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Matsu
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2021-02-19, 08:53

I don't think Rush Limbaugh is worth fighting over. I'll repeat this (heard on the radio the same day) largely because I agree with it. Having died doesn't make someone a better man, but it's worth looking at the whole all the same. On the one hand you have to give him his due for basically inventing a radio format, it's not easy to pioneer something like that. On the other hand, he did a lot of damage to the lives of poor people, promoting and entrenching attitudes and policies that hurt them, and some could say badly so.

Personally, I think it's a significant black mark on his memory, such as it may be, that any look at modern American extremism is now a look at popular extremism thanks to a formula he created - the likes of Alex Jones, Newsmax, Brietbart, the world of fake news and celebration of hate... all draw a straight line back to him.

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