Conservative radio host Mark Levin recounted the legacy of the late conservative firebrand commentator Rush Limbaugh, who died Wednesday after a long battle with lung cancer.
Levin called into Fox News and dubbed Limbaugh a “tremendous patriot,” adding that he had known the golden mic radio host for 25 years.
“I want your audience to know how much he profoundly loved them,” Levin told Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, referring to the fans who had followed the late radio host and The Rush Limbaugh Show, which had its nationally syndicated premiere in 1988.
“He loved this country like nobody I’d ever met before. [He was] an incredibly wise man, a very smart man, and a dear person. If he thought somebody needed help, he would help them. Nothing like what the liberal media has tried to do to him,” Levin added.
Mark Levin reflects on Rush Limbaugh’s life and legacy:
“It’s a tremendously sad day for those who love this country… We’ve lost Thomas Paine, we’ve lost a voice like no other.” pic.twitter.com/qn4REWaw39
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“And I just want him to be remembered the way he should be remembered — a tremendous patriot of this country. He refused to accept the attacks that came against this country from within. He refused to accept the ideological changes in this country. He defended the traditions of this country, and he spoke for tens of millions of us,” Levin said.
According to EID audience models from iHeartRadio, a report released in May projected The Rush Limbaugh Show received 43 million audience members listening in the span of a three-hour show.
Limbaugh died Wednesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, his wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, announced on his radio show. He was 70 years old.
Conservative media host Sean Hannity also offered a tribute to Limbaugh, and after he spoke, former President Donald Trump called into Fox News to offer praise of the late radio host, to whom he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.
