Rush Limbaugh applauded AIDS deaths?

[snopes]

Comment: i read that in 1984 when rush limbaugh worked for kfbk, he would
list the names of aids patients who died then press the applause button.
is this true? i can't stand the man and i am arguing with my cousin who
thinks he is the best.

[Avril]

I found something about it here:

During Reagan's second term a little known disc jocky in Sacramento, California was making a name for himself by reading off the names of gay men who had died from AIDS each week while pushing the applause button and laughing (Character Matters.) The success of taking so much joy in so much innocent suffering made Rush Limbaugh the most popular voice on California radio. Limbaugh rode the low road to then take on local lesbian groups, he sparred with GLADD up in San Francisco and soon expanded his mysigony to include all women who wore shoes and were not pregnant. As luck would have it, the spokesman for NOW (The National Organization for Women) at the time was an old, often nasty unattractive woman named Molly Yard, an easy mark for Limbaugh. A caller to his show tossed out the phrase "feminazi" and Limbaugh ran with it to syndication in New York a few months after the Fairness Doctrine was rescinded. Almost instantly he became the top radio personality in America which put feminazi into the dictionary. Within a few years AM Radio had become the most ubiquitous Right-wing propaganda machine in the world.

Still looking...

Avril

[ThistleS]

That source spelled GLAAD incorrectly.