Word: limbaughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediate cause of all this was an obscure bit of rulemaking from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC for the past four months has been selling off slices of the broadcast spectrum -- the radio bands used for everything from dispatching taxis to broadcasting Rush Limbaugh's belly laughs. And in preparation for a big auction scheduled to begin in December, the agency required that all companies seeking to bid on this latest piece of electromagnetic real estate disclose the names of their business partners by last Friday...
...most dangerous conservative in America? Bob Dole? Newt Gingrich? Perhaps Rush Limbaugh or Pat Buchanan? Well, according to last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, it's a man named Charles Murray...
Senate Republicans successfully filibustered a lobbying reform designed to put a stop to influence peddling in Congress. The bill required strict registration of paid lobbyists and would have banned virtually all gifts to lawmakers, including meals that cost more than $20. In the last few days, Rush Limbaugh and his corps of right-wing radio jockeys conducted an airwave campaign against the legislation, saying it would effectively keep the "grass roots" from pursuing any agenda. The bill may be resurrected in the next session of Congress, but TIME congressional correspondent Julie Johnson says lobbyists aren't sweating...
...hardcover sales (usually 10% or less), the numbers are climbing. The Bridges of Madison County, read by author Robert James Waller, sold 163,000 audio copies. Some 250,000 tapes of John Grisham's latest novel, The Chamber, have been shipped to bookstores thus far. And Rush Limbaugh has sold 300,000 tapes of The Way Things Ought to Be -- not bad for a $17 version of his daily radio show...
...says Harold Vogel of Merrill Lynch. "His idea of a vision is another year of winning the ratings war, and that's it. That's not the way you grow a network." The only thing that was growing at this network was the list of jokes about it. Rush Limbaugh recently referred to "the three major networks -- four, if you count...