Fox News’s Sean Hannity said that conservative radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh went through cancer “treatments that nearly killed him” in order to spend more time with his audience.
“His bucket list was his audience,” Hannity told Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin, which will air Sunday evening. “He’d go through these treatments that nearly killed him, because I know people that have been through chemotherapy like this and cancer treatment like this, especially advanced stage cancer, they nearly kill you to save you or nearly kill you to buy you time, and that’s been the last year of his life. And when he was well enough, even when he really wasn’t well enough, his time, the way he wanted to spend it was with his audience. That was his choice. The people that listened to him, that was the top and only item on his bucket list.”
“I mean, that to me speaks volumes about him, how much he loved what he did,” he said. “He was born to do this. Nobody did it better. Nobody will do it better.”
Limbaugh died on Wednesday after a battle with stage 4 lung cancer since last year. He was 70.
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Limbaugh continued hosting his show in the last year, taking time off during treatment weeks and giving updates to listeners on his health.
“It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that any major political issue that will come up, we’re not going to hear his voice,” Hannity added.
“I’m having a hard time understanding what that means,” he continued. “Nobody can replace this man, Mark.”
Limbaugh leaves behind a legacy that includes having the first nationally syndicated radio program, which was also the highest-rated radio show.
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Levin said on his Sunday program that Limbaugh was “a regular guy” who outlets such as the Washington Post tried to “destroy” but never “engaged” him.
“If you read the New York Times, the Washington Post and listen to all the hate-media, they never engaged Rush,” Levin continued. “They never debated Rush. They never understood Rush. They didn’t want to understand Rush. They tried to destroy him. They’re trying to do it today. Those people do not matter to us. Those people are in their own sick little bubble and sick little world. They do that to all of our greats, whether it’s Reagan or Rush or Trump or whomever it is.”
