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In AM talk radio, a long list of far-right pundits have been promoting the debunked conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump was the victim of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. But following the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 by a mob of violent extremists, domestic terrorists and white nationalists, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Atlanta-based Cumulus Media</a> has ordered its employees to quit promoting voter fraud conspiracy theories.The Washington Post's Paul Farhi reports that in an internal memo — which was first reported by <a href="https://insidemusicmedia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Inside Music Media</a> — Brian Philips, executive vice president of content for Cumulus, wrote, "We need to help induce national calm NOW." Phillips went on to say that Cumulus and Westwood One, which syndicates Cumulus programming, "will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved, and there are no alternate acceptable 'paths.'"Phillips warned Cumulus employees, "If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately."Farhi explains, "The new policy is a stunning corporate clampdown on the kind of provocative and even inflammatory talk that has long driven the business model for Cumulus and other talk show broadcasters. And it came as Apple, Google and Amazon cut off essential business services to Parler, the pro-Trump social media network where users have promoted falsehoods about election fraud and praised the mob that assaulted the Capitol. Apple and Google removed the Parler app from the offerings for its smartphones, while Amazon suspended it from its Web-hosting services."Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino are among the many far-right radio hosts who are employed by Cumulus and, Farhi notes, "have amplified Trump's lies that the vote was 'rigged' or in some way fraudulent." Levin, in fact, encouraged Republicans in Congress not to honor the Electoral College results, which showed that President-elect Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Biden defeated Trump by more than 7 million.The mob that stormed the Capitol Building on January 6 was hoping to prevent Congress from ratifying Biden's Electoral College victory but only succeeded in delaying it. Hours after the attack, Congress resumed its joint session and ratified Biden's win.One radio host who won't be directly affected by Cumulus' directive is Rush Limbaugh, whose program is broadcast on many Cumulus-owned stations but is syndicated by Premiere Networks. Cumulus owns and operates Westwood One.Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers Magazine, told the Washington Post that Cumulus and other media companies "recognize they're in the hot seat right now because the national eye is on them" and that talk radio hosts "never expected" their comments on the 2020 election to "get out of hand" in the way they did on January 6."I would hope they put their personal feelings aside and come clean with their listeners," Harrison told the Post. "I encourage them to pursue the truth and to tell their audience something that Trump may not like."<div></div><div><div>no lnx an 320</div><div>
</div><div>Here’s why Trump slammed Fox News for being too ‘politically correct’</div><div>Fox News</div><div>Written by Matthew Rozsa / Salon March 6, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>President Donald Trump blasted Fox News while appearing on the right-leaning network, telling its highest-rated host Sean Hannity that the cable channel invites “inappropriate” guests who criticize him in a desire to be “politically correct.”</div><div>
</div><div>“They put people on I think are inappropriate and say very, very false things, and people don’t challenge them. I think they’re trying to be very politically correct or ‘fair and balanced,’ right, is the term,” Trump told Hannity during a phone interview.</div><div>
</div><div>After Hannity agreed with Trump’s opinion, the president added: “I think they hurt themselves, if you want to know the truth.”</div><div>
</div><div>Earlier in the interview, Trump complained to Hannity that “the media is all on [the Democrats] side” with the exception of “yourself” and other Fox personalities, including Fox News host Mark Levin and Fox Business host Lou Dobbs. Trump also mentioned Rush Limbaugh, a radio host who the president incorrectly identified as working for the Fox networks.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump has a history of attacking Fox News after the network invites guests who are critical of the president or releases unfavorable poll numbers about him. During a rally in Colorado last month, Trump criticized Fox News and Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto, saying “they had this woman on Neil Cavuto who doesn’t treat us good” and that Cavuto himself is “not too good.”</div><div>
</div><div>That comment referred to A. B. Stoddard, a RealClearPolitics associate editor who claimed that Trump performed poorly during the presidential debates in the 2016 cycle. Trump incorrectly claimed in a tweet that he “won every one of my debates,” even though respondents in post-debate polls picked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as the winner of those contests.</div><div>
</div><div>The president also attacked Fox News in November for releasing a poll, which found that nearly half of Americans wanted him impeached and removed from office.</div><div>
</div><div>“You’re reading the wrong polls. I have the real polls,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I have the real polls. The CNN polls are fake. The Fox polls have always been lousy. I tell them they ought to get themselves a real pollster. But the real polls — if you look at the polls that came out this morning — people don’t want anything to do with impeachment. It’s a phony scam. It’s a hoax.”</div><div>
</div><div>A spokesperson from Fox News pointed Salon to an earlier statement by the network saying “our polling unit has long been held in high regard for being a nonpartisan source of research.”</div><div>
</div><div>Trump criticized Fox personalities Andrew Napolitano, Shepard Smith (who left in October) and others one month earlier after Fox News released a poll showing an increase in support for his impeachment and removal from office.</div><div>
</div><div>“From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days,” Trump tweeted at the time.</div><div>
</div><div>The president then launched a series of personal attacks at Fox News personalities whose opinions he views as unfavorable, including Judge Andrew Napolitano.</div><div>
</div><div>“With people like Andrew Napolitano, who wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice & I turned him down (he’s been terrible ever since), Shep Smith, @donnabrazile (who gave Crooked Hillary the debate questions & got fired from @CNN), & others, @FoxNews doesn’t deliver for US anymore,” Trump added. “It is so different than it used to be. Oh well, I’m President!”</div><div>
</div><div>Fox News anchor Bret Baier, responding to a presidential attack in 2019 after the network released an unfavorable poll about Trump’s chances in the 2020 election, said that “we have a news side and an opinion side. The opinion folks express their opinions. We do polls. Our latest poll had the Democratic candidates head-to-head, several of them ahead of President Trump. And this poll tracks exactly what the Real Clear Politics average of polls — even a little the other way — and this poll matches what we are seeing out there.”</div><div>
</div><div>Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume expressed similar thoughts earlier that year when Trump attacked the network for hosting a town hall event with former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who at that time was running for president.</div><div>
</div><div>“Say this for Buttigieg. He’s willing to be questioned by Chris Wallace, something you’ve barely done since you’ve been president,” Hume wrote on Twitter.</div><div>
</div><div>He added, “Oh, and covering candidates of both parties is part of the job of a news channel.”</div><div>
</div><div>You can watch the full interview below via YouTube:</div></div><div>=</div>1. After NASA Announced It Found Water On Mars, Rush Limbaugh Said It Was Part Of A Climate Change ConspiracyFollowing NASA’s announcement that it had found flowing water on Mars, Rush Limbaugh <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/28/after-nasa-announces-it-found-water-on-mars-rus/205820" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">posited</a> that NASA was “making up something that happened on Mars that will help advance their left-wing agenda on this planet,” adding, “I would assume it would be something to do with global warming.” After his comments were <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/30/rush-limbaugh-says-his-remarks-about-mars-were/205897" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">widely</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/30/larry-wilmore-mocks-rush-limbaugh-for-conspirac/205878" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">mocked</a>, Limbaugh doubled down on his conspiracy theory, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/30/limbaugh-nasa-scientists-claim-that-climate-cha/205881" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">declaring</a> that he was being “misquoted … on purpose” because he was “getting too close to the truth.” Limbaugh’s original remarks:sda free press wacko ag 21
U.N. Agenda 21 cabal
Are We Too Late to Stop U.N. Agenda 21?
AuthorBy Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh -- Bio and Archives  September 20, 2013 
The global cabal of U.N. Agenda 21 is behind global warming, regionalism, zoning, land and water use control, wealth redistribution, weakening and eventual replacement of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, global warming, cap and trade, Smart Grid, Smart Meters, carbon taxes, high gasoline prices, global citizens, IB World Schools, Common Core nationalized education standards, biofuels, Marxist advancement across the globe, food control, water access control via the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), gun control, health control, the Arab Spring/Winter, unchecked illegal immigration, and they are unstoppable. They’ve had 100 years of preparation ahead of us. Their effort is bearing fruit on every facet of our lives and around the globe.
I am certainly not advocating surrender, freedom is worth fighting for, and we are the last bastion of freedom in America. If America goes, so does the rest of the world. Other nations want us to fight because they’ve given up.
I was told by a very conservative ladies’ group that we must be careful not to use the word Agenda 21 lest we are labeled “loons.” In other words, let’s self-censor and enable the Agenda 21 to march on unrestrained because we have to appear that we are trusty team players.
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Having survived communism and seeing all the elements of global governance, I am not going to mince words. I have already been labeled “aggender” because I have ample research evidence that Agenda 21 exists, a “denier” because I do not believe in global warming. It is a manufactured crisis by the Club of Rome, IPCC, and other like-minded environmentalist-based groups and NGOs, based on verbal agreement called “consensus,” and faulty and manipulated data. I was called “islamophobe” because I gave a speech on Agenda 21 on the same stage that another person used when speaking about Sharia Law—that makes me guilty by proximity. I am a “racist” and a “bigot” because I am definitely against amnesty and illegal immigration.
Nationally syndicated radio talk show hosts have finally started speaking about Agenda 21 elements – they describe seemingly unrelated components of it and thus ordinary people, who do not have the time to do research, have difficulty connecting the dots into the larger picture. I connected many of the stories in my book, “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy.”
Survivors of communism know and are speaking out. A political refuge from Romania appealed to the St. Lucie County Commissioners in Florida at a recent meeting about the U.N. environmental regionalist Seven50 plans for Florida. “I do not come here to lose my freedom; I beg you – get out of the Seven50. Do not destroy our Freedom.”
Citizens vociferously opposed such regionalism. “I am opposed to Seven50… to the loss of our property rights by U.N. Agenda 21, the new world order communist Marxist project.” According to Suzanne Eovaldi, a long line of speakers and refugees from former communist countries pleaded with “local elected officials to reject the takeover of Florida’s private property.” One speaker wondered, “Why am I arguing for what has always been my right… for all that made America great.”
Special: New Probiotic Fat Burner Takes GNC by Storm]Large grants from HUD and the Obama administration divide the country into 11 nationwide regions, including the east coast of Florida. The Seven50 Regionalism Plan has already been adopted in the Gore triangle counties south of St. Lucie and Indian River counties. Vero Beach, IRC rejected the plan based on a “vertical authority flow chart” controlled by unelected federal bureaucrats influenced by globalist non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who plan to “stack-and-pack 200-foot dwelling spaces” and move citizens off their hard-earned private property. My family and I had experience with such social engineering and confiscation of property, forcibly being relocated off our land into tiny high rise apartments. Life in the 9-story concrete block apartments into which we were moved under protest and duress was very hard, especially since we did not have elevators to climb to our tiny cubicles. Sharing one bathroom and one kitchen with another family of four in a 600-square-foot apartment was dehumanizing.
Suzanne Eovaldi describes the typical stack-and-pack living quarters in the 200 square foot aPodments building in Sammamish, Washington. Resident Judy Green “shares the kitchen with seven other tenants on the second floor.” To get to her loft cubicle, she must climb six flights of stairs in the absence of elevators. Cars are not allowed because of global warming. The micro-apartments are the size of a hotel room and rent for $600-900 per month.  The micro-housing units increase the population density of the area tremendously.
The Seven50 is the Southeast Florida Regional Partnership of non-elected bureaucrats who have a “vision” for the rest of us, a vision driven by ICLEI and our own government to control land and water use, plants and animals, energy, construction, humans. Local control is gone and the funding comes from federal agencies doling out taxpayer dollars. In other words, we are losing our own sovereignty to the U.N. with our own taxpayer dollars.
The government knows best what “Best Practices” counties must adopt and these practices are not defined, they will be developed on a bureaucratic whim later. There will be changes to the counties’ desired low density character and scale. The bureaucrats will impose “sustainable development” and “equitable communities.” Smart Growth is certainly the linchpin of Agenda 21. The American Coalition 4 Property Rights explains on its website why the Seven50 Regional plan must be stopped with its Sustainable Urbanism, and the Smart Code solution to urban sprawl. Regionalism will fundamentally alter the make-up of our society and of our property rights or lack thereof.
<special ben="Ben" carson="Carson" credits="Credits" presidential="Presidential" campaign="Campaign" to="to" this="This" brain="Brain" pill="Pill" />Rush Limbaugh explained in his September 12, 2013 monologue, “The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Social Engineering,” what “equitable communities” and Smart Growth are.Limbaugh described the failed bussing social engineering project in the 1970s when kids were forcibly bussed around the country to schools outside of their neighborhoods, as far away as 45 minutes. Liberals used the power of government to force people where to send their kids to school because liberals did not like where Americans chose to live—they were too racist.Rush Limbaugh said, “Social engineering is on the verge of being imposed on entire neighborhoods, adults and children alike.” The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will dismantle local zoning and force people to move into certain areas in order to achieve what they consider “racial, economic, and ethnic diversity.” This is “nationalizing neighborhoods” on a grand scale. This is done for our “own good and to achieve utopia.”If local governments do not comply with the HUD mandate, their federal funding will be cut. HUD has already told Westchester County, New York, that “local governments will have to take meaningful action to further the goals identified. If they fail to comply, HUD can cut federal funding. HUD has told Westchester County that any limits on the size, type, height, and density of buildings are ‘restrictive practices.’”By obliterating zoning regulations, Rush Limbaugh said, we will have neighborhoods by government quota. The elites, of course, will be excluded from this social engineering scheme. NOTE HE DOES NOT DO AG 21 EXPLICITLY?The Obama administration and liberals in general are fascinated by mass transit, buses, subways, trains and do not like suburbia, they wish to dismantle it. Incidentally, Agenda 21 wants to do away with suburbia and move people off their land into high rise, highly dense settlements in large cities, accessed by public transportation, a five minute walk from work, school, and play, with no access to cars and parking.
Mass transit limits our mobility yet our country’s freedom, development, and achievement was defined by our unbounded mobility. If the government controls mass transit, they will control the routes, they will control where we can and cannot go, hence the off-limits lands to human access, lands given back to wilderness.
Rush Limbaugh pointed out that “HUD’s power grab is based on the mistaken belief that zoning and discrimination are the same, zoning is disguised discrimination.”Millennials, the products of years of liberal education, “do not wish to own cars.” They’ve been brainwashed by environmentalist teachers into believing that cars are bad for the environment, causing pollution and thus global warming.
Rush Limbaugh explained in his September 17, 2013 monologue, “Global Warming Scientists: We Were Wrong,” the connection of all the chess pieces in this global game are based on a climate hoax. He correctly identifies IPCC as the “repository for the hoax” and how the “University of East Anglia in Britain… and this guy at Penn State with his fake hockey stick graph, these guys all reported to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). All of these models that they constructed over the years predicted calamity by now, and the calamity never happened.”
By 2005 we should have been destroyed by global warming. Oppenheimer said in 1985 that we had 20 years if we didn’t reduce greenhouse gases.  We are still here. All these environmentalists and the IPCC use the global warming excuse to “justify increasing fossil fuel taxes and subsidies for ‘renewable energy.’”
Even though IPCC scientists admit that their “computers may have exaggerated the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures – and not taken enough notice of natural variability,” it did not stop National Geographic from dedicating its entire September 2013 issue to global warming. A Statue of Liberty submerged half way into the ocean is superimposed by the large title in capital letters, “RISING SEAS, Mapping a World without Ice.”
Satellite photos of Arctic ice taken by NASA in August 26, 2012 and August 15, 2013 show a 60 percent increase in the polar ice sheet, even though environmental modelers warned us six years ago that the North Pole would have melted by now. Nobel Prize winner Al Gore had cited U.S. climate scientist Wieslaw Maslowski in his December 2007 acceptance speech, “Earth has a fever,” that the North Pole would be “ice-free by 2013.” He was wrong by 920,000 square miles. The polar ice cap is the largest since 2006.
Al Gore’s “planetary emergency and the threat to the survival of our civilization,” a.k.a. global warming hoax, has turned into billions of dollars lucrative schemes for many global warming alarmists.
The global warming crowd keeps crowing that we have the power to destroy the planet. Rush says, very wisely, “We don’t have any such power. We couldn’t do this if we wanted to.” Deniers like us are targeted for character assassination because we are interfering with the leftist effort to expand “the size and role of government” controlling the nanny state.
A wise caller explains that the models used to claim global warming utilize cloud cover as the biggest variable in determining what temperatures are going to be. Cloud cover is very unpredictable, clouds form and dissipate so quickly, and it can swing the models one way or the other. The computer models are also based on very large grids and inadequate to make the global warming predictions claimed.
When the data was fudged because it did not match existing models and the environmentalist agenda, a big scandal broke in Great Britain at the University of East Anglia. We are often denied access to documents, information, and data, we are supposed to trust these people because they are the only ones who can interpret the data, and we are too dumb to understand. We are not allowed to testify in Congress, and when we are, we are shouted down.
Limbaugh continued, “The political movement funds these people [global warming scientists] with donations if they produce the right outcome in their research. This movement converted a bunch of just every day, ordinary meteorologists into huge proselytizers for it.” All it takes is 105 degrees Fahrenheit in July and people are claiming global warming.
A local commercial ran for many years, featuring a very shady looking salesman who always ended his sales pitch with the words, “I wouldn’t lie to you!” That is how I see the manmade global warming claims manufactured by environmental alarmists whose interests of power and control are at stake. When we do diligent research and uncover the whole U.N. Agenda 21 cabal, we become right wing nut conspiracy theorists who wear tin foil hats to prevent Marxist progress from happening.
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh -- Bio and Archive<div class="byline story" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters / By <a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/eric-boehlert" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eric Boehlert</a> [1]</div><div class="headline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title">How Fox News Dresses Up Extreme Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories as News</h1></div><div class="the_body body_story clearfix" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size"><div class="story_tools_email"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="story_tools_share"><div style="clear: left;"><div class="story-date">May 8, 2014  |  </div>The Benghazi blueprint matches up right down to the fact that there's no there there, in terms of a criminal White House cover up. It "doesn't add up to much of a scandal," <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/hillarys-nightmare-the-benghazi-industrial-complex-106332.html#ixzz30s2DE01o" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">wrote</a> [2] Michael Hirsh at Politico this week, reviewing the facts of Benghazi to date. "But it's already too late for the truth. Benghazi has taken on a cultural life of its own on the right." He added, "Benghazi has become to the 2010s what Vince Foster" was in the 1990s.Foster was the then-deputy White House counsel who <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940701.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">committed suicide</a> [3] in Northern Virginia's Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993, not far from Washington, D.C. His suicide, which sparked controversy when the so-called <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/magazine/clinton-crazy.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Clinton Crazies</a> [4] accused the president and his wife of being part of a plot to murder their friend (he knew too much!), quickly become shorthand for the type of <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/clinton-conspiracy-theories-kathleen-willey-chronicles" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">despicable claims</a> [5] that were so casually lobbed in the 1990s.Looking ahead to Hillary Clinton's possible 2016 presidential run, Hirsh wrote that the "Benghazi-Industrial Complex is going to be as toxic as anything Hillary has faced since ... Vince Foster."The analogy is a strong and a factual one. But in trying to understand what's happening today with the ceaseless, two-year Benghazi propaganda campaign, a blitz that's utterly lacking in <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/05/07/the-already-asked-and-answered-questions-fox-wa/199208" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">factual support</a> [6], it's important to understand how the media game has changed between the Vince Foster era and today. Specifically, it's important to understand what's different and more dangerous about the elaborate and irresponsible gotcha games that Republicans now play in concert with the right-wing media. (Hint: The games today get way more coverage.)Here's what's key: Twenty years ago the far-right Foster tale was told mostly from the fringes. Word was spread via emerging online <a href="http://www.alipac.us/f9/bill-hillary-clinton-body-count%85-you-want-these-serial-killers-back-wh-297909/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bulletin boards</a> [7], snail mail pamphlets, <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19930501&id=MYUyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kwcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6845,27616" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">faxed newsletters</a> [8], <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Citizen_s_Independent_Report.html?id=yW4GngEACAAJ" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">self-published exposes</a> [9], and VCR tapes, like "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Clinton-Chronicles-Investigation-Activities/dp/B000NMIP3Y" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Clinton Chronicles</a> [10]," which portrayed the president as a one-man <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/1999/02/does_bill_clinton_run_murder_inc.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">crime syndicate</a> [11] involved in drug-running, prostitution, murder, adultery, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, just to name a few.At the top of the Foster-feeding pyramid stood the New York Post, Rush Limbaugh's <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2004/06/28/laura-ingraham-not-listening-i-never-heard-rush/131354" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">radio show</a> [12] ("Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton"), and Robert Bartley's team of writers at theWall Street Journal editorial page, who spent eight years lost in a dense<a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/hast-seen-the-whitewater-whale/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, Clinton-thick fog</a> [13].Notice the hole in that ‘90s media menu? Television. Specifically, 24-hour television.Now, fast-forward to the never-ending Benghazi feast of outrage. Today, that far-right tale is amplified via every single conservative media outlet in existence, and is powered by the most-watched 24-hour cable news channel in America. A news channel that long ago threw away any semblance of accountability.So yes, Fox News is what's changed between 1994 and 2014, and Fox News is what has elevated Benghazi from a fringe-type "scandal" into the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2004/06/28/laura-ingraham-not-listening-i-never-heard-rush/131354" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pressing issue</a> [12] adopted by the Republican Party today. ("Benghazi" has been mentioned approximately 1,000 times on Fox since May 1, according to TVeyes.com)Remember, Rupert Murdoch's all-news channel didn't debut in America until October 1996 when it <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/money/fox-hunts-tv-news-niche-channel-debut-today-article-1.742177" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">launched</a> [14] with just 17 million subscribers. (Today it boasts 90 millions subs.) And for the first few years it generally delivered a conservative slant on the news. It didn't function as a hothouse of fabrications the way it does today.Now, Fox acts as a crucial bridge between the radical and the everyday. Fox gives a voice and a national platform to the same type of deranged, hard-core haters who hounded the new, young Democratic president in the early 1990s. Fox embraces and helps legitimize the kind of conspiratorial talk that flourished back then but mostly on the sidelines. The Murdoch channel has moved derangement into the mainstream of Republican politics.By making the Foster comparison, I'm not downplaying how Republicans and the president's dedicated detractors irresponsibly flogged the Foster story for years. It stood as one of the most rancid examples of the politics of personal destruction that defined the Clinton era. (The Foster family <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/05/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-grassy-knoll.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">begged</a> [15], to no avail, for an end to the use of "outrageous innuendo and speculation for political ends.")But given how vast the right-wing noise machine apparatus has expanded since the 1990s, I'm suggesting that if that same type of event unfolded under the current Democratic president and if Fox News decided to hype the story, regardless of facts, for ten, twenty, or thirty months, the scandal wouldn't be treated as a fleeting affair. In other words, if Vince Foster truly were the '90s equivalent of Benghazi, it would have received mountains of more media attention, from all corners.Fact: During Clinton's eight years in office, the New York Times published less than 30 news articles and columns that mentioned Foster at least three times, according to Nexis. By comparison, since the terror attack in Libya 20 months ago, the Times has published more than 250 hundred articles and columns that mentioned "Benghazi" three or more times.That's what happens when you add the mighty medium of television into the all-scandal mix. That kind of drumbeat of televised phony outrage forces and/or encourages Republican politicians to respond, as well as the mainstream media.Meanwhile, how do we know Fox would've gone all in on the dark Foster story? Because in the mid-'90s Fox chief Roger Ailes, then programming CNBC, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/vince-fosters-suicide-rumor-mill-churns-185900" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">told Don Imus</a> [16] that Foster's death could have been a murder. At the time, Ailes didn't have the influence or the independence to unleash NBC-owned financial news channel on a reckless Vince Foster witch-hunt. But he certainly would have if he'd been running today's hyper-partisan, hyper-irresponsible version of Fox News.Also, even years after the ugly Foster smear campaign faded, Fox talkers like Sean Hannity push the lies:<ul><li><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/139602" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After suggesting Vince Foster was murdered, Hannity praised caller who accused Clinton of multiple rapes</a> [17]</li><li><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/139406" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Discussing Foster, Hannity asked: "Did a close friend of Hillary Clinton commit suicide, or was it a massive coverup?"</a> [18]</li><li><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/139363" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hannity asserted that "Whitewater and the death of Vince Foster" are "chapters remaining open" for Sen. Clinton</a> [19]</li></ul>In 2007, Fox News host Sean Hannity <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/07/23/discussing-foster-hannity-asked-did-a-close-fri/139406" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hosted</a> [20] a special episode on the "mysterious death" of Foster, hinting that the Clintons might have pulled off "a massive cover-up."So yes, I'm pretty sure today's Fox News would have eagerly endorsed the sordid Foster affair, relentlessly demanding that "unanswered questions" be addressed and that sweeping investigations be launched. That in turn, would have forced Republicans into action, which would have sparked endless mainstream news coverage.That's what happens when televised propaganda is added to the media scandal mix; the megaphone's much bigger, much louder, and in many ways much more dangerous.</div>ratings down<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/01/1296217/-Media-Matters-Reports-More-Bad-New-for-Rush-Limbaugh-REAL-BAD?detail=email">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/01/1296217/-Media-Matters-Reports-More-Bad-New-for-Rush-Limbaugh-REAL-BAD?detail=email</a>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/01/1296217/-Media-Matters-Reports-More-Bad-New-for-Rush-Limbaugh-REAL-BAD=

cmd 3/14"One of the most profitable investments they make, one of the biggest returns they get on their money is the money that they pay into campaign contributions to politicians -- pay a few million dollars and they get back billions on those investments," says Oil Change International research director Lorne Stockman.The Center for American Progress backs up Stockman's assertion. Its research finds that for every dollar the top five oil companies spent lobbying in Washington, they got back <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2012/02/07/11145/big-oils-banner-year/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important; text-decoration: none;">$30 in tax breaks</a>. That translates to a 3000-percent return on investment.Of course, they don't limit their contributions to the federal level. If the pipeline is approved, state governments will have much to say about how it's routed, how construction will take place, and how landowners will be compensated when their property is seized. Many states are willing to pay for that privilege."States offer property tax breaks for pipeline companies to build pipelines through their states. So we see very favorable property tax terms on the state level for these kind of projects," says Stockton.<h2 style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of Course ALEC Is Involved in the Keystone Cash</h2>Not willing to leave anything to chance, the oil industry is taking action to make sure state legislators see things their way. As the Center for Media and Democracy (which publishes PRWatch) reported, the <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important; text-decoration: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) sent nine state legislators on <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/12160" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important; text-decoration: none;">an industry-paid field trip</a> to the Alberta tar sands in 2012.ALEC, which receives funding from TransCanada, the Koch brothers (whose Canadian subsidiary has <a href="https://albertacanada.com/files/albertacanada/AOSID_QuarterlyUpdate_Winter2013.pdf#page=12" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important; text-decoration: none;">tar sands investments</a>), and other fossil fuel corporations, set up the event to put legislators in the same room as the industry lobbyists who paid for the lavish private-jet travel and fine dining. ALEC also prompted each of the nine legislators to send their corporate sponsors a thank you note, with a reminder of what the lobbyists had paid for the tour.CMD also uncovered emails between TransCanada's lobbyist and Ohio state Rep. John Adams in which the lobbyist provided Adams with a <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/Dimon_email1_0.pdf" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important; text-decoration: none;">model bill in support of KXL</a>, with Adams swiftly introduced in the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by another participant in ALEC's Alberta field trip.<h2 style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Politicians Prey on the Poor's Jobs Hopes</h2>Big Oil's influence extends even to, and perhaps most powerfully in, local politics. Port Arthur, Texas, where the KXL pipeline is slated to terminate, is essentially a one-industry town. What few jobs there are, are in the refineries that dominate the city's landscape, or in the small businesses that serve them. And with one in five people unemployed, and one in four living in poverty, those with jobs are unwilling to put their livelihoods at risk. Activists say that includes elected officials.Community organizer and environmental activist Hilton Kelley says what success his organization has had has come with little help from local politicians."A lot of times local government stands as a stumbling block in the way of local activists that are pushing for clean air and clean water, because they get the biggest part of their tax base from these industries," he says. "Maybe one or two council members had the heart to stand up in city council in Port Arthur say something but they're soon ousted. They don't get reelected the following year."Kelley recognizes that his independence from the refineries is a rare luxury in Port Arthur, and it allows him to take the lead. "I have no connections to the plants," he says, "therefore they can't really hurt me like they could someone who retired from the plant someone who has a kid who works at the plant.""They could possibly lose their job and all they'd tell them is, 'We don't need you anymore,' or, 'We cut that position.' But the reason they're letting them go is because their mother or dad was seen on TV protesting with me. I don't hold any animosity toward those who are really intimidated to stand with me, because I understand the dilemma."<h2 style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Dreams Denied in American "Sacrifice Zones"</h2>That dilemma is often exploited by industries that use economic desperation in the communities they occupy. In exchange for a few jobs, the companies get to pollute. It's a phenomenon called "<a href="http://www.onearth.org/articles/2013/08/if-built-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-will-end-in-one-toxic-town" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important; text-decoration: none;">sacrifice zones</a>.""Oftentimes front-line communities, which tend to be low-income and minority communities, are left out of the conversation, ignored, and they bear the brunt," says Colarulli of the Sierra Club. "They're often called 'sacrifice zones' these places where people are living in [squalid] conditions. This is not the American dream. This is not the way we should have people living in America."Of course none of this could happen without the media's acquiescence. We're not even talking about right-wing talkers like Rush Limbaugh, 2011 winner of Media Matters' "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/12/19/rush-limbaugh-climate-change-misinformer-of-the/185495" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important;">Climate Change Misinformer of the Year</a>" award who recently told his listeners that they cannot concurrently believe in <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/14/2469341/limbaugh-christians-global-warming/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 119, 187) !important;">God and climate change</a>. We're talking about the mainstream media that have given very little time to the issue of climate change and how KXL could impact it.

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<div align="left"><a target="Disney Removes " href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/24/1226230/-Disney-Removes-its-Ads-from-The-Rush-Limbaugh-Show">Disney Removes its Ads from The Rush Limbaugh Show</a></div>

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The controversial radio host has a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/7/rush-limbaugh-gets-400-million-to-rant-through-2016">$400 million contract</a> with Clear Channel Communications which runs through 2016, and sources say the contact leaves very little in the way of an out for the media giant.  In other words, even if Clear Channel were to decide that Limbaugh's drag on ad revenue had gone on long enough, they would likely have to pay him the remainder of his contract to cut him loose.  A much more likely scenario has Clear Channel putting Limbaugh on its own stations in markets where Cumulus removes him and limping along for as long as possible.

But what Limbaugh is definitely NOT correct about is that "everything's cool."  Since March, 2012, more than 2,600 advertisers have requested that their ads not run on his program, driving ad rates on his program to an all-time low and apparently forcing Cumulus to make a business decision that his profitability was not coming back.  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/flushrush/">The Flush Rush Facebook community</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=stoprush">#stoprush Twitter campaign</a> have seen a torrent of new volunteers since word of the Cumulus decision broke last night.  So maybe Rush is right when he says "what's on the table for this program is growth."  It's just not the sort of growth he's hoping for.

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<a id="titleHref" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/28/1227287/-Cumulus-to-drop-Hannity-and-Rush-Limbaugh" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); text-decoration: none;">Cumulus to drop Hannity and Rush Limbaugh</a>

In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.

Cumulus has decided that it will not renew its contracts with either host, the source said, a move that would remove the two most highly rated conservative talk personalities from more than 40 Cumulus channels in major markets.

The decision comes after negotiations between Cumulus and Premiere Networks, the division of Clear Channel that distributes Limbaugh and Hannity's shows, broke down due to disagreements over the cost of the distribution rights, the source said. Cumulus is known to drive a hard bargain on costs, and Clear Channel is known to seek top dollar for big names.

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<a href="http://stoprush.net/rush_limbaugh_sponsor_list.php#current_a" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">I wonder what might be the reason...</a>

<blockquote style=" margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Back in May, a source close to Limbaugh told POLITICO that the host was considering ending his affiliation agreement with Cumulus because CEO Lew Dickey was blaming the company's advertising losses on Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student. On an earnings call two days later, Dickey reported a $2.4 million first-quarter decline in revenue related to talk programming, which he attributed, indirectly, to Limbaugh's remarks about Fluke.</blockquote>

It looks like the boycotts had a sizable effect. I don't want to attribute this entirely to the StopRush campaign because there are other factors at work, like their listeners slowly dying out, but hey.</div>

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"When you look at a ... show that is by far number 1, and they're still running penile enhancement ads, what's happening is that mainstream media buyers are sending money elsewhere, trying to harm them.  Well, penile, take your pick,the Ronco Veg-o-matic, you know--while McDonald's and Coke and Meineke are everywhere else.

These are things we had to overcome on this pro--we have to fight that battle every day here anyway.  Cause these little sniveling jerks are out there trying to scare advertisers, still goes on."

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As usual, Limbaugh has some of his facts confused.  The "little sniveling jerks" he refers to would be the StopRush movement, groups like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/flushrush/" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">the Flush Rush Facebook community</a>.

But these groups aren't "trying to scare advertisers," they're simply contacting advertisers andquoting Rush Limbaugh verbatim to be sure the sponsor is aware of what they're being associated with.

Many of them aren't aware, and they often choose to pull their ads off the show.

<blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 14.4px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);">2638 have requested their ads not air on the Rush Limbaugh Show as of today.</blockquote>

But the reason these organizations pull their ads off the show isn't because of StopRush volunteers, it's because of the offensive content that comes out of Limbaugh's mouth--including<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/28/1197737/-GOP-Mouthpiece-Rush-Limbaugh-Cheapens-Marriage-Equality-Debate-with-Anal-Rape-Joke" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">regular homophobic rants</a>, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/31/1183566/-Limbaugh-Suggests-Data-Shows-Mexicans-are-Lazy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">racial stereotypes</a>, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/16/1178897/-Is-Rush-Limbaugh-Really-a-Christian-Part-1-of-4-The-Poor" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">poor bashing</a>, and even last week's <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/17/1202460/-Limbaugh-Jokes-About-Boston-Bombs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">incredibly insensitive jokes about exploding pressure cookers</a>, just one day after 3 people were brutally murdered in Boston.  Respectable organizations want nothing to do with that kind of thing.

Limbaugh alone is responsible for his advertiser exodus--nobody else.

As Limbaugh's large, well known advertisers have headed for the door, ad rates that Limbaugh<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html?pagewanted=all" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">used to call "confiscatory"</a> have dropped to all time lows.

Advertisers like <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/12/442673/141-companies-advertisng-rush-limbaugh/?mobile=wt" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Sony, Hallmark, Cadillac, and Office Depot</a> have been replaced by a ragtag bunch including <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/05/1191732/-Is-Major-Limbaugh-Advertiser-a-3-5-Billion-Pyramid-Scheme" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">a suspected pyramid scheme</a>, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/01/1188471/-Is-Rush-Limbaugh-s-Most-Loyal-Advertiser-A-Scam" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">shady identity protection software</a>, and even<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/19/1188064/-Travesty-Limbaugh-Advertiser-Turns-Murder-into-Money-from-the-Pulpit" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">a church led by a murdering pastor</a>.  Oh, and the "<a href="http://stoprush.net/search.php?all=mens_health" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">penile enhancements</a>."

One of Limbaugh's faithful advertisers is the<a href="http://stoprush.net/details.php?ls=1&back=search&id=1623" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Male Medical Clinic</a>, one of <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/20/1188087/-Does-Rush-Limbaugh-Cause-Erectile-Dysfunction" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">quite a few</a>similar businesses peddling cures to men with limp noodles.

A warning to anyone who clicks on the youtube link in the second tweet--it's a graphic video of "Mr. S" injecting erectile dysfunction medication directly into his penis--because that's how far El Rushbo has sunk.  He's now plugging intrapenous drug use.

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Actually, advertising woes aside, Limbaugh is the perfect spokesman for erectile dysfunction--he was once <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-1753947.html" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">detained after a Dominican vacation with an illegal Viagra prescription</a>.

So Limbaugh's advertising rates <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/01/rush-limbaugh-still-toxic-for-advertisers-one-y/192865" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">continue to plummet</a>, and StopRush continues to monitor the Rush Limbaugh Show across the country and quote Limbaugh to his advertisers.

And all the while, Rush keeps digging that hole deeper and deeper.

Find out how you can help hold Rush Limbaugh accountable after the curly fry.

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Decent folks who believe in tolerance and equality are no longer powerless against Limbaugh's efforts to spread intolerance on the radio.  StopRush is making a major impact by convincing advertisers on this show to withdraw their ads--and with your help we can do even more.  Just a few emails, tweets, or Facebook messages a week to Limbaugh's advertisers can go a long way toward making hatred less profitable.  It is our collective voice that makes us strong.

Want to do something hold Limbaugh accountable?

Join StopRush!  We can use your help in the following ways:

Join:  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/flushrush/" style=" color: rgb(124, 71, 12); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">The Flush Rush Facebook community</a>

Visit:  <a href="http://stoprush.net/" style=" color: rgb(124, 71, 12); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">The StopRush sponsor database</a>

Tweet:  <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=stoprush" style=" color: rgb(124, 71, 12); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">#stoprush Twitter campaign</a>

Fact Check:  <a href="http://rushtruth.net/" style=" color: rgb(124, 71, 12); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Limbaugh Lie Debunking Site</a>

Install: <a href="http://thinkcontext.org/" style=" color: rgb(124, 71, 12); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">ThinkContext StopRush browser</a><a href="http://thinkcontext.org/" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"> extension</a>--notifies you as you browse which companies advertise on Rush

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<div><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/24/1204320/-Rush-Limbaugh-Admits-StopRush-is-Kicking-His-Ass?detail=email">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/24/1204320/-Rush-Limbaugh-Admits-StopRush-is-Kicking-His-Ass?detail=email</a></div>

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<h1 class="node-title">The Right Wing Cult Machine Exposed</h1>

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Far right Conservatism has become a cult, and Rush Limbaugh is its leader.

By definition, a cult is a group or sect bound together by adoration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.

A cult promises you redemption. It tells you that if you do what it says, and as it believes, you will be protected from the evil people that are out to get you and the rest of society.

A cult purges the non-believers. And it actively tries to vilify all those who are not part of the cult, saying that they're doomed and destined to go to hell.

So how did Limbaugh become the leader of such a large, and influential, cult?

Like with any cult, the power that Limbaugh has over his flock as grown over time.

Right wing radio started out in conflict with mainstream society, and outside of mainstream politics.

What was once a little cult guided by Limbaugh has transformed into a massive cult that today has enveloped much of the Conservative movement.

So how did this transformation occur?

Well, like cult leaders do, Limbaugh offered up a theatrical flair, and accompanied that with a marketing genius.

He offered his followers redemption. He offered them protection from what he told them they should fear – liberals and feminists. He demanded ideological purity, and absolute devotion to the ideology of far-right "conservative" corporatism. And he vilified all those who didn't see things his way.

Limbaugh then managed to convince his followers that faith in his word was more important than facts. No matter what everyone else said, if Rush said it, it must be true. Only information that supports Limbaugh's positions can be believed, and everything else is just lies.

Since his first successes, he's been followed by a succession of other right-wing cult leaders, from Glenn Beck to Mark Levin to Alex Jones.

Which brings us to today.

Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing talk radio cult have conjured up such a large following that they're helping the Koch Brothers drive the polarization within the Republican Party, and within America's political discourse.

Ironically, so says Frank Luntz, a top Republican consultant and campaign guru.

Earlier this week, Luntz told a group of college students at the University of Pennsylvania that Limbaugh and his fellow right-wing talk-radio cult leaders are "problematic" for the Republican Party because they're responsible for the stark polarization within the party.

In a secret recording of his comments, Luntz can be heard saying that, "And they get great ratings, and they drive the message, and it's really problematic. And this is not on the Democratic side. It's only on the Republican side...[inaudible]. [Democrats have] got every other source of news on their side. And so that is a lot of what's driving it. If you take—Marco Rubio's getting his ass kicked. Who's my Rubio fan here? We talked about it. He's getting destroyed! By Mark Levin, by Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He's trying to find a legitimate, long-term effective solution to immigration that isn't the traditional Republican approach, and talk radio is killing him. That's what's causing this thing underneath. And too many politicians in Washington are playing coy."

Basically, Luntz was saying that the right-wing media and its cult following are not serving the national political debate and not helping the Republican Party widen its appeal beyond its declining base of aging boomer cultists.

But no matter what Luntz says, Limbaugh and the rest of his right-wing media pals will continue to rally their followers, and continue to vilify those who dare think otherwise.

They will continue to paint President Obama as America's anti-hero, using terms like "socialist" and "Muslim" to further scare their cult followers into seeing things their way.

The good news is that there are still some semblances of a normal, and non-cult media in America.

Unlike the right-wing media, real media – and even progressive media – is not cult-like. It talks about ideas that are widely accepted (social safety net, clean environment, nondiscrimination, a solid middle class), and that are not in conflict with the rest of society.

It's not based on fear or faith. It's based on facts. And it respects other beliefs and ideas, instead of vilifying them.

And perhaps, most importantly, real media doesn't fear or hate our government, and certainly doesn't suggest we should be armed and ready to attack our own government.

Sadly, that cult is coming dangerously close to having complete control over the Republican Party and much of the political discourse in our country.

Thankfully, people are waking up and recognizing the far right-wing media for what it is: a cult.

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8. The Secret Behind The Gulf Oil Spill

When millions of barrels of oil were pouring into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, most Americans were disturbed by the devastating environmental damage and the negligence of the company operating the drilling platform. But conservatives led by Rush Limbaugh <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/05/03/94901/fox-oil-conspiracy/" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">saw through the scheme</a> [9] and revealed that the massive malfunction was actually a deliberate act of sabotage devised to create a justification for eliminating all off-shore drilling. Limbaugh told his audience that ��I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig �� What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig?” You can’t argue with logic like that, because it’s the logic of a mad man who thinks the President would murder twelve workers and foul an environmentally sensitive region in order to achieve a political goal.

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al Rocher TV weather guy a political dupe of demos who politicize anything for their "agenda oriented" april 5 2013

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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Rush+Limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh</a> really took issue with NBC’s <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Al+Roker">Al Roker</a> on Thursday, pointing specifically to a remark he made on Today about global warming. Tearing into both the segment and the global warming “hoax,” Limbaugh deemed Roker “proof positive” that there’s no “intellectual presence” at NBC. Oy.

While he’s well aware of the “blatant assumptive stupidity out there,” Limbaugh still found the remarks mind boggling. In a story about conspiracies and crazy thing people believe, the folks at Today took note of the part that said 37 percent of Americans don’t believe in global warming. “They think it’s a hoax,” Roker commented. “I mean, two words: super-storm Sandy.”

Right off the bat, Limbaugh dismissed the environmental concern, stating, “Everybody knows the manmade global warming thing is a hoax. … The whole thing is made up. It was phony from the get-go.” Roker doesn’t even read, nor is he curious enough, he added, to read up on the studies rejecting it.

Limbaugh then went on to hold Roker up as an example of “problematic” journalism, the kind that is leading people to be “ill-educated” and dumbed down.” But he didn’t stop there.

“Al Roker is proof positive there isn’t any curiosity or intellectual presence, much less inquiry, at NBC,” the radio host charged. “They all think the same thing. They all believe the same thing. They all say the same thing. They’re robots. They’re followers. Not one of them has dared even try to figure out what is really happening.”

In the olden days, Limbaugh reminisced, those who appeared on television were required to meet certain requirements and be more knowledgeable than their viewers. Now, it’s “breathtaking to behold,” there are virtually no barriers to entry.

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<h1 itemprop="name">Intellectually Incurious Today Show Hosts are Shocked That So Many People Know Global Warming is a Hoax</h1>

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RUSH: Let's move on to what happened on the Today Show yesterday.  This kind of thing literally, I have to admit, boggles my mind.  It really does.�� I mean, I know that there is blatant assumptive stupidity out there, but sometimes I can't understand it.  Hard as I try, as solid as my instincts are, I want you to listen.  There was a news story out about all the conspiracies and stuff that people believe.  Seven percent of Americans think that lizard people are running the country and 13% believe in the Trilateral Commission and New World Order, that kind of survey.

And in this survey, it was announced 37% of the American people do not believe in global warming.  So on the Today show that's what they focused on.  They went and got Al Roker, who, by the way, is still talking about having <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/01/08/eib_low_information_news_roundup" target="_blank">pooped in his pants at the White House</a>.  He's still talking about it as though it was a funny, great thing to have happened because of where it happened.  Who else has admitted to this, besides Al Roker?  It put him on the map with the low-information audience.  So listen to this sound bite.

WILLIE GEIST: They took 20 widespread conspiracy theories and asked the American public what it thought, "Do you believe in these?"

NATALIE MORALES: What does this say about us?

WILLIE GEIST: Global warming is a hoax, 37% believe that.

AL ROKER:  Wow.  Thirty-seven percent of these people don't believe in global warming.

WILLIE GEIST: Yeah.

AL ROKER:  They think it's a hoax.

WILLIE GEIST: Yeah.

AL ROKER:  I mean, two words:  Super storm Sandy.

NATALIE MORALES:  Sandy, right.

RUSH:  Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna try and be nice here. This is the weatherman of the Today show, Al Roker.  Now, everybody knows the manmade global warming thing is a hoax.  There's another story about it today about a firm that has been caught lying about its data and falsely interpreting its data, which shows a temperature plunge.  They changed it to show a massive temperature increase over some historical period.  They have admitted the lie.  We have the e-mails from East Anglia, it is, for those engaged in intellectual inquiry, a hoax.  The whole thing is made up.  It was phony from the get-go.

My guess is that Al Roker has no clue that any of this science has been rejected.  My guess is that Al Roker doesn't read enough, isn't curious enough to know.  Al Roker lives in the pop culture bubble, and in the pop culture bubble global warming is happening, and we're causing it, and it's destroying everything, and everything flows from that.  And so confronted with the news that 37% of the American people think it's a hoax, Al can't believe it and says, "I got two words for you:  Super storm Sandy."  That's three words, number one.  Well, they might say super storm is one word.  It was a hurricane.  A hurricane.  A hurricane is proof of global warming to Al Roker.

Folks, we sit here, I laugh at it, you laugh at it, but I'm telling you, it's problematic.  It is a huge problem. This is how people are being ill-educated, dumbed down.  What is education?  I read some description, you know, I always laugh at this, too.  We know what goes on at college.  Students are there just to bide their time 'til they figure out what they want to do and they're going to sorority busts and beer busts and they're doing all this stuff, and to listen to these educators talk about the intellectual inquiry going on at the academy, there isn't any intellectual inquiry going on at the academy.  There is propaganda going on at the academy.  Intellectual inquiry?

Al Roker is proof positive there isn't any curiosity or intellectual presence, much less inquiry, at NBC.  "Wow, they don't believe in global warming. Wow, I give you two words: super storm Sandy," and everybody goes, "Yeah, super storm Sandy."  They all think the same thing.  They all believe the same thing.  They all say the same thing.  They're robots.  They're followers.  Not one of them has dared even try to figure out what is really happening.  In the old days, folks, even though there was a bias, in the old days -- I hate that phrase, but when I was a kid, the people on TV were smarter than everybody else.�� People on TV did know more than everybody else.  There weren't that many of them, either, because there weren't that many TV networks.

The people on TV did have to meet certain qualifications.  Now anybody can be on TV, and anybody is.  We've gotten to the point now where the people who are in positions in media and in classrooms are probably dumber than their students, in some cases, and certainly their audiences.  Breathtaking to behold to me.

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RUSH: I'll tell you what these people do. You got Al Roker and Willie Geist and whoever the woman was, and they're talking about the poll: 37% of the American people think that global warming is a hoax. If you listen to the reaction of Al Roker and these guys, it's, "What do they do?" They ridicule people in their audience who are in that 37% group, which is one of the techniques these people use. It's right out of Alinsky, by the way, but it's a technique that anybody can use. Ridicule is hard to undo. I mean, if you can get away with ridiculing -- making your opponent look ridiculous -- that's over half the battle won in a quasi-debate.

That's what they do.

They sit here from this lofty perch of pomposity. They are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about. The things you and I know are out there for anybody to discover, but they're not reported in the mainstream media. So people like Al Roker and Willie Geist are never gonna come across these facts. It's like Juan Williams. I'll never forget this. Lord Monckton is a famous individual from Great Britain, and long an advocate of exposing the fraud that is the manmade global warming branch of liberalism. And he was in Washington, and he happened to be speaking the National Press Club, and Williams was there.

He went on Fox afterwards and said (summarized), "You know, I never heard any of that before!" He said, "I'm rethinking what I believe about global warming. I never heard any of that before."

I'm sitting there and I'm nodding my head, "Yep. Here's a guy, a highly paid commentator/expert who knows more than the audience does on Fox, and he's never heard of one argument counter to the premise of manmade global warming -- and when he did, he was confused, because he heard it from somebody he thought had credibility." Well, Al Roker and his crowd have never even heard it. They live in a world where that news has never been seen. So they have this arrogant, condescending belief that everything they know is right, and then when they run across people that don't believe what they do, they start laughing at 'em, making fun of them, ridiculing them -- even if they're in their own audience.

That's how they intimidate people, by the way, and get away with it, too.

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RUSH:  Now, here's what happened and I'm gonna move on.  I've made my point.  Here's what happened that caused Hurricane Sandy.  It was a hurricane. Pure and simple.  Hurricanes happen during a particular time of the year, whether there's global warming or not.  And, by the way, we're in the middle of a global warming period because we're warming up from an ice age 4,000 years ago, so we are warming.  That's not the question.  We warm and we cool.  We have nothing to do with it, folks.  We can't cause it. We can't stop it. We can't cause a thunderstorm; we can't stop one.  We can't cause a snowstorm. We can't fix a drought. We can't do anything!  We cannot cause global warming.  We cannot cause storms.

Anyway, you have a hurricane, a natural occurrence, they do happen. It happened to collide with a massive amount of cold air from Canada during a full moon.  That meant high tide.  The alignment of those events could not have been more conducive to a massive storm.  Now, did global warming have anything to do with the full moon?  How can there be a massive cold front from Canada with manmade global warming?  I don't know, maybe I'm making too big a deal out of this.  But the blatant, rampant ignorance from people who are proud of it, they're proud of it, is just...

I'll tell you why I think about this.  If I had gone to school when people like this were around, I shudder to think what I would believe today. I shudder to think what I would not know today, if I had teachers like I read about today.  If I had political activists as TV weather people, you know, what would I believe today?  It's a major, major challenge that I think we have. ��

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<li><a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2013/04/03/al-roker-appalled-poll-showing-37-percent-believe-global-warming-h" target="_blank">NewsBusters: Al Roker Appalled by Poll Showing 37 Percent Believe Global Warming is a Hoax</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/01/08/eib_low_information_news_roundup" target="_blank">RushLimbaugh.com: EIB Low-Information News Roundup - 01.08.13</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/" target="_blank">ClimateDepot: ‘The Exposure Of Yet Another Dodgy Piece Of Climate-Change Alarmism Shows The Need For Serious Skepticism’</a></li>

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<h1 style=" margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">Stephen Moore, Rush Limbaugh, And The Right-Wing War On Science</h1>

<h5><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog"> Blog </a>››› <time datetime="2013-04-08T17:07:35-04:00" itemprop="datePublished"> April 8, 2013 5:07 PM EDT </time> ››�� JOHN WHITEHOUSE</h5>

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<h2>Zack Kopplin Educates Senior WSJ Writer About Science</h2>

On the April 5th edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, science education activist <a href="https://twitter.com/ZackKopplin">Zack Kopplin</a> confronted The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore over myths about science funding, pointing out that Moore, who questioned the need for funding research on "snail mating habits," is "not a scientist":

As it turns out, the reason actual scientists are conducting this type of research is because snails carry <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126031">parasitic worms that kill children</a>:

Watch where you jump in for a swim or where your bath water comes from, especially if you live in Africa, Asia or South America. Snails that live in tropical fresh water in these locations are intermediaries between disease-causing parasitic worms and humans.

People in developing countries who don't have access to clean water and good sanitation facilities are often exposed to the infected snails. Then they're left open to the parasitic worms.

The worms' infectious larvae emerge from the snails, cruise in shallow water, easily penetrate human skin and mature in internal organs.

The result is schistosomiasis, the second most socioeconomically devastating disease after malaria. As of 2009, 74 developing nations had identified significant rates of schistosomiasis in human populations.

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Moore is not some fringe right-winger. He is the senior economics writer and an editorial board member for The Wall Street Journal.  And, while on a nationally televised show, he called for killing a government-funded scientific study while bragging about not understanding the research behind it.

If this sounds familiar, it's because Rush Limbaugh said virtually the same thing on his radio show earlier that day, suggesting that science today is an extension of the Democratic Party:

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/2013/04/08/stephen-moore-rush-limbaugh-and-the-right-wing/193530">http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/2013/04/08/stephen-moore-rush-limbaugh-and-the-right-wing/193530</a>

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/01/rush-limbaugh-still-toxic-for-advertisers-one-y/192865">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/01/rush-limbaugh-still-toxic-for-advertisers-one-y/192865</a>

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...But recent history has demonstrated the power of these two right-wing media outlets.

In October 2010, a New Yorker article by Ryan Lizza <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/10/03/new-yorker-graham-feared-fox-news-backlash-agai/171444">revealed</a> that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had previously urged Democratic Sens. Joe Lieberman and John Kerry to advance climate bill negotiations as much as possible before Fox News could find out about the talks. Lizza wrote that "Graham warned Lieberman and Kerry that they needed to get as far as they could in negotiating the bill 'before Fox News got wind of the fact that this was a serious process,' one of the people involved in the negotiations said."

Similarly, in July 2011, media <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/173311-boehner-briefed-limbaugh-on-debt-plan">reported</a> that House Speaker John Boehner had briefed Limbaugh on his debt ceiling plan before even showing it to his Republican conference. Boehner also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/27/the-wall-street-journal-where-calling-rush-limb/183316">called</a> into Limbaugh's show to seek the radio host's approval on air.

Many Republican figures have also walked back comments they have made after Limbaugh objected to them. In October 2010, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303496104575560361114358350.html?">told</a> The Wall Street Journal that Americans "want us to come together [with the administration]." After Limbaugh <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/10/19/darrell-issa-is-the-latest-republican-to-apolog/172168">attacked</a> Issa on air for his comments, Issa came on Limbaugh's show to distance himself from the article. As we noted at the time, other Republican figures have also apologized to Limbaugh:

[Former]  RNC chairman Michael Steele <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C968B914-18FE-70B2-A80561251155FA49">apologized</a>��for calling Limbaugh an "entertainer," Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18067.html">told</a> Limbaugh he was sorry for comments defending the House Republican leadership against criticism from Limbaugh, and former Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/26/rush-sanford-idiot/">backed off</a> criticism of Limbaugh's "I hope he fails" comments. Even Sarah Palin <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/02/07/palin-latest-to-walk-back-criticism-of-gop-lead/160189">changed</a> her mind about condemning Limbaugh's use of the word "retards."

<a href="http://">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/28/fox-and-limbaugh-lash-out-at-obama-for-highligh/192424</a>

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alternet 10 conspir:

8. The Secret Behind The Gulf Oil Spill

When millions of barrels of oil were pouring into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, most Americans were disturbed by the devastating environmental damage and the negligence of the company operating the drilling platform. But conservatives led by Rush Limbaugh <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/05/03/94901/fox-oil-conspiracy/" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">saw through the scheme</a> [9] and revealed that the massive malfunction was actually a deliberate act of sabotage devised to create a justification for eliminating all off-shore drilling. Limbaugh told his audience that “I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig �� What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig?” You can’t argue with logic like that, because it’s the logic of a mad man who thinks the President would murder twelve workers and foul an environmentally sensitive region in order to achieve a political goal.

9. Obamacare’s Death Panels

No list of conspiracy theories would be complete without a mention of Sarah Palin’s “death panels.” (Although the non-existant "death panels" have been roundly mocked, this did not stop Presidential candidate Mitt Romney from basically reviving them at <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/the-death-panels-lie-656485/">last week's debate. </a> [10])

These nefarious groups were said to have the power to decide whether your grandmother would live or die based on her level of productivity to society as determined by a team of government bureaucrats. In reality the section of the Affordable Care Act to which Palin referred actually provided for coverage to pay for end-of-life counseling. These were voluntary sessions to help patients determine and document what sort of life-saving measures they preferred in the event that they were incapacitated and unable to communicate their wishes to their doctors. When that proved to be an embarrassing misinterpretation of the law, conservatives switched to another section of the bill, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, and called that the death panel. However, the IPAB was simply a board that assessed the best practices in medicine and made non-binding recommendations in order to prevent excessive billing and unnecessary procedures. Palin was awarded the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">“Lie of the Year”</a> [11] award from PolitiFact for her imaginary panel.

10. The Green Plot to Enslave the World

Conservatives have never taken to science. So it should come as no surprise that many of them regard global warming as a hoax whose purpose is to enrich Al Gore and a few socialist wind farmers. But there is another faction of the anti-environment movement that has uncovered something even more dastardly lurking behind the effort to maintain a clean, sustainable planet.<a href="http://www.un.org/esa/desa/aboutus/dsd.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Agenda 21</a> [12], a little known and non-binding resolution adopted by the United Nations is viewed by some on the right as an attempt to control the lives of people throughout the world by regulating everything they do. Amongst their paranoid fears is that Agenda 21 will cede U.S. sovereignty to the U.N. and a one-world government. The truth is that Agenda 21 is a set of principles to guide the development of practices to preserve a sustainable environment for future generations. It is entirely voluntary and was agreed to by the U.N. in 1992 and signed by President George H.W. Bush. But to hear doomsayers like Glenn Beck put it, it will “suck all the blood out of [our communities], and we will not be able to survive.”

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<h1 itemprop="name" style=" margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">Limbaugh: "I Would Love" Exxon CEO To Run Our Energy Policy</h1>

Previously:

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/08/08/limbaugh-nature-cleaned-up-itself-after-exxon-v/144316">Limbaugh: "Nature cleaned up itself" after Exxon Valdez oil spill</a>

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2011/12/19/limbaugh-bp-oil-spill-ended-up-being-a-nonstory/185500">Limbaugh: BP Oil Spill "Ended Up Being A Nonstory"</a>

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/09/10/limbaugh-i-would-love-exxon-ceo-to-run-our-ener/189815">http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/09/10/limbaugh-i-would-love-exxon-ceo-to-run-our-ener/189815</a>

<h1 itemprop="name" style=" margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">Limbaugh: "Ryan Was Right" About Janesville Plant Despite "Bogus Fact-Checkers" Declaring Him Wrong</h1>

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/08/30/limbaugh-ryan-was-right-about-janesville-plant/189682">http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/08/30/limbaugh-ryan-was-right-about-janesville-plant/189682</a>

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Limbaugh tipping pt?

<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/10/rush-limbaugh-scandal-proves-contagious-for-talk-radio-advertisers.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/10/rush-limbaugh-scandal-proves-contagious-for-talk-radio-advertisers.html</a>

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Regardless, to restrict discussion to climate science -- how many scientists say what, who signed what statement, how many peer-reviewed papers say what -- misses the forest for the trees. Climate denialism is part of something much broadThe right's project over the last 30 years has been to dismantle the post-war liberal consensus by undermining trust in society's leading institutions. Experts are made elites; their presumption of expertise becomes self-damning. They think they're better than you. They talk down to you. They don't respect people like us, real Americans. Here's Americans' trust in institutions, also from Gallup data (click for larger version):

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-09-the-rights-climate-denialism-is-part-of-something-much-larger

Cheers to Mitt Romney for not backing down from his belief that humans may contribute to global warming even though it <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/romneys-heresy-the-earth-is-warming/12119/" target="_hplink">alienated many conservatives</a>, including Rush Limbaugh, who said that Romney can "kiss the nomination goodbye" for believing 99% of scientists.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/12/psychometer-week-in-crazy_n_875531.html

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rolled upton?

The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA had the

power to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollutants

under the Clean Air Act. Pompeo, Griffith and others

want to strip the EPA of that authority.

Until recently, Upton would have been an unlikely

champion of that view.

In 2009, he told a Michigan newspaper: "Climate change

is a serious problem that necessitates serious

solutions." Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Upton for his

sponsorship of an energy-saving bill. Tea party groups

opposed his bid for the committee chairmanship.

But as chairman, Upton said that EPA Administrator Lisa

Jackson would have to attend so many hearings before his

committee that she would need her own parking space on

Capitol Hill. In daily e-mail blasts, he hammered at the

EPA's "job-killing" regulations.

His bluntest rhetoric against the EPA came in late

December, in a Wall Street Journal commentary he wrote

with Phillips of Americans for Prosperity.

The EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, they

wrote, "represents an unconstitutional power grab that

will kill millions of jobs �� unless Congress steps in."

In an e-mail statement, Upton denied that his position

on climate change had shifted, and he explained his work

with conservative activists. "Meeting with and listening

to individuals and organizations that will be affected

by the laws and regulations this committee oversees is

one of our fundamental responsibilities," he said.

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Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment

By Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Joseph N. Cappella

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For his part, Limbaugh sees himself as a thinker as well as showman. “I take the responsibility that comes with my show very seriously,�� he told me. “I want to persuade people with ideas. I don’t walk around thinking about my power. But in my heart and soul, I know I have become the intellectual engine of the conservative movement.”

In truth, Limbaugh is less a theoretician than a popularizer of what he regards as the correct conservative responses to contemporary issues. Most of his concerns are economic. “I consider myself a defender of corporate America,” he told me. Limbaugh is admired by the religious right, but he is far from pious on matters of adult behavior. He is also one of the few commentators �� left or right — who never speaks cloyingly about America��s obligation to its children and grandchildren.

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In his first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="New York Times Best Seller list" class="mw-redirect">New York Times best seller</a>, Limbaugh describes himself as conservative, and is critical of broadcasters in many media outlets for claiming to be objective. He has criticized political centrists, independents, and moderate conservatives, claiming they are responsible for Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s victory over Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_U.S.Presidential_Election" title="2008 U.S. Presidential Election" class="mw-redirect">2008 U.S. Presidential Election</a> and inviting them to leave the Republican party. He calls for the sincere and serious adoption of core conservative philosophies in order to ensure the survival of the Republican party.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Your_Conservative_Rock-69">[70]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Get_Off_the_Ledge.2C_Conservatives.21_We_Have_Two_Battles_on_Our_Hands-70">[71]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Unconscionable:_McCain_Staffers_Attempting_to_Destroy_Sarah_Palin-71">[72]</a>

Limbaugh is critical of environmentalism and climate science.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-72">[73]</a> He has disputed claims of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropogenic" title="Anthropogenic">anthropogenic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming">global warming</a>, and the relationship between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFCs" title="CFCs" class="mw-redirect">CFCs</a> and depletion of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer" title="Ozone layer">ozone layer</a>, saying the scientific evidence does not support them.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-ontheissues-rush-73">[74]</a> Limbaugh has argued against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change#Scientific_consensus" title="Scientific opinion on climate change">scientific opinion on climate change</a> saying the alleged scientific consensus "is just a bunch of scientists organized around a political proposition. You can't have consensus in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> ... they think consensus is the way to sell it because, 'Oh, but all these wonderful people agree.'"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-74">[75]</a> Limbaugh has used the term "environmentalist wacko" when referring to left-leaning environmental advocates.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-75">[76]</a> As a rhetorical device, he has also used the term to refer to more mainstream climate scientists and other environmental scientists and advocates with whom he disagrees.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-76">[77]</a>

Limbaugh is critical of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>, saying that "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-77">[78]</a> He also popularized the term "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi" title="Feminazi">feminazi</a>", referring to about two dozen feminists "to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortions</a> as possible occur."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-TheWayp296-78">[79]</a> He credited his friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Hazlett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tom Hazlett (page does not exist)">Tom Hazlett</a>, a professor of law and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economics</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University">George Mason University</a>, with coining the term.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-TheWayp193-79">[80]</a>

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<h3>Claims of inaccuracy</h3>

Some groups and individuals have criticized Limbaugh's accuracy. The July/August 1994 issue of Extra!, a publication of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States" title="Progressivism in the United States">progressive</a> group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting" title="Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting">Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting</a> (FAIR), alleges 50 different inaccuracies and distortions in Limbaugh's commentary.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-93">[94]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-94">[95]</a> Others have since joined FAIR in questioning Limbaugh's facts. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken" title="Al Franken">Al Franken</a>, a former comedian and current Democratic Senator of Minnesota, wrote a satirical book (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh_is_a_Big_Fat_Idiot_and_Other_Observations" title="Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations" class="mw-redirect">Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations</a>) in which he accused Limbaugh of distorting facts to serve his own political biases.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-95">[96]</a>

Limbaugh has been criticized for inaccuracies by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Defense_Fund" title="Environmental Defense Fund">Environmental Defense Fund</a>. A defense fund report authored by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> endowed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoscience" title="Geoscience" class="mw-redirect">geosciences</a> professor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oppenheimer" title="Michael Oppenheimer">Michael Oppenheimer</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> professor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">biology</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Wilcove&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Wilcove (page does not exist)">David Wilcove</a> lists 14 significant scientific facts which, the authors allege, Limbaugh misrepresented in his book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Ought_to_Be" title="The Way Things Ought to Be" class="mw-redirect">The Way Things Ought to Be</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-96">[97]</a> The authors conclude that "Rush Limbaugh ... allows his political bias to distort the truth about a whole range of important scientific issues."

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (pronounced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" title="Wikipedia:IPA for English">/ˈlɪmbɔ��/</a>; born January 12, 1951) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_host" title="Radio host" class="mw-redirect">radio talk show host</a>, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in conservative politics and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservatism in the United States</a>. He hosts <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rush_Limbaugh_Show" title="The Rush Limbaugh Show">The Rush Limbaugh Show</a> which is aired throughout the U.S. on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiere_Radio_Networks" title="Premiere Radio Networks">Premiere Radio Networks</a> and is the highest-rated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk-radio program</a> in the United States. Limbaugh signed an 8 year, $400 million contract extension with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications" title="Clear Channel Communications">Clear Channel</a> in 2008 that pays him $50 million a year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

He was born into a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbaugh_family" title="Limbaugh family">family</a> with a long history of involvement in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> politics and first began working at a local radio station at age sixteen. In 1984, after a series of radio related jobs, Limbaugh began working as a radio talk show host in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento" title="Sacramento" class="mw-redirect">Sacramento</a>, California at radio station <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFBK" title="KFBK">KFBK</a>, which still airs his syndicated program today. His unique program featured no guests, relying exclusively on his conservative political analysis for content. He moved to New York City in 1988 where he began the national broadcast of his program on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WABC%28AM%29" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a> radio. His program grew in popularity and he began his rise to national fame.

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In the 1990s, Limbaugh’s fame grew beyond radio, into publishing and television. He became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="New York Times Best Seller list" class="mw-redirect">bestselling author</a> with his books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993). From 1992 to 1996, Limbaugh hosted a half-hour television talk show.

Limbaugh frequently accuses the American mainstream media of having a strong liberal bias. He criticizes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States">liberal</a> policies and politicians and promotes positions viewed as conservative.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Early_life">1 Early life</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Family_and_background">1.1 Family and background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Education_and_Vietnam_draft">1.2 Education and Vietnam draft</a></li>

</ul>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Professional_career">2 Professional career</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#The_Rush_Limbaugh_Show">2.5 The Rush Limbaugh Show</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Controversial_incidents">2.5.1 Controversial incidents</a>

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<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Michael_J._Fox_Controversy">2.5.1.1 Michael J. Fox Controversy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#.22Barack_the_Magic_Negro.22_parody">2.5.1.2 "Barack the Magic Negro" parody</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Phony_soldiers_controversy">2.5.1.3 Phony soldiers controversy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Operation_Chaos">2.5.1.4 Operation Chaos</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Comments_on_Obama.27s_policies">2.5.1.5 Comments on Obama's policies</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#.22Leader_of_Republican_Party.22">2.5.1.6 "Leader of Republican Party"</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Television_show">2.6 Television show</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Other_media_appearances">2.7 Other media appearances</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Recent_events">2.7.1 Recent events</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Views">3 Views</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Defining_the_conservative_movement">3.1 Defining the conservative movement</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Balance_and_point_of_view">3.2 Balance and point of view</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Entertainment_props">3.3 Entertainment props</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Claims_of_inaccuracy">3.4 Claims of inaccuracy</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Charitable_work">4 Charitable work</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Leukemia_and_lymphoma_telethon">4.1 Leukemia and lymphoma telethon</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Rush_24.2F7_Adopt-A-Soldier_Program">4.2 Rush 24/7 Adopt-A-Soldier Program</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Marine_Corps-Law_Enforcement_Foundation">4.3 Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Personal_life">5 Personal life</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Prescription_drug_addiction">5.1 Prescription drug addiction</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Cigar_aficionado">5.2 Cigar aficionado</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Deafness">5.3 Deafness</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#NFL_team_ownership_bid_controversy">5.4 NFL team ownership bid controversy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Hospitalization_for_chest_pains">5.5 Hospitalization for chest pains</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-35"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Awards_and_recognition">6 Awards and recognition</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Bibliography">7 Bibliography</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#References">8 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Further_reading">9 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-39"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#External_links">10 External links</a></li>

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<h2>Early life</h2>

<h3>Family and background</h3>

<div class="rellink boilerplate seealso">See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbaugh_family" title="Limbaugh family">Limbaugh family</a></div>

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri">Cape Girardeau, Missouri</a>, the son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names" title="Married and maiden names">née</a> Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U.S. fighter pilot who served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Burma_India_Theater_of_World_War_II" title="China Burma India Theater of World War II">China Burma India Theater of World War II</a>. His mother was a native of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searcy,Arkansas" title="Searcy, Arkansas">Searcy, Arkansas</a>. The use of family name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a>

His family has many lawyers, including his grandfather, father and brother <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Limbaugh" title="David Limbaugh">David</a>. His uncle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_N.Limbaugh,Sr." title="Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr.">Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr.</a> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>-appointed federal judge in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Missouri" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri">United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri</a>. His cousin, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_N.Limbaugh,Jr." title="Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.">Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.</a>, is currently a judge in the same court, appointed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh,Sr." title="Rush Limbaugh, Sr.">Rush Limbaugh, Sr.</a>, Limbaugh's grandfather, was a Missouri prosecutor, judge, special commissioner, member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_House_of_Representatives" title="Missouri House of Representatives">Missouri House of Representatives</a> from 1930 until 1932, and longtime president of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Historical_Society" title="Missouri Historical Society">Missouri Historical Society</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-2">[3]</a> The Federal Courthouse in Cape Girardeau is named for Limbaugh's grandfather.

<h3>Education and Vietnam draft</h3>

Limbaugh began his career in radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-3">[4]</a> Limbaugh graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_High_School%28Cape_Girardeau,Missouri%29" title="Central High School (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)">Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School</a>, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Missouri_State_University" title="Southeast Missouri State University">Southeast Missouri State University</a> but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

Limbaugh was not drafted during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery%281969%29" title="Draft lottery (1969)">draft lottery</a>, as his birth date's high rank (152) was well above the 125 rank below which service members were drafted. He was classified as "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_1-A" title="Class 1-A" class="mw-redirect">1-Y</a>" (later reclassified "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4F%28military_conscription%29" title="4F (military conscription)" class="mw-redirect">4-F</a>") due to either a football knee injury or a diagnosis of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_cyst" title="Pilonidal cyst">Pilonidal disease</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<h2>Professional career</h2>

After dropping out of college, Limbaugh moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeesport,Pennsylvania" title="McKeesport, Pennsylvania">McKeesport, Pennsylvania</a>. In 1972, he became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a> music disc jockey on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNY" title="WMNY">WIXZ</a>, a small <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_radio" title="AM radio" class="mw-redirect">AM radio</a> station that reached much of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect">Pittsburgh</a> area. He started with an afternoon show and later did mornings, broadcasting under the name "Jeff Christie". Limbaugh moved to Pittsburgh station <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQV" title="KQV">KQV</a> in 1973 as the evening disc jockey, succeeding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Quinn" title="Jim Quinn">Jim Quinn</a>. He was fired in late-1974, when the station was sold to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Broadcasting" title="Taft Broadcasting">Taft Broadcasting</a>. Limbaugh was reportedly told by management that he would never make it as on air talent, and should consider going into sales.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a> After not finding another job in radio, Limbaugh moved back home to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,_Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri">Cape Girardeau</a>. He became a lifelong fan of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> from his time in the region.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

For the rest of the decade Limbaugh took jobs at several radio stations working in music radio before settling in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City" title="Kansas City">Kansas City</a>. In 1979, he left radio and accepted a position as director of promotions with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a> baseball team.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a> There he developed a close friendship with now retired <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a> star <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brett_%28baseball%29" title="George Brett (baseball)">George Brett</a>; the two remain close friends.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

In 1984, Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFBK" title="KFBK">KFBK</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento, California</a>, where he replaced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey,Jr." title="Morton Downey, Jr.">Morton Downey, Jr.</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a> The repeal of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine" title="Fairness Doctrine">Fairness Doctrine</a>—which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast—by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">FCC</a> in 1987 meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views. Daniel Henninger wrote, in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> editorial, "Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine" title="Fairness Doctrine">Fairness Doctrine</a>) in 1987 ... and Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a> of liberal media domination."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-8">[9]</a>

On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Radio" title="ABC Radio" class="mw-redirect">ABC Radio</a> President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_F.McLaughlin" title="Edward F. McLaughlin" class="mw-redirect">Edward F. McLaughlin</a>, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show. He debuted just weeks after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1988 Democratic National Convention">Democratic National Convention</a>, and just weeks before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Republican_National_Convention" title="1988 Republican National Convention">Republican National Convention</a>. Limbaugh's radio home in New York City was the talk-format station <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WABC%28AM%29" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a>, 770 AM, and this remains his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_%28radio%29" title="Flagship (radio)" class="mw-redirect">flagship station</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a>

In December 1990, journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Grossberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis Grossberger (page does not exist)">Lewis Grossberger</a> wrote in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a> that Limbaugh had "more listeners than any other talk show host" and described Limbaugh's style as "bouncing between earnest lecturer and political <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudevillian</a>".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-9">[10]</a> Limbaugh's rising popularity coincided with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Persian Gulf War</a>, and his support for the war effort and his relentless ridicule of peace activists. The program gained more popularity and was moved to stations with larger audiences, eventually being broadcast on over 650 radio stations nationwide.

In 1992, Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> was elected President of the United States. Limbaugh satirized the policies of Clinton and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States" title="First Lady of the United States">First Lady</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton" title="Hillary Rodham Clinton">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a>, as well as those of the Democratic Party. When the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution" title="Republican Revolution">won control of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections</a>, the freshman Republican class awarded Limbaugh with an honorary membership in their caucus. This event confirmed him as an influential figure on the national political scene.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-10">[11]</a>

Limbaugh had publicized personal difficulties in the 2000s. In late 2001, he acknowledged that he had gone almost completely deaf, although he continued his show. He was able to regain much of his hearing with the help of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implants" title="Cochlear implants" class="mw-redirect">cochlear implants</a>. In 2003, Limbaugh had a brief stint as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football" title="American football">pro football</a> commentator with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>. He resigned a few weeks into the 2003 NFL season after making comments about the press coverage for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">quarterback</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb" title="Donovan McNabb">Donovan McNabb</a>, which one sportswriter construed as racist against himself and other sportswriters.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-11">[12]</a> Another sports analyst wrote Limbaugh's viewpoint was shared by "many football fans and analysts" and "it is ...absurd to say that the sports media haven't overrated Donovan McNabb because he's black."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-12">[13]</a> In April 2006, Limbaugh turned himself in and was arrested "on a single charge of prescription fraud".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-CNN2003-13">[14]</a> His record was later expunged after eighteen months of rehabilitation and paying court costs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-14">[15]</a>

<h3>The Rush Limbaugh Show</h3>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rush_Limbaugh_Show" title="The Rush Limbaugh Show">The Rush Limbaugh Show</a></div>

Limbaugh's radio show airs for three hours each weekday beginning at noon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time" title="Eastern Standard Time" class="mw-redirect">Eastern Standard Time</a> on both AM and FM radio. The program is also broadcast worldwide on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Radio_Network" title="Armed Forces Radio Network" class="mw-redirect">Armed Forces Radio Network</a>.

Radio broadcasting shifted from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_broadcasting" title="AM broadcasting">AM</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM" title="FM" class="mw-redirect">FM</a> in the late 1970s because of the opportunity to broadcast music in stereo with better fidelity. Limbaugh's show was first nationally syndicated in August 1988, in a later stage of AM's decline. Limbaugh's popularity paved the way for other conservative talk radio programming to become commonplace on the AM radio. In March 2006, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBAL%28AM%29" title="WBAL (AM)">WBAL</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore,MD" title="Baltimore, MD" class="mw-redirect">Baltimore, MD</a> became the first radio station in the country to drop Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio program.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-15">[16]</a> In 2007, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkers" title="Talkers" class="mw-redirect">Talkers</a> magazine again named him #1 in its "Heavy Hundred" most important talk show hosts.

Limbaugh frequently mentions the EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting) network, but this is a mythic construction, as he told the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a> in 1990.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-16">[17]</a> In reality, his show was co-owned and first syndicated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_F._McLaughlin" title="Edward F. McLaughlin" class="mw-redirect">Edward F. McLaughlin</a>, former president of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> who founded EFM Media in 1988, with Limbaugh's show as his first product. In 1997, McLaughlin sold EFM to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacor_Communications" title="Jacor Communications" class="mw-redirect">Jacor Communications</a>, which was ultimately bought up by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications" title="Clear Channel Communications">Clear Channel Communications</a>. Today, Limbaugh owns a majority of the show, which is syndicated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiere_Radio_Networks" title="Premiere Radio Networks">Premiere Radio Networks</a>.

According to a 2001 article in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.News%26_World_Report" title="U.S. News & World Report">U.S. News & World Report</a>, Limbaugh had an eight-year contract, at the rate of $31.25 million a year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-17">[18]</a> In 2007, Limbaugh earned $33 million.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-18">[19]</a> On July 2, 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge" title="Matt Drudge">Matt Drudge</a> reported that Limbaugh signed a contract extension through 2016 that is worth over $400 million, breaking records for any broadcast.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-19">[20]</a> A November 2008 poll by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zogby_International" title="Zogby International">Zogby International</a> found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

<h4>Controversial incidents</h4>

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<h5>Michael J. Fox Controversy</h5>

On the October 23, 2006, broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh imitated on the "DittoCam" (the webcam for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_site" title="Web site" class="mw-redirect">Web site</a> subscribers to see him on the air) the physical symptoms actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Fox" title="Michael J. Fox">Michael J. Fox</a> showed in a television commercial raising awareness of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-21">[22]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-22">[23]</a> He said "[Fox] is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-ontheoffensive-23">[24]</a> Three days later, on October 26, Limbaugh denied that he was ridiculing Fox, stating that, after seeing Fox without his medication, "I [was] stunned because I [had] never seen Michael J. Fox that way." Limbaugh said that he was "mov[ing] around like [Fox] does, but never once was I making fun of him. I was trying to illustrate for my audience watching on the Dittocam what I had seen."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-ReferenceA-24">[25]</a>

Fox later appeared on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric" title="Katie Couric">Katie Couric</a> and said he was actually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyskinesia" title="Dyskinesia">dyskinesic</a> at the time, a condition that results from overmedication.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-25">[26]</a>

However, Fox has admitted that he has, at times, deliberately not taken his medication<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-26">[27]</a> — such as in an appearance the U.S. Senate — in order, he claimed, to demonstrate the effects of Parkinson's Disease. During Limbaugh's October 26, 2006 show he said, in a discussion with a caller, "[I]n his own book [Lucky Man: A Memoir],<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-27">[28]</a> he has written in chapter eight that before Senate committees he goes off the medication so that people can see the ravages of the disease."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-ReferenceA-24">[25]</a>

<h5>"Barack the Magic Negro" parody</h5>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_the_Magic_Negro" title="Barack the Magic Negro">Barack the Magic Negro</a></div>

On March 19, 2007, Limbaugh referred to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> editorial by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ehrenstein" title="David Ehrenstein">David Ehrenstein</a> which claimed that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> was filling the role of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_negro" title="Magic negro" class="mw-redirect">magic negro</a>", and that this explained his appeal to voters.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-28">[29]</a> Limbaugh then later played a song by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanklin" title="Paul Shanklin">Paul Shanklin</a> entitled "Barack the Magic Negro,"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-29">[30]</a> sung to the tune of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_the_Magic_Dragon" title="Puff the Magic Dragon" class="mw-redirect">Puff the Magic Dragon</a>".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-BBC-30">[31]</a>

<h5>Phony soldiers controversy</h5>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phony_soldiers_controversy" title="Phony soldiers controversy">Phony soldiers controversy</a></div>

During the September 26, 2007, broadcast of Limbaugh's radio show, Limbaugh used the term "phony soldiers" when speaking to a caller who had brought up soldiers who criticize the war.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-jkerry-31">[32]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-32">[33]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-33">[34]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-34">[35]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-35">[36]</a> The caller, saying he was currently serving in the Army for 14 years, said, "They never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and spout to the media." Limbaugh interrupted, "The phony soldiers." The caller continued, "The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>. They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for their country."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-36">[37]</a> Several minutes later, after the caller had hung up, Limbaugh read from the AP story describing the story of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Macbeth" title="Jesse Macbeth">Jesse Macbeth</a>. Macbeth joined the Army but did not complete basic training, yet claimed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media" title="Alternative media">alternative media</a> interviews that he and his unit routinely committed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes" class="mw-redirect">war crimes</a> in Iraq.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-peacefilms-37">[38]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-socialist-38">[39]</a> On June 7, 2007, Macbeth <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_plea" title="Guilty plea" class="mw-redirect">pleaded guilty</a> to one count of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements" title="Making false statements">making false statements</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Veterans_Affairs" title="U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs</a> and was sentenced to five months in jail and three years <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probation" title="Probation">probation</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-39">[40]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-40">[41]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America">Media Matters</a> noted Limbaugh's use of the term "phony soldiers" in an article on their website. The article suggested that Limbaugh was saying that all soldiers who disagree with the Iraq War were "phony soldiers",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-41">[42]</a> and was discussed in speeches by Presidential candidates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards">John Edwards</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd" title="Chris Dodd">Chris Dodd</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-42">[43]</a> Limbaugh said that, when he had made the comment about "phony soldiers", he had been speaking only of Macbeth and others like him who claim to be soldiers and are not, and that "Media Matters takes things out of context all the time".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-43">[44]</a> Media Matters pointed out that Limbaugh did not mention Jesse Macbeth on his September 26 radio show until one minute and 50 seconds after talking about "phony soldiers" with the caller."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-44">[45]</a> The unedited transcript of the radio show in question can be found on Rush Limbaugh's website.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-45">[46]</a>

<h5>Operation Chaos</h5>

In an attempt to undermine the 2008 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> primary campaigns, Limbaugh encouraged his listeners to vote for whoever was behind in the race, an effort dubbed "Operation Chaos".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-RushLimbaugh.com-46">[47]</a> In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, Limbaugh encouraged his listeners to register as Democrats and vote for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" class="mw-redirect">Hillary Clinton</a>. In Ohio, voters changing their registration must attest that they support the principles of the party to which they switch. About 16,000 Ohio Republicans switched parties for the election. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Attorney_General" title="Ohio Attorney General">Ohio Attorney General</a>'s office stated that it would be hard to prove any voter's fraudulent intent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-47">[48]</a> Limbaugh said that there is nothing wrong with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republicans</a> voting in Democratic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election">primaries</a>, as Democrats were able to vote for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, and other states, stating, "this is getting absurd. If it weren't for independents and Democrats <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_voting" title="Crossover voting">crossing over</a>, Senator McCain would not be our nominee!"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-48">[49]</a>

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Hoping that factions of the Democratic Party would cause disunity at their convention, Limbaugh said that "The dream end of [Operation Chaos] is that this keeps up to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Convention" title="Democratic National Convention">convention</a>, and that we have a recreation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1968 Democratic National Convention">Chicago 1968</a> with burning cars, protests, fire, and literal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots" title="Riots" class="mw-redirect">riots</a> and all of that, that is the objective here."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-49">[50]</a>

<h5>Comments on Obama's policies</h5>

On January 16, 2009, Limbaugh read a letter on his radio show that he had received a request from a national print outlet: ... "If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_administration" title="Obama administration" class="mw-redirect">Obama presidency</a>, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." He responded, "I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." He explained that he didn't want "absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work." He continued, "What is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-I_Hope_Obama_Fails-50">[51]</a>

Limbaugh later said that he wants to see Obama's policies fail, not the man himself.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-51">[52]</a> Speaking of Obama, Limbaugh said, "He's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-I_Hope_Obama_Fails-50">[51]</a>

<h5>"Leader of Republican Party"</h5>

Limbaugh was the keynote speaker at the 2009 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>; his speech attracted widespread attention.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-52">[53]</a> On March 1, 2009, CBS's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_the_Nation" title="Face the Nation">Face the Nation</a> asked White House Chief Of Staff <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a> who he thought represented the Republican Party; Emanuel named Limbaugh as his choice.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-CQ_0301-53">[54]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-fox0301-54">[55]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-ap0301-55">[56]</a>

In remarks aired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> on March 1, 2009, Republican Party Chairman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Steele" title="Michael Steele">Michael Steele</a> said that Limbaugh is "an entertainer" and his rhetoric at the convention was "incendiary" and "ugly".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-CNN_0302-56">[57]</a> Steele later telephoned Limbaugh and apologized. Limbaugh stated he would not want to run the RNC in its "sad sack state".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Words_for_Michael_Steele-57">[58]</a>

On March 2, 2009, Limbaugh responded to Emanuel,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Words_for_Michael_Steele-57">[58]</a> and on March 4, 2009, Limbaugh challenged President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> to a debate on his radio program. Limbaugh offered to pay all of Obama's expenses including travel, food, lodging, and security.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-58">[59]</a> On March 6, Limbaugh told Byron York of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner" class="mw-redirect">Washington Examiner</a> that his ratings for his radio show had significantly increased since he had begun criticizing the Obama Administration.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-59">[60]</a>

<h3>Television show</h3>

Limbaugh had a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_syndication" title="Television syndication" class="mw-redirect">syndicated</a> half-hour television show from 1992 through 1996, produced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes" title="Roger Ailes">Roger Ailes</a>. The show discussed many of the topics on his radio show, and was taped in front of an audience. Rush Limbaugh says he loves doing his radio show<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-60">[61]</a> but not a TV show.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-61">[62]</a>

<h3>Other media appearances</h3>

Limbaugh's first television hosting experience came March 30, 1990, as a guest host on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Sajak" title="Pat Sajak">Pat Sajak</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> late-night talk show, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pat_Sajak_Show" title="The Pat Sajak Show">The Pat Sajak Show</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_Coalition_to_Unleash_Power" title="AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power">ACT UP</a> activists in the audience<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-62">[63]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckled" title="Heckled" class="mw-redirect">heckled</a> Limbaugh repeatedly; ultimately the entire studio audience was cleared. In 2001, Sajak said the incident was "legendary around CBS".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-63">[64]</a>

On December 17, 1993, Limbaugh appeared on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="The Late Show with David Letterman" class="mw-redirect">The Late Show with David Letterman</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-64">[65]</a> Limbaugh also guest-starred (as himself) on a 1994 episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_Afire" title="Hearts Afire">Hearts Afire</a>. He appeared in the 1995 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a> film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forget_Paris" title="Forget Paris">Forget Paris</a>, and in 1998 on an episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drew_Carey_Show" title="The Drew Carey Show">The Drew Carey Show</a>.

<h4>Recent events</h4>

In 2007, Limbaugh made cameo appearances on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel">Fox News Channel</a>'s short-lived <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1/2_Hour_News_Hour" title="The 1/2 Hour News Hour">The 1/2 Hour News Hour</a> in a series of parodies portraying him as the future President of the United States. In the parodies, his vice president was fellow conservative pundit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter">Ann Coulter</a>. He also made a cameo in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a> episode "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Harvest_%28Family_Guy%29" title="Blue Harvest (Family Guy)">Blue Harvest</a>" that year. In the episode, a parody of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a>, Limbaugh can be heard on the radio claiming that, among other things, the "intergalactic liberal space media" was lying about climate change on the planet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoth" title="Hoth">Hoth</a>, and that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lando_Calrissian" title="Lando Calrissian">Lando Calrissian</a>'s administrative position on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_City" title="Cloud City" class="mw-redirect">Cloud City</a> was a result of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">affirmative action</a>.

His persona has often been utilized as a template for a stereotypical conservative talk show host on TV shows and in movies, including an episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a> (as a conservative talk radio host named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Barlow" title="Birch Barlow" class="mw-redirect">Birch Barlow</a>), as "Gus Baker" on an episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-head" title="Beavis and Butt-head">Beavis and Butt-head</a>, as "Lash Rambo" (host of "Perfection in Broadcasting") on an episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_WKRP_in_Cincinnati" title="The New WKRP in Cincinnati">The New WKRP in Cincinnati</a>, and as "Fielding Chase" in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo_%28TV_series%29" title="Columbo (TV series)">Columbo</a> spinoff film Butterfly in Shades of Grey.

As a result of his television program, Limbaugh became known for wearing distinctive neckties. In response to viewer interest, Limbaugh launched a series of ties<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-65">[66]</a> designed primarily by his then-wife Marta.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-66">[67]</a> Sales of the ties reached over US$5 million in their initial sales year, but were later discontinued.

In January 2010, Chicago's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_City" title="The Second City">Second City</a> announced a new production, Rush Limbaugh: The Musical, a musical parody-pastiche following in the footsteps of 2009's successful run of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich" title="Rod Blagojevich">Rod Blagojevich</a> Superstar, which has been written and developed by the same creative team.

On January 30, 2010, Limbaugh was a judge for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_America_2010" title="Miss America 2010">2010 Miss America pageant</a> in Las Vegas.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-67">[68]</a>

<h2>Views</h2>

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<h3>Defining the conservative movement</h3>

Limbaugh wrote in an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed">op-ed</a> piece in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> in 2005:

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<li>I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.</li>

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</li>

<li>We are confident in our principles and energetic about openly advancing them. We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the rule of law, faith, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness_%28race%29" title="Color blindness (race)">color-blind</a> society and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security" title="National security">national security</a>.</li>

<li>We support school choice, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_zone" title="Enterprise zone" class="mw-redirect">enterprise zones</a>, tax cuts, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_reform" title="Welfare reform">welfare reform</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith-based_initiative" title="Faith-based initiative" class="mw-redirect">faith-based initiatives</a>, political speech, homeowner rights and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" title="War on Terrorism" class="mw-redirect">War on Terrorism</a>.</li>

<li>And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation — the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">U.S. Constitution</a>. Along with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a>, which recognizes our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a people.</li>

<li>We conservatives are never stronger than when we are advancing our principles.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-68">[69]</a></li>

</ul>

</blockquote>

<h3>Balance and point of view</h3>

In his first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="New York Times Best Seller list" class="mw-redirect">New York Times best seller</a>, Limbaugh describes himself as conservative, and is critical of broadcasters in many media outlets for claiming to be objective. He has criticized political centrists, independents, and moderate conservatives, claiming they are responsible for Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s victory over Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_U.S.Presidential_Election" title="2008 U.S. Presidential Election" class="mw-redirect">2008 U.S. Presidential Election</a> and inviting them to leave the Republican party. He calls for the sincere and serious adoption of core conservative philosophies in order to ensure the survival of the Republican party.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Your_Conservative_Rock-69">[70]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Get_Off_the_Ledge.2C_Conservatives.21_We_Have_Two_Battles_on_Our_Hands-70">[71]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Unconscionable:_McCain_Staffers_Attempting_to_Destroy_Sarah_Palin-71">[72]</a>

Limbaugh supports <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">capital punishment</a>, saying "the only thing cruel about the death penalty is last-minute stays."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-ontheissues-rush-73">[74]</a>

On the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse">Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse</a> scandal, Limbaugh said, "This is no different than what happens at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones" title="Skull and Bones">Skull and Bones</a> initiation ... And we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day [referring to the U.S. Military service members]. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release?"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-80">[81]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-81">[82]</a>

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Limbaugh has asserted that African-Americans, in contrast with other minority groups, are "left behind" socially because they have been systematically trained from a young age to hate America through a widespread movement headed by figures such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright" title="Jeremiah Wright">Jeremiah Wright</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers" title="Bill Ayers">William Ayers</a>, and Barack and Michelle Obama.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-October_14.2C_2008_transcript-82">[83]</a>

James Rainey of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> quoted Limbaugh as saying after the 2008 election of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> as the 44th President of the United States that the Democrats will "take your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401%28k%29" title="401(k)">401(k)</a>, put it in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund" title="Social Security Trust Fund">Social Security Trust Fund</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-83">[84]</a>

<h3>Entertainment props</h3>

Limbaugh utilizes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_property" title="Theatrical property">props</a> to introduce his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monologue" title="Monologue">monologues</a> on various topics. On his radio show, news about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeless" title="Homeless" class="mw-redirect">homeless</a> has often been preceded with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%22Frogman%22_Henry" title="Clarence " frogman="frogman" henry="henry">Clarence "Frogman" Henry</a> song "Ain't Got No Home."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Grossberger-p58-84">[85]</a> For a time, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a>'s song "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again" preceded reports about people with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS" title="AIDS">AIDS</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-85">[86]</a> These later became "condom updates" preceded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5th_Dimension" title="The 5th Dimension">Fifth Dimension</a>'s song, "Up, Up and Away (in My Beautiful Balloon)."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Grossberger-p58-84">[85]</a> For two weeks in 1989, on his Sacramento radio show, Limbaugh performed "caller abortions" where he would end a call suddenly to the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and a scream. He would then deny that he had "hung up" on the caller, which he had promised not to do. Limbaugh claims that he used this gag to illustrate "the tragedy of abortion" as well as to highlight the question of whether abortion constitutes murder.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-86">[87]</a> During the Clinton administration, while filming his television program, Limbaugh referred to media coverage of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socks%28cat%29" title="Socks (cat)">Socks</a>, the Clintons' cat. He then stated, "But did you know there is also a White House dog?" and a picture of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton" title="Chelsea Clinton">Chelsea Clinton</a> was shown. When questioned about it, Limbaugh claimed that it was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-87">[88]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-88">[89]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-89">[90]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-90">[91]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-91">[92]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-92">[93]</a>

<h3>Claims of inaccuracy</h3>

<h2>Charitable work</h2>

<h3>Leukemia and lymphoma telethon</h3>

Limbaugh holds an annual fundraising telethon called the "EIB Cure-a-Thon"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-97">[98]</a> for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukemia_%26_Lymphoma_Society" title="Leukemia & Lymphoma Society">Leukemia & Lymphoma Society</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-98">[99]</a> In 2006, the EIB Cure-a-Thon conducted its 16th annual telethon, raising $1.7 million,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-99">[100]</a> totaling over $15 million since the first cure-a-thon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-100">[101]</a> According to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society annual reports, Limbaugh personally contributed between $100,000 and $499,999 from 2000–2005 and 2007,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-autogenerated2-101">[102]</a> and Limbaugh claims to have contributed around $250,000 in 2003, 2004 and 2005.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-102">[103]</a> NewsMax reported Limbaugh donated $250,000 in 2006,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-103">[104]</a> and the Society's 2006 annual report placed him in the $500,000 to $999,999 category.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-autogenerated2-101">[102]</a> Limbaugh donated $320,000 during the 2007 Cure-a-Thon<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-104">[105]</a> which the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society reported had raised $3.1 million.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-105">[106]</a> On his radio program April 18, 2008, Limbaugh claimed to pledge $400,000 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society after being challenged by two listeners to increase his initial pledge of $300,000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-106">[107]</a>

<h3>Rush 24/7 Adopt-A-Soldier Program</h3>

Limbaugh's website maintains a page where US soldiers can register for a free subscription to Limbaugh's online premium service, Rush 24/7, through memberships purchased by donors who buy a subscription (at a reduced price) as a gift.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-107">[108]</a>

<h3>Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation</h3>

Limbaugh conducts an annual drive to help the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marine_Corps-Law_Enforcement_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation (page does not exist)">Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation</a> collect contributions to provide scholarships for children of Marines and law enforcement officers/agents who have died in the line of duty.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-108">[109]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-109">[110]</a> The foundation was the beneficiary of a record $2.1 million eBay auction in October 2007 after Limbaugh listed for sale a letter critical of him signed by 41 Democratic senators and pledged to match the selling price.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-110">[111]</a>

<h2>Personal life</h2>

Limbaugh has been married four times and has no children.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-111">[112]</a> He was first married at the age of 26 to Roxy Maxine McNeely, a sales secretary at radio station <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHB" title="WHB">WHB</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City" title="Kansas City">Kansas City</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>. They were married at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Limbaugh's hometown of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,_Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri">Cape Girardeau, Missouri</a> on September 24, 1977. McNeely filed for divorce in March 1980, citing "incompatibility." They were formally divorced on July 10, 1980.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a>

In 1983, Limbaugh married Michelle Sixta, a college student and usherette at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a> Stadium Club. They were divorced in 1990, and she remarried the following year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-Colford-1">[2]</a>

On May 27, 1994, Limbaugh married Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobics instructor whom he met on the online service <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe" title="CompuServe">CompuServe</a> in 1990.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-112">[113]</a> They were married at the house of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" title="U.S. Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Clarence Thomas</a>, who officiated.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-113">[114]</a> They were separated on June 11, 2004.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-114">[115]</a> Limbaugh announced on the air, "Marta has consented to my request for a divorce, and we have mutually agreed to seek an amicable separation." The divorce was finalized in December 2004.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-115">[116]</a> In September 2004, Limbaugh became romantically involved with then-TV personality <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryn_Kagan" title="Daryn Kagan">Daryn Kagan</a>, and they broke up in February 2006.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-116">[117]</a>

He dated Kathryn Rogers, a party planner from Florida, for three years<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-117">[118]</a> before he married her on June 5, 2010.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-118">[119]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-119">[120]</a> During the wedding reception after the ceremony, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a> entertained the wedding guests for a reported $1 million fee, however Limbaugh himself denied that the $1 million figure was accurate on his September 7, 2010 radio show.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-120">[121]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-121">[122]</a>

<h3>Prescription drug addiction</h3>

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On October 3, 2003 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Enquirer" title="National Enquirer" class="mw-redirect">National Enquirer</a> reported that Limbaugh was being investigated for illegally obtaining the prescription drugs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone" title="Oxycodone">oxycodone</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocodone" title="Hydrocodone">hydrocodone</a>. Other news outlets quickly confirmed the investigation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-122">[123]</a> He admitted to listeners on his radio show on October 10 that he was addicted to prescription painkillers and stated that he would enter inpatient treatment for 30 days, immediately after the broadcast.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-123">[124]</a> Limbaugh stated his addiction to painkillers resulted from several years of severe back pain heightened by a botched surgery intended to correct those problems.

A subsequent investigation into whether Limbaugh had violated Florida's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_shopping" title="Doctor shopping">doctor shopping</a> laws was launched by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_County" title="Palm Beach County" class="mw-redirect">Palm Beach</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Attorney" title="State Attorney" class="mw-redirect">State Attorney</a>, which raised privacy issues when investigators seized Limbaugh's private medical records looking for evidence of crimes. On November 9, 2005, following two years of investigations, Assistant State Attorney James L. Martz requested the court to set aside Limbaugh's doctor–patient confidentiality rights and allow the state to question his physicians, stating it was necessary because "I have no idea if Mr. Limbaugh has completed the elements of any offense yet."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-124">[125]</a> Limbaugh's attorney opposed the prosecutor's efforts to interview his doctors on the basis of patient privacy rights, and argued that the prosecutor had violated Limbaugh's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourth Amendment</a> rights by illegally seizing his medical records. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a> issued a statement in agreement and filed an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae">amicus curiae</a> brief in support of Limbaugh.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-125">[126]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-126">[127]</a> On December 12, 2005, Judge David F. Crow delivered a ruling prohibiting the State of Florida from questioning Limbaugh's physicians about "the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the health care practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-127">[128]</a>

On April 28, 2006 a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of doctor shopping. Limbaugh, accompanied by his attorney <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Black_%28attorney%29" title="Roy Black (attorney)">Roy Black</a>, went to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_County" title="Palm Beach County" class="mw-redirect">Palm Beach County</a> Jail to surrender.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] According to Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Sheriff, during his arrest, Limbaugh was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest" title="Arrest">booked</a>, photographed, and fingerprinted, but not handcuffed. He was then released after about an hour on $3,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail" title="Bail">bail</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-128">[129]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-129">[130]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-130">[131]</a> After his surrender, he filed a "not guilty" plea to the charge. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charge if Limbaugh paid $30,000 to defray the cost of the investigation and completed an 18-month therapy regimen with his physician.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-131">[132]</a>

Limbaugh asserted that the state's settlement agreement resulted from a lack of evidence supporting the charge of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_shopping" title="Doctor shopping">doctor shopping</a>. Under the terms of the agreement, Limbaugh may not own a firearm for eighteen months and must continue to submit to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_test#Random_drug_testing" title="Drug test">random drug testing</a>, which he acknowledges having undergone since 2003.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-132">[133]</a>

Before his addiction became known, Limbaugh had condemned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_use" title="Illegal drug use" class="mw-redirect">illegal drug use</a> on his television program, stating that "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-133">[134]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-134">[135]</a>

Roy Black, one of Limbaugh's attorneys, stated that "Rush Limbaugh was singled out for prosecution because of who he is. We believe the state attorney's office is applying a double standard."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-135">[136]</a>

In June 2006, Limbaugh was detained by drug enforcement agents at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_International_Airport" title="Palm Beach International Airport">Palm Beach International Airport</a>. Customs officials confiscated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viagra" title="Viagra" class="mw-redirect">Viagra</a> from Limbaugh's luggage as he was returning from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>. The prescription was not in Limbaugh's name.

After he was released with no charges filed, Limbaugh joked about the incident on his radio show, claiming that he got the Viagra at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Clinton_Presidential_Center_and_Park" title="William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park" class="mw-redirect">Clinton Library</a> and was told they were blue <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s" title="M&M's">M&M's</a>. He also stated that "I had a great time in the Dominican Republic. Wish I could tell you about it."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-136">[137]</a>

<h3>Cigar aficionado</h3>

In the early 1990s, when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_boom" title="Cigar boom">cigar boom</a> was gaining momentum, Limbaugh was seen frequently with a cigar in hand and by the end of the 1990s, cigars had become Limbaugh's staple in many public appearances. Often starting segments of his show with the phrase, "Amid billowing clouds of fragrant and aromatic first, second, and sometimes third hand premium cigar smoke" as well as mentioning a story print-out in his "formerly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine" title="Nicotine">nicotine</a>-stained fingers", cigars became a common topic of discussion. In the spring of 1994, Limbaugh appeared on the cover of the magazine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Aficionado" title="Cigar Aficionado">Cigar Aficionado</a> and shared the story of his conversion to cigars. He has since been a frequent participant in many events such as "The Big Smoke", hosted throughout the year by the magazine. Limbaugh has participated in many charity cigar auctions hosted by the magazine, and is known to talk frequently with his listeners about his and their cigar interests, preferences and recommendations. "I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-137">[138]</a> He is also frequently seen in his studio smoking a cigar during his show.

<h3>Deafness</h3>

Rush Limbaugh has described himself as being "100%, totally deaf".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-RushLimbaugh.com-46">[47]</a> In 2001, he was diagnosed with a rare <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_inner_ear_disease" title="Autoimmune inner ear disease">autoimmune inner ear disease</a> (AIED), which, in the span of three months, rendered his right ear completely deaf and left ear severely deaf. "I cannot hear television. I cannot hear music. I am, for all practical purposes, deaf �� and it's happened in three months."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-138">[139]</a> On December 19, 2001, doctors at the House Ear Clinic in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> were able to successfully restore a measure of his hearing through a surgical procedure known as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant" title="Cochlear implant">cochlear implant</a> surgery. Limbaugh received a Clarion CII Bionic Ear.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-139">[140]</a> In 2005, Limbaugh was forced to undergo "tuning" due to an "eye twitch", an apparent side-effect of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implants" title="Cochlear implants" class="mw-redirect">cochlear implants</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-140">[141]</a>

<h3>NFL team ownership bid controversy</h3>

On October 6, 2009, Limbaugh announced that he was planning on bidding to buy the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Louis_Rams" title="St. Louis Rams">St. Louis Rams</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> along with current owner of the NHL's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Louis_Blues_%28ice_hockey%29" title="St. Louis Blues (ice hockey)">St. Louis Blues</a>, Dave Checketts. This was met with opposition by some players, and team owners.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-141">[142]</a> NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith stated in his opposition that he had "spoken to the Commissioner [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Goodell" title="Roger Goodell">Roger Goodell</a>] and [he understood] that this ownership consideration is in the early stages. But sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-142">[143]</a> Limbaugh was eventually dropped from the group that was putting in the bid due to the distraction that came from his consideration.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-143">[144]</a>

<h3>Hospitalization for chest pains</h3>

On December 30, 2009, while vacationing in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu" title="Honolulu">Honolulu</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, Limbaugh was transported to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Medical_Center" title="Queen's Medical Center" class="mw-redirect">Queen's Medical Center</a> where he was admitted in serious condition with intense <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chest_pains" title="Chest pains" class="mw-redirect">chest pains</a>. Testing revealed nothing specific and his doctors attributed the pain to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angina_pectoris" title="Angina pectoris">angina pectoris</a>, which is an obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-144">[145]</a>

<h2>Awards and recognition</h2>

A month after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>'s defeat of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W._Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George H.W. Bush</a> in 1992, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> sent Limbaugh a letter in which he thanked him "for all you're doing to promote Republican and conservative principles ... [and] you have become the Number One voice for conservatism in our Country."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-145">[146]</a>

Limbaugh was the 1992, 1995, 2000 and 2005 recipient of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAB_Marconi_Radio_Awards" title="NAB Marconi Radio Awards">Marconi Radio Award</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_syndication" title="Radio syndication" class="mw-redirect">Syndicated</a> Radio Personality of the Year (given by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Broadcasters" title="National Association of Broadcasters">National Association of Broadcasters</a>), joining the syndicated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BOB_%26_TOM_Show" title="The BOB & TOM Show" class="mw-redirect">Bob & Tom Show</a> as the only other four-time winners of a Marconi award. He was inducted into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Hall_of_Fame" title="Radio Hall of Fame">Radio Hall of Fame</a> in 1993.

In 2002, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkers_magazine" title="Talkers magazine" class="mw-redirect">Talkers magazine</a> ranked him as the greatest radio talk show host of all time.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-146">[147]</a> Limbaugh is the highest-paid syndicated radio host.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-147">[148]</a>

On March 29, 2007, Limbaugh was awarded the inaugural <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Buckley,Jr." title="William F. Buckley, Jr.">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a> Award for Media Excellence, by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a>, a conservative media analysis group.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-148">[149]</a>

On January 5, 2008, the conservative magazine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events">Human Events</a> announced Limbaugh as their 2007 Man of the Year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-149">[150]</a>

On December 1, 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a> reported that Limbaugh was selected as one of America’s top ten most fascinating people of 2008 for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters" title="Barbara Walters">Barbara Walters</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> special that aired on December 4, 2008.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-150">[151]</a>

On February 28, 2009, following his self-described "first address to the Nation" lasting 90 minutes, carried live on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" class="mw-redirect">Fox News</a> and recorded for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSPAN" title="CSPAN" class="mw-redirect">CSPAN</a>, Limbaugh received <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">CPAC</a>'s "Defender of the Constitution Award", a document originally signed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, given to someone "who has stood up for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment</a> ... Rush Limbaugh is for America, exactly what Benjamin Franklin did for the Founding Fathers ... the only way we will be successful is if we listen to Rush Limbaugh". <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-151">[152]</a>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev_Chafets" title="Zev Chafets">Zev Chafets</a>, whose book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One is forthcoming a/o 2010, wrote after the first primaries of the 2010 U.S. election season that Limbaugh was "the brains and the spirit behind" the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>'s "resurgence" in the wake of the 2008 election of President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>. In the May, 2010 New York Times op-ed column, Chafets pointed among others to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">Sen.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter" title="Arlen Specter">Arlen Specter</a>'s defeat, after being labeled by Limbaugh "Republican in Name Only," and to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a>, whose "biggest current applause line �� Republicans are not just the party of no, but the party of hell no — came courtesy of Mr. Limbaugh." More generally, Chafets wrote, Limbaugh has argued the party-of-no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> conservative course for the Republicans vigorously, notably since six weeks after the Obama inauguration, and has been fundamental to, and encouraging to, the more prominently noted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party movement</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-NYT01-152">[153]</a>

<h2>Bibliography</h2>

<ul>

<li>The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) Pocket Books <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/067175145X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-671-75145-X</a></li>

<li>See, I Told You So (1993) Pocket Books <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/067187120X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-671-87120-X</a></li>

</ul>

In 1992, Limbaugh published his first book, The Way Things Ought To Be, followed by See, I Told You So in 1993.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-153">[154]</a> Both became number one on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="New York Times Best Seller list" class="mw-redirect">New York Times Best Seller list</a>, The Way Things Ought to Be remaining there for 24 weeks.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-154">[155]</a> Limbaugh acknowledges in the text of the first book that he taped the book and it was transcribed and edited by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fund" title="John Fund">John Fund</a>. In the second book, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farah" title="Joseph Farah">Joseph Farah</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a> is named as his collaborator.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-155">[156]</a>

<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-0">^</a> "A Lucrative Deal for Rush Limbaugh" NY Times, July 3, 2008 edition <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/business/media/03radio.html" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> accessed=September 8, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Colford-1">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-1">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-2">c</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-3">d</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-4">e</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-5">f</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-6">g</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-7">h</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-8">i</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Colford_1-9">j</a> Paul D. Colford. The Rush Limbaugh story: talent on loan from God: an unauthorized biography. New York. St. Martin’s Press, 1993. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0312099061" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-312-09906-1</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-2">^</a> St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The loudest limb on the family tree, radio's Rush Limbaugh is the 'big mouth'; branch of a solid old Cape Girardeau family. September 27, 1992.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-3">^</a> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172675,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel">Fox News Channel</a>. October 19, 2005. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172675,00.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172675,00.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+Gives+Sean+a+Rare+Interview&rft.atitle=&rft.date=October+19%2C+2005&rft.pub=%5B%5BFox+News+Channel%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fstory%2F0%2C2933%2C172675%2C00.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-4">^</a> "Rush is Always Right." USA Weekend, 24 �� January 26, 1992, p. 7</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-5">^</a> Mikkelson, Barbara; Mikkelson, David P. "<a href="http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Draft Notice</a>." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes" title="Snopes" class="mw-redirect">Snopes</a>. December 16, 2002. Retrieved on October 13, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052209/content/01125104.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052209/content/01125104.guest.html</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-7">^</a> Toma, George; Goforth, Alan & Brett, George (2004). <a href="http://books.google.com/?id=l1xauXzmbvkC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=rush+limbaugh+george+brett" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Nitty gritty dirt man</a>. Www.SportsPublishingLLC.com. p. 164. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781582616469" title="Special:BookSources/9781582616469">9781582616469</a>. <a href="http://books.google.com/?id=l1xauXzmbvkC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=rush+limbaugh+george+brett" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/?id=l1xauXzmbvkC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=rush+limbaugh+george+brett</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nitty+gritty+dirt+man&rft.aulast=Toma&rft.aufirst=George&rft.au=Toma%2C%26%2332%3BGeorge&rft.date=2004&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B164&rft.pub=Www.SportsPublishingLLC.com&rft.isbn=9781582616469&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2F%3Fid%3Dl1xauXzmbvkC%26pg%3DPA164%26lpg%3DPA164%26dq%3Drush%2Blimbaugh%2Bgeorge%2Bbrett&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-8">^</a> Henninger, Daniel (April 29, 2005) <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110006626" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush to Victory"</a>. Wall Street Journal.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-9">^</a> Grossberger, Lewis (December 16, 1990). "The Rush Hours". New York Times. p. SM58.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+Rush+Hours&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Grossberger&rft.aufirst=Lewis&rft.au=Grossberger%2C%26%2332%3BLewis&rft.date=December+16%2C+1990&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3BSM58&rft.pub=New+York+Times&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-10">^</a> Seelye, Katherine Q. (December 12, 1994). <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DC1E39F931A25751C1A962958260" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Republicans Get a Pep Talk From Rush Limbaugh"</a>. New York Times. pp.��A16. <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DC1E39F931A25751C1A962958260" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DC1E39F931A25751C1A962958260</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Republicans+Get+a+Pep+Talk+From+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Seelye&rft.aufirst=Katherine+Q.&rft.au=Seelye%2C%26%2332%3BKatherine+Q.&rft.date=December+12%2C+1994&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3BA16&rft.pub=New+York+Times&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fgst%2Ffullpage.html%3Fres%3D9C0CE1DC1E39F931A25751C1A962958260&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-11">^</a> King, Peter (September 30, 2003). <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/writers/peter_king/09/30/mcnabb_limbaugh/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Open mouth, insert foot, Limbaugh's comments on McNabb aren't racist, but they are boneheaded"</a>. SI.com. <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/writers/peter_king/09/30/mcnabb_limbaugh/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/writers/peter_king/09/30/mcnabb_limbaugh/</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Open+mouth%2C+insert+foot%2C+Limbaugh%27s+comments+on+McNabb+aren%27t+racist%2C+but+they+are+boneheaded&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=King%2C+Peter&rft.au=King%2C+Peter&rft.date=September+30%2C+2003&rft.pub=SI.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsportsillustrated.cnn.com%2F2003%2Fwriters%2Fpeter_king%2F09%2F30%2Fmcnabb_limbaugh%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-12">^</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2089193/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/id/2089193/</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-CNN2003-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-CNN2003_13-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh admits addiction to pain medication</a>. Retrieved 20010-01-04.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-14">^</a> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-426-Sports-Examiner%7Ey2009m10d13-Rush-Limbaughs-NFL-bid-might-fail-but-not-for-his-views" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.examiner.com/x-426-Sports-Examiner_{y2009m10d13-Rush-Limbaughs-NFL-bid-might-fail-but-not-for-his-views</a></li}>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-15">^</a> Hiaasen, Rob (14 March 2006). <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/427188/wbal_radio_cancels_rush_limbaugh_station_is_first_to_drop/index.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"WBAL Radio Cancels Rush Limbaugh: Station is First to Drop Show, Wants to Focus on Local News"</a>. The Baltimore Sun. <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/427188/wbal_radio_cancels_rush_limbaugh_station_is_first_to_drop/index.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/427188/wbal_radio_cancels_rush_limbaugh_station_is_first_to_drop/index.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=WBAL+Radio+Cancels+Rush+Limbaugh%3A+Station+is+First+to+Drop+Show%2C+Wants+to+Focus+on+Local+News&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Hiaasen&rft.aufirst=Rob&rft.au=Hiaasen%2C%26%2332%3BRob&rft.date=14+March+2006&rft.pub=The+Baltimore+Sun&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redorbit.com%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2F427188%2Fwbal_radio_cancels_rush_limbaugh_station_is_first_to_drop%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-16">^</a> Lewis Grossberger, "The Rush Hours", New York Times, December 16, 1990, section 6, p. 58</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-17">^</a> "Vital Statistics", U.S. News & World Report, July 30, 2001, p. 7</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-18">^</a> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/53/07celebrities_Rush-Limbaugh_YNXQ.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Celebrity 100: #36 Rush Limbaugh.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a>. June 14, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-19">^</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080731002506/http://www.drudgereport.com/flashrl.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"LIMBAUGH SIGNS THROUGH 2016; $400 MILLION DEAL SHATTERS BROADCAST RECORDS"</a>. Drudgereport.com. July 2, 2008. Archived from <a href="http://drudgereport.com/flashrl.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">the original</a> on 2008-07-31. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080731002506/http://www.drudgereport.com/flashrl.htm" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20080731002506/http://www.drudgereport.com/flashrl.htm</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=LIMBAUGH+SIGNS+THROUGH+2016%3B+%24400+MILLION+DEAL+SHATTERS+BROADCAST+RECORDS&rft.atitle=&rft.date=July+2%2C+2008&rft.pub=Drudgereport.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20080731002506%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.drudgereport.com%2Fflashrl.htm&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-20">^</a> [www.imao.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/media_project_poll_info.pdf Zogby poll]</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-21">^</a> <a href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=26480" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Election 2004 | Pa. Sen. Specter Focuses on Stem Cell Support To Attract Moderate Voters, Distances Himself From Bush in Re-Election Campaign</a> Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=2613377&page=1" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Michael J. Fox Fires Back at Critics</a> ABC News</li>

<li id="cite_note-ontheoffensive-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-ontheoffensive_23-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102400691.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh On the Offensive Against Ad With Michael J. Fox"</a>, Washington Post. Retrieved November 1, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-24">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-ReferenceA_24-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-ReferenceA_24-1">b</a> Rush Limbaugh website, transcript for 26 OCT 2006 broadcast <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential3/mjf0/mjf/anchorman_3.guest.html" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> Accessed: September 8, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-25">^</a> Serrano, Alfonso (October 26, 2006). <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/eveningnews,/main2128188.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Fox: I Was Over-Medicated In Stem Cell Ad"</a>. CBS News. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/eveningnews,/main2128188.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/eveningnews,/main2128188.shtml</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Fox%3A+I+Was+Over-Medicated+In+Stem+Cell+Ad&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Serrano&rft.aufirst=Alfonso&rft.au=Serrano%2C%26%2332%3BAlfonso&rft.date=October+26%2C+2006&rft.pub=CBS+News&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2006%2F10%2F26%2Feveningnews%2C%2Fmain2128188.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-26">^</a> Michael J. Fox, Chapter 8 of Lucky Man: A Memoir: "I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication." <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060209152212/http://www.michaeljfox.org/news/article.php?id=5" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> Acessed: September 8, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-27"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-27">^</a> Michael J. Fox, Chapter 8 of Lucky Man: A Memoir: "I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication." Internet Web Archive "Wayback Machine" <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060209152212/http://www.michaeljfox.org/news/article.php?id=5" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> Acessed: September 8, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-28">^</a> Ehrenstein, David (March 19, 2007). <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Obama the 'Magic Negro'"</a>. Los Angeles Times. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Obama+the+%27Magic+Negro%27&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Ehrenstein&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Ehrenstein%2C%26%2332%3BDavid&rft.date=March+19%2C+2007&rft.pub=Los+Angeles+Times&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fnews%2Fopinion%2Fla-oe-ehrenstein19mar19%2C0%2C5335087.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-opinion-center&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-29">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanklin" title="Paul Shanklin">Paul Shanklin</a>. <a href="http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/barackthemagicnegro.asx" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Barack the Magic Negro"</a>. Rush Limbaugh web site (cached via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies" title="Akamai Technologies">Akamai</a>). <a href="http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/barackthemagicnegro.asx" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/barackthemagicnegro.asx</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Barack+the+Magic+Negro&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=%5B%5BPaul+Shanklin%5D%5D&rft.au=%5B%5BPaul+Shanklin%5D%5D&rft.pub=Rush+Limbaugh+web+site+%28cached+via+%5B%5BAkamai+Technologies%7CAkamai%5D%5D%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmfile.akamai.com%2F5020%2Fwma%2Frushlimb.download.akamai.com%2F5020%2FNew%2Fbarackthemagicnegro.asx&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-BBC-30"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-BBC_30-0">^</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6642029.stm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"US DJ criticised over Obama song"</a>. BBC. 10 May 2007. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6642029.stm" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6642029.stm</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=US+DJ+criticised+over+Obama+song&rft.atitle=&rft.date=10+May+2007&rft.pub=BBC&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Famericas%2F6642029.stm&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-jkerry-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-jkerry_31-0">^</a> Mooney, Alex. (2007-10-01). <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/01/reid.limbaugh/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Top Democrat blasts Limbaugh for 'phony soldiers' comment"</a>. CNN. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/01/reid.limbaugh/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/01/reid.limbaugh/</a>. Retrieved 2007-10-23.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Top+Democrat+blasts+Limbaugh+for+%27phony+soldiers%27+comment&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Mooney&rft.aufirst=Alex.&rft.au=Mooney%2C%26%2332%3BAlex.&rft.date=2007-10-01&rft.pub=CNN&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2007%2FPOLITICS%2F10%2F01%2Freid.limbaugh%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-32">^</a> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298556,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Democrats Criticize Rush Limbaugh's 'Phony Soldiers' Remark"</a>. Fox News. September 28, 2007. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298556,00.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298556,00.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Democrats+Criticize+Rush+Limbaugh%27s+%27Phony+Soldiers%27+Remark&rft.jtitle=Fox+News&rft.date=September+28%2C+2007&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fstory%2F0%2C2933%2C298556%2C00.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-33">^</a> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1004/p99s01-duts.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1004/p99s01-duts.html</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-34"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-34">^</a> <a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/view.bg?articleid=1034890" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/view.bg?articleid=1034890</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-35"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-35">^</a> <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/28/dems-seize-on-limbaughs-phony-soldier-comment/?fbid=54GDutdfEZM" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Dems seize on Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' comment"</a>. CNN. <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/28/dems-seize-on-limbaughs-phony-soldier-comment/?fbid=54GDutdfEZM" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/28/dems-seize-on-limbaughs-phony-soldier-comment/?fbid=54GDutdfEZM</a>. Retrieved March 31, 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Dems+seize+on+Limbaugh%27s+%27phony+soldiers%27+comment&rft.jtitle=CNN&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpoliticalticker.blogs.cnn.com%2F2007%2F09%2F28%2Fdems-seize-on-limbaughs-phony-soldier-comment%2F%3Ffbid%3D54GDutdfEZM&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-36"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-36">^</a> [The Rush Limbaugh Show, Transcript]</li>

<li id="cite_note-peacefilms-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-peacefilms_37-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.peacefilms.org/index.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.peacefilms.org/index.html</a> "Jessie Macbeth: Former Army Ranger and Iraq War Veteran" video, peacefilms.org, retrieved May 23, 2006 (inactive as of May 24, 2006)</li>

<li id="cite_note-socialist-38"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-socialist_38-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article13.php?id=261" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Statement on Jesse MacBeth interview in Justice"</a>. Socialist Alternative. May 26, 2006. <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article13.php?id=261" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article13.php?id=261</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Statement+on+Jesse+MacBeth+interview+in+Justice&rft.atitle=&rft.date=May+26%2C+2006&rft.pub=Socialist+Alternative&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialistalternative.org%2Fnews%2Farticle13.php%3Fid%3D261&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-39"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-39">^</a> Seattle Times – <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003739269_fakeranger08m0.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Man who lied about actions in Iraq admits faking forms</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-40"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-40">^</a> Seattle Post Intellegencer – <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/332642_fakevet22.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Poster soldier for anti-war movement was a fake</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-41"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-41">^</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010?f=h_top" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh: Service members who support U.S. withdrawal are "phony soldiers"</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America">Media Matters</a> September 27, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-42"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-42">^</a> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RUQJB80&show_article=1&catnum=0?ftr=vidpgurl" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Dems Criticize Limbaugh's Comments</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">AP</a> September 28, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-43"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-43">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092807/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Phony Soldiers" is a Phony Story</a> Rush Limbaugh Show Transcript, September 28, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-45"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-45">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092607/content/01125113.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092607/content/01125113.guest.html</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-RushLimbaugh.com-46">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-RushLimbaugh.com_46-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-RushLimbaugh.com_46-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101207/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush to Excellence Speech for WPHT-AM Philadelphia"</a>. Transcript. RushLimbaugh.com. October 11, 2007. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101207/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101207/content/01125106.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+to+Excellence+Speech+for+WPHT-AM+Philadelphia&rft.atitle=Transcript&rft.date=October+11%2C+2007&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_101207%2Fcontent%2F01125106.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-47"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-47">^</a> <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/28/JAIL_RUSH.ART_ART_03-28-08_A8_HV9P3PM.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"The Columbus Dispatch — Limbaugh safe from voter-fraud charges"</a>. Dispatch.com Mark Niquette. March 28, 2008. <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/28/JAIL_RUSH.ART_ART_03-28-08_A8_HV9P3PM.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/28/JAIL_RUSH.ART_ART_03-28-08_A8_HV9P3PM.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+Columbus+Dispatch%26nbsp%3B%E2%80%94+Limbaugh+safe+from+voter-fraud+charges&rft.atitle=&rft.date=March+28%2C+2008&rft.pub=Dispatch.com+Mark+Niquette&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dispatch.com%2Flive%2Fcontent%2Flocal_news%2Fstories%2F2008%2F03%2F28%2FJAIL_RUSH.ART_ART_03-28-08_A8_HV9P3PM.html%3Ftype%3Drss%26cat%3D%26sid%3D101&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-48"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-48">^</a> The Rush Limbaugh Show March 10, 2008 <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031008/content/01125106.member.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031008/content/01125106.member.html</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-49"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-49">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042308/content/01125109.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Why It's Called Operation Chaos"</a>. Transcript. RushLimbaugh.com. April 23, 2008. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042308/content/01125109.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042308/content/01125109.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Why+It%27s+Called+Operation+%27%27Chaos%27%27&rft.atitle=Transcript&rft.date=April+23%2C+2008&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_042308%2Fcontent%2F01125109.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-I_Hope_Obama_Fails-50">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-I_Hope_Obama_Fails_50-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-I_Hope_Obama_Fails_50-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125113.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails"</a>. The Rush Limbaugh Show, Transcript. January 16, 2009. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125113.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125113.guest.html</a>. Retrieved March 23, 2009.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Limbaugh%3A+I+Hope+Obama+Fails&rft.atitle=The+Rush+Limbaugh+Show%2C+Transcript&rft.date=January+16%2C+2009&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_011609%2Fcontent%2F01125113.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-51"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-51">^</a> Bacon, Perry, Jr. (March 4, 2009). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303946_pf.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"GOP Seeks Balance With Conservative Icon Limbaugh"</a>. The Washington Post. pp. A01. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303946_pf.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303946_pf.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=GOP+Seeks+Balance+With+Conservative+Icon+Limbaugh&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Bacon&rft.aufirst=Perry%2C+Jr.&rft.au=Bacon%2C%26%2332%3BPerry%2C+Jr.&rft.date=March+4%2C+2009&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3BA01&rft.pub=The+Washington+Post&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F03%2F03%2FAR2009030303946_pf.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-52"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-52">^</a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29478402/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"GOP chief apologizes for Limbaugh remarks"</a>. March 3, 2009. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29478402/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29478402/</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=GOP+chief+apologizes+for+Limbaugh+remarks&rft.atitle=&rft.date=March+3%2C+2009&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F29478402%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-CQ_0301-53"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-CQ_0301_53-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003063742" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Transcript: Rahm Emanuel on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_Politics" title="CQ Politics" class="mw-redirect">CQ Politics</a>, March 1, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-fox0301-54"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-fox0301_54-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/01/limbaugh-leader-obama-chief-staff-calls-talk-host-barrier-progress/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh the Leader? Obama Chief of Staff Calls Talk Show Host a Barrier to Progress</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" class="mw-redirect">Fox News</a>, March 1, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-ap0301-55"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-ap0301_55-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jhQnx0JN9g6173fjFDB8sGtd4T0wD96LB4E80" class="external text" rel="nofollow">White House aide casts Limbaugh as top GOP voice</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>, March 1, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-CNN_0302-56"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-CNN_0302_56-0">^</a> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/02/gop.steele.limbaugh/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">RNC chief Steele: Limbaugh is more a performer than GOP leader</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, March 2, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-Words_for_Michael_Steele-57">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Words_for_Michael_Steele_57-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Words_for_Michael_Steele_57-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125111.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"A Few Words for Michael Steele"</a>. The Rush Limbaugh Show, Transcript. March 2, 2009. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125111.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125111.guest.html</a>. Retrieved March 23, 2009.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=A+Few+Words+for+Michael+Steele&rft.atitle=The+Rush+Limbaugh+Show%2C+Transcript&rft.date=March+2%2C+2009&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_030209%2Fcontent%2F01125111.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-58"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-58">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030409/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush to the President: Debate Me</a>, Rush Limbaugh transcript, March 4, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-59"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-59">^</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Limbaugh-My-Ratings-are-Way-Way-Up-40846352.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh: My Ratings are Way, Way Up</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner" class="mw-redirect">Washington Examiner</a>, March 6, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-60"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-60">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060909/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Receives ��Freedom of Speech Award” from Talkers Magazine"</a>. Rushlimbaugh.com. 2009-06-06. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060909/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060909/content/01125106.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2010-03-10.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Receives+%E2%80%9CFreedom+of+Speech+Award%E2%80%9D+from+Talkers+Magazine&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2009-06-06&rft.pub=Rushlimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_060909%2Fcontent%2F01125106.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-61"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-61">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_111309/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush and Roger Ailes Speak at Boy Scouts Awards Dinner"</a>. Rushlimbaugh.com. 2009-11-11. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_111309/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_111309/content/01125106.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2010-03-10.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+and+Roger+Ailes+Speak+at+Boy+Scouts+Awards+Dinner&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2009-11-11&rft.pub=Rushlimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_111309%2Fcontent%2F01125106.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-62"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-62">^</a> Gehr, Richard (1990-10-08). "Mouth At Work". Newsday: p. 4.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Mouth+At+Work&rft.jtitle=Newsday&rft.aulast=Gehr&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft.au=Gehr%2C%26%2332%3BRichard&rft.date=1990-10-08&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B4&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-63"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-63">^</a> Sajak, Pat. (2001-05-03). CNN Larry King Live. [TV series]. CNN.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=CNN+Larry+King+Live&rft.aulast=Sajak%2C+Pat.&rft.au=Sajak%2C+Pat.&rft.date=2001-05-03&rft.pub=CNN&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-64"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-64">^</a> Maurstad, Tom (1993-12-20). "Stern, Limbaugh meet their match; Hosts Leno, Letterman hold their own in war". The Dallas Morning News: p. 1C.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Stern%2C+Limbaugh+meet+their+match%3B+Hosts+Leno%2C+Letterman+hold+their+own+in+war&rft.jtitle=The+Dallas+Morning+News&rft.aulast=Maurstad&rft.aufirst=Tom&rft.au=Maurstad%2C%26%2332%3BTom&rft.date=1993-12-20&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B1C&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-65"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-65">^</a> Parker, Penny (1996-03-20). "Ties loud, just like Limbaugh.". Denver Post. pp. C��1.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Ties+loud%2C+just+like+Limbaugh.&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Parker&rft.aufirst=Penny&rft.au=Parker%2C%26%2332%3BPenny&rft.date=1996-03-20&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3BC%E2%80%931&rft.pub=Denver+Post&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-66"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-66">^</a> Vinciguera, Thomas (1996-08-04). "No Talk Show, But a Loud Tie". New York Times. p. 43.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=No+Talk+Show%2C+But+a+Loud+Tie&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Vinciguera&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft.au=Vinciguera%2C%26%2332%3BThomas&rft.date=1996-08-04&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B43&rft.pub=New+York+Times&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-67"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-67">^</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/29/entertainment/main6154147.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh Named Miss America Judge: Conservative Radio Host Joins Vivica Fox, Shawn Johnson on 2010 Panel"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a>. January 29, 2010. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/29/entertainment/main6154147.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/29/entertainment/main6154147.shtml</a>. Retrieved 30 January 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+Named+Miss+America+Judge%3A+Conservative+Radio+Host+Joins+Vivica+Fox%2C+Shawn+Johnson+on+2010+Panel&rft.atitle=&rft.date=January+29%2C+2010&rft.pub=%5B%5BCBS+News%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2010%2F01%2F29%2Fentertainment%2Fmain6154147.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-68"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-68">^</a> Limbaugh, Rush (2005-10-17). <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/ac/?id=110007417" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Holding Court: There's a crackdown over Miers, not a "crackup.""</a>. The Wall Street Journal. <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/ac/?id=110007417" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.opinionjournal.com/ac/?id=110007417</a>. Retrieved 2006-10-25.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Holding+Court%3A+There%27s+a+crackdown+over+Miers%2C+not+a+%22crackup.%22&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Limbaugh&rft.aufirst=Rush&rft.au=Limbaugh%2C%26%2332%3BRush&rft.date=2005-10-17&rft.pub=The+Wall+Street+Journal&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opinionjournal.com%2Fac%2F%3Fid%3D110007417&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-Your_Conservative_Rock-69"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Your_Conservative_Rock_69-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110508/content/01125100.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Wednesday Quotes: Your Conservative Rock"</a>. RushLimbaugh.com. November 5, 2008. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110508/content/01125100.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110508/content/01125100.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Wednesday+Quotes%3A+Your+Conservative+Rock&rft.atitle=&rft.date=November+5%2C+2008&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_110508%2Fcontent%2F01125100.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-Get_Off_the_Ledge.2C_Conservatives.21_We_Have_Two_Battles_on_Our_Hands-70"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Get_Off_the_Ledge.2C_Conservatives.21_We_Have_Two_Battles_on_Our_Hands_70-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110608/content/01125108.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Get Off the Ledge, Conservatives! We Have Two Battles on Our Hands"</a>. Rushlimbaugh.com. November 6, 2008. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110608/content/01125108.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110608/content/01125108.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Get+Off+the+Ledge%2C+Conservatives%21+We+Have+Two+Battles+on+Our+Hands&rft.atitle=&rft.date=November+6%2C+2008&rft.pub=Rushlimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_110608%2Fcontent%2F01125108.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-Unconscionable:McCain_Staffers_Attempting_to_Destroy_Sarah_Palin-71"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Unconscionable:McCain_Staffers_Attempting_to_Destroy_Sarah_Palin_71-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110608/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Unconscionable: McCain Staffers Attempting to Destroy Sarah Palin"</a>. RushLimbaugh.com. November 6, 2008. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110608/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110608/content/01125106.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Unconscionable%3A+McCain+Staffers+Attempting+to+Destroy+Sarah+Palin&rft.atitle=&rft.date=November+6%2C+2008&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_110608%2Fcontent%2F01125106.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-72"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-72">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_112509/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"So we have now the Four Corners of Deceit, and the two universes in which we live. The Universe of Lies, the Universe of Reality"</a>. Rushlimbaugh.com. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_112509/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_112509/content/01125106.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2009-11-24.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=So+we+have+now+the+Four+Corners+of+Deceit%2C+and+the+two+universes+in+which+we+live.+The+Universe+of+Lies%2C+the+Universe+of+Reality&rft.atitle=&rft.pub=Rushlimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_112509%2Fcontent%2F01125106.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-ontheissues-rush-73">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-ontheissues-rush_73-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-ontheissues-rush_73-1">b</a> On the Issues.org. <a href="http://ontheissues.org/Rush_Limbaugh.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush Limbaugh</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-74"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-74">^</a> RushLimbaugh.com. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020107/content/stop_the_tape.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Transcript</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-75"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-75">^</a> See, for instance, <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack/idiot_bird_extinct.guest.html.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Idiot Bird Extinct, Future of World at Risk (Transcript)"</a>. The Rush Limbaugh Show. December 1, 2004. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack/idiot_bird_extinct.guest.html.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack/idiot_bird_extinct.guest.html.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Idiot+Bird+Extinct%2C+Future+of+World+at+Risk+%28Transcript%29&rft.atitle=&rft.date=December+1%2C+2004&rft.pub=The+Rush+Limbaugh+Show&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Festack%2Fidiot_bird_extinct.guest.html.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-76"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-76">^</a> Rush Limbaugh, Wednesday Morning Update (January 24, 2001). <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Rush_Limbaugh_Energy+Oil.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh on energy & oil"</a>. <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Rush_Limbaugh_Energy+Oil.htm" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Rush_Limbaugh_Energy+Oil.htm</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+on+energy+%26+oil&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Rush+Limbaugh%2C+Wednesday+Morning+Update&rft.au=Rush+Limbaugh%2C+Wednesday+Morning+Update&rft.date=January+24%2C+2001&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontheissues.org%2FCeleb%2FRush_Limbaugh_Energy_%2B_Oil.htm&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-77"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-77">^</a> Margaret Carlson (October 26, 1992). <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976829,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"An Interview with Rush Limbaugh"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976829,00.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976829,00.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=An+Interview+with+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Margaret+Carlson&rft.au=Margaret+Carlson&rft.date=October+26%2C+1992&rft.pub=%27%27%5B%5BTime+%28magazine%29%7CTime%5D%5D%27%27+magazine&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C976829%2C00.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-TheWayp296-78"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-TheWayp296_78-0">^</a> Rush H. Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Books, 1992 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XDVMk6q_pm4C&q=%22a+Feminazi+is+a+feminist+to+whom%22&pgis=1" class="external text" rel="nofollow">p.296</a>

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<dd>“Feminazi: Widely misunderstood by most to simply mean ‘feminist��. Not so, boobala [sic]. A Feminazi is a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur. There are fewer than twenty-five known Feminazis in the United States...”</dd>

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<li id="cite_note-TheWayp193-79"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-TheWayp193_79-0">^</a> Rush H. Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Books, 1992 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XDVMk6q_pm4C&q=%22Tom+Hazlett%22+%22coined+the+term%22&pgis=1%20" class="external text" rel="nofollow">p.193</a>

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<dd>"I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. I often use it to describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day holocaust: abortion. There are 1.5 million abortions a year ..."</dd>

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<li id="cite_note-80"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-80">^</a> Sontag, Susan (May 23, 2004). <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/23PRISONS.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5007&en=a2cb6ea6bd297c8f&ex=1400644800&partner=USERLAND" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Regarding the Torture of Others"</a>. The New York Times. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/23PRISONS.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5007&en=a2cb6ea6bd297c8f&ex=1400644800&partner=USERLAND" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/23PRISONS.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5007&en=a2cb6ea6bd297c8f&ex=1400644800&partner=USERLAND</a>. Retrieved March 31, 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Regarding+the+Torture+of+Others&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.aulast=Sontag&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft.au=Sontag%2C%26%2332%3BSusan&rft.date=May+23%2C+2004&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F05%2F23%2Fmagazine%2F23PRISONS.html%3Fpagewanted%3D3%26ei%3D5007%26en%3Da2cb6ea6bd297c8f%26ex%3D1400644800%26partner%3DUSERLAND&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-81"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-81">^</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/06/opinion/meyer/main616021.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush: MPs Just 'Blowing Off Steam', Limbaugh: Abuse Story 'Media-Generated': CBS' Meyer Says Beware"</a>. CBS News. May 6, 2004. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/06/opinion/meyer/main616021.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/06/opinion/meyer/main616021.shtml</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush%3A+MPs+Just+%27Blowing+Off+Steam%27%2C+Limbaugh%3A+Abuse+Story+%27Media-Generated%27%3A+CBS%27+Meyer+Says+Beware&rft.atitle=&rft.date=May+6%2C+2004&rft.pub=CBS+News&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2004%2F05%2F06%2Fopinion%2Fmeyer%2Fmain616021.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-October_14.2C_2008_transcript-82"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-October_14.2C_2008_transcript_82-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101408/content/01125113.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"October 14, 2008 transcript"</a>. RushLimbaugh.com. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101408/content/01125113.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101408/content/01125113.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=October+14%2C+2008+transcript&rft.atitle=&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_101408%2Fcontent%2F01125113.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-83"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-83">^</a> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-onthemedia9-2008nov09,0,800478.story" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger</a>, James Rainey, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a>, November 9, 2008. Retrieved November 9, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Grossberger-p58-84">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Grossberger-p58_84-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-Grossberger-p58_84-1">b</a> Grossberger, Lewis (1990-12-16). "The Rush Hours". The New York Times: p. 58.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Rush+Hours&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.aulast=Grossberger&rft.aufirst=Lewis&rft.au=Grossberger%2C%26%2332%3BLewis&rft.date=1990-12-16&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B58&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-85"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-85">^</a> Remnick, David (1990-12-16). "Day of the Dittohead". The Washington Post: p. C1.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Day+of+the+Dittohead&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.aulast=Remnick&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Remnick%2C%26%2332%3BDavid&rft.date=1990-12-16&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3BC1&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-86"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-86">^</a> Limbaugh, Rush (1990-12-16). "The Way things Ought To Be". Simon and Schuster. pp. 62–66.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+Way+things+Ought+To+Be&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Limbaugh&rft.aufirst=Rush&rft.au=Limbaugh%2C%26%2332%3BRush&rft.date=1990-12-16&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B62%E2%80%9366&rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-87"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-87">^</a> Suddath, Claire (March 4, 2009). <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882947,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh"</a>. Time. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882947,00.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882947,00.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Conservative+Radio+Host+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.aulast=Suddath&rft.aufirst=Claire&rft.au=Suddath%2C%26%2332%3BClaire&rft.date=March+4%2C+2009&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fnation%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1882947%2C00.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-88"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-88">^</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/inaug/players/chelsea.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"16 Candles for Chelsea"</a>. The Washington Post. January 14, 1997. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/inaug/players/chelsea.htm" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/inaug/players/chelsea.htm</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=16+Candles+for+Chelsea&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.date=January+14%2C+1997&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-srv%2Fnational%2Flongterm%2Finaug%2Fplayers%2Fchelsea.htm&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

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<li id="cite_note-91"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-91">^</a> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/toplists/getting_the_bum_rush/getting_the_bum_rush.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Getting the 'Bum Rush'"</a>. Daily News (New York). March 8, 2009. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/toplists/getting_the_bum_rush/getting_the_bum_rush.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/toplists/getting_the_bum_rush/getting_the_bum_rush.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Getting+the+%27Bum+Rush%27&rft.jtitle=Daily+News&rft.date=March+8%2C+2009&rft.place=New+York&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Ftoplists%2Fgetting_the_bum_rush%2Fgetting_the_bum_rush.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-92"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-92">^</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/16/hillaryclinton.uselections2008" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"How Chelsea Clinton finally came of age"</a>. The Guardian (London). March 16, 2008. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/16/hillaryclinton.uselections2008" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/16/hillaryclinton.uselections2008</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=How+Chelsea+Clinton+finally+came+of+age&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.date=March+16%2C+2008&rft.place=London&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2008%2Fmar%2F16%2Fhillaryclinton.uselections2008&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

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<li id="cite_note-103"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-103">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax_Media" title="NewsMax Media" class="mw-redirect">NewsMax Media</a>. <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/29/110359.shtml?s=ic" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush Limbaugh Donates $250K for Cancer Cure</a> April 29, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-104"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-104">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042007/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh Donates $320,000 to Kick Off 2007 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Cure-A-Thon"</a>. Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042007/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042007/content/01125106.guest.html</a>. Retrieved 2007-04-20.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+Donates+%24320%2C000+to+Kick+Off+2007+Leukemia+%26+Lymphoma+Society+Cure-A-Thon&rft.atitle=Rush+Limbaugh&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fdaily%2Fsite_042007%2Fcontent%2F01125106.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

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<li id="cite_note-114"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-114">^</a> McCabe, Scott (June 12, 2004). <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/c1a_rush_0612.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Limbaugh, third wife parting after 10 years"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Post" title="Palm Beach Post" class="mw-redirect">Palm Beach Post</a>.. <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/c1a_rush_0612.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/c1a_rush_0612.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-11-04.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Limbaugh%2C+third+wife+parting+after+10+years&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=McCabe&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft.au=McCabe%2C%26%2332%3BScott&rft.date=June+12%2C+2004&rft.pub=%5B%5BPalm+Beach+Post%5D%5D.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palmbeachpost.com%2Flocalnews%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2Flimbaugh%2Fc1a_rush_0612.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-115"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-115">^</a> Herald Staff. "Rush's divorce final" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miami_Herald" title="The Miami Herald">The Miami Herald</a>. February 19, 2005. Pg. 4A</li>

<li id="cite_note-116"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-116">^</a> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/392895p-333176c.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"New York News, Traffic, Sports, Weather, Photos, Entertainment, and Gossip - NY Daily News"</a>. Daily News (New York). <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/392895p-333176c.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/392895p-333176c.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=New+York+News%2C+Traffic%2C+Sports%2C+Weather%2C+Photos%2C+Entertainment%2C+and+Gossip+-+NY+Daily+News&rft.jtitle=Daily+News&rft.place=New+York&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Ffront%2Fstory%2F392895p-333176c.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-117"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-117">^</a> <a href="http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerpop/article_272632213.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh Marries Fourth Wife Kathryn Rogers in Florida - Wedding Day"</a>. National Ledger. June 5, 2010. <a href="http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerpop/article_272632213.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerpop/article_272632213.shtml</a>. Retrieved June 10, 2010.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+Marries+Fourth+Wife+Kathryn+Rogers+in+Florida+-+Wedding+Day&rft.atitle=National+Ledger&rft.date=June+5%2C+2010&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalledger.com%2Fledgerpop%2Farticle_272632213.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-118"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-118">^</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/rush-limbaughs-girlfriend_n_411726.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh's Girlfriend Kathryn Rogers Gives Inside Story On Heart Scare"</a>. The Huffington Post. 2010-01-05. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/rush-limbaughs-girlfriend_n_411726.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/rush-limbaughs-girlfriend_n_411726.html</a>. Retrieved 2010-01-30.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh%27s+Girlfriend+Kathryn+Rogers+Gives+Inside+Story+On+Heart+Scare&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2010-01-05&rft.pub=The+Huffington+Post&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2010%2F01%2F05%2Frush-limbaughs-girlfriend_n_411726.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-119"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-119">^</a> <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/06/05/rush-to-the-altar-and-the-wedding-singer-is/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://michellemalkin.com/2010/06/05/rush-to-the-altar-and-the-wedding-singer-is/</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-120"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-120">^</a> Silverman, Stephen.<a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391620,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Elton John Sings at Rush Limbaugh's 4th Wedding</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People" title="People">People.com</a>, June 7, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-121"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-121">^</a> <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/06/love_etc_rush_limbaugh_marries.html?hpid=artslot" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Love, etc: Rush Limbaugh marries for the fourth time.</a> The Washington Post. June 6, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-122"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-122">^</a> Candiotti, Susan (2003-10-03). <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/News/10/03/rush.drugs/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Limbaugh mostly mum on reports of drug probe"</a>. CNN. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/News/10/03/rush.drugs/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/News/10/03/rush.drugs/</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Limbaugh+mostly+mum+on+reports+of+drug+probe&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Candiotti&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft.au=Candiotti%2C%26%2332%3BSusan&rft.date=2003-10-03&rft.pub=CNN&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2003%2FSHOWBIZ%2FNews%2F10%2F03%2Frush.drugs%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-123"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-123">^</a> George Bennett & John Pacenti (2003-10-11). <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/101103_limbaugh.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Talk host Limbaugh to enter drug rehab"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Post" title="Palm Beach Post" class="mw-redirect">Palm Beach Post</a>. p. 1A. <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/101103_limbaugh.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/101103_limbaugh.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Talk+host+Limbaugh+to+enter+drug+rehab&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=George+Bennett+%26+John+Pacenti&rft.au=George+Bennett+%26+John+Pacenti&rft.date=2003-10-11&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B1A&rft.pub=%5B%5BPalm+Beach+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palmbeachpost.com%2Flocalnews%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2Flimbaugh%2F101103_limbaugh.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-124"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-124">^</a> "Prosecutors Push to Speak with Limbaugh Doctors". The Palm Beach Post. November 9, 2005. pp. 3B.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Prosecutors+Push+to+Speak+with+Limbaugh+Doctors&rft.atitle=&rft.date=November+9%2C+2005&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B3B&rft.pub=The+Palm+Beach+Post&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-125"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-125">^</a> "Improbable ally joins Limbaugh privacy fight". The St. Petersburg Times. January 13, 2004. pp. 1B.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Improbable+ally+joins+Limbaugh+privacy+fight&rft.atitle=&rft.date=January+13%2C+2004&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B1B&rft.pub=The+St.+Petersburg+Times&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-126"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-126">^</a> <a href="http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=41" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Palm Beach Appeals Court to Hear Argument in Limbaugh Medical Records Case"</a>. WEST PALM BEACH: Aclufl.org. April 7, 2004. <a href="http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=41" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=41</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Palm+Beach+Appeals+Court+to+Hear+Argument+in+Limbaugh+Medical+Records+Case&rft.atitle=&rft.date=April+7%2C+2004&rft.place=WEST+PALM+BEACH&rft.pub=Aclufl.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aclufl.org%2Fnews_events%2F%3Faction%3DviewRelease%26emailAlertID%3D41&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-127"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-127">^</a> "Judge Limits Limbaugh Inquiry". The Palm Beach Daily News. December 13, 2005. p. 1.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Judge+Limits+Limbaugh+Inquiry&rft.atitle=&rft.date=December+13%2C+2005&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B1&rft.pub=The+Palm+Beach+Daily+News&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-128"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-128">^</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/28/national/main1561324.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges, Conservative Radio Commentator Turns Himself In But Claims Innocence"</a>. CBS News. April 28, 2006. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/28/national/main1561324.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/28/national/main1561324.shtml</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+Arrested+On+Drug+Charges%2C+Conservative+Radio+Commentator+Turns+Himself+In+But+Claims+Innocence&rft.atitle=&rft.date=April+28%2C+2006&rft.pub=CBS+News&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2006%2F04%2F28%2Fnational%2Fmain1561324.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-129"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-129">^</a> <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/28/ldt.01.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT"</a> (Transcript). LOU DOBBS TONIGHT (CNN.com). April 28, 2006. <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/28/ldt.01.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/28/ldt.01.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=LOU+DOBBS+TONIGHT&rft.jtitle=LOU+DOBBS+TONIGHT&rft.date=April+28%2C+2006&rft.pub=CNN.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F0604%2F28%2Fldt.01.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-130"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-130">^</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/28/limbaugh.booked/index.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rehab, $30,000 to keep Limbaugh out of court"</a>. CNN.com. April 29, 2006. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/28/limbaugh.booked/index.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/28/limbaugh.booked/index.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rehab%2C+%2430%2C000+to+keep+Limbaugh+out+of+court&rft.atitle=&rft.date=April+29%2C+2006&rft.pub=CNN.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2006%2FLAW%2F04%2F28%2Flimbaugh.booked%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-131"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-131">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/rushwire/settlement_agreement_ends_state_investigation_of_rush_limbaugh.guest.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Settlement Agreement Ends State Investigation of Rush Limbaugh"</a>. RushLimbaugh.com. April 28, 2006. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/rushwire/settlement_agreement_ends_state_investigation_of_rush_limbaugh.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/rushwire/settlement_agreement_ends_state_investigation_of_rush_limbaugh.guest.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Settlement+Agreement+Ends+State+Investigation+of+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.atitle=&rft.date=April+28%2C+2006&rft.pub=RushLimbaugh.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushlimbaugh.com%2Fhome%2Fmenu%2Frushwire%2Fsettlement_agreement_ends_state_investigation_of_rush_limbaugh.guest.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-132"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-132">^</a> Skoloff, Brian (2006-05-01). <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/limbaugh_painkillers;ylt=AoXk6dXtazOH3nAUdJKIsQys0NUE;ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Limbaugh Facing Drug Tests Under Deal"</a>. Associated Press. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/limbaugh_painkillers;ylt=AoXk6dXtazOH3nAUdJKIsQys0NUE;ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/limbaugh_painkillers;ylt=AoXk6dXtazOH3nAUdJKIsQys0NUE;ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Limbaugh+Facing+Drug+Tests+Under+Deal&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Skoloff&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft.au=Skoloff%2C%26%2332%3BBrian&rft.date=2006-05-01&rft.series=Associated+Press&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fap%2Flimbaugh_painkillers%3B_ylt%3DAoXk6dXtazOH3nAUdJKIsQys0NUE%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-133"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-133">^</a> Murphy, Jarrett. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/28/national/main1561324.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges.</a> CBS News. April 28, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-134"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-134">^</a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536446/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh reaches settlement in drugs case.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>. April 29, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-135"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-135">^</a> <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/04/State/Limbaugh_may_face_a_r.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Limbaugh may face a rarely used charge"</a>. Associated Press. 2004-01-04. <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/04/State/Limbaugh_may_face_a_r.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/04/State/Limbaugh_may_face_a_r.shtml</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Limbaugh+may+face+a+rarely+used+charge&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2004-01-04&rft.series=Associated+Press&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sptimes.com%2F2004%2F01%2F04%2FState%2FLimbaugh_may_face_a_r.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-136"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-136">^</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtml" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush Limbaugh Detained With Viagra"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a>. 2006-06-27. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtml</a>. Retrieved 2008-09-30.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+Detained+With+Viagra&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2006-06-27&rft.pub=%5B%5BCBS+News%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2006%2F06%2F27%2Fnational%2Fmain1753947.shtml&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-137"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-137">^</a> Rothstein, Mervyn. <a href="http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,18,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush's Judgment"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Aficionado" title="Cigar Aficionado">Cigar Aficionado</a>. <a href="http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,18,00.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,18,00.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-11-04.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush%27s+Judgment&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Rothstein&rft.aufirst=Mervyn&rft.au=Rothstein%2C%26%2332%3BMervyn&rft.pub=%5B%5BCigar+Aficionado%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cigaraficionado.com%2FCigar%2FCA_Profiles%2FPeople_Profile%2F0%2C2540%2C18%2C00.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-138"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-138">^</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/10/08/politics/main314011.shtml" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/10/08/politics/main314011.shtml</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-139"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-139">^</a> Maier, Timothy W. (January 28, 2002). <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_3_18/ai_82554117" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Limbaugh learning to listen again: Rush Limbaugh lost most of his hearing because of a rare disease, but the conservative icon says he has not lost his ability to communicate with his audience"</a>. Insight on the News. <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_3_18/ai_82554117" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_3_18/ai_82554117</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Limbaugh+learning+to+listen+again%3A+Rush+Limbaugh+lost+most+of+his+hearing+because+of+a+rare+disease%2C+but+the+conservative+icon+says+he+has+not+lost+his+ability+to+communicate+with+his+audience&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Maier&rft.aufirst=Timothy+W.&rft.au=Maier%2C%26%2332%3BTimothy+W.&rft.date=January+28%2C+2002&rft.pub=Insight+on+the+News&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffindarticles.com%2Fp%2Farticles%2Fmi_m1571%2Fis_3_18%2Fai_82554117&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-140"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-140">^</a> <a href="http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/04/rush_to_get_bio.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rush to get bionic tune up"</a>. Transcript. 4 Hearing Loss. April 28, 2005. <a href="http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/04/rush_to_get_bio.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/04/rush_to_get_bio.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-11-09.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Rush+to+get+bionic+tune+up&rft.atitle=Transcript&rft.date=April+28%2C+2005&rft.pub=4+Hearing+Loss&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.4hearingloss.com%2Farchives%2F2005%2F04%2Frush_to_get_bio.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-141"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-141">^</a> Youngmisuk, Ohm (October 9, 2009). <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2009/10/09/2009-10-09_black_nfl_players_crush_prospect_of_playing_for_a_rush_limbaughowned_st_louis_ra.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Black NFL players crush prospect of playing for a Rush Limbaugh-owned St. Louis Rams"</a>. Daily News (New York). <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2009/10/09/2009-10-09_black_nfl_players_crush_prospect_of_playing_for_a_rush_limbaughowned_st_louis_ra.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2009/10/09/2009-10-09_black_nfl_players_crush_prospect_of_playing_for_a_rush_limbaughowned_st_louis_ra.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Black+NFL+players+crush+prospect+of+playing+for+a+Rush+Limbaugh-owned+St.+Louis+Rams&rft.jtitle=Daily+News&rft.aulast=Youngmisuk&rft.aufirst=Ohm&rft.au=Youngmisuk%2C%26%2332%3BOhm&rft.date=October+9%2C+2009&rft.place=New+York&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fsports%2Ffootball%2F2009%2F10%2F09%2F2009-10-09_black_nfl_players_crush_prospect_of_playing_for_a_rush_limbaughowned_st_louis_ra.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-142"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-142">^</a> <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4551010" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4551010</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-143"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-143">^</a> <a href="http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/article/2009-10-14/dave-chcketts-statement-regarding-rush-limbaugh" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Dave Checketts' statement regarding Rush Limbaugh"</a>. Sporting News staff reports. <a href="http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/article/2009-10-14/dave-chcketts-statement-regarding-rush-limbaugh" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/article/2009-10-14/dave-chcketts-statement-regarding-rush-limbaugh</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Dave+Checketts%27+statement+regarding+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.atitle=&rft.pub=Sporting+News+staff+reports&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportingnews.com%2Fnfl%2Farticle%2F2009-10-14%2Fdave-chcketts-statement-regarding-rush-limbaugh&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li id="cite_note-144"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-144">^</a> <a href="http://www.kitv.com/politics/22094469/detail.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Limbaugh Says Tests Found Nothing Wrong.</a> KITV.com January 1, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-145"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-145">^</a> Letter from Ronald Reagan, quoted in National Review Cover story <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n17_v45/ai_14293009" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> accessed 2 MAY 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-146"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-146">^</a> <a href="http://www.talkers.com/greatest/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"The 25 Greatest Radio Talk Show Hosts of All Time"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkers_magazine" title="Talkers magazine" class="mw-redirect">Talkers magazine</a>. September 2002. <a href="http://www.talkers.com/greatest/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.talkers.com/greatest/</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+25+Greatest+Radio+Talk+Show+Hosts+of+All+Time&rft.jtitle=%5B%5BTalkers+magazine%5D%5D&rft.date=September+2002&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkers.com%2Fgreatest%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-147"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-147">^</a> Weil, Dan. "Source: Limbaugh's New Radio Contract Worth $285 Million", The Palm Beach Post, July 20, 2001, pp.1D</li>

<li id="cite_note-148"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-148">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a>. <a href="http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2007/press20070320.asp" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush Limbaugh to accept media excellence award at MRC 20th anniversary gala</a>. March 20, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-149"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-149">^</a> Levin, Mark. Man of the Year: Rush Limbaugh January 7, 2007 <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24305" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24305</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-150"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-150">^</a> <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Barbara-Walters-Special-1000398.aspx" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Barbara Walters Gets Up Close with 2008's Most Fascinating People</a>" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a>. December 1, 2008. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-151"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-151">^</a> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125106.guest.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125106.guest.html</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-NYT01-152"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-NYT01_152-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion/20chafets.html?hp" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"The Limbaugh Victory"</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpEd" title="OpEd" class="mw-redirect">OpEd</a> by Zev Chavets, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, May 19, 2010 (May 20, 2010, on p. A27 of NY ed.). Retrieved 2010-05-20.</li>

<li id="cite_note-153"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-153">^</a> Limbaugh, Rush (1993). See, I Told You So. New York: Atria. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-87120-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-87120-X">0-671-87120-X</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=See%2C+I+Told+You+So&rft.aulast=Limbaugh%2C+Rush&rft.au=Limbaugh%2C+Rush&rft.date=1993&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Atria&rft.isbn=0-671-87120-X&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-154"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-154">^</a> Gregory, Ted (1995-08-18). "Right and wrong; Rush Limbaugh critics want to set the facts straight, but it's not easy". Chicago Tribune.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Right+and+wrong%3B+Rush+Limbaugh+critics+want+to+set+the+facts+straight%2C+but+it%27s+not+easy&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Gregory&rft.aufirst=Ted&rft.au=Gregory%2C%26%2332%3BTed&rft.date=1995-08-18&rft.pub=Chicago+Tribune&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-155"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_ref-155">^</a> <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/speakers/jfarah.asp" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Joseph Farah"</a>. Speakers and Talk Show Guests. WorldNetDaily.com. <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/speakers/jfarah.asp" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/speakers/jfarah.asp</a>. Retrieved 2006-07-19.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Joseph+Farah&rft.atitle=Speakers+and+Talk+Show+Guests&rft.pub=WorldNetDaily.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldnetdaily.com%2Fspeakers%2Fjfarah.asp&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

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<h2>Further reading</h2>

<ul>

<li>Arkush, Michael (1993). Rush!. New York: Avon Books, 1993. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0380775395" title="Special:BookSources/0380775395">0380775395</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rush%21&rft.aulast=Arkush%2C+Michael&rft.au=Arkush%2C+Michael&rft.date=1993&rft.pub=New+York%3A+Avon+Books%2C+1993&rft.isbn=0380775395&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Chafets, Zev (2010). Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. Sentinel. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1595230638" title="Special:BookSources/978-1595230638">978-1595230638</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh%3A+An+Army+of+One&rft.aulast=Chafets%2C+Zev&rft.au=Chafets%2C+Zev&rft.date=2010&rft.pub=Sentinel&rft.isbn=978-1595230638&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Colford, Paul D. (1995). The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God an Unauthorized Biography. St. Martin's. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0312952724" title="Special:BookSources/0312952724">0312952724</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rush+Limbaugh+Story%3A+Talent+on+Loan+from+God+an+Unauthorized+Biography&rft.aulast=Colford%2C+Paul+D.&rft.au=Colford%2C+Paul+D.&rft.date=1995&rft.pub=St.+Martin%27s&rft.isbn=0312952724&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Davis, J. Bradford (1994). The Rise of Rush Limbaugh Toward the Presidency. Norcross, Ga.:MacArthur Pub. Group, c1994.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0964261901" title="Special:BookSources/0964261901">0964261901</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rise+of+Rush+Limbaugh+Toward+the+Presidency&rft.aulast=Davis%2C+J.+Bradford&rft.au=Davis%2C+J.+Bradford&rft.date=1994&rft.pub=Norcross%2C+Ga.%3AMacArthur+Pub.+Group%2C+c1994.&rft.isbn=0964261901&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Derych, Jim. Confessions of a Former Dittohead. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Ig Pub., c2006.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0975251783_%28pbk.%29" title="Special:BookSources/0975251783 (pbk.)">0975251783 (pbk.)</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Confessions+of+a+Former+Dittohead&rft.aulast=Derych%2C+Jim&rft.au=Derych%2C+Jim&rft.pub=Brooklyn%2C+N.Y.+%3A+Ig+Pub.%2C+c2006.&rft.isbn=0975251783+%28pbk.%29&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Evearitt, Daniel J. (1993). Rush Limbaugh and the Bible. Camp Hill, Pa.: Horizon House Publishers, c1993.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0889651043" title="Special:BookSources/0889651043">0889651043</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+and+the+Bible&rft.aulast=Evearitt%2C+Daniel+J.&rft.au=Evearitt%2C+Daniel+J.&rft.date=1993&rft.pub=Camp+Hill%2C+Pa.%3A+Horizon+House+Publishers%2C+c1993.&rft.isbn=0889651043&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Franken, Al (1996). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh_Is_a_Big_Fat_Idiot_and_Other_Observations" title="Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations">Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations</a>. New York: Random House. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0141018416" title="Special:BookSources/978-0141018416">978-0141018416</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5BRush+Limbaugh+Is+a+Big+Fat+Idiot+and+Other+Observations%5D%5D&rft.aulast=Franken%2C+Al&rft.au=Franken%2C+Al&rft.date=1996&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.isbn=978-0141018416&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Franken, Al (2003). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_and_the_Lying_Liars_Who_Tell_Them:_A_Fair_and_Balanced_Look_at_the_Right" title="Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" class="mw-redirect">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right</a>. New York: Plume. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0452285217" title="Special:BookSources/978-0452285217">978-0452285217</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5BLies+and+the+Lying+Liars+Who+Tell+Them%3A+A+Fair+and+Balanced+Look+at+the+Right%5D%5D&rft.aulast=Franken%2C+Al&rft.au=Franken%2C+Al&rft.date=2003&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Plume&rft.isbn=978-0452285217&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Jacobs, Donald Trent. The Bum's Rush: The Selling of Environmental Backlash : phrases and fallacies of Rush Limbaugh. Boise, Idaho : Legendary Pub., c1994.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9625040-5-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-9625040-5-X">0-9625040-5-X</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bum%27s+Rush%3A+The+Selling+of+Environmental+Backlash+%3A+phrases+and+fallacies+of+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.aulast=Jacobs%2C+Donald+Trent&rft.au=Jacobs%2C+Donald+Trent&rft.pub=Boise%2C+Idaho+%3A+Legendary+Pub.%2C+c1994.&rft.isbn=0-9625040-5-X&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Keliher, Brian (1994). Flush rush. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, c1994.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0898156106" title="Special:BookSources/0898156106">0898156106</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Flush+rush&rft.aulast=Keliher%2C+Brian&rft.au=Keliher%2C+Brian&rft.date=1994&rft.pub=Berkeley%2C+Calif.%3A+Ten+Speed+Press%2C+c1994.&rft.isbn=0898156106&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Kelly, Charles M (1994). The Great Limbaugh Con: And Other Right-Wing Assaults on Common Sense. Fithian Press, 1994.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1564741028" title="Special:BookSources/1564741028">1564741028</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Great+Limbaugh+Con%3A+And+Other+Right-Wing+Assaults+on+Common+Sense&rft.aulast=Kelly%2C+Charles+M&rft.au=Kelly%2C+Charles+M&rft.date=1994&rft.pub=Fithian+Press%2C+1994.&rft.isbn=1564741028&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>King, D. Howard (1994). Rush to Us. Windsor Pub., c1994.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0786000821" title="Special:BookSources/0786000821">0786000821</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rush+to+Us&rft.aulast=King%2C+D.+Howard&rft.au=King%2C+D.+Howard&rft.date=1994&rft.pub=Windsor+Pub.%2C+c1994.&rft.isbn=0786000821&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh">��</li>

<li>Layne, Tom (2006). The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh. Red Ginger Publishing Co., Inc. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0976851504" title="Special:BookSources/0976851504">0976851504</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Assassination+of+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.aulast=Layne%2C+Tom&rft.au=Layne%2C+Tom&rft.date=2006&rft.pub=Red+Ginger+Publishing+Co.%2C+Inc&rft.isbn=0976851504&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Mahurin, Cecil (1993). A Public Rebuttal to Rush Limbaugh. Vantage Press, 1993.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0533107660" title="Special:BookSources/0533107660">0533107660</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Public+Rebuttal+to+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.aulast=Mahurin%2C+Cecil&rft.au=Mahurin%2C+Cecil&rft.date=1993&rft.pub=Vantage+Press%2C+1993.&rft.isbn=0533107660&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Perkins, Ray, Jr. (1995). Logic and Mr. Limbaugh: A Dittohead's Guide to Fallacious Reasoning. Open Court Publishing. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>��<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0812692942" title="Special:BookSources/0812692942">0812692942</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Logic+and+Mr.+Limbaugh%3A+A+Dittohead%27s+Guide+to+Fallacious+Reasoning&rft.aulast=Perkins%2C+Ray%2C+Jr.&rft.au=Perkins%2C+Ray%2C+Jr.&rft.date=1995&rft.pub=Open+Court+Publishing&rft.isbn=0812692942&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Rahman, Michael. Why Rush Limbaugh is Wrong, or, The Demise of Traditionalism and The Rise of Progressive Sensibility as Perceived. Mighty Pen Pub., 1995.. LCCN 95077891.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Why+Rush+Limbaugh+is+Wrong%2C+or%2C+The+Demise+of+Traditionalism+and+The+Rise+of+Progressive+Sensibility+as+Perceived&rft.aulast=Rahman%2C+Michael&rft.au=Rahman%2C+Michael&rft.pub=Mighty+Pen+Pub.%2C+1995.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Rendall, Steven, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Naureckas" title="Jim Naureckas">Jim Naureckas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cohen_%28media_critic%29" title="Jeff Cohen (media critic)">Cohen, Jeff</a> (1995). The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error : Over 100 Outrageously False and Foolish Statements from America's Most Powerful Radio and TV Commentator. Written for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting" title="Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting">FAIR</a>. New York: The New Press. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56584-260-X" title="Special:BookSources/1-56584-260-X">1-56584-260-X</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Way+Things+Aren%E2%80%99t%3A+Rush+Limbaugh%27s+Reign+of+Error+%3A+Over+100+Outrageously+False+and+Foolish+Statements+from+America%27s+Most+Powerful+Radio+and+TV+Commentator&rft.aulast=Rendall%2C+Steven%2C+%5B%5BJim+Naureckas%5D%5D%2C+%5B%5BJeff+Cohen+%28media+critic%29%7CCohen%2C+Jeff%5D%5D&rft.au=Rendall%2C+Steven%2C+%5B%5BJim+Naureckas%5D%5D%2C+%5B%5BJeff+Cohen+%28media+critic%29%7CCohen%2C+Jeff%5D%5D&rft.date=1995&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=The+New+Press&rft.isbn=1-56584-260-X&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Seib, Philip M. (1993). Rush Hour: Talk Radio, Politics, and the Rise of Rush Limbaugh. Summit Group, 1993.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1565301005" title="Special:BookSources/1565301005">1565301005</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rush+Hour%3A+Talk+Radio%2C+Politics%2C+and+the+Rise+of+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.aulast=Seib%2C+Philip+M.&rft.au=Seib%2C+Philip+M.&rft.date=1993&rft.pub=Summit+Group%2C+1993.&rft.isbn=1565301005&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Tucker, R. K. (1997). The Rules According to Rush : the American people vs. Rush Limbaugh. Bowling Green, Ohio : OptimAmerica ; Chapel Hill, NC��: Professional Press, 1997.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1570873399" title="Special:BookSources/1570873399">1570873399</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rules+According+to+Rush+%3A+the+American+people+vs.+Rush+Limbaugh&rft.aulast=Tucker%2C+R.+K.&rft.au=Tucker%2C+R.+K.&rft.date=1997&rft.pub=Bowling+Green%2C+Ohio+%3A+OptimAmerica+%3B+Chapel+Hill%2C+NC+%3A+Professional+Press%2C+1997.&rft.isbn=1570873399&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

<li>Varon, Charles (1997). Rush Limbaugh In Night School. Dramatists Play Service, c1997.. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0822215349" title="Special:BookSources/0822215349">0822215349</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rush+Limbaugh+In+Night+School&rft.aulast=Varon%2C+Charles&rft.au=Varon%2C+Charles&rft.date=1997&rft.pub=Dramatists+Play+Service%2C+c1997.&rft.isbn=0822215349&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Rush_Limbaugh"> </li>

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<li><a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Rush Limbaugh Show official site</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510754/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush Limbaugh</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" title="Internet Movie Database">Internet Movie Database</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/428/000022362/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Rush Limbaugh at the NNDB</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp" class="external text" rel="nofollow">New York Times Magazine</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893836_1894425,00.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The 2009 TIME 100: Rush Limbaugh</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Glenn Beck</a></li>

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<table id="persondata" class="persondata" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); display: none; speak: none;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata" title="Wikipedia:Persondata">Persondata</a></th></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Name</td><td>Limbaugh, Rush</td></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Alternative names</td><td>Limbaugh, Rush Hudson, III</td></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Short description</td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_talk_show" title="Radio talk show" class="mw-redirect">radio talk show</a> host, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commentator" title="Political commentator" class="mw-redirect">Commentator</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author" title="Author">Author</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_personality" title="Television personality" class="mw-redirect">television personality</a></td></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Date of birth</td><td>January 12, 1951</td></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Place of birth</td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,_Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri">Cape Girardeau, Missouri</a>, USA</td></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Date of death</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td class="persondata-label" style=" color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Place of death</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table>

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vanity fair

<h2 class="sub-header">In an ailing radio industry, with a graying audience and a pro-government landscape, Rush Limbaugh should be shuffling off into irrelevancy. Instead, his ever more outrageous attacks have everyone debating whether he’s the G.O.P.’s de facto leader, while the party shapes its ideology to fit his needs.</h2>

<div class="contributor-type first last">by <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/michael-wolff">Michael Wolff</a></div>

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The most elemental fact about the Limbaugh career might be that, outside of seriously corrupt dictatorships, nobody has made as much money from politics as Rush Limbaugh. Since this Top 40 D.J. and local talker in Sacramento went national, in 1988, as a right-wing voice, he has made hundreds of millions of dollars in salary, bonuses, participation in advertising revenue, and the sale of his show to the Sam Zell��controlled Jacor radio production company (Zell, a real-estate entrepreneur, now controls the Chicago Tribune), which was then sold to Clear Channel. His new contract, signed last summer, is worth a reported $400 million over eight years. There are, too, his newsletter, his paid Internet site with its voluminous traffic, his blockbuster best-sellers, his speaking fees, his half-dozen cars, including a Maybach 57S, his Gulfstream G550, and his Palm Beach estate with five houses.

Rush’s business plan seriously impacts on the future of the Republican Party.

Indeed, the extraordinary thing Rush has done, something arguably never before accomplished in the history of the co-dependent relationship of media and politics, is manage to keep his media day job while assuming something rather close to direct political power. Every other entertainer who has discovered a political mission—from Ronald Reagan to Sonny Bono to Al Franken—has had to quit show business and run for office. Not Rush.

Rather, one hand ably washes the other.

For instance, the single most important issue in Rush’s radio career is now among the hot-button issues in conservative politics: the Fairness Doctrine, a formalized fair-and-balanced rule for covering controversial issues on the nation’s airwaves, which the Reagan F.C.C. killed in 1987. The most liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which puts substantial blame on talk radio for a generation of conservative dominance in Washington, wants to revive the doctrine, which would pretty handily destroy conservative talk. According to the official cpac polling of its members, restoring the Fairness Doctrine is the third-most-significant Democratic Congress policy initiative opposed by the right wing, ranking behind only expanding government and public health care.

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Indeed, for 20 years, three hours a day, nothing in radio has so moved the audience to action as Rush: the Republican base both buys the pre-owned cars he suggests ought to be bought and champions the causes he’s hot on. Nothing in politics, or the news cycle, is as direct and powerful as this. In seconds, he can move an awesome tide, unleashing e-mail, telephone calls, and scary Web-site rage. Minutes after R.N.C. chairman Steele tried to suggest to CNN that he, rather than Rush, was the bona fide leader of the party, Rush, reached for comment, merely said he’d respond on the air—which must have sent a chill down Steele’s spine.

When moderate Republicans talk about the Rush effect, there’s a plaintiveness with which I sympathize. Shortly after the war in Iraq began, when I was reporting from CentCom headquarters in Qatar, I asked an intemperate question of one of the military briefers in the daily televised news conference and, dissed by Rush for my lack of patriotism, got the full effect: more than 20,000 e-mails in 48 hours, shutting down my mail server.

And he isn’t just a man alone in a booth. Around himself he’s constituted his own political-action committee, or leadership group, of other talkers.

“It’s Rush who’s talking to Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. And they’re talking to others,�� explains a Republican pundit, discussing with me media relationships among conservatives. “It’s incredibly networked. The message, the position is spread.” Limbaugh, too, is in regular contact with Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, which ran the live broadcast of the Limbaugh cpac address.

Arguably no message apparatus like it exists in the nation, except, perhaps, at the White House (or in Oprah—whose position with American women is curiously analogous to Rush’s position with American conservatives). It is concentrated and extraordinary power.

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David Limbaugh (born December 11, 1952) is a conservative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commentator" title="Political commentator" class="mw-redirect">political commentator</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a>.

Limbaugh was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,_Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri">Cape Girardeau</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>. He has a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum_laude" title="Cum laude" class="mw-redirect">cum laude</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science">political science</a> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> (J.D.) from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Missouri" title="University of Missouri">University of Missouri</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Limbaugh#cite_note-0">[1]</a> He also served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Guard" title="United States National Guard" class="mw-redirect">National Guard</a> for six years. He is perhaps most notable for writing columns which are carried by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhall.com" title="Townhall.com">Townhall.com</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times" title="The Washington Times">The Washington Times</a>. He has also written four books:

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<li>Crimes Against Liberty and Tyranny: An Indictment of President Barack Obama (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>, August 2010; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781596986244" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 9781596986244</a>)</li>

<li>Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>, September 2006; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1596980176" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1596980176</a>)</li>

<li>Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christians (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>, October 2003, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0895261111" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0895261111</a>) and</li>

<li>Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>, March 2001, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0895262371" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0895262371</a>) which is about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a> under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno" title="Janet Reno">Janet Reno</a>.</li>

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He has been married to his wife, Lisa, since 1986. They have

five children. He is also the younger brother of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk radio</a> host <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh</a>.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Limbaugh&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>] References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Limbaugh#cite_ref-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doctype_code=Article&doc_id=436" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The College Backgrounds of America’s Leading Syndicated Columnists</a>, <a href="http://www.nas.org/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">National Association of Scholars</a>.</li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Limbaugh&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>] External links</h2>

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<li><a href="http://davidlimbaugh.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Official Website</a></li>

<li><a href="http://outloudopinion.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Podcasts of Limbaugh's recent articles</a></li>

<li>Publisher's official book description for <a href="http://www.regnery.com/books/bankrupt.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Bankrupt by David Limbaugh</a></li>

<li>Publisher's official book description for <a href="http://www.regnery.com/regnery/031001_pers.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Persecution by David Limbaugh</a></li>

<li>Publisher's official book description for <a href="http://www.regnery.com/regnery/010309_absolute.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Absolute Power by David Limbaugh</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-limbaugh.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">David Limbaugh Features</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creators_Syndicate" title="Creators Syndicate">Creators Syndicate</a></li>

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