Dana Gould is Dead Wrong About Rush Limbaugh
- Fred
- 2 hours ago
- 3 min read
According to the Trump Resistance Movement:
Because the image didn't download cleanly, here's the quote: "Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that's he's dead, you never, ever, hear about him. No one mentions anything he did, because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture, nothing of lasting value. He just made anger, every day, blooming and fading like a fart, then he died, and was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week, creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone. Seriously, what an awful way to make a living." - Dana Gould
Let's start with Dana Gould first. I wasn't familiar with him at all. Apparently he's a stand up comedian. Funny, just last month, I wrote the article Top 20 Comedy Albums of All Time and Dana Gould wasn't on my radar, not even remotely. And I did a deep dive and included obscure comedians like Eugene Mirman
So I went to Wikipedia and looked up Dana Gould. He was in a few comedies you've heard of as a one-episode guest star, but I never heard of any movies or series where he was a featured performer. He released 5 comedy albums, I tried to listen to his first one, 1998's Funhouse, but it was bad, with a one-hour cryptocurrency ad in the middle (seriously).`
Dana Gould is Dead Wrong about Rush Limbaugh, and others on the left continue to misinterpret Rush to this day.
Don't think of Rush as a comedian or a commentator, think of him as a salesman. In Modern American History, no one, and I mean no one, sold Conservatism better than Rush Limbaugh.
Not Ronald Reagan.
Not George Will.
Not even Paul Harvey.
Rush Limbaugh transcended politics and delineated Conservatism to a national audience. Many liberals dismissed Limbaugh as not funny, or not informative, that wasn't his gig.
I thought he was funny, whenever Rush did a Homeless Update, he'd play Clarence "Frogman" Henry's classic Ain't Got No Home.
From the Left, the sophomoric hijinks were dismissed as mean.
But every Conservative Kid, raised by a Conservative Parent, worshipped at the alter of Rush.
Why is that important today, the day we bombed the crap out of Iran and killed their leader? All of those "Rush Babies" are now of-age and celebrating the death of the Ayatollah. Rush Limbaugh never, on the record, encouraged a ground war against Iran, but continuously, and steadfastly, advocated for "Maximum Pressure" on the Islamic Republic throughout his lifetime. Rush did not flip-flop on that topic.
As corporate media laments an overwhelming opposition to attacking Iran, if you do a deep dive on the numbers, Republicans, specifically Conservatives, AGREED with the strike.
As Right-Wing podcasts celebrate today as a victory, almost every host considers Rush as an influence. Rush Limbaugh did not create little replicas, he built an army, one that influences Donald Trump, but, for better or worse, those waiting in the wings to replace him. JD Vance was recently criticized for defending Rush's Memory.
Rush sold Conservatism in the arena-of-ideas, not as a cult of personality.
Rush Limbaugh molded Conservatism for a generation.
Dana Gould couldn't even get me to listen to his entire comedy album.
That is why we are still talking about Rush 5 years after his death.