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PRESIDENT BUSH, ON A VISIT TO America's most popular radio show, addresses the host as "Russ." Hillary Clinton, in a cheerful diatribe against the host, calls him "Lim-bough," as in "Ow! That hurts!" William F. Buckley Jr. says it "Limbo" -- a place a bit north of where many liberals would send this right-wing multimedia motormouth sensation.
. Say the name, with due basso-profundo pomp, this way: Rush (as in rush to hear him while he's hot) Limbaugh (as in awe).
It should not be hard to pronounce; these days it is hard to avoid. Rush (friend and foe alike are...
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