Word: limbaughs
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...phone call reached Rush Limbaugh at his studio shortly before he went on the air at noon, but this time the person on the other end of the line was not Bob, a machinist from Dayton, Ohio, or Dorothy, a housewife from Tucson, Arizona. It was Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the second most powerful man in Washington, calling Limbaugh to lobby for Bill Clinton's $40 billion rescue package for Mexico. The 10-min. chat, which took place four weeks ago, was cordial enough but left the folk hero of the kilohertz unmoved. As Limbaugh...
With Rush Limbaugh baying about the evils of university liberalism and Newt Gingrich proselytizing for prayers in public schools, it comes as no surprise that another item on the New Right's agenda has steadily gained steam in the last few years: book banning. And if a school district around Philadelphia is any indication, the consequences could be even more chilling than anything proposed by our new Congress...
...this: Just on pungent personality, the right-wingers are usually more entertaining hosts than the drones of radio liberalism, who share flaws with their elected counterparts. Decades of power made Democrats soft, logy, too eager to compromise; they showed compassion but rarely passion. By the time Limbaugh went national in 1988, the Dems could do little but sleepwalk into the propeller. How could they know that the winning attitude of the '90s -- on radio and on the stump -- would be to show a killer instinct...
...STORIES IN WHICH I WAS MENtioned in the past year without giving any interviews," says Rush Limbaugh, who is definitely counting. Over a plate of shrimp, rigatoni and an assuming Bertani Catullo 1990, Limbaugh isn't happy to be doing this one with a "reporterette" who hasn't tuned in enough to know that he's moved off abortion and other social issues and is focusing on fiscal matters. He warned the new Republican Congress in December, "Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch...
Public Eye: Margaret Carlson's dinner with Rush Limbaugh...