Let's hope they destroy each other.


Rush Limbaugh
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121

Dear Mr. Limbaugh,

The Associated Press reports your new contract with Premiere Radio
Networks will enrich you with at least $38 million a year over the next
eight years. You are making this money on the public property of the
American people for which you pay no rent.

You, Rush Limbaugh, are on welfare.

As you know, the public airwaves belong to the American people. The
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to be our trustee in
managing this property. The people are the landlords and the radio and
TV stations and affiliated companies are the tenants.

The problem is that since the Radio Act of 1927 these corporate tenants
have been massively more powerful in Washington, DC than the tens of
millions of listeners and viewers. The result has been no payment of
rent by the stations for the value of their license to broadcast. You
and your company are using the public's valuable property for free. This
freeloading on the backs of the American people is called corporate
welfare.

It is way past due for the super-rich capitalist -- Rush Limbaugh from
Cape Girardeau, Missouri -- to get himself off big time welfare. It is
way past due for Rush Limbaugh as the Kingboy of corporatist radio to
set a capitalist example for his peers and pay rent to the American
people for the very lucrative use of their property.

You need not wait for the broadcast industry-indentured FCC and Congress
to do the right thing. You can lead by paying a voluntary rent --
determined by a reputable appraisal organization -- for the time you use
on the hundreds of stations that carry your words each weekday.

Payment of rent for the use of public airwaves owned by the American
people is the conservative position. Real conservatives oppose corporate
welfare. Real corporatists feed voraciously from hundreds of billions of
dollars in corporate welfare gushing out of Washington, DC yearly.

Whose side are you on? Freeloading? Or paying rent for the public
property you have been using free for many years?

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely yours,

Ralph Nader

PO Box 19312
Washington, DC 20036

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