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| Rush Limbaugh |
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio host who skewered feminists, minorities, environmentalists and liberals, died today from lung cancer. He was 70.
The cigar-chomping former opioid addict told his audience last February that he suffered from advanced lung cancer.
Nationally syndicated in 1988, “The Rush Limbaugh Show” became the country’s most popular radio program.
Limbaugh was a leader in the “birtherism” movement that spread the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the US. Donald Trump jumped on that bandwagon and rode it to the White House.
During the 2020 State of the Union address, Trump stirred up controversy in awarding Limbaugh the presidential medal of freedom “in recognition for all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people a day that you speak to and that you inspire.”
Joe Biden condemned Trump for giving the nation’s highest civilian award to Limbaugh, “who has done as much as Trump himself to divide our nation.”
Limbaugh’s wife, Kathyrn, announced her husband’s death at the start of the Feb. 17 radio program.
Hugh Braithwaite, founder of Braithwaite Communications in Philadelphia, died Feb. 28. He was 63.
Alfred Horowitz, who was a PR counselor, educator, businessman and philanthropist, died February 14 of natural causes. He was 93.
Ginger Reeder, the former VP-corporate communications at Neiman Marcus, died Jan. 9. She was 64.
José Antonio Llorente, founding partner and executive chairman of Spain’s LLYC, died from cancer on Jan. 1. He was
Bob Dorf, who founded his own firm and then ran Dorf & Stanton with Alex Stanton, died Dec. 2. He was 74.
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Feb. 22, 2021, by Joe Honick
The most important point about Limbaugh: More than even those who came before him, he proved that hate has a ready market in America, with plenty financing to keep it going. The question is who among the profession are being used to expand the influence of the Hannitys, Carlsons and their lesser "celebrities".