![]() Rush Limbaugh, on women protesting sexual harassment “They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.” “If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. “Obama’s entire economic program is reparations.” Rush Limbaugh, to a Black woman caller on his program “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.” “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. Instead, I’ll leave it to Rush Limbaugh to tell you in his own words: There are no shortage of things I, and many others, could tell you about the damage Rush Limbaugh did in his time on this earth with us, the sheer venom and cruelty he championed against the powerless for the simple sake of doing it. I could tell you that Rush Limbaugh showed his true colors at the very height of his fame, back when he was on television - how he viciously mocked then-13-year-old Chelsea Clinton to a nationally televised audience by comparing her to the White House dog. I could tell you that if Rush Limbaugh deserves credit for anything, it his pioneering work in spreading disinformation and directly enabling our nation's current state of vast distrust of experts and spurning of good faith in the public discourse, that he will not be missed by rational adults. Now, I could tell you that Rush Limbaugh was a coward and white supremacist, that he aggressively and cynically exploited divisions in our country by weaponizing hatred and bigotry for his own personal gain, that he was in service to his own greed, prejudice, and hypocrisy, and that is how history will remember him. Even his tiny moments of remorse ring profoundly insincere when followed by the same damn despicable behavior. This was not a man who believed in compassion. This was especially true for how he reflected on the deaths and suffering of others.įrom celebrating the deaths of AIDS victims on-air to mocking Kurt Cobain after his suicide to mocking the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after her cancer diagnosis to mocking Eric Garner after he was murdered by law enforcement and on and on… He made no bid for redemption or understanding. ![]() Rush Limbaugh showed no true remorse over his career for the incredibly harmful things he said and did. It has to involve acknowledgment of harm. We’re all imperfect, and I think there’s a path for bettering ourselves, even in our darkest of chapters.īut that has to start with personal accountability. I think grace is essential for acts of good faith in contrition. There’s been a lot of talk about what it means to reflect on someone’s death, where honesty plays into that, and how accountability should be exercised for particularly egregious things they’ve said and done. Yesterday, radio host Rush Limbaugh passed at 70.
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