Watching Fox fawn all over Rush and bypass his gleeful harshness, while other outlets briefly touch on his passing and then move on is both disappointing and revealing.
Revealing in that it shows just how cramped and closed the right-wing media space really is. In the real
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Revealing in that it shows just how cramped and closed the right-wing media space really is. In the real
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world, Rush is a figure of minor interest, a sort of a media pre-cursor to Trump with his mix of politics and shock entertainment, but no deep thinker or national voice. You probably vaguely knew who he was but didn't care that much, bc you haven't listened to AM in decades.
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Hence the normal news notes his passing, calls him 'provocative' (an understatement), and moves on. Bc it's just not that important given covid, the impeachment, the big storm, and so on.
In MAGA-world though, Rush is some kind of patron saint, the guy who saved AM radio,and
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In MAGA-world though, Rush is some kind of patron saint, the guy who saved AM radio,and
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created conservative radio. That this is treated as some kind of massive achievement shows how insular the Trumpist right really is. Rush was basically just a racist gabber; the rest of the country moved on from AM decades ago; and conservative radio is swamp of apocalypse
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prophecies and conspiracies. That you'd even take this seriously as some kind of legacy to celebrate - at least as anything other than an erosion of American decency - is simultaneously absurd, pathetic, & hysterical
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There is just no way the GOP is going to come back to
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There is just no way the GOP is going to come back to
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reality until this insular, closed-off right-wing media bubble is broken up. Something like a quarter to a third of the country is building a parallel universe where, just this week for example, the Green New Deal caused Texas' power shortages. Good grief.
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