[Bush2000]

Like it or not, Limbaugh is a fringe-dweller in the media circus. Everyone considers him to be a rightwing ideologue. But handicaps have a way of rehabilitating and softening one's public image. I think Limbaugh truly wants to make conservatism mainstream but, in order to do that, he's got to move the center to the right. What better way to defuse his critics than to emphasize a handicap? This was played to great effect by the late Charles Ruff. Nobody dared criticize him in his wheelchair without being called a bigot.

[K7TNW]

Of course your comment makes no sense at all. Why would someone fake a serious illness, easily uncovered to do something so easily accomplished in other ways? By the way, I don't think any person with an IQ more than 30 could not see that Rush's speech is absolutely indicative of a person with hearing failure. Having worked a bit in this, I can tell you for sure this would be hard to "fix".

But, I submit to your radical suppositions with no indication of evidence!