What Rush Limbaugh Left Behind

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Rush Limbaugh’s radio show provided a roadmap that the Republican Party has been following, more or less faithfully, for decades. Guest: Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right and co-host of This Day in Esoteric Political History. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are about to be joined, I understand, by the President, the former President of the United States.
0:10.0	You know when's day after noon, former President Donald Trump called in to Fox News to
0:15.5	give his first interview since leaving office.
0:18.7	Not about his impeachment trial, not about the arrests of his supporters who stormed the
0:23.2	Capitol on January 6th.
0:25.6	President Trump, are you with me?
0:27.7	I am and this interview was about Rush Limbaugh, the conservative media icon who died this
0:35.9	week at age 70.
0:37.7	Great care.
0:38.7	He was very brave.
0:39.7	I mean, he, in theory, could have been gone four months ago.
0:43.1	Really?
0:44.1	He was just fighting till the very end.
0:46.5	He was a fighter.
0:47.5	He was a great general.
0:48.8	It was this moment that showed you just how integral, not just Fox News, which has often
0:54.9	been the center of the conversation about Trump and right wing media, but how central right
1:00.0	wing radio has been to Donald Trump's career.
1:03.6	Nicole Hemmer, Chronicles the way pundits like Limbaugh have inserted themselves into American
1:08.5	politics in her book Messengers of the Right.
1:12.2	She says, in a universe of conservative king makers, Limbaugh reigned supreme.
1:19.4	Because sure, Korean favor with him would help you reach constituents.
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