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I really hate Rush "Limp"baugh. He was a second rate radio disc jockey that started poking fun at serious issues he labeled "political correctness' such as Feminism, affirmative action, multi-culturalism. gay equality and the government sponsored economic safety net for the poor. By espousing this political and social bigotry on the public airwaves initially with a sense of humor, he tapped into a hardcore right wing audience that finally found a spokesperson for their un-democratic and un-american political values. This reactionary mostly politically ignorant, fan base believed because Rush could say it on the radio it was true. Thus, in their feeble minds if they heard Rush say it, then it was ok to be a rascist or anti-feminist, or gay basher. You can bet those guys that beat Matthew Shepard to death in Wyoming were long time listeners of "El Rushbo". ..........Because he had this loyal fan base, national advertisers started supporting his show and am radio stations desperately looking for new programming added him. As his stations started growing he saw dollar signs comming from all directions including Republican supporters and advertisers. He quickly became a propagandist for Republican candidates using his air time to give them free endorsements. This synergy of hyping Republican candidates with un accountable conservative propaganda and a growing listening audience with no alternative political ideas available on the radio, not only made Rush rich, but a real political power broker. There is a great deal of evidence that the 94 midterm elections that gave Republicans the majority in Congress were swung to the Republicans by Rush's 20 million loyal listeners, who vote as he tells them. Limbaugh's success, from second rate music DJ to very rich political propagandist for the Republicans spurred a large group of imitators such as Sean Hannity another second rate disc jockey until he took up the Republican propaganda pitch. Michael Savage a one time leftist psuedo intellectual who couldn't earn a living until he started pimping for the Republicans,and Bill O'Reilly a chicken shit, verbal bully, with no career until he discovered hard core Republicanism....... About the time Clinton got into trouble with Monica these propagandists and a new group of cable talking heads came out from under their rocks including Ann Coulter, a truly despicable human being, turned the politcal debate in this country very ugly. They went from just pushing Republican propaganda as part of the right wing multi-media "noise machine" to actually labeling the Democrats and liberals in general as the enemy in the literal sense of the word. Not because they cared about America and what it stood for, but because demonizing the opposition was making them rich. Their greed and the corrupt power hungry Republican politicians who basked in their support, and the brainwashed red state voters, turned our once consensus form of democracy into an unaccountable, one party abusive government...........Thus, when "Limp"baugh got busted yesterday for having prescription Viagra made out to his doctor's name I loved it. Mr. "Law and order" getting busted again for breaking the law with drugs he acquired illegally. He was comming back from what must have been a wild weekend on his private jet from the Dominican Republic when he got nabbed by custom inspectors. Besides the hypocrisy of his serial law breaking over pills and prescription shopping, just what was "Limp"baugh doing with a bunch of Viagra in the Dominican Republic for a long weekend? I doubt he was on a date. Oh the stories the high priced hookers could sell to the Enquirer, and I hope they do. This paragon and promoter of the Christian right and Republican values hooking it up for 4 days in the Dominican Republic. Does it get any better? My Republican friends said to me it's not very liberal to kick a guy when he's "down"......but he wasn't "down" all the time I replied with a chuckle. He just has a serious case of peni......oops, I mean Clinton envy.