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A week ago Wednesday, RedState shared the breaking news that Dittoheads all across the fruited plain had been dreading for months: Rush Limbaugh had passed away.
In the wake of anyone’s death, our immediate thoughts are of their loved ones and their welfare. But in El Rushbo’s case, over his decades of radio broadcasting, his takes on politics came to be considered by some in the Republican base, to borrow a phrase from another medium, ‘appointment radio.’
Alongside great thinkers like Thomas Sowell, whom I wrote about Tuesday, Rush served as a foundational fount to many of what the word ‘conservatism’ is and should stand for. (You can find ample evidence of this in my colleagues’ writings from the past week, which our editor Streiff linked here for easy perusal.)
As CNN on Wednesday covered the passing of Rush Limbaugh, AC360 ran a pre-recorded piece from correspondent Randi Kaye that was nearly all negative about the conservative icon's radio career. Kaye declared: "[F]or decades, Limbaugh filled the airwaves with lies and conspiracy theories, racist and misogynistic comments."
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