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Rush's schtick today remains pretty much as it was in those days, when he was winging it between "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace and "How Do You Do" by Mouth and MacNeil. He didn't know what he was talking about half the time then - and he still doesn't.

Well he’s hardly in the same boat he was then. He’s now talking to a much bigger audience as well as getting a fatter payday.

To judge Volpe’s credibility you can read his letter to Salon in 1999 here here in which he commented about an article by Andrew Ross about Clinton getting better treatment than Robert Packwood during the impeachment trial which is below.

Andrew Ross' article about Clinton getting better treatment than Robert Packwood was an interesting idea for a story, but it probably wouldn't have played as well if Ross had included any facts about Packwood's fall. For example, Packwood was not hounded for sex but sexual harassment -- his antics were not in any way consensual. The only actual case of harassment suggested against Clinton is the Paula Jones case, which was thrown out of court and only settled because Clinton knew the Whitehead Institute would have appealed it to the World Court in the Hague just to keep it in the newspapers.

Packwood was also guilty of falsifying actual evidence in the form of his forged diaries. You can quibble about perjury with Clinton until the cows come home, but making a few mistakes while trying to remember past events on the fly is nothing compared to seating yourself before a keyboard and hammering out a document whose very existence is a lie.
Ross also got an actual fact wrong -- Robert Bork's video rental history was never at issue, it was Clarence Thomas who was accused of renting things like "On Golden Blonde" and "Sex Trek, The Next Penetration." By the way, if you want to start a conversation about liars, let's talk about Clarence Thomas telling a Senate committee and a television audience that he had never in his life formed an opinion about the Roe vs. Wade decision. Thomas may be the only person in history to perjure his way onto the Supreme Court.
-- Francis Volpe
Carlisle, Pa.

Francis proves he can regurgitate whatever Terry McAuliffe says:

Same deal with the Bush tax cut, which essentially wiped out the Clinton surplus and put our government back into deficit status. How can an opposition party fail to capitalize on the fact that 40 percent of the money in that tax cut will go to 1 percent of the population? Instead, the Democrats run off and hide when the Republicans call this criticism "class warfare." Of course it's class warfare. Guess which class is winning. Hint: it's the class that made it possible for Republicans to outspend Democrats by $181 million in this election. source