Worcester Magazine
RUSH TO JUDGEMENT: When the recent death of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh was mentioned on Facebook Wednesday, all I can think of was, “But who will Jim Polito emulate now?” Clearly, the WTAG radio personality was thinking the same thing, calling Limbaugh “the GOAT” on a Facebook Live post mourning his passing. Much like Boston s Howie Carr (and arguably, to a lesser degree, local radio personality Jordan Levy), Polito aped Limbaugh s ill-mannered, low-blow sort of media presentation and often brought mud-flinging and mean-spirited insults into local media and politics, perhaps reaching its apex with the 2012 feud between himself and now-retired Telegram & Gazette columnist Dianne Williamson, as chronicled by Worcester Magazine s own Janice Harvey, who saw the real life blow-up between the two at a WoMag Best of Worcester” event: “The verbal head-butting that occurred between these two has been brewing for years,” wrote Harvey, “thanks t