Statement From 60 Plus National Spokesman and Entertainment Legend Pat Boone:
“IF…I say, IF America can still preserve and record our history truthfully, as we have till now…it will faithfully record that Rush Limbaugh was the Patrick Henry of our time, speaking for millions of his fellow citizens, ‘GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!’
This was and is his echoing cry, with his last breath…on behalf of us who still cherish America and our freedoms.
Oh God, give us more Rush Limbaughs!”
-PAT BOONE
Statement From 60 Plus Founder and Chairman Jim Martin:
“Rush Limbaugh was a truly gifted speaker and a once in a lifetime talent. He inspired a generation of conservatives to believe in America.”
-Jim Martin
Statement From 60 Plus President Saul Anuzis:
“Rush was a legend & conservative icon, whose impact on the conservative movement will never be truly appreciated. Whether you loved him or hated him he was the best at what he did.”
-Saul Anuzis
Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday morning at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.
Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show. “Losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life,” she said. “Rush will forever be the greatest of all time.”
Limbaugh finished his final broadcast last year and thanked his audience for listening to his program longer than his prognosis had forecasted.
“I wasn’t expected to be alive today,” Limbaugh said. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”
And that’s kind of weird, isn’t it? I mean, considering we’ve known this day was coming for over a year since his gut-wrenching announcement of stage 4, terminal cancer. Yet, despite knowing this day was coming, so many of us are left devastated and speechless.
Why?
It’s easy. Rush Limbaugh was the very best. And we have all been lucky enough to witness this greatness in our lives in a very intimate way, every day for more than three decades.
It’s impossible to not feel tremendous loss when that kind of brilliance is ripped away from our daily routine.
Rush’s relationship with his listeners was like no other. We knew him. And he knew us. From his passion for his craft to the way he skewered the Left — never angry or bitter, but always brutally effective — to the grace in which he handled his death sentence.
We shall not see his like again.
His influence lives on even for those who were not shaped by his program; Limbaugh was a foundational icon of conservative media and launched a generation of conservative voices, and his influence is felt by all those who came after. Beyond that, Limbaugh was reputed to be a kind and generous soul who greatly encouraged his proteges to be bigger and bolder in their defense of liberty.
