Until Limbaugh came along, and later Fox News, there was no mass media outlet that reflected conservative sensibilities. He was a kingmaker for former President Donald Trump when he told his audience that Trump “is one of us.” Without him, Republicans would not have taken both houses of Congress in 1994, the Republican Revolution. He resurrected dying AM radio and became his own political movement. His program soon was syndicated, reaching more than 25 million people a week. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, you couldn’t walk into a factory, garage, butcher or machine shop without hearing his show. He was a great entertainer, yes, but he knew what he believed. They live in what’s derisively called “flyover country,” marginalized by the Washington political establishment, both Democratic and Republican. And unlike Buckley, and perhaps even more so than Reagan, Limbaugh spoke directly to the forgotten Americans. has there been such an important conservative voice in America. Not since the late President Ronald Reagan and William F. Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host, dead at 70 And he understood instinctively that big government and big liberal corporate media and their Big Tech masters are adversaries of individual liberty. He went public with his addiction to painkillers, as portions of his audience were going through similar chaos. Limbaugh was a man with public warts and a bombastic, albeit entertaining, manner who, on the radio, trolled his political and philosophical opponents before they controlled Twitter, infuriating them and inspiring their hatred.īut he embraced those warts. And he unapologetically made millions of dollars doing it, which fed the rage of his detractors. I prefer to mourn Limbaugh as a great American, a great conservative, a tremendously talented broadcaster who loved his country and its traditions of individual liberty. I won’t begin to dignify them with a response. But many were filled with glee and rapture that their great enemy was gone. When conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh died, it took only seconds for the vultures of the left to swoop down and begin picking at the public corpse. Who needs greek life when you can pledge the Rush Limbaugh house? Rush Limbaugh’s wife sells his longtime Palm Beach home for record $155M Car dealer sets record in Palm Beach with $170M mansion purchaseĬosmetics boss revealed as buyer of Rush Limbaugh’s $155M estate
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