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Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the 2016 presidential primary, he came around to Trump and Trumpism, becoming one of the former president’s most influential boosters in conservative media. “Limbaugh was the fountainhead for an entire generation of radical right-wing GOP politicians who owe their careers to the politics of resentment and white racial rage.”įoremost among these leaders, of course, is former President Donald Trump. “Rush built upon an already robust right-wing media and organizational infrastructure and married it to lowbrow entertainment culture, appealing to a deeply politicized audience of angry white men who did not consider themselves political,” writes David Astin Walsh, a historian of conservatism at the University of Virginia. Bigotry dressed up as “jokes” or “entertainment” were the stock in trade of Limbaugh’s show he built and maintained a massive audience across decades not in spite of this commentary, but because of it. He once did an impression of former Chinese President Hu Jintao that consisted mostly of saying “ching chong” over and over again he had a guest on to sing a song titled “ Barack the Magic Negro.”

He repeatedly mocked the death of gay men from AIDS in the 1980s, suggested that the Clintons murdered their aide Vince Foster in the 1990s, called the NBA “the Thug Basketball Association” in 2004, and claimed that college student Sandra Fluke owed him a sex tape in return for taxpayer-subsidized birth control in 2012. RUSH: That’s it! That’s what Dingell’s life was all about, folks, the Affordable Care Act! There you go.Obituaries for talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died on Wednesday at the age of 70, have frequently described him as a “ conservative provocateur.” This is technically accurate but euphemistic, akin to calling Bashar al-Assad a “controversial leader.” Limbaugh’s stock in trade was bigotry and offense his career-long defining trait was a willingness to channel the conservative id in unusually blunt and crude terms. He was there for the Affordable Care Act. He was there for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. We can squeeze this in, I think, one more.ĬLINTON: He was interested in getting something done.ĬLINTON: His long loyalty to health care is legendary.ĬLINTON: But in the end what counts even more than his honoring his father was that he was there for Medicare and Medicaid. So the casket’s there and he cracks the joke (imitating Clinton), “It’s the only time in our entire lives that we’re in the same room with John Dingell and get the last word.” He looks at the casket, “Don’t you dare jump up, John.” I mean, John’s family would love for him to jump up, right? Here’s one more. Michigan Congressman John Dingell passed away recently, and this morning in Washington - they couldn’t get to Michigan ’cause of the weather so they had a memorial in Washington, the Holy Trinity Church, and during the funeral service Slick Willie showed up and found his way to the microphone.ĬLINTON: Let’s be honest, one of the reasons none of us would have missed this is this is the only time in our entire lives in public service that we were in the same room with John Dingell and got the last word.

But, regardless, they show up and they horn in on it and they make sure it all ends up about them, and it just happened again.

Sometimes the Reverend Sharpton and Reverend Jackson.

Whenever a prominent Democrat dies, the Clintons are there. RUSH: You know, the Clintons are many things, including - grab sound bites 22, 23 - the Clintons are funeral crashers.