Reply #11: "Threatend by Women" - "Needs Woman Subservient" [View All]

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There's just no reference to the mother working outside of the house. Her parents were DEMOCRATS from Arkansas and she wanted to be a jazz singer.

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http://capegirardeaucvb.org/rush.html

Millie adored being the mother of the country’s most popular radio talk show host. She admitted that her son is controversial and provocative. In support of her son, Millie claimed that she was more than a Ditto Head, “I am ‘The’ Ditto Head!” She spent evenings spinning the satellite dish trying to keep abreast of political news. ....

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1995/05/talbot.html

.... During a 1990 guest appearance on the "Pat Sajak Show," then CBS' late-night program, Limbaugh was rattled by ACT UP hecklers. To restore order, the entire audience was ushered out and a dejected Limbaugh delivered his final words to an empty studio. A CBS executive said, "He came out full of bluster and left a very shaken man. I had never seen a man sweat as much in my life."

Since then Rush has recalibrated his act. ....

The typical Limbaugh listener is a white male, suburbanite, conservative," says Times-Mirror pollster Andrew Kohut. "Better-than-average job, but not really a great job. Frustrated with the system, with the way the world of Washington works. Frustrated by cultural change. Maybe threatened by women." ....

These enterprising conservatives are salesmen, engineers, computer technicians, accountants, independent truckers, realtors, and owners of franchise food outlets. They want to make money. ....

But what really seems to inspire Van Gundy is Limbaugh's personal success: "He was a loser 10 or 12 years ago. He didn't have two nickels to rub together. And for him to have done this is just phenomenal. I just want my turn next." ....

Rush's strength is that his humor and his conservatism both come naturally. Before there was Rush, there was Big Rush, his 300-pound father--a Goldwater Republican and "an imposing presence, physically and mentally," according to Rush's younger brother, David. "We were indoctrinated at an early age."

But Rush inherited his prankish humor from his mother, Millie. While the Limbaugh men are beefy, Millie is Long Tall Sally. She hails from Arkansas, her parents were Democrats, and she set out to be a jazz singer. "I was paid to be a singer for about four months of my life," she recalls with a smile, "and that's been the biggest joy of my life, besides my family." ....

...His mother confesses, "I can't imagine what it would be like to be married to him," and adds, "I think he needs a wife subservient to him."

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