This very long New York Times Magazine profile of Rush Limbaugh has many little nuggets, including this one:
Unlike many right-wing talk-show hosts, Limbaugh does not view France with hostility. On the contrary, he is a Francophile. His salon, he told me, is meant to suggest Versailles. His main guest suite, which I did not personally inspect, was designed as an exact replica of the presidential suite of the George V Hotel in Paris.
Limbaugh is especially proud of his two-story library, which is a scaled-down version of the library at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. Cherubs dance on the ceiling, leatherbound collections line the bookshelves and the wood-paneled walls were once “an acre of mahogany.”
I also enjoyed this declaration, ““McCain and Reagan do not belong in the same sentence.”
But eventually the piece devolves into a weird form of bear-baiting via email. I don’t get it. I guess the NYT had to prove it was serious and hard.
