How Rush Limbaugh Found Common Ground With Listeners on the Left

Three years after the death of radio’s greatest of all time, Americans of all stripes are tuning in on the hope that they might hear him again.

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Rush Limbaugh on May 14, 2012 at the Missouri Capitol. AP/Julie Smith, file

Rush Limbaugh listeners are mourning the third anniversary of his passing while sending a message to those seeking to fill his shoes: His formula of “combining irreverent humor with the serious discussion of issues” saved the AM band, and it’s hungry for hosts who carry on in that spirit.

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