We introduced you to this series here. Episode Four dropped today. I talked a bit about my experience with the Rush Limbaugh show in the early 1990s and introducing my Dad to the program. Here is WNYC’s “The Divided Dial:...
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Is “owning the libs” the GOP’s new civil religion?
If you want to become a star in the Republican Party these days, and make a lot of money serving red meat to the GOP base, you need to show that you can use your platform to “own the libs.”...
Now that he is out of office, Mike Pence is picking-up work
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the former vice president will narrate a Fox Nation documentary on Rush Limbaugh: Former Vice President Mike Pence is coming to TV, or at least streaming. Pence will narrate a four-part limited series for...
Rush Limbaugh and Republican rage
Here is historian Neil J. Young. on Rush Limbaugh’s legacy in the GOP: Almost daily, Limbaugh raged against immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ persons, and especially, women. Those rants trafficked in standard xenophobia, racism, homophobia, and misogyny, drilling what should have been out-of-bounds...
His life with Rush Limbaugh
Chuck Armstrong grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh. The Midwest pastor’s kid landed an internship at the Sean Hannity Show at WABC in New York and immersed himself in the world of conservative media and politics. After stints at radio...
A Sunday morning check-in with the MAGA evangelicals:
Their rage has turned to Biden, Limbaugh haters, Timothy Keller, Twitter, Ted Cruz haters, and those controlling the seven mountains of influence. Here we go: David Brody on Trump’s “traditional biblical values.” Tweets like this explain why so many evangelicals...
What if Rush Limbaugh stayed in Pittsburgh?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman wonders what America would be like today if KQV in Pittsburgh did not fire him. Here is a taste of his column: One of the fascinating factoids about Limbaugh that is being emphasized in local...
How evangelicals moved from Christian radio to Rush Limbaugh
Yesterday morning one of our readers wrote this on my Facebook page: “There was a generation of Christians who used to listen to Moody or Family Life radio all day, and sometime around 1990 they decided to listen to Rush...
Trump’s evangelicals respond to the death of Rush Limbaugh
“There was a generation of Christians who used to listen to Moody or Family Life radio all day, and sometime around 1990 they decided to listen to Rush five times a week instead. And here we are.”–TWOILH reader. Limbaugh seldom...
Rush Limbaugh dies
Here are the titles and/or subtitles of some of his obituaries: NBC News: “The Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree outraged critics with his long history of sexist, homophobic and racist remarks.” Washington Post: “Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural...
The San Francisco Board of Education and the “Just-the-Facts-Fallacy”
Last week we called your attention to a decision by the San Francisco Board of Education’s decision to rename forty-four schools. I titled that post “When a school board ignores history.” Now Jonathan Zimmerman of the University of Pennsylvania has...