Time, as the saying goes, flies. And Sean Hannity captures the moment exactly.
Over there on his website, Hannity headlines:
Trump Pays Tribute to Rush Limbaugh Five Years After Radio Legend's Death
The former president honors the conservative icon who shaped the movement that transformed American politics.
The story reports:
Five years after America lost one of its greatest conservative voices, President Trump continues to honor the monumental legacy of Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio titan who shaped minds and moved mountains in American political discourse. The EIB Network host didn’t just entertain millions daily—he built the conservative movement that would eventually propel Trump to the White House and fundamentally reshape the Republican Party.
Sean goes on to say:
The radio legend’s influence extends far beyond the airwaves into the heart of today’s conservative policy victories. From tax cuts that unleashed economic growth to deregulation that freed American businesses, Limbaugh’s free-market philosophy lives on in every Trump administration achievement. His commitment to constitutional principles helped educate generations of Americans who now form the backbone of the MAGA movement.
Exactly.
To say the least, Rush Limbaugh’s impact on both the conservative movement and the nation as a whole was both far reaching and considerable.
Rush, of course, was not alone. He was the heir to a movement that featured such key players as William F. Buckley Jr., R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Arizona’s “Mr. Conservative" Senator Barry Goldwater -- and, of course, President Ronald Reagan.
Collectively the conservative movement gained considerable steam with the creation of media outlets that brought the movement to public attention.
From Buckley’s National Review to Tyrrell’s American Spectator and on to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Chris Ruddy’s Newsmax, the conservative movement was on the move.
But nowhere was that more vividly illustrated than with the arrival of Rush Limbaugh on the radio. From Monday through Friday, from noon to three, like clockwork Rush was there on the radio, broadcasting to the nation in ways both intellectually demanding and often enough hilarious. Not to mention that it was Rush who essentially created the industry of what quickly became known as “conservative talk radio.”
Over here are the thoughts from James Golden, Rush’s longtime sidekick famous to Rush’s daily audience of thirty million as “Bo Snerdley.” James notes well when he says:
Five years later, millions of his thirty million listeners still miss his voice, wisdom, humor, and ever-present optimism that America would remain a great and good nation, thanks to their values and the fruit of their hard work.
Exactly. And James goes on to add:
There is no question that his success on the radio, as an author and publisher, in television, and online changed America’s media landscape. He broke wide open – the media “dam” that suppressed the voices and values of almost half the country. The “silent majority” through Rush Limbaugh, found its voice.
And find its voice that “silent majority” surely did.
Right here at NewsBusters is the home made possible by Brent Bozell and his creation of the Media Research Center. As the MRC notes:
For nearly four decades, the MRC has been the unrelenting counterforce to leftist bias in America’s newsrooms, broadcast networks, and Big Tech platforms.
The elitist media don’t just report the news; they weaponize it. They choose what you see, what you never hear, and how you’re supposed to think. For generations, they’ve tilted elections, driven policy, and reshaped culture through selective facts, glaring omissions, and shameless spin.
We exist to end that monopoly. We are the receipts the media pray you never see. We are the voice they try to silence.
In short, as the conservative movement gained steam, Rush arrived on the scene to translate the movement from the written pages of Buckley and Tyrrell’s magazines to the widespread use of radio. And Rush was so very, very good at it.
Over time, as noted, he had an audience of some thirty million Americans who listened to him every one of those five days a week.
It should be noted that when he passed, seasoned radio guys and conservatives Clay Travis and Buck Sexton moved into his time slot with the Clay and Buck Show carrying the Rush tradition forward and doing a superb job of it. And that doesn’t count the contributions of Hannity, Glenn Beck and so many others.
But without question Rush has been missed over the last five years and, for those who were alive in the day when he was on the air, he will continue to be missed.
So one more time?
Thank you Rush. Your legacy lives on - and always will.
Onward!
