Word: limbaugh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think some people still get exercised over Rush Limbaugh. They have obviously never run across Dr. Herbert Poinsett. A square-jawed, balding former chiropractor, Poinsett is host of a nationally seen talk show based in Tampa, Florida. With Nazi and Confederate flags as backdrop, he rails against everything from the Jewish-controlled media to "black bucks" taking over our cities. A typical Poinsett point: serial killers are mostly white because "blacks don't have the brains to be serial killers...
...White House knew matters had deteriorated when Clinton, making a routine appearance at the White House Correspondents Association's annual dinner the previous weekend, bombed with jokes about Senate minority leader Robert Dole and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh that turned out not to be funny. The dinners are one of the few times that the permanent Washington establishment is primed to fawn over the President. But the range of acceptable presidential behavior is narrow, from self-deprecation to groveling, and by no means can the evening be used to settle scores -- even with the person who killed your...
...proposing so blunt a program, especially so huge a tax hike, Clinton was feeding raw meat to his Republican opponents. In the hours before the speech, G.O.P. lawmakers were already displaying a banner reading, IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID! Radio blowtorch Rush Limbaugh bet the Democratic National Committee $1 million that by Jan. 1, 1995, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and the federal deficit will all be higher and that Clinton's approval rating in the polls will be 45% or less. David Wilhelm of the D.N.C. replied with a counteroffer: If the Clinton plan works, Limbaugh will have to give...
Shifting her focus to last year's "insurrection in Los Angeles," Waters said she often tries to explain to outsiders the anger in her community. But "some people just don't get it," she said, citing radio and television show host Rush Limbaugh...
...book, The Way Things Ought to Be, has topped the New York Times best- seller list for 16 of the past 20 weeks, but the Times has never reviewed it. RUSH LIMBAUGH says the paper doesn't like his politics. The Times says it's the book. Says Times Book Review editor Rebecca Sinkler: "This is not the sort of book that usually finds its way into our pages. Though I suppose if we had known that it was going to be at the top of the best-seller list for weeks and weeks and weeks...