![]() ![]() He married Roxy McNeely, a radio sales executive, in 1977 they divorced in 1980.īy then Limbaugh was working with the Kansas City Royals baseball team in group ticket sales and special events, and in 1983 he married Michelle Sixta, an usherette in the Royals’ Stadium Club. In Kansas City his morning current affairs talkshow on KUDL, then an evening talk show on KFIX, both ended in sackings for what he described as differences with management at this point he considered himself a “moderate failure”. He was then fired from a night-time show in Pittsburgh when new management took over. He did poorly at school, then quit Southeast Missouri State University after a year and found a job with a radio station in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, as “Bachelor Jeff Christie”, but was fired after he told a black caller he claimed to find difficult to understand to “take the bone out of your nose and call again”. His mother, Mildred (nee Armstrong), was the family clown, and encouraged “Rusty” in his love of radio. Limbaugh (pronounced “LIM baw”) was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, into a family of conservative judges that included his father, whose name was also Rush. In recent years the independent fact-checking site PolitiFact consistently rated Limbaugh high in terms of “pants on fire” untruths, and just as consistently at zero on truths. His listeners, whom he dubbed “ditto-heads”, ate it up, while those who were offended often tuned in to express their disgust. When he cut off callers on air, he would play a vacuum cleaner noise, shouting “caller abortion”. “Have you ever noticed how composite sketches of criminals always look like Jesse Jackson?” he asked. He argued that the existence of gorillas disproved evolution, characterised both the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (2010) and the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand (2019) as “false flag” operations organised by leftists, and accused the Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe of allowing the Charlottesville rioting in 2017 to worsen in order to boost his presidential ambitions. Limbaugh set the tone for the internet age of politics, calling women’s rights activists “feminazis”, referring to HIV/Aids as “Rock Hudson’s disease” and claiming “environmentalist wackos” were “a bunch of scientists organised around a political position”. His broadcasts, featuring attacks on opponents as purveyors of “fake news”, became the template for TV’s Fox News, and at its peak this approach played a big part in Newt Gingrich’s “Republican Revolution” of 1994, which recaptured the House of Representatives from Bill Clinton’s Democrats. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Rush Limbaugh, who has died aged 70 after suffering from cancer, virtually created the style of political “shock jock” radio that made him so influential. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account He renewed his contact with the syndication company Premiere Radio Networks in early January. Trump appeared on his show two weeks ago in lieu of the canceled second presidential debate. He is a Republican party icon and a close ally of President Trump’s. Limbaugh has been hosting “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in national syndication for more than 30 years. We all know that we’re going to die at some point, but when you have a terminal disease diagnosis that has a time frame to it, then that puts a different psychological and even physical awareness to it.” “It’s tough to realize that the days where I do not think I’m under a death sentence are over,” Limbaugh said. Limbaugh said his doctors changed his medications in “hopes of keeping additional progression at bay for as long as possible.” Prior to this week’s update, he said that cancer “had been reduced, and it had become manageable.” The 69-year-old was diagnosed with lung cancer in February. He later added: “It’s not dramatic, but it is the wrong direction.” “The scans did show some progression of cancer,” he told listeners of his radio show. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk show radio host, is battling stage 4 lung cancer and said Monday he’s had a setback in his prognosis. ![]()
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