Ditto to the Deaf on Dope!Rush Limbaugh is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, a popular American talk radio show. Limbaugh is a conservative commentator and a pioneer in the development of highly partisan, opinion-driven talk radio.
By 2007 The Rush Limbaugh Show had amassed an audience of around 13.5 million listeners each week. He is received by more listeners than any other radio show nationwide.
Limbaugh started his radio career while a teenager in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, his home town. He was known then as Rust Sharpe. After he dropped out of high school he moved to Pittsburgh to work as a disco jockey for station KQV using the name Jeff Christie. In the 1980s he was working out of Caramento, California where he gained national syndication and a reputation for being outspoken and ultraconservative.
Limbaugh was politically charismatic during Bill Clinton's presidency and gained fame by being an opponent. He gathered many conservative fans who parroted his Republican views. When Newt Gingrich led a Republican majority into the House of Representatives, Limbaugh was one of the most popular political radio hosts in the country.
In 2001, Limbaugh signed a contract to remain on-air until 2009, reportedly for $285 million. Later that same year he announced that he was almost completely deaf. In his own defense he claimed to have only begun losing his hearing four months earlier.
In 2003 Limbaugh admitted publicly, on-air, that he was addicted to painkillers after reported incidents of illegal purchases of prescription drugs (synthetic opiates such as Vicodin). Afterwards he was in a drug rehabilitation program for five weeks and returned to radio in November 2003.
In June 2004 Limbaugh announced that he was separating, after ten years of marriage, from his third wife Marta.
Rush Limbaugh Poll Results
This poll ran from April 30 to May 6, 2007.
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"Rush Limbaugh is a racist."
True
   1271/47%
False
1453/53%
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Keith Olbermann, who names the three "worst people in the world" each night on the MSNBC cable news program Countdown With Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann selected Rush Limbaugh on March 5, 2007, saying "comedian Rush Limbaugh, pointing out that since ancestors of Al Sharpton were slaves and ancestors of Senator Barack Obama were slaveowners, quoting (Limbaugh) again, 'could we not say that if Obama wins the Democratic nomination and then wins the presidency, he will own Al Sharpton?'"
Olbermann added: "No, actually, we couldn't say that. But we could say that any lingering doubt about this is at an end: Rush Limbaugh is a racist."
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