Rush Limbaugh’s Greatest Hits? Hardly!

My vote for the worst book of 2022 is Radio’s Greatest of All Time: Rush Limbaugh by Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaugh — the widow and brother of the late Rush Limbaugh, respectively. Although I will never begrudge two people extremely close to somebody for writing a glowing biography about them after their death — even if I found the person they wrote it about to be a blowhard who helped ruin this nation — I will criticize a book that falsely depicts that man, which this book certainly does.

The book is primarily transcripts from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show — specifically, from around 2005 onward. Honestly, what disappoints me about this book is not that it implies Rush Limbaugh ever had anything of worth to say — although, don’t get me wrong, that wrongness is a major issue — but that it left so much out about this man. For example, it does not include Limbaugh’s final hour as a local host in Sacramento before getting nationally syndicated in 1988 — probably because said final hour saw him defending date rape by comparing it to forms of “real rape.” This is an opinion Limbaugh defended in his 1993 book See, I Told You So, where he wrote:

It is my belief that the date-rape concept has been promoted by those whose agenda it is to blur these distinctions [between “real rape” and anything else]. By calling it “date rape” the intent is to expand…