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...rest of the authors and TV and radio hosts divided by beliefs but united by a common employer: the burgeoning American anger industry. It's a multimedia platform--TV and radio shows stoking book sales and vice versa--that grew strong through the '90s with the rise of Rush Limbaugh and the conservative-publishing boom. But the monologue has become--O.K., not a dialogue, but at least two angry monologues, as liberals have discovered the cathartic power of mass-market name calling. (Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? is No. 1 on the Nov. 23 New York Times best...
...time"-the judges remained blocked-and Democratic whip Harry Reid accused Frist of "amateur leadership." Many Republican Senators privately admitted that "it was a mindless walk into a cul-de-sac," as one put it, "designed to appeal to the 20% of our base that listens to Rush Limbaugh every day." Still, Frist had done what he set out to do: appease the restless troops on the right...
...genuine offense. But this, like most political battles, was mainly about one principle: winning. You fight to prove you can. To command deference. To convince people they're better off messing with the other guy's icons. For that matter, 'fess up, liberals: Were you truly offended that Rush Limbaugh made himself a bad role model and hypocrite by abusing OxyContin--or were you just happy that one of the other guys went down...
...genuine offense. But this, like most political battles, was mainly about one principle: winning. You fight to prove you can. To command deference. To convince people they're better off messing with the other guy's icons. For that matter, 'fess up, liberals: Were you truly offended that Rush Limbaugh made himself a bad role model and hypocrite by abusing OxyContin - or were you just happy that one of the other guys went down...
...Limbaugh's Pill Problem