Limbaugh got his start in Sacramento in the mid-to late 1980's. He tapped into the confused malaise of that era finding a resonance with the darkest, angriest most incredibly frightened place that White America, particularly for White men, could go. Some bars advertised themselves as catering to Ditto Heads, precursors of the Tea Party and its progeny. I did not realize that Limbaugh was from southwest Missouri and was a college drop out until I read his obituaries. That explained a lot about who and what he was for me. I embodied other to him, Black, female, educated and worse yet for him from St. Louis.
Limbaugh got his start in Sacramento in the mid-to late 1980's. He tapped into the confused malaise of that era finding a resonance with the darkest, angriest most incredibly frightened place that White America, particularly for White men, could go. Some bars advertised themselves as catering to Ditto Heads, precursors of the Tea Party and its progeny. I did not realize that Limbaugh was from southwest Missouri and was a college drop out until I read his obituaries. That explained a lot about who and what he was for me. I embodied other to him, Black, female, educated and worse yet for him from St. Louis.