Posted on 07/06/2008 3:27:51 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
At one time, Limbaugh did his program from a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper he dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek grandiosity, the Excellence in Broadcasting Building. These days, he mostly broadcasts out of a studio in Palm Beach, Fla., which he calls the Southern Command, and describes on the air as a “heavily fortified bunker.”
In fact, Limbaugh’s show emanates from a nondescript office building on a boulevard lined with tall palms. There isn’t even a security guard in the lobby. The elevator opens directly onto a pristine anteroom furnished in corporate glass and leather. An American flag stands in the corner. Only a small, framed picture of Limbaugh, bearing the caption “America’s Anchorman,” reveals that this is the headquarters of one of the country’s most admired and reviled figures.
The anteroom was empty when I stepped off the elevator one afternoon in mid-February. Limbaugh receives very few visitors at work, and no journalists from the hated “mainstream media.” When I was buzzed into the control room, I was met by Bo Snerdly — a very large man in a Huey Newton beret — who glared at me. “Are you the guy who’s here to do the hit job on us?” he demanded in a deep voice.
“Absolutely,” I said.
Snerdly, whose real name is James Golden, held my eyes for a long moment before bursting into emphatic laughter.
“It’s just that we aren’t used to seeing reporters here,” said a woman named Dawn. She is a stenographer whom Limbaugh hired in 2001, after he went deaf. These days he has a cochlear implant that enables him to hear callers, but Dawn sends him real-time transcripts of on-air conversations, just in case.
“The media doesn’t know about this place,” she said. “They don’t know where we are.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
After signing his new contract I’ll bet the title of Rush’s next book will be “I’m Winning” because we conservatives certainly are not.
I thought the picture was very sinister. As if they wanted to project Rush as a villain.
What was this 'un projecting
Considering other CEO's that dont contribute a 10th of what Rush does for that same 40 mil per year, Rush is a bargain!
Sunspots???
Oh no, isn’t that what causes global warming?
Rush, have your gardeners plant a bunch of gardenia bushes. Then, have your staff float the FRESH blossoms in beautiful bowls of water in the various rooms. They will smell better than any candles.
Rush, thank you for absolutely nailing Bill O’Reilly. Indeed, he is Ted Baxter. Touche!
I don't know why but this just sounded so hilarious that I couldn't stop laughing.
As we see by the photos, Rush is hardly lonely. Plus, when cats miss their litter box, they do like to hit Oriental rugs. In fact, when puking up a fur ball, cats have been known to cross 20 sq feet of mahogany to deliberately upchuck upon an antique silk rug.
Because a liberal, having earned as much money as Rush, would NEVER be so selfish as to live well [see Pitt, Brad and Jolie, Angelina].
Y’all sound like you think a lobby rent-a-cop would do any good.
I don't think this is true about the grandiosity. My little boy was given a gift of a kid's book about New York, published in the early 90s. The illustrator, in one painted scene, depicted a skyline which included a building, under construction, with the letters of Rush's logo on it, EIB. Rush probably owns or part-owns said building.
"I'm not in the lobby. That's where they'd be expecting me."
What you’re talking about would be multi-generational. It would take long term planning and direction from a central core like the communists who run the democrats and left wing media.
We don’t have that kind of central authority and truthfully it’s contrary to what most conservatives hold dear. We’re not likely to gladly embrace any sort of authority over us except G_d and a dedication to the concept of individual Liberty.
It’s our greatest strength, but it also serves as a weakness when the evil of the world exploits our individualism to separate us and destroy our progeny.
The left wingers have no such problem with dedicating their children and grandchildren to the cause. It’s their singular strength, a willingness to sacrifice generations to put forward an agenda of control.
Unfortunately, I have no answers.
That jumped out at me. TRULY a asty bunch at the NYT. The article is a good one, but they throw that in.
I think we (with Rush's help) could start a new news network that would hold as its central theme: Truth. However, simply encouraging conservatives to get involved with out current media could start to have an impact soon.
The education system...will be much harder to convert. Multi-generational for sure, but we need to get started if we are to have any hope of a future.
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