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Rush Limbaugh is a radio celebrity who continues to be heard by millions everyday in the USA and America. Recently, he bragged about blackmailing a journalist into cleaning up an article, which "mischaracterizes" him. How did he blackmail him?

By making a threat toward the journalist's children. That is crossing the line; people shouldn't be dragging any family members, friends and especially their children into this sort of situation.

Here's an excerpt from his radio show,

I've had journalists tell me this. "Well, we're journalists." Why are you immune? Why are you immune to the same kind of destructive reporting and behavior that you dish out? You know, we have practiced -- I've practiced it once. I am not going to tell you the story because I'm don't want to give it away, and I would have to mention names, and I'm not going to mention names. But there was a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it. And we found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, "You know what? We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house. We're going to do -- and we're going to do exact -- and we're going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate. You're no different than Al Goldstein, and you're both journalists, and so forth."

And the guy started screaming on the phone, just went -- "You can't do that." We said, "Watch us." And it changed the tone of the story by about 60 percent, I would say, from what it was going to be. But nobody does that to these people. Nobody does it to them. And that would be so much fun. But I'd need to be wearing body armor every day. Oh, no question, these people are playing for keeps.

Source: Limbaugh says he told journalist writing on story on him: "We're going to find out where your kids go to school" - Media Matters

There's even an audio clip on the website. Now, how can anyone defend this man? If the article truly did mischaracterize him then why did he resort to such a scare tactic? Hardly mischaracterizing because that's who he is.

How would you like it if I told you that I would be able to find out where your kids go to school? How about I find your medical records and post it here? People wouldn’t like it and they would feel threatened if I did that to them. It’s a classic form of blackmailing and shouldn’t be tolerated. It’s wrong. Period.

Anybody who defends him is condoning his actions. It's a pity that millions of sheep are still listening to him even to this day.