While he stirred in many either a feeling of love or hate, Limbaugh was nevertheless inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the National Radio Hall of Fame. He has long been a controversial figure, due to statements given on a variety of topics. Titled See, I Told You So, it was a big hit and made it to the Best Seller list of The New York Times. His second book would come out not long after in 1993. His first book was published in 1992 and is titled The Way Things Ought to Be. The radio personality was not content to just broadcast over the airwaves, however, and ventured into the world of print with over twenty books written either on his own or in collaboration with another writer.
Talkers Magazine gave out an estimate that his show had become America’s most frequently listened to radio show to the tune of over fifteen million viewers in 2019. Rush also drew in a huge amount of ears that were tuning in to see what he had to say. He has been one of the top-earning individuals in the field of American radio, and had reportedly earned $84.5 million according to a listing printed by Forbes in 2018. The conservative-leaning host would rise to become one of the most frequently listened to voices on the radio during the course of the nineties, even going on to have his own television show that was broadcast across the United States for four years from 1992 until 1996. The show ran on various radio stations both AM and FM. However, Rush is most well known for hosting his nationally-syndicated radio show, “The Rush Limbaugh Show”. Limbaugh was known for having a love of Palm Beach, where he resided until he passed away. The line was released through KARHL Holdings, which had a site featuring the character Rush Revere where kids could write notes to send to time-traveling horse Liberty. Rush has also ventured into business by launching his own bottled iced tea products titled “Two if by Tea”. It was reported that Elton John performed for the couple and the guests at the reception after the wedding. Limbaugh would date Daryn Kagan, a news anchor, before getting married to party planner Kathryn Rogers in 2010. He would get married once more in 1994 to aerobics instructor Marta Fitzgerald, separating in 2004 and getting divorced December of the same year. He would marry the young Michelle Sixta in 1983 and seven years later they would divorce and she would remarry. He was married at 26 years old for the first time to radio station sales secretary Roxy Maxine McNeely in Cape Girardeau in 1977. He withdrew from Southeast Missouri State University after two semesters while still nursing a passion for radio. He would adopt an air name, “Rusty Sharpe”, a surname that was inspired by having taken a telephone book and finding the name inside. He would get his first job in radio early, working at the radio station KGMO in town at the age of sixteen years old. Rush would go to school at Cape Girardeau Central High School, graduating in 1969. There were also many judges, of which there was also a precedent since Rush Limbaugh Senior (Rush’s grandfather) was a judge in addition to being a prosecutor, special commissioner, president of the Missouri Historical Society, and member of Missouri’s House of Representatives.
Being a lawyer was a family legacy as many relatives were practicing lawyers in the family. His father had been a fighter pilot for the U.S. His parents were Rush Hudson and Mildred Carolyn, and he had a younger sibling David. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born on January 12, 1951. Rush Limbaugh was a radio personality, author, television show host, political commentator, and more.
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