"It's not really strange Marge it's typical of the hypocritical "moral highgrounders" creed of "do as I say-not as I do". Wiliam Bennets' gambling problems, Newt Gingrichs' own sexual transgressions as he himself is pursuing Bill Clinton with impeachment for lesser deeds. Then there's Joe Scarborough who has his secretary ending up dead in his office and the good' ol boy network of Florida law finds no need to do an autopsy or investigate it. All this going while he's a member of the House of Representatives and ON MSNBC as a spokesman for the GOP-unfrickinbelievable . . .
Rush is a junkie and I know it, [a former employee] knows it . . . [another former employee] knows it and Rush knows it. I'd like to find out that dealer and have him expose this truth"
The self-pitying right wing . . .
Again, Chafets' biography of Limbaugh does justice to both his getting out of Vietnam and getting into prescription drugs. But that suggestion that for unspecified reasons someone in Limbaugh's position is entitled to avoid the consequences that other people would endure for the same behaviors is ever present.
There may be more to this than meets the eye. Chefets claims to have attained unusual closeness with his subject. From the acknowledgments,
"HR "Kit" Carson, Rush's executive producer, decided, for some reason, to help me and provided a portal into Limbaugh-land . . . arranged my first trip to Palm Beach, got me a front-row seat at CPAC, let me hang around Limbaugh's New York studio . . . Other members of the staff were also very helpful. . . David Limbaugh [Rush's brother] was extremely generous during my stay in Cape Girardeau. He took time to show me the town . . . In the course of my research I talked with literally hundreds of people who have known Rush . . ." (211-212)
Chafets' claim is backed up by the publisher, Sentinel, a conservative imprint of Penguin; the publisher's enclosure clarifies that "While this is not an authorized biography, Limbaugh gave Chafets lengthy interviews and unprecedented access to his inner circle--everyone from his brother to his fianc???? to his psychologist."
Chapter 8 ("The Southern Command") makes clear that the book project developed in primary season 2008 when then-presidential candidate Sen. John McCain canceled out of an intended meeting with the author, who then went on to interview Limbaugh. Chafets wrote a 5,000-word profile of Limbaugh for New York Times Magazine (so much for editors unwilling to take this kind of work on Limbaugh) that led to the book.
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