the role limbaugh played was digesting the news and telling his listeners how to see the news through his skewed pov. fox basically serves that function now but his role was in telling them they cant trust the media and he'd chew it up and regurgitate it in chunks for them.
here's a goofball to prove my point. dude i wish i had never listened to rush limbaugh's entire program (and folks like @zpleat have listened to a lot more than me) but i have def listened to his whole stupid show. 
i worked at mmfa from 2004-17, ive listened to full episodes of every dumb dope's show.
theyre all horrible but alex jones is the most enteraining of the horrible shows. rush would drone on about democrats and alex is weaving tales about dark international orgs orchestrating world events and turning frogs gay. way better than another round of "muh clintons."
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