Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday (2/17) after a battle with advanced lung cancer.
His diagnosis was announced to listeners of his radio show exactly one year ago (February 2020).
News of his passing was delivered by his wife, Kathryn, on Wednesday’s
Premiere Networks radio broadcast.
To proclaim that Limbaugh was the most polarizing personality in talk radio history is completely logical and highly reasonable, although his naysayers would say “logical” and “reasonable” generally did not apply to the conservative icon’s on-air talking points.
Even so, take into account such factors as impact; longevity; audience reach; overall bombast; and it is clear why his vaunted position as the “premiere” entry on both
what we re supposed to be here is the one thing people can trust. if you go out there like a bunch of night riders, what the hell are you but just another vicious street gang? there was great writing in the 80s. there was a core group of brilliant people. the audience demands were changing. television has changed a lot since the first emmy was awarded 35 years ago. it s as though the contemporary audience was yearning for more stories about themselves. as the 80s came to an end, everything changed. i think one of the, when we look back at the 1980s, ten and 20 years from now, we re going to be disgusted at some of the tv you ve just mentioned, the super violent programs, but one of the great things that s happening now and will continue to happen increasingly throughout this decade is the replacement of rotten entertainment programming by news and talk programming. rotten news.
honor or integrity. it doesn t. the fruit of this tree is extraordinarily evil. the fruit of this tree is is corrupt and poison. yeah. saving lives, 30 some odd million people going to get health care insurance in this country and of course the discrimination is going to be over because of the pre-existing condition. that s the kind of garbage that s pumped out every day on the airwaves by the righties. we re doing psycho talk early tonight. this is what passes for entertainment in america. so americans believe this stuff because it s really what they have access to. the only thing they have access to. an exhaustive joint study conducted in 2007 by the center for american progress and free press titled the structural imbalance of political talk radio shows some shocking figures. the analysis of the political talk programming on the 257 news talk stations owned by the five