RIP Rush Limbaugh

tough but fair

in ZERO way does he deserve that photo to be the WashPost image for the story. sure, show the fucking racist, vigilant white supremacist, giving a thumbs up and getting a medal. no, fuck that. show him as a sweaty, angry man provoking violent white resentment into his microphone for forty fucking years, what a piece of shit

"sO MuCh fOr tHe tOlErAnT LeFt"

Karl Malone otm

"2003, ESPN removed Limbaugh as a football commentator after he said Donovan McNabb, an African American quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, got more credit than warranted because “the media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback can do well."

ESPN paid rush limbaugh to talk about football? in the 2000s?! wtf

was very short lived and he was very bad at it

you know, we really need a voice to draw in that sexist, white supremacist crowd...where is the vitriolic anger toward anyone who isn't a white christian during ESPN football broadcasts? get my man rush limbaugh on the phone

During summers in college, I worked for a county highway department and a big portion of my job was spent sitting in a truck, either driving ahead of a patching crew to alert oncoming cars or sitting at the mile spaced intersections out in the wide open country to redirect the rare vehicle. Spent a lot of time reading and listening to the radio, but the worst week was when we were situated in one of the only "groves" in Central Illinois and the only station I could pick up was the talk radio station with his show. It was awful and I had trouble deciding whether the stifling summer silence or Limbaugh's frothing rage was more torturous.

"2003, ESPN removed Limbaugh as a football commentator after he said Donovan McNabb, an African American quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, got more credit than warranted because “the media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback can do well."

ESPN paid rush limbaugh to talk about football? in the 2000s?! wtf

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:02 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were floundering around for a while. I think they felt like they needed to try to recreate some kind of Howard Cosell phenomenon...which really could never be recreated. So they tried outsized personalities, like Rush for a minute and Dennis Miller...both crashed and burned.

sadly not literally

my dad was p much already a proto-chud from the minute Reagan kicked off his campaign in Neshoba Co Mississippi talking about “”states’ rights””, but I hold Limbaugh responsible for pushing him right over the edge.

I really wish Hell was real

i hold limbaugh responsible for my dad. he went to college in limbaugh's hometown, and was in on limbaugh from the early days of his radio hatred. limbaugh was someone who could belittle women and other races while combining it with christian righteousness - the perfect prescription for my dad

just going to keep using the past tense with rush - he's already dead to me

So glad I've never had to listen to this guy's show, ever, in any context.

I would like to say I would never hear his voice again (maybe I won't!) but my father in law always likes us to take him to an antique market near his house when we visit and half the stalls have radios tuned to this moron. I have a feeling that after he dies these stations will still replay him forever.

he donated a lot of money to local churches around missouri and illinois, too - that's part of why he has so many defenders, i'd suppose. he knows his target audience

he likes to donate money to the churches which still think the "american slavery was endorsed by the bible" viewpoint is part of the discussion

this will be the second biggest Rush death of 2020

But only one of those will have been truly upsetting

Lung cancer varies but average 5-year survival rate for Stage 4 is 2%. Reading between the lines, he was diagnosed in Feb, probably underwent some initial chemo/radiation type treatment (which doesn't really do much for lung cancer) and then was prescribed a cancer drug that worked somewhat by reducing the cancer or at least maintained the status quo. The thing is, unfortunately ime, these drugs only work for a certain period of time and then stop being effective for a patient, so the doctor noticed the drug had stopped working on his six-week/ninety-day checkup and has now prescribed another drug that may or may not work as well as the first one. I am making some assumptions, but the fact that he was diagnosed in Feb and the drug is already not working in Oct is not a good sign. This could go two ways: the new drug is effective and maybe he gets another year or two, tops, or the drug doesn't work and he is dead in the next six months.

Regardless, it is pretty clear to me that Limbaugh isn't going to see election day 2024 and there is a decent chance he doesn't see the midterms in 2022.

Also, fuck Rush Limbaugh.

hopefully he dies after Trump leaves office so there's no state funeral

Trump's advisors currently exploring whether you can pardon someone from cancer

aw I was hoping I would get to revive the thread with this news, that's what I get for actually working

I know Twitter will go out of its way to ban people who say shit about him but a large part of me thinks it's vitally important he understands how many people are actively looking forward to the day he dies and that that will be a significant part of his legacy.

It is extremely difficult over a lifetime to do so much evil and so little good that one completely forfeits the human privilege of sympathy over the news of one's diagnosis of a terminal illness. But Rush was up to the challenge.

An American Tale

i wish he were already dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30Cm92dlZ4&t=310s

Are we there, yet?

The number of “Rush Limbaugh radicalized my dad and ruined our family” stories being told in various places right now is truly terrifying. I hope this is a safe space to fervently wish him a long, excruciating death wherein he hears nothing except how roundly he is hated and what a blight he was on the American cultural landscape, and that maybe, just maybe, he has a come-to-Jesus moment about it, and spends his final days in an agony of guilt, shame and despair from which there is no reprieve.

R-ing in P being way too good for him

more like rot in a pit!!!!

rot in a pit rush limbaugh

Man, it's depressing that so many dads are so easily pushed over that edge tbh, but I guess it just shows how a popular figure can give people permission to stop checking their worst impulses.

As a person, a real piece of shit, and I don't find it easy to speak ill of a dying person.

As a phenomenon, important to understand. I had a job where once a week I had to be in an office where someone was always playing limbaugh, and one thing that caught me about him was that he was fairly funny at times. I think you could even say that the alt right owes him a lot stylistically -- he's a pre-internet troll.

otm yeah hes definitely a pioneer of the joking-but-not-really-but-sort-of-joking hall of mirrors tone that a lot of maga twitter and the alt right thrives on nowadays

1860.

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020

oops. i meant to link to a short thread (5 tweets or so) which handily breaks down what rush is telling his idiots right now:

I've been listening to a lot of right-wing talk radio yesterday and today. All take it as a given that Democrats have stolen the election, and, with the feckless Republican establishment having stood down, successfully.... 1/

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020

(Perlstein's "1860." was in response to this question: "Do you know of any time when the lunatic fringe (a) was this bonkers, and (b) captured as large a share of the population?")

Karl, yes, that is exactly what I am hearing in the dextrosphere as well: Trump won, Dems stole it, RINO squish establishment GOPers (and Fox) let it happen. War.

i have been blissfully tuned out for the past few days, so i wasn't sure how widespread it was beyond the core rightwing talk radio audience.

I said this on the other thread, but I don't buy Perlstein's theory that this helps Ossoff in the runoff. Perdue was "trump's man in Georgia"

sorry that wasn't really his theory, just that this should be "cheering for Democrats" which I guess someone else interpreted to mean good for Ossoff. Perlstein doesn't say that.

did especially Trumpy candidates do better or worse this election?

In re: "1860" and "war." Under the present condition of US politics, such rhetoric could only deliver something more resembling Rwanda than a replay of the Confederate States vs. The Union. I don't think it's come to that, yet.

Influence of Talk radio a striking common denominator there re rwanda

Help me Rwanda

Can't happen soon enough. This was after the US Capitol coup attempt:

"There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence," Limbaugh said. "There's a lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable. Regardless of the circumstances. I'm glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual tea party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way."

Don't think they killed ppl while trying to stop votes being certified---?

Oh well we'll prob get a maskless musical someday, Trump!, to explain it all.

the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of liberty

ok this time for reals