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www.youtube.com — Rush Limbaugh was interviewed as part of Barbara Walters' Ten Most Fascinating People special for 2008 on ABC. Walters said "20 million people a week l...

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Limbaugh: “I love Sarah Palin”
Hot Air » Top Picks — Limbaugh: “I love Sarah Palin” posted at 5:06 pm on December 6, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly From Baba Wawa’s “10 Most Fascinating People of 2008″ special. I assume it’s his new contract and the lure of big ratings from righties that led ABC to put him on the list. Otherwise, the logic of saluting the power of conservative talk radio in a year when McCain won the nomination and Obama the election escapes me. The clip raises a point I neglected in yesterday’s post about Huckabee vs. Palin : How does Huck expect to compete with her among the base when Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, et al. are head ...

Walters Talks With 'Lovable Little Fuzzball' Rush Limbaugh
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — After reading my colleague Colleen Raezler's piece about Barbara Walters' interview with "harmless, lovable, little fuzzball" Rush Limbaugh, watch the video: Interesting.

Rush Limbaugh Loves Sarah Palin
Stop The ACLU — And so do we! Doesn’t everyone? Anyway, we love Rush too! Here he is in Barbara Walters’s 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008 which I actually watched part of. Hat tip: Hot Air

Barbara Walters interviews Rush Limbaugh.
Althouse — Hot Air has the video -- and highlights the line "I love Sarah Palin" (adding "How does Huck expect to compete with her among the base when Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, et al. are head over heels for her?"): Here's what Rush himself said about the interview on his Friday radio show. First, there's this observation about the difference between TV and radio: [O]ne of the reasons, ladies and gentlemen, I am not enthusiastic about television is that it drives me nuts getting feedback every time I'm on television. When I had my own show, I would go home, I'd check the e-mail, whatever, and ...

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