Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday that he would order flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff in honor of longtime Sunshine State resident and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died earlier this week.
“What we do when there’s things of this magnitude, once the date of internment for Rush is announced, we’re going to be lowering the flags to half-staff,” DeSantis said at a political rally in West Palm Beach.
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Limbaugh died at his Palm Beach home at the age of 70 on Wednesday, after a yearlong battle with lung cancer.
Lawmakers, fans, and pundits around the country commemorated the radio host, who was as hated by liberals as he was beloved by conservatives.
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In a statement, DeSantis called Limbaugh the “greatest of all time” in radio and conservative media.
“Rush busted through a media landscape in which a handful of media outlets served up pre-cooked, liberal narratives,” DeSantis said. “By providing a fresh, conservative perspective, Rush attracted millions of listeners and paved the way for the proliferation of conservative media. Rush was no flash in the pan — he was the dominant force in radio for decades.”
The Rush Limbaugh Show was first nationally syndicated in 1988 in New York City and became the highest-rated talk show in the United States. He hosted the show, which had a monthly audience of 25 million on more than 650 stations in 2018, from a home studio in West Palm Beach since 1996.
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Limbaugh regularly criticized Democratic presidential administrations, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as other prominent Democrats. Limbaugh was a supporter of former President Donald Trump and defended him during two impeachments led by Democrats.
Days after Limbaugh announced his cancer diagnosis early last year, Trump presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the 2020 State of the Union address.
