{"id":14929,"date":"2012-08-06T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:48","slug":"la_times_blames_me_for_partisan_divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/06\/la_times_blames_me_for_partisan_divide\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times Blames Me for Partisan Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There was a story in the LA Times on Saturday August 4th by a guy named Roger Smith. “After 24 Years, Limbaugh\u2019s Influence Continues to Grow.” I didn\u2019t see it. Koko sent it to me this morning. He says, “I don\u2019t know if you saw this over the weekend, but I found it funny. It\u2019s a grudging admission by a liberal reporter that basically you\u2019re the root of everything bad in politics. It all started 24 years ago, but damn it, you\u2019re more influential than ever!”<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>In fact, it starts out this way. “Rush Limbaugh celebrated 24 years on his national radio talk show Wednesday, and that date is as good as any to benchmark when the country began its journey into a deeply polarized political climate. Limbaugh — universally called Rush by friends and critics alike — almost single-handedly started a narrative that recast Americans into conservative heroes or liberal villains, patriotic saviors or mainstream media dupes.”<\/p>\n