U.S. conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has died: Fox News

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But to give Limbaugh credit, once he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he repented of his past statements, and adopted the anti-tobacco campaign as his own personal cause...just kidding.

 

Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars’

Years before conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his show Monday that he’d been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he downplayed the health risks of smoking on his show.

The 69-year-old firebrand said he’s receiving treatment for the cancer but did not provide further details. “There are going to be days that I’m not going to be able to be here,” he said on his show Monday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-rush-limbaugh-smoking-effects-cancer-diagnosis-20200203-4ma66mowazektovzh7hg2aynhq-story.html

 

Rush Limbaugh denied smoking risks in 2015: ‘Smokers aren’t killing anybody’

The conservative radio host has long extolled the glamour and societal benefits of smoking, while downplaying its dangers.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/04/rush-limbaugh-denied-smoking-risks-in-2015-smokers-arent-killing-anybody/

[LomSak27]

Just now, ChakaKhan said:

The Duality....listening to "Rush" in "Ca"....

 

The first 24/7 talk conservative Radio in the United States, that Rush was the headliner for,  was ... wait for it ... WAIT 

 

KVI in Seattle. 

[ChakaKhan]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

RIP Rush. 

 

While many would not agree with all his views, he certainly had the balls to say what he thought and in the current PC/Woke constantly offended 'cancel culture' climate that was very refreshing. Long live freedom of speech.

I have many more since you bring up "PC Cancel culture".......GOP hypocrisy is off the charts

[Jingthing]

2 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

I use to really like Rush. Then he lost the plot. Conservative media outlets like his are destroying America.

I never liked him.

He made us much worse.

He laid the foundation for a gaslighting authoritarian president.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-living-in-the-world-rush-limbaugh-created/2021/02/17/99e48410-7170-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html

 

We’re living in the world Rush Limbaugh created

[ChakaKhan]

6 hours ago, donnacha said:

He dedicated his life to trying to warn Americans, using deeply coded language, that a hidden army of vampires was gathering to subvert American democracy.

Oh, America, if only you had listened!
 

We DID..Hence Biden --The House -The Senate and flipped states....thanks ... Donnie!   Signed ,7 millions patriots...

[ChakaKhan]

Thoughts n prayers ..special thanks to Evangelicals for GOD pulling his card...GOD spoke eh?

[ChakaKhan]

5 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Your tacit agreement that he's been a racist for years is welcome.

 

Thank you.

 

 

I simply chose a point in time which I though resonated for many. He revealed his true nature.

 

Queue up Rush's paradoy of "Barrack the Magic Negro"?

 

 

 

A Magical day indeed...Best President I have ever voted for......A Class Act...unlike others.....

 

[JonnyF]

5 hours ago, ChakaKhan said:

Thoughts n prayers ..special thanks to Evangelicals for GOD pulling his card...GOD spoke eh?

 

What a repugnant post. Celebrating someone's death because they don't hold the same opinions as you.

 

Unfortunately we often see this type of vitriol when the mask slips from the virtue signaling left. Disgraceful.

[Andy from Kent]

 

At the time he was condemning anyone who used drugs, was he also "doctor shopping" to get a large supply of prescription drugs?

 

[Jingthing]

2 hours ago, vandeventer said:

RIP Rush You will always be missed by many. God keep you safe Rush!!!

Yeah. God loves hate mongers. That's the ticket.

[Pique Dard]

no love lost

[Jeffr2]

1 hour ago, thailand49 said:

Such hate, it was just an opinion if you don't believe just turn it off there are plenty more like him on radio and T.V. on BOTH SIDES!

I don't see the same numbers on the left. The right wing media outlets are the worst for spewing hate and lies. No denying that unless you only listen to their fake news.

[Jeffr2]

44 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Why is Conservative talk radio so popular? I only ever listened to one liberal station out of the Bay Area, but way more conservative radio celebrities in Ca.

Because the world is filled with racists and people who love violence. Just look at Trump's supporters for proof.

 

Sad so many like this bs. Shows why the US is in such trouble.

[Eric Loh]

Quick goggle of Rush Limbaugh and rather unflattering description of him including worst of American politics' extreme right wing, divisive, bombastically self-promoting, made America worse, incendiary talk show host etc etc. Yet he still get the Medal of Freedom award given for great contributions to either the US or the world. Is there a disconnect somehere? 

[KeeTua]

2 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

I use to really like Rush. Then he lost the plot. Conservative media outlets like his are destroying America.

I wouldn't say I "really" liked him in his earlier days but he was funny back then. Later he started taking himself too serious and turned rabid making it impossible to listen to him. He certainly had a huge influence in getting Trump in office and helping to further divide the nation. I'm happy Rush is gone and the country (and the world) would be better off if Trump departs for good, sooner than later.

[Jeffr2]

19 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I never liked him.

He made us much worse.

He laid the foundation for a gaslighting authoritarian president.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-living-in-the-world-rush-limbaugh-created/2021/02/17/99e48410-7170-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html

 

We’re living in the world Rush Limbaugh created

When he first came out, decades ago, he was ok. Now? Just a sad old racist white man telling lies to make money.

 

The world would be better off without conservative radio hosts like him.

[Walker88]

A vile person. He used to make fun of the dead, saying 'he assumed room temperature'. Well, now he has, and not before time.

 

He called president Obama 'the magic Negro'.

 

He said the "NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies".

 

He told a Black woman who called into his show: "Take that bone out of your nose and call back"

 

He made fun of Michael J Fox when the actor came down with Parkinson's.

 

One could write pages of the distasteful, racist, misogynist and simply idiotic things the guy mouthed over the years, but time to put him and his miserable existence to rest.

 

 

[xylophone]

4 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Yet he still get the Medal of Freedom award given for great contributions to either the US or the world. Is there a disconnect somehere? 

Yes, that disconnect is called trump, who by this award really showed what he was all about and pinned his colours to the wall.

[EVENKEEL]

1 minute ago, Jeffr2 said:

Because the world is filled with racists and people who love violence. Just look at Trump's supporters for proof.

 

Sad so many like this bs. Shows why the US is in such trouble.

Your response doesn't answer my question. 

 

"Why is Conservative talk radio so popular? I only ever listened to one liberal station out of the Bay Area, but way more conservative radio celebrities in Ca. "

 

I grew up just east of SF and I only found one liberal kind of talk radio station and it was so bad for reception. These conservative talk shows don't condone or incite violence, but it's an old stand by line for the liberals. 

[Patong2021]

He was a gutter dwelling criminal who demonstrated all of the evil that resides in the American belly. He played to the fears and hatreds of Americans and made his money exploiting the weak and gullible.

I suggest that anyone who says he was a good person, to go and read some of the hate he spread. 

https://newsone.com/16051/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

 

This is a man who encouraged the violence in the USA on January 6, who spread the lies about Obama and who knowingly made false claims of a stolen election in the USA. Yes, he makes the news today for his death, but he leaves no legacy of society improvement. Where others built and helped, he damaged and destroyed.

 

 

[Jeffr2]

3 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Your response doesn't answer my question. 

 

"Why is Conservative talk radio so popular? I only ever listened to one liberal station out of the Bay Area, but way more conservative radio celebrities in Ca. "

 

I grew up just east of SF and I only found one liberal kind of talk radio station and it was so bad for reception. These conservative talk shows don't condone or incite violence, but it's an old stand by line for the liberals. 

I did answer your question. I don't listen to any talking bubble heads. None. Thereare much better sources for your news. Avoid these jerks at all costs.

 

AP news. NPR. The NY Times. The Economist. Foreign Policy. Etc. Great media outlets.

[Berkshire]

9 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

He was a gutter dwelling criminal who demonstrated all of the evil that resides in the American belly. He played to the fears and hatreds of Americans and made his money exploiting the weak and gullible.

I suggest that anyone who says he was a good person, to go and read some of the hate he spread. 

https://newsone.com/16051/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

 

This is a man who encouraged the violence in the USA on January 6, who spread the lies about Obama and who knowingly made false claims of a stolen election in the USA. Yes, he makes the news today for his death, but he leaves no legacy of society improvement. Where others built and helped, he damaged and destroyed.

 

Agree.  If we are all to be judged by our positive contributions to society, Rush Limbaugh was a dismal failure. 

[bendejo]

If Bill Clinton didn't happen along when he did Rush wouldn't have had someone to bash as the imminent threat.  He should have kissed Bill's feet, without him he would have lived out his years doing drive-time radio.

And then there's Glen Beck, who emerged when Obama was elected to be O's "Rush."

 

US progressives can't do the "hair on fire" thing the way conservatives can, and the US right-wing can't do political humor, it just comes out as hate -- Ben Stein is a good example.

 

Ok, I have one thing I can say I liked about Rush was that he hated Bill O'Reilly, used to to say he was Ted Baxter.  The special place in hell for both of them is to be conjoined.  Rush will be waiting for you, Bill!

 

 

[Jeffr2]

Why anyone would stand up for this nutter is beyond me. Horrible person. Impossible to defend him. If you do, perhaps you should take a step back and do an honest self evaluation. Seriously.

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/politics/limbaugh-death.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

There was no person or subject that was off-limits for Mr. Limbaugh’s ire. Black people, gay men and lesbians, feminists, people with AIDS, the 12-year-old daughter of a president, an advocate for victims of domestic violence: All found themselves the subject of denigrating put-downs by Mr. Limbaugh over the years.

He spun conspiracy theories about the supposed involvement of Mr. Clinton and his wife, Hillary, in the death of the former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster, and spread lies about former President Barack Obama’s birthplace. He insisted in 2009, for instance, that Mr. Obama “has yet to have to prove that he’s a citizen” and almost always referred to him on the air by using the former president’s middle name, Hussein, a trope that right-wing commentators used to evoke the false impression that he was not an American and was possibly a Muslim.

 

[Jeffr2]

9 minutes ago, bendejo said:

If Bill Clinton didn't happen along when he did Rush wouldn't have had someone to bash as the imminent threat.  He should have kissed Bill's feet, without him he would have lived out his years doing drive-time radio.

And then there's Glen Beck, who emerged when Obama was elected to be O's "Rush."

 

US progressives can't do the "hair on fire" thing the way conservatives can, and the US right-wing can't do political humor, it just comes out as hate -- Ben Stein is a good example.

 

Ok, I have one thing I can say I liked about Rush was that he hated Bill O'Reilly, used to to say he was Ted Baxter.  The special place in hell for both of them is to be conjoined.  Rush will be waiting for you, Bill!

 

 

I use to like Rush. In his first years. Same with Beck. Never liked O'Reilly. These people massively changed over the years. Now spewing hate and lies just to make money. Shame on them.

 

Change is desperately needed.

[EVENKEEL]

5 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

 

 

 

 

He insisted in 2009, for instance, that Mr. Obama “has yet to have to prove that he’s a citizen” and almost always referred to him on the air by using the former president’s middle name, Hussein, a trope that right-wing commentators used to evoke the false impression that he was not an American and was possibly a Muslim.

 

Got it, use of a president's middle name is forbidden.

[ChakaKhan]

2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Got it, use of a president's middle name is forbidden.

Outright lies and BS about a persons birthplace should be forbidden....but of course when you have nothing to show, Lies and BS is what you need to steal an election or get re-elected

[ChakaKhan]

Judge them not, they only obey Q and Fox grifters...weak minds are easily misled and Hate is a hell of a drug..just ask MAGA

[Kelsall]

He was recognized for his many achievements.  IMO this is the best one:

 

A visibly stunned Rush Limbaugh was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, in an emotional moment one day after the conservative talk radio legend announced he was diagnosed with cancer.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-state-of-the-union-presidential-medal-of-freedom

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

before the racism leaked out

It's undone many a right winger. There was Dr. Laura's rant about the NAACP, on her long running radio show supposedly offering family advice. There was Hank Williams Jr letting us know how he really felt about a black man in the white house, so that we'd never hear "Are you ready for some football?" again. Then most recently, Gina Carano decided to make an abrasive comment toward the ethnicity most in charge of her employer, then was shocked to find they had sacked her.

 

Free speech? Snowflakes? Or sometimes, you just gotta know when to shut up. From an ethical standpoint certainly, we should all just be nice to other, but also from a practical business standpoint, which conservatives should surely understand, knowing there will be consequences to actions toward your employers, sponsors, or customers.

 

Anyway, Rush. My grandma caught his short lived TV show in the 90's. She thought he was ridiculous. She worried about him getting a heart attack with how worked up he got. Well, he somehow ended up winning that battle. Rest in peace, Rush.