Trump’s Going Down the Tubes.

So yesterday I listened to the Clay Travis — Buck Sexton radio show, which in case you don’t know it, happens to be the replacement for Rush Limbaugh on most AM shock-jock stations. I think they were talking about the election for House Speaker but I’m not really sure. And the reason I’m not sure is because about 30 seconds into the show I stopped paying attention to what they were saying because they were…so…goddamn…bo-ring.

Not just a little boring. These guys were really boring. And it occurred to me as I switched them off, that with all the explosion of social media and alt-right video, radio and TV programs in the last few years, the only individual who ever held even the slightest candle to Rush as a right-wing media personality was — you got it! — Donald Trump.

I started listening to Rush in 1993 or 1994 when he was building his radio network and also flopped around a bit on TV. How often did I listen to Rush on the radio? Probably once a week, although even he started wearing thin near the end of his broadcasting career.

But no mistake about it. Rush basically invented primetime talk radio because before he came along spielers like Long John Nebel and Gene Shepherd in New York did their thing late at night. Although he also first started with a nighttime show, Rush was the radio noisemaker who moved talk-radio into a daytime slot as well as simultaneously broadcasting with his own network in all three time zones.