your hero Rush has a weak education and is on his third wife......good example for american kids to follow..................He was born Rush Hudson Limbaugh III on January 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to a family with generations of attorneys.
Instead of becoming a legal eagle, Rush chose to explore his passion for broadcasting at age 16 by working on the air each afternoon for a Top-40 radio station in his hometown. He graduated from Central High School in 1969. He attended Southeast Missouri State University before criss crossing the country holding several different jobs.
First it was off to KQV, Pittsburgh, which was then the ABC-owned affiliate in that city. Following that stint, he moved to Kansas City, where he eventually tired of the disc jockey life and left broadcasting for business, joining the Kansas City Royals baseball team as Director of Group Sales, and later Director of Sales and Special Events.
By 1983, Rush got the broadcasting bug back and re-entered radio as a political commentator for KMBZ in Kansas City. A year later he was hosting a daytime talk show on KFBK, Sacramento, where he tripled the program's ratings in just four years.
In August of 1988, came his big break: A nationally-syndicated network talk show originating in New York City where his record-breaking national show took flight with only 58 radio stations. Today Rush can be heard on more than 660 radio stations nationwide.
Rush has been featured or profiled in virtually every major news magazine in the world. He's been the headline subject on all the network talk shows, including ABC's "Night Line," CNN's "Crossfire," CBS "This Morning" "60 Minutes," and others. His monthly newsletter, "The Limbaugh Letter" has a subscriber base in excess of 400,000. And Rush's two best-selling books, "The Way Things Ought To Be" and "See, I Told You So" have sold more than 8.9 million copies. He was the 1992 and 1995 recipient of the Marconi Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year, given by the National Association of Broadcasters. He was inducted into Broadcasting's Hall of Fame in 1993.
The newly svelte Rush is married to his third wife, Marta, whom he met online via CompuServe in 1990. The then Marta Fitzgerald, a University of North Florida student, sent him an e-mail note asking how to deal with a Reagan-bashing professor. Four years later, the couple was married at the Virginia home of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who also officiated. |
