Rush Limbaugh: A broadcast radio legend

Published February 17, 2021 7:48pm ET



Renowned conservative radio talk show host and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh has died of complications stemming from lung cancer at the age of 70. The iconic broadcaster, who talked politics three hours a day, five days a week from his “golden” EIB microphone for 32 years, announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in early 2020, although he sounded hopeful he would beat the disease.

While liberal media personalities have begun to celebrate his death in a most ghoulish way, conservatives took to social media to mourn the loss of the broadcast giant and celebrate his influential life.

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