Feb. 17, 2021 — Rush Limbaugh, for many years a preferred, controversial, and influential speak radio host and conservative commentator, died Wednesday, in response to a household assertion.
He was 70.
His demise comes after a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis he introduced in October.
On Feb. 3, 2020, Limbaugh introduced on his present that he was present process therapy following episodes of shortness of breath. “The upshot is that I’ve been recognized with superior lung cancer,” Limbaugh mentioned throughout a dwell broadcast. He added, “There are going to be days that I am not going to have the ability to be right here as a result of I can be present process therapy, or I am reacting to therapy.”
The next day, when Limbaugh attended the State of the Union tackle, President Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in an unannounced transfer.
Limbaugh introduced Oct. 20 that his stage IV cancer had develop into terminal and that medical doctors had detected new development.
Late in 2020, in his remaining broadcast of the yr, Limbaugh thanked his listeners and supporters.
“I wasn’t anticipated to be alive right now,” he mentioned, in response to Fox Information. “I wasn’t anticipated to make it to October, after which to November, after which to December. And but, right here I’m, and right now, acquired some issues, however I am feeling fairly good right now.”
He’s survived by Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, his spouse.
“Rush inspired so many people to assume for ourselves. To be taught and to steer. He usually mentioned it didn’t matter the place you began or what you seem like, as People all of us have countless alternatives like nowhere else on the planet,” she mentioned as she introduced her husband’s demise on his radio present Wednesday. “From right now on, there can be an amazing void in our lives, and on the radio.”
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born on Jan. 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, MO. He dropped out of Southeast Missouri State College after two semesters to pursue a profession in radio.
He labored as a disc jockey for stations in Pittsburgh and Kansas Metropolis, however discovered success when employed to switch confrontational radio host Morton Downey Jr. for KFBK in Sacramento in 1984.
