It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute' With the Obama presidency, Limbaugh returned to the familiar position of leading a right-wing resistance to the liberals in power. He had flirted once again with racial controversy when he described Obama as a "rookie whose only chance of winning is that he's black" - a statement remarkable similar to the sentiment he expressed about football star McNabb.
Racial grievance - the idea that minorities were getting special treatment over white Americans - was a theme that carried throughout Limbaugh's career. The other prominent current in Limbaugh's politics was a criticism of outspoken liberal women, and Limbaugh once again touched that live wire with his attack on Sandra Fluke, who had testified before Congress in February in support of government mandated that private insurers provide coverage for birth-control pills and other contraceptives.
Limbaugh mocked what he characterised Fluke's sexual promiscuity, and he once again used the term "femi-Nazi" - which he had in earlier years said he had abandoned. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch. After some of Limbaugh's corporate sponsors pulled their support and President Obama publicly called Ms Fluke and sided with her, the host offered a rare on-air apology.
Rush Limbaugh, in death, is being heralded as the man who paved the way for Donald Trump's political rise. The radio host's confrontational, sometimes derisive, style rhetoric, his embrace of hot-button cultural issues over staid policy debates, his connection with working-class whites alienated from the governing elite all have direct parallels with the former president's brand of politics. Trump essentially acknowledged the debt he owed Limbaugh by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his State of the Union address last year.
It's ironic that Limbaugh, who would help energise two of the most powerful conservative grassroots movements of the past three decades - the first in the mids and the second the Tea Party protests of - was not an early supporter of Trump's. He questioned his conservative credentials and doubted his political acumen. He initially supported Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
In the end, however, Limbaugh came around to embrace Trump and see the powerful anti-establishment populist force that he had assembled. In , he wholeheartedly endorsed Trump's re-election and echoed the president's repeated attacks on the electoral process. Limbaugh's voice may have been silenced after more than four decades on air, but he had passed his rhetorical torch to the man in Mar-a-Lago. Image source, Getty Images. On feminism. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
If you got fed up with the non-stop Rush Limbaugh coverage last week, point your finger at him. He's the soon-to-be-exiting CNN host who made a simple statement last week that resulted in Limbaugh taking precedence over everything. Perhaps his pride was injured when Hughley said Limbaugh was the de facto leader of the Republican party.
And you know the rest. Steele said he deserved that title and called Limbaugh an entertainer who could get incendiary and ugly. Everything has taken a back seat since then.
Not even rumors of Jennifer Aniston being pregnant can get the proper coverage it deserves. His favorite topic this week? Every night he's asking Republicans why they won't denounce the talk show host for saying he wants President Obama to fail. Perhaps it's because they don't want to fulfill Rahm Emanuel 's prophecy that you'll end up apologizing to the radio host if you take him on. Look at Emanuel's track record. Miss Cleo better hope Rahm doesn't get an number.
Texas Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul was a guest of Shuster's last week and wouldn't take his bait. But, unlike most Republicans, he wasn't afraid to criticize Limbaugh. Did he complain about George Bush? Did he complain about all those wars that were going on that caused us so much trouble? And I will be quite willing to challenge Rush Limbaugh on those issues. But just to pick out a word or two and say, he is wrong, I don't think that solves any problems.
Paul's comments didn't satisfy Shuster. He wouldn't. That gave him a cult-like following from the beginning. Trump sort of inherited it. When Trump surprised him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom last February 4th, in a State of the Union stunt the day after Limbaugh originally announced his lung-cancer diagnosis, it gave the year-old host a fresh gust of attention and, best of all, controversy.
But now the Dear Leader had given him a special stamp of approval that made his voice resonate more resoundingly across the right-wing media machine than it had for years.
A week after the medal, Limbaugh kept his buzz going the old-fashioned way, kicking up a new round of cheers and condemnation by mocking the presidential prospects of Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, against that god of masculine virility, President Trump. But that was just the old song and dance, minus any of the old verve. Limbaugh soon had a subject better suited for the darker talents of his later years.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God! Afraid of a virus? Rush Limbaugh, stage 4 cancer patient, had a message: Real Americans are made of sterner stuff. Pay no heed to Dr. Whoever is behind Biden is anonymous. And then, of course, down will come the hammer of black-supremacist socialism on what used to be America — by any means necessary. This was perfectly plausible, in the right-wing bubble, because stealing elections and governing by force are precisely the things that Democrats do.
Exactly the same proclivities. You govern by force. In some respects, it still seemed surprising to hear Rush Limbaugh, super-patriot, flag-hugger extraordinaire, say such things. And Limbaugh had a lot to do with changing it.
Limbaugh taught white Americans to distrust truth and democracy with equal vehemence. I truly believe that. The send-offs will be as fragmented as the political landscape Limbaugh will leave behind. What mattered most about Limbaugh was never primarily whom he helped elect, or which groups of people he offended, or why. It was the effect he had on his fans — on the millions of white conservatives he coddled, flattered, tickled, entertained, disinformed, fearmongered, and pulled into a counterfactual universe that became darker over time.
And lastly, it was the way he, more than any other single person, created the conditions for an anti-democratic Republican Party. I mean, he was still on this February! Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator.
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