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Mar 2021
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Part One: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes wit...

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Robert is joined by Paul F. Tompkins to discuss Rush Limbaugh.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-na-limbaugh29-story.html 
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/11/usa.julianborger1
  3. https://longreads.com/2019/03/15/how-the-shock-jock-became-the-outrage-jock/ 
  4. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/05/rush-limbaugh200905
  5. https://newrepublic.com/article/161405/rush-limbaugh-racist-sexist-conservative-media-worse
  6. https://www.metroweekly.com/2021/02/rush-limbaugh-mocked-gay-people-dying-from-aids-on-his-radio-show/
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/16/magazine/the-rush-hours.html
  8. https://www.businessinsider.com/presidential-medal-awardee-rush-limbaughs-racist-and-sexist-comments-2020-2
  9. https://www.politico.com/story/2012/03/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-rush-073661
  10. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/politics/rush-limbaugh-conservative-media.html 
  11. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-draft/ 
  12. https://people.com/politics/rush-limbaugh-most-controversial-moments/
  13. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rush-limbaugh-dead-trump-ruined-america-1129222/ 
  14. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/05/wolcott200705
  15. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-10-15-0310150127-story.html
  16. https://twitter.com/AmITooRemoved/status/1362201339472740355
  17. https://qz.com/1973960/rush-limbaughs-short-lived-tv-show-helped-usher-in-fox-news/
  18. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-racist-quotes/
  19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPgO9NLy-7A
  20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-aDkrKgSk

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