Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.
Source: Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 | Fox News
I literally cannot imagine how the trash-fire-seen-from-space — aka Twitter — is raging today. Given that our information delivery systems are optimized for conflict, I suspect this news will infiltrate every web site on the internet, and consume a week of cable airtime.