Conservative Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh Has Died

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh died today at the age of 70 after a months-long battle with advanced lung cancer. The news was announced by his wife on his show this morning.

BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh, a talk radio host who became the voice of American conservatism, has died at age 70 after a battle with cancer. https://t.co/KI7pNH6tQq

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 17, 2021

Limbaugh was a conservative talk-radio icon for much of his career and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump. For better or worse, Limbaugh will be remembered as one of the key voices in shaping American political discussion in the past several decades. He spent his 30+ years in broadcasting shaping the Republican conversation, pinning names on liberals and sometimes pushing conspiracy theories.

In 2003, Limbaugh resigned from ESPN after opining Eagles QB Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see black athletes doing well. In 2016, he promoted a conspiracy that Barack Obama was sending Lesbian Farmers to rural states to make them vote Democratic. Later that year, he was caught buying into a clear Twitter troll from a user joking he was working as a postal worker and destroying Trump ballots.

Following reports of his death, many of his detractors took to social media, leading his name to trend on Twitter alongside the phrase "good riddance."

Rush Limbaugh mocked people dying of AIDS, made fun of Parkinson’s disease, called America’s 1st Black president, ‘Barack the magic negroe’----he was a vile, pompous, white supremacist who spread racist hatred.

Bidding him good riddance or wishing him to rot in hell is being kind.

— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) February 17, 2021

Rush Limbaugh mocked Eric Garner's death, Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cancer diagnosis, Kurt Cobain, people who died of AIDS, feminists, Civil Rights activists, and Native Americans. That's his legacy.

— James Morrison (@JamesPMorrison) February 17, 2021

RIP to Rush Limbaugh, patron saint of "My Kids Don't Talk To Me Anymore"

— Down Here For Your Soul (@bombsfall) February 17, 2021

no matter your politics its disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rush limbaugh died from getting his ass stuck in a wooden barrel and floated off a waterfall and his head hit a tree branch and an eagle swooped down and grabbed his dick. don’t say stuff like that

— leon (@leyawn) February 17, 2021