Divine Cancel Culture.

I refuse to gloat; his opinions were a contribution to discussions of events even tho I disagreed 99%.

That leaves an opening in the right wing pundits association.

Double-digit I.Q. a prerequisite, I assume?

Gee, where will they find another right wing crackpot to fill his shoes? Oh wait..... there's an unlimited supply in America.

I was truly sorry to hear of Rush's death yesterday..........and not in 1992.

He called Barack Obama "the affirmative action candidate." I won't mourn him.

And the world is better off with one less bigot.

Please be specific if inclined to respond.

Guy, Limbaugh's career included:

- mocking Michael J. Fox for having Parkinson's disease

- popularizing the slur "feminazi" and other sexist slurs incels adopted

- downplaying the torture of prisoners by American troops at Abu Ghraib as troops "having a good time." Free advice: if you justify torture, you're not one of the good guys

- celebrating the suicide of Robin Williams

And that's just a small list of the vile crap he spouted. Either admit he was a bigot or admit to being the kind of scum who loved him. Either way, stop playing dumb.

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ookami Wrote:
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> Guy, Limbaugh's career included:
>
> - mocking Michael J. Fox for having Parkinson's
> disease
>
> - popularizing the slur "feminazi" and other
> sexist slurs incels adopted
>
> - downplaying the torture of prisoners by American
> troops at Abu Ghraib as troops "having a good
> time." Free advice: if you justify torture, you're
> not one of the good guys
>
> - celebrating the suicide of Robin Williams
>
> And that's just a small list of the vile crap he
> spouted. Either admit he was a bigot or admit to
> being the kind of scum who loved him. Either way,
> stop playing dumb.

Had a spot where he mocked the deaths of gay AIDS victims.

And stoking the Obama birther fires.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-there-is-no-proof-tomorrow-is-president-obamas-birthday/

The world is a better place without Limbaugh. There, I said it.

Agreed, though his spawn are legion.

Crap, forgot to add the birther claims and the racist bile he'd spout about anyone with melanin on the list of "bigoted crap Limbaugh spewed."

And agree on the state of the world without him.

ookami Wrote:
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> Crap, forgot to add the birther claims and the
> racist bile he'd spout about anyone with melanin
> on the list of "bigoted crap Limbaugh spewed."
>
> And agree on the state of the world without him.

The whole stupid thing about the birther movement, even above and beyond the fact that they were baseless claims, is that it would not have mattered one bit where Obama was born. He could have been born on the moon, and still be a "natural born citizen" of the United States. That is because "natural born citizen" is not the same thing as being born in the United States, and the Constitution does not define "natural born citizen". However 8 U.S. Code §1401 lays out the conditions of being a natural born citizen and regardless of where Obama was born, he meets the conditions of section (g) because his mother was a U.S. citizen who lived in the United States for at least five years, two of which were after turning 14 years of age.

Yes, but what if his mother was in one country while Obama was being born in another, with no extradition treaty!! What then!?!?

One more, just because:

https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-obama-halfrican-american

Obama once again (naturally), but Halle Berry? Unconscionable.

I wonder if "Michael Henderson" still thinks Limbaugh wasn't a bigot. His post was definitely was skeptical and meant as a challenge.

michael henderson Wrote:
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> Please be specific if inclined to respond.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-talk-radio-dies_n_5fe4e082c5b66809cb30ad57

Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70

Nearly every marginalized group or minority bore the brunt of Limbaugh’s bigotry. Once, while speaking about the genocide of America’s indigenous peoples, Limbaugh said, “Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only 4 million left? They all have casinos, what’s to complain about?”

Limbaugh’s journey to becoming one of America’s foremost bigots began in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he was born to a prominent local political family on Jan. 12, 1951.

When a Republican politician promoting racist and sexist policies could only use a dog whistle, Limbaugh provided a bull horn — he was, for example, an early progenitor of the racist birther conspiracy theory about Obama that Trump would later use to fuel his political career.

I don’t care for talk-radio, but in my very limited times of overhearing him, he was never unkind to a caller.

It's how Limbaugh treated everyone else that cemented my disgust for the guy.

kathleen Wrote:
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> I don’t care for talk-radio, but in my very
> limited times of overhearing him, he was never
> unkind to a caller.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was very conservative politically and listened to Rush Limbaugh religiously. And no, he wasn't always kind to callers. In fact, one of the things that led me out of Mr. Limbaugh's stratosphere was how he treated a woman who called the show to say that though she agreed with Rush generally, she felt she needed to make an exception for her son, who was both physically and mentally disabled. Rush basically berated the caller for daring to wish for better treatment of her disabled child, and I, listening to him, finally began to receive the message of how bad this person, or at least his public persona, really was.

I commented in an earlier thread about how many white religious evangelicals tend to ignore portions of the Bible where Jesus and a few of the preceeding prophets berated their societies for not assisting the poor and argued for more just treatment of the underclasses of that day. Mr. Limbaugh, often represented that view point (though he wasn't an evangelical himself), and there is statistical and polling evidence that a wide swath of U.S. citizens, particularly Caucasian U.S. citizens, very much subscribe to this view, meaning that even if there weren't any replacements in the wings (which there are), someone else would be quickly forthcoming to take Rush's place.

What I would be curious about (since I was never a Mormon myself) is how individual Mormons are reacting to Mr. Limbaugh's passing. I know he was popular with the Mormon masses.

I wonder if he took his meds.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQOhIRXWkAAebJZ?format=jpg&name=large

Well, ya, that’s pretty bad.

Hypocrite of the highest order which he proved. Article from the NYT:

"Prosecutors seized Mr. Limbaugh's records after learning that he had received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his house in Palm Beach. The investigation was held up as the prosecutors and Mr. Black battled in court over whether the records had been properly seized.

Mr. Limbaugh reported five years ago that he had lost most of his hearing because of an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing. But research shows that abusing opiate-based painkillers can also cause profound hearing loss.

Before his own problems became public, Mr. Limbaugh had decried drug use and abuse and had mocked President Bill Clinton for saying he had not inhaled when he tried marijuana. He often made the case that drug crimes deserve punishment.

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country," Mr. Limbaugh said on his short-lived television program on Oct. 5, 1995. "And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs."

He added, "And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."

Of course the rich and powerful on the right never get sent up like he said. He tap danced his way out of it.

How was a bigot and professional bully a "doctor of democracy?"

Limbaugh gave himself that title.

And dead Greeks everywhere rose from the dead and started revising their dictionaries.

I wonder if Rush marked the start of a downward slide into trashy behavior for the right. He was an awful human being who spewed hatred and filth (see ookami's post above.) I feel like the Republican party has no standards anymore. I say this as someone who has more than willingly voted for Republicans in the past, but is increasingly unlikely to do so in the future. I insist on class and decency in my elected officials.

Limbaugh was Fox News before Fox News.

I suspect he was one element in a multifactorial trend. Newt Gingrich was the first pol to adopt the zero-sum approach to legislative life, with the Tea Party zealots following suit. Limbaugh independently realized he could profit from dividing the country, and lots of shock jocks followed. Add profound economic uncertainty like over the last 15 years, and you end up with flocks of sheep looking for a shepherd.

The GOP's possibly fatal mistake was ceding control over its platform and politics to the point where a Cult of Personality emerged. As someone who has likewise voted for many Republicans over the years, I would still be willing to vote for representatives of that party if they still existed. But no, I will not honor a party that very nearly--we are not out of the woods yet--threw away one of history's great democracies.

"Rusty" thought..."he would be welcomed by Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9271399/How-Rush-Limbaugh-went-college-drop-doctor-democracy.html

The good doc obviously had some lacking skills in observation...but I bet his grabbing the limelight like Trump made them birds of a feather and ironically Rusty was way more popular most of his life in the crowd they both catered to. Take that Donald.

He died during Black History Month. Hmmmmmm



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Better yet, he died on Ash Wednesday. I'll put him on my list of things to give up for Lent.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lent me your uneducated, drug-addled bigots.

--Judic West, Satan's Satrap in Saxony



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Lung Cancer.

He was a smoker.

No sympathy for him at all.

Rush was certainly the 'GOAT' behind the Excellence In Broadcasting microphone, He was the 'greatest of all time', who was on loan as a gift from God, to baffle the left with half his brain tied behind his back. Three hours everyday absolutely destroying the dems at every turn.

He's influenced so many for good, and was so hated by the establishment, by the democrats, by the unintelligent. Rush was one of the first to seriously endorse our 'President in Exile' as Shawn said today on Hannity. We had The greatest president of all time probably because of Rush.

He pioneered conservative talk radio, which also gave rise to the counter ballance of the leftest fake news cnn, msnbc, abc, and the rest.

He'll be missed. certainly it's a sad day for us, the 74 million republicans in America.

> He pioneered conservative talk radio, which also
> gave rise to the counter ballance of the leftest
> fake news cnn, msnbc, abc, and the rest.

Yeah, you're intelligent. Most people would have made the elementary mistake of writing "counterbalance" instead of "counter ballance," but you know better.


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> He'll be missed. certainly it's a sad day for us,
> the 74 million republicans in America.

74 million is so . . . imaginary, don't you think?

Only 28.9% of the 214 million registered Americans are Republicans, meaning 64 million. (By contrast, Dem registrations total more than 39% of the electorate and Independents now outnumber Republicans at 29.1%.) So you are already off by ten million.

Moreover the ranks of GOP members are shrinking fast right now, and those who remain are on the verge of splitting into two factions or even parties based on their divergent attitudes towards the House of Orange. So no, there are not 74 million Republicans in the United States let alone 74 million Republicans who will lament the death of your Dear Leader's court jester.

But hey, you've never let facts obstruct a good yarn before, so don't stop spinning now.



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He gave us a new lexicon for what he’s doing now. Such as:

Taking the dirt nap

Assuming room temperature

Somewhere tonight in Mormonland a Mormon is dreaming,
".... I baptize you for and in behalf of Rush Limbaugh who is dead"

He made fun of and denigrated Michael J. Fox claiming Fox exaggerated his Parkinson's symptoms. Pretty much told me all I needed to know about Limbaugh's lack of compassion or good character. Good riddance.

Three people brought huge audiences back to AM radio. Larry King, Art Bell and Rush Limbaugh. All three were talk radio pioneers.

I'll hold my tears

Rush was a valuable voice of wisdom and reason. Far more so than anyone here who has trashed him. He was loved and respected by MILLIONS. I feel sorry that you are so hate-filled. You would never hear Rush think or talk like you.

Whatever hate you think you read here is dwarfed by the hate that Rush spewed on air. Those who "loved" him could just as easily have been his targets.

Sure we would. The section entitled "Decades of Hate" in this article makes it clear. He possessed no reason or wisdom.

"A full accounting of Limbaugh's lies and exaggerations; his racism and his misogyny; his homophobia and his Islamophobia; and his sheer cruelty could fill books — and have — but even a cursory overview of his lowlights makes his prejudice clear."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-talk-radio-dies_n_5fe4e082c5b66809cb30ad57

Limbaugh despised every category of human except straight white men. He embodied the very worst of America, and appealed to the very worst of America, even if they did number in the millions.

It's wrong to hate the hater's hatred. Yeah, that makes sense.

It's a bit like people complaining about "cancel culture" when what they really mean is "cancelling my cancellation of others' culture."

You poor victims, trodden under foot by those who insist that they will no longer let you victimize them.

One more thing. Actually, two.

"I feel sorry that you are so hate-filled."

We're not hate-filled. It's disdain, not the same thing. Nor are we filled with it. He doesn't rent that much space in our heads. Pretty soon he will get about as much space as Joe McCarthy.

Second, claiming you feel sorry for us is dishonest condescending nonsense, a way to insult while sounding concerned. You reciprocate the disdain. We don't need mock pity. [edit to add: Most of us here who have left the Mormon Church have already had a gut full of "I feel sorry that you have turned your back on God and his one true church, and so on and so on, The passive-aggressive condescending pity ploy does not play well with us. Been there, done that.]


His passing will leave a hole in many people's lives for a while. I'll grant him that, but not much more.



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It's a bit like saying, "I'm sorry you are so filled with hate for Adolph Hitler." It is in fact perfectly appropriate to despise someone who made a career and a fortune peddling race- and religion- and sexuality-based hatred. In fact, it is more than appropriate: it is morally imperative.

Granted, Limbaugh was but a minor deity in the pantheon of hatred and I am not sure I can muster such strong sentiments for so little a figure. But that may reflect a lack of moral rigor on my part.

Rush and his fellows are, as you intimated with "passive aggression" and I did with "victimhood," inclined to adopt the mantle of oppression. But that only serves to demonstrate that Trumpism is an orgy of self-pity: the oppressor is shocked, shocked I say, when his targets stand up and say "f*** off."



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In schools, the sewage that regularly spewed out of Rush's mouth would rightly be called bullying. The same people who defend Rush would be in the school office demanding to talk to the principal if their child or grandchild were talked to in such a manner, or made fun of, or called names, on a daily basis.

If YOU don't want to be talked to that way, if you don't want your spouse, or your child, or your grandchild, or any other loved one talked to that way, then why would you tolerate it in Rush? Because he shared your political opinions?

Excellent analogy. If a bully has an audience then his invective is acceptable and even "righteous." Love thy enemy...yeah...

Rarely does it cause in me a sense of relief.


Don't hate him - but relieved his hate is silenced

Good riddance.

If Dave T A didn't know he died, I don't know.

Not soon enough.

You have to admit, Rush made the LDS hierarchy seem like pussycats by comparison.

Rush Limbaugh was a lifelong cigar smoker. Does anyone know if Bob Dole smoked? I remember (I'm old) he used to say tobacco was not addictive, and fought against cigarette regulations. But I don't know if he smoked.

I hope all of the racist, sexist, homophobic bigots go the way of the dinosaurs.