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Okay, well, big news of the day yesterday and honestly, historic news, the death of Rush Limba.

So for those of you who never listened to Rush, you missed out.

Rush was the granddaddy, not only of talk radio, but of all the alternative media.

Without Rush Limba, there is no alternative media. You have to understand what Rush was and what he was not. So what he was not

is what the media are calling him today. A bigot, a vicious, terrible person, saying the world is

better off because he is dead. This is stuff that you are seeing in mainstream media outlets.

It's stuff that you're seeing certainly on Twitter, which allowed rot in hell to trend when Rush Limbaugh died, as well as rest in piss, you can tell that the left really didn't like this guy. Here's the thing. The reason they didn't like Rush is because they kept trying to cancel him and they kept failing. The reason they didn't like Rush is because Rush provided an alternative. Until there was Rush, there was a media

monopoly in this country on the left. Rush was the first point of pushback to that. Now, there had been

conservatives who'd been on mainstream television before. Milton Freeman's free to choose, aired on PBS,

and William F. Buckley's firing line was also on PBS. But that was basically conservatives

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