Word: limbaughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some comics, the subject of Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan is as fertile as Bush-Quayle. Will Durst, who refers to Limbaugh as "Jabba the Talk Show Host," says, "Buchanan had a killer instinct; he wasn't afraid to lick up the blood. But Rush leaves it there and just chews off the flesh." Harry Shearer, the actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) and host of his own politico-comic radio show, is kinder, gentler to Limbaugh: "This country runs on personality, not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed ideas, he'd be just as popular...
...Limbaugh may be a fresh bag of wind to the radio and TV audience, but his family -- a prominent Republican brood in Cape Girardeau, Missouri -- has heard it all before. "He didn't start talking until he was two," says his mother Millie, "and then he didn't stop." The ideas were familiar too -- a kind of birthright for Rush. "Echoes of my dad reverberate through everything my brother says," explains Limbaugh's brother David, 39, a lawyer who helped Rush assemble The Way Things Ought to Be. "My dad, more than my brother, was the black sheep...
...Limbaugh also had two failed marriages. He was wed briefly, in 1977, to Roxie McNeely, a secretary. "I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons." He wed Michelle Sixta, a college student, in 1985; they divorced in 1991. "The love had just vanished," he says. "We're still friendly...
...Limbaugh's knack for being funny persuaded Ed McLaughlin, a former president of the ABC Radio Network, to make the talker a national star. "The thing I got immediately," McLaughlin says, "was his sense of humor in a traditionally nonhumorous format. He had all the elements: innate intelligence, a high curiosity and the desire to be a star." In 1988 McLaughlin made Limbaugh a partner in their enterprise and brought him to New York City's WABC, as a base for the so-called Excellence in Broadcasting Network -- a company that does not exist; Rush just thought the name sounded...
...Limbaugh is a one-man conglomerate. He has the book, which longtime listeners will recognize as Rush's Greatest Hits. (He hits on liberalism, environmentalism, Hollywood, and for old time's sake he hits on Mikhail Gorbachev.) He has an audiocassette of the book -- the ideal way to get through the tome, since Rush not only abridges the text but provides comedy sound effects (dolphin noises, Meryl Streep impressions and a frog slurp). He has the Limbaugh Letter, a monthly compendium "dedicated to preserving my wisdom for the ages" and "printed on nonrecycled paper." He has T shirts, mugs, bumper...