where you were when you first heard Limpbaugh?

[pstokely]

he's having a worst of show today of his past 15 years

[Galley_Queen]

1. Sarasota, Florida

when he first came on television. I watched him for about 2-3 days and realized what a pig he was. So I promptly made cardboard cut outs of piggy ears and a piggy nose. Whenever his commercial would come on promoting his show, I would race to the TV to see if I could stick the ears and nose on him before the end of the commercial. Always got a laugh out of any guest that happened to be there.


Edit: typo

[slackmaster]

2. Same place most people were

Driving.

[Generic Other]

3. In a dented Gran Torino

with only one radio station!

[Parche]

4. Where was I?

I was on the turlet taking a "Limbaugh"!!!!!!hahaha
Just kidding

[chadm]

5. I was a Freshmen in college...

taking Econ 101. I actually liked him, according to what I was learning in that class, he made perfect sense. Of course I later found out that economics doesn't necessarily represent reality.

[Loonman]

6. On his old TV show

Smoking a bong with my Gothic-rocker ex-girlfriend.

We looked at each other, and said "what the hell is this guy's problem?", and both discovered we were independents with liberal Democrat leanings.

[quilp]

7. First time I heard of his "joke" about Chelsea Clinton.

I was down the shore on a rainy day watching CNN.

[htuttle]

8. Can't listen to him -- he gives me explosive diarrhea.

Probably a sympathetic reaction to his 'prose'.

[roughsatori]

I never have listened to him even once

and have no plans to.

[MrMonk]

9. On a long drive through the Southwest

At first, I thought he was indulging in hyperbole and satire, and I thought that was kind of entertaining. After listening to a few more shows, I realized that was his entire schtick, and I became bored. A little later, I discovered that he meant his audience to take him seriously, and I moved on through contempt to revulsion.

[MrMonk]

10. What does he consider to be his "worst"?

Dup post deleted.

[KayLaw]

11. Rural Virginia

I can't remember exactly what liitle town it was but near our home in Eagle Rock. My husband and I stopped at a diner for lunch. The radio was turned up loud and everyone was silently eating lunch and listening. When anyone spoke they spoke in hushed tones like they were in church. It was very creepy and I felt like I was in a sci-fi movie.

[Norbert]

12. I was on a service call in Troy, Ohio

in my old job. This was around the summer of 1989. I listened to a good 1/2 hour of the show trying to figure out if he was in earnest with what he was saying.

It was like watching a train wreck. I just couldn't turn away.

[Az]

13. When I first heard Rush I thought he was a liberal

No really. I was part of a software support team that was unusually all liberal. We would turn on the radio at noon and listen to Rush. We thought he was a liberal making fun of conservatives by overdoing everything to bizarre extremes. Satire. We would laugh our heads off. That was of course until it began to dawn on us that he was real.

[flamingyouth]

14. On TV

He appalled me to no end - what I remember most was him showing a picture of then-12-year-old Chelsea Clinton and calling her the White House dog.

Who the hell makes fun of the way a 12-year-old looks? Especially when he is probably the ugliest (inside and out) MoFo on the planet?!

[Jivenwail]

15. In March

Where I was buying my new vehicle, in the salesman's office.

I wanted to puke.

[Sephirstein]

16. When I was downloading funny political music...

It was 99% Limbaugh and Shanklin. I actually still find it pretty funny even though I always new it was bullshit.

[tom_paine]

17. Lived in Sacramento, CA in the late 1980s

Heard of him then.

My first thought was, "Just ignore that little man and he'll go away."

But monsters NEVER go away of their own accord.

That's what they said about Hitler in the 20s.

They were wrong then, too.

[Ilsa]

18. In my office

Mr. Anal Cyst was bashing military women for complaining about Tailhook.

[newyawker99]

23. Congrats Ilsa!! 500 posts

:toast:

[mreilly]

19. He's not special enough to merit any such memories for me

Where was I when I first heard of the propagandizing gasbag? I dunno. Where was I when I heard of Hannity, Snow, Coulter, Carlson, Weiner, or the rest of the mindless bunch? I dunno. I don't recall when I first became aware of the existence of any of the paid liars for the Republican party; probably when I was developing the conclusion that this sad excuse for a party is long on ignorance and bullshit and short on ideas or results.

[Lady President]

20. College dorm

I can actually clearly remember the first time I saw his show. One of the local channels was showing him really late at night. I had been drinking and stayed up laughing at it. It took until the commercial to realize that it wasn't Saturday Night Live. I truly thought it was a funny spoof.

[geniph]

21. Other than catching two minutes in passing

when working on a client's machine or in a retail place that was playing it, I don't think I've ever actually heard him. Reading what he's said is bad enough, I can't imagine sitting and listening to it.

[ilpostino]

22. Thank you, Mike

Never even heard of him until 60 Minutes did a profile on him. Chalk one more up for the SLM.

[proud patriot]

24. A Road Trip

:puke:

[DS1]

25. Inside one of these

My crewchief was Rushbot.

[commander bunnypants]

26. working for a bunch of republican physicians

During Clinton's try for Universal Health Care coverage. I was very alone.


DEMMAN

[CO Liberal]

27. Boonton, New Jersey

A co-worker had El Rushbo on his radio back in the '80s, when he was only broadcasting on WABC in New Youk. Rush was saying horrible things about Rep. Barney Clark, with Millie Small's 1965 hit "My Boy Lollipop" playing in the background.

I thought Rush was scum then - he's done nothing in the intervening years to change my very low opinion of him.