They were part of something much bigger than themselves. “Million by million, listeners got more from their radio speakers than whatever Limbaugh said into his microphone: They learned that while they might be ideological outliers in their families, their workplaces, their schools or their neighborhoods, they weren’t alone. In a graceful tribute to the dying Limbaugh before the election, my former Tribune colleague John McCormick in wondered if his loyal audience would give Rush one last election victory in November. Think of all the forgotten in blue states, now, with public discourse dominated by liberal viewpoints. Until Limbaugh came along, and later Fox News, there was no mass media outlet that reflected conservative sensibilities. He was a kingmaker for former President Donald Trump when he told his audience that Trump “is one of us.” They live in what’s derisively called “flyover country,” marginalized by the Washington political establishment, both Democrat and Republican. And unlike Buckley, and perhaps even more so than Reagan, Limbaugh spoke directly to the forgotten Americans. has there been such an important conservative voice in America. Not since the late President Ronald Reagan and William F. And he understood instinctively that big government and big liberal corporate media and their Big Tech masters are adversaries of individual liberty. He went public with his addiction to painkillers, as portions of his audience were going through similar chaos. Limbaugh was a man with public warts and a bombastic, albeit entertaining manner who, on the radio, trolled his political and philosophical opponents before they controlled Twitter, infuriating them and inspiring their hatred.īut he embraced those warts. And he unapologetically made millions of dollars doing it, which fed the rage of his detractors. I prefer to mourn Limbaugh as a great American, a great conservative, a tremendously talented broadcaster who loved his country and its traditions of individual liberty. And if you wish to read that sort of thing, I’m positive you’ll find it elsewhere. I won’t begin to dignify them with a response. But many were filled with glee and rapture that their great enemy was gone. When conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh died, it took only seconds for the vultures of the left to swoop down and begin picking at the public corpse.
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