Love him or hate him Rush has passed today:
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No matter which way someone leans politically you have to give him credit for the impact he has had.
Dude changed politics and media immensely. Expert self-promoter.
He was a racist, misogynist, homophobic piece of shit that spent every day of his life trying to make the world meaner and dumber just to earn a buck.
The world is a slightly better place today now that he's dead. Fuck him.
Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer. Here were his thoughts on smoking earlier.
On the dangers of secondhand smoking, and smoking in general: "That is a myth. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed. There is no fatality whatsoever. There's no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you...Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does. Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it's true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots ... I would like a medal for smoking cigars, is what I'm saying."
@Timpranillo posted:He was a racist, misogynist, homophobic piece of shit that spent every day of his life trying to make the world meaner and dumber just to earn a buck.
The world is a slightly better place today now that he's dead. Fuck him.
Bull Shit!!!!
He was the original conservotrash Orwellian. The pioneer of lies are truth. The forerunner of "fake news". The titanically fat pacifier for disaffected limp dick butthurt fucks.
I look forward to you being eternally tea bagged by devil goats with porcupine balls in the newly opened 10th circle of hell. You'll have plenty of company soon enough.
Whether you hated him or liked him, his main contribution was to convince media executives that there was a lot of money to make by catering to the extremes of the political discussion on both the right and the left. They saw it was much more profitable to enrage or scare people than it was to inform them or to promote a debate of ideas and try to reach consensus and compromise. He contributed to the idea that everything in politics is a zero-sum game and there is no honor in even "winning" a policy debate 60/40. It's 100 to 0 or nothing.
Without him, there is likely no Hannity, O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, or Maddow. Because of his influence, the United States is a much darker and polarized place.
Because of him Conservatives were able to listen to a voice that was more in sync with their beliefs rather than having to hear the Lefts spin on things by the Dan Rathers and Bryan Williams of the world...I know all conservatives are now mysoginist, white supremast, racists, hate filled conspiracy filled lunatics to our left leaning friends but hopefully one day they will learn there are just as many left leaning bigots and racists and white supremast as there are those that lean right.
Well stated MP2. But, you forgot to add the fact that he was a scumbag.
https://twitter.com/rauchway/s...130645133139976?s=19
Twitter, April 30, 1945: “Wish people could honor a person who changed Europe forever without being cruel. You didn’t like him? Fine. Keep it to yourself for a few days."
He once had a regular segment where he read the names of some gay people who died of AIDS that day and had party horns and other sound effects.
So that's a great voice to represent people.
@Floridarob posted:Because of him Conservatives were able to listen to a voice that was more in sync with their beliefs rather than having to hear the Lefts spin on things by the Dan Rathers and Bryan Williams of the world...I know all conservatives are now mysoginist, white supremast, racists, hate filled conspiracy filled lunatics to our left leaning friends but hopefully one day they will learn there are just as many left leaning bigots and racists and white supremast as there are those that lean right.
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Floridarob posted:Because of him Conservatives were able to listen to a voice that was more in sync with their beliefs rather than having to hear the Lefts spin on things by the Dan Rathers and Bryan Williams of the world...I know all conservatives are now mysoginist, white supremast, racists, hate filled conspiracy filled lunatics to our left leaning friends but hopefully one day they will learn there are just as many left leaning bigots and racists and white supremast as there are those that lean right.
Except that's 100% a lie. Why? Most of those "left leaning bigots" are the people of color, LBGTQ or women Limbaugh has pissed on and derided for decades. Talk about fantasy projection.
Just say you agree with every vile thing that came out of his mouth and be done with it. You're a good little acolyte. Lies are truth.
@Floridarob posted:Because of him Conservatives were able to listen to a voice that was more in sync with their beliefs rather than having to hear the Lefts spin on things by the Dan Rathers and Bryan Williams of the world...I know all conservatives are now mysoginist, white supremast, racists, hate filled conspiracy filled lunatics to our left leaning friends but hopefully one day they will learn there are just as many left leaning bigots and racists and white supremast as there are those that lean right.
You can't actually believe this? If so you must have been living in a cave for the past 4 years.
This man peddled lie after lie. He and his ilk did nothing but divide this country with lies. "Rest in Piss"
Limbaugh and Trump are two of the top ten worst people this country has ever coughed up. One down, one to go.
@Henry posted:Except that's 100% a lie. Why? Most of those "left leaning bigots" are the people of color, LBGTQ or women Limbaugh has pissed on and derided for decades. Talk about fantasy projection.
Just say you agree with every vile thing that came out of his mouth and be done with it. You're a good little acolyte. Lies are truth.
100% lie? Yea right-Robert Byrd was probably a closet conservative. He had to be. He ran a KKK chapter. Only conservatives are racist. You and the rest of the left spout that nonsense.
I just hope I never die.
You people ™ would be merciless in the thread dedicated to my lifetime of X4 achievement.
There would be a thread, wouldn't there?
does being "a voice" mean you get to compartmentalize the guy, or take him part and parcel? Called a 12 year old a dog, that's not a voice I want to celebrate. Lauded AIDs deaths, not very noble. Hated gay people for being gay, I guess it got 20 million listeners. Shit over MJF for having Parkinson's, was he the "voice of punching down"? There are years of examples.
About everyone who ends up dead in these threads has flaws and skeletons, it's OK to acknowledge that.
Rush was a vile and hateful person who got rich saying things that resonated with a lot of people.
@Floridarob posted:100% lie? Yea right-Robert Byrd was probably a closet conservative. He had to be. He ran a KKK chapter. Only conservatives are racist. You and the rest of the left spout that nonsense.
I didn’t know Dixiecrats were left leaning. You know, those shitbags from the south that became Republicans if they didn’t die off first.
But hey, you should continue to make very Rush Limbaugh like false equivalencies as he was the master of it. Paved the way for you to actually believe what you’re saying isn’t a lie.
@Henry posted:There’s a few million more but I completely agree!
How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time.
Alex Jones is at the top of any such list.
Rush Limbaugh has been inspiring hate in America for 50 years. Using his own words, here's why you shouldn't give a fuck about him or his death. pic.twitter.com/XnzCNL8B5k
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) February 17, 2021
Donnie may take his spot, he’s got the time, unlimited BS and needs money......the beat could go on.
And now live from Attica!
@Henry posted:I didn’t know Dixiecrats were left leaning. You know, those shitbags from the south that became Republicans if they didn’t die off first.
But hey, you should continue to make very Rush Limbaugh like false equivalencies as he was the master of it. Paved the way for you to actually believe what you’re saying isn’t a lie.
or so I said there are democrats who were bigots and racists. You said, Noooooo. I gave you one. And you spin it. Your spinning makes anything Rush did look elementary. The damn democratic senator was a damn KKK leader.. But that doesnt count. Got it. Fucking Hypocrite..But like all things Left, just change the story regardless if it is true or not. If you say it enough times it becomes truth. Nobody does it as well as the left....Bill Clinton signed legislation that segregation should never end. Must have been a conservative. Al Gores dad was a demacratic senator who voted against the Civil Rights Act. Had to be a damn republican or one of those DixieCrats...Hypocrite....
oh and shame on that conservative right leaning George Wallace. He really brought the conservative movement down with his racists actions...What? He was a democrat? No Effing way!!
@Floridarob posted:or so I said there are democrats who were bigots and racists. You said, Noooooo. I gave you one. And you spin it. Your spinning makes anything Rush did look elementary. The damn democratic senator was a damn KKK leader.. But that doesnt count. Got it. Fucking Hypocrite..But like all things Left, just change the story regardless if it is true or not. If you say it enough times it becomes truth. Nobody does it as well as the left....Bill Clinton signed legislation that segregation should never end. Must have been a conservative. Al Gores dad was a demacratic senator who voted against the Civil Rights Act. Had to be a damn republican or one of those DixieCrats...Hypocrite....
This IS SO PAST TENSE........welcome to the new world of Blacks, women, gays, transexuals, and any other behind the curtain of life livers. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. Limballs thrived on being white and denigrating every other race, sex, religious and gender, and I DESPISED HIM FOR IT. 🤬 🤬 🤬
To paraphrase Frankie Boyle: instead of a funeral, they should give everyone who Rush Limbaugh harassed and victimised a shovel, so they can dig a hole so deep they can hand him over to Satan personally.
— Ed "SuperSweetBoy" Sweet (@EdwardTSweet) February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh had a segment called "AIDS update" set to music where he mocked dying gay people so I don't really want hear about 'speaking ill of the dead' today
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 17, 2021
And before anyone even says "bullshit"to the above, try again asshole: https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...augh-mock-aids-gays/
He was nothing short of a vile, abhorrent individual who spread hate like gasoline on a fire.
From the Rolling Stone:
Over three decades on the national airwaves, Limbaugh promoted profoundly offensive ideas, often referring to feminists as “feminazis”; long calling AIDS “the Rock Hudson disease”; and once observing that the NFL “looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/p...mbaugh-dead-1129217/
Fuck anyone who even dares to defend him. This has nothing to do with Republican vs Democrat or conservative vs liberal. This is entirely about a hate monger who lived to divide people and incite loathing among humanity. The world became a better, kinder place today.
And to think he received the Medal of Freedom in all our names.