With famous people dying at advanced ages — George Shultz at 100, Friendly's founder Prestley Blake at 106 — losing the walking obscenity that was Rush Limbaugh at just 70 seems like a case of the Bad Die Young. Nevertheless, as Clarence Darrow once said, "I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
There's really no other way to feel about the news that the big fat idiot no longer walks among us. But sadly, others do, and they carry on the cause of appealing to the worst in us. Or, rather, to the worst in aggrieved white males who feel power slipping away from them. You can draw a straight line from Limbaugh and his abuse of Chelsea Clinton (and her parents) in the 1990s to Tucker Carlson's ridiculous rant about the Biden marriage today.
Obviously, Rupert Murdoch played a big role in this, too. And still does. Benedict Donald was on Sean Hannity's show (and numerous others) yesterday, ostensibly to eulogize Limbaugh but mainly, seeing as he's Twitter-less, to repeat the Big Lie.
The problem for the Limbaugh-Gingrich-Trump-Hawley-Taylor-Greene far right is that all they have is insults and slander. It's worked very well for them for decades, but after the Capitol insurrection maybe not so much. We can fight back with the truth (and with lawsuits). Since the GOP is captive to the crazies, it might be something for the party to ponder. Ted Cruz, for example, might give it some thought as he lolls on the beach at Cancun. We cats HISS.
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