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

Behind the Bastards

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Rush Limbaugh

"It's just not even that funny," she says of Limbaugh. "You're just going for shock value, right? That's all you're trying to do." He was saying the bigoted, terrible things that a lot of bad people wanted to say and it scratched their id; he made them think he was a genius because somebody was finally telling them it was okay to be as shitty as they kind of wanted to be from the beginning", she adds. 'I haven't heard one good joke from a white comedian involving the N word'

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