{"id":150224,"date":"2021-02-19T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=150224"},"modified":"2021-02-19T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:58:56","slug":"this-is-the-guy-who-created-talk-radio-megyn-kelly-and-eric-bolling-discuss-rush-limbaughs-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-the-guy-who-created-talk-radio-megyn-kelly-and-eric-bolling-discuss-rush-limbaughs-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is The Guy Who Created Talk Radio\u2019: Megyn Kelly And Eric Bolling Discuss Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-is-the-guy-who-created-talk-radio-megyn-kelly-and-eric-bolling-discuss-rush-limbaughs-legacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=150224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1044861294-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Appearing on Megyn Kelly\u2019s podcast, <em>The Megyn Kelly Show<\/em>, former Fox News host Eric Bolling discussed the legacy of conservative radio legend, Rush Limbaugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the guy who created talk radio,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t even know who Sean Hannity was if it hadn\u2019t been for Rush Limbaugh. He created a lane that didn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Limbaugh passed away on Wednesday morning at 70-years-old, after a year-long battle with lung cancer. Kelly continued to describe Limbaugh\u2019s meteoric rise from media-unknown to conservative legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe was from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, born in 1951, just for people who don\u2019t know anything about him,\u201d Kelly explained. \u201cHe started off as a little sort of helper in some local radio station, and then found his way out of there to report something he called Barn News at another small station, he found a way to make that fun. Then wound up getting a syndicated show, 56 radio stations at first, and it grew to be the most successful, most listened to radio show in the world. 600 plus stations, 27 million people tuned in to hear what Rush Limbaugh had to say on a weekly basis. 27 million.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Adding context to Limbaugh\u2019s unprecedented popularity, Kelly then noted that Tucker Carlson is \u201cpulling in, at a good night, four, on a great night, six or seven million people. \u2026 27 million people [for Limbaugh], it\u2019s just huge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Acknowledging Limbaugh\u2019s huge influence on conservative media, as well as his many additional contributions to American life, Kelly then continued to discuss his critics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI get he said controversial things. He\u2019s in the business of talk radio \u2014 go find me somebody who\u2019s in the business of talk radio who hasn\u2019t said controversial things. Rush was a controversial figure. But I don\u2019t think he deserved the headlines I\u2019m reading today,\u201d Kelly said, referencing the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-the-media-reacted-to-rush-limbaughs-death?%3Futm_source=twitter\"><span>reaction<\/span><\/a> <span>of the legacy media to Limbaugh\u2019s death, and noting that such mischaracterization and demonization is \u201chow they see not just Rush Limbaugh \u2026 but Republicans. This is no accident they tried to tie him and his worst moments to an entire half of the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Eric Bolling responded, saying \u201cI think we\u2019re bound by the words we speak,\u201d and that \u201cRush was that, he was a provocateur.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe was paid very well, by the way, to be that, to be the provocateur, or to say that. He never claimed to be a journalist. He always said he was in the infotainment business, so a little bit of information and a lot of entertainment, I think that\u2019s what he was,\u201d Bolling added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Later, Kelly discussed the subject of judging the legacy of professional talkers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think professional talkers, professional opinion makers like [Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher] who are successful are never going to stay between the rails at all time,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cI bet you dollars to doughnuts when they write up many, many years from now, the obit for somebody like Bill Maher, who\u2019s more on the Left, they\u2019re going to be a lot more generous than they were to Rush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>After it was announced that Rush Limbaugh had passed away on Wednesday, Kelly wrote on Twitter, \u201cRest In Peace Rush Limbaugh, the G.O.A.T. in the medium he created.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rest In Peace Rush Limbaugh, the G.O.A.T. in the medium he created. Thinking of Kathryn, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidLimbaugh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DavidLimbaugh<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoSnerdley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BoSnerdley<\/a> today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HR3LXaDRCY\">https:\/\/t.co\/HR3LXaDRCY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/1362093661383774214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on Megyn Kelly\u2019s podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, former Fox News host Eric Bolling discussed the legacy of conservative radio legend, Rush Limbaugh. \u201cThis is the guy who created &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181564,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1044861294-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018This Is The Guy Who Created Talk Radio\u2019: Megyn Kelly And Eric Bolling Discuss Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Legacy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1044861294-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018This Is The Guy Who Created Talk Radio\u2019: Megyn Kelly And Eric Bolling Discuss Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Legacy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}