Rush Limbaugh died today.

He was a titan of right-wing talk radio, arguably the savior of AM radio in this country.

He was among the most influential Americans of his generation.

He was the chief agitator for the grievance-fueled politics that reached their apotheosis, or Nadir, in the

January 6th siege on the U.S. Capitol. He called himself an entertainer, which is true as far as it

goes. He was also an oracle, a kingpin, a demagogue, and a louse. A year ago, just as he revealed his lung cancer diagnosis,

Limbaugh was honored in Donald Trump's final State of the Union address.

He is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet. Rush Limbaugh, thank you

for your decades of tireless devotion to our country.

I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor,

the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Yes, to stand alongside Norman Rockwell and Alexander Calder, Carl Sandberg, Maya Angelou, and

Ily Vizel, Aaron Copeland and Ella Fitzgerald, Warren Buffett and John Kenneth Galbraith,

Newton Minow and Will and Ariel Durant, Felix Frankfurter, and Thurgood Marshall,

Carol Burnett, Chuck Yeager, Colin Powell, Lech Valenza, and Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson,

and Mother Teresa, Trump awarded this guy.

She having so much sex she can't afford the contracept.

She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.

What does that make us?

We're the pimps.

That's Limbaugh talking about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who wanted

insurance coverage for contraceptives.

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