Dealing With Limbaugh's Death, Decently

BILL O'REILLY informs us that it is indecent to trash Rush Limbaugh on the day of his death. Advice from a sexual predator on decency, we perhaps do not need. Are we permitted to trash a dead man the day after his death, or, if not, then when, pray tell, may we begin? We might want to bear in mind that trashing Rush Limbaugh involves, need involve nothing more than telling the truth.Limbaugh spend decades on the radio trashing good people who merely happened to disagree with him, spewing racism, misogyny, hatred of all types, especially directed at liberals, and telling a boundless number of lies.Arguably, Limbaugh was the single most potent force which turned the Republican to the extreme right, turned it into a hatred machine, and made it culturally possible for a reprobate like Donald Trump to become president. Trump, with his vicious slanderous attacks, racism, and constant barrage of lies, can be said to be somewhat of a Rush Limbaugh clone. Ruah Limbaugh harmed people. he harmed society, by fomenting anger and hatreds, by pitting one group against another, by encouraging his listeners to be aggressively hostile in their attitudes towards those with whom they disagree. Limbaugh denied the reality of climate change, calling it a "hoax" for years.When an influential person does this, we all are harmed, by our increased tendency as a society to take urgently needed action to save ourselves. In his final broadcasts he constantly railed against the election, echoing Trump's lie that it had been stolen. this is, in a sense, a fitting manner for Limbaugh to go out. In a hilarious incident, in one of his final shows he was ranting about ballots being carried out of a polling place in suitcases, screaming that "ballots are not carried in suitcases!" When a caller told him that they were not suitcases, but rather standard ballot boxes, rush suddenly got quiet, and quietly changed the subject. Rush Limbaugh, like Trump, was not the sort of man to admit his own mistakes, only those of thosew, whom he ridiculed when he corrected them. Limbaugh may be the only man in america who told more lies in a shorter period of time than Donald J. Trump, an impressive record for prevarication. if only he had lived long enough to witness Senator Ted Cruz sneaking off to Cancun with his family in the middle of the great blizzard and suffering in Texas.The deserved pounding Cruz took in the media Rush would likely have attributed tl liberal trouble making ather than justified public outrage at a political leader abandoning his state and his constituents in favor of his own immediate comfort and pleasure in the midst of a public disaster. If you were conservative, rush had your back; if not, he stabbed it.