Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 2/17/21

Mark Levin Podcast

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 21.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, it's a sad day in America as we grieve the loss of our great friend Rush Limbaugh. Rush was a cultural phenomenon that changed broadcasting, utterly and completely. Rush blazed the path for many. He was the greatest advocate for free speech and was the go-to for many Americans. He loved his family, his country, and his audience. There will never be another Rush Limbaugh. Then, in 1995 Mark would fax information to Rush's producer, Cookie, who would bring them to Rush, and eventually Mark forged a friendship with Rush that launched Mark's own radio career. Rush's team was terrific as was his audience whom he respected immensely. Mark also shares a heartfelt story about some very valuable advice Rush gave him when he wrote: "Rescuing Sprite." Later, the reason Rush Limbaugh loved Donald Trump was because they understood one another. Both of them were initially dismissed, undermined, and eventually attacked and this was the basis for their special kinship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	they call Donald Trump a Nazi freely and they call everybody they disagree with white
0:04.7	supremacists. But when it came to free speech, the greatest advocate of free speech was
0:11.2	Rush Limbaugh. So he changes the broadcast industry. He's the greatest advocate for free
0:20.5	speech. And then there's his content. We wanted to hear what Rush had to say. The more
0:31.4	difficult the moment, the more we wanted to hear him. The more difficult the moment,
0:39.8	the more we wanted to hear him. Why? Because Rush Limbaugh was really quite a
0:50.2	genius. He wasn't really into school. He would have told you that. But he wasn't a
0:58.3	book. He wasn't ideas. He wasn't a philosophy. And he read a ton. He was a voracious reader.
1:06.5	He read a huge library at his home in Florida. With all kinds of philosophers and economists
1:14.7	and so forth, this was a very, very well read man. And he worked very hard to prepare for
1:21.9	every radio show. When you become as big as he does, I suppose you don't have to. You
1:26.8	can kick your feet up. He never did. He had those Midwestern work ethics and belief system.
1:42.5	He was brought up to Lovis country. His father wasn't World War II. His mother was a religious
1:50.2	lady. He has a fantastic brother, David Limbaugh, and a fantastic wife, Catherine. But there
2:02.7	won't be another Rush Limbaugh. Like there won't be another Ronald Reagan. There won't
2:12.8	be another Milton Friedman. There won't be another Bill Buckley. And yet Rush Limbaugh
2:22.6	and the promotion of ideas and liberty and country and faith and family somehow that's
2:28.1	controversial had a tremendous impact on this society, which is exactly why the left
2:36.3	spent over 30 years trying to destroy him. Not engage him. Not debate his ideas. But
2:47.4	try to destroy him. As did many in the Republican Party. But Rush loved, I would say, not trying
3:02.2	to speak from three things above all else. This family, this country, and you. His audience.
3:23.3	You know, I was a pup, really. I got into radio with no experience about seven or eight
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