NOTE: Posts over 10 years old are partially archived. Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing talk show host who gleefully stoked division in America, helped polarize our national politics and made a career trafficking in bigotry and cruelty, died Wednesday. 18K Likes, 1515 Comments - Rolling Stone (rollingstone) on Instagram: Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing talk show host who gleefully stoked division in. Peter Gabriel has also demanded Limbaugh stop using his music as well. as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh late-night television talk show host Conan OBrien many celebrities, including The Rolling Stones. You can read the entire cease & desist letter here. Yesterday, I contacted Anthem Entertainment and Rush (the band) about Rush Limbaugh's airing of its music on his show, and today I was exclusively informed that the legendary Canadian rock group has formally demanded that the Rush Limbaugh Program stop using its music on the air.įor years now, Rush Limbaugh has been playing Rush music (get it?) as bumpers out of his commercial breaks, including the tracks "Bravado" and "The Spirit of Radio." In fact, when Limbaugh attacked Sandra Fluke and remarked about seeing sex tapes of Fluke in exchange for birth control pills, Limbaugh was playing the popular Rush track "The Spirit of Radio" under his rant. Limbaugh has come under fire because of his recent inflammatory comments about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. In October, he announced that cancer had metastasized and that his cancer prognosis was more than likely fatal. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He diagnoses with an advanced form of lung cancer back in January of 2020. Tim Dickinson, Rush Limbaugh, Right-Wing Radio Host Who Trafficked in Bigotry and Cruelty, Dead at 70, Rolling Stone, February 17, 2021.
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UPDATE - Rolling Stone magazine examines the legal issues involved in this article, and Rage Against the Machine has also joined the fray (thanks RushFanForever).īob Cesca of The Huffington Post reports that Rush's legal team has issued a cease & desist letter (thanks Unit 3) to Rush Limbaugh, demanding that he stop using the band's music on his radio show. Conservative American political commentator and media personality, Rush Limbaugh. UPDATE - Here's The American Spectator's take on this (thanks PhillyMike). When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the AM dial, signed off from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative.
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