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Rush Limbaugh, RIP

Wednesday, February 17th, 2021

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has died of cancer at age 70.

Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday after a year-long battle with cancer.

Limbaugh’s death at age 70 was announced Wednesday on his influential conservative radio program, by his wife, Kathryn.

Limbaugh announced last February that he was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.

Although the cancer was expected to quickly kill Limbaugh, he received treatment and continued to host his radio program over the year.

Shortly after his diagnosis, then-President Donald Trump surprised Limbaugh at last year’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Then-first lady Melania Trump put the medal around Limbaugh’s neck.

“The Rush Limbaugh Show” premiered in 1988, airing for 33 years.

Limbaugh’s program went on the air at a time when conservative media outlets were few and far between. Liberal opinion dominated all the broadcast networks, Time, Newsweek, NPR and most newspapers. He was a breath of fresh air, and became notably more conservative after Desert Storm. Straight from the git-go, liberals hated him for daring to bust up their media monopoly, and liberal Twitter is reacting to his death with exactly the sort of grace and tact you’d expect.

(With a side helping of wishing Henry Kissinger dead as well.)

Limbaugh always opened his show with the quote “…with talent on loan from God,” and now he gets to give it back.

A few tributes: