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[W:207]Rush Limbaugh announces he has 'advanced lung cancer'

Lucky 1 said:
So you have not actually listened to his show?? Ive been a listener for more than 25 years and have never once heard him spew anything vile.....
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Obscurity is no longer with us. ;)
 
Pound4abrown said:
Guess you missed all the fun Republicans were having in the Elijah Cummings thread when he died. That is unfortunate, if you had, you might not have typed this nonsense.
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I didn't go in that thread, no. I learned early on to stay out of death notice threads that don't carry the [RIP] tag since only the [RIP] tag has a rule against disparaging the deceased and using the thread for political nonsense. I can't remember who it was who died at the time, but I tried to talk some sense into people and was instructed to butt out since the thread didn't have a [RIP] tag.

That doesn't mean that the advice to not disparage and pile on the deceased or ill isn't good advice... but I'm really only in this thread because this is where I first saw the news.

Anyway, if you were against that kind of behavior in the Cummings thread then good for you, I hope it wasn't purely partisan in motive and that you are consistent with it.
 
Mithros said:
Once again, no one should wish cancer on anyone. It's a terrible disease. We all hope that Rush either recovers or doesn't suffer. But we also can't pretend that Rush wouldn't extend the same empathy to others.

Your post is an excellent summary of Limbaugh's legacy. Limbaugh's legacy isn't conservatism, it's hate and dehumanization. Read through this thread, literally no one has criticized Limbaugh for his conservative views. The criticism of Limbaugh is that he dehumanized anyone that didn't agree with him. He made it okay to lump everyone who disagreed with him into a monolithic group of "idiots" that the "smart" conservatives could make fun of. Instead of listening to people with different ideas because maybe none of us have all of the answers, Limbaugh made it okay for conservatives to stop thinking critically.

And if anyone wants to disagree, start here: Rush was on the air for what, 3 hours a day 5 days a week for what? 30 years? Find just one clip of him humanizing someone who disagreed with him or empathizing with a democrat who suffered some ailment. He didn't, because hate sells. And even though it's all just an act, his listeners don't know that.
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Bill Maher comes close to Limbaugh in tasteless ridicule of those who disagree him. Here he is ridiculing Republicans for being - guess what? - less affluent than Democrats.

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It is one thing to ridicule Republicans for being less well educated than whites, but less affluent? :shock::confused:

I mean, come on. What has happened to the Democrat Party? It used to attract the votes of white blue collar workers. I am old enough to remember when Democrats prided themselves in the support of people who eat Chef Boyardee products because they cannot afford to dine at expensive restaurants with celebrity chefs.
 
SmartCat said:
Bill Maher comes close to Limbaugh in tasteless ridicule of those who disagree him. Here he is ridiculing Republicans for being - guess what? - less affluent than Democrats.

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It is one thing to ridicule Republicans for being less well educated than whites, but less affluent? :shock::confused:

I mean, come on. What has happened to the Democrat Party? It used to attract the votes of white blue collar workers. I am old enough to remember when Democrats prided themselves in the support of people who eat Chef Boyardee products because they cannot afford to dine at expensive restaurants with celebrity chefs.
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Times change. I sure as hell no longer like Chef Boyardee. Now it's Sushi.
 
Kreton said:
He is. Racism and fear mongering are worse. There is no left wing version of Rush.
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I bet when you watch other actors and entertainers in movies and on TV who play the bad guy you want those actors all to die too for being so evil! Certainly everyone who played a Storm Trooper in a Star Wars movie should die horrible slow deaths for being so evil.
 
Mithros said:
Once again, no one should wish cancer on anyone. It's a terrible disease. We all hope that Rush either recovers or doesn't suffer. But we also can't pretend that Rush wouldn't extend the same empathy to others.

Your post is an excellent summary of Limbaugh's legacy. Limbaugh's legacy isn't conservatism, it's hate and dehumanization. Read through this thread, literally no one has criticized Limbaugh for his conservative views. The criticism of Limbaugh is that he dehumanized anyone that didn't agree with him. He made it okay to lump everyone who disagreed with him into a monolithic group of "idiots" that the "smart" conservatives could make fun of. Instead of listening to people with different ideas because maybe none of us have all of the answers, Limbaugh made it okay for conservatives to stop thinking critically.

And if anyone wants to disagree, start here: Rush was on the air for what, 3 hours a day 5 days a week for what? 30 years? Find just one clip of him humanizing someone who disagreed with him or empathizing with a democrat who suffered some ailment. He didn't, because hate sells. And even though it's all just an act, his listeners don't know that.
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But the point was the lefts wishing cancer on him. Not Rush's opinions.
 
calamity said:
Times change. I sure as hell no longer like Chef Boyardee. Now it's Sushi.
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Right now I am eating Chef Boyardee Jumbo Spaghetti & Meatballs. I eat Chef Boyardee food now and then. I wish it had less salt, and that the pasta was whole wheat pasta. Chef Boyardee did much to popularize Italian food in the United States. During World War II soldiers and Marines would take cans of Chef Boyardee food into combat with them to supplement their K and C rations.

RAMOSS said:
Can you point out the left wing equivalent to Rush?
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But back to Bill Maher. He is the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh. He specializes in ridiculing low income white Republicans. I am a Democrat. I think he can get mean spirited from time to time. I would rather he go after the rich people who benefit from Republican economic policies.
 
Just think what Rush accomplished in his life. After being fired from a bunch of jobs and having to move back home he figured out a way to create controversy and make a fortune while laughing about things like healthcare and tobacco and eating right and all that stuff.

His legacy will be similar to what we think of from people in the 1930s and 40s. His views won't age well at all.

But he did get rich. Isn't that all that matters?
 
RAMOSS said:
Can you point out the left wing equivalent to Rush?
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I'd say Bill Maher ranks right up there with Rush's obnoxiousness.
 
SmartCat said:
Bill Maher comes close to Limbaugh in tasteless ridicule of those who disagree him. Here he is ridiculing Republicans for being - guess what? - less affluent than Democrats.

YouTube

It is one thing to ridicule Republicans for being less well educated than whites, but less affluent? :shock::confused:

I mean, come on. What has happened to the Democrat Party? It used to attract the votes of white blue collar workers. I am old enough to remember when Democrats prided themselves in the support of people who eat Chef Boyardee products because they cannot afford to dine at expensive restaurants with celebrity chefs.
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I don't think it's comparable. It's remarkably easy to find examples of Bill Mahr humanizing and trying to understand people who disagree with him. It's also easy to find Mahr disagreeing with liberals.

Bill Maher warns liberals not to 'hate' Trump supporters: 'That way lies civil war' - Washington Times

The issue with Limbaugh isn't that he's obnoxious. It's that he dehumanizes people who disagree with him.
 
RAMOSS said:
Can you point out the left-wing equivalent to Rush?
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I'd like to know who this is because Air America crashed and burned in 2010 due to lefties not wanting to be told how to think and who to vote for.

89.7 NPR has a morning talk show that I turn off. I get my news from Morning Edition and then All Things Considered at 4:00 pm, plus maybe an hour or so during the day of the BBC World News on HD4 if something newsworthy is happening.

WKSU | Public Radio for Northeast Ohio
 
trixare4kids said:
I'd say Bill Maher ranks right up there with Rush's obnoxiousness.
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Yet, does Bill Maher give scientifically inaccurate information, and push conspiracy theories? What medical information has Bill Maher pushed that directly goes against scientific consensus (such as second hand smoke does not cause lung cancer, or that there are more trees in the north America now than there were in the 1800's? ) Can you show where Bill Maher purposely and personally attacked someone that had a different political opinion (Such as Rush did to Sandra Flake)? Can you point out any lies that Bill Maher made?

Bill Maher is smug, I don't think he's funny at all. However, on his panel, he allows for other opinions other than his own. He also lacks the level of malevolence and ignorance that dominate Rushes pronouncements.
 
trixare4kids said:
I'd say Bill Maher ranks right up there with Rush's obnoxiousness.
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Bill Maher is very open about being a comedian.

Ruch is a shock jock who sought to play an active role in the GOP, speaking at CPAC. He is no less political than Hannity, Prager or O'Reilly.
 
trixare4kids said:
I'd say Bill Maher ranks right up there with Rush's obnoxiousness.
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Perhaps but he is not on the radio every day for three hours and has not been at it with a massive audience for thirty years. Bill is also not really an important figure to the left, he is merely a comedian with a show that runs part of the year on HBO. Rush is on every radio in America, in some markets on two or three stations. He is vastly more powerful then Bill Maher.
 
RAMOSS said:
Yet, does Bill Maher give scientifically inaccurate information, and push conspiracy theories? What medical information has Bill Maher pushed that directly goes against scientific consensus (such as second hand smoke does not cause lung cancer, or that there are more trees in the north America now than there were in the 1800's? ) Can you show where Bill Maher purposely and personally attacked someone that had a different political opinion (Such as Rush did to Sandra Flake)? Can you point out any lies that Bill Maher made?

Bill Maher is smug, I don't think he's funny at all. However, on his panel, he allows for other opinions other than his own. He also lacks the level of malevolence and ignorance that dominate Rushes pronouncements.
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As I said, they are both right up there as far as obnoxiousness goes.
I won't dispute the above because tbh, I don't know that much about Rush Limbaugh.
 
trixare4kids said:
I'd say Bill Maher ranks right up there with Rush's obnoxiousness.
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That might be, depending on your political pov and sensitivity, but I'd wager that Republicans, or the right, would never speak of Bill Maher with the same vitriol and hate if Mahr was n the same situation..

It's easy to see how these same people could attack their neighbors in restaurants, destroy public property if there are opinions contrary to their own, and generally display an obnoxiousness that is anti social as well as being anti intellectual. They are the worst any civilized society has to offer.
 
Fred C Dobbs II said:
That might be, depending on your political pov and sensitivity, but I'd wager that Republicans, or the right, would never speak of Bill Maher with the same vitriol and hate if Mahr was n the same situation..

It's easy to see how these same people could attack their neighbors in restaurants, destroy public property if there are opinions contrary to their own, and generally display an obnoxiousness that is anti social as well as being anti intellectual. They are the worst any civilized society has to offer.
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Agree. We are definitely living in a period of illiberalism.
 
Kinda funny to hear Rush say....

“I’m sure that you all know by now that I really don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like making things about me."

C'mon Rush, I quit listening to you because you constantly blathered about your golfing...where you played...who you met...blah, blah, blah.
That, and the never-taking-any-phonecalls routine got old.
Oh, yeah...thoughts and prayers.
 
When the Soviet Union still existed, one day Limbaugh was raving about how the Communists were taking over the world, and that if we did not stop them they would take our freedom.

I called in and said I could think of only two ways the Communists could take over the United States. First, the Soviet Army could invade and conquer us. I added that that was unlikely, because the Soviet Army was losing its war in Afghanistan, and that we are stronger than Afghanistan.

The second way was that the American Communist Party could lead the American working class in a revolution against capitalism, and set up a dictatorship of the proletariat. I added that this too was unlikely, because the American Communist Party only had several thousand members nationwide. Most had joined during the Great Depression, and remained in the Party because they had nothing else to do with their lives.

As I was explaining this I realized that I was speaking to dead air. When I turned my radio back on I heard a harsh, gravely voice saying, "I like the way you handled that call Rush. That guy was a hard core Communist. You can't be too careful with that kind."
 
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radioman said:
Kinda funny to hear Rush say....

“I’m sure that you all know by now that I really don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like making things about me."

C'mon Rush, I quit listening to you because you constantly blathered about your golfing...where you played...who you met...blah, blah, blah.
That, and the never-taking-any-phonecalls routine got old.
Oh, yeah...thoughts and prayers.
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I have heard Rush Limbaugh talk about going to a restaurant, or another public location, and telling his audience, "Everyone was saying, 'Oh look. There is Rush Limbaugh'."

When he was not talking like that he was telling us what a good golfer he was. The man's narcissism knew no limits.
 
Fred C Dobbs II said:
That might be, depending on your political pov and sensitivity, but I'd wager that Republicans, or the right, would never speak of Bill Maher with the same vitriol and hate if Mahr was n the same situation..

It's easy to see how these same people could attack their neighbors in restaurants, destroy public property if there are opinions contrary to their own, and generally display an obnoxiousness that is anti social as well as being anti intellectual. They are the worst any civilized society has to offer.
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Do you really have to search that hard to find evidence of the right doing that to the left?
 
year2late said:
Do you really have to search that hard to find evidence of the right doing that to the left?
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If you know of any Republican politicians advocating, or playing down, attacks against their fellow Americans, please point them out.
 
SmartCat said:
The man's narcissism knew no limits.
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No kidding.
I once heard him dismiss Obama as a narcissist.
Self-analysis wasn't one of Limbaugh's strengths.
I wonder what he says about the malignant narcissist in the White House?
 
radioman said:
No kidding.
I once heard him dismiss Obama as a narcissist.
Self-analysis wasn't one of Limbaugh's strengths.
I wonder what he says about the malignant narcissist in the White House?
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He can't say anything about Trump while he is orally pleasuring him..
 
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