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Limbaugh Advances False Claim That Private-Sector Pay Is Half Of Government-Employee Pay

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 01/06/11 3:04 PM EST

From the January 6 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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