More: Cerabino: With gay football star, Rush Limbaugh reveals his 18th century values More: Cerabino: Rush Limbaugh, ’white privilege’ and three black radio hosts. More: Cerabino: Another year, another chance for Hurricane Limbaugh to blow “It’s one of the reasons I don’t cross the bridge here much,” Limbaugh said, “except … to like go to the airport and get out.” “They’ve drunk the Kool-Aid down here, folks, and they drink it every day,” Limbaugh told his radio audience in 2007 within the safety of his Palm Beach bunker. He had little regard for Palm Beach County - which he told his radio audience was full of “deranged” people who are “devoid of any rationality or reason.” Limbaugh lived 220 miles and five tax brackets away in an oceanfront home in Palm Beach, where he complained about sea turtle lights and barrier island hurricane evacuations. Limbaugh, a cigar smoker who died two years ago of lung cancer at the age of 70, didn’t live anywhere near Hernando County. (If you pass the Wawa and the Ranch Hand’s Feed Depot, you’ve gone too far.) Limbaugh complained about the part of Florida where he lived Here are the particulars: There’s going to be a Hernando County stretch of Cortez Boulevard in Brooksville named “Rush Limbaugh Way.” So, lawmakers came up with a more on-brand Florida idea: Let’s name some random stretch of road without any geographical significance after a right-wing radio host who was repulsive to millions of state residents. State lawmakers took time out from designating state roadways and bridges to the usual mix of heroic fallen police officers, Floridians who died in military combat overseas, and Christa McAuliffe, the New Hampshire school teacher killed during the ill-fated 1986 launch of the Challenger space shuttle.īoooring. I was worried that Tucker Carlson was going to beat him out. I’m relieved that Rush Limbaugh is getting a road named after him in Florida. View Gallery: Rush Limbaugh in Palm Beach County through the years in photos
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