The world misplaced an incredible conservative voice when Rush Limbaugh handed away in 2021 and The Gateway Pundit misplaced a buddy.
Rush was by no means afraid of standing up for the reality and pushing again towards the left. In August of 2019, Rush defended The Gateway Pundit from big tech censorship.
Right here is a part of his last Christmas message to his huge viewers.
People, I need to inform you on the outset right here, to me it is a crucial program.
I’ve very a lot that I need to say to all of you in the present day, and I’m feeling very pressured. Not pressured. I’m feeling stage fright type of factor. There’s a lot I need to say, and I need to say it accurately. I need to convey my emotions, and I need to do it proper. I need to do it to the perfect of my potential. Now, I’ve present in circumstances like this that the perfect factor to do will not be to consider it.
Don’t make it extra strain packed than it already is. But it surely’s crucial. You all are crucial. My household is essential to me. I’ve had a 12 months now to replicate on the issues that actually matter, a 12 months to replicate on the issues which might be fully related and necessary to me. And all of you’re in that enormous conglomeration of individuals and issues which might be crucial to me.
My emotions of thankfulness at all times floor. My emotions of nice gratitude at all times floor on the Christmas time of 12 months, and it’s no completely different this 12 months. Now, in January of this 12 months, towards the tip of the month, I obtained a — you all know, however there’s one thing I need to say about it — stage 4, superior lung most cancers, terminal prognosis. The target of all people concerned was to increase life for so long as potential as enjoyably as potential.
Now, lots of you’ve got been by this — plenty of you’ve got been by this as people, as households — and you recognize what meaning. Medical therapy that’s designed to assault the illness as significantly as potential whereas sustaining a high quality of life that makes it value it. Some individuals can’t cope with the unwanted side effects of chemo or different types of therapy.
Properly, again in late January once I obtained this prognosis — and I used to be shocked. I used to be surprised, and I used to be in denial for a couple of week. I imply, I’m Rush Limbaugh. I’m Mister Massive of the Huge Proper-Wing Conspiracy. I imply, I’m indestructible. I mentioned, “This could’t be proper,” but it surely was. What I didn’t know on the time that I realized later in the middle of the 12 months was that I wasn’t anticipated to be alive in the present day.
I wasn’t anticipated to make it to October after which to November after which to December — and but right here I’m. Right this moment I’ve received some issues, however I’m feeling fairly good in the present day. God’s with me in the present day. God is aware of how necessary this program is to me in the present day, and I’m feeling pure by way of power, regular by way of power, and I’m feeling completely able to doing it in the present day.
I’ve been blessed. I discussed to all of you again within the early days, a while… I suppose, this might need been in February. It was round, I believe, both throughout or shortly after I had obtained the Presidential Medal of Freedom at this 12 months’s State of the Union handle by President Trump within the Home Chamber.
Properly, once I received my prognosis and once I started to obtain all the outpouring of affection and affection from in all places in my life from so lots of you in so some ways and from my household — who, man, they’ve supported me my complete profession. Even throughout instances it might have been comprehensible and straightforward for them to say, “Rush who? We don’t know this man.”
However that by no means occurred. I imply, I’ve been completely supported by nearly all people in my household. I’ve been propped up. I’ve been defended. I’ve been made to look higher than I’m. My beautiful spouse, Kathryn, has executed a lot in that regard. She has executed a lot with RushLimbaugh.com and with the charitable efforts that we now have engaged in.
And all of it has been to my profit — and yours. It’s for the advantage of people who find themselves the recipients of our efforts. So many individuals have put me first in all of this, and I perceive now what Lou Gehrig meant, ’trigger I actually really feel like that. I really feel extraordinarily lucky and fortunate.
And since I’ve outlived the prognosis, I’ve been capable of obtain and listen to and course of among the most fantastic, good issues about me that I may not have ever heard had I not gotten sick. Once more, suppose, how many individuals who move away by no means hear the eulogies, by no means hear the thank-yous? I’ve been very fortunate, of us, in I can’t inform you what number of methods.
My level in the whole lot in the present day that I’m sharing with you about that is to say thanks, and to inform all people concerned how a lot I really like you from the underside of a large and rising and nonetheless beating coronary heart, and there’s room for way more. All as a result of I’ve realized what love actually is throughout this. You recognize, I’ve a philosophy there’s good that occurs in the whole lot.
It might not reveal itself instantly — and even in probably the most dire circumstances, should you simply wait, should you simply stay open to issues, the great in it can reveal itself. And that has occurred to me as properly in numerous, numerous methods. You recognize, I discussed Kathryn. Don’t misunderstand. She’s executed way more than simply redesign an internet site and shepherd the RushLimbaugh.com Retailer.
She shepherded the charitable efforts, the Betsy Ross, Stand Up for Betsy Ross. The sum of money we generated for the Tunnel to Towers group is simply unbelievable stuff, and it was all executed for me. Properly, and the beneficiaries the charity. It was all executed for me. All of this was executed for me. So many individuals have executed issues this 12 months for me, and it’s… I don’t know.
It’s not embarrassing. It’s simply gratifying, and it has helped me to see a lot so clearly in regards to the goodness of individuals and their decency. And it’s confirmed a lot of my instinctive beliefs about individuals.
Thanks a lot for being with us in the present day, and thanks for being a part of this viewers for 30 years, 32 years.
No matter it’s, it’s simply mind-boggling.