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Article: Day of the Dittohead; Rush Limbaugh Entertains, But His Mean, Conspiratorial Message Has a Serious Future
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 20, 1994
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QUIETLY, ON the back bench of American political life, the
conservatives have held a coronation. Not long ago, William
Buckley's National Review, which had done so much to legitimize the
Right and then herald its supremacy in the 1980s, put Rush Hudson
Limbaugh III, the radio talk-show host and belletrist, on the cover,
declaring him "The Leader of the Opposition." The article suggested
that Limbaugh, like Ronald Reagan before him, could easily make the
leap from show business to national politics.
Dan Quayle, Phil Gramm, Jack Kemp and other Republican
luminaries all joined in the tribute, with William Bennett declaring
Limbaugh "the most consequential person in political life at the ...