Whalelike radio performer Rush Limbaugh tied the knot with some lady last weekend in Palm Beach, Florida. According to The Palm Beach Post and People, some very notable, very alienating people were in attendance: Sean Hannity, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Rudy Giuliani, and Clarence Thomas were all there, and so was Elton John, who performed at the reception. The price tag of an Elton John concert of one’s own? One million dollars, People reports. This figure seems a bit low! In 2009, Reuters found that of all wedding performers, “Elton John is the second most expensive, charging over $2 million for private performances although all earnings from his private concerts go to his charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation.”

His AIDS foundation, eh? The plot thickens: Limbaugh famously does not take AIDS that seriously. In October 2009, he compared the auto-immune disease to swine flu [God, remember swine flu?—Ed.], and complained that both are “hyped”—presumably attempting to express that they are overhyped.

Two years earlier, in 2007, Limbaugh said other, equally incorrect, equally reprehensible things about AIDS: “The condom craze started because it was going to spread to the heterosexual community and so forth. There was never any evidence that it was spreading to the heterosexual community, not sexually anyway, and if you said that, then you were guilty of a hate crime and profiling and discrimination, and all of that.” He later added: “It was time to cough up money for education, and condoms, and cucumbers and all that, and we had rock stars like Bono establish philanthropic careers on the basis of all this, all based on science.” Elton John should have really charged him the full $2 million, is the point.