Rush Limbaugh

{{Bronze}}[[File:Rush Limbaugh (49291182727) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|165px|Limburger cheese, smeared with pungent bacteria, is the smelliest cheese in the world.<ref>[https://www.mashed.com/312242/read-this-before-taking-another-bite-of-limburger-cheese/ Read This Before Taking Another Bite Of Limburger Cheese]. ''Mashed.''</ref> Limbaugh's face is even less appealing.]]{{Pundits}}
{{cquote|Women are having so much sex they can't afford their birth control.|||Rush's [[zero|understanding of health 101]]}}
{{aquote|I've got the solution to most crime in America. From this day forward, somebody propose it, liberals should [[Gun control|not be allowed to buy guns]]. It's just that simple. Liberals [[Hypocrisy|should have their speech controlled and not be allowed to buy guns]].|||Rush thinking he has the solution to America's problems<ref>[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/01/18/ban_guns_and_free_speech_for_libs/ Ban Guns and Free Speech for Libs]. ''Rush Limbaugh Show.''</ref>}}
'''Rush Hudson Limbaugh III''' {{lived|1951|2021}}, also known as "Rash Libel", was an [[United States|American]] [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]], a liar, and a [[bigot]] with a vile sense of humor and braindead opinions, who hosted '''''The Rush Limbaugh Show''''' (TRLS) from 1988 until 2021. Hatched from a slimy pit in Cape Girardeau, [[Missouri]], Limbaugh hit the big time after the [[Ronald Reagan]] administration revoked the [[Fairness Doctrine]], allowing his rise to promimence by pandering to the prejudices and worst impulses of white middle class America all without having to worry about actually telling the truth as well as been credited with reviving [[conservative talk radio|AM]] [[radio]] in the United States. He is also widely viewed as the catalyst for the [[Republican Party]]'s congressional victories in 1994. When high-ranking Republicans disagreed with him in public, they were [[conservative correctness|required]] to kiss his [[asshole|ring]] and apologize.<ref name="kiss make up">Allen, Mike, [https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/steele-to-rush-im-sorry-019517 "Steele to Rush: I'm sorry"], Politico (03/02/09 05:58 PM EST).</ref>

Rush fans are known colloquially as "dittoheads", a label that his most loyal listeners wore like a [[anti-intellectualism|badge of honor]]. They listened to TRLS because Rush told them things they wanted to hear and made them feel like they weren't crazy to have right-wing political leanings from the early 20th century. One of the most amazing things is that a cretin like Rush had found so much acceptance from the [[evangelical Christians]]; he gave them a platform and [[persecution complex|reinforced their religious angst]].

In March 2012, while taking aim at the politicized [[birth control]] issue, Limbaugh seemed to have [[proll|largely overstepped common decency]], but somehow remained on the air and kept making as much money as ever.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/celebrities/list/#tab:overall The World's Highest-Paid Celebrities] (December 9, 2017). ''Forbes''. Retrieved July 17, 2018.</ref> In honor of his major role in creating the exact sort of divisive, caustic political environment that would be necessary to get someone like [[Donald Trump]] elected as President, Trump awarded Limbaugh the {{wpl|Presidential Medal of Freedom}} in February 2020.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/04/trump-presidential-medal-freedom-rush-limbaugh-110757 "Trump to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh"] by Gabby Orr, Daniel Lippmann, and Meridith McGraw, Politico, 2020 February 4</ref>

In January 2020, Rush Limbaugh had a confirmed diagnosis of advanced lung cancer, and underwent treatment in February.<ref>WQAD Digital Team, (February 3, 2020). "[https://wqad.com/2020/02/03/rush-limbaugh-says-he-has-been-diagnosed-with-advanced-lung-cancer/ Rush Limbaugh says he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer]". ''WQAD''. Retrieved February 3, 2020.</ref> Limbaugh was a known [[tobacco]] smoker and denialist ("I would like a medal for smoking cigars"),<ref>[https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-rush-limbaugh-smoking-effects-cancer-diagnosis-20200203-4ma66mowazektovzh7hg2aynhq-story.html Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: 'I would like a medal for smoking cigars'] by David Matthews (Feb 03, 2020 | 3:57 PM) ''Daily News''.</ref> so it should not have surprised anyone. In October 2020, he announced that he was finally going to shut up, as his cancer was terminal.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/media/rush-limbaugh-cancer-update-trnd/index.html "Rush Limbaugh says his lung cancer is terminal,"] ''CNN''.</ref> On February 17, 2021, Rush Limbaugh emitted a death gurgle, and multiple outlets reported him dead at age 70. His death was confirmed on the same day by his wife at the start of his radio program.<ref>Folkenflik, D. (February 17, 2021). "[https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/926491419/talk-show-host-rush-limbaugh-a-conservative-lodestar-dies-at-70?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh, A Conservative Lodestar, Dies At 70]". ''NPR''. Accessed January 10, 2022.</ref>{{efn|"#restinpiss" and "#rotinhell" soon trended on Twitter.}}

==Views==
[[File:President Trump at the Trump International Golf Club (47625294312).jpg|thumb|right|350px|Limbaugh with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald Trump]] at the latter's golf club]]

===Promotion of pseudoscience===
{{cquote|This news that there is flowing [[water]] on [[Mars]] is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda.|||On the dangers of Martian leftism<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/after-nasa-announces-it-found-water-mars-rush-limbaugh-says-its-part-climate-change After NASA Announces It Found Water On Mars, Rush Limbaugh Says It's Part Of A Climate Change Conspiracy] September 28, 2015 2:35 PM EDT. ''Media Matters''.</ref>}}

====Climate change and the environment====
As is the case with most conservative pundits, Limbaugh shilling for the rich and powerful also extended to popularizing fossil-fuel-friendly propaganda talking points among his listeners that downplayed or flat-out denied the dangers of environmental pollution and the effects of climate change.

A caller inquires, "Your belief in [[God]], how does that tell you that global warming is a hoax?" Rush explains how it ought to be: "I just intellectually cannot accept the fact that a loving God which has created all this beauty and has blessed this country &mdash; I cannot believe that a God like that &mdash; would punish the human being he created for progress, for improving the quality of his life [bla bla babble bla babble bla bla]".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20100228032652/http://www.rushlimbaugh.com:80/home/daily/site_112409/content/01125112.guest.html 3 Trees Said to Prove Warming!]</ref>

God might punish some obscure [[Africa]]n tribe with a miserable [[malaria]] infection, but only if they don't get it together, have their family learn a new language, and sell enough ten-cent wooden spoons to relocate to [[United States|God's country]]. Asking us to give up a four-hour commute going 5 MPH in traffic, breathing automobile exhaust and plasticizers, with the AC fighting the solar oven effect &mdash; what kind of a cruel God would ask us to give up this prosperous lifestyle?

However, Limbaugh argues, even if the polar ice caps melted it wouldn't cause sea levels to rise--because if the ice cubes in a glass of water melts, the amount of water doesn't change. Of course, the planet is nothing like a glass of water so in reality if all the polar ice caps melted the sea levels would rise by about two hundred feet.<ref name=FAIR>''The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error''. New Press</ref>{{rp|17}}

====Creationism====
Limbaugh did not speak regularly about his belief in [[evolution]] or [[creationism]], but he occasionally blew off [[fossil]] findings and denounced evolution as more or less [[bullshit]]. He espoused explicit belief in creationism at one time or another.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100309054820/http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051909/content/01125104.guest.html Monkey Fossil Hailed as Missing Link], Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page, May 19, 2009, Limbaugh's website (archived copy)<!--("Stack of Stuff" got wadded into one huge page, online as-of 2020-09-22 at https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/06/03/stack_of_stuff_quick_hits_page/ - but dates are all lost and you have to search on the page for it.)--></ref><ref>[https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/rush-limbaugh-evolution-liberalism/ Rush Limbaugh: Evolution = Liberalism], Sensuous Curmudgeon</ref> In Limbaugh's opinion, [[How come there are still monkeys?|evolution could not possibly true because gorillas and other animals in zoos do not become human]].<ref>[https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2016/06/01/rush-limbaugh-evolution-is-false-because-that-cincinnati-zoo-gorilla-never-turned-into-a-human/ Rush Limbaugh: Evolution is False Because That Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Never Turned Into a Human]</ref>

====Others====
{{cquote|[...] the radicals are gonna try to get hold of these ticks and mass produce them, mass grow 'em and spread 'em all over the country in order to get people to stop eating beef [...] If you're a [[vegetarian]] and you don't realize there's a political agenda attached to what you're doing, [[wake up|you're being duped.]]|||<ref>[https://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/08/rush-limbaugh-insanely-claims-liberals-ticks-force-people-vegetarians.html "Rush Limbaugh Insanely Claims Liberals Want To Use Ticks To Force People To Be Vegetarians"], Politicus USA (8//8/14 at 3:15 pm).</ref>}}

Limbaugh entertained the idea of [[abiotic oil]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090703104805/http://www.nukefreezone.net/archives/000798.html Stupid Pride]</ref> because even ''Soviet'' crankery wasn't a bridge too far for him if it helped further his agenda.

Limbaugh [[anti-vaccination movement|fearmongered about the flu vaccine]]; his opposition to the vaccination, however, seemed to be mostly based on the fact that the government recommended it, and he didn't wanna!<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/beck-limbaugh-fomenting-fear-about-h1n1-vaccine Beck, Limbaugh fomenting fear about H1N1 vaccine]</ref>

==="Phony soldiers"===
A phony soldier, according to Limbaugh (who was not accepted for military service because of a big cyst on his ass),<ref>[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-draft/ Did Rush Limbaugh Avoid the Draft Due to an Anal Cyst?]</ref>{{efn|His father managed to serve in World War Two despite having the same condition<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|30}}}} was any soldier who served in Iraq and then spoke out against the [[Iraq War]]. This definition was expanded by other [[chickenhawk]]s to include decorated [[Vietnam War]] veterans such as Jack Murtha and [[John Kerry]], who were also critical of that war.

===General stupidity===
[[File:Rushlimbaughshowlogo.png|thumb|right|250px|''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' logo]]

*Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking symptoms of Parkinson's disease.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102400691.html Limbaugh on the offensive against ad with Michael J. Fox]</ref>
*Limbaugh doesn't like [[environmentalism|environmentalists]]. He believes they were ultimately responsible for the 2010 BP oil spill.<ref>[http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/05/has-he-gone-too-far-rush-limbaugh-suggests-environmentalists-planned-oil-spill/1 Has he gone too far?]</ref> He's also under impression that most of them are a bunch of secular [[atheism|atheists]], of course, since if they don't worship God, they must think nature instead has a deity characteristic!<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091206074811/http://atheism.about.com/b/2004/05/03/rush-limbaugh-on-atheists.htm Rush Limbaugh on atheists]</ref>{{better source}}
*Limbaugh thought [[political correctness]] and [[ACORN]] caused the [[banking crisis]].<ref>[https://fair.org/extra/scapegoating-minorities-for-failures-of-banking/ Scapegoating Minorities for Failures of Banking], January 1, 2009, FAIR</ref>
*Limbaugh made an incredibly [[racism|racist]] imitation of [[China|Chinese]] president, which consisted of him saying "Chin chau gon don gong kao song" for almost five minutes. He was forced to apologize by the Asian community.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2011/01/21/colbert_rush_limbaugh/ Colbert hurt by Rush Limbaugh's Chinese impression]</ref>
*According to Limbaugh, if one receives taxpayer-paid [[birth control]], their acts should be posted online for everyone (presumably him) to see.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/rush-limbaughs-attack-on-sandra-fluke-was-hate-speech/2012/03/02/gIQAZVxrmR_blog.html Limbaugh on Georgetown University law student Sandra "Sally" Fluke]</ref>
*Defended the brutal [[Christianity|Christian]] [[terrorism|terrorist]] group, the [[Lord's Resistance Army]], when [[Barack Obama|Obama]] announced he was sending military advisors to help fight them.<ref>[http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians|Official transcript]</ref>
*Decided that a hidden lesson of the [[Boston Marathon bombing]] was that white people are ''horribly oppressed'' while dark-skinned people are not, mainly because a ''white'' suspect would've been more readily identified and his background information revealed.<ref>[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2013/04/19/the-boston-bombings-and-white-privilege/#more-18106 The Boston Bombings and White Privilege], Dispatches from the Culture Wars</ref>
*Limbaugh once claimed that Styrofoam and plastic are biodegradable but paper isn't.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|19}}

==="Family values"===
[[File:Rush Limbaugh & Donald Trump (49290976201).jpg|thumb|right|275px|Limbaugh with a man who's cheated on all three of his wives]]

{{cquote|If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.|||Limbaugh complaining that the "left" sends the "rape police" whenever rape happens<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-left-sends-out-rape-police-whenever-theres-sex-no-consent-also-known-rape Limbaugh: The Left Sends Out "The Rape Police" Whenever There's Sex With "No Consent" (Also Known As Rape)]. ''Media Matters.''</ref>}}

*Limbaugh spent years railing against drug users and addicts, calling for harsh penalties for them.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120308191949/http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1159 "Limbaugh on Drugs"], Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, November/December 2003 (archived copy)</ref> When it came out in 2003 that he was an [[opium|OxyContin]] addict,<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh/ "Limbaugh admits addiction to pain medication"], 2003 October 10, CNN.com</ref> he considered it somehow different when ''[[hypocrite|he]]'' was the one abusing drugs rather than other people, to the point of acting flippantly dismissive when caught with a Viagra bottle that was not prescribed to him three years later.<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-detained-with-viagra/ "Rush Limbaugh Detained With Viagra"], 2006 Jun 27, CBS / AP</ref>
*Limbaugh was married four times. His third marriage ceremony, in 1994, was officiated by kiss-ass [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] Justice [[Clarence Thomas]] and held at Thomas' house.<ref>[https://www.today.com/popculture/rush-limbaugh-announces-end-his-third-marriage-wbna5191534 "Rush Limbaugh announces end of his third marriage"], Today.com / Associated Press, 2004 June 11</ref> His fourth marriage involved a performance by his [[friend argument|token gay friend]] {{wpl|Elton John}}, at the cost of $1 million.<ref>[https://people.com/celebrity/elton-john-sings-at-rush-limbaughs-4th-wedding/ "Elton John Sings at Rush Limbaugh's 4th Wedding"], Stephen M. Silverman, People.com, 2010-June-06</ref> ([[Irony|Ironically]], given Rush Limbaugh's history of using [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] to make [[racism|racist]] and [[homophobia|homophobic]] "jokes",<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-aids-hasnt-made-jump-heterosexual-community "Limbaugh: AIDS "hasn't made that jump to the heterosexual community""], Andrew Seifter, Media Matters, 2004 June 15</ref> all earnings from Elton John's private concerts go to his charity, the {{wpl|Elton John AIDS Foundation}}.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-weddings-idUSTRE5830TB20090904 "World's most expensive wedding performers? Take a guess"], Reuters, 2009 September 4</ref>) 
*He never had any [[children]] of his own<ref group=note>Fortunately &mdash; cursed by the baby Jeebus?</ref>, despite going after same-sex marriage by declaring "Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution."<ref> ''The I hate Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity-- reader : the hideous truth about America's ugliest conservatives'' by Clint Willis</ref>{{rp|87}}

==Status as a conservative==
[[File:Rush Limbaugh at CPAC (2009).jpg|thumb|right|165px|Limbaugh at CPAC, 2009]]

Rush claimed to be the "prestigious Attila the Hun chair" of the "Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies". Or perhaps he was sitting in it. In 1995 Limbaugh touted the Zogby Poll as the most accurate because Zogby did not show President [[Bill Clinton]]'s approval ratings as high as other mainstream news organizations did. Limbaugh became responsible for the little-known pollster's growing success, so much so that by 2016 Zogby was among a handful of Democratic [[superdelegate]]s backing insurgent [[Bernie Sanders]]. ''Heckofajob'', Rush!

===Rush, political boss===
{{cquote|So I shamelessly say, no, I want him to fail, if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say [[socialism]], as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?|||Rush Limbaugh on President Obama, 2009<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/sep/13/mark-strama/mark-strama-says-rush-limbaugh-made-it-clear-hed-r/ Mark Strama Says Rush Limbaugh made it clear he'd rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed.] ''Politifact.''</ref>}}

By the spring of 2009, Limbaugh began to be seen as the ''de facto'' leader of the [[Republican Party]]. Following a controversial on-air statement to his own party about "wanting [[Barack Obama|Obama]] to fail", Limbaugh demanded the apologies of prominent Republicans [[Eric Cantor]] and [[Michael Steele]] for saying his comments were unacceptable;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090306035316/http://www.dailykos.com:80/storyonly/2009/3/2/13503/89801/65/703693 Leadership struggle between Steele and Rush], kos, Mar 02 2009, Daily Kos: State of the Nation (archived copy)</ref> both promptly apologized.<ref name="kiss make up"/> White House spokesman Robert Gibbs challenged Republicans to come out and say "Limbaugh is wrong, we do not want this country or the President to fail". To date, no Republican has publicly said Limbaugh was wrong, implying who ''really'' ran the GOP.

===Political action===
None, other than the failed "Operation Chaos" attempt to destroy the [[Democratic Party]] in the [[United States]], so move along.

==The Sandra Fluke catastrophic meltdown==
[[File:Ms. magazine Cover - Spring-Summer 2012.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sandra Fluke on the cover of ''Ms. Magazine'']]

{{cquote|Everything is fine on the business side. Everything is cool. Not a single thing to worry about.|20|20|Rush on March 9, 2012, after over 50 sponsors had left the show}}

===Background===
On February 29, 2012, after literal decades of [[misogynist]] tirades,<ref name=feminazi>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/feminazi-history-limbaughs-trademark-slur-against-women “Feminazi”: The History Of Limbaugh's Trademark Slur Against Women]</ref> chants of "liberal [[feminazi]]",<ref name=feminazi/> and attempts to degrade any woman in power (not to mention equally ugly treatment of lesbians, gays, liberals, thinkers, [[science|scientist]]s he disagreed with, etc.), Rush finally crossed the line with language so offensive that even his own party questioned his stance.

In late February, congressional Republicans and Republican candidates for President began to call out then-President [[Barack Obama|Obama]] on his mandatory inclusion of [[birth control]] in insurance plans offered by any employer ("It violates our religious freedom!" they claimed). In a House hearing on the whole thing, five ''men'' were invited to testify about why it was important to protect religious freedom and how providing birth control ''via insurance'' violates their freedoms. Sandra Fluke, a 30-year-old law student and otherwise private citizen, intended to testify before Congress about this [[contraception]] requirement and the Blunt Amendment, which would allow employers the ability to deny women contraception, or any other medical care, from their insurance plans based on their religious beliefs. She was denied her right to testify in front of the committee by the Republican Chair as being "unqualified". An uproar hit the political world, media and social networks. And for what it's worth, the testimony she was to give, which was later broadcast on national television (but not to the Committees), was about a friend who needed birth control to treat cysts in the ovaries, a part of {{wpl|polycystic ovarian syndrome}} (birth control is also used to treat the other aspects of PCOS, including irregular periods, unwanted body hair and acne) &mdash; a medication that the religious institution they attended would not pay for, due to "religious beliefs".

===Backtalk===
[[File:The Testimony Chairman Issa Doesn't Want You to Hear.ogv|thumbtime=56|thumb |Sandra Fluke reading a prepared statement for Congress in February 2012.]]
{{cquote|What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps.|||Limbaugh's brain melts live on air<ref name="fluke">{{wpa|Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy|}}</ref>}}

That's when Limbaugh stepped into the total shitstorm. He called Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "[[prostitute]]", which alone would not have likely been a problem, but he carried on with similar language for three days, escalating the ugliness of his attacks each day. Limbaugh even suggested that if women such as Fluke expected the government (i.e., the American taxpayers) to pay for their birth control, then "we" (the American taxpayers) should be able to watch video of their sexual activities.<ref name="fluke"/> All this against a young woman who didn't even mention sex, outside of a basic acknowledgment of what birth control is for, who was merely trying to explain her point of view which involved ''someone else's'' situation rather than hers. In addition, Limbaugh seemed to have forgotten that (since there ''is no public option'') health insurance is necessarily private insurance, ''not paid for by taxpayers'' in the first place. So his own attack didn't even make sense on its own terms.

Limbaugh also appeared to have little room to attack anyone's sexual private life, since he was caught carrying Viagra back from a trip to the Dominican Republic despite being unmarried at the time. He described the trip to his audience: "I had a great time in the Dominican Republic. Wish I could tell you about it."<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-detained-with-viagra/ Limbaugh's arrest]</ref> The Dominican Republic is known as a vacation spot for "[[Prostitution|sex tourists]]".<ref>[https://www.wired.com/2001/07/the-web-where-pimps-roam-free/ The Web, Where 'Pimps' Roam Free], July 7, 2001, Wired</ref>

As if his insults against Fluke and women in general weren't enough, later within the same week, referring to a woman with a Bachelor's degree, he actually asked: "What is it with all these young, single, white women? Overeducated doesn't mean intelligent,"<ref>[https://www.rawstory.com/2012/03/limbaugh-blasts-overeducated-young-single-white-women/ "Limbaugh Blasts 'Overeducated' Young Single White Women"], The Raw Story</ref> which makes one wonder what the word "overeducated" could possibly mean.

===Backlash===
{{cquote|What do we have to do to make the women realize we don't hate 'em? Change our attitude on abortion? Where does this stuff stop?|||Limbaugh in 2013<ref>[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/06/18/my_response_to_senator_graham_s_rationale_for_supporting_amnesty/ My Response to Senator Graham's Rationale for Supporting Amnesty]. ''Rush Limbaugh Show.''</ref>}}

In the aftermath of the Fluke affair, Limbaugh's show lost over 50 advertisers,<ref>[https://thinkprogress.org/rush-limbaughs-advertisers-facing-social-media-firestorm-36d95200308e/ "Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers Facing Social Media Firestorm"], ThinkProgress</ref> was dropped from two radio stations,<ref>[https://thinkprogress.org/second-radio-station-drops-limbaugh-770112040b9/ "Second Ratio Station drops Limbaugh"], ThinkProgress</ref> and was even taken off the purchase list of one advertising agency.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190825185453/http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/mar/07/youngstown-ad-agency-exec-pulls-clients-ads-limbau/ Youngstown ad agency exec pulls clients' ads from Limbaugh show]</ref> Also, the Canadian rock band Rush issued a cease-and-desist preventing their music from being played during Limbaugh's broadcasts.<ref>[https://www.rawstory.com/2012/03/limbaugh-threatened-with-lawsuit-by-supergroup-rush/ "Limbaugh threatened with lawsuit by supergroup Rush], The Raw Story</ref> This led to a hilarious situation where there was five minutes of dead air on Limbaugh's show, since the time normally reserved for advertisements was either empty or filled with public service announcements.<ref>[https://thinkprogress.org/rush-limbaugh-show-includes-over-5-minutes-of-dead-air-as-advertiser-exodus-continues-b14cfff8cf70/ Rush Limbaugh Show Includes Over 5 Minutes Of Dead Air As Advertiser Exodus Continues], Mar 8, 2012, ThinkProgress</ref> On March 9, 2012, even the public service announcements, which were running for free, pulled out.

On March 10, 98 companies, including Toyota, Ford and Allstate Insurance, informed Rush's network that they would no longer advertise on Rush's show... or any other offensive or controversial radio show, such as those hosted by [[Sean Hannity]] or [[Michael Savage]].<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaughs-advertiser-exodus-expands-exponentially Limbaugh's Advertiser Exodus Expands Exponentially], 03/10/2012, MediaMatters</ref> News site ThinkProgress managed to capture a memo from Premiere Networks<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/document/85058542/Premiere-Networks-List-Of-Advertisers-Asking-Not-To-Advertise-On-Limbaugh-And-Other-Right-Wing-Hosts "Premier Networks' List of Advertisers Asking Not To Advertise On Limbaugh and Other Right-Wing Hosts"]</ref> before the original page was deleted; the memo listed 141 advertisers who had asked not to sponsor these programs, including some rather big ones that normally benefit from such conservative associations, such as American Express, [[McDonald's]], [[Wal-Mart]], Wells Fargo, and the [[United States Army]].<ref>[https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-140-companies-drop-advertising-from-rush-limbaugh-update-142-4c4f8aea6fe5/ "EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh"], ThinkProgress</ref>

Even President Obama stepped into the discussion, calling Sandra Fluke personally, to say her parents "would be proud of her" despite Rush's ugly claim otherwise. He later said "[...] I thought about Malia and Sasha, and one of the things I want them to do as they get older is to engage in issues they care about; even ones I may not agree with them on. [...] And I don't want them attacked or called horrible names because they're being good citizens."

===Backpedal===
{{cquote|"I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for using those two words to describe her.}}

Limbaugh issued what he called an "apology", while claiming that the discussion was about "personal sexual recreational activities" (which, if he gave two shits about the problem, PCOS isn't about) and feeling sorry for stooping down to the level and tactics of liberals. Apparently a three-day, nonstop attack against one woman in particular, and in general women all around the world who use birth control in contexts no one would consider "slutty", is wrong simply because he should have used different words. Classy, Rush.

===Back assward===
Limbaugh, with his head firmly planted where the sun doesn't shine, said he was not losing any money or sleep over it, and was in fact amused that the feminazis<ref group=note>Ok, he didn't say that word, in this particular interview.</ref> are showing they have no power because they can't make him leave the air. Rumor has it that he also stomped his foot, stuck his fingers in his ears, stuck out his tongue, and said, "LALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU!"<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/limbaugh-advertiser-response-fluke_n_1326897 Rush Limbaugh Dismisses Advertiser Exodus: 'Everything Is Cool' (audio)], 03/07/2012, HuffPost</ref> However, Limbaugh's producers still scrubbed his website of the controversial comments.<ref>[https://thinkprogress.org/rushlimbaugh-com-removes-offensive-attacks-on-sandra-fluke-from-transcript-archives-ff0422e4db2/ RushLimbaugh.com Removes Offensive Attacks On Sandra Fluke From Transcript Archives], Mar 8, 2012, ThinkProgress</ref> On March 8, 2012, only two intentionally paid advertisers ran ads during his show&mdash;no word on how well he slept that night.

===Back pay===
On March 12, 2012, Limbaugh took a much-needed day off, and his program was filled in by Mark Steyn. At the same time, Premiere Networks released an order asking affiliates to "[p]lease replace/re-traffic any Premiere barter spots immediately. Contractual requirements to run barter spots are being suspended for these two weeks only. Replace them with Lifelock and Lear Financial<ref group=note>Who, apparently, are still sponsoring the show.</ref> or a local spot of your choice."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120315002728/http://www.radio-info.com/news/rush-syndicator-tells-newstalk-affiliates-not-to-run-its-barter-spots-for-2 Rush syndicator tells news/talk affiliates not to run its barter spots for 2 wks]</ref>

===Back to the megaphone===
On March 14, 2012, Limbaugh returned to his show to assert that he was not anti-woman, just [[antifeminism|anti-feminism]]. To further prove that he loved women, he continued to label the National Organization of Women as "NAGs", made references to his three marriages, and asserted that being a judge for the Miss America beauty pageant should be sufficient evidence, despite his previous statements.<ref>[https://www.rawstory.com/2012/03/limbaugh-judging-miss-america-proves-im-not-anti-woman/ Limbaugh: Judging Miss America proves I'm not anti-woman], March 14, 2012, Raw Story</ref>

One of the saddest things we can take away is knowing that this won't end ugly attacks based on ignorance of the female reproductive system. After this entire incident, there had been another unrelated incident where Republican talking head Jason Lewis spouted similar vile remarks.<ref>Shugerman, E. (July 19. 2018). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jason-lewis-women-sluts-radio-show-minnesota-republican-representative-a8455076.html Republican congressman Jason Lewis faces backlash after asking why it's unacceptable to call women 'sluts']. ''Independent''. Retrieved July 19, 2018.</ref>

==Other notable controversies==
[[File:Cartoon-glbt-95--Blabberwocky.jpg|thumb|right|350px|People already knew he was full of it back in 1995.]]
{{cquote|I mean, I don't know if it's just me, but it looks just like anything you'd see Madonna or Britney Spears do onstage—heh, yeah, [[moral equivalence|get an NEA grant for something like this!]]|||Limbaugh on the [[Abu Ghraib]] prisoner abuse scandal, 2004<ref>Andrew Seifter and Gabe Wildau, [https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-torture-iraqis-us-guards-were-having-good-time-blowing-some-steam Limbaugh on torture of Iraqis: U.S. guards were "having a good time," "blow(ing) some steam off"], Media Matters, 5/5/2004</ref>}}

*For some reason, ESPN concluded that Limbaugh was the voice of the average football fan and hired him to do "color commentary" during the 2003 NFL season (perhaps they confused it with John Madden, a reasonable mistake except that Madden already worked for [[Disney]]). This seemed to go well until Limbaugh said that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated and claimed that he was lionized because of his race rather than his talent (a reverse Isiah Thomas/Larry Bird incident). This cost Limbaugh his job, cementing his reputation, as he did constantly, as a "[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Rush-Limbaugh-Is-a-Big-Fat-Idiot/Al-Franken/e/9780440508649/?itm=1&USRI=al+%22rush+limbaugh%22+%22is+a+big+fat+idiot%22 big, fat idiot]." In the aftermath of this comment, nobody has found any evidence to back up Limbaugh's claim, but that hasn't stopped Limbaugh from defending it as recently as 2009.<ref name=Wilson>The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason by John K. Wilson</ref>{{rp|12}}
*Played the racist song "Barack the Magic Negro" during the 2008 presidential campaign.<ref>Parsons, C. (May 6, 2007). "[https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/limbaugh-draws-fire-on-obama-parody/ Limbaugh draws fire on Obama parody]". ''The Seattle Times''. Accessed February 22, 2022.</ref> The song drew from a provocative column in the ''Los Angeles Times''<ref>Ehrenstein, D. (March 19, 2007). "[https://www.latimes.com/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19-story.html  Obama the ‘Magic Negro’]". ''Los Angeles Times''. Accessed February 22, 2022.</ref> by a black writer who criticized Obama as a "{{wpl|Magical Negro}}", a trope in film for a generic, magical African-American character who supports the white protagonists. Limbaugh, too busy being edgy, probably missed out on the meat of the critique from that column. An Obama aide, however, believed not many people have taken this "dumb thing" seriously. He also referred to Obama and actress Halle Berry as "Halfrican" Americans in a similar vein to Brian Sussman, another unhinged conservative radio host.<ref>Serwer, A. (January 24, 2007). "[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-obama-halfrican-american Limbaugh on Obama: “Halfrican American”]". ''Media Matters''. Accessed February 22, 2022.</ref>
*In 1993, Limbaugh implied thirteen-year-old Chelsea Clinton was a dog.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882947,00.html Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh.] ''Time''</ref>
*Limbaugh compared Barack Obama's style of governing to that of [[Godwin's law|Adolf Hitler]].<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/limbaugh-adolf-hitler-lik_n_253412 Limbaugh: "Adolf Hitler, Like Barack Obama, Ruled By Dictate" (audio)], 09/06/2009, HuffPost</ref> (He was envious.)
*On July 2, 2010, he claimed that Obama created the [[Great Recession]] (which began ''before'' Obama was elected) as a payback for racism.<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-obama-creat_n_637716 Rush Limbaugh: Obama Created Recession As 'Payback' For Racism], 07/07/2010, HuffPost</ref>
*Limbaugh promised to leave the country if the Obama-driven healthcare bill<ref group=note>Note, Obama had yet to "write" a health care bill. All proposals were being originated in the Congress.</ref> passed: "I'll just tell you this, if this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented &mdash; I am leaving the country. I'll go to [[Costa Rica]] for healthcare."<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-ill-leave-country-over-health-bill/ Rush Limbaugh: I'll Leave Country Over Health Bill]</ref> Interestingly, Costa Rica has universal, nationalized health care. In addition, he decided to up the level of crazy when he Godwinned on the subject in March 2013. His belief is that the [[Affordable Care Act]] wasn't so much about expanding coverage to the under-insured or uninsured, as it was an effort by Obama to go all [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] on us since "healthcare has always been, nationalized healthcare has always been one of the first objectives of any of the famous totalitarian regimes. Hitler, national socialism, first thing he did, nationwide healthcare."<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/03/28/limbaugh-health-care-reform-just-like-hitler/ Limbaugh: Health Care Reform Just Like Hitler!] Dispatches From the Culture Wars</ref> However, public health care laws existed in [[Germany]] since 1883, and one of the few changes introduced by the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]] barred voluntary insurees from joining health care funds, thereby giving rise to private health insurance companies in Germany.<ref>[http://www.parteien-online.de/finanzen/entstehung-der-PKV/ History of private health insurance (German)]</ref> Likewise, according to Limbaugh, "the [[socialists]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]" also were for nationalized healthcare. However, he conveniently leaves out the fact that (a) [[Labour Party|Labour]] was part of the coalition government that directed British war efforts ''against'' Hitler, (b) won a large Parliamentary majority in a democratic election in 1945, against no less than [[Conservative Party (UK)|the party]] of beloved war leader [[Winston Churchill]], in which part of their program included a national health service, and (c) just as easily returned political power to the Conservatives after they beat them in another democratic election in 1951.<ref>{{wpl|List of United Kingdom general elections}}</ref> So much for hyperbole. He also appeared to be profoundly ignorant of the fact that the [[National Health Service]] still exists to this day regardless of which political party is in power, although the conservatives are trying to ruin it.
[[File:chickenhawks.gif|thumb|They so proudly wear this insignia.]]
*Rush made a brief off-handed comment about lesbians in his episode "The Left Needs the Supreme Court to Rule in Favor of Gay Marriage Because the People Won't"<ref>''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' (March 25, 2013) "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130328035656/http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/03/25/the_left_needs_the_supreme_court_to_rule_in_favor_of_gay_marriage_because_the_people_won_t The Left Needs the Supreme Court to Rule in Favor of Gay Marriage Because the People Won't]". Accessed February 22, 2022.</ref> (this has aged poorly; support for gay marriage in the United States is a majority, and even a small majority of Republicans support it).<ref>McCarthy, J. (June 8, 2021). "[https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same-sex-marriage.aspx Record-High 70% in U.S. Support Same-Sex Marriage]". ''Gallup''. Accessed February 22, 2022.</ref> He was apparently under the impression (aided by questionable, unidentified studies, of course) that most [[lesbians]] are obese substance abusers. You see, if there's no men to please (as if nonsexual relationships don't exist), women will just not care about their weight, but since women will have to care about other women, they'll get drunk or something.
*In August 2014, in responding to a caller's complaint about the disproportionate media coverage surrounding Robin Williams' suicide, Limbaugh ranted a ton about how leftist ideology contributes to suicide.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/rush-limbaugh-accused-of-blaming-robin-williams-suicide-on-his-being-politically-leftist-9665912.html Rush Limbaugh accused of blaming Robin Williams' suicide on his being 'politically leftist'], August 13, 2014, Independent</ref> He then claimed that he was taken out of context.{{efn|[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/08/12/robin_williams_and_the_pop_culture_media/ We'll show you a transcript to see what context has been taken out.] We don't know ourselves.}}
*Limbaugh went under fire for his remarks during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, alleging that Obama was simply using Haiti to score political points. He also added that the U.S. shouldn't help Haiti, since the U.S. already pays them income tax. Or something. He only doubled down when called out.<ref>Barr, A. "[https://www.politico.com/story/2010/01/rush-meant-what-he-said-about-haiti-031539 Rush 'meant' what he said about Haiti]". ''Politico''. Accessed January 19, 2022.</ref>
*Limbaugh defended [[Donald Trump]] against accusations of sexual assault by asserting that the "leftists" attacking him were immoral because they primarily concern themselves with whether or not a sexual act is... consensual or not. And if these "[[reality-based community|leftists]]" ever discover a lack of consent, "then here come the [[rape]] [[police]]".<ref>[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/10/donald-trumps-locker-room-is-the-entire-world.html Donald Trump's Locker Room Is the Entire World], Oct. 13, 2016, Intelligencer</ref> {{efn|Another name for "rape police" is just "police."}}
*Disappointed that people like [[Alex Jones]] were stealing some of his thunder, Limbaugh embraced some of the batshit insanity of the conspiracy crowd, calling both the [[Christchurch terrorist attacks]] and the [[Unite the Right|terrorism at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally]] [[false flag operation|"false flag" operations]].<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-mosque-attacks-false-flag-1365260 "Rush Limbaugh Claims New Zealand Mosque Shootings Were False Flag Operation, Offers No Evidence"], 2019 Mar 15, Daniel Moritz-Rabson.</ref><ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-conspiracy-democrats-allowed-charlottesville-terrorism-political-gain Limbaugh conspiracy: Democrats allowed Charlottesville terrorism for political gain], Media Matters Staff, 2017 Aug 15.</ref> For the latter, he defended Trump's notoriously meek response to the terrorism with a healthy dose of [[whataboutism]],<ref>[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/08/14/what-really-happened-in-charlottesville/ "What Really Happened in Charlottesville"], RushLimbaugh.com, 2017 Aug 14.</ref> even evoking the atypical right wing boogeyman of "[[Antifascist Action|Antifa]]" and "[[George Soros]]".<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rush-limbaugh-warns-of-second-civil-war-after-charlottesville-violence "Rush Limbaugh warns of second civil war after Charlottesville violence"], Daniel Chaitin, 2017 August 19.</reF>
*Also disappointed that the [[QAnon]] movement had stolen some of his thunder, Limbaugh fully embraced [[deep state]] conspiracy theories, using the concept to dismiss both the [[Trump-Russia connection]] '''and''' the [[Trump-Ukraine scandal]] (and somehow blame [[Barack Obama|Obama]] at the same time).<ref>[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/03/02/barack-obama-and-his-deep-state-operatives-are-attempting-to-sabotage-the-duly-elected-president-of-the-united-states/ "Barack Obama and His Deep State Operatives Are Attempting to Sabotage the Duly Elected President of the United States"], Rushlimbaugh.com, 2017 Mar 2.</ref><ref>[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/09/23/he-whisteblower-just-proves-the-deep-state-spies-on-trump/ "The "Whisteblower" Just Proves the Deep State Spies on Trump"], RushLimbaugh.com, 2019 Sept 23.</ref> And just before {{wpl|Hurricane Irma}} struck Florida in September 2017, he ranted flippantly about [[hurricane]] media coverage, referencing the "deep state" regarding those pesky meteorologists [[global warming|"who believe that man-made climate change is real,"]] and speculated that the media was "all talking about this hurricane, Hurricane Irma, it's no doubt due to climate change."<ref>[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/09/05/my-analysis-of-the-hurricane-irma-panic/ "My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic"], RushLimbaugh.com, 2017 Sep 5.</ref> Limbaugh later had to evacuate his home in Palm Beach, Florida, due to Hurricane Irma.)<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/06/rush-limbaughs-dangerous-suggestion-that-hurricane-irma-is-fake-news/ "Rush Limbaugh indicates he's evacuating Palm Beach days after suggesting Hurricane Irma is fake news"], Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 2017 Sep 8.</ref>

==[[Stopped clock]] moment==
On June 1, 2020, Limbaugh appeared on the radio talk show {{wpl|The Breakfast Club (radio show)|''The Breakfast Club''}} in response to the {{wpl|death of George Floyd}}, caused by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin keeping a knee on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds (well after the point of unresponsiveness). While he agreed on little else, Limbaugh unusually strongly criticized the police for this incident, saying that he was "sickened" and that Floyd "had his life taken away from him".<ref>[https://www.thewrap.com/rush-limbaugh-george-floyd-breakfast-club/ "Rush Limbaugh Decries 'Senselessness' of George Floyd's Death on 'The Breakfast Club': 'It Sickens Me'"] by Lindsey Ellefson, The Wrap, 2020 June 1.</ref>

==Ersatz Nobel Prize nomination==
"Limbaugh was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 by Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group, in response to Al Gore being nominated that year. The foundation does not now and did not then meet the criteria to be a nominator."<ref>[https://thedispatch.com/article/was-rush-limbaugh-a-nobel-peace-prize/ Was Rush Limbaugh a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee in 2007?]</ref> Rush Limbaugh was not legitimately nominated to receive a Nobel Prize.

==On wit da show==
==="Snerdley"===
Limbaugh nicknamed all his call screeners "Snerdley". Among the first names given them:
*Bo
*Chin Yang
*Mario
*Marvin
*Melva
*Melvin
*Mervin

Bo Snerdley is the nickname given to James Golden, the most recognized "Snerdley". Limbaugh's defenders often single out Golden, [[tokenism|an African-American]], as evidence that Limbaugh was not a racist. After all, as their simplistic logic goes, [[friend argument|would a racist work so closely with an African-American]]?

A caller once asked Limbaugh to explain the origin of "Snerdley". Limbaugh explained that when he was a disc jockey in his hometown, he developed mental blocks while talking on the air. "Snerdley" was a fictitious person inside Limbaugh's head whom he talked to (while still on the air) until the block cleared. ''Hmmm.''

===Annual Thanksgiving story===
Of course, you can't be a major right-wing mouthpiece if you don't rewrite history to show that ''[[laissez-faire]]'' [[free market]] practices always succeed, while collectivism always fails. Such was the case with Limbaugh's annual telling of (or his version of) the first [[Thanksgiving]].<ref>{{wpa|Thanksgiving|}}</ref><ref>[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742553/posts Transcript from the 2006 reading.] Includes a long-winded prologue about his trip to [[Afghanistan]], [[Ann Coulter]], etc.</ref> Limbaugh was so pleased with this story that he dedicated an entire chapter to it in his second book, ''See I Told You So''.

It's doubtful that Limbaugh researched and wrote this piece himself. It probably came from the [[Heritage Foundation]] or some other righty [[think tank]].

==Dittoheads==
[[File:Flush rush Keliher, Brian Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming Internet Archive - Brave 7 19 2023 1 14 48 PM.png|165px|thumb|The average Dittohead<ref name=flush>''Flush Rush'' by Brian Keliher</ref>{{rp|56}}]]
{{cquote|I have a correspondent named Irwin Wingo in Weatherford, Texas. Irwin and some of the leading men in the town are in the habit, about ten o'clock in the morning, of meeting down at the café to drink coffee and talk about the state of the world. One of the members of their group is a dittohead, a great Limbaugh listener. He came in one day, plopped himself down, and said "You know, Rush is right: Racism is dead in this country. I don't know what the niggers have to gripe about now."|||Molly Ivins<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|4}}}}
"Dittohead" originally referred to an avid follower of Limbaugh, but over time he became synonymous with any person who blindly follows and agrees with conservative pundits, including media such as but not limited to [[Fox News]] and conservative talk radio.

On his talk show, Limbaugh encouraged the guests, callers and listeners who agreed with him to just say "ditto"<ref group=note>Like in the movie ''Ghost''.</ref> instead of explaining ''why'' they might agree with him, presumably to reserve air time for additional [[bullshit|opinion giving]] or [[argument|friendly discourse]] with those that might disagree with him. Callers to his show began to label themselves willingly as "dittoheads", apparently blind to any sort of negative connotations that such a word might have.

Ignoring the possibility that people might look at a "dittohead" and think of other words that might sound similar (like "[[shit]]head"), the word itself has grown to mean anyone who gets their [[propaganda|information]] from [[anti-intellectualism|non-expert sources]] or [[denialism|those who believe the agenda-less have an agenda]] in [[politics|political discourse]], be it [[climate change]], [[gun control]] or [[health care]]. Much like [[creationist]]s, the average dittohead will be unable to be reasoned with or engage in [[rationality|rational thought]].

===Scientifically proven to be ignorant===
According to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the University of Pennsylvania:
{{quotebox|We just concluded a study of 360 people, whom we watched watch the health care reform debate for nine months. And at the end of that period, we took the people who said they relied on talk radio, and by this, we meant primarily Rush Limbaugh . . . And we asked them how well informed they felt . . . Of all the people we watched, they said they were the best informed. And of all the people we watched, they were the least informed.<ref name=Franken>''Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations'' by Al Franken (Delacorte Press, 1996) [[Special:Booksources/0-385-31474-4|ISBN 0-385-31474-4]]</ref>{{rp|12}}}}

==Name calling==
Limbaugh (and his substitute hosts) devoutly referred to the [[Democratic Party]] as the "[[Democrat Party]]". If they encountered the words "Democratic Party" while reading aloud, they substituted "Democrat Party" on-the-fly (they probably have Post-it's on the wall.) ''This alone'' discredits everything they say.

Much like his idol [[Donald Trump]], he used insulting names for anyone he didn't like. The most infamous example occurred on September 21, 2020. Between her death and her funeral, Limbaugh proudly referred to [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] as "Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg" on his radio show.

==Racism==
[[File:Rush Limbaugh by Ian Marsden.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
{{cquote|They are twelve percent of the population. Who the hell cares?.|||Rush Limbaugh on Black people.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|50}}}}

Racism has long been a part of Limbaugh's act, going back to his early days as a DJ where he would tell African American callers to "take the bones out of their noses."<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|49}} Although this could be understood as a dumb kid attempting to be shocking, his attitude in his later years showed that he was still the same person at heart. When he first started getting national attention, he would ask "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/ Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said]</ref> and say that "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|49}} (Of the audience Limbaugh had at this time, one poll found that eighty two percent of them would vote for David Duke.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|50}})

Unsurprisingly, much of Limbaugh's later racism was directed towards Barack Obama. Among his stranger claims was that those at Harvard Law School engaged in some conspiracy to boost Obama's grades because of the color of his skin--which goes from stupid to downright nonsensical when you realize most professors at Harvard Law School use methods of grading where they aren't even aware of the name of the student, let alone their race.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|30-31}}

Another notable example of Limbaugh's racism against Obama is his constant need to call Barack Obama "angry" in some way. Obviously this is him playing into the trope of the "angry black man," but it's especially notable in this case because, although some politicians are infamous for their temper, Obama has never been one of them. "To call Barack Obama an angry black man is as ridiculous as calling Rush Limbaugh a fist-class intellectual," said Michael Eric Dyson.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|36}}

Lest you think only black people have been the target of Limbaugh's racism, he has said many things about many races. Native Americans "were meaner to themselves than anybody was ever mean to them. These people were savages . . . Killing each other. Scalping each other."<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|50}} On another occasion, he said on Native Americans "They all have casinos--what's to complain about?"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230422175422/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/sunday-review/rush-limbaugh-trump-medal.html Rush Limbaugh in His Own Words]</ref> Elsewhere, Limbaugh has dismissed the Native American genocide by declaring "There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history," a claim which is just wrong, there were around two million Native Americans alive when Limbaugh said this, compared to at least five million when Columbus arrived.<ref>''Toxic Talk: How The Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves'' by Bill Press</ref>{{rp|26-27}}

Hispanics are "stupid and unskilled."<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|37}} Those who come here illegally are "an invasive species,"<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|38}} and one who Madonna dated is "some gang member type guy."<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|38}} 

Limbaugh won FAIR's 1998 Ethnic Stereotype Award for the following incident:

{{quotebox|On March 2, Limbaugh advised Madonna how to have a second child: “Well, Madonna, if this is what you want to do, just do what you did. Take a walk in the park. Stake out some gang-member type guy who looks like a hunk to you. Pay the guy some money. Bring him into the apartment on Central Park West, bed him and it can happen all over again just like it did the first time.” The father of Madonna’s first child, Carlos Leon, is a Latino. He has no known connection to any gang activity. When he met Madonna, Leon was a fitness trainer; Limbaugh’s current wife had been an aerobics teacher.<ref>[https://fair.org/media-beat-column/and-now-the-p-u-litzer-prizes-for-1998/ And Now, the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1998]</ref>}}

===Nothing personal?===
In his book ''The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason'',<ref name=Wilson/> John Wilson spends the entire first chapter detailing Limbaugh's various racist remarks. However, he notes that Limbaugh's racism does not come from an actual dislike of non-whites, so much as a hatred for liberalism, which he views as including sympathy for non-whites:

{{quotebox|Rush is actually proud of his racism. It's his way of signaling to his audience how much he resists liberal orthodoxy. If he is willing to violate the "politically correct" barriers of race, then it proves he is beholden to nothing about liberalism. As with everything else about Mr. Limbaugh, his racism is really all about his hatred of liberalism, not some deep-seated hatred of black people.

Limbaugh is a racist because he hates liberalism. That doesn't mean that anyone who hates liberalism is a racist. It means that Rush Limbaugh expresses racist ideas because he despises everything associated with liberalism. Since fighting racism is a core principle of liberalism, he is constantly skeptical of it. And he expresses that skepticism using racist language.|}}

This, funnily enough, fits a quote from Limbaugh's defender Sam Francis when asked about the difference between the insults of Limbaugh and the insults of liberals which Limbaugh criticizes:

{{quotebox|When we make fun of poor people or handicapped people, we're not literally making fun of them. We're trying to break the icon the Left is trying to create around these types of people.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|75}}}}

==General sexism==
{{cquote|Sexial harassment at this work station will not reported. However, it will be graded.|||Sign on Limbaugh's office.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|54}}}}
{{cquote|Some of these babes, I'm telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd. They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/meet-new-rush-same-old-rush-media-matters-america-analysis-rush-limbaugh-show Meet the New Rush, Same as the Old Rush; A Media Matters for America Analysis of The Rush Limbaugh Show]</ref>}}

Similar to the racism section above, examples of his sexism can be found all throughout this article, but there are some specific examples that should be noted independently. Between his claims that "women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along," <ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|51}}("feminism" in his mind being a movement that "was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society"<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20120222123832/http://mediamatters.org:80/mmtv/200508160001 The "Truth" according to Limbaugh: Feminism established "to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society"]</ref>) and his odd assertion that a study proved that women with larger breasts have lower IQs<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|54}}, going through all the possible examples of Limbaugh's sexism would take a rather large book.

Also like his racism, examples of this can be seen going back early into his career, when he was fired from a Top 40 radio station for playing the incredibly sexist song "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones every day.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|56}}

Limbaugh's sexism can even be seen with the women he praises, just as much--if not more so--than the women he dislikes. While praising Sarah Plain, Limbaugh said "Plus she's a housewife, before that, she's a babe." Of course, Palin wasn't a housewife when Limbaugh made this statement--she was the Governor of Alaska.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|48}} 

Being a wife who is subservient to her husband seems to be Limbaugh's ideal picture of a woman. One of his associates said of his second wife, Michelle Sixta, "She totally subordinated her interests around his. Her role in life was to say 'Yes, Rush.'"<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|48}} Meanwhile, he tells his listeners "If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do."<ref name=Franken/>{{rp|13}}

Limbaugh is also fond of just declaring men he doesn't like to actually be women. Speaking on the liberal Supreme Court Justice David Souter, he said the man is "a girl. Everybody knows that. . . I'm talking about attitudinally, here, folks."<ref> ''The Worst Person in the World and 202 Strong Contenders'' by Keith Olbermann (Wiley, September 2006). ISBN 0-470-04495-0.</ref>{{rp|185}}

Like many things, Limbaugh seems to only care about topics like sexual harassment when he can use it as an excuse to bash Democrats, hence why he was a huge advocate of Paula Jones in her claims against Bill Clinton in spite of not caring about sexual harassment at any other point in his career.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|101}}

===Limbaugh and rape===
Limbaugh has a long history of making--to be blunt--down right disgusting comments about rape. Back when Limbaugh was still a local radio host in Sacramento, he went on a long rant about how date rape can't be compared to other forms of rape.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20141125141810/http://www.newsreview.com:80/sacramento/living-under-limbaugh/content?oid=914298 Living under Limbaugh]</ref> Limbaugh once asked his viewers in regards to sexual consent "How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it?"<ref>[https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2014/11/would-republican-judges-rule-in.html WOULD REPUBLICAN JUDGES RULE IN LIMBAUGH'S FAVOR JUST TO SCREW THE DEMOCRATS? HELL, WHY NOT?]</ref> (Limbaugh actually threatened to sue the DCCC for using a clip of him saying this in an attack ad, although nothing came of it.<ref>[https://deadline.com/2014/11/rush-limbaugh-lawsuit-threat-democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-1201280703/# Rush Limbaugh Defamation Lawsuit Threat “Outlandish”, Democrats Say]</ref>) He also once played a clip of a woman describing being anally raped, and spent the entire time laughing.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|50}}

===Feminazis===
{{cquote|I had been one of those twenty million [referring to Limbaugh's ratings at the time, which estimated he had about twenty million listeners nationwide] a while back, listening to him spew about "feminazis" and their "women-as-victim" ideas. Limbaugh was railing about how feminists believe that all heterosexual sex is rape, which, I admit, is a belief that's very hard to defend. The thing is, though, I know a lot of women, almost all of whom consider themselves feminists, and I know only one who actually holds this belief. And we've been married nearly twenty years.|||Al Franken<ref name=Franken/>{{rp|5-6}}}}

Limbaugh is commonly credited with popularizing the term "feminazi,"<ref>''Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era'' by Michael Kimmel. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1-56-858696-0.</ref>{{rp|42}} which he describes in the following way:

{{quotebox|Widely misunderstood by most to simply mean "feminist" Not so, boobala. A Feminazi is a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur. There are fewer than twenty-five known Feminazis in the United States.<ref name=way>''The Way Things Ought to Be'' by Rush Limbaugh(1992); Pocket Books ISBN 067175145X (John Fund, collaborator)</ref>{{rp|296}}}}

However, despite his claims to the contrary, it is very clear that Limbaugh is using the term to discredit even the most mild-mannered and mainstream feminists. Even limiting it to his first book, the same one the definition of feminazi came from, we can find him calling both Gloria Steinem and Anita Hill "feminazis,"<ref name=way/>{{rp|203}} despite the first being a fairly moderate feminist and the second simply being a woman who claimed she was sexually harassed. When Limbaugh is not conflating moderate feminist views with "feminazis," he is conflating extreme feminist views with feminism as a whole, once saying:

{{quotebox|Do you think looking at someone is sexual harassment? Do you think all men are rapists? Do you think all sex is rape? If your answer to any or all of these questions is no, you are simply not, by definition, a feminist.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|55}}}}

Most feminists don't hold a single one of these views, let alone all three.

Of course, Rush tried to defend himself by saying that, although most feminists aren't feminazis, feminazis "drive the movement."<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|55}} However, it is hard to imagine any movement--especially one so big that sixty-one percent of American women feel accurately described by it<ref>[https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/07/07/61-of-u-s-women-say-feminist-describes-them-well-many-see-feminism-as-empowering-polarizing/ 61% of U.S. women say ‘feminist’ describes them well; many see feminism as empowering, polarizing]</ref>--being driven by its most extreme members nearly as often as Limbaugh claims feminism is.

==Why Rush stayed inside his bubble==
One of the most notable things about Limbaugh was how little he traveled outside his small bubble of dittoheads and conservatives. In his earlier years, he would give interviews and appear as a commentator on various programs, but this began to die down after, to put it simply, he realized that most in the outside world thought he was an obnoxious idiot with repugnant ideas. Ignoring the aforementioned ESPN incident, the most infamous example of this occurred when he guest hosted ''The Pat Sajack Show'' in 1990, when the audience had to be cleared after he was heckled for making fun of AIDS victims. "He came out full of bluster and left a very shaken man. I had never seen a man sweat as much in my life," said one CBS executive.<ref name=Franken/>{{rp|17}}

Limbaugh has since learned his lesson and does his best to avoid anybody who might have an opposing view from ending up where his listeners could hear him. In 1992, Comedy Central offered to have him as a commentator for their coverage of that year's Presidential Election, Limbaugh said he'd only do it if "No one could be on camera with him," and "No one could comment on anything he said."<ref name=Franken/>{{rp|17}} In 2006, he agreed to do a segment on ''CBS Evening News'' because he saw it as "an opportunity for me to express our views, my views without debate, without somebody coming on afterwards to refuse me."<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|225}} When the Clinton Administration flirted with the idea of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which would require stations that broadcast Limbaugh to also broadcast somebody who had different political views, Limbaugh declared it "the latest attempt by the United States Congress to legislate against me, and talk radio hosts."<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|96}} He also called this "The Hush Rush Bill" along with various other nicknames, even though the legislation would do nothing to "hush" him, all it would require is that other people with different views are allowed to talk.<ref name=hush>[https://fair.org/extra/the-quothush-rushquot-hoax/ The ‘Hush Rush’ Hoax]</ref>{{efn|He also acted like this was only being considered because of his popularity, when FAIR points out ending it was one of Reagan's most controversial moves, and that supporters of it had discussed bringing it back since basically the day it was gotten rid of:

{{quotebox|Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine can hardly be a “Hush Rush” plan aimed at silencing him, since it was broadly and actively supported on Capitol Hill well before anyone in Washington had ever heard of Limbaugh. In 1987 (when he was still the host of a local show in Sacramento), a bill to inscribe the Fairness Doctrine in federal law passed the House by 3 to 1, and the Senate by nearly 2 to 1, but it was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan. Voting for the bill were such “commie-libs” as Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.).

In 1989 (when Limbaugh was just emerging as a national host), the Fairness Doctrine easily passed the House again, but didn’t proceed further as President George Bush threatened to veto it. In 1991, hearings were again held on the doctrine, but interest waned due to Bush’s ongoing veto threat. Yet when the same Fairness Doctrine emerged in 1993, with a new president who might sign it, Limbaugh egotistically portrayed it as nothing but a “Hush Rush Law.” And his followers believed him.<ref name=hush/>}}}} Limbaugh even filed a twenty million dollar lawsuit against Aaron Harber, a liberal who wanted to market a show called "After the Rush" which responded to conservative arguments.<ref name=Wilson/>{{rp|212}}

==Contradictions==
Like all committed partisans, Limbaugh had trouble keeping himself consistent--and by that we mean he never even bothered trying. Below are some examples of his contradictions as found in his writings and commentary:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! National Debt !! We are, quite bluntly, broke. We don't have the money to sustain the dreams and experiments of liberalism any longer. We have $400 billion a year budget deficit and a $4 trillion debt.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|24}} !! That means our debt--yearly debt--is only 2.9 percent of our total budget. If you at home could say that the total amount of your debt was only 2.9 percent of all that you earn and produce, you'd be happy. This deficit is a straw dog. It's always been a phony monster. This is manageable debt as long as our economy stays strong.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|24}}
|-
! Rights of criminal defendants !! The way we approach the right of the accused criminals has changed so much over the past twenty-five years that if the same changes had taken place drastically, overnight, I am convinced the people wouldn't have put up with it . . . With each ruling there is increasingly less concern for crime victims, victims' families, and potential victims.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|37}} !! The defendant is presumed innocent, the state has the burden of proof, the defendant's guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, etc. . . . Because our system accords special protection to the accused, the guilty sometimes go free in a close case, and that's the way the system was designed.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|37}}
|-
! The role of a journalist !! On CNN reporter Bernard Shaw saying journalists "can't take sides" during the Gulf War: "Can't take sides! These were American journalists, and they can't take sides? That attitude illustrates the haughty arrogance of people in the news business.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|93}} !! The job of a journalist is to chronicle events, not stand up and cheer for one side or the other.<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|93}}
|}

==Tie salesman==
One of the lesser-known facts about Limbaugh is that he was, at one point, a tie salesman. A 2012 Huffington Post article notes regarding his neckwear:

{{quotebox|From what we can tell of the ties that can STILL be found on eBay, Rush's sartorial offerings were loud -- no surprises there -- and boisterous: Greek columns surrounded by rainbow stripes; bright peacock feathers; plenty of '80s-style gold chains. Each tie came emblazoned with Rush's signature on the back. And a tie merchant website of yore describes the ties as "made up of 100% high quality silk woven intricately to perfect its bold design" and having a "distinguishable weight due to [their] double-wool lining."<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-ties-no-boundaries_n_1325060 Rush Limbaugh Ties: 'No Boundaries' Tie Collection Was... Loud (PHOTOS)]</ref>}}

Limbaugh denied these ties shared his Republican values, responding with anger when one media outlet called them conservative.<ref name=Franken/>{{rp|7-9}}
==Quotes about him==
{{quotebox|In the end, Limbaugh is a man who thrives on intellectual masturbation and then brags about how well he makes love.-Stephen W. Bell<ref name=flush/>{{rp|14}}}}
{{quotebox|Rush Limbaugh has this great racket going where he says whatever he wants to say regardless of the facts because it makes the news and it is controversial and he makes a lot of money.-Hillary Clinton<ref name=flush/>{{rp|35}}}}
{{quotebox|Most of us here in the media are what I consider infotainers . . . Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.-Al Franken<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|7}}}}
{{quotebox|If Rush Limbaugh ever met the Pope, they wouldn't be talking about food. They would be talking about pointy white hats.-Bobcat Goldthwait<ref name=flush/>{{rp|50}}}}
{{quotebox|Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and think: "I'm full of hot gas?"-David Letterman<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|115}}}}
{{quotebox|There's a new organization being formed. It's called Feminists, Homeless, and Blacks for Limbaugh. And they're meeting in a phone booth in Wichita.-Larry King<ref name=flush/>{{rp|43}}}}
{{quotebox|I'm amazed that somebody named Rush would have such a slow metabolism."-Dennis Miller<ref name=flush/>{{rp|14}}}}
{{quotebox|Any talk show host that has a pronounced agenda that's consistent, thematic, and focused--for example, Rush Limbaugh is clearly pushing George Bush--anyone who has a pronounced agenda like that seems to me has an obligation to expose that view to callers or to guests on the show. You can't simply say, as Rush says, he's only an entertainer. That's a cop-out . . . But where you start naming names, attacking people, or representing a partisan agenda in a systemic manner, I think there's an obligation to let some people in to challenge you and to have the two-way communication that is often associated with talk radio most prominently. He ought to be man enough to stand up to challengers and let them on.-Ralph Nader<ref name=FAIR/>{{rp|96-97}}}}

==Bibliography==
[[File:The i hate ann coulter bill o reilly rush limbaugh michael savage sean hannity reader clint willis.jpg|150px|thumb|The ''I Hate [[Ann Coulter]], [[Bill O'Reilly]], [[Rush Limbaugh]], [[Michael Savage]], [[Sean Hannity]] Reader'' edited by Clint Willis [[Special:Booksources/1560256141|ISBN 1560256141]]]]
*''Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot And Other Observations'', (1996) [[Special:Booksources/0-385-31474-4|ISBN 0-385-31474-4]]
Limbaugh published some books (crayons sold separately):
*[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543707.The_Way_Things_Ought_to_Be ''The Way Things Ought to Be''] (1992); Pocket Books [[Special:Booksources/067175145X|ISBN 067175145X]] (John Fund, collaborator)
*[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117373.See_I_Told_You_So ''See, I Told You So''] (1993); Pocket Books [[Special:Booksources/067187120X|ISBN 067187120X]] ([[Joseph Farah]], collaborator)

There's an attempt at a humorous section in book two: a "[[political correctness|politically correct]]" dictionary, which lists [[unicorn]]s as an [[endangered species]], as well as the [[Abominable Snowman]]. Both books were ego trips in which Limbaugh proclaimed himself to be the most intelligent person in the world.

==Rushagrams==
*I hurl gab mush
*Largish bum, uh?
*Sh, humbug liar
*Big ham, U.S. hurl

==See also==
*[[Abiotic oil]]
*[[Chickenhawk]]
*[[Conservative talk radio]]
*[[Fractal wrongness]]
*[[Roger Ailes]]: Rushbo's influence peaked post-9/11. That's when Fox really became the brand of the party. Prior to the rise of [[Donald Trump]] and [[Steve Bannon]], Ailes was probably the most influential Republican.

==External links==
*[https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ Rush Limbaugh's radio show homepage]
*[http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895 Source of criticism for some of Limbaugh's claims]
*[http://mediamatters.org/tags/rush-limbaugh Media Matters entry for Rush Limbaugh]
*[http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh/ Limbaugh's admission of pain killer addiction]
*[http://www.landmarklegal.org/uploads/Limbaugh%20Nobel.htm Press release from Landmark Foundation announcing Limbaugh's nomination for Nobel Prize]
*[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-detained-with-viagra/ Rush Limbaugh Detained With Viagra], June 27, 2006, CBS News (Limbaugh's incident at airport)
*[https://aapsonline.org/judicial/limbaugh.htm Links to pain killer lawsuit ''Limbaugh v. Florida'']

===Humorous===
<!-- *[http://www.rushlimbaughonline.com/ Rush Limbaugh parody (gone; find archive)] -->
*Deferment for anal pimple: [http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/chickenhawks.htm (gone) Flight of the ChickenHawks]
*[http://www.nonsensenews.net/2009/03/17/rush-limbaugh-calls-on-conservatives-to-give-sacrifices-in-his-honor/ (gone) Sacrificing goats for Limbaugh]

==Notes==
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==References==
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