Rush Limbaugh: New York Times or Bust

Posted on November 30, 2004

The imminent departure of conservative New York Times columnist William Safire has the intelligentsia in a lather about who will land the plum assignment of countering everything that Maureen Dowd has to say. Radio talk show host and bestselling author Rush Limbaugh threw his hat into the ring yesterday, announcing on his show that he wants the job.

Rush said in an article on his website, "We've got some public support that's building out there. As you know I openly applied for this gig yesterday on this program, and already a groundswell is taking place out there, and it's so big, and it's so huge that not even CNN could ignore this. I was not the only nation mentioned. There are other people's names mentioned, Ann Coulter, Jon Stewart who -- I now know who he is, by the way -- and Michael Moore, some of the names that were mentioned by e-mailers to CNN. But of course, the name that made the report was mine on two separate occasions."

So far, we haven't heard a peep out of the Times on the subject. Rush Limbaugh working at the New York Times? It's enough to make a Dittohead dance and a Liberal cry. But what we really want to know is: what happens to Safire's secret, unlisted private telephone line that's on the speed dial of more than one world leader's phone?