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Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Behind the Bastards

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I Don't Want Someone Telling Me What to Do

Limbaugh: Conservatism as Americans do it at least does not work. The character he played became the man he was, and the once apolitical wannabe DJ turned into a mouthpiece for the very worst of our society's impulses. He teamed up with Roger Ailes, the man who would later invent Fox News, to produce one of the most outrageous and vile news programs ever made. And now Paul, it is time for you and I to take a journey into this particular piece of far-right history.

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