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Sun Aug 18, 2013, 11:22 AM Aug 2013

Dad, Rush Limbaugh and me

By Madeline Janis
August 18, 2013

A few months ago, I helped my father pack up his apartment in San Diego in preparation for his move to an assisted living facility. He was ill and could no longer live alone, and I wanted him nearer to my home in Los Angeles.

I doubt that such a task is ever easy, with both parent and child aware that the burden of caring has shifted from one generation to the next. But in our case, things were even more loaded because of our politics. He was a passionate and devoted fan of Rush Limbaugh. I, to put it mildly, am not.

My father listened to Limbaugh's syndicated radio show every day, contributed to his charities, wore Limbaugh caps and espoused political views that seemed so extreme to me that I regularly asked myself how it was possible for someone like me to be his daughter. Yet somehow we had always managed to connect despite our differences, and we loved each other.

That doesn't mean it was always easy.

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-janis-father-death-rush-limbaugh-20130818,0,7858398.story


I'll say this about Rush, he is a very effective propaganda spewer. Of Course so was Joseph Goebbels.

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