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David Perlmutter's avatar

"A lesser-known Simpsons character named Birch Barlow is an excellent example of a conservative populist."

He was very obviously a parody of American broadcaster and author Rush Limbaugh, who regularly spoke those sentiments.

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Jillian Enright's avatar

Yep! I learned that while researching for this paper :)

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