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...mere movie even to attempt such a thing would have seemed folly. Today people get their news and, just as important, their attitudes from more rambunctious sources--the polarized polemicists on talk radio and cable news channels, comedians and webmasters. That's poli-tainment, and as practiced by Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing hosts on radio and by Matt Drudge on the Internet, it hounded Bill Clinton's presidency while spicing and coarsening the standards of political discourse...
Before Michael Moore, the new faces of poli-tainment were radio shock jocks RUSH LIMBAUGH and HOWARD STERN, who were paired on TIME's cover in 1993. The question from a decade ago echoes the one being raised today in connection with Moore's movie: Is America's political discourse getting coarser...
America can pretty much be divided in two: on one side are Rush's people and Howard's people, and on the other the decorous and civilized who tend to be uncomfortable with strong broadcast opinion unless it comes from Bill Moyers, Bill Buckley or, if pressed, Andy Rooney. The Rush and Howard people ... seem to be winning, or certainly proliferating ... Limbaugh and Stern are popular because their audiences consider them uniquely honest, commonsensical, funny and a bit reck-less (more than a bit in Stern's case) at a time when most people on radio and TV seem phony...
...kind to papers like the Times. The thing I’ve learned this summer, though, is that there exist people who don’t think that way. There exist, for instance, people who went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 the same way my friends listen to Rush Limbaugh: like it’s the craziest thing in the world, and isn’t that idiot so horrifyingly offensive it’s funny? There exist men who have dedicated their entire adult lives to perpetuating the legacy of Ronald Reagan, a man whose presidency I was brought...
Glickman—whose son Jonathan is a successful Hollywood producer with films like Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights and both Rush Hour features under his belt—said his time on the House Judiciary Committee had made him knowledgeable about copyright issues...