{"id":268434,"date":"2018-03-21T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=268434"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:57:09","slug":"jim-flimflam-florio-still-blames-guy-on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/21\/jim-flimflam-florio-still-blames-guy-on-the-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim &#8220;Flimflam&#8221; Florio Still Blames Guy on the Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: How many of you remember Jim &#8220;Flimflam&#8221; Florio, ladies and gentlemen?\u00a0\u00a0Does the name ring a bell?\u00a0\u00a0Jim &#8220;Flimflam&#8221; Florio was a Democrat of New Jersey, and he appeared in New York City on WNYC (it\u2019s their local public station) with Brian Lehrer.\u00a0\u00a0And he was asked &#8212; Florio was asked &#8212; if he was the first victim of Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-Jim-Florio-Bill-Clinton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-Jim-Florio-Bill-Clinton.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-Jim-Florio-Bill-Clinton-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>LEHRER:\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m curious if you think, as an embattled, almost from day one in office &#8212; uhhh, and then what turned out to be one-term governor &#8212; if you think you were one of the first victims of modern right-wing talk radio?\u00a0\u00a0WABC had recently gone from their old music format to conservative talk with Rush Limbaugh who had just come on in \u201988, one year before your election.\u00a0\u00a0They just hammered you, and Mario Cuomo &#8212; who was governor of New York then &#8212; and David Dinkins day after day, and there was no big station with liberal talk. There was no MSNBC on television yet.\u00a0\u00a0Was talk radio a factor in your political challenges?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s what Flimflam Florio said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FLORIO:\u00a0\u00a0It was a factor, but there were other factors as well.\u00a0\u00a0Before we had the Tea Party, we had something in New Jersey called Hands Across New Jersey, which was the same type of thing.\u00a0\u00a0The NRA campaigned vigorously. 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