A Biography of rush limbaugh
Famous political commentator Rush Limbaugh was born Rush Hudson Limbaugh III on January 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, into a highly thought of local family—including his paternal grandfather, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, who served as a U.S. ambassador to India under President Dwight D. Eisenhower; and an uncle who served as a federal judge during Ronald Reagan's presidency; and a father that was conservative, Rush Hudson Limbaugh II, who worked as an attorney.
By 8 years old, Limbaugh had set his sights on a career in radio commentating. His father, however, had a more constant income career in mind for his son. "I said, 'Pop, I love this. I know I'm great at it. I'm gonna get even better,'" Limbaugh remembered. But Rush Limbaugh II remained against his son's goal, and because of it, Rush soon was viewed as a rebel to the rest of the Limbaugh family. Limbaugh said "I was hugely rebellious. I hated school because it's what everybody else had to do. I hated being locked up in that second grade on in a room. ...The guy on the radio's having fun ... he's not going to some room having to learn to paste."
Even though Limbaugh's family didn't approve of his aspirations for a career in radio, they didn't completely ignore his passion for one day becoming a radio broadcaster. When Rush was 9 years old, Limbaugh received a Remco Caravelle, a toy radio that could transmit on Amplitude Modulation(AM) frequencies up to 500 feet away. "I would take this up to my bedroom and play records and play DJ ... my mother and fatheould sit down and listen to me. ...The quality was horrible, but I was on the radio," Limbaugh remembered. He went on to explain why he believed his family had a change of heart about his pursuits. "I had quit the Boy Scouts and the Cub Scouts. I was a quitter. ...This was the one thing I didn't quit, so they ... indulged it, because, 'At least he's showing he'll stick to it'"
Limbaugh landed his first radio job when he was in high school; using the pseudonym "Rusty Sharpe," he worked as a DJ for the local station KGMO (co-owned by his father). Following high school, Limbaugh briefly attended Southeast Missouri State University; he left the school in 1971, after one year of enrollment he decided it was time to pursue a career in radio commentating. However, he had trouble keeping a job in one place. He was fired from stations around Missouri and Pennsylvania for being too controversial as news commentator. "My whole family thought I was destined for failure," he stated later.
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By: Nick Ryan