The RUSH Right Wing of the Supreme Court

Last Sunday the New York Times Magazine section had a long but very interesting story on Rush Limbaugh. You can read it at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html?pagewanted=1&sq=Rush%20Limbaugh&st=nyt&scp=2

The part I found most interesting related to how close he is to certain members of the US Supreme Court. Here is that part in context:

EVERY APRIL, LIMBAUGH HOSTS A WEEKEND at his Palm Beach estate for his closest friends. This year the guest list included Roger Ailes, Mary Matalin and Joel Surnow, a creator of the television series “24” and a leader of the small Hollywood conservative community. The event is social but hardly nonpolitical.

Anyone looking for an informal gathering of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy could do worse than this. Limbaugh is also close to Karl Rove, who dined with him a few weeks earlier in Florida; Justice Antonin Scalia (last year he attended a dinner at cousin Steve Limbaugh’s Cape Girardeau home); and Justice Clarence Thomas (who officiated at Limbaugh’s third wedding). He describes his fellow Floridian Matt Drudge as a buddy. George H. W. Bush invited Limbaugh to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Sheesh!

By the way, if you read the entire article you will see that Rush's third marriage is already over. (Good Job Clarence!) So much for the sanctity of marriage with heterosexual folks.