You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh in In John K. Wilson's book, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason , the host was quoted as saying this homophobic statement: "When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation.
The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. Call 'em gangs. During The Rush Limbaugh Show in , he said , "If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.
The white race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world. Even that question, "Who is that a real conservative?
Arthur Brooks yesterday is talking about are you ready for this? I saw that, and I really stopped on a dime and did a double-take. Look at who they think low-information voters are inside the Beltway! The point is, look who they think the low-information voters are. Look who the inside-the-Beltway people think the LIVs are. You people! According to Arthur Brooks, you who support Trump are the mind-numbed, uneducated, uninformed low-information voters, and they are confident that you're gonna see the light at some point.
That's what I meant about this been a barnburner weekend … Now, there are pieces being written by conservative intellectuals explaining who the real conservatives are and who the real conservatives aren't and what makes a real conservative and what constitutes a fake conservative. And if you support Trump, you are a fake conservative, and you are dangerous, and somehow you're gonna have to be rescued and brought back into the fold here.
But you are under the spell of some Svengali i. That is outright mockery of the notion that Trump is duping conservatives. After another break, Limbaugh told his audience that the Trump position on immigration was both the only rational position for a Republican Party that wants to avoid an influx of illegal immigrants that end up voting for Democrats, and a position that an outright majority of Americans actually support.
He said that if not for Beltway elites, it is the immigration policy that the United States would have, and speculated that Trump might cause everyone to adopt something similar. The American people haven't seen anything like this. It's a teachable moment here. Standing up for what you believe after you say it and doubling down on it is rewarding. All of this so-called political correctness has been a myth. Oh, it's there.
But the fact that the American people on a majority basis buy into it has been a myth. So that's why the me-toos are now going to start springing up. Fight back against some of this stuff! That's not what this is all about. The inside-the-Beltway people are even mischaracterizing this. What was he for , exactly? Plainly enough, he was also a champion of white male privilege and Buchanan-style xenophobia to put it mildly.
But try — even today — naming one policy that Rush Limbaugh famously pushed, or one conservative idea he advanced. Which might sound kind of innocuous on the surface.
Except that, for Limbaugh, the superiority of our side and the inferiority of them was, increasingly over the years, a deadly serious matter. It became tribal warfare. Long before Fox hosts began amplifying the fringier theories about American politics, Limbaugh was busy mainstreaming Wingnut World. The conspiracy cranks, the John Birchers, the Christian Zionists, the science deniers, the InfoWarriors — their wildest fantasies, fears, and paranoias all came out to play in national prime time on The Rush Limbaugh Show , repackaged by the host into palatable fare for the Republican masses.
Bush to the hilt in the s, Limbaugh had understandably lost a bit of his oomph and his audience. He was still the loudest voice in the right-wing echo chamber, maybe, but it was harder to be heard in there.
The ascent of a black president gave Limbaugh his bite back. But something snapped in Limbaugh, just as surely as in his listeners, when the black man won. This was openly rooting for a president, and thus for the country, to bomb. Right in the middle of a devastating recession and two unwinnable wars.
Not, he insisted, because Obama was black. Here was a president capable, among other terrifying things, of normalizing non-white rule in America.
One universe is an entire lie. Everything run, dominated, and controlled by the left here and around the world is a lie. Fortunately, with Democratic fascism looming so close, white America still had one last thing going for it, one last flicker of hope.
Limbaugh served as a sort of original model for Trump — the comic-blowhard authoritarian who provides endless entertainment, infallible-though-incredible wisdom, and marching orders for the tribe. Instead, he seemed to understand the rise of Trump, and Trumpism, as a sort of capstone to his decades of deranging the masses. There was more than a touch of narcissism in that prediction, no doubt. He knew that the vast majority of Republicans were fully prepared to take a character like Trump seriously as a political force.
After all, look how seriously they had taken him. 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.
These are the first words of reader feedback I received about my column on the death of Rush Limbaugh , who died Feb. When I heard that Limbaugh died, I shrugged, nothing more.
I kept eating my lunch without any pause, I wrote. I get the point you hate us. We hate you. Go to hell. You are a disgusting excuse for life and it is YOU that will rot in hell for saying, thinking and expressing such hatred. Eat expletive and die maggot.
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