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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
Stay classy, fuckwit.
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bwahahahaha. an actual defender of the slobby, oxy-addicted, racist douche nozzle that gave nothing to the world but spawned a whole lot of hate? shouldn't be surprised, but am. You didn't have to say anything, Paul... but you did. bwahahahahaha.
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Originally Posted by Matsu
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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I wouldn't go that far. He wasn't that novel -- white supremacists radio sermons predate his brand of BS by a long shot. He was the first to get properly wealthy from it, or well would have if it weren't for the rest of his personality...