lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable regardless of the circumstances.

7. 'There's a lot of people out there calling for the end of violence. 'We're supposed to be horrified by the protesters,' Limbaugh scoffed on his program Jan. 6, provoking outraged sputtering from Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives alike, Limbaugh stood out in dismissing the controversy. He wasn't advocating for another civil war, he was only repeating what he had heard, he told listeners.Īfter a mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol on Jan. In December, Limbaugh declared he thought the country was 'trending toward secession,” then walked the comment back the next day. 'A true American legend': Donald Trump, Bill O'Reilly, more mourn Rush Limbaugh's deathĪnalysis: What's Rush Limbaugh's media legacy? The radio host left hate and ugliness in his wake His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathryn, at the beginning of Limbaugh's radio show, from which he's been absent for almost two weeks.Ī longtime cigar smoker who stocked the humidors in his homes and studios with the finest, Limbaugh succumbed to cancer after battling drug addiction and loss of hearing earlier in his career (he was deaf by the end and broadcast his daily show in spite of it).Ī Republican conservative and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump to the end, Limbaugh was among Trump's most prominent enablers of his failed effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election with baseless claims of voting fraud. Rush Limbaugh, the talk titan who made right-wing radio financially viable in American media and himself a Republican kingmaker years before Fox News, died Wednesday after he revealed in 2020 that his lung cancer was terminal.

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