From the February 17 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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RUSH LIMBAUGH: The Scalia family is asking everybody to please put away any thought of a conspiracy involving the death of their father Antonin Scalia. The ranch owner out there in Texas had an unfortunate slip of the tongue when he said he found the justice with a pillow over his head. That immediately became, and I knew it was going to happen, pillow on his face. And then here came all the conspiracy theorists. It didn't take much, never does. They start talking about murder and other kinds of foul play. And the Scalia family is distressed by it because it didn't happen. Their husband, father died natural causes, 79 years of age. They're asking for prayers and they're asking for people to let this go from that standpoint. They don't believe there's anything to it. And I understand their position totally on this. Everybody that knew Antonin Scalia just had the greatest respect for him. And the legacy that people wish for him is not one that would be clouded with some conspiracy theory that survives on television for 50 years with oddball shows here and oddball shows there. The ranch owner has clarified, said I did not say the pillow was on his face. I said the pillow was on the headboard above his head, like all pillows are on beds. And, of course, the conspiracy theorists, well why did you say it in the first place? You're the one, you -- And of course everybody's now trying to backtrack. But the Scalia family has asked for prayers and for people to drop the notion that there was some sort of foul play involved here.
