Rush Limbaugh, who described himself the “King of Realville” was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer last year and he died Wednesday. I’m not going to tap dance on anybody’s grave, but I will not miss things like “Barack the Magic Negro; he’s not authentically Negro but he makes guilty whites feel good.”
And I won’t miss the clown show at Trump’s State of the Union address where Limbaugh, feigning amazement, got the Medal of Honor hung around his neck by Melania. And I won’t miss the “COVID-19 is no worse than the flu” or the climate denial, or any of it.
Limbaugh paved the way for Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. And look where we are now. And he even got kudos from Ronald Reagan in 1992, when Reagan sent him a letter saying he was “the voice of conservatism.” Again, look at where we are now.
One last bad apple spoiling the political barrel. But I’m sure he’ll be replaced with somebody worse. I wonder if Jim Jordan’s looking for a new gig?
I can tell you right now, miss me entirely with the “Don’t speak ill of the dead” nonsense.
Limbaugh was himself a cancer. It is not only okay to eviscerate the toxic scumbag he was; it is *necessary* that it be done.
Limbaugh is lighting a cigar with hellfire. Speak on it.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 17, 2021
Come on Ursula, we can tap dance together atop this grave, top hats, tails & all. But we better be quick because they’ll be lining up to piss on it.
I’m sure Trump will be telling his cult what a wonderful high priest Limbaugh was. Any minute now.
Probably after he phones Limbaugh’s producer offering to fill in for him
He’s already praised him.
One less voice spewing hate and poison over the airwaves! Now if we can just get his clones shut down…
Rush Limbaugh was a toxic side effect of the First Amendment!
Actually, the First Amendment had NOTHING to do with Limbaugh. It was Ronald Reagan’s gutting the Fairness Doctrine that led to Limbaugh. When talk radio was no longer REQUIRED to offer both LEGITIMATE sides of a topic, when talk radio was no longer REQUIRED to provide balance to “editorial content,” Limbaugh could thrive. When a station had to let people with different opinions get FREE airtime to present their viewpoint after some outlandish BS, you didn’t have this moronic unbalanced commentary. But, when the Fairness Doctrine was yanked, suddenly stations (which generally had conservative owners) could engage in as much propaganda as they wanted without worrying that they’d have to let some opposing view “pollute” their airwaves; anyone who wanted to challenge an “editorial” had to BUY the airtime and they couldn’t challenge the amount a station wanted to charge. (Over the last 35 years or so, even local news programs generally turned their “station editorials” into fairly non-descript fluff. Who’s going to challenge an editorial about “donating to charity during the holiday season” or “The legislature should be commended for approving additional funds for public schools” without coming off as a mean-spirited jackass who’s more liable to hurt his or her own reputation than anything else? There used to be editorials where the station would actually endorse a particular candidate or take an actual side on an issue. It still happens in newspapers but pretty much anyone can write or email an opposing view; whether it gets printed or not is a different matter but papers usually offer some smattering of the opposing letters.)
Limbaugh got his start before the Fairness Doctrine was eliminated but he didn’t really take off until after the Fairness Doctrine was gutted.
Once I heard about Rush, my mind went to whom was going to replace him. My first thought was Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity. Now I think maybe Donald until his goes to proson.
They will let him do the program on the prison phone, and we know how that the cost is high and the quality stinks.
If I was a believer – burn in hell mofo.
Bette Davis had the right idea. To paraphrase, Rush Limbaugh is dead. Good.
That was my first thought when I heard he was dead. Good is the correct response to learning of his demise!
I’m not about to tap dance on his grave either. I will however gladly piss on it if ever given the chance and you know me well enough to know I will actually do it. The odds of me ever winning the lottery are miniscule, but even if I got say a 100k amount I’d gladly head to a local airfield and pay some private pilot with a Cessna a few thousand bucks plus gas money and hotel for a night to fly me to where that sumbtich is buried.
So Rush Limbaugh is FINALLY dead. Alpha Mike Foxtrot!
Ding dong, the witch is dead!!!!
I would say may God have mercy on his soul but he never had one.
Mark Twain — ‘I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.’
Thankful for the rest of us that he’s gone.
I heard a slightly different quote from Twain that also fits: “No, I did not attend the funeral. But I wrote a lovely note saying I approved of it.”
Trump is too lazy to do a daily program. Also, think about this, Trump could run for Senator, but again that would be too much like work.