Rush Limbaugh: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic)

by Playboy, Playboy Magazine

In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Davis’s ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkable run of public inquisition that continues today—and that has featured just about every cultural titan of the last half century.To celebrate the Interview’s 50th anniversary, the editors of Playboy have culled 50 of its most (in)famous Interviews and will publish them over the course of 50 weekdays (from September 4, 2012 to November 12, 2012) via Amazon’s Kindle Direct platform. Here is the interview with the talk-radio host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh from the December 1993 issue.

Genres: Politics

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 29, 2012

Reviews

[Stephen Snead · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gaseous windbag speaks.

I give it 4 stars because it honestly represents Limbaugh at that time. He's 27 years ahead of Donald Trump. So, it kind of reminds me of where I was back then. It's hard for me to believe it now but I was a
full fledged Ditto Head back then. Ditto Head is the modern version of a Trump follower. Rush fans proudly said Ditto to everything is he said and called ourselves dittoheads. Reading this gaseous blowhard now it's hard for me to believe I ever fell for it. He basically calls for an end to Medicare (at least he's honest, not like the current Repubs.) And feels the poor should be proud to oppose taxes on their betters. After all they get the crumbs from the rich cooperate folks table. He also opposed healthcare assistance because he paid for his doctors out of his own pocket. Talk about clueless and cold hearted. Rush was a better spoken more well read version of Donald Trump. You might not have agreed with him although I did back then. But, you would never have called him stupid or inarticulate like some call Trump.

[LaDonna · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I am a republican, I am not generally a huge fan of Rush. I did, however, find this interview very interesting. Seems he was on the mark on many things he had to say, and maybe if our legislators would have listened to him in 1993 we wouldn't be in the sad shape we are in 22+ years later. I remember at the time he was seen as so outrageous and controversial. I'm honestly sad that he was so right about so many things. 4 stars because I wasn't overly impressed with a number of the questions, but I will probably read a few more in the series as there are some very interesting interviewees in the lineup.