Word: limbaughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's entertainment? TV syndicators are obsessed with chatter. After all, talk is cheap and popular. Soon everyone from WHOOPI GOLDBERG and Saturday Night Live's DENNIS MILLER to gossipmonger KITTY KELLEY, radio personality RUSH LIMBAUGH and even onetime Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer will be hosting new gab shows. Get ready for more tales of unhappy childhoods, bizarre behavior and plugs, plugs, plugs...
...bring a crane; the man weighs 317 lbs.) Rush would be shocked if you did. "I try to make my points with humor," he says mildly. "I attack the absurd by being absurd." Flattered as he is by the praise of those who despise his opinions, Limbaugh thinks he is popular because most Americans -- disenfranchised by the liberal media -- agree with what he says. "The majority of people just don't want to hear their country ridiculed or accused of being wrong. Let's not flog ourselves. I happen to believe in love of country, and that's what people...
...Limbaugh has every reason to believe in America's reward for hard work; he is reaping it now. Born into a family of lawyers in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Rush sat behind his first radio mike at 16. He spun records and made with the cute chatter under a couple of pseudonyms until he decided the medium would never give him a sense of self-respect. In 1979 he joined the Kansas City Royals as promotion director, where he made many friends (George Brett wears a DITTO T shirt at batting practice) but was still restless. "In 1982," he recalls...
Would he be king? Not just now, thank you; he's having too much fun rubbing noses with Bill Buckley (who admires Limbaugh's "preternatural fluency"), chairing seminars with Robert Bork and General Thomas Kelly and sitting in a tiny booth redefining radio entertainment 15 hours a week. "I am having an adult Christmas every day," he says. "If I'd wanted to affect policy, I'd have tried to join the White House or a Senator's staff. That's not for me. I am honest and passionate and sincere about my politics, but mostly I love being...
RADIO Rush Limbaugh is the clown prince of conservatism...