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Monday, November 17, 2003

Rush's return aims at ears of friends, foes

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It is a piquant cultural moment: Rush Limbaugh, the nation's most popular radio host, returns to the airwaves today after spending 33 days in a rehab center after a public disclosure that he was addicted to prescription painkillers.

The listening audience will include friends and foes. There are the 20 million regular listeners who savor his return and the critics who chronicled his travails in recent weeks with glee and sarcasm.

"Everyone is going to be listening to this -- those who love him, those who hate him, too," said Fox News anchorman Tony Snow, who has guest-hosted Mr. Limbaugh's three-hour, daily show on dozens of occasions.

"This is a guy who can rise to each drama in his life while he's on the air -- when he lost his hearing, when he got it back, his addiction," Mr. Snow continued. "I have a feeling that today's broadcast will have soul-searching moments which Rush will examine with brutal honesty."

That is Mr. Limbaugh's style.

"I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life," he told his listeners in a live broadcast on Oct. 10. "I am addicted to prescription pain medicine."

His announcement was followed by calls for prayer and compassion from his fans. Therapists and op-ed writers cautioned against "judging" Mr. Limbaugh, and Jesse Jackson suggested the radio host lead a charge to reform U.S. drug laws.

Liberal pundits dredged up Mr. Limbaugh's often years-old rants against illicit drug use in their own analyses for irony's sake. Much was mean-spirited.

A Nov. 3 Newsweek cover story on Mr. Limbaugh "reads like a bar-stool rant against an ex-spouse ... long on name-calling, cheap shots and gotchas," stated one of a hundred letters to the weekly magazine that deemed its coverage unfair.

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