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Rush Limbaugh with aloft aegis secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, left, in the East Room of the White House in 2009. (Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

“Being attacked by Rush Limbaugh is like actuality adhering by a newt.”

The late, abundant Molly Ivins wrote that way aback in 1993, aback the addition nut radio annoyer Limbaugh, who died of lung blight on Monday, came afterwards the allegorical accelerating Texas columnist because she had declared out the racism axial to Limbaugh’s abode to affronted white men.

That was about 30 years ago. (Also, “newt”? Did she see Newt Gingrich, Rush’s aldermanic twin, advancing aloft us aback then? I ambition I could ask.)

Whatever. We apperceive Ivins saw Limbaugh’s (and Newt’s) racism. Younger bodies apperceive the astern Limbaugh abhorred Barack Obama, espousing birther theories, biting him as “the Magic Negro,” akin comparing our aloft admiral to the evil, barren boy-king Joffrey from Game of Thrones (just to acknowledgment three of his near-infinite insults).

But Limbaugh’s racialized abhorrence predated our aboriginal Atramentous president. He rose to radio ascendancy during Bill Clinton’s presidency, biting not aloof Clinton himself but his wife and boyish babe too. He went akin harder on Clinton already the admiral denounced “loud and affronted voices” overextension abhorrence afterwards the 1995 Oklahoma City white agitator bombing. Limbaugh, admitting unnamed, took it personally.

As able-bodied he should have.

Years afore that, Ivins accustomed Limbaugh as the adept of “white backlash” politics, which too abounding American journalists banned to see until the closing months of the admiral of Donald Trump. That Queens, New York, abortion rode the ancestral backfire Ivins saw connected ago into the White House, to Limbaugh’s applause, and afresh aggressive a agitated takeover of the Capitol aback he absent it.

I alone ambition Ivins, who anesthetized abroad in 2007, had outlived Limbaugh. But she had his number, early. That will endure, as prescience. Limbaugh’s Trump abutment will abide as profanity.

Like Ivins, I apperceive what it feels like to be “gummed by a newt.” Limbaugh attacked me at atomic several dozen times, by my count—his website says 92 times, but it looks like some of the mentions are of added Walshes. (Clearly his brand accent on accurateness connected to RushLimbaugh.com.) For the aftermost few years, at least, it was like actuality adhering by a newt. I didn’t akin apperceive he was talking about me.

But for a while, abnormally afterwards Obama was aboriginal elected, Limbaugh’s absorption was scary. Aback then, his dittoheads, and others, fabricated agitated threats to me, and abounding added people, mostly women.

Lately, I had no abstraction if and aback he was talking about me. I’m not abiding what that means, but in retrospect, I’m relieved.

RushLimbaugh.com’s landing folio now declares him “the greatest of all time.” But it doesn’t specify: the greatest what?

It’s adamantine to choose. Bully? Bigot? Misogynist? Hypocrite? All of the above?

On amusing media, there’s agitation about whether liberals should advance Limbaugh so anon afterwards his death, with bodies espousing a avant-garde adaptation of De mortuis nihil nisi bonum (Latin for “don’t allege ill of the dead”).

I grew up with that saying. It doesn’t administer to Limbaugh.

I accept capital to say to his defenders: C’mon, Rush dished it out, he was a boxy guy, he can booty it. But the affair is: He absolutely couldn’t booty it.

Limbaugh was a needy, egotistic man-child who, like best bullies, about consistently punched down. If you paid absorption to whom he was attacking, and why, you could generally faculty his wounds, his baneful white masculinity, his sad faculty of baffled entitlement—to women, to sex, to power; to never accepting to anticipate about the racism that fabricated his acceleration possible—and his acerbity at not accepting abundant of any of what he wanted.

Does that complete like anyone abroad we know? Yes, the one Admiral Biden has taken to calling “the aloft guy.” (The best blame are subtle.)

Some (but not all) obituary writers accept done a appropriate job of cataloging Limbaugh’s abounding slurs adjoin women, Atramentous people—anyone who wasn’t white, basically, but with a appropriate accent on Atramentous people, let’s be honest—and the LGBTQ community. (This HuffPost allotment is decidedly good.) I don’t accept abundant time to account a 10th of his animal slurs here. Life is short. I appetite to go aback to blank Limbaugh, which I’ve mostly done for the aftermost few years.

But there are a few slurs I’ve appear across, or remembered, that are account sharing, because they authenticate his brittle white adult insecurities.

Ivins aggregate one I’d never heard about Hillary Clinton.

He, Rush Limbaugh, gets assimilate an elevator. The alone added commuter is Hillary Clinton. She tears off all her clothes, throws herself on the attic and begs him, “Rush, accomplish a woman out of me.” So Limbaugh tears off all his clothes, throws them at Clinton and says, “Fold those.”

LOL.

Of course, a decade and a bisected later, during her aboriginal run for president, men would aisle Clinton with bed-making boards that apprehend “Iron my shirts” and signs that said “Make me a sandwich.” That’s what Rush wrought. Or, to be fair, channeled. During that aforementioned campaign, Limbaugh asked his audience, “Do the American bodies appetite to watch a changeable admiral age afore their actual eyes?”

Did anyone accept to watch Limbaugh age? I did. It wasn’t… pretty.

I’m not aggravating to be mean. Aging is tough, if you’re advantageous abundant to age, and not accepted to be pretty. But afraid men get to point at women to avoid off their alarming at their own decline. It rarely works. Poor Rush.

It additionally turns out Limbaugh was cogent the “make a woman out of me” adventure for decades. Maybe it was his way of adage he wasn’t man abundant for Clinton? At any rate, in 2016 she got added votes than the available consecutive animal aggressor but never became president. Points to Limbaugh!

At atomic Clinton outlived him.

Limbaugh’s sexism, and animal creepiness, came out best acutely in his 2012 attacks on then–Georgetown University law apprentice Sandra Fluke, afterwards she testified in Congress about why articulate contraceptives should be covered afterwards a co-pay beneath the Affordable Affliction Act.

Rush was badly triggered.

Fluke “essentially says that she charge be paid to accept sex,” he wailed. “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to accept sex. She’s accepting so abundant sex she can’t allow the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to accept sex.”

A few canicule afterwards he said he’d be OK with chargeless contraception, with a condition: “So Ms. Fluke and the blow of you feminazis, here’s the deal: If we are activity to pay for your contraceptives, and appropriately pay for you to accept sex, we appetite article for it, and I’ll acquaint you what it is: We appetite you to column the videos online, so we can all watch.”

Vile? Yes. Misogynistic? Of course. Creepy? Very.

But the added he ranted about Fluke (it went on for days), the added women mocked him, admitting our rage. Limbaugh seemed not to accept the way articulate contraceptives work—that they’re taken daily, not afore sex (unlike his admired Viagra). We pay the aforementioned bulk (or nothing; thanks, Obama!) whether we accept sex already a month, 100 times a month, or not at all. He came off clueless about the epochal, liberating change in male-female relationships that came with The Pill (caps added for drama) in 1960.

What abroad didn’t Rush apperceive about women?

Limbaugh additionally had a aberrant fixation with anal insults. We cataloged them at Salon in 2009, aback I was editor in arch (he admired to alarm me “editrix” for a while, whatever he meant by that). It wasn’t Salon’s finest work, but it’s still an absorbing aeon piece. From active database searches, it appeared that Rush had alone coined the appellation “anal poisoning”—not that it anytime became a domiciliary phrase. But he enjoyed casting it around.

In 2009, he lamented that Obama would be accustomed to abort the economy, because “he’s actuality followed about by a agglomeration of associates who are activity to die of anal poisoning.” (He additionally posited that Terry McAuliffe, Lindsey Graham, and then–UK prime abbot Gordon Brown would die of the aforementioned fabricated malady, for altered reasons.)

Limbaugh additionally acclimated anal abduction analogies as a analogue for actuality politically defeated. Best memorably, perhaps, he wielded it to accuse about actuality criticized for adage he hoped Obama would “fail” as president.

“We are actuality told that we accept to achievement [Obama] succeeds, that we accept to angle over, grab the ankles, angle over forward, backward, whichever, because his ancestor was black, because this is the aboriginal atramentous president,” he whined.

Rush’s anal insult account goes on like that, for a connected time. But I won’t.

Limbaugh’s bit about absent our aboriginal Atramentous admiral to abort put me on the all-inclusive addition nut alarm aboriginal in Obama’s term. Aloof afterwards he said it, I went on MSNBC to agitation whether it was fair, accustomed that no Republicans denounced him, to alarm Limbaugh the baton of the GOP. Presciently, I said yes. Aloft Texas GOP adumbrative Dick Armey was bargain to sputtering at me, “I am so abuse animated that you could never be my wife, ’cause I absolutely wouldn’t accept to accept to that blubbering from you every day.” (“That makes two of us, sir,” I replied. So proud.)

It was the alpha of my time in the available addition nut barrel—berated by not aloof Armey but the ashamed aloft Fox host Bill O’Reilly and Limbaugh and too abounding others to name. The abhorrence mail and amusing media threats and akin afterlife threats those three unleashed abide incomparable to this day.

Limbaugh came afterwards me hardest, though, a few months later, afterwards he and the blow of the bedlam appropriate absent it over Obama advertence one simple fact: Cambridge badge acted “stupidly” aback they arrested Harvard Pprofessor Henry Louis Gates for “breaking into” his own home (he’d abandoned his key, and he explained that to the officers).

Limbaugh and his ideological, cerebral soulmate Glenn Beck—Beck was Limbaugh with all the acerbity and racism, but afterwards the declared “humor” (thanks, Rich Lowry)—insisted Obama was absolute his anti-white racism with that one word, “stupidly.” Beck, infamously, said it appear the president’s “deep-seated abhorrence for white people.”

Limbaugh agreed. On television and in book I said I begin that ludicrous, at atomic partly because Obama’s mother was white, as were the grandparents who mostly aloft him, but mainly because it wasn’t true. “There’s a bright case of bump here,” I said on MSNBC, “where these guys—with absolutely doubtable ancestral animosity and perceptions—are bulging their own abhorrence and their own altercation assimilate [the] president.”

The sad radio annoyer appetite nuts. He adherent a several-segment bluster to me. On his armpit it’s headlined: “State-Run Media Promotes Race War Between Obama, Talk Radio.” His critics were claiming, he alleged, that “we are bulging our racism on the authentic postracial messiah who is absorbed on absolving white bodies of their sins, this is the arrangement and they’ve been cat-and-mouse for this, I agreement you.” Afresh he went off on me, calling me “the Magic Honky,” which I assumption was a analogue to Obama’s “Magic Negro.”

From the transcript:

Joan Walsh, editor-in-chief, Salon.com—also accepted as the ‘Magic Honky’—is the absolute racist. The absolute racist is Ms. Joan Walsh with her race-based, maternalistic attitude adjoin atramentous bodies who have, in her baby little mind, no albatross for their own actions. This accessory over Gates and the cop, Sergeant Walsh [sic: His name was Crowley, but all Irish attending alike], happened as a absolute aftereffect of accomplishments and words. Both Gates’ accomplishments and Obama’s words. But that doesn’t amount a acropolis of beans for the Magic Honky, Joan Walsh, who sees blacks as abiding victims in charge of her white protection. She sees atramentous bodies as defective to consistently be reassured by her that she understands that they accept that she is aggravating absolute adamantine not to be a racist.…

Because for 21 years bodies like Joan Walsh…have been aggravating to label—not aloof me, but all of you who are conservative—as inherently racist aloof because of your political views. And actuality that doesn’t stand. The admiral of the United States approved accomplishing that adjoin me in the aboriginal nineties and now this agglomeration in the state-controlled media aggravating it again.

That’s appealing abundant why he railed at Ivins. I’m flattered.

Obama’s “beer summit” with Crowley, Gates, and then–Vice Admiral Joe Biden (Limbaugh, cleverly, declared him “Joe Bite Me”) affronted the radio titan akin more. He connected calling me “the Magic Honky” for a while. He akin photoshopped a new awning for Obama’s Dreams From My Ancestor that featured me autograph a forward, “By the Magic Honky”—along with a photo of himself. The accomplished affair was absolutely affectionate of funny, and I said so publicly.

The day afterwards I said that, a FedEx amalgamation accustomed at my office. Limbaugh had beatific the photoshop art to me with an autograph and a greeting. I now cannot bethink what the agenda aloft the autograph said, but it was actual nice. I afraid it in my bath for years—guests admired it—but I’m not abiding area it is now.

That’s why I admiration about whether he ability be the GOAT “hypocrite.” I’ve heard several bodies who knew him beforehand in his career advance he’s not that bad, not that racist or conservative; his bourgeois amusement became an act. It fabricated him fabulously wealthy, and afresh he couldn’t bang it. (I accept accompany who acclimated to say the aforementioned affair about Ann Coulter, but they’d never say that now.) Was the allowance to me addition sneer? Or was it a wink? I don’t know, and I don’t absolutely care. But it was weird.

One of the aftermost times Limbaugh came afterwards me was aback I said that he and his pal Coulter, and their free-form rage, were abaft Trump’s flip-flopping on whether a government abeyance was tolerable (Trump at aboriginal said no, they said fight, Trump said yes). “He got afraid by Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh…[they] took him to the woodshed,” I said on CNN. As Limbaugh acclaimed in his rant, a lot of added journalists fabricated agnate comments. Because it was a fact.

What’s best absorbing to me is what Limbaugh acquaint in that aforementioned rant: a video he and Coulter did for Fox News in 2007, fantasizing that he was admiral and she was carnality president. It’s juvenile. The video itself is belted to RushLimbaugh.com “subscribers,” but the armpit offers a fractional transcript. All they do, via the transcript, is adore cigars in the White House (relishing that it’s no best a smoke-free zone, acknowledgment to Admiral Limbaugh) and debris a buzz alarm from Nancy Pelosi. YOLO!

It was acutely stupid, but additionally a window on Limbaugh’s bantam psyche, area he’s the cigar-smoking admiral with a allegedly “hot” (and deferential) changeable carnality president, axis bottomward calls from Nancy Pelosi. Is that absolutely what he’d do with his power? Probably.

Also: I had no abstraction he’d talked about me in that segment. I never heard about it. I don’t apperceive what his admirers was then, but it seems he couldn’t accelerate his addition nut monkeys afterwards bodies anymore. Hallelujah: No one came afterwards me.

By then, I think, Trump had eclipsed him, acceptable Limbaugh’s real-life avatar. “The aloft guy” repaid him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom during his final, amusing State of the Union address, and Limbaugh’s final sad year.

I appetite to appearance Limbaugh’s death, alone three canicule afterwards Trump’s absolution in his celebrated additional allegation balloon (it’s progress: This time seven Republican senators begin him guilty; aftermost time it was alone Mitt Romney), as some affectionate of sign, or at atomic a bookend. Not absolutely an catastrophe to this era of cruel, vicious, and agitated white backlash, but maybe it will advice us move accomplished it?

Probably not. Or not yet. Certainly, not by itself. Both men were affirmation of the rot bistro abroad at the GOP; again, but not the cause. Their departures can’t hurt, but our assignment to analyze the rot they helped administer on our country, and to clean what matters, will abide for a connected time.

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