[cousair]

I don’t know anything about the Aussie, Zemanek, but I do know Limbaugh, and his radio career which started long before 1993. In 1988 he was on the air and I determined I would listen until or if I heard him putting out garbage and/or unthuths about the political world in which we live. Rush has built a huge audience and would have done so with or without Bill Clinton.

[thulldud]

Ironically, the person to whom Rush most owes his success is Bill Clinton. Although the former Democratic president is widely remembered as a centrist, he governed as a liberal during his first two years in the White House. His arrival in Washington, DC, in 1993 coincided with Rush's skyrocketing ratings.

Correlation, not causation. Slick Willie certainly provided Rush with a lot of usable material, but DC has always been a fertile soil for that sort of thing. The real change was in the marketplace, which had been stifled for decades by the dead hand of government coercion (can we say "Fairness Doctrine"). That credit goes to Ronaldus Magnus, right up there alongside the end of the Soviet empire.

[all_mighty_dollar]

>>>.....Limbaugh, and his radio career which started long before 1993....<<<

Agree, Rush was so well established by the time President Clinton was elected that the Dims(Dems) were actually hoping they would be able to curb his ratings with White House ‘help’ by 1993.