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  • Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer

    Posted by btomba_77 on February 3, 2020 at 1:28 pm

    Limbaugh Has Advanced Lung Cancer[/h1]  
    Rush Limbaugh [link=https://wben.radio.com/articles/rush-limbaugh-announces-cancer-diagnosis]announced[/link] during his nationally-syndicated radio show that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

     

    btomba_77 replied 1 year, 8 months ago 11 Members · 37 Replies
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  • kaldridgewv2211

    Member
    February 3, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    A lot of people are rightfully saying get well soon to him and not poking him even though he might be considered their enemy.

    • 19462008

      Member
      February 3, 2020 at 7:13 pm

      I have to say no matter who is on the opposite side of the Political spectrum, we all have a tendency to well wish when it comes to end of life issues. 
      Even Juan at Fox stated that though he had many a emotional debate, he wishes him to get well. Sounds like an end lifer issue for him. 

      • kayla.meyer_144

        Member
        February 8, 2020 at 6:05 am

        What a wonderful man. What wonderful ideas. A true representative of his listeners. An American hero right up there with Alex Jones.
         
        [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/sunday-review/rush-limbaugh-trump-medal.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…baugh-trump-medal.html[/link]
         
         

        • suman

          Member
          February 9, 2020 at 12:19 am

          We spend too much money on end of life care in the US, just let it go. It’s not helpful.

          • ranweiss

            Member
            February 17, 2020 at 7:35 pm

            Quote from avocado

            We spend too much money on end of life care in the US, just let it go. It’s not helpful.

            Going on a radiology forum to post all this nonsense when you’re not a radiologist, tech, etc, just to post negativity and instigate stuff is extremely unhealthy.  
               
            It’s people like you who have an axe to grind for some random reason – maybe you are related to a successful radiologist and are jealous, maybe it’s your neighbor. Maybe your radiologist screwed up a report. Who knows. Obviously you have an issue with our profession.   
               
            What worries me is in our current society – it’s people like you who end up taking it too far. Get help

            • btomba_77

              Member
              February 25, 2020 at 6:50 am

              Noted infectious disease expert Rush Limbaugh says Coronavirus is s common cold that has been weaponized to bring down Trump

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              • kayla.meyer_144

                Member
                February 25, 2020 at 7:27 am

                Another Chinese conspiracy! Why, they are even willing to have many Chinese die & depress their own economy in order to bring down Trump! How inscrutable!

                Now all they have to do is hack systems to provide Trumps taxes & other documents & give it to Democrats.

                • kaldridgewv2211

                  Member
                  February 25, 2020 at 9:09 am

                  Some of the right wing nuts are also claiming they have a silver solution that kills corona virus. Theyll sell it to you for $60 a bottle. If you check right wing watch twitter account you can see the clips.

                  Also Rush is doing his best to confirm hes a b-hole on his way out.

                  • kayla.meyer_144

                    Member
                    February 25, 2020 at 10:29 am

                    Good riddance. Take Alex Jones and the whole kit-and-caboodle with him.

                    • Unknown Member

                      Deleted User
                      February 25, 2020 at 10:52 am

                      It is OK to disagree and even strongly disagree with someone’s views, political or otherwise, while still being compassionate about their illness or end of life issues.  Having a sense of one’s death in one’s mouth is one of the most human of things.  I tend to be very compassionate to those on that precipice, and I hope others will be compassionate to me when it is my turn.
                       
                      From a societal standpoint, I wonder if Rush’s struggle with this will lead towards any movement on a variety of palliative treatments.  Here I’m thinking of medical marijuana as a treatment towards reducing pain and appetite problems.  Particularly since it seems to be better than opiates for many of these purposes.  I would like to see us improve the quality of life of those in end of life care.  Enduring significant pain during this time seems a cruel thing.

                    • Unknown Member

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                      February 25, 2020 at 11:07 am

                      Quote from Frumious

                      Good riddance. Take Alex Jones and the whole kit-and-caboodle with him.

                      Right, left or center, this is still a human being likely facing a terminal diagnosis.  You can say he wasn’t compassionate and doesn’t deserve compassion, but that says more about you than him.
                       
                      I agree with the last post in hoping that something good can come from this [outside of liberals who espouse compassion for all but are publicly saying how thrilled they are that someone they politically disagree is going to die].  I have a close family member who is stage IV, suffering from pain, but can’t get relief because opiates aren’t helping and they live in a state where medical marijuana is illegal.

                    • kayla.meyer_144

                      Member
                      February 25, 2020 at 11:12 am

                      Were he my patient I would do everything possible to help him survive, without hesitation, in a New York minute, even if he had no money or insurance, just as every human being deserves.
                       
                      That said, I find him no humanitarian at all nor willing to advocate the same treatment for others he feels he deserves. He’s spread 3 decades of animus and hatred and got fabulously rich selling hate.
                       
                       

                    • btomba_77

                      Member
                      October 20, 2020 at 4:54 am

                      [link=https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/media/rush-limbaugh-cancer-update-trnd/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2020/…update-trnd/index.html[/link]
                       
                      Limbaugh says his cancer has progressed and is now terminal.

                    • kaldridgewv2211

                      Member
                      October 20, 2020 at 9:22 am

                      kind of ironic that the cancer of radio is going to get taken out by cancer.

                    • kayla.meyer_144

                      Member
                      October 20, 2020 at 7:20 pm

                      Thoughts and prayers.

                    • ranweiss

                      Member
                      October 20, 2020 at 8:38 pm

                      Quote from DICOM_Dan

                      kind of ironic that the cancer of radio is going to get taken out by cancer.

                      He is an awful person..Probably one of the worst human beings around. 
                       
                       
                      That being said, in the words of the notorious BIG – “I don’t wish death on nobody”.

                    • jennycullmann

                      Member
                      October 20, 2020 at 8:50 pm

                      It’s always amusing that people who don’t believe in anything make value judgments.
                       
                      So amuse me. On what authority or grounds do you declare Mr. Limbaugh an “awful person”?

  • btomba_77

    Member
    February 17, 2021 at 10:21 am

    [b]Rush Limbaugh Is Dead[/b][/h1]  
    Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, [link=https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-talk-radio-conservative-icon]Fox News[/link] reports.

     

    • kayla.meyer_144

      Member
      February 17, 2021 at 10:52 am

      An evil man spreading evil for money.
       
      If anyone deserves a very warm eternal place, he does.

      • 19462008

        Member
        February 18, 2021 at 10:11 am

        Quote from Frumious

        An evil man spreading evil for money.

        If anyone deserves a very warm eternal place, he does.

        Kind of Ironic that just a few months ago on this string you wrote “Thoughts and prayers”. Tell us how he was Evil? He’s a Radio personality that spoke truth, made you think. If you think he’s going to hell, then guess who he will be waiting for with a MAGA hat?
         
        Here’s real Evil for you. 

        • 19462008

          Member
          February 18, 2021 at 10:12 am

          ooops sorry. I can’t seem to C and P pictures but heres the link. 
          [link=https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=nancy+pelosi+ash+wednesday+2020&id=916891E2BB5BCC0265835BA5DA2408907E0312C3&FORM=IQFRBA&tsc=ImageHoverTitle]https://www.bing.com/imag…mp;tsc=ImageHoverTitle[/link]

          • Unknown Member

            Deleted User
            February 18, 2021 at 1:37 pm

            What made you so angry brother?

            All you post is fury and rage

            Be nice

            • kayla.meyer_144

              Member
              February 18, 2021 at 1:56 pm

              Perlstein gives a pretty good breakdown on the breakdown of the Republicans since Civil Rights stroking racial and “others” animus and the development of and influence of Limbaugh on those topics.
               
              [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/17/rick-perlstein-rush-limbaugh-death-legacy/]https://www.washingtonpos…limbaugh-death-legacy/[/link]

              [b][/b]

              [b]Rick Perlstein:[/b] Enormously influential. Enormously efficacious. Beginning in 1989, I was listening to Limbaugh when he was just starting as a national figure. I watched his evolution.
               

              What was evident to me right away was his ability to give people a sense that they were part of a community, part of a movement. In the case of politically alienated reactionary white males, they had an ally.
               

              [i][b]Sargent:[/b][/i][i] Why was this very large white male reactionary audience out there looking for someone to speak to their anger?[/i]
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              [b]Perlstein:[/b] Its the basic story: The rise of reactionary populism. People accustomed to being on top culturally, socially, economically were facing an onslaught of liberation movements that were all about giving other people a fair shot at the pie.
               
              The brilliance of the Nixonian new right of the 1970s was that they were able to prospect for grievances on the ground that came out of reaction to the insurgent movements of the 1960s civil rights, abortion, gay rights.
               
              [b]You are actively creating this idea that the people in power are forcing things on you that are taking away your prerogatives, that are weakening your family.[/b]
               

              Limbaugh inherited that 1970s mentality on the right: Theres nothing he would say that was abstract or intellectual in any way. It was all extremely visceral: There was this transcendent evil behind the scenes that wanted to destroy you.
               

              It just shows the viciousness of this person, and how badly he deranged our public life: People were literally being taught that nothing liberals could do, nothing Democrats could do, could be anything but a diabolical conspiracy to destroy them.
               

              [b]In the 1990s, not only was Rush Limbaugh contributing his own viciousness; he created a whole media ecology.[/b]
               

              Yes, you had Limbaugh saying 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton was indistinguishable from her dog, and that Bill Clinton was a murderer. But you also had G. Gordon Liddy saying that if you run into an ATF agent, you should shoot them in the head, because theyd be wearing body armor.
               
              [font=”arial,helvetica,sans-serif”][size=”3″][i][b]Sargent: [/b][/i][i]Limbaugh himself picked up the [/i][link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecMAJUoY9cg&ab_channel=mediamatters4america][i]birtherism[/i][/link][i]. Can you talk about how that showed his continued poisoning of conservative politics?[/i][/size][/font]
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              [font=”arial,helvetica,sans-serif”][size=”3″][b]Perlstein:[/b] It gets to his whole rhetorical mode of being, which is this idea that theres this phalanx of people on the quote-unquote other side who will stoop to any depth of wickedness to dominate you: Heres this guy whos [i]not even American[/i] who wants to dominate you.[/size][/font]

            • 19462008

              Member
              February 19, 2021 at 10:40 am

              Quote from Chirorad84

              What made you so angry brother?

              All you post is fury and rage

              Be nice

              And you don’t? C’mon on man…Not angry at all. I just enjoy posting Hypocrisy about elitists.  

              • btomba_77

                Member
                February 22, 2021 at 12:59 pm

                [link=https://www.salon.com/2021/02/18/rush-limbaugh-captivated-dads-like-mine-and-created-the-modern-american-fascist-aesthetic/]https://www.salon.com/202…can-fascist-aesthetic/[/link]

                [h1]Rush Limbaugh captivated dads like mine and created America’s modern fascist aesthetic[/h1] [h2]Limbaugh co-opted rock-and-roll to sell authoritarianism[/h2]

                To explain the rise of Rush Limbaugh, who died on Wednesday at age 70, in the early 90s, it helps to understand that, in large parts of America at least, he read as a not your grandfather’s buttoned-up Republicanism. He wasn’t cool, [i]exactly[/i], but he appealed to middle-aged Boomers who were still coasting on their image as the generation of Woodstock and “Animal House.” His bumper music was a song by the Pretenders, a bona fide punk band. He often did comedy skits and spoke in the mellifluous tones of an FM radio DJ. He [link=https://twitter.com/MichaelBerube1/status/1362139321071992833]used rock music and humor[/link] to package [link=https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/the-gasbag-of-fascism]vicious racism, homophobia and misogyny as a rollicking good time[/link]. 

                Limbaugh’s legacy will debated in the coming days, mostly between progressives who legitimately hate him and conservatives who are going to pretend he wasn’t a monster, even though his monstrosity is what they liked about him. But[b] what should be beyond dispute is he is the godfather of what could be legitimately called the modern American fascist aesthetic[/b]. The aesthetic borrows heavily from the creativity of adventurous, urbane, progressive people, but is remade into the expression of angry white men who are fueled by the loathing of the very people they rip off. It’s how we get “hipster” authoritarians like [link=https://www.salon.com/2018/10/17/gavin-mcinnes-and-the-proud-boys-alt-right-without-the-racism/]Gavin McInnes[/link] or [link=https://www.salon.com/2017/09/27/milos-free-speech-week-was-a-flop-heres-how-to-beat-the-alt-right/]Milo Yiannopoulos[/link], who lure their followers into believing they can feel “cool” while co-opting and then crushing everything that is actually cool. 

                The good news is, as my personal experience shows, not everyone who feels a personal conflict between right-wing politics and love of rock music goes the way of Trump fans mindlessly jamming to “Rockin’ in the Free World” while ignoring the lyrical content. The “alt-right” that followed Limbaugh’s footsteps in using “dank memes” and pseudo-edgy aesthetics did capture some younger white men for Trump, [link=https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results]but 60% of voters under 30 backed Joe Biden[/link]. Authoritarians can ape pop culture, but only to a certain point. Eventually, most people start to see through the ruse.

                [/QUOTE]
                 

                • kaldridgewv2211

                  Member
                  February 22, 2021 at 2:23 pm

                  Florida woman has common sense. This is Nikki Fried the agriculture secretary of Florida. Pretty much sums up the way I look at lowering the flag too.

                  Lowering to half-staff the flag of the United States of America is a sacred honor that pays respect to fallen heroes and patriots. It is not a partisan political tool. Therefore, I will notify all state offices under my direction to disregard the Governor’s forthcoming order to lower flags for Mr. Limbaugh — because we will not celebrate hate speech, bigotry, and division. Lowering the flag should always reflect unity, not division, and raising our standards, not lowering them. Our flags will remain flying high to celebrate the American values of diversity, inclusion, and respect for all,

                  • btomba_77

                    Member
                    February 18, 2022 at 5:02 am

                    John Fugelsang: “On the bright side, Rush Limbaugh has now avoided saying anything racist for one full year.”

                • kayla.meyer_144

                  Member
                  February 18, 2022 at 5:53 am

                  Quote from dergon

                  [link=https://www.salon.com/2021/02/18/rush-limbaugh-captivated-dads-like-mine-and-created-the-modern-american-fascist-aesthetic/]https://www.salon.com/202…can-fascist-aesthetic/[/link]

                  [h1]Rush Limbaugh captivated dads like mine and created America’s modern fascist aesthetic[/h1] [h2]Limbaugh co-opted rock-and-roll to sell authoritarianism[/h2] But[b] what should be beyond dispute is he is the godfather of what could be legitimately called the modern American fascist aesthetic[/b]. The aesthetic borrows heavily from the creativity of adventurous, urbane, progressive people, but is remade into the expression of angry white men who are fueled by the loathing of the very people they rip off. It’s how we get “hipster” authoritarians like [link=https://www.salon.com/2018/10/17/gavin-mcinnes-and-the-proud-boys-alt-right-without-the-racism/]Gavin McInnes[/link] or [link=https://www.salon.com/2017/09/27/milos-free-speech-week-was-a-flop-heres-how-to-beat-the-alt-right/]Milo Yiannopoulos[/link], who lure their followers into believing they can feel “cool” while co-opting and then crushing everything that is actually cool. 

                  Ditto!  
                   
                  Hope he’s uncomfortable in that very warm place he deserves down there. A man for whom “GO TO HELL!” is well deserved.
                   
                  [link=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/dittohead]https://www.lexico.com  en definition dittohead[/link]
                   
                   

                  • satyanar

                    Member
                    February 18, 2022 at 7:51 am

                    People are still wasting time on him?

  • btomba_77

    Member
    February 17, 2021 at 11:49 am

    Rush thought we won, and so do I, by the way. I think we won substantially You would have had riots going all over the place if that happened to a Democrat. We dont have the same support at certain levels of the Republican system.
     
    Former President Donald Trump, calling into [link=https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1362101395621613572]Fox News[/link], to comment on Rush Limbaughs death.
     

  • btomba_77

    Member
    February 17, 2021 at 3:14 pm

    [h1]Trump to Appear on Hannity Tonight to discuss Limbaugh[/h1]  

    Former President Donald Trump will appear on Sean Hannitys primetime Fox News show tonight, just hours after breaking his media silence for the first time since leaving office, [link=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/539278-trump-to-appear-on-hannitys-fox-news-show]The Hill[/link] reports.
    Trump will discuss the life and legacy of radio pioneer Rush Limbaugh.
    Trump is also scheduled [link=https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1362154549889404931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1362154549889404931%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2021%2Ffeb%2F17%2Fbiden-harris-coronavirus-teachers-vaccine-us-politics-live-latest]to be interviewed on Newsmax[/link] tonight.
    [link=https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-hosts-let-trump-lie-about-election-first-interview-insurrection-2021-2]Insider[/link]: Fox hosts let Trump lie about election in first interview post-insurrection.[/QUOTE]
     

    • kaldridgewv2211

      Member
      February 17, 2021 at 6:21 pm

      Im sure by the times hes on tonight he will have had about 90 million votes and he was robbed.

      • ruszja

        Member
        February 17, 2021 at 7:48 pm

        Quote from DICOM_Dan

        Im sure by the times hes on tonight he will have had about 90 million votes and he was robbed.

         
        And it’s so unfair that people are trying to pin the Antifa riot at the capitol on him.

  • krishanthinilushi1985_181

    Member
    February 13, 2023 at 7:22 am

    This is such a heart-breaking news.  Hoping for a speedy recovery.

    • btomba_77

      Member
      February 13, 2023 at 8:29 am

      Hmm … new AM member who first ever post is a random reply to me in the Off-Topic forums.
       
      Should I block it now when I’m only 98% confident it’s another sock puppet or wait until I’m 100% sure?

      • btomba_77

        Member
        March 10, 2023 at 6:01 am

        Rush Limbaughs house in Palm Beach sold for $155 million, the [link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/rush-limbaughs-longtime-palm-beach-home-sells-for-155-million-f5e9bd31]Wall Street Journal[/link] reports.