The Quiet, Sad Erasure of the Legacy of Rush Hudson Limbaugh lIl

He was a Midwest college dropout who was "a wandering shred of human debris" until his late thirties when he was picked up by New York's 770 WABC Radio in 1988 in time for the Bush/Dukakis race. For several years, he would host separate NY and National shows until they merged in the nineties. The early shows were where he showed his independence the most. He thought nothing of mocking sodomites. And who could forget the show's Caller Abortion? Instead of muting the caller and quietly hanging up on them like say, Patrick Madrid, he played the audio of a vacuum cleaner concluding with a faint scream which he always denied hearing. 

 Here was a man raised a Methodist and buried in a Masonic plot who used to take pro-Life cruises with Cardinal O'Connor  and  was personal friends with Malachi Martin. He seriously entertained thoughts of converting but wondered what hinderance two divorces (at the time) would present. By the time of the Gulf War, he was reliably in the Neo-Con/Zionist camp although he did endorse Pat Buchanan in the 1992 primary much to the consternation of those trying to control him. There were similarities in later years with his support of Donald Trump. 

Was anyone else heard on the radio by this many people since Fr. Coughlin (another voice that had to be controlled)? But what was his legacy?    Tim Kelly has repeatedly pointed out that he drove liberals crazy mocking them and made millions of dollars doing it from the millions who listened but did he even slow the country's leftward slide?

Now, he's gone and replaced by an even more controlled opposition:  A CIA trained company man and a  remote sidekick who can't go five minutes without saying "to your point," "no doubt," or "I have three boys."

Article About Novus Ordo Bishop With AIDS From NYTs

Edit: Cardinal O’Connor really lauded this man who ended his life as a drug addict with AIDS. Interesting in light of accusations coming from certain quarters these days.

The ability to empathize and console appeared to come naturally to Emerson J. Moore, the first black bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Priests said he possessed a magic in relating to people. His superiors noticed how he connected with suffering, considering it almost mystical. Bishop Moore, said John Cardinal O'Connor, "was the most popular preacher in town."

"Emerson Moore had an infectious humanity, and absolutely every child who ever met him remembered him," Msgr. Thomas Leonard, pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Manhattan, said. "Other bishops lose that touch of humanity."

Former Nuncio Talks About “Rumours” Surrounding McCarrick in 1990s

Cardinal Cacciavillan, Nuncio to the US in the 1990s, reports rumors of McCarrick's sexual misconduct in 1994.

(Washington) Another former Nuncio in the United States announced that in 1994 he heard rumors of sexual misconduct by Theodore McCarrick. However, that was still very vague then.

Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan is now 93 years old. In 1990, the former Vatican diplomat began his service as a Pro Nuncio in the United States, where he would remain until 1998. Yesterday, he told the Catholic News Service, the press agency of the American Bishops' Conference, that in 1994 they had received a phone call from a woman. That was several months before Pope John Paul II’s visit to the United States in 1995.

"I remember receiving a phone call in 1994 while preparing for the Pope's visit to New York, Newark and Baltimore," said the cardinal. He was then in the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington.

The woman said there would be a "media scandal" when "the pope comes to Newark." In Newark at that time McCarrick was archbishop. The reason given by the woman was "rumors about McCarrick's behavior with the seminarians."

This was "no formal complaint", but "expression of a concern," according to the then nuncio. Nevertheless, the diplomat contacted the Archbishop of New York at the time, Cardinal John O'Connor: "Nobody knew better what happened in US diocese than the Archbishop of New York."

Cardinal O'Connor promised an "investigation.” As a result, the nuncio was told that there were "no obstacles to the Pope's visit to Newark."

Cardinal O'Connor, who passed away in 2000, is described by the Nuncio as "very competent", which is why he saw no reason to doubt the information provided by the investigation.

But he never talked about these rumors with McCarrick, whom he met several times during his eight years in Washington. He also did not inform the Vatican after the feedback from Cardinal O'Connor.

It was not until the beginning of October that he first spoke to a Vatican official about the matter, after Cardinal Marc Ouellet responded in an open letter to Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò. Cardinal Cacciavillan denies having asked McCarrick to sell a house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, where he is said to have invited groups of seminarians to celebrate homosexual orgies. In any case, McCarrick sold the house in 1997, when Cacciavillan was still Nuncio to Washington.

Cacciavillan is not mentioned by Archbishop Viganò in his dossier published on 26th August. In the dossier, he raises heavy charges against McCarrick, against Pope Francis and against a gay lobby in the Church. Since then, 65 days have passed, but Pope Francis has refused any response to the allegations and the associated request to resign.

Msgr. Viganò, however, listed the steps of his immediate predecessors, the Nuncios Montalvo and Zambi, in McCarrick's case, as they had found expression in the nunciature records. The case was in late 2000 / early 2001 with the appointment of McCarrick as Archbishop of Washington and his move to the capital had led to him becoming really virulent, said Cardinal Cacciavillan.

The question is what kind of "investigation" Cardinal O'Connor initiated in 1994, which produced no results. O'Connor was with McCarrick a few years earlier among the founders of the Papal Foundation  Their cash flows to Rome could have played a not inconsiderable role in being "benevolent" both in the US and in Rome.

Text:Giuseppe Nardi

Picture: MiL

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Giuseppe Nardi