Word: limbaughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promises to print both positive and negative opinions--Hillary will soon be defining key issues, forging a new role for women and making bold fashion statements. Stapled in the magazine's first issue is a mock-edition that documents Hillary Rodham-Clinton's presidential victory over Republican candidate Rush Limbaugh. It's written tongue-in-cheek, but it betrays a faint glimmer of hope...
...these things: inner-city crime, hill country poverty, a progressive and inclusive executive branch, a regressive, tired legislature. It is Bill Clinton, the Yale Law School graduate, and Kara Alexander, the illiterate mother. It is the smart young reformers who dominate politics and the book stores where Rush Limbaugh is the biggest seller...
...Rush Limbaugh is all politics, all show biz -- and all success...
...cross and joy of Rush Limbaugh are that everything he says could be filed under Political-Science Fiction. That's because he wants it both ways. * He wants to be taken seriously as a pundit by those he convinces and indulged as a comedian by those he might outrage. He considers himself, with typical bluster, "the epitome of morality and virtue" and "the most dangerous man in America." Are most of his facts factual? Yes. Does he overuse the debater's tactic of tarring whole movements with extreme examples? Yes. Does the distinction between fairness and exaggeration matter? Yes -- every...
...Limbaugh is talking to a lot of people, politically stranded by the media, who believe that only he is talking to them. But no one has proposed him for President or Messiah; and he declares he would not apply for either job. Other listeners abhor the political product but enjoy the spiel. You can find diversion in any aspect of the Limbaugh carnival: the tight-wire walker or the Tilt-a-Whirl, the sideshow barker or the geek. You might even find it salutary to have your own exalted prejudices shaken by him. Last time we looked, Rush was still...