To say Rush Limbaugh revolutionized media understates matters. He revolutionized media as he revitalized a medium suffering an agonizing death that started sometime between the premiere of I Love Lucy on CBS Television and the goodbye episode of Yours Truly, Johnny…
It’s with rare delight but alas great sadness that we repost one of the finest profiles we’ve ever run: Terry Eastland’s groundbreaking report on the emergence of Rush Limbaugh as the Rush Limbaugh who would become an indispensable mainstay of…
Rush Limbaugh. Gone. Seemingly as permanent a feature on our media landscape as the face of Abraham Lincoln was on Mount Rushmore. The dean of conservative radio talk show hosts. Magnetic North Pole for tens of millions of Americans each…
I was really hoping I could put this column off just a little bit longer. As millions of Americans did. But there was no denying the end was coming for Rush Limbaugh, the greatest radio personality in the history of…
El Rushbo has become an angel! He fought lung cancer for over a year. During that time he fought the usual battles against femi-Nazis, environmental wackos, the usual crowd. And he fought for Donald Trump to the very end. Now…
Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh’s Guest Host Todd Herman Mr. Herman: Don’t insult mockingbirds by associating them with today’s “journalists.” In the summer of 1961, as a 12 year old living in Escondido, CA, I watched a pair of mocking…
Lunch with Lesley Stahl Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes recently interviewed President Trump. The interview is scheduled to be aired October 25, 2020. I’m curious. What will I learn? I met Lesley Stahl a year or so ago. Before I…
What in the world has gotten into Fox’s John Roberts? Thursday he badgered White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, saying this: It was my wife, Kyra Phillips, of ABC, who asked him that question yesterday. And she said to him,…
What can you say about Rush Limbaugh that he already hasn’t said about himself? The Big Voice on the Right. America’s Anchorman. The Doctor of Democracy. A living legend. The harmless, lovable little fuzzball operating with talent on loan from…
