It is with a heavy heart we bring you the death of Rush Limbaugh.
The the monumentally influential media-icon transformed the talk radio space during his decades long career, helping shape today’s Republican party. At 70, the man, the myth, the legend, has taken his place with God on this sad day.
In a newly released statement, Rush’s wife Kathyrn writes,
“Losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life,” she said. “Rush will forever be the greatest of all time.”
Rush had been battling Stage IV lung cancer since January 2020 and was awarded days later the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump at the State of the Union address.
“Rush Limbaugh: Thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our country,” President Trump said during the address.
Back in December 2020 Rush thanked his listeners in his final broadcast stating,
“I wasn’t expecting to be alive today,” Limbaugh admitted. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”
Leave it to the left to celebrate on this heart-breaking day. Tears are shed across the world mourning Rush and all he has done for America, but not from those on the left.
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Pay attention to how they speak of Rush Limbaugh today. That’s how they feel about you.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 17, 2021
Rush famously helped boost Trump’s influence prior to the 2016 election by taking him seriously as a candidate when other established conservatives didn’t want the former reality television star near the Republican Party.
Many Americans are not only mourning the loss of the great cultural phenomenon but also mourning the loss of a friend. Rush is a man we counted on as the voice of reason and honesty during times of chaos and joy.
A master of audience engagement, Rush began his career back in 1967 as a high school student at a local radio show. This is where he honed his skills and fell in love with talk radio, his life’s purpose.
Reminiscing Rush told the story of his first gig as a disc jokey where he was instructed to speak on farm news,
“The last thing that the audience of my show cares about is farm news. If farm news came on, bam! They pushed the button and go somewhere else. So, we had to figure out, ‘Okay, how do we do this and protect the license?’ So I turned the farm news every day into a funny bit with farm sound effects and the roosters crowing and so forth, and I’d make fun of the stockyard feed prices or whatever it was, so that we could say, ‘We’re doing barn news,’ agriculture news. There was all kinds of things like that,” Limbaugh told listeners.
“We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,” he continued. “We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, Freedom and the pursuit of happiness.”
Amen.
May you rest in peace and power Mr. Limbaugh. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Our thoughts and prayers are with Rush’s family, friends and listeners on this tragic day.
