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Put it on the stack: Great Limbaugh's Ghost

Put it on the stack: Great Limbaugh's Ghost

Discussing Rush as if he is alive is an admission that listeners were suspending disbelief all along — believing lies because they are comforting.

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Bill Bell
May 05, 2021
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I was listening to WDWS, our local talk radio station, this morning. Not only do they still run ghost Limbaugh; the "guide host" Ken Matthews refers to Rush in the present tense. "You people know history because Rush knows history," he told the audience. The weird, authoritarian dear leader stuff didn't end with Trump's loss or, apparently, Rush's death…

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