At one point some years ago, Limbaugh described himself as 'an
entertainer, not a journalist'


Horvath wrote:
He still does.

Then why are so many people convinced that what he says is factual
rather than low comedy?


and said that he just made stuff up
because it was easier than doing research.


That's bull****. He's got a whole staff that does his research.

He still makes stuff up on the fly. I would guess that he has a research
staff to tell him when to backpedal and when to lie about what he's said.

For example
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/men...ipt.guest.html

I heard what he said about the Abu Graib prisoner abuse, and I bet you
did too (although for entirely different reasons). In the Time
interview, he's lying like a rug.


He also said that most of his
audience were "morons"... that was his word, not mine.


That's bull****, too.

No, sorry, it is as totally factual as his failed attempt at being a
sports announcer or his interval on welfare. It was in an another
interview in a very popular magazine about ten ~ eleven years ago.

DSK