Rush Limbaugh has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 70 years old.Limbaugh made a career through a mixture of incendiary, ultra-Right Wing rhetoric.
He launched his radio career in 1971 as a somewhat innocuous DJ in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Over the next decade, he toiled in various DJ and radio host positions around the nation until the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1984.
Removal of the regulation allowed radio stations to express a political viewpoint without also expressing opposing views. In other words, it afforded Limbaugh the opportunity to spew ultra-conservative beliefs without any kind of balance.Limbaugh’s often hateful rhetoric earned him a reputation as one of the biggest names in radio, and one of the nastiest..