THUNDEROUS ACCLAIM FOR RUSH LIMBAUGH'S
THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE

"OUTRAGEOUS AND IMPUDENT... RUSH LIMBAUGH IS THE LOUDEST NOISE IN THE CRUCIAL CONSERVATIVE AMERICA IS NOW HAVING WITH ITSELF...."
- Time

"FUNNY AND DEVASTATINGLY ON TARGET...."
- Milwaukee Sentinel

"AN INSTANT BESTSELLER...."
- Newsweek

"FASCINATING... LIMBAUGH, WHATEVER YOUR OPINION OF HIS POLITICS, IS A CONSUMATE ENTERTAINER."
- Fortune

"A JOLT OF CHAMPAGNE...."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

"RIGHT STUFF....  Rarely has there been a radio/TV commentator who consistently makes sense on so many subjects: taxes, environmentalism, animal rights, crime, education, the inner cities, extreme feminism, condoms in the schools, government regulation and Congress.  LIMBAUGH'S HARD-HITTING HUMOR WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING OUT LOUD; YOUR VOICE WILL CRACK FROM SAYING AGAIN AND AGAIN, 'RIGHT ON!'"
- Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr., Forbes

"IMPORTANT READING FOR CITIZENS, JOURNALISTS, AND POLITICIANS STRUGGLING TO GRASP THE CULTURAL CIVIL WAR THAT SEEMS TO BE RAGING...."
- Washington Post Book World

"On the air!  On the tube!  One the page!  It's Rush Limbaugh, multimedia unicultural superstar!...  The Way Things Ought to Be is a work for its time.  Despite Bill Clinton's victory, right-wing populism, an American perennial, is in bloom, and at the moment Mr. limbaugh is its gaudiest flower."
- The New York Time Book Review

Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller lists with the record-breaking The Way Things Ought to Be, a New York Times bestseller for a year and, remarkably, #1 for 25 weeks and counting!  The fastest-selling book in the country, The Way Things Ought to Be has sold, as one of Rush's devoted callers informed him, "better than ice water in hell."  Rush's syndicated radio show reaches more than 20 million listeners per week and his syndicated TV show blankets 99 percent of America.  Now, this consummate entertainer and provocative politcal commentator, whom conservatives love and liberals love to hate - this "harmless little fuzzball" who delights in being called "The Most Dangerous Man in America" - is about to make publishing history again with SEE, I TOLD YOU SO.

The Democrats may be in the White House - but even President Clinton can't ruin this country in only four years, proclaims Rush.

Conservativism's most outspoken champion, Rush leads the charge to embrace and defend the fundamental values that have shaped the American character: belief in God, devotion to family, law and order, self-reliance, rugged individualism, commitment to excellence, rewarding achievment, and... the notion that the woman is always right.  Not coincidentally, notes Rush, these values that cause liberals to have conniptions are the same concepts that contitute modern conservatism, which is contantly being distorted by the dominant media.  But what underlies the liberal agenda of political correctness, multiculturalism, environmentalism, the assault on family values, radical feminism, and even Bill Clinton's tax bill?  Desperation! says Rush - a mentality of chaos, frenzy, hysteria, despair, and total panic.  Ever the optimist, Rush sees the "pernicious liberal movement" as a philosophy whose inevitable demise will lead us back to the values that make America great.

As no less a liberal than Ted Koppel, quoted in Vanity Fait, said, "What [Limbaugh] clearly has become over the last two or three years is something of an icon to millions of conservative listeners around the country.  I think it would be too easy to dismiss his a being irrelevant to the shaping of opinion in this country today.  He's very smart, he does his homework.  He is well informed.  And you ignore him at your peril."

RUSH LIMBAUGH was born in Cape Girardeau Missouri, a "quintessential Midwestern small town," where he fell in love with radio in elementary school.  He became a Top-40 deejay in the 1960s and held various other jobs before finding his true calling as a radio talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento.  In 1988 his radio show went national, and it can now be heard in over 616 markets across the country.  Limbaugh makes his home in New York City and divides his time between his daily radio show, speaking engagements, and an upcoming nationally syndicated television show.

"Rush has captured the sense of average Americans - that much of what we see going on around us is just plain crazy....  Real Americans who believe in traditional values will love this book.  It will drive his critics over the brink."
- Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC (Ret.)

RUSH LIMBAUGH,
AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR RADIO STAR, SOUNDS OFF ON:

"RUSH LIMBAUGH... Many feel that I need to be balanced with equal time.  Wrong, I am equal time."

"MORALITY cannot be defined by individual choice."

"MULRICULTURALISM is the tool of revenge for those who have failed to make it in the American establishment."

"THE AMERICAN ECONOMY cannot be revived without someone getting rich: why not me?"

"Whenever I hear Rush Limbaugh I marvel on two counts, the first that is war on Political Correctness is tolerated, the second, that it is enjoyed even the liberals (the Germans called that Schadenfreude, the wretchedly paradoxical joy that some people take from pain).  It's like a jolt of champagne for most of us, reorienting the day, reassuring us that social disorders haven't disturbed the essential movements of the planet."
- William F. Buckley, Jr., Editor at Large, National Review

This is Rush Limbaugh at his best - full of verve, humor and insight.  Everyone knows Rush Limbaugh is a national phenomenon.  But he is more than that; he is a national resource.  In this book Rush Limbaugh tells us not only the way things ought to be, but why they ought to be."
- William J. Bennett, Former Secretary of Education and Drug Czar

THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE

RUSH LIMBAUGH

He's a man... a legend... a way of life for over twelve million avid and devoted weekly listeners: Rush Limbaugh, whose flamboyant, infectious, infuriating daily talkathon, "The Rush Limbaugh Show," has made him the most popular radio talk show host in America.

For three hours every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with "talent on loan from Gad" entertains, provokes and persuades friends and enemies alike in a no-holds-barred show that is one of the biggest draws in radio history.  Limbaugh's unique blend of conservatism and irreverent humor has aroused the indignation of some listeners and made him a hero to millions more.  THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE presents Limbaugh at his satirical best, firing gleeful rants and ingenious taunts at everything from political correctness to the Social Utopians of Multiculturalism - with devastating aim.

Using personal anecdotes, Limbaugh reveals the major influences on his life and views, and blasts off on all the leading issues of our day.  Nothing escapes his acerbic wit and huggable charm as he proves why he is on the cutting edge of societal evolution and the epitome of morality and virtue, holding forth on such subjects as: Anita Hill, The Imperial Congress, The Homeless Fraud, The Earth Is Not Fragile, Ross Perot, The Media, The Rodney King Aftermath, and The Culture War.  For the uninitiated, there's also a Limbaugh Lexicon, including Gorbasms (the fake feeling of bliss when thinking of M. Gorbachev, fixer of everything), Feminazis, Uglo-Americans and Environmental Wackos.

One thing is undeniable: whatever else Limbaugh's fans and foes have labelled him, he is first, last and always a consummate entertainer.  Larger than life on and off the air (although getting smaller of the air), he is a politico-comic mix who has wielded the dual-edged sword of brilliance and satire to become the unrivaled Big Guy of Talk Radio.  Here is Rush Limbaugh - the provocative conservative who for millions of fans is the best source of American common sense today, and the showman who "is documented to be almost always right 87.9% if the time" about THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE.

RUSH LIMBAUGH was born in Cape Girardeau Missouri, a "quintessential Midwestern small town," where he fell in love with radio in elementary school.  He became a Top-40 deejay in the 1960s and held various other jobs before finding his true calling as a radio talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento.  In 1988 his radio show went national, and it can now be heard in over 500 markets across the country.  Limbaugh makes his home in New York City and divides his time between his daily radio show, speaking engagements, and an upcoming nationally syndicated television show.