When I lived and worked in network television news in NYC in the 1990s, sadly I believed all the lies people in the news industry told about Rush Limbaugh. Those lies kept me from actually listening to the man himself. That should have clued me into what the so-called news outlets would do with President Trump years later. One day as I walked from the subway to my job at CBS News on West 57th Street, I passed a limo parked in the alley. The passenger window was cracked and cigar smoke drifted out of the car. Not a fan of cigar smoke, I wondered who would be smoking that stuff at 9:30 in the morning. When I got to the 9th floor, I asked my officemate Libby who that was. When she told me it was Rush Limbaugh, she offered disparaging comments. Later, in the lunchroom, others chimed in. …