Rush Limbaugh

Beginning this weekend, with exclusive columns by Pat Boone and Greg Laurie, WorldNetDaily launches several days of tributes to talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh, commemorating the 20th anniversary of his national radio program Aug. 1.

"It is impossible to overstate the importance of Rush Limbaugh's contribution to the healthy increase in political debate and dialogue this nation has experienced in the last 20 years," commented WND Editor Joseph Farah. "It is also hard to imagine how many smiles and belly laughs we would not have experienced in that time period had he not been around."

Carried by over 600 radio stations and heard by 14 million listeners every week, Limbaugh's wildly popular show spawned countless other syndicated programs and helped birth what Farah calls the New Media Revolution.

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Limbaugh began his national show Aug. 1, 1988, after moving to New York City from Sacramento, Calif., where he had been a talk-show host on KFBK. He has taken a leading role in opposing the return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, the abolition of which enabled him and other talk-radio hosts to flourish on America's airwaves.

Watch WND's commentary page beginning this weekend for tributes from your favorite regular writers – including Rush's fellow talk-radio hosts Melanie Morgan, Les Kinsolving and Roger Hedgecock – as well as some special surprise guest columnists.

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