It occurred while he was calling in to a radio show.

His radio show was once a vital outlet of conservative news—and I was one of his sources. But it became increasingly divorced from reality, like much of right-wing media.

The racist, sexist radio host played a pivotal role in injecting cruelty and conspiracy into conservative mass media.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party