What Happens to Tough Guy Limbaugh When Confronted?

What Limbaugh loves, in the manner of Bill O'Reilly, is having the controls in his hands so he can promptly cut individuals off or refute them after they are off the air.

Remember the Limbaugh television experience? It was notably short-lived and absent the same kind of ratings success that his radio program has achieved with his hard core, hard right base.

There was one memorable occasion when the tough guy who specializes on radio in putting guests who do not share his nasty, far right beliefs, cleared his studio rather than allow certain audience members to remain. He had begun his show with an assault on pro-choice advocates. When he finished delineating the rationale for his opposition there was an outburst of applause supporting the allegedly heretical position.

Limbaugh was thoroughly chagrined, and his posture worsened when one individual from the Act Up group that had inhabited what he thought was a traditionally safe audience snarled at the notable bully, "You're a liar?"

The program became a favorite of Limbaugh opponents. He expressed dismay that anybody would call him a liar, much less on his own program.

The show ended with Limbaugh addressing his television audience in a studio that had been cleared of all but the show's host. In a tone and manner that did not befit his normally blustery image, Limbaugh told his audience how unfortunate it had been to have such an unruly, inhospitable series of outbursts.

What is his program but a series of unruly, inhospitable outbursts from an admitted Oxycontin addict who, before he became chastened through being "outed", had advocated at various points that anyone convicted of taking any kind of illegal substance should be compelled to leave the country without any opportunity to return or, worse yet, executed?