Rush Limbaugh: Saint or Sinner?

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Rush Limbaugh passed away. Some people lauded him. Others hated him. But no one denies it: Rush invented a new way of doing news. He pioneered a highly entertaining, highly polarized, highly politicized version of the news, which paved the way for FOX News, Jon Stewart, and Donald Trump. In this episode, we explore his mixed legacy and what Rush’s 33-year tenure tells Christians about our current cultural moment. Do you follow us on https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter)? Now's a great time to start: https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (@tmbtpodcast) Don't forget to follow https://twitter.com/keithsimon_ (Keith) and https://twitter.com/patrickkmiller_ (Patrick), too. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	My name is Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon.
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0:35.4	On February 17th Rush Limbaugh passed away at age 70 he died of lung cancer that was diagnosed or at least publicly announced roughly a year ago.
0:47.6	And Rush is a complicated figure.
0:49.7	If you see the coverage that he's received on social media or in newspapers, journals,
0:55.5	magazines, you can see that there are a lot of wide variety of opinions about
1:00.6	him. Some people absolutely hated him and thought he was horrible for our country.
1:05.7	You saw the hashtag Rest in Piss circulate around his name.
1:10.8	Oh man I did not see that. You didn't? There's some pretty hateful things. I saw
1:16.3	some Christians saying something about riding in hell. I mean it was bad stuff.
1:21.2	And then there was the opposite which is a lot of people lauding him and saying that he was kind of the champion, their champion, politically, morally, culturally.
1:31.0	And so we just wanted to spend a few moments trying to figure out who was Rush Limbaugh and what was so important about him. What is his life and death tell us about our cultural moment? And one thing everybody has to acknowledge is that from when
1:45.1	Rush broke on the scene in the late 80s until now, a lot has changed. So Patrick, you're
1:51.5	younger than me. Are you familiar with Rush?
1:54.0	I can count on one finger the amount of times I've listened to Rush Limbaugh.
1:58.0	Count it on one finger?
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