Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( LIM -baw , born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and conservative political commentator. She currently lives in Palm Beach, Florida, where she broadcast The Rush Limbaugh Show . According to a December 2015 estimate by Talkers Magazine , Rush Limbaugh has a cumulative (cumulative weekly audience) of about 13.25 million unique listeners (listening at least five minutes), making his show the most heard-for talk-radio programming in the US.
Since she was 16 years old, Limbaugh has been working on a series of disc jockey jobs. The talk show began in 1984 at the Sacramento, California, KFBK radio station, displaying the ongoing political commentary format and its listeners. In 1988, Limbaugh began broadcasting its show nationwide from WABC radio station in New York City, and the event's main station became WOR in 2014.
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Limbaugh was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (nÃÆ' Â © e Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh Jr. His father was a lawyer and a US fighter pilot who served at the Indian Burmese Indian Theater of World War II. His mother is a native of Searcy, Arkansas. The name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the name of the girl's family member Edna Rush.
Limbaugh is part of the German ancestors. His family has many lawyers, including his grandfather, father and brother David. His uncle, Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr., is a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. His cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., is currently a judge in the same court, appointed by George W. Bush. Rush Limbaugh Sr., Limbaugh's grandfather, was Missouri attorney, judge, special commissioner, member of the Missouri Representative Council from 1930 to 1932, and the old president of the Missouri History Society. The Federal Courthouse in Cape Girardeau is named for Limbaugh's grandfather, Rush.
Limbaugh started his career on radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe. Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School in 1969. He played football. Due to his parents' wish to see him attending college, he enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University but left school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he failed everything," and "he's just not interested in anything but the radio."
Limbaugh biographer states that most of his life has been dedicated to gaining the honor and approval of his father.
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Professional career
1970s
After dropping out of college, Limbaugh moved to McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In 1972, he became the top 40 disc jockey music in WIXZ, a small AM radio station that reaches many areas of Pittsburgh. He started with an evening show and then did the morning, broadcasting under the name of Jeff Christie. Limbaugh moved to Pittsburgh KQV station in 1973 as an afternoon disc jockey, replacing Jim Quinn. He was dismissed in late 1974, when the station was sold to Taft Broadcasting. Limbaugh was reportedly told by management that he would never make it as a talent in the air, and should consider the sale. Unable to find another job on local radio, Limbaugh moved back to Cape Girardeau. He became a lifelong Pittsburgh Steelers fan of his time in the region.
For the rest of the decade Limbaugh took jobs on several radio stations, working on music radio, before settling in Kansas City. In 1979, he left the radio and accepted a position as promotional director with the Kansas City Royals baseball team. There he developed a close friendship with the third baseman star and George Brett's Hall of Fame of the future; both remain close friends.
1980s
In 1984, Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento, where he succeeded Morton Downey Jr.. Revocation of the Doctrine of Justice - which requires stations to provide air time for responses to any controversial opinion broadcast - by the FCC in 1987 means stations can broadcast editorial comments without having to present opposing views. Daniel Henninger writes, in the Wall Street Journal editorial, "Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (The Doctrine of Justice) in 1987... and Rush Limbaugh was the first person to proclaim himself liberated from East Germany, the dominance of the liberal media. "
On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and attracting the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and started his national radio show. He made his debut just weeks after the Democratic National Convention, and just weeks before the Republican National Convention. The house of Limbaugh radio in New York City is WABC (AM), and it has remained its flagship station for years, even after Limbaugh moved to West Palm Beach, Fla., From where he continued to broadcast his show. The Limbaugh event moved on January 1, 2014 to WABC cross-town rivals WOR (AM), a New York outlet at the moment.
1990s
In December 1990, journalist Lewis Grossberger wrote in The New York Times that Limbaugh had "more listeners than any other talk show host" and described the Limbaugh style as "bounced off among honest lecturers" â € In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States. Limbaugh quipped Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton's policies, as well as those of the Democratic Party. When Republicans won control of Congress in the midterm elections of 1994, a new class of Republicans gave Limbaugh a membership of honor in their caucuses. The event confirms him as an influential figure in the national political scene. 2000s
Limbaugh publishes personal difficulties in the 2000s. At the end of 2001, he admitted that he was almost completely deaf, though he continued his show. He was able to regain much of his hearing with the help of cochlear implants in 2001.
In 2003, Limbaugh had a brief assignment as a pro soccer commentator with ESPN. He resigned several weeks into the 2003 NFL season after making comments about press coverage for quarterback Donovan McNabb causing controversy and accusations of racism on the part of Limbaugh. His comments on McNabb are: "I do not think he's that good from the start.I think what we have here is a bit of social attention in the NFL.I think the media have been very eager that black quarterbacks do well. a good black quarterback, I think there's a bit of hope invested in McNabb and he's gotten a lot of praise for his team's truly unworthy performance. A sports writer interprets the comment as racist to himself and other sports writers. Other sports analysts write Limbaugh's view shared by "a lot of fans and football analysts" and "it's... it does not make sense to say that the sports media is not too much for Donovan McNabb because he's black."
In 2003, Limbaugh stated that he was addicted to painkillers, and sought treatment. In April 2006, Limbaugh surrendered to the authorities, with a warrant issued by the state attorney's office, and was arrested "with one count of prescription fraud." The record is then deleted.
2010s
In 2013, news reports indicated that Cumulus Media, some of the stations carrying Limbaugh programs in certain key markets, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, Washington DC and Detroit, are considering canceling the event when it contracts with Limbaugh expires at the end of the year, reportedly because the company believes that its advertising revenue has been harmed by the audience's reaction to Limbaugh's controversial comments. Limbaugh himself said that the report was overstated and that it was a matter of regular dollar-and-sen negotiations between Cumulus and its network syndication partner, Premiere Networks, a unit of Clear Channel Communications. In the end, the parties reached agreement on a new contract, with Limbaugh's show moving from its flagship outlet in New York, Cumulus's WABC, to its last cross-city rival, Clear Channel-owned WOR, starting in January. 1, 2014, but remains at Cumulus's station that is being run in other markets.
The Rush Limbaugh Show
The Limbaugh radio show airs for three hours every working day starting at noon Eastern Standard Time on AM and FM radio. The program is also broadcasted worldwide in the Armed Forces Radio Network.
Radio broadcasting shifted from AM to FM in the late 1970s because of the opportunity to broadcast stereo music with better precision. The Limbaugh event was first syndicated nationally in August 1988, at a later stage of the AM decline. The popularity of Limbaugh paved the way for other conservative lecture radio programs to become a regular on AM radio. The show became very popular in the 1990s, even some FM stations took it. In March 2006, WBAL in Baltimore became the country's first major radio station to stop the national radio program of the Limbaugh syndicate. In 2007, Speaker of the magazine again named it No. 1 in "Weight Hundred" hosted the most important talk show.
Limbaugh often mentioned the trademarked EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting) Network in 1990. Initially, the show was jointly owned and first syndicated by Edward F. McLaughlin, former president of ABC, who founded EFM Media in 1988, with the Limbaugh event as its first product. In 1997, McLaughlin sold EFM to Jacor Communications, which was eventually purchased by Clear Channel Communications. Today, Limbaugh has the majority of the show, which is syndicated by the Radio Premiere Network.
According to article 2001 in US. News & amp; World Report , Limbaugh has an eight-year contract, at a rate of $ 31.25 million per year. In 2007, Limbaugh earned $ 33 million. A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh is the most trusted news person in the country, garnering a 12.5 percent poll response.
Limbaugh signed a $ 400 million, eight-year contract in 2008 with what was then Clear Channel Communications, making him the highest-paid broadcaster on terrestrial radio. On 2 August 2016, Limbaugh signed a four-year extension of the 2008 contract. In the announcement of the extension, Premiere Radio Networks and iHeartMedia announced that the show grew viewers by 18% growth in adults 25-54, 27% growth with 25-54 women, and advertising revenue growth of 20% from year to year.
Television show
Limbaugh held a syndicated half-hour television show from 1992 to 1996, produced by Roger Ailes. The event covered many topics on his radio show, and was recorded in front of an audience. Rush Limbaugh says he likes to do his radio show, but not a TV show.
Other media appearances
Limbaugh's first television hosting experience came March 30, 1990, as a guest host on CBS's late talk show Pat Sajak, The Pat Sajak Show . ACT UP activist in the audience repeatedly denounced Limbaugh; finally the whole studio audience cleaned up. In 2001, Sajak said the incident was "legendary around CBS".
On December 17, 1993, Limbaugh appeared on Late Show with David Letterman . Limbaugh is also a guest star (as himself) in the 1994 episode Hearts Afire . He appeared in the Billy Crystal 1995 Forget Paris , and in 1998 on the episode The Drew Carey Show .
In 2007, Limbaugh made a cameo appearance on the short-lived Fox News Channel The 1/2 Hour News Hour in a series of parodies depicting him as President of the United States in the future. In parody, his vice president is a fellow conservative intellectual, Ann Coulter. That year, she also made a cameo on "Blue Harvest" episode of Blue Guy, a parody of Star Wars where Limbaugh could be heard on radio claiming that "liberal galaxy media" lie about climate change on planet Hoth, and the administrative position of Lando Calrissian in Cloud City is the result of affirmative action. New Appearance Family Guy has taken place in the 2010 episode "Excellence in Broadcasting", and 2011's "Episode VI: It's a Trap!", Parody of the Return of Jedi .
Influence and inheritance
As a result of his television program, Limbaugh became famous for wearing a distinctive tie. In response to the interest of viewers, Limbaugh launched a series of ties designed primarily by his wife, Marta.
On January 30, 2010, Limbaugh was the judge for the Miss America 2010 contest in Las Vegas. In early 2011, Limbaugh was the subject of the third season of the Channel Golf The Haney Project , in which Hank Haney instructor trained him in eight episodes.
Awards and acknowledgments
In 1992, Ronald Reagan sent Limbaugh a letter in which he thanked him for "all that you did to promote the principles of the Republic and the conservative... [and] You have become the Number One voice for conservatism in our country."
In 1994, Republicans in the US House of Representatives made Limbaugh a member of honor.
Limbaugh was awarded the Marconi Radio Award for the Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year 2014 (awarded by the National Association of Broadcasters). He has won awards four times before (in 1992, 1995, 2000, and 2005). He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. He was then inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2002, Magazine Speakers ranked him as the greatest radio talk show host of all time. Limbaugh is the highest-paying syndicated radio host.
On March 29, 2007, Limbaugh was awarded the William F. Buckley Jr. Award. the first for Media Excellence, by the Media Research Center, a conservative media analysis group.
On January 5, 2008, the conservative magazine Human Events announced Limbaugh as their Man of the Year 2007.
On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Limbaugh was voted one of the 10 most exciting people in America in 2008 for the special event Barbara Walters aired on December 4, 2008.
On February 28, 2009, following his 90-minute self-addressed "first address to the nation", broadcast live on CNN and Fox News and recorded for C-SPAN, Limbaugh received the CPAC's "Constitutional Defender Award", a document originally signed by Benjamin Franklin, given to someone "who has stood for the First Amendment... Rush Limbaugh is for America, what Benjamin Franklin did for the Founding Fathers... the only way we will succeed is if we listen to Rush Limbaugh."
Zev Chafets, whose book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One was published May 25, 2010, wrote after the first preliminary election in the 2010 US election season that Limbaugh was the "brains and spirits behind" the Republican Party "Awakening" after the election of President Barack Obama 2008. In May 20, 2010, the New York Times op-ed column, Chafets pointed among other things to the defeat of Senator Arlen Specter, having been labeled by Limbaugh "Republican on Name Only," and to Sarah Palin, who is "the biggest line of applause today - Republicans are not just parties that are not, but hell parties are not - come on for Mr. Limbaugh's kindness." More generally, writes Chafets, Limbaugh argues that the conservative party-of-no Ronald Reagan is of course to Republicans vigorously, especially since six weeks after Obama's inauguration, and has been the basis for, and encouraging, more Teh Party movements famous..
Rush Limbaugh was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians on May 14, 2012. The Limb Limb bronze statue is now on display at the Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City. It is the only one like a breast with its own security camera to prevent vandalism.
The Children's Books Council calls Limbaugh the Writer of the Year 2014 for his book Rush Revere and brave pilgrims: The Time-Travel Adventure with Extraordinary Americans .
Work
- How It Should Be (1992) Pocket Book ISBNÃ, 0-671-75145-X
- View, I'm Telling You So (1993) Pocket Book ISBNÃ, 0-671-87120-X
- Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims (2013) Threshold Editions ISBNÃ, 1-476-75586-8
- Rush Revere and First Patriots (2014) Threshold Editions ISBN: 978-1-4767-5588-5
- Rush Revere and the American Revolution (2014) Threshold Editions ISBNÃ, 1-476-78987-8
- Rush Revere and Star-Spangled Banner (2015) Threshold Editions ISBNÃ, 1-476-78988-6
- Rush Revere and the Presidency (2016) Threshold Editions ISBN: 978-1501156892
In 1992, Limbaugh published his first book, The Way Things Be Be Followed by See, I Tell You So in 1993. Both became number one in > New York Times The Best Seller List, The Road Things Should remain there for 24 weeks. The first book texts were recorded by Limbaugh, and transcribed and edited by the author of John Fund's Wall Street Journal Journal . In the second book, Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily is named as his collaborator.
In 2013, Limbaugh wrote a children's book entitled Rush Revere and brave pilgrims: Time travel with exceptional Americans. The book was released on October 29, 2013. It won the Limbaugh Writer of the Year Award at the Kids Book Choice Awards in 2014.
In 2014, Limbaugh wrote his second children's book titled Rush Revere and First Patriots: Time-Travel with Exceptional Americans . For his new series, Limbaugh was selected as the finalist of this year's author for the annual Children's and Adolescent Award Book Award.
By the end of 2014, Limbaugh wrote his third children's book entitled Rush Revere and the American Revolution. Limbaugh and his wife, Kathryn, dedicate a third book to the US military and their families.
Views
In his first best-selling book New York Times, Limbaugh described himself as conservative, and criticized broadcasters in many media outlets for claiming to be objective. He has criticized the politically, independently and moderately conservative centrists, claiming they are responsible for Democrat Barack Obama's victory over Republican John McCain in the 2008 US Presidential Election and inviting them to leave the Republican party. He called for adoption of a core conservative philosophy to ensure the survival of the Republican party.
Abortion
Limbaugh considers Roe v. Wade as "bad law" and support overturning it, leaving the decision to state.
African-American
Limbaugh has been noted for making racial related statements relating to African-Americans. He once argued that all the combined image newspapers of the wanted criminals were similar to Jesse Jackson, and other times that "NFL too often looks like a game between Blood and Crips without weapons." When employed like what he describes as a radio-defamatory DJ, he uses an insulting racial stereotype to characterize a black caller he can not understand, tells the caller to "take that bone off your nose and call me back." In March 2010, Limbaugh used the family name's recent resemblance, Rep. Eric Massa, to be an African-American pronunciation "master" to make coverage about the possibility that Governor David Paterson, the first African-American Governor in New York, will choose a substitute for Massa: "Let's assume you're right [caller]." So David Paterson will become a mass that will appoint anyone who will take the place of Massa.So, for the first time in his life, Paterson will become a mass. "Interesting, interesting."
Limbaugh has asserted that African-Americans, in contrast to other minority groups, are "abandoned" socially because they have been systematically trained from a young age to hate the United States because of the welfare state.
Death penalty
Limbaugh supports the death penalty, saying "the only cruel thing about the death penalty is the final hour."
Termination of consent in sexual relationship
Limbaugh rejects the concept of consent in sexual relations. He views approval as "the magic key to the left."
Drug abuse
Limbaugh has been an overt critic of what he sees as leniency over the use of criminal drugs in America. In his televised show on October 5, 1995, Limbaugh stated, "too many white people are getting away with drug use" and illegal drug trafficking. Limbaugh proposes that race differences in drug enforcement can be improved if authorities increase detection, confidence, and jail time for whites involved in illegal drugs.
Environmental issues
Limbaugh is very critical of environmentalism and climate science. He has disputed anthropogenic global warming claims, and the relationship between CFCs and ozone layer depletion, says scientific evidence does not support them. Limbaugh has opposed the scientific consensus on climate change by saying that "only a group of scientists are organized around a political proposition." Limbaugh has used the term "environmentalist wacko" when referring to leaning environmentalists. As a rhetorical device, he also used this term to refer to the more mainstream climate scientist and other environmental scientists and supporters whom he did not approve of.
Limbaugh has written that "there are more hectares of forest in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492," a claim disputed by the United States Forest Service and the American Forest Association, which states that precolonial forests have been reduced. about 24 percent or nearly 300 million hectares.
Feminism
Limbaugh is critical of feminism, saying that: "Feminism is established so as to enable women who do not attract easier access to the mainstream of society." He also popularized the term "feminazi", referring to about two dozen feminists "to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions happen as possible." He also used the term referring to the women's half-million March 2017 as "Deranged Feminazi March". He praised his friend Tom Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, coining the term.
Abuse of Iraqi detainees
On the torture of Abu Ghraib and the abuse scandal of prisoners, Limbaugh said, "This is no different from what happened to the initiation of Skull and Bones... And we will destroy the lives of the people on it and we will obstruct our military efforts, will really hammer them because they have a good time. "
Obama Policy
On January 16, 2009, Limbaugh commented on the Obama presidency (upcoming), "I hope he failed." Limbaugh then says that he wants to see Obama's policy fail, not the man himself. Speaking of Obama, Limbaugh said, "He's my president, he's a human, and his ideas and policies are what counts for me."
Use of entertainment props
Limbaugh uses props to introduce his monologue on various topics. At his radio show, the news of the homeless is often preceded by Henry "Frogman" from Clarence "Is not Got No Home." For a while, Dionne Warwick's song "I Know I Will Not Like This Way Again" precedes a report about people with AIDS. This then becomes "condom renewal" preceded by the Fifth Dimension song, "Up, Up, and Far". For two weeks in 1989, on his Sacramento radio show, Limbaugh did a "caller abortion" where he would end a sudden call to the sound of a vacuum and a scream. He will then deny that he has "closed" the caller, who has been promised not to do. Limbaugh claims that he used this joke to illustrate the "abortion tragedy" and to highlight the question of whether an abortion is murder. During the Clinton administration, while filming his television program, Limbaugh refers to media coverage of Socks, the Clintons cat. He then stated, "But do you know there is also a White House dog?" and a picture of Chelsea Clinton shown. When asked about it, Limbaugh claimed that it was an accident and without his permission, there was a technician who posted a photo of Chelsea.
Controversies and claims of inaccuracy
Several groups and individuals have criticized the accuracy of Limbaugh. The July-August 1994 issue of Extra! , a publication on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), accused 50 different inaccuracies and distortions in Limbaugh's comments. Others since joining FAIR have questioned the facts of Limbaugh. Comedian Al Franken, later to become a Senator, wrote a satirical book ( Rush Limbaugh is Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations ) in which he accuses Limbaugh of distorting facts to serve his own political bias.
From the statements and statements of the Limbaugh controversy they have investigated, Politifact has ranked 84% of "Mostly False" to "Pants-On-Fire" (with a very false sign), with 5% of the statements Limbaugh has raised to the "Most True "and 0% rated" Right. " The allegations were debunked by Limbaugh including the suggestion that the existence of a gorilla refutes the theory of evolution, that Ted Kennedy sent a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov who sought to undermine President Reagan, that the recent lack of storms denied climate change, and that President Obama wanted to mandate circumcision.
Limbaugh has been criticized for inaccuracies by the Environmental Defense Fund. A defense fund report authored by Princeton University conferred the professor of geosciences Michael Oppenheimer and biology professor David Wilcove lists 14 significant scientific facts which, the authors accuse, Limbaugh misrepresented in his book The Way Things Be Be Be Be . The authors conclude that "Rush Limbaugh... allows his political bias to distort the truth about various important scientific problems."
On October 14, 2011, Limbaugh questioned US military initiatives against Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), based on the assumption that they were Christians. "They are fighting Muslims in Sudan and Obama has sent troops, US troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means killing them." After learning about the allegations made against Kony, including the kidnapping of the whole school of young children to be used as child soldiers, Limbaugh stated that he would examine the group. The written transcript of the event on its website has not changed.
Michael J. Fox
In October 2006, Limbaugh said Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has exaggerated the effects of his misery in political TV advertising that advocates funding stem cell research. Limbaugh said that Fox in the commercial was "shameless" in "moving around and shaking", and that Fox did not take "his medicine or he acted, one of two". Fox said "the irony was that I was too drunk," adding that there is no way to predict how the symptoms will manifest. Limbaugh said he would apologize to Fox "very, very... if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this ad as an act." In 2012, Fox said Limbaugh in 2006 had acted on "instinct of oppression" when "he said I faked him, I do not fake him," and says Limbaugh's goal is to get him marginalized and closed due to his stem cell stance.
Fake soldiers
In 2007, Media Matters reported that Limbaugh categorized Iraq War veterans who opposed the war as a "fake army." Limbaugh later said that he was talking about Jesse MacBeth, a soldier who claimed to have been decorated for courage but, in fact, never saw the battle. Limbaugh said Media Matters is trying to obscure him with inappropriate comments and contextual edits. After Limbaugh published what he claimed to be an entire transcript of artificial counter-discussion, Media Matters said that more than a minute and 30 seconds of the transcript was removed without "notation or ellipsis to show that there is, in fact, a break in the transcript." Limbaugh said during minute and half gaps Media Matters has indicated, he waits for a copy of the relevant ABC news on the topic, and the transcript and audio editing is "for reasons of space and relevance, not hiding anything." Senators Harry Reid and 41 Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, signed a letter asking CEO Clear Channel to denounce Limbaugh. Instead, he gave the letter to Limbaugh for auction. It raised more than $ 2 million for the Marine Corps Enforcement Foundation.
Sandra Fluke
On February 29, 2012, Limbaugh, speaking of the contraceptive mandate, included comments on Sandra Fluke's law students as "prostitutes" and "prostitutes." Limbaugh commented on Fluke's speech the previous week to House Democrats in support of the mandate of insurance coverage for contraception. Limbaugh made many similar statements over the next two days, causing the loss of 45 to "more than 100" local and national sponsors and Limbaugh apologies on his show for some of his comments.
Charity work
Leukemia and telethon lymphoma
Limbaugh holds an annual fundraising telethon called "EIB Cure-a-Thon" for Leukemia & amp; Lymphoma Society. In 2006, EIB Cure-a-Thon conducted its 16th annual telethon, generating $ 1.7 million, for a total of more than $ 15 million since its first healing. According to Leukemia and the Lymphoma Society's annual report, Limbaugh personally contributed between $ 100,000 and $ 499,999 from 2000-2005 and 2007, and Limbaugh said that he contributed about $ 250,000 in 2003, 2004 and 2005. NewsMax reported Limbaugh donated $ 250,000 in the year 2006, and the Society's 2006 annual report placed it in the category of $ 500,000 to $ 999,999. Limbaugh donated $ 320,000 during 2007 Cure-a-Thon, reported by Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has generated $ 3.1 million. On its radio program on April 18, 2008, Limbaugh promised $ 400,000 to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society after being challenged by two listeners to increase its original $ 300,000 appointment.
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation
Limbaugh takes an annual trip to help the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation collect contributions to provide scholarships to Marine and law enforcement and dead law enforcement agencies. The foundation was the recipient of a $ 2.1 million eBay auction in October 2007 after Limbaugh registered for sale a critical letter signed by 41 Democratic senators and pledged to match the sale price. With the establishment of his company and his wife, Two if by Tea, they promised to donate at least $ 100,000 to the MC-LEF starting in June 2011.
Personal life
Limbaugh has had four weddings, three divorces, and no children. She first married at the age of 26 years to Roxy Maxine McNeely, a sales secretary at the WHB radio station in Kansas City, Missouri. They married at the United Methodist Centenary Church in Limbaugh's hometown of Cape Girardeau on September 24, 1977. McNeely filed for divorce in March 1980, citing "incompatibility." They formally divorced on July 10, 1980.
In 1983, Limbaugh married Michelle Sixta, a student and usherette at the Kansas City Royals Stadium Club. They divorced in 1990, and he remarried the following year.
On May 27, 1994, Limbaugh married Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobic instructor whom she met at CompuServe online service in 1990. They were married at the home of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who inaugurated. They were separated on June 11, 2004. Limbaugh announced his divorce in the air. This was completed in December 2004. In September 2004, Limbaugh became romantically involved with CNN-time newscaster Daryn Kagan, and they disbanded in February 2006.
Limbaugh has been living in Palm Beach since 1996. A friend remembers that Limbaugh "fell in love with Palm Beach... after visiting him during Memorial Day weekend in 1995." Unlike New York, Florida does not charge taxes, the reason why Limbaugh moved his residence and established his "Southern Command".
On December 30, 2009, while vacationing in Honolulu, Hawaii, Limbaugh was treated at Queen's Medical Center with intense chest pain. Her doctor attributed the pain to angina pectoris.
She dated Kathryn Rogers, a Florida party planner, for three years before she married her on June 5, 2010. During the wedding reception after the ceremony, Elton John entertained wedding guests at a reported $ 1 million fee; However, Limbaugh himself denied that the $ 1 million figure was accurate on September 7, 2010, his radio show.
Through its parent company, KARHL Holdings (KARHL meaning "Kathryn and Rush Hudson Limbaugh"), Limbaugh launches a series of iced tea tea drinks in a bottle called "Two if by Tea", a song sung by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Paul Revere's Ride" "One if by land, two if by sea". KARHL Holdings features the Rush Revere website, where children can post notes to Liberty, the horse on the go, and talk.
Addictive drug addiction
On October 3, 2003, the National Enquirer reported that Limbaugh is being investigated for illegally obtaining prescription drugs oxycodone and hydrocodone. Other news channels quickly confirm the investigation. He confessed to the audience at his radio show on October 10, 2003, that he was addicted to painkillers and stated that he would be admitted to hospitalization for 30 days, immediately after the broadcast. Limbaugh expressed his addiction to painkillers resulting from years of severe back pain caused by a failed surgery intended to correct the problem.
A subsequent investigation into whether Limbaugh had violated Florida's physician shopping law was launched by the Palm Beach State Attorney, which raised privacy concerns when investigators confiscated Limbaugh's personal medical records seeking evidence of crime. Roy Black, one of Limbaugh's lawyers, declared that "Rush Limbaugh was chosen to be prosecuted for who he is.We believe the state prosecutor's office to implement double standards." On November 9, 2005, after two years of investigation, Assistant State Attorney James L. Martz requested that the court set aside the Limbaugh doctor-patient privacy rights and allow the state to question his doctor. Limbaugh's lawyers opposed the prosecutor's attempts to interview his doctor on the basis of the patient's privacy rights, and argued that the prosecutor had violated Limbaugh's Fourth Amendment right by illegally seizing his medical records. American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement in the agreement and proposed a short amicus curiae to support Limbaugh. On December 12, 2005, Judge David F. Crow submitted a decision prohibiting Florida State to question Limbaugh doctors about "patient medical conditions and any information disclosed to health care practitioners by patients in patient care and treatment."
On April 28, 2006, a warrant was issued for his arrest on physician charges. According to Teri Barbera, a sheriff's spokesman, during his arrest, Limbaugh had been booked, photographed, and fingerprinted, but not handcuffed. He was later released after about an hour on bail of $ 3,000. After surrender, he filed a plea of ​​"not guilty" on the charge. The prosecutor explained that the allegations were brought after they found he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors within six months, at a pharmacy near his home Palm Beach. In 2009, after 3 years of lengthy discussions on settlement, the prosecutor agreed to cancel the fee if Limbaugh paid $ 30,000 to fund the cost of the investigation, complete an 18-month therapy regimen with his doctor, submitted to random drug testing, and granted him the right to own firearms during eighteen months. Limbaugh approved the settlement, although he continued to defend his innocence of doctor shopping and insisted that the country's offer resulted from a lack of evidence in favor of the allegations.
Before his addiction was known, Limbaugh had condemned the use of illegal drugs on his television program, stating that "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country... And if people violate the law by using drugs, they should be accused and they should punished and they have to be sent. "
Viagra incident
In June 2006, Limbaugh was detained by drug enforcement agencies at Palm Beach International Airport. The customs officer confiscated Viagra from Limbaugh's luggage when he returned from the Dominican Republic. The recipe is not in the name of Limbaugh. After he was released indiscriminately, Limbaugh joked about the incident on his radio show, claiming that he got Viagra in the Clinton Library and was told they were M & M's blue. He also stated that "I'm having fun in the Dominican Republic, if I could tell you about it."
Aficionado cigars
In the early 1990s, when the cigar boom gained momentum, Limbaugh was often seen with cigars in hand and by the late 1990s, cigars had been a staple of Limbaugh in many public appearances. Often the segment begins with the phrase, "In the midst of a cloud of the first, first, and sometimes third, cigarette smoke," and mentions the story print in his "nicotine fist", the cigar becomes a topic of general discussion. In the spring of 1994, Limbaugh appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine and shared his story of repentance with a cigar. Since then, he has been a frequent participant in many events such as "The Big Smoke," held all year long by the magazine. Limbaugh has participated in many café charity auctions organized by magazines, and is known to often talk to his listeners about his cigar interests, preferences, and recommendations. "I think cigars are just a wonderful addition to enjoying life." He is also often seen in his studio smoking cigars during his show.
Deaf
Rush Limbaugh describes himself as "100 percent, totally deaf." In 2001, Limbaugh announced that he had lost most of his ability to hear: "I can not hear television, I can not hear music, I, for all practical purposes, deaf - and that happens in three months." He said that his condition is not genetic. She was diagnosed with ear disease in autoimmune (AIED) and drugs failed to work. On December 19, 2001, doctors at the Ear Clinic House in Los Angeles managed to regain their hearing size through cochlear implant surgery. Limbaugh received the Clarion CII Bionic Ear.
When asked whether Limbaugh's hearing loss was suddenly caused by opioid addiction, the cochlear implant doctor, otolaryngologist Jennifer Derebery, said that it was possible but there was no way to know for sure without doing a test that would completely destroy Limbaugh's hearing. "We do not know why some people, but apparently not most, who take large doses can lose their hearing".
In 2005, Limbaugh was forced to undergo "tuning" due to "eye wrinkles," a clear side effect of the cochlear implant.
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