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      Rupert Murdoch shakes hands with Roger Ailes after naming Ailes the head of Fox News, New York, New York, January 30, 1996

      The Four Horsemen: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever

      As do pestilence, famine, war, and death.

      Robert Lipsyte
      Mar 08, 2021

      The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse--Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump--have ridden roughshod over us this past half-century leaving their hoofprints on our politics, our culture, and our lives. Two of them are gone now, but their legacies, including the News Corporation, the Fox News empire, and a gang of broadcast barbarians will ensure that a lasting plague of misinformation, propaganda masquerading as journalism, and plain old fake news will be our inheritance.

      The original Four Horsemen were biblical characters seen as punishments from God. By the time they became common literary and then film currency, they generally went by the names of Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. Matching each with Limbaugh, Ailes, Murdoch, and Trump should prove a grisly but all-too-relevant parlor game. The originals were supposed to signal end times and sometimes, when I think about their modern American descendants, I wonder if we're heading in just that direction.

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      Rush Limbaugh Was Vital to the Conservative Movement--and Paved the Road for Trump

      Rush Limbaugh Was Vital to the Conservative Movement--and Paved the Road for Trump

      Limbaugh's show taught disparate parts of the right that they should be one big happy family.

      Steve Rendall
      Feb 23, 2021

      Rush Limbaugh died on February 17, leaving behind a legacy of lies, bigotry, science denial and conspiracy mongering--as well as a media and political system significantly transformed by his influence.

      Limbaugh was a talented broadcaster who forged an intimate connection with his audience. Since he launched his nationally syndicated radio show in 1988, his success has helped to inspire an army of lesser talk radio clones, fueled an explosive growth in right-wing media generally, and introduced a new era of conservative commentary and politics steeped in aggrieved resentment and a willful disregard for facts.

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      Rush Limbaugh--Prized Propagandist of America's Reactionary Right-Wing--Dead at 70

      Rush Limbaugh--Prized Propagandist of America's Reactionary Right-Wing--Dead at 70

      "If you don't want people to speak ill of you when you die, then live decently," said one critic.

      Jon Queally
      Feb 16, 2021

      Longtime radio host, right-wing zealot, and enemy of the common good Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.

      "If you don't want people to speak ill of you when you die, then live decently," said writer and political observer Anand Giridharadas in response to the news that the "Bigoted King of Talk Radio" was dead.

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