I never 100% agreed with everything Rush said and no one....
I never 100% agreed with everything Rush said and no one is perfect and I’m sure he made many mistakes throughout his 70 years on this earth. Many said he had talent on loan from God. However the way the main stream media reacted and the crap they reported on him and claimed it “news” was disgusting.
Some director from Syracuse University (I’m sure he has no agenda) stated that Limbaugh “would just say what he wanted”. Should people say whatever they want to say? No not necessarily but the 1st amendment should be very important. Does that fact that “tens of millions of listeners” wanted to hear what Rush had to say mean anything? Should tens of millions of people be written off, deemed none “intellectuals” and bigots?
It takes them 15 paragraphs, almost halfway through the article, to talk about his child hood and family. NBC had to get all their hate our first. This article also criticizes Rush for talking about Covid 19 and pushing “conspiracy theories” most of which now are no longer theories but accepted and proven by the science.
The final quote is the sickest of all. I would encourage Tech Feminist Brianna Wu to treat others as she would like to be treated.
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This is like a sub title to the actual article:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree outraged critics with his long history of sexist, homophobic and racist remarks.
Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, compared him to the rise of Trump, saying, "he would strip out the usual manners — and he would just say what he wanted."
"He wasn’t the first to do that kind of right-wing ideological commentary on the radio, but part of the appeal is also part of what used to get him in trouble, he would just go out there and say stuff no matter how outrageous it might be,” he said.
For the tens of millions of listeners who followed Limbaugh's show, though, it's a medal earned for delivering right-wing ideoloy a voice absent elsewhere in pop culture.
(Rush stated) "Those are attempts to discredit me among people who don’t listen to me. But the media didn’t make me and they can’t break me."
His big break would come in 1984, when he landed a job as an on-air host at Sacramento’s KFBK, taking over the slot vacated by shock jock Morton Downey Jr. Limbaugh became a local hit.
The Federal Communications Commission, following the Reagan administration's priorities of cutting back government and promoting free speech, ended the long-standing requirement for television and radio stations to devote an equal amount of time to each side of a political issue.
"There's no question he saved the AM dial, which couldn't compete with the music on FM, "Harrison said.
The radio host's words earned him a reputation as a racist, sexist and homophobe over the years for comments on a wide variety of public figures including Chelsea Clinton, President Barack Obama, NFL players and many others.
Noted tech feminist Brianna Wu said common etiquette to withhold harsh words about the deceased shouldn't apply to Limbaugh.
"The more I think about it, the more I think my instinct to not be publicly happy about Limbaugh’s death was wrong," wrote Wu, a target of the Gamergate harassment campaign. "Some men are monsters — and the world is safer with them gone. We owe this man nothing." Limbaugh's legacy will be the bitter political culture that now sickens America, according to David Axelrod, a key advisor in the Obama White House.
#USA #TheChubbyCaucasianChristianClosetedConservative #Limbaugh #RushLimbaugh #BriannaWu
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