![]() Polls consistently found he was regarded as the voice of the party. Limbaugh often enunciated the Republican platform better and more entertainingly than any party leader, becoming a GOP kingmaker whose endorsement and friendship were sought. The lyrics, set to the tune of “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” describe Obama as someone who “makes guilty whites feel good” and is “black, but not authentically.” He was frequently accused of bigotry and blatant racism for such antics as playing the song “Barack the Magic Negro” on his show. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Limbaugh said: “I hope he fails.” When a woman accused Duke University lacrosse players of rape, he derided her as a “ho,” and when a Georgetown University law student supported expanded contraceptive coverage, he dismissed her as a “slut.” ![]() He suggested the Democrats’ stand on reproductive rights would have led to the abortion of Jesus Christ. He called 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton a dog. As the AIDS epidemic raged in the 1980s, he made the dying a punchline. When a Washington advocate for the homeless killed himself, he cracked jokes. Fox, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, appeared in a Democratic campaign commercial, Limbaugh mocked his tremors. He called Democrats and others on the left communists, wackos, feminazis, liberal extremists, homosexual slurs and radicals. Long before Trump’s rise in politics, Limbaugh was pinning insulting names on his enemies and raging against the mainstream media, accusing it of feeding the public lies. Limbaugh took as a badge of honor the title “most dangerous man in America.” He said he was the “truth detector,” the “doctor of democracy,” a “lover of mankind,” a “harmless, lovable little fuzz ball” and an “all-around good guy.” He claimed he had “talent on loan from God.”
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