On November 5, 2018, radio host Rush Limbaugh is preparing to announce the arrival of president Donald Trump, at a rally that “Make America Great Again” in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. JIM WATSON / AFP
His voice has been heard for over three decades on the airwaves in the United States. The famous radio host Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 years, announced his family, Wednesday, 17 February. Last year, he had made it known that he was suffering from cancer of the lung.
“Rush Hudson Limbaugh III will always be the greatest of all time, a gentle giant brave and brilliant,” said his wife Kathryn in a press release published on the page Facebook official of the facilitator.
Rush Limbaugh was one of the figures of the conservative right. His influence was such that he was once qualified – with sarcasm – “leader of the republican Party” by the democrats. It was also one of the loyal supporters of Donald Trump. Controversial figure, Rush Limbaugh has frequently been accused of spreading false information and conspiracy theories.
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” He has supported me from the beginning. [It was] a great gentleman, ” responded the former president on Fox News. “It was a guy single. He had an insight extraordinary (…). Rush was convinced that we had won [the presidential election of 2020], and I am convinced also. I believe that we have won a great deal. “
The former republican president George W. Bush also paid tribute to the presenter as ” a friend for the duration of [s]a presidency “. “Even though he was impetuous, sometimes controversial, and always camped on his ideas, he was expressing his opinions as a voice for millions of Americans,” added the 43rd president of the United States.
“condolences [to the current president Joe Biden] will go to the family and friends of Rush Limbaugh,” said, on his side, in a press conference, the spokesperson of the White House, Jen Psaki.
” And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Ruuuuuush… Limbôôôôô ! “This cry of war, pushed on the waves, were found in the America of the post-11-September an audience more receptive than ever. At noon, each day of the week, the facilitator gave the kick-off, on more than 600 stations across the country, a program of three hours during which he distributed rants, admonitions, arrests and the distribution of good and bad points…
“I am the media”
a Native of Cape Girardeau, a small town in Missouri, he had started on radio in 17 years as a disc jockey. In 1984, a radio station from Sacramento (California) he was offered his first issue of discussion of topical issues. The model is going to school and, in a few years, he has established himself as the master of the genre.
His audience and his influence continue to grow : in 1992, at a time when the senators is between-tear on the case of Anita Hill, the woman who accuses a judge of the supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, of sexual harassment, Mr. Limbaugh read on the air a devastating article for it appeared in the conservative magazine The American Spectator. The next day, the magazine is hard. And Clarence Thomas, appointed last year by president Bush, was confirmed in his position by the Senate.
The couple Clinton will provide, also, a beautiful target. Hillary Clinton is the epitome of these “fémi-nazi,” he quips to transmission length, and the escapades of the president are to him inaccessible.
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When, in 1994, the republicans snatched victory at the Congress, crippling Bill Clinton, the political experts recognize the role of the champion of the right-wing populist, who has largely contributed to the radicalization of the republican Party and promoted the rise of figures radical as Newt Gingrich.
In 2001, with more than 20 million listeners, he signed the biggest contract in the history of radio : $ 285 million for the nine years of issuance. Before the announcement a few months later to his listeners in awe that it’s suddenly become almost deaf.
But it continued in spite of this : “I am part of the landscape of America, he explained, then, the New York Times. I address to the people directly, without passing through the media. I am the media. “
By 2020, more than thirty years after its debut, the man in his seventies was still jeering the media, and the dumping of racist and homophobic. Always with success : each day, 15.5 million people listened to it religiously. He had received at the hands of Donald Trump, in April, the presidential medal of freedom, the honor civil the more important that could be granted in the United States.
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