is here; from our editorial today:

Rush is a rich and powerful man and quite able to take care of himself, but the dishonest attacks on him are the template for equally dishonest attacks on private citizens in less exalted positions, from Tea Party organizers to town-hall critics. If Rush can be ruthlessly libeled by the Democrats and the media, so can they.
Rush’s audience is full of fans who first tuned in expecting to be offended by the hateful, arrogant, screaming oaf of media caricature, only to discover that Rush, for all his puckishness, is in fact a serious man, funny and self-deprecating. He is also a man who spends 15 hours a week making the case for liberty and American exceptionalism — and the case against overweening liberalism — in one of America’s most important public forums. For that he will never be forgiven.

I never ever and will never assume to know what WFB would say in any situation. But I know, because we talked about him, that he was deeply fond of Rush Limbaugh. But you don’t have to have ever had a conversation with Mr. Buckley about Rush Limbaugh to know that Bill clearly considered him both a serious and funny man who had and has an impact for good in the world. WFB, I think, clearly emanates it during this 1992 episode of Firing Line, taped in WFB’s NYC infamous maisonette (the scene of a dinner one night in particular there that El Rushbo will never forget).

I say that only because I love watching that video and because we have been blessed with some wonderful men on the Right. Very different men, for sure, with very different roles. But I sure am grateful to and for them. And I think it’s important to say so now and again. If not for their sakes — they and their records stand for themselves, even when there is a caricatured fog in the air — ours.