The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies. Rush Limbaugh for sure. I’ve been listening to and thinking about Limbaugh for years: beneath the racist, misogynist rant, the drug abuse, the divorces, the desperate yearning to be an athlete (his bombast is rife with football references), the bitter, fawning women callers he cultivates as groupies, the bottomless hatred of President Obama (who is everything Limbaugh is not) is self-loathing barely disguised. He's going to deconstruct. Of all people, the talk radio host, Michael Savage’s depiction of Rick Santorum, as a kid “no one would talk to in high school,” resonates with Limbaugh and many of these humorless talk radio “warriors,” who spew hate and divisiveness at both political parties and at anyone who’s achieved any distinction in the real world.