Rush Limbaugh was one of many individuals most liable for spreading racism, misogyny and making America a extra divided nation.
Limbaugh pioneered the mannequin that may later be utilized by Fox Information and politically operationally weaponized by Donald Trump. Limbaugh will all the time be remembered for his racist assaults on Barack and Michelle Obama, however Limbaugh’s racism didn’t finish when Obama took workplace. He called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uppity.
Limbaugh mocked Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Illness:
As Republicans mourn the dying of Rush Limbaugh, I am going to all the time bear in mind him; calling Obama a “home negro”, making enjoyable of Kurt Cobain’s suicide, RGBs most cancers, and naturally Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s illness.pic.twitter.com/1mSBlWC7HC
— 🌲Andy 👣from 👣Oregon🌲 (@AndrewFmOregon) February 17, 2021
Nonetheless, it was the Sandra Fluke scandal that ended Limbaugh’s time as a related political media determine. Limbaugh launched a sequence of sexist assaults on Fluke that lastly introduced his vile conduct to the general public eye. A chronic advertiser boycott led to Limbaugh’s present being dumped or demoted across the nation. Limbaugh and the stations that carried him misplaced thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of {dollars}, and the earthquake {that a} standard riot prompted killed the right-wing speak radio format.
Trump used his final State Of The Union to give the Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh, which was an try by Trump to gimmick his approach to reelection.
Rush Limbaugh shall be mourned by his household and buddies, however he was not an important American. Limbaugh was a person who profited off of spreading hate. He used his platform to make a much less united and extra divided nation.
We must always bear in mind Rush Limbaugh for what he actually was and be sure that none of his type once more rise to soil and stain the material of our nation.
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Mr. Easley is the founder/managing editor, who’s White Home Press Pool, and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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