in the early days of mmfa we were the first ones to actually listen to limbaugh and report back to people on it. literally nobody had ever bothered to do it before in a systematic daily way.

and one of the most hilarious (not actually) bits was whenever we would inevitably report on his racism, misogyny, or straight up lying, he and his cult followers would insist you had to be there for all 3 hrs of his horrific show to "get it."

thats actually where he came up with his dumb phrase about the "drive by media," cause he was very upset that mmfa was exposing him and getting him written up by others who didnt bother to slog through hours of his hate.

the thing is we were extraordinarily fair to his bile. it would have been super easy to chop up limbaugh's comments and let people feast on it. but we took great pains to put what he was saying in context, holding ourselves to real standards.

its just that it was total shit and shit can't stand on its own, so you reach for any dumb excuse.

this is from back in 2004, right around the time @mmfa launched and we exposed limbaugh's dismissal of the abu ghraib torture. he was so mad someone was accurately quoting him.

it was back then i learned that one of the ways to fight these guys is to *just quote them*. you really rarely have to add anything besides some context so people know what they're hearing. you don't have to invent stuff. they convict themselves.