Many on the right tried to cast him as a fallen god many on the left celebrated his demise. The response on social media was the predictable ricochet of emotions. This was my first thought after I heard that Rush Limbaugh had died on Wednesday. When it was Michael’s turn at the microphone, he turned to the boy and said, “At any age, you feel the need to tell your story, and I consider you an inspiration.” Michael leaned over and whispered in my ear, “You know, it is going to make him feel so good to get his whole story out.” He smiled at me, and I was appropriately reprimanded. I was worried that all of this waiting would tire Michael. He was going on a bit, and I smiled nervously at Sherrod. Sherrod and I sat on either side of Michael, watching as a sixth-grade boy with Type 1 diabetes gave a speech. I got a healthy dose of humility from Michael J. He has made it clear, time and again, that he does not expect to live long enough to benefit from the research he is championing - and yet there he was, sitting onstage with Sherrod along with a number of other people afflicted with diseases that stem cell research might cure. It is heartbreaking to watch this gracious, talented actor and father of four struggle to perform the simplest of tasks - like sitting still, for example, or completing a sentence. No other president in our nation’s history would have bestowed such an honor on such a man.This is how I described our encounter in a book about my husband’s Senate campaign: Fox’s Parkinson’s symptoms? Well, that’s a big “no”! Would Mother Teresa have mocked Michael J. Would Cesar Chavez have said, “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals look like Jesse Jackson?” Almost certainly not. Would the Apollo astronauts have called Sandra Fluke, a law student who testified in support coverage for contraception in the ACA, a “slut” and “a prostitute?” I actually don’t know for sure, but I’ve met James Lovell, and very much doubt it. Rush Limbaugh now joins the pantheon of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, who include Cesar Chavez, the Apollo 13 astronauts, and Mother Teresa. And there’s been a straight line between that midterm election and the Trump presidency and the shameless Trump Republican Party of today. Gingrich had instructed Republican candidates for the House to “Talk like Newt,” demonizing their opponents by calling them “sick,” and “corrupt” and “anti-family and anti-flag.” Fittingly, Newt named Rush an honorary member of the House class of 1995. The title of my book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations was meant to satirize the erosion of decency that accompanied the Gingrich Revolution of 1994. What he failed to understand, I guess, is that Greenland and Antarctica are not ice cubes. Rush made the point that the polar ice caps melting doesn’t cause a rise in sea level, because when an ice cube melts in a glass of water, the water level stays the same. And if lying, racism, hatred, and more lying can be considered entertainment, well, then kudos to them both.īoth are climate deniers. Both can bloviate endlessly and do so in what might be called an entertaining way. That’s something Rush and Trump have in common. Though I’ve chosen not to tune in regularly since, I check in now and then, and he continues to lie to his twenty million listeners three hours a day, five days a week ever since. I wrote a book about Limbaugh back in 1995. In fact, one could make the argument that it was Rush who paved the way for a Donald Trump to become President of the United States. The fact of the matter is that Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Of course, President Trump himself has had the good grace to insult the dead – targeting, for example, John McCain. The irony that Rush himself was later indicted in Florida for doctor shopping to feed his massive Ox圜ontin addiction was not lost on many who actually have compassion for those in the throes of addiction. Rush Limbaugh pretending to be surprised when President Trump announced that he was about to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom was not one of them.Ī day earlier, Rush had told us that he has advanced lung cancer, and certainly no one should feel anything but compassion for him and his family and hope that he makes it through this difficult period.īut Rush famously went out of his way to mock dying victims of AIDS and condemn those who have just passed, calling Kurt Cobain “a worthless shred of human debris” and Jerry Garcia “just another dead doper. There were a number of genuinely moving moments during President Trump’s State of the Union Speech Tuesday evening.

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