![]() ![]() We’re supposed to feel sorry.” Limbaugh then lamented the fact that the media wasn’t adequately giving then-President Donald Trump space to grieve the death of his brother, whom Trump had spent less than an hour visiting when he was in the hospital before he died. Do you know why? Because his wife died in a car accident, and then his beloved son Beau Biden died from brain cancer. ‘You can’t be mean to Biden.’ See, Biden is a sympathetic figure. “And if you dare talk about it that way, they’re going to be climbing down your chili. The radio host also mocked then-candidate Joe Biden over the death of his wife and child in 1972 and more recently, his son Beau in 2015. He spoke ill of people who died of AIDS, of people who died by suicide, of people who were dying of Parkinson’s disease, and unarmed Black children who were murdered under racist pretenses. Twenty-five years ago, the great Molly Ivins noticed Limbaugh’s schtick of targeting “dead people, little girls, and the homeless,” an act that only accelerated as he approached the end of his life and his own death approached. He mocked the intelligence of Black athletes and villainized the ones who protested against police brutality. He said that white people can’t be blamed for slavery, as they have done more than anybody else to end slavery. He popularized the term “ feminazi,” a word that stupid assholes fling at women who won’t fuck them to this very day. ![]() He’s a dead guy who made himself a multimillionaire many times over by targeting immigrants, women who use birth control, the preteen daughters of politicians, the Obamas, rape survivors, environmentalists, gay people, Asians, Latinos, Black people, and feminists. But Rush Limbaugh isn’t just any dead guy. Conventional etiquette dictates that we do not speak ill of the dead. ![]()
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