Commentary There’s no need to belabor the point about the media’s coverage of the death of Rush Limbaugh, which was as predictable as the death itself after his diagnosis with Stage 4 cancer just over a year ago. Here’s the lead paragraph of Marc Fisher’s obituary for The Washington Post: “Rush Limbaugh, who deployed comic bombast and relentless bashing of liberals, feminists and environmentalists to become the nation’s most popular radio talk-show host and lead the Republican Party into a politics of anger and obstruction, died Feb. 17 at 70.” Once upon a time, if an obituarist felt it necessary to criticize his subject at all, the criticism, placed near the end of the article, would be muted and couched in euphemisms. Of a notorious womanizer he might write that “marriage was no impediment to his gallantry,” or of a drunk or a gourmand that “he enjoyed the convivial pleasures …