Word: limbaughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfair and unmet expectations for our politics have led to the creation of a cynicism industry, led by talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, whose book, See, I Told You So, continues to top the bestseller lists. Limbaugh feeds off this growing disillusionment with government to promote himself. His tactics are not unlike those of Ross Perot. (Expect him to share a ticket with Perot...
...Limbaugh's listeners do not always agree with his often offensive rhetoric, but the radio pundit remains popular because he has tapped the growing public sense that something is seriously wrong with our political culture. It has become conventional wisdom that our special-interests-beholden political parties are barely distinguishable from each other...
...RUSH LIMBAUGH...
...network TV system is rigged heavily against fair use. For one thing, the insurance companies that provide the obligatory "errors and omissions" insurance for TV productions demand that each clip come with a permission slip from its copyright owner. (Imagine if a book critic had to get Rush Limbaugh's permission to quote his prose in a review, and maybe pay him for the privilege; that's precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime. Well, then...
What this whole thing really seems to hinge on is the polls. If Lee Iacocca can enlist Rush Limbaugh to persuade his listeners to rally round NAFTA, and if the Gore-Perot debate is scored on the basis of who's more right and responsible rather than who's funnier, the poll numbers will rise and NAFTA will pass...