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From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.

This is the Daily.

For decades, he broadcasts mistrust and grievance into the homes of tens of millions of Americans,

helping to create an entire ecosystem of right-wing media and changing the course of conservatism

itself.

Today, my colleague Jim Rudenberg on the legacy of Rush Limbaugh.

This Monday, February 22nd.

Jim, I wonder if you can tell me about the first time that you met Rush Limbaugh?

Well, it's a funny story actually, because it was early 2000.

I think I've been at the New York Times for about two months, and our media editor at the

time assigned me a story, what happened to that guy Rush Limbaugh?

He was like a really big deal back in the early 90s.

Now we have this thing called the internet.

We have cable.

There's Fox News.

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