Conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh has exposed how “biased” the left-wing media was long before most people realized it, radio host Larry Elder said on Thursday.
“One of the many, many, many things he did, of course, was to execute the left-wing media,” Elder told Fox & Friends.
Elder said people did not realize how bad the media was until Rush Limbaugh came along and started shedding light on the prejudice.
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He said the Washington Post had never been editorial in favor of a Republican president and The New York Times had not done so since 1956.
“I remember when Rush Limbaugh first became national, he got an agreement with the citrus growers in Florida to do an ad to advertise oranges. And he hammered and the citrus growers were hammered and they got it pretty good. quickly taken off the air. “
Elder said that was when “he first realized that people who hate Republicans like Rush Limbaugh not only love them, but also want to destroy their ability to make a living.”
Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics behind the microphone in his decades and helped shape the contemporary Republican Party, passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer.
Elder remembers when Limbaugh got caught up in controversy over a comment about quarterback Donovan McNabb on ESPN.
“He commented on Donovan McNabb, the Black quarterback, and said something like: ‘People are pulling for him, they want him to succeed.’ Whether he is good or bad, irrelevant. They want him to succeed because he’s a Black quarterback and he hammered for it. ‘
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Elder recalled that some sports writers defended Limbaugh’s statement, arguing that the media did want the black backs to succeed.
“Where was that man when Rush Limbaugh needed him? That’s what Rush Limbaugh taught us about the competitive media, how biased they are and their influence on the way people vote and think. Great. He’s a wonderful man. . “