Drug-addled nutjob Rush Limbaugh is giving away eight, 80-gig video iPods, one a week for eight weeks. The bad news: you have to sign up for his email newsletter “Rush in a Hurry.” Even worse, he’s vandalized the iPod with an engraving of his signature. How about a handful of painkillers instead?
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander is an expert on:
Apple and Apple history
Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook and Apple leadership
Apple community
iPhone and iOS
iPad and iPadOS
Mac and macOS
Apple Watch and watchOS
Apple TV and tvOS
AirPods
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.
22 responses to “Special Edition Rush Limbaugh Vandalized iPod”
Gee, aren’t conservatives allowed access to Apple products? Just like a liberal – their way or the gulag…
MKS
Wow. That’s about the most randomly hateful thing I’ve ever seen from a blogger without going to Daily Kos or Free Republic.
Drug-addled nutjob? I’m no fan of Limbaugh, but spare us your superfluous polemics.
Rush rules! He tells like it is. Al Fraken is the nut job.
Why put politics into a tech site? Attack the biggest talk radio star that’s actually promoting a product line you endorse? Did you attack U2 for the Red I-pods?
I agree with WilliamP. Describing Rush Limbaugh as a drug-addled nutjob is unfair and inaccurate. Rush is a FAT and DERRANGED drug-addled nutjob.
Leander, come on. Do you really have to take a cheap shot at Limbaugh to tell this story? We all know you’re a big lib. However, not all Mac users share the same affinity for all things left that you do. You could have easily told the story without the name calling and mud slinging.
Shame on you.
“Drug-addled nutjob” — You call this journalism?
I can confirm that us conservatives don’t buy Appletosh products. They’re hippie made sin machines!
First time I’ve seen your website…and last. Ranting liberals like you are sick and deranged and need help, not more attention and certainly not my time.
He’s just mad because Rush got Elton John and he couldn’t.