CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins
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Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here. And, you know, we're still coming down from our end of the year celebration. I'm headed off to CES where we'll be doing reporting for It Could Happen Here and Better Offline. We're going to be coming back for the new year soon. The Oprah episodes will be in the can. Very excited to introduce you all to that. But for this week, we're going to be going back to a rerun. So please enjoy. The Story of Rush Limbaugh
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Broadcasting from his studio in, I don't know, some fucking place with one liver tied behind his back to make it fair for all of the narcotics in his system. Robert Evans is presenting. I hate it. You don't like me? You don't like my pseudo-rush intro, Sophie? Not on board?
Not a fan of that introduction. This is behind the bastards.
This is behind the bastards. A podcast that will never be as big as the Rush Limbaugh show because Sophie won't let me use cultic mind control techniques on our audience.
That is inaccurate. Feel free.
Okay. Well, we're back. The man you just heard is Paul F. Tompkins, our guest for this exploration of the life and times of Rush Limbaugh. Hi, everyone. Hey, Paul. How are you feeling? How are you doing an hour and a half into talking about El Rushbo?
Feeling great. Feeling great. I feel energized that he is dead.
Yeah. I, too, feel happy that he's dead. Yeah. It's fun.
It hasn't worn off yet.
It never will. It will always be good that he's dead. Yeah. There's a few people who are like that, where it's like every now and then I just like think back to the fact that Reinhard Heydrich is dead. That's like good. Good for him. You know, good for him. So once upon a time, Paul, the United States used to have a thing called the Fairness Doctrine. Now, in short, the Fairness Doctrine required anyone with a broadcast license to present controversial issues in a balanced way, providing roughly equivalent time to present both sides of an issue. Now, this was obviously a flawed rule. Some issues, for example, like climate change, don't have two sides, right?
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