As conservative fans mourned the death of far-right radio host Rush Limbaugh, many on social media pointed to Limbaugh’s history of making sexist, homophobic, and bigoted remarks.
Author Jessica Valenti, for example, posted a message on Twitter stating that Limbaugh once had a segment on his show called “AIDS Update” where he would celebrate the AIDS-related deaths of gay and bi men. “Rush Limbaugh had a segment called ‘AIDS update’ set to music where he mocked dying gay people so I don’t really want hear about ‘speaking ill of the dead’ today,” Valenti tweeted.
Snopes.com confirmed the authenticity of the claims, noting that while they could not uncover any audio of these segments, they did find a few contemporaneous news articles and