![]() ![]() “I love America,” Limbaugh said after receiving that honor from young readers. In 2014, he won the Author of the Year award at the Children’s Choice Book Awards for his work on “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans.” She reportedly told a biographer her outspoken son only seemed interested in being on the radio. Limbaugh was also a top-selling author, despite attending only one year of college at Southeast Missouri State University, where he reportedly “flunked everything,” according to his mother. Limbaugh was credited with heavily influencing voters in 1994 when Republicans won the House of Representatives during President Bill Clinton’s first term. Vanity Fair once likened the shock jock’s influence among conservatives to Oprah Winfrey’s sway with women. “The Rush Limbaugh Show” was syndicated in 1988 and served as the prototype for the modern-day, right-wing media movement. Radio host Rush Limbaugh is pictured on the set of the public affairs television show “Meet The Press,” March 1993. He even compared COVID-19 to the common cold and falsely told his legion of listeners there had been 18 other COVIDs. Limbaugh, a cigar smoker for 30 years, had expressed skepticism over the dangers of smoking. “I’ve always had a question: If we were the original apes, then how come Harambe is still an ape, and how come he didn’t become one of us?” Limbaugh asked in 2016, referring to the Cincinnati Zoo ape who was killed by zookeepers after a child fell into his enclosure. He famously used the term “feminazi” to describe women’s rights advocates, and said in 2015 that “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of pop culture.”įact-checking outlet PolitiFact found the majority of Limbaugh quotes were to some degree false, including his assertion that “the evolution crowd” could be proven wrong by the fact that gorillas don’t turn into human beings overnight. ![]() He was known for his fiery and articulate rhetoric, which was always impassioned, though not necessarily accurate. House of Representatives on Februin Washington, DC. Radio personality Rush Limbaugh reacts after First Lady Melania Trump gives him the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas officiated at wedding No. Limbaugh had four marriages, including his last one to party planner Kathryn Rogers, 43, whom he wed in 2010. “He entertained listeners by mercilessly mocking and maligning anyone who didn’t resemble his typical listener - straight, white, conservative, and male - and that cruelty eventually became a central tenet of modern conservatism.” “Rush Limbaugh made his career lying to his audience, stoking misogyny, and fueling racism,” Media Matters President and CEO Angelo Carusone said in a statement. Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America said Limbaugh “sold his listeners a false reality and we will be paying the price for it for a long time to come.” ![]() Nigel Farage, the right-wing British nationalist, tweeted that his political ally from across the pond “gave the silent majority a voice.” The tributes to Limbaugh didn’t end at America’s border. “Thank you for your legendary impact on so many Americans!” Greene wrote. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), perhaps the most prominent far-right-wing voice in Congress, joined the chorus of remembrances for Limbaugh with an “RIP Rush” tweet. ![]() Talkers Magazine released in 2015 an estimate of his listeners and it turns out his show gathered around 13.25 million unique listeners per day, which became the most listened-to talk-radio program in the US.US President Donald Trump alongside radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh arrive at a Make America Great Again rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on November 5, 2018. He is currently broadcasting from Palm Beach, Florida where he records The Rush Limbaugh Show. His current talk show began in Sacramento, California in 1984.Īt radio station KFBK, he started his own radio show, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls.įour years later his show was already broadcasting nationally from radio station WABC in New York City. He left school, just after two semesters and one summer, because “he flunked everything and he just didn’t seem interested in anything except radio”, according to his mother.Īt the age of 16 he was already working a series of disk jockey jobs. He has finished Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, where he played football and because his parents wanted him to attend college he entered in Southeast Missouri State University. ![]()
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