Armed Forces Radio gets a 'Rush' from LimbaughWASHINGTON -- Conservative talkmeister Rush Limbaugh may be bringing his view of the world to a new audience -- the U.S. military -- with an agreement to broadcast his show beginning in January, officials said Tuesday.
'We have been negotiating with Mr. Limbaugh's producers and have reached tentative agreement to air a portion of his three-hour radio talk show starting in January,' said Army Col. Joe Cook, chief of staff for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Although the negotiations are not completed, Cook described the talks as 'quite amicable' and that a final agreement could be reached soon.
Local station managers will determine the airtime and frequency of Limbaugh's broadcasts, said Cook.
Limbaugh's availability on the overseas service network has been the subject of a contretemps that has simmered for weeks. Among the entertainer's favorite targets are liberals, Democratic congressmen and President Clinton, the commander in chief.
Limbaugh fans abroad have written Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper, protesting that they cannot listen to Limbaugh. And Rep. Robert Dornan, R.-Calif., got about 70 congressmen to sign a letter to Defense Secretary Les Aspin last month, also protesting the lack of Limbaugh from the GI airways...
Meanwhile, [Bill Clinton's SecDef Les] Aspin telephoned Limbaugh last week to reassure the broadcaster personally that the Pentagon had nothing against him.
In his Tuesday broadcast, Limbaugh thanked Aspin for expediting the agreement with AFRTS, which he said took 32 seconds to reach.
'What better day than Pearl Harbor day to conclude negotiations?' Limbaugh asked.
From The New York Times, December 12, 1994:
Republicans Get a Pep Talk From Rush Limbaugh
To all the advice for the new Republicans coming to Congress, add this from Rush Limbaugh: A hostile press corps lurks inside the Beltway.
"You will never ever be their friends," the talk-show host warned most of the 73 Republican freshmen at a dinner here tonight. "They don't want to be your friends. Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch. And you'll think, 'Wow! I'm only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I've really made it!' " The audience laughed.
"Seriously," he added. "Don't fall for this. This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked."
The freshman class, which included not a single "femi-Nazi," one of Mr. Limbaugh's favorite epithets for supporters of women's rights, whooped and applauded, proving itself one big fan club of the man it believes was primarily responsible for the Republican avalanche in November...
In closing, he asked his audience to "leave some liberals alive" as artifacts so that "we can show our children what they were."...
And, finally, the circle was complete. From CNN, February 4, 2020:
President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday in an unprecedented move during the State of the Union address.
This is what "obeying in advance" gets you.
1 comment:
Typical republican who hates socialism and big government . Accepting a government handout . That he believes makes him officially an honorable man. That the orange man behind the GOP curtain dubbed him a knight. So he can feel proud he served his country defending it from the Femin-NAZIS.
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