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America can pretty much be divided in two: on one side are Rush's people and Howard's people, and on the other the decorous and civilized who tend to be uncomfortable with strong broadcast opinion unless it comes from Bill Moyers, Bill Buckley or, if pressed, Andy Rooney. The Rush and Howard people -- who, like their avatars, have more in common than they know -- seem to be winning, or certainly proliferating...
...fans. More than 3 million dittoheads bought his first book during the past year, and his new hard cover, See, I Told You So, which appears in bookstores next week, has a first printing of 2 million, the largest in American history. On his syndicated TV show, which is broadcast mainly late at night, he draws a bigger audience than Conan O'Brien or Arsenio Hall...
...than Limbaugh would ever dream of, playing "Butt Bongo" and regularly sending out a stuttering hanger-on to ask celebrities rude questions). But it is a good part of what makes Limbaugh so much more successful than more ordinary conservative radio personalities -- indeed, what makes him the most popular broadcast commentator of the age, maybe ever. "I look at this," Limbaugh has said repeatedly, "as entertainment...
...broadcast of these disturbing images do promote violence. Not, as the psychobabblers claim, because they foster "desensitization," but because in all these cases the perpetrators have hardly been punished. Why should people internalize morality and restrain themselves from violence when society refuses to stigmatize such behavior as dangerous, criminal and deserving of punishment? At least on primetime, the bad guys usually get caught...
...most police organizations, the breaking of ranks is taboo. At Harvard, it used to be that way. But the year 1993 has changed things to the point that internal grievances may be broadcast to 200,000 boat racing fans...