Brendan Nyhan

Megalomania, thy name is Rush

Here’s the cover of the latest edition of the Limbaugh Letter – there’s something very disconcerting about these fawning Great Leader portraits that he has painted every month:

Limbaugh

First of all, the way he is portrayed looming over Bush and Kerry is bizarre. And he’s in a general’s uniform, even though he famously sat out the Vietnam War with a cyst in his ass. Apparently, his readers are paying to help him work through some issues.