Limbaugh says he told journalist writing story on him: "[W]e're going to find out where your kids go

[EV_Ares]

to school.

During the October 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed to have "once" participated in the kind of "destructive reporting and behavior" that, according to him, reporters "dish out." Limbaugh said his target was a reporter, whose name he said he would not "mention," who was writing "a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it." Limbaugh continued: "e found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, 'You know what? We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house. We're going to do -- and we're going to do exact -- and we're going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate.' "

Limbaugh then claimed: "And the guy started screaming on the phone, just went -- 'You can't do that.' We said, 'Watch us.' And it changed the tone of the story by about 60 percent, I would say, from what it was going to be. But nobody does that to these people. Nobody does it to them. And that would be so much fun."

Limbaugh made this claim while discussing the founding of ProPublica, which "will produce investigative journalism in the public interest," according to its website:

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[ThomCat]

1. Isn't that the neocon way?

Threaten and intimidate and throw your weight around to get exactly what you want. x(

[Botany]

2. Worried much Rush?

Your trip to the Dominican Republic w/ jar of Viagra to have sex w/ under age
kids might need a little look see.

[Chomskyite]

3. Did he let slip enough information that we could find out more about this incident?

There can't have been that many cover stories recently about Rush and "what I do and how I do it." Surely we can narrow it down and ask that journalist to comment.

[EV_Ares]

4. Do you think Media Matters would know more?

[martymar64]

5. Rush

What was rumored that happened to Randi might just really happen to you.
Sleep on that.

[conscious evolution]

6. That sounded like a terroristic threat. nt

[GreenTea]

7. Limbaugh is such a fat bald lying sissie....I'd love to bitch-slap the punk for about an hour.

Who gives a fuck who anyone knocked up in high school or what fucking drug someone takes Oxy-man....and masturbation is great...try it sometime pigman...maybe you won't be so sickeningly uptight and constipated!

But when you bring kids into it fat boy....that's when I'll kick your fat ass with my steel-toed boots up & down your gated neighborhood!

[Supersedeas]

8. and then he makes $50K on a letter voicing concern over his phony soldiers attack

[LiberalFighter]

9. That is both blackmail and terrorism