{"id":348709,"date":"2020-05-14T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=348709"},"modified":"2020-05-20T18:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:34:36","slug":"great-american-novelist-tormented-by-this-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/14\/great-american-novelist-tormented-by-this-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Great American Novelist Tormented by This Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Yesterday on NPR, they\u2019ve got a program called Fresh Air. One of their correspondents was reporting on a new biography of the American author Philip Roth. Now, in uber-left-wing literary salons and circles in Manhattan, Philip Roth is the end-all, the be-all. He\u2019s the Stephen Sondheim of the literary world, and so somebody\u2019s written a biography of the guy. And, of all things, here is one of the stories told by the author…<\/p>\n

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NPR HOST: Taylor also recounts some of Roth\u2019s health struggles. Among other things, he suffered from back and heart problems. Taylor recalls one particular trip to the hospital with Roth where they jumped into a cab. The aggressively flatulent driver had Rush Limbaugh on at top volume. Roth, in pain, turned to Taylor and asked, “Are we to be spared nothing?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. The author here is Benjamin Taylor. So here you have Philip Roth, a great American novelist, great American writer, getting in a cab to go to a hospital for a health crisis. He gets in a cab and the cabdriver is flatulent. Now, for those of you in Rio Linda, it means the cabdriver is stinkin\u2019 up the cab pretty bad.<\/p>\n

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And to add insult to injury while the cabdriver is stinkin\u2019 up the cab, the Rush Limbaugh program is blaring at 800 decibels in there. And Philip Roth is dispirited. He\u2019s already down in the dumps because of his health problems, made even worse, and turns to his biographer and says, “Are we to be spared nothing?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: In uber-left-wing literary salons and circles in Manhattan, Philip Roth is the end-all, the be-all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":348757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGreat American Novelist Tormented by This Program - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/14\/great-american-novelist-tormented-by-this-program\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Great American Novelist Tormented by This Program - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: In uber-left-wing literary salons and circles in Manhattan, Philip Roth is the end-all, the be-all.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051420-99-Roth.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"George Prayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/14\/great-american-novelist-tormented-by-this-program\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051420-99-Roth.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-051420-99-Roth.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/14\/great-american-novelist-tormented-by-this-program\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/14\/great-american-novelist-tormented-by-this-program\/\",\"name\":\"Great American Novelist Tormented by This Program - 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