Rush Limbaugh’s legacy

Ashley Herzog
3 min readMar 1, 2023

Here’s what I wrote about his life and death two years ago.

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Rush Limbaugh’s funeral was today. My take on him and it: yes, he was a pioneer of talk radio who offered a valuable counter to the biased media back when there was no cable, and three networks and a handful of major newspapers had total control over information dissemination in America. On the other hand, he was hands-down the person most responsible for the…

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Ashley Herzog

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