Tom Wolfe did with his typewriter what Rush Limbaugh would later do with a microphone.
Wolfe skewered and mocked pretentious liberals.
Rush was more politically partisan. Wolfe infuriated his targets without letting on his political choices.
“In footage from “Firing Line,” when William F. Buckley Jr. asked him to describe his political views, Wolfe quoted Balzac’s description of the politics in his novels: “I belong to the party of the opposition.”
Bonfire of the Vanities, it was a 1980s bullseye.