That's not 'blackmail.'
It's fucking thuggery.
Limbaugh needs to meet a very determined baseball bat...

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You'll note I'm not threatening physical violence.
In the past I posted pictures of nooses in conjunction with Limbaugh.
I am suggesting that if enough information can be developed, charges would be appropriate.
And yes, it's thuggery. But it's also blackmail -- "we'll find out where your children go to school" sounds a HELL of a lot like a terroristic threat to me, as that school presumably also has other kids in it.

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

exchanging silence for cash: "You pay me and i won't tell your secret"

I don't think that's what Limbaugh did.

He threatened: "We know where you live, where your children go to school. Sure would a shame if anything happened to that nice house...when everybody's asleep, some night. Yep a damned shame."

It's not extortion, exactly. Ianal, but there's gotta be a word for that sorta behavior. It's the kinda thing, i think, that the RICO laws were designed to punish. This sort of thing:
CANTON, Pa. - Five high school students in Canton, Pennsylvania, have been arrested after allegedly threatening violence against their school district.

The mere threat was enough in this case to prompt an arrest. Why is Limbaugh immune from such a response?

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This beast, this screeching, blustering banshee of the far right, it is kicking and hissing and spitting--that's what some injured animals do when they're dying, no?

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in what drugs were being used. He needs a new source.

you know, the kind you buy from those guys in the three-piece suits, telling you all about how it would be a shame if your business got wrecked?

Cops bust people for this stuff. It is called a "protection racket." It is called extortion. It is blackmail.

(What, you don't think Rush profited from that story?)

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

IANAL, but there are state laws that make communicating threats a crime. I think it's just a misdemeanor, and it may be limited to threats of physical harm, but I think it could make an interesting case if a reporter were willing to file charges.

...that is, Mr. Limpbough who is so pissed that he lost the Peace Prize to Gore, that ... well, Google it. It's actually true. Scaife nominated him. As the commenter noted wistfully, "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"

This paragraph stands out to me as pure fantasy

Limbaugh then claimed: "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."

Of course it is the denouement of this day's revenge fantasy so I suspect that the rest of the story is fiction as well.

Give him another couple days of intense scrutiny and goading. He'll send himself off the cliff eventually.

May I propose a new label for this gasbag?

Queef Limbaugh?

LOL!

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