Word: limbaughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homeboys, bankers, skinheads, you few loathsome Lecters and Dahmerites, you libertarians, deer hunters, anchormen, bureaucrats, convicts, bleeding hearts, bikers, femsymps and harassers, Rotarians and punks. Welcome, overmortgaged yuppie. Welcome, beery lout in the gimme hat (MY BEST FRIEND RAN OFF WITH MY WIFE -- AND I MISS HIM). Welcome, chunky Limbaugh ranter. Welcome, Mr. Justice Thomas...
Indeed, conservative writers like William Safire and Rush Limbaugh, silent during the Reagan-Bush years, have more than picked up the slack with Clinton in the White House, When these journalists try to dig up dirt, their targets are almost always on the other side of the political spectrum. Liberals investigate conservatives, and vice versa. Those who complain of a bias in the media can only be justified if they are referring to the former section; and no conclusive of basis in the factual reporting section has been put forth...
Last month Senator Ernest Hollings joked about Africans being cannibals, but no other white Senators were pressured to condemn him. Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern make questionable racial remarks, and yet former President Bush invited Limbaugh to the White House, and Senator Alfonse D'Amato attended Stern's book party. Says Jackson: "There is a broad base of objectionable language used by a lot of people in high places. It's not just Farrakhan." Or Muhammad. To make all black leaders responsible for his words, it might be argued, is just another kind of bigotry...
What Rush Limbaugh Was Doing over the Same Weekend: Sailing in the Virgin Islands with Bush Commerce Secretary and millionaire Robert Mosbacher and his wife Georgette...
...much as they scare us with their reactionary, knee-jerk rhetoric, Perot and Limbaugh scare Washington even more, Politicians tremble when they sense that public opinion, which they thought was theirs to manipulate, is escaping their control. Even though Limbaugh and Perot exploit our cynicism to promote themselves, they unwittingly create an opportunity for the public to engage itself more constructively in political life...