“The Rush Limbaugh Show,” goes off-air forever as he dies at 70

Rush Limbaugh ruled with his voice to shape the politics of both the Republican Party and nation who is termed as a consecutive media icon and czar of talk-radio, lost a battle with cancer. He took his last breathe on Wednesday bidding us adieu. He was 70 years old.

The news of his demise was announced by his wife Kathryn on his radio show.

“As so many of you know, losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life,” she said. “Rush will forever be the greatest of all time.”

Limbaugh was a warrior who continued to host his show while undergoing treatment and was confident about defeating the disease. He announced n February 2020 that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

A pioneer of AM talk-radio, Limbaugh for 32 years hosted “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” a nationally-syndicated program with millions of loyal listeners that transfigured him into a partisan force and polarizing figure in American politics. In many ways, his radio show was like the big bang of the conservative media universe.

“The Rush Limbaugh Show” helped popularize the political talk-radio format and usher in a generation of conservative infotainment.