The Leader of the Opposition

TO BEGIN WITH, he’s not Mr. Limbaugh. You’ve got to call the ornament of the EIB (Excellence in Broadcasting) network, the man so used to the adulation of his fans that he long ago asked them to skip the praise with which they prefaced every phone call and just say “Ditto,” the man who likes to claim he has “talent on loan from God,” just plain Rush. That’s what the ever-courtly Ronald Reagan, who has never met him, calls him. A month after George Bush’s defeat by Bill Clinton last year, Reagan sent him the following unsolicited note:

Dear Rush,

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TO BEGIN WITH, he’s not Mr. Limbaugh. You’ve got to call the ornament of the EIB (Excellence in Broadcasting) network, the man so used to the adulation of his fans that he long ago asked them to skip the praise with which they prefaced every phone call and just say “Ditto,” the man who likes to claim he has “talent on loan from God,” just plain Rush. That’s what the ever-courtly Ronald Reagan, who has never met him, calls him. A month after George Bush’s defeat by Bill Clinton last year, Reagan sent him the following unsolicited note:

Dear Rush,