European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews i m f a a r by Patrick Goldstein los Angeles tires the Way things ought to be in Rush  pocket books. For someone who spends so much time exposing the hidden agendas of dangerous left Wing kooks you a think Rush Limbaugh would do a better Job of hiding his own cherished causes. _ but As you wander wide eyed through the Way things ought to be. Try ing to keep up with each new broadside against bleeding heart do goobers its easy to discern what s really on rushes mind. The real Mission of people for the ethical treatment of animals according to Rush a destroying capitalism not saving  the key to cleaning up the environment a unfettered free Enterprise our system of  the hidden Agenda behind the efforts of homeless advocates Quot to Point a Finger of blame at the achievers of America and the free Enterprise  detect a pattern you can bet you wont hear Rush complain about our sagging Economy. Finally a Star at 41, thanks to his popular syndicated radio program now supplemented by a nightly to show Limbaugh has emerged As a fiery defender of the Reagan Cra Trinity capitalism self Reliance and personal initiative. The Reagan years were certainly Good to Rush. By decades end he had emerged As a True Media age Success Story. When else could a failed Rock do Jay have been reinvented As a major league political player courted by George Bush cast on nigh the As an environmental expert and subject of the requisite 8,000-word vanity fair profile the round Mound of the Republican right Rush is the conservative equivalent of John Belushi in animal House slicing through Liberal pities the Way Belushi slowed through a cafeteria line. Contemptuous of feminists sneering at the Media and spoofing multicultural bozos he a a Corn fed  of Rourke sharing the Ivy league bred humorist s contempt for compassion and do gooder ism. Full of scorn for sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., Rush regularly plays a Takeoff on Dion s the wanderer re titled the philanderer. Well my views Are on the left got a Bimbo on the right Only god will know where i la be passing out tonight. A r though born into a comfortable Republican family Rush loathes a Rich guilty liberals Quot who be never had to Grovel for a paycheck. In fact after working in radio for nearly 20 years before striking it Rich in 1983 he was making Only $18,000 a Yea Rush has become a one Man free Enterprise zone. Rushes translation of free Enterprise to the Winner go the spoils. Whether you re talking about the homeless or spotted owls its survival of the fittest. A if a spotted owl can to adapt does the Earth really need that particular species a Rush wonders. Do you hear anyone making the Case that the Earth would be better off if dinosaurs Weie still roaming the planet a. For All his digs at the Quot Gullible infantile left rushes real anger is reserved for slackers people of privilege who slide by without real jobs like leaders of the american civil liberties Union. Even when he unleashes a whopper comparing the leadership of the civil rights movement to the soviet communist party his beef Isnit just a huh their politics but also with their Lack of respect for the work ethic. Even when he takes on Hollywood what bugs him Isnit just Movi Clandy a ridicule of family values and heterosexuality. He secs Hollywood a gasp. Anti capitalist. Quot they disparage american heroes he complains saving businessmen his Nasonte heroes Are a  portrayed on to As greedy Crooks or egomaniac but enough w Ith the issues. You Don t become f in guv of talk radio by touting the work ethic. What has helped Rush achieve Cullie hero status and what has attracted a heavily male audience involves something More elusive something Root in his outrageous jibes about Pushy women Home v Bis 1  less fakers and Hollywood poseurs. Armed with a Stone age sense of humor Rush is the ultimate guilty pleasure for Guys weary of being bound by the cultural straitjacket of political com it Ness. After Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas Rush suggested a movie of the Senate heating. Possible titles driving miss slea Ami i wish i had three men and a baby. Instead of hanging up on listeners. Rush pc towns caller a abortions Quot using a sound a Fleck that mixes a vacuum cleaner Roar with a seven second Mccot dim of a scream. Feminists Are immortalized in Fomina i trading cards Complete with such vital statistics As Waist hips and number of abortions. For anyone who came of age on a College Campus in the 1970s, these jabs have a familiar ring. They recall the Nasty fury of the National Lampoon. The key to rushes provocative presence is somehow embedded in his Lear of rejection. As a kid he did no to Date or have a Girlfriend. Even today his relations with the opposite sex remain in a cold warlike state of suspicion and distrust. Twice Divot cd Rush informed vanity fair that he still Isnit dating. A relationships arc fantasies to me now Quot he said Quot when i hear that women Are interested in me 1 done to believe  Quot twice bitten now shy Rush argues that the ical message of Murphy Brown s famous Nothe Ihnow episode was that Quot women done to need men should t desire them and that total fulfilment can be achieved without men or  wherever you look in ought to be Vou find sexual tension with Rush in one Corner Barc knit kind feminists and wacko actress activists in the Othni paperbacks Adam Clayton Powell or the political biography of an american dilemma in Charles v. 1 la Milton Collier. As a  Ami As a politician Powell often appeared to be at Odds with the causes he espoused. A Madam t lat it it a in a cd or. Was a Rascal tinged with in Bilitz a Vul him it it or. I a s racial vision which this in it i Aplin u u Ici w in Eood measure a Taylor Bianch wrote in i he new York l Imes last year. Extraordinary people by Paul  ill up n perennial. 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