Snopes reports:
Radio host Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 after a year-long battle with lung cancer. As conservative fans mourned the death of the radio pioneer, many on social media pointed to Limbaugh’s history of making sexist, homophobic, and bigoted remarks. Author Jessica Valenti, for example, posted a message on Twitter stating that Limbaugh once had a segment on his show called “AIDS Update” that mocked the deaths of gay people.
“nobody should celebrate the death of another human being” okay, let’s start with Rush, who had a recurring segment in the 1980’s where he’d read off the names of people who’d died of AIDS as a comedy bit over Dionne Warwick’s “I’ll Never Love This Way Again”
— ? (@samthielman) February 17, 2021
This wasn’t a one-off! He did it for a month! He specifically chose the song because Warwick was an early (and extremely brave and outspoken and effective) AIDS activist!
— ? (@samthielman) February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh used to give “AIDS Updates”, listing the names of dead gay men set to disco music https://t.co/cXab3Glsqj pic.twitter.com/0e16C3wnxD
— Queerty (@Queerty) February 17, 2021
As we celebrate Rush Limbaugh’s death & yes, I mean celebrate ?, let us remember the time he mocked Michael J Fox & his Parkinson’s disease.
It’s no wonder that Donald Trump gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Trump followed the path he led.
The world’s a better place. pic.twitter.com/lS7Ye96VRD
— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@EricHaftelLive) February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh once said Robin Williams suicide was because he was a leftist and not due to depression.
Rest in piss, Rush. You won’t be missed.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh had a regular radio segment where he would read off the names of gay people who died of AIDS and celebrate it and play horns and bells and stuff.
— Paul Elliott Johnson (@RhetoricPJ) February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh mocked Eric Garner’s death, Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s cancer diagnosis, Kurt Cobain, people who died of AIDS, feminists, Civil Rights activists, and Native Americans. That’s his legacy.
— James Morrison (@JamesPMorrison) February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh mocked people dying of AIDS, made fun of Parkinson’s disease, called America’s 1st Black president, ‘Barack the magic negroe’——he was a vile, pompous, white supremacist who spread racist hatred.
Bidding him good riddance or wishing him to rot in hell is being kind.
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) February 17, 2021