Fox News devotes several hours to Rush Limbaugh tributes.

Fox News focused several hours of protection on Wednesday to praise for Hurry Limbaugh, the right-wing speak radio star whose aggressive and often divisive rhetoric helped pave the way for the network’s prime time hosts.

With Harris Faulkner and Bill Hemmer at the anchor desk, conservative media and political figures named in to give tributes to Mr. Limbaugh, who died on Wednesday at 70.

Sean Hannity claimed “there is no discuss radio as we know it” without having Mr. Limbaugh.

“It just does not exist,” he reported on Fox Information. “And I’d even make the argument in numerous ways, there’s no Fox Information or even some of these other opinionated cable networks.”

Tucker Carlson mentioned Mr. Limbaugh came “out of nowhere” and turned the voice of conservatism and the savior of AM radio. “Here was a male who took the oldest of mass interaction media and turned it into the most powerful drive in American politics, and he did it purely out of talent,” he claimed.

Previous President Donald J. Trump reported in a call to Fox News that he experienced very last spoken with Mr. Limbaugh a few or 4 days ago. “People, regardless of whether they beloved him or not, they revered him, they truly did,” he stated. Mr. Trump also repeated the baseless declare that he had received the election. “Rush imagined we won, and so do I, by the way,” he claimed. “I feel we received significantly.”

The broadcast involved footage of Mr. Trump’s presenting Mr. Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Independence, the nation’s optimum civilian honor, in the course of the Condition of the Union tackle past February. Former Vice President Mike Pence, himself a previous discuss radio host, also known as in to say that Mr. Limbaugh “made conservatism enjoyment.”

In his extended job, Mr. Limbaugh usually referred to feminists as “feminazis” lost his commentary job on ESPN in 2003 after he mentioned that Donovan McNabb, a Black quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, experienced received way too a great deal credit score for his team’s accomplishment mainly because of his race and hung up on callers to his radio present with anything he named “caller abortions,” an audio montage of a vacuum cleaner seem and human screams. In 2012, he regularly attacked Sandra Fluke, a regulation university student who testified at a congressional listening to on start management, contacting her a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his radio display.

When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, Mr. Limbaugh promoted the falsehood that Mr. Obama had been born exterior the United States and lent help to Mr. Trump’s current claims of election fraud. On his Dec. 23 software, he acknowledged his impact on Fox Information.

“And then I got some assistance setting up in 1996,” he reported, referring to the calendar year the cable information channel commenced. “Here will come Fox! Very pleased of that.”