Rush Limbaugh

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/23/2023
  

  Posthumous Limbaugh Book Skirts His Toxic Legacy

  The collection of transcripts from Rush's radio program emphasizes the positive ways he built solidarity with his audience while occluding the negative ways he maintained it by stirring resentments against others and lying about his political opponents. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/7/2021
  

  The Four Horsemen: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

  by Robert Lipsyte

  There’s no reason to think that the ride of the modern Four Horsemen is over. Limbaugh and Aisles have left their vast poisonous pools behind and they won’t dry up soon.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/19/2021
  

  Restoring the Fairness Doctrine Can't Prevent Another Rush Limbaugh

  by Heather Hendershot

  "The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine alone did not create Limbaugh or the presidency of Donald Trump. Catering to market demands for shock and awe programming did, and that is why neither Limbaugh’s death nor a return to this network-era regulation will solve the problem."

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• SOURCE: The Week
  2/18/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans To Rage

  by Neil J. Young

  Even from the perspective of today's degraded political culture that he helped bring about, Limbaugh's cruelty remains shocking.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/22/2021
  

  The Legacy of Rush Limbaugh (Podcast)

  The Times Podcast "The Daily" looks at the career and legacy of the controversial radio host. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/19/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh and the Nineties Roots of “Cancel Culture”

  by Alex Pareene

  Rush Limbaugh's career ended in a siloed media environment where the right occupied its own channels. But it began in a mainstream media that was eager to profit by marketing his brand of down-punching reactionary grievance. 

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  2/19/2021
  

  His Ignominy Is His Triumph: a Counter-Obituary of Rush Limbaugh

  by A.J. Bauer

  "You’d be hard pressed to find a better popularizer of the concept of counter-hegemonic struggle (“culture war” in the vernacular), albeit on the right, or a more “organic intellectual” of the U.S. white upper middle class."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/2021
  

  We Wouldn’t Have Had President Trump Without Rush Limbaugh

  by Max Boot

  Rush Limbaugh stripped conservative politics of principle, policy, and argument, broadcasting a show based on "assertion, mockery, and resentment." Donald Trump's presidency has proven that this was enough. 

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• 2/17/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70, Influenced Combative Conservatism Over the Airwaves

  by HNN Staff

  The talk radio host energized conservatives and disgusted others with racist, misogynistic, gay-bashing rhetoric, building a lucrative media empire and a culture of politicized resentment. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy
  2/17/2021
  

  Limbaugh Was Partly Scalia and Bork’s Fault

  by Michael Tomasky

  "The admittedly and lamentably glorious career of the most prominent racist, sexist, poisonous radio host of our time probably never would have happened if it weren’t for a policy change: the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, under Ronald Reagan."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/2021
  

  From Limbaugh to Trump: Rick Perlstein Explains Rush’s Real Legacy

  Washington Post political columnist interviews historian Rick Perlstein on the late talk radio host's impact on political culture. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/9/2021
  

  Rush Limbaugh is Ailing. And so is the Conservative Talk-Radio Industry

  Nicole Hemmer argues that Limbaugh was instrumental in making the Republican Party captive to its voter base, a base led by the content of increasingly right-wing media. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/20
  

  The divisive case for giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom

  by Brian Rosenwald

  One of our most transformative figures has also been deeply polarizing.  

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• 7/7/19
  

  Historian Ian Reifowitz on How the Race-Baiting Invective of Rush Limbaugh on the Obama Presidency Led to Trump

  by Robin Lindley

  Reifowitz's latest book traces the election of Donald Trump and the recent rise in white supremacist activity to the incendiary language of racism that the right-wing relies on to win politically.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  11-26-15
  

  Rush Limbaugh’s “True Story of Thanksgiving” is a lie-filled load of stuffing that turns villains into victims

  by Ben Norton

  Tea Party Thanksgiving mythology bludgeons socialism with lies while covering up capitalists' genocide of Natives