like Corliss would cop to that if it were true.

You'll never find out who it was, if there was anyone, because no journalist would cop to letting that fascist douchebag bully him or her..

"Meanwhile, we'll keep trying to solve the mystery of the journalist Limbaugh bullied into better coverage!"

As if a story would have to be true (in any sense) for Limbaugh to spin it on his show. He panders to an audience that sees physical threats against (real) journalists as a positive, something to boast about. The search for the mystery journalist assumes that there really was a journalist, a publication, a threat, or a anything else reality-based in Limbaugh's testosteroid boasting.

DLF said it here first: Limbaugh is a lyin' rat and for all we know he has no balls to blackmail a hooker into sleeping with him, let alone a journalist into writing a positive story about him. (Unless that "journalist" comes from something like the New York Sun.) Ms. Walsh, you're wasting your time trying to unravel this mystery: it's a red herring! There was no intimidated journalist. There was a pandering sycophant who said: "Hey, just leave me tied up and give me a black eye, and then you can claim that you threatened me with bodily harm. But you know I love you." Plenty of those if you know where to look.

Sort of reminds me of Tucker Carlson claiming to have beaten up a guy who came on to him in a bathroom.

Good grief.

Limbaugh is a monster, but the fact remains that someone who's paid to be a journalist is expected to do at least a bit of checking before firing off speculation of this kind. Since Edelstein didn't do his homework, it isn't "informed speculation", it is uninformed speculation.

Imagine my surprise at being ID'd by Joan as one who did a google search and came up with a possible match. It's a good cop, as they say.

But I've got to say, I read Edelstein's piece and wondered, "Where's the quote from Corliss?" Interesting sidelights about movie criticism in the '70s aside, I think our guys need to do legwork, and leave the "informed speculation" to CNN and their ilk.

Though of course it's possible that Corliss is denying something because he's embarrassed by the story, enough of speculation. We're dyin' from it.

We have a nation rushing to bankruptcy, a leader whose only role model is the Last Kaiser Wilheim, a capitol that sleeps over 400 puppets plus a toe dancing potatoe head employed by anyone but their consituents and a nuclear weapons force that lets several city busters fly lost above us for hours without the toy soldier's knowledge. Now explain to me again why these sideshow performers are of anymore concern than little puppies lost?

Limbaugh is a blowhard dropout who was spoon fed the crap he spews at daddy's knee. He is a Republican shill whose views are sophomoric babble not worth examining emanating from a guy who flunked out of SEMO as a freshman. The fact he has the gift of gab has taken him a long way, along with lies, smears, character destruction and a profound affinity for underwhelming intellect. Gab is a quality of all great bullshit artists. Just look at the current crop of presidential candidates. It is a quality removed from all other qualities. Look at Hollywood. The fact he has a wide audience says more about the caliber of the intellect of his audience and the country as a whole than anything else. Any asshole can succeed in show business and politics. Do you really need examples. Waste your time on something useful like drumming up some support for a third party, cause these two aint cutting it lady.

Looks like Limbaugh was clear - front page story, previous confession. So why is Corliss attacking the person who connected the dots, not the person who drew them?

...is probably one of the worst movie reviewers working for a major publication. If you really want to connect the dots, draw lines between all the mediocre movies produced by Warner Bros. and all the glowing reviews Corliss inexplicably gives to them.

And the confession to masturbating in a porn theater is embarrassing.

. . . must be Pee Wee Herman.

Rushbo's comments are truely deranged, maybe illegal in this matter. Keep on the case!

You two deserve each other.

I don't know if you'd consider her a "journalist" or whether she's ever masturbated to a porn flick or not, but Camille Paglia certainly has more positive things to say about Limbaugh (on a monthly basis) than you'd expect from person with a three-digit IQ. Someone should give her a call.

Media Executives Arrested in Phoenix By DAVID CARR

Published: October 19, 2007

Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoenix on charges that a story published earlier in the day in The Phoenix New Times revealed grand jury secrets.

Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, where arrested at their homes after they wrote a story that revealed that the Village Voice Media company, its executives, its reporters and even the names of the readers of its website had been subpoenaed by a special prosecutor. The special prosecutor had been appointed to look into allegations that the newspaper had violated the law in publishing the home address of Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s home address on its website more than three years ago.

The weekly and its leadership has been in a long running battle with Mr. Arpaio, after the weekly published a series of stories about his real estate dealings.

“They did not have a warrant, but they told me that I was being arrested for unlawful disclosure of grand jury information,” Mr. Larkin said by phone from his home early this morning, after he was released from jail. Mr. Lacey remained in jail early this morning. Captain Paul Chagolla, a spokesman for the sheriff did not return a call for comment.

Steve Suskin, legal counsel for Village Voice Media, said that the arrests on misdemeanor charges of the newspaper executives represent an escalation in the conflict between The Phoenix New Times and Sheriff Arpaio, who has received national attention for his reputation for running tough jails.

“It is an extraordinary sequence of events,” Mr. Suskin said. “The arrests were not totally unexpected, but they represent an act of revenge and a vindictive response on the part of an out of control sheriff.”

Grand jury proceedings are secret. In the story about the ongoing case, Mr. Larkin and Mr. Lacey suggested that the publication of the subpoenas might be viewed as illegal.

“It is, we fear, the authorities’ belief that what you are about to read here is against the law to publish,” they wrote. “But there are moments when civil disobedience is merely the last option. We pray that our judgment is free of arrogance.

The subpoena asks for information not only about the newspaper’s reporting, but also the information on readers who may have seen material deemed confidential published on the newspaper’s website, including the internet domain names and browsers used, and any other information about online readers of the publication since Jan. 1, 2004.