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Things rush limbaugh said9/26/2023 ![]() The irreverent Limbaugh was a fresh, entertaining listen-and, more important, his entry into the national sphere was perfectly timed. Limbaugh was the Sherman of the culture wars, forever scorching the earth around him, giving no quarter to those whom he deemed his enemies, ensuring that nothing would grow in his colonized terrain other than the tainted seeds that he planted.īut America was ready for Rush. Fox exaggerated his Parkinson’s disease, said in 2009 that President Barack Obama “has yet to prove that he’s a citizen,” called a Georgetown Law student a “slut” and a “prostitute” after she spoke out in favor of contraception, said George Zimmerman “just got a little overzealous” when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin and, moreover, that it was Martin who might have been guilty of a hate crime.* That’s just a limited selection of the man’s pre-Trump-era greatest hits. It was that he was an abrasive jerk.Ĭonsider: Limbaugh coined the term feminazi, resigned from ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown after suggesting Black quarterbacks such as Donovan McNabb owed their jobs to political correctness, mused that the NBA should change its name to the “Thug Basketball Association,” claimed the actor Michael J. ![]() Limbaugh’s defining characteristic-the one that would go on to infect our politics-wasn’t his conservatism. Limbaugh made a career out of relentlessly antagonizing anyone he thought threatened the primacy of his belief system-which essentially held that no one had any right to tell Rush Limbaugh what he could or could not say, think, or do. If so, his was the wit of the prep school bully making fun of the foreign exchange student’s lunch. Some of Limbaugh’s obituarists have argued that, if nothing else, the man was very funny and possessed of a generational showmanship.
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