the truth they fail to be relavant, and are less and less influence in our society. We the people know the truth, but sometimes we need to take the time to listen hear the message long enough for it to be once again fixed in our hearts and minds. Good Bless, the USA
CAT
Only a cat would live with this jerk.
Rush and Glen
Rush Limbaugh is the most ignorant individual I have ever seen. He turns me completely off. He is NO entertainer. He believes everything he says. He insights the ignorant. I think he should be taken off the air with his hateful talk. Why he is still on the air is beyond me. He and Glen Beck are the worst. I can't stomach either one of them. This country needs to look forward not backward. They both need to crawl back under the rocks where they came from. They both are the lowest form of humanity.
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