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When I first heard of Rush Limbaugh, it wasn’t because I was listening to talk radio at the time. It was because my hard leftist mother was listening to him, which she confessed to me once that she did so daily. When I asked her who he was, she seemed surprised that I didn’t know since she knew that I was a right of center sort of guy, and told me that he was this "right-wing extremist whack job" who made her mad as hell. I asked her, if he makes you so mad, why do you listen to him? She replied that she did so because, "if there’s a snake in your house, you had better know where he is."

I shook my head at that. I have successfully avoided listening to Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberman, and nut burgers like them, exactly because life’s too short to dance with ugly women.

But El Rushbo was no ugly woman. He was hilarious. I didn’t always agree with him 100% of the time.....although I usually did.....but I always thought he was bright, funny, insightful, and brave. Why brave? Because, in a land of an overwhelmingly leftist Democrat Steno Pool (AKA “the media”), he didn’t give a hoot if you disagreed with him, and he wasn’t afraid to tangle with people who buy ink by the barrel. He knew he was faithful to his conscience and could look himself in the mirror every morning without flinching, and I admired that.

He was a mensch.

RIP, Rush. Go with God.