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RUSH IN REHAB.(The Talk of the Town)(Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 27-OCT-03

Author: Hertzberg, Hendrik
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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

"We do not need General Clark or any of the rest of you liberals. We don't need to change the definition of patriotism in order to conform to the antiwar, hate-America-first radicalism of the Democrat leadership. And that's what this is all about."

In case you don't happen to be a regular listener to "The Rush Limbaugh Show," the above is a fair sample of the sort of thing the star of the show has been saying lately, or at any rate was saying until a week ago, when he checked in to a drug rehabilitation center. It's not very different from what he's been saying throughout the twenty years he's been talking about politics on the radio. We know the sample is fair, because it was the featured quote last Thursday on the home page of Limbaugh's own Web site, emblazoned in big blue letters right next to the smiling photograph of the patient himself. Limbaugh's target this time was Wesley Clark, because Clark is a leading candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination. As a four-star general, Clark led nato's first and...

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