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Ten Years and No Progress In Liberal Effort to Combat Rush Limbaugh

February 28, 2003
Have you seen the media reaction to this "virtual march on Washington," which urged people to shut down the government with e-mails, FAXes and phone calls? The media fawned all over this, reminding us of the EIB's early days when I was routinely - and 100% falsely - criticized for urging my listeners to stage such protests. Example: my August 1993 interview with Steve Roberts of U.S. News and World Reports.

As I recount in the audio below, Roberts thought I was one of these rabble-rousers. I debunked the idea by showing what would happen if I simply told listeners to call Congress, which I had never done. You people shut down the switchboard. If I did that all the time, imagine what would've happened. Yet the virtual protest is praised for doing what they wrongly accused us of doing! Roberts: "For three hours a day on the radio, and a half-hour on television, he owns the microphone and can say anything he wants without answering questions or encountering a critic." So? It's America!

"Few political figures worry the [Clinton] White House more - and with good reason. As one administration communications expert put it, 'We, the Democrats generally, the liberals generally, do not have anything that rivals Rush Limbaugh.'" Then this: "Rep. Bill Heffner, a North Carolina Democrat and former radio broadcaster says, 'This thing scares me. There are so many cable channels and talk shows now and they're nothing but negative attacks on institutions, especially government at all levels. Why, it's getting to the point where we're not able to govern anymore.'"

Not able to govern anymore? Come on! This was the level of paranoia - right about the time President Clinton rang up KMOX radio to rant about me. This has been going on for ten years, right up to all these recent stories in the New York Times about the quest for a liberal Limbaugh! In all that time, Fox and Drudge have sprung up, and they still don't get it! Salon magazine is going under, and they're blaming conservatives! They're all blaming me, instead of looking at the flaws in their own ideology.

Limbaugh ROCKS...MUD