Rush Limbaugh was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a “quintessential Midwestern small town,” where he fell in love with radio in elementary school. He became a Top-40 deejay in the 1960s and held various other jobs before finding his true calling as a radio talk-show host a KFBK in Sacramento, California. His radio show is the #1 syndicated program in the country, and it can be heard in 650 markets. His syndicated television show, Rush Limbaugh, airs on more than two hundred stations, covering 99% of the country. The phenomenal success of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, The Way Things Ought to Be and See, I Told You So, have assured Rush’s place in the pantheon of media celebrities. Rush Limbaugh makes his home in New York City and divides his time between his daily radio show and his nationally syndicated television show.