{"id":324,"date":"2007-03-01T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2007-03-01T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T22:13:00","slug":"rush-limbaugh-normal-inhumanity-will-be-resumed-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/rush-limbaugh-normal-inhumanity-will-be-resumed-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh – normal inhumanity will be resumed later…"},"content":{"rendered":"

R<\/span>ush Limbaugh<\/span> once haunted a road trip I made across the States. By the time I got to New Orleans<\/span> I was ready to throttle him. If you don’t know who he is, he’s a right-wing talk-radio host. Here’s what the good people at Media Matters<\/a> say about him:<\/p>\n

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Rush Limbaugh<\/a>‘s nationally syndicated radio show has an estimated audience of nearly 15 million<\/a> weekly listeners. It is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks<\/a>, a subsidiary of radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications<\/a>. Limbaugh also authored two books in collaborations with conservative writers: The Way Things Ought to Be<\/i> (1992) with Wall Street Journal<\/i> columnist John Fund and See, I Told You So<\/i> (1993) with WorldNetDaily.com editor Joseph Farah.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh regularly feeds his audience a diet of falsehoods, misstatements, distortions, invective, and childish put-downs in service of the conservative movement. During his long reign over the airwaves, Limbaugh has called<\/a> abortion rights activists “feminazis”, told<\/a> an African-American caller to “take that bone out of your nose,” referred to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib as “blow[ing] some steam off, ” and declared<\/a> that “what’s good for Al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party.” He touts his close connections to Republicans, claiming<\/a> that he “[g]ot a big hug” from President George W. Bush during a 2004 White House visit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But hey, he’s also a human being. And strangely enough Limbaugh was on the BBC<\/span><\/a> the other day, talking for all the world like a human being, about the problem of going deaf. It was a conversation with Peter White<\/span><\/a> whose on-air style often bugs the hell out of me, but I listened the whole way through. You can do the same here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rush Limbaugh once haunted a road trip I made across the States. By the time I got to New Orleans I was ready to throttle him. If you don’t know who he is, he’s a right-wing talk-radio host. Here’s what the good people at Media Matters say about him: Rush Limbaugh‘s nationally syndicated radio show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}