Having met Steve Jobs I have to say he was an amazing person.  I met him at a meeting while he was selling his NeXT Station computers after having been fired from apple.  I loved the machine (I have several storred in my basement), but he was competing with windows as THE desktop while he was actually competing with the SUN Workstation (as they were both unix based) - which Sun was clearly the leader and he had no chance and I told him so in that meeting, there was a get together at the Stonehenge Inn in Redding Ct to mix it up afterwords and I didn’t go – I reget that.  Regarding the NeXT Station, it WAS a failure – but the NeXT OS is CLEARLY the origin of the current Apple OSX.  A man WAY ahead of his time in so many ways and for so many years.

This could be a first for Rush..didnt know he had a heart- its like a scene from the Grinch!

Can’t believe saying this being a hardcore lefty but mega-dittos Rush

We’re big enough to give props where warranted

Why the “surprising” in the headline?  Jimminy crickets, can’t you ever just straight report on anything?

Jobs represents what is great about this country.  If you work hard, you can succeed.  At least for now.

I know.  If he actually listened to Rush, he”d know he talks about the greatness of Apple all the time. 

Bless you Rush.

Because he’s never in the past as far as I know acknowledged someone’s left leanings and then go on to do an hour of broadcasting dedicated to discussing their greatness. Rush’s show isn’t exactly a bastion of honesty or fairness

He still later in the hour had to use the opportunity to, with his trademark distortion job, score a few cheap political points which, had his earlier tribute not been very good, I would have described as being classless and tasteless. But I’ll take the good part and pretend the later part did not happen

But his father was a Syrian immigrant, I thought you people consider all them Arabs as terrorists

,..awesome.., 
my best friend’s mom makes $77 an hour on the computer. She has been out of job for 9 months but last month her check was $7487 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it here CashSharp.com

And Steve was a Buddhist vegan which you people think of as useless hippies

Rush is a good and charitable person .

The lefties that come on here with their internet crap about him have no clue about the man .

No, that’s just a moronic liberal talking point. 

I couldn’t care less, more meat for me!

JON,
Thank you for doing this story.

I heard Rush’s wonderful tribute to Steve Jobs on my way to the office this afternoon.  I too fondly recall the eager anticipation of opening the box of my ‘high speed’ Apple IIc in what was it – right before Christmas in 1984.  Shake my head in amazement in how far we’ve come since that time.

Still remember having to boot that up with a 5 1/4 floppy entitled ‘Dos Boss’. 

Just can’t let it go – not even for one thread, can you?

Wipe the froth from the corners of your mouth – it’s so unflattering!

HEY JON (the writer) Rush has always expressed fondness for Apple and it’s products and Apple’s designers going back 10+ years at least.  
 
And Rush has WAYYYYY more $$$ and WAAAYYYYYY  more listeners/readers/advertisers than any organization that will ever employ you and your Liberal cohorts.  

RIP Steve Jobs

from Rush’s comments I find interesting his listeners wouldn’t even stand to listen to him talk about Apple. Talk about close-minded.

Right. You make sure you let me know when I start not looking unflattering, attractive or in any way not repelling to you so I get to work on getting that fixed

Well to be fair, Conservatives are known to give more of their OWN money to charity.  Liberals have to have it forcibly removed and share. 

Sources, please.

Then you take politics way too seriously, junior. If you actually had the brains to seek out information from something or someone beyond the kooky fringe left, you would know all the wonderful things Limbaugh does for charity. By the way, idiot, Government isn’t a charity to most of us. It’s a financial toilet.

Is that what is meant by giving the Devil his due?

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&page=1

There ya’ go, Junior.

To some degree you’re right, but you do understand that only the most ardent Conservatives would e-mail a radio show host, right?

And come on, the left is just the same when it comes to this kind of stuff.

From Lefties and onto Righties and all those entities in between: There is little doubt that a blowhard is a blowhard. 

Agreed…

I think the point of what he had said is that he had a great deal of respect for Jobs because he had done some pretty amazing things  in technology…as I have said, he was a Renaissance man…and even though Jobs was quite a successful lefty….Limbaugh still in a way respected him…and the fact that he was getting called from listeners nagging him over giving props to said lefty seemed to take him out of the character that most leftists see Limbaugh plays..he was defending his stance and how he felt about what Jobs had done. 

Limbaugh earned some respect from me today, no doubt even though I’ve not listened to him in a very long time.

he was talking about Steve Jobs, not Idi Amin.

Fact: In the end all conservatives show that they have class and morals!

For all those of you who bashed Steve Jobs on this site yesterday, you have less class than Rush Limbaugh.  Go live with that.

Your posts indicate a lack of thought – you didn’t think sweets, you just “thought” you’d say nonsensical jibberish darla.

I never do this, but I have to give Rush props for showing class.  Steve Jobs was a great man, and if there were more people like him in this country, there’s no way America would be going down the gutter like we are.

….we now return to the vile, hateradio you know and love here on the EIB network….

is that why Rush’s listeners (according to Rush himself) would call and email telling him to stop talking about Jobs and Apple? If you want to suggest that Rush showed SOME class, that’s one thing but painting all conservatives with that brush (in this case) is a bit much 

LOL.  A rare treat when someone can shut a liberal up and knock him/her off their pedestals.  An ABC poll shows liberals to be hypocrites.  Very generous, libs … with someone else’s money.

He was also a very committed capitalist.  That’s why he succeeded.  And why his inventions have added so much to people’s lives.

Wow. Sincerity from Rush Limbaugh. Shocking, but kind of encouraging, in a we’re-all-in-this-together sort of way.

I’m bummed about losing Jobs, but this actually brightens things a bit. Will wonders never cease?

Come on.. Rush is a lot of crazy things, but he is NOT stupid and he is a human. Did people expect him to celebrate the death of one of the few people left who, regardless of his personal politics, was in fact so far ABOVE politics that everything he did was akin to playing? Who cares about Job’s politics? When you hit the 100 million and UP mark, the reality is, the WORLD is your toy. Jobs could have vanished YEARS ago (look up the VANISHING greats like Howard Hughes), but he didnt. He was able to see a few months, years ahead of everyone and was determined to GET STUFF out of his mind and into our hands. I’m FAR from a RUSH fan, but I respect him for playing the game as the table was set and doing pretty well. KUDOS Mr. Limbaugh.. sorry that some of your fans on this board and even on your show called in to remind us all that you make a great BIG FAT dollar teasing the idiots with string, daily, and laugh all the way to the bank while they pop another Bud and say “yup”.

Ditto !

Ye’ Ask And Ye’ Shall Receive !!

Just Like Swatting Flies !!

Well said !!

Nobody has less class than Rush Limbaugh.

Only the wingnuts believe a word that comes out of Limbaugh’s mouth.

All conservatives, now that is a bit of a reach.

Just think, Jobs created all of those amazing products completely independent of the parasitic US Govt.

I’m sure for the folks at Mediaite it probably is hard to overcome your bias and believe that Rush would ever be sincere. However, he is generally always sincere. It is because of Rush that I own Apple products. He always spoke so highly of them. And he is right. Steve Jobs was the picture of American Exceptionalism and Capitalism. Brilliant and intuitive and able to always stay on the cutting edge of what the public wanted. He will never be replaced, and in the anti-capitalist, pro-socialist movement we see in our nation today, there will be many who will never try because their inspiration will be quashed or opportunity hindered. Wake up America…we need more like Mr. Jobs,,not less.

If only we’d lost Rush instead

Gee, how classy. Why don’t you go down to “occupy Coeur d’Alene” and wave your commie flag. Trust me, they’ll love you over there.

He probably doesn’t realize Apple gave a lot more the the Democrat party than the Republican party.  But Rush used Apple products for a long time.  

Here’s another one, written by a former lefty professor who abandoned nearly everything he’d believed to be true for many years after completing a decade-long study on just that topic. 

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compasionate-Conservatism/dp/0465008216

He’s well aware of that. Listen to the monologue… he touches on that and says he’s perplexed by it, but it doesn’t matter in contrast to the enormity and greatness of Steve Jobs. 

A dead person of some importance always give Looter Limbaugh a chance to be a skinwalker.

dude if u listened to tge whole show youd know that rush went on to say that jobs was not on paar with thomas edison. he even said that jobs only redid things that already existed and he said it with disdain in his voice. rush just said that stuff at the top of tge show for cover. then he devoted the rest of his show to calls.

And Nasprof79, if you truly understood the context in which he said it, there was no disparaging intent on his part.  Snerdly merely offered the comparison between Jobs and Edison and Rush was correct with his point that many of the patents and inventions designed by Edison came from nothing whereas Jobs improved upon many technologies that were already available.  No, you heard what you wanted to hear, nevermind the glowing and profoundly worded appreciation of a man we will all miss.

This comment doesn’t begin to make a lick of sense.  Then again, coming from a liberal, should anyone be surprised?

Yes Tea4dummies – you are clearly so much smarter than the rest of us.  From this point forward, I will start embracing the words coming from the mouths of our Democrat leaders as sacrosanct, and never – ever doubt the sincerity of those words again!

I am now enlightened.

Ah yes………spoken like a true compassionate liberal.

Thank you Mediaite for allowing us the opportunity to all come together to celebrate the magnificence of humanity!

He’s just about one Denny’s Grand Slam breakfast away from the big dirt nap.

Have some more bacon, Rush…

I “LOL” that you think that’s what just happened.

That IS what just happened. The poster asked for proof that conservatives are more charitable than liberals. The ABC study makes that abundantly clear. Libs are generous only with someone else’s money. They’re downright conservative with their own money. Always easy to play the charity card when you’re using someone else’s money …

I’m not sure that characterizing Jobs as “left leaning” is quite fair, since he was a big Ayn Rand fan, but let that pass.  If more left-leaning people *did* great things, instead of rent-seeking and robbing Peter to buy Paul’s vote, maybe Rush would speak well of more of them.

What is, satire?

You seriously think Steve Jobs, a man beloved and celebrated around the world in his life and deeply mourned worldwide in his death, needs Rush’s tribute? Rush, the drug-addled reprobate who is good for nothing other than inducing cringe-worthy feelings in people across the country and across the political spectrum.?

You really need to look into raising your standards a LOT

That’s because Limbaugh has stock in Apple corporation.

yeah, putting a phone, music player and internet browser in the palm of your hand was already available.

May I add my own – admittedly anecdotal – evidence?

After Hurricane Andrew I devoted three weeks every year to do charity work. Starting in February, 1993, I worked with Habitat for Humanity, in Homestead, FL,  Appalachian Service Project, Chavais, KY, helped after the Missouri flood in Portage-de-Sioux, MO, helped re-build after the Flint River flash flood in Albany, GE, and several locations in Canada, along with other “Habitat Gypsies”. I had to quit volunteering, due to health reason at age 67, in 2006.

Almost all the people I had the honor of working with were staunch, conservative Republicans.