Remember Rush Limbaugh's TV show?

[Archae]

The syndicated one?

I watched it, (since by 11:30 at night there really wasn't much else on,) and there were times it could be actually funny, and entertaining.

BUT...

The last few months before it was canceled, the show got shrill, boring and repetitive.
Like in how many times did he show that same clip of Bill Clinton over and over and over...
(Even the audience was screaming "NO!" )

I stopped watching it, and soon it was shit-canned.

Now?

The same guy who called cancer from smoking "rare," and second-hand smoke "a liberal hoax," well, Karma can be a real nasty thing at times.
Even IF Rush survives, he's going to be hurting, a lot.

[Wounded Bear]

1. I think I saw it once, and I remember one thing from it...

There was a thing going around-pre twitter-about Rush wearing vertical stripes to hide his obesity. He protested loudly and firmly.

Closing credits showed: Mr Limbaugh's suits provided by a well-known "Big & Tall" shop.

[Norbert]

8. It was on the 7pm time slot in Cincinnati

for about 2 months. Before long it ended up at a 4:30AM slot, where syndicated shows go to die.

[LaurenOlimina]

2. I remember him comparing Chelsea to a dog.

He was ALWAYS a cancerous piece of shit.

[deurbano]

3. My sister and BIL actually got tickets to see the thing. (That's when I knew I'd failed her as an

older sister.)

[brokephibroke]

4. Used to smoke weed before that show

His audience always had on suits and ties.

[Poiuyt]

5. Remember when he was on Monday Night Football?

He was only on for a couple of games before he pissed off his cohosts and was kicked off.

[dalton99a]

6. And what he said about black quarterbacks

PHILADELPHIA -- Donovan McNabb has been to three straight Pro Bowls and two consecutive NFC championship games, and was runner-up for NFL MVP in his first full season as a starter.

Still, commentator Rush Limbaugh saw fit to question the quarterback's credentials.

Before McNabb led the Philadelphia Eagles to a 23-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills, Limbaugh said on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" that McNabb is overrated. However, Limbaugh injected his comment with racial overtones that have set off a controversy.

"Sorry to say this, I don't think he's been that good from the get-go," Limbaugh said. "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."

https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=1627887

[Johonny]

13. That was his dream gig. He always wanted to be a sports personality.

And he flamed out in epic fashion.

[marble falls]

7. I do not envy his journey. I never smoked but I didn't believe in 2nd hand smoke illness ...

then I got bladder cancer - a 2nd hand tobacco smoke cancer.

[brokephibroke]

9. The classic episode when he had to clear out the audience

[rsdsharp]

11. That was actually Limbaugh sitting in for Pat Sajack

when Sajack had a talk show. The audiences for Limbaugh's own TV show, which began a couple of years after this incident, were screened to avoid another such debacle.

[Norbert]

10. Remember the Rush Limbaugh Tie Collection?

The ran about $40 a tie about 36 years ago, so expensive that many area dittoheads wouldn't even buy them.

Last I saw of them they were clearing them out at half off and even then they couldn't sell them.

[Aristus]

14. I worked for a large men's clothing retailer at the time. You'd know the name.

We had people coming in all the time asking "Have you got any Rush ties?"

People who looked like they showered only when they remembered to, shaved last around the time Reagan was President, and had a wardrobe consisting entirely of denim. But they wanted Rush's shitty ties.

I was always happy to tell them 'no.' The CEO of this clothing retailer was a well-established liberal Democrat.

[Johonny]

12. I remember his spectacular flame out at ESPN best. One of the funnest brief NFL careers ever.

[Greybnk48]

15. His T.V. audience looked like a page out of Mad Magazine! n/t

[Brother Buzz]

16. But, but, but they were ALL wearing ties

He had a dress code to give the show some sort of fake legitimacy. I'm guessing they had a rack of ties for the audience because it looked like most of the yahoos have never worn one before, let alone know how to tie one.