Failure Before Success

     Rush Hudson Limbaugh III born in 1951 in Missouri to a Republican family.He was a mediocre student who failed Speech 101 and decided to brke three generations of Limbaughs and opted not to pursue a law career.  Instead after going to college for a year at Southeast Missouri State ge took a job in McKesport, Pennsylvania/  He'd been hired to flip records at a station but just couldn't resist putting in his two sense.  And the impulsion soon got him fired.
     The 70's Limbaugh lived the gypsy life of small-time radio.  He worked at four small stations in Pennsylvania and Missouri.  And of course was fired for not "accomodating to station management."
     After a decade of failure Limbaugh left radio and worked as a public assistant for the Kansas City Royals baseball team.  Doing remedial work such as putting together pocket schedules to arranging tickets for children's birthday parties.  Despite all the crappy work he stuck with it longer than any job he ever had.
     But Limbaugh couldn't stay away from the airwaves for that long.  He returned in 1983 in Kansas City.  Inititally he was only supposed to read the news and was later on given the chance to prove himself as a commentator and talk-show host.  He first experimented with outrageous on-air insults.  His incomporable remarks foreshadowed his unique shtick that eventually would make him a household name.  Most noteworthy was his mock about what might happen to the country every twenty-eight days ofg Democratic vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro became president.

Limbaugh's tenure at the station lasted ten months.