Newsweek’s cover shows a frowning Rush Limbaugh with his mouth covered with a sign: “ENOUGH!” under which is the following: “A CONSERVATIVE’S CASE AGAINST LIMBAUGH.”
And what does this alleged conservative, David Frum, write for the strongly liberal Newsweek?
“Rush is to the Republicanism of the 2000s what Jesse Jackson was to the Democratic Party in the 1980s.”
This utterly astounding comparison of Rush to Jesse is followed by Frum’s denunciation of Limbaugh as “aggressive, bombastic, cutting, sarcastic” who has “private plane, cigars, a history of drug dependency” and “his personal bulk, tangled marital history. …” “No Republican official will say that. Limbaugh demands absolute deference from the conservative world and he generally gets it.”
For the circulation-suffering Newsweek to publish this smear is understandable. It was part of Old Big Media’s Kill-Rush desperation campaign as the Limbaugh listenership soared.
I have needled Rush, my WCBM Baltimore colleague, when he returned to our station. All of us remember when, at 11 a.m., an hour before he began, how he was on with all of his on-air colleagues. Here he took my needlings with the essence of good sportsmanship and a superb sense of humor.
As for critic Frum, another WCBM colleague, Mark Levin, has noted: “The Canadian David Frum … Among people who have somehow donned the conservative mantle … He keeps shooting us in the back. Hey, Frum: You’re a putz!”
Do you remember back in 1994 – one year before President Clinton began having Monica Lewinski service him under the presidential desk – in some cases while he was at the same time telephoning members of Congress? Slick Willie declared of Rush Limbaugh – and this is a quote: “Limbaugh has three hours to say whatever he wants with no truth detector.”
And speaking of truth, will you ever forget that nationally broadcast and televised Clinton claim: “I did not have sex with that woman!”
When this perjurious president told this same lie under oath, he was found guilty – but only fined rather than imprisoned, although he was disbarred by the Arkansas Bar Association.
Now, the Democratic National Committee has created a website to solicit slogans for an anti-Limbaugh billboard to be erected in Rush’s hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla.
If they do that, let us hope that a competing billboard will show the Bill Clinton Oval Office with a smiling president of the United States talking on the phone and the caption:
“WHO’S THAT UNDER YOUR DESK, MR. PRESIDENT?”
