"Rush Limbaugh is a complicated man. There is some Sunday School
boy in him, over from the Centenary Methodist Church in Cape
Girardeau, Missouri and a touch of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club; some
of Bo Diddley's swaggering guitar, mixed with William F. Buckley's
drawing-room harpsichord. Rush is an introvert with forty guests
for dinner on Thanksgiving; a cynical romantic who doesn't
understand women but keeps on trying; a polite, soft-spoken
listener who, on the air, aims rude, sometimes vulgar personal
insults at his ideological enemies; a sophisticated political
satirist whose own taste in humor runs to corny mother- in-law
jokes. He is a conservative revolutionary, the inventor of the
talk-back radio industry, a school-hating college drop-out who
turned into a "weapon of mass instruction." There probably isn't
another man on planet earth whose role models and heroes include
Ronald Reagan, Muhammad Ali, James Madison, Larry "Superjock"
Lujack, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Professor Irwin Corey.
"People who dismiss Rush Limbaugh as an entertainer, a pitchman or
a hot-air balloon are very wrong. He is a brilliant and tenacious
advocate, a major political and cultural force who can't be wished
away or shouted down or sniffed into irrelevance. Smart liberals
will listen to his show, even if they hate what he has to say. The
easily outraged, will be. Those with a sense of humor will find
themselves laughing despite themselves. But nobody will fully
understand American politics and media culture until they get who
Rush Limbaugh really is, what he does, and how he does it."
--from Limbaugh
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