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RIP Rush.

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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

    Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.

    Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."

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    @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

    @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

    Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.

    Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."

    What was the common phrase callers would use, "generally"? Bruce hated that. It was some word that indicated they weren't being specific. Bruce called them out over it every time.

    Education is extremely important.

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      One other thing that sticks in my mind is that Bruce would sometimes say that, given a truck, he could make a respectable amount of money in any mid sized or greater city in America. Then he decorated it by saying he wouldn't tell you how. Haha.

      Education is extremely important.

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      • HoraceH Horace

        @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

        @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

        Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.

        Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."

        What was the common phrase callers would use, "generally"? Bruce hated that. It was some word that indicated they weren't being specific. Bruce called them out over it every time.

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        @horace said in RIP Rush.:

        @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

        @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

        Because, he pointed out with awe, the biggest name in talk radio was Bruce Williams of TalkNet. He said it as if matching him was beyond his ambitions.

        Oh, and when Rush said this he did a great imitation of Bruce saying "I'm Bruce Williams [pause], and this is TalkNet."

        What was the common phrase callers would use, "generally"? Bruce hated that. It was some word that indicated they weren't being specific. Bruce called them out over it every time.

        I remember. "Basically".

        Education is extremely important.

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        • L Loki

          @george-k said in RIP Rush.:

          WaPo gotta WaPo.

          At least they didn't use the word "austere."

          Screen Shot 2021-02-17 at 12.00.04 PM.png

          Typical. LOL. Word choice depends on what tribe you belong to. News ain’t what it used to be, but on this one their portrayal is fairly accurate.

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          @loki said in RIP Rush.:

          Word choice depends on what tribe you belong to.

          Hollywood Celebrities Celebrate Rush Limbaugh Death: ‘Cancer Killed the Cancer’

          https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/02/17/hollywood-celebrities-celebrate-rush-limbaugh-death-cancer-killed-the-cancer/?fbclid=IwAR3gi5gDytG55dzTR0Or9jIIICYnaYg-LJlqMomzuMGOfLyHCujMSXjhbtk

          Left-wing Hollywood celebrities wasted little time in popping the champagne following news of Rush Limbaugh’s death. As Breitbart News reported, the 70-year-old conservative radio legend died Wednesday morning following a battle with advanced lung cancer, his wife, Kathryn Limbaugh, announced at the beginning of Wednesday’s radio program.

          Ignoring any sense of taste or decorum, the stars piled on with nasty insults, including actress Amber Tamblyn, who wished Rush Limbaugh to “RIP” — “Rot In Purgatory,” and her husband, actor David Cross, who declared that “cancer killed the cancer.”

          Other Hollywood elies who celebrated Limbaugh’s death include John Cusack, Marc Maron, Larry Charles, and Star Trek veteran George Takei.

          David Cross and Amber Tamblyn led the Hollywood hate parade with matching his-and-her insults aimed at the late radio host.

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            Yes, this is pop culture. Those of us who feel some responsibility for the ideas carried by everybody around them might want to fight against it.

            If almost all celebrities are parroting exactly what you think, what exactly do you think you're doing by opening your mouth and telling us your words?

            Education is extremely important.

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              #35

              Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?

              I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty

              Only non-witches get due process.

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              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?

                I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty

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                @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

                Has he still been doing the show? Until now recently?

                I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty

                I heard that he does it sporadically. Personally I haven't listened in decades.

                Education is extremely important.

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                  I think the last time I listened to him was about 1995. That said, I've read what he's said about various issues, but I didn't feel like listening to him talk.

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    #38

                    I don't think I ever tuned a radio to a station broadcasting his show.

                    I saw him here or in sound-bytes on various cable shows.

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                      #39

                      Upon news of Limbaugh's passing today one wag up here commented:

                      "I bet Trump feels like Kermit when he learned Jim Henson had died."

                      Elbows up!

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                      • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                        Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?

                        I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty

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                        @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

                        Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?

                        I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty

                        I listened to him a couple of weeks ago.

                        No, Rush was bombastic, but he was not a nutter. He wasn't 100% right, but he helped restart the Conservative movement and molded it for many years.

                        And most people who actually knew him, said he was not loud or brash in person.

                        I enjoyed listening to him.

                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        • JollyJ Jolly

                          @jon-nyc said in RIP Rush.:

                          Had he still been doing the show? Until how recently?

                          I’ve watched a lung cancer death and they’re not that pretty

                          I listened to him a couple of weeks ago.

                          No, Rush was bombastic, but he was not a nutter. He wasn't 100% right, but he helped restart the Conservative movement and molded it for many years.

                          And most people who actually knew him, said he was not loud or brash in person.

                          I enjoyed listening to him.

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                          @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                          he was not a nutter.

                          "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                          "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                          "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                          Please love yourself.

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                          • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                            @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                            he was not a nutter.

                            "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                            "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                            "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

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                            @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                            "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                            Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.

                            So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.

                            https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad

                            I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                              @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                              he was not a nutter.

                              "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                              "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                              "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

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                              #43

                              @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                              @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                              he was not a nutter.

                              "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                              "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                              "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                              Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

                              Education is extremely important.

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                              • George KG George K

                                @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.

                                So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.

                                https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad

                                I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

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                                @george-k said in RIP Rush.:

                                @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.

                                So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.

                                https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad

                                I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

                                Justify for me please the other two quotes then.

                                Please love yourself.

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                                • HoraceH Horace

                                  @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                  @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                                  he was not a nutter.

                                  "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                                  "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                  "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                                  Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

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                                  @horace said in RIP Rush.:

                                  @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                  @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                                  he was not a nutter.

                                  "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                                  "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                  "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                                  Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

                                  Oh, do fuck off. Honestly, Larry doled out way more vitriol than anything he received from me and "all the liberals" here.

                                  I was only joking

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                                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                    @george-k said in RIP Rush.:

                                    @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                    "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                    Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.

                                    So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.

                                    https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad

                                    I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

                                    Justify for me please the other two quotes then.

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                                    @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                    @george-k said in RIP Rush.:

                                    @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                    "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                    Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.

                                    So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.

                                    https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad

                                    I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

                                    Justify for me please the other two quotes then.

                                    I'm all for stem cell research. I understand what Parkinson's looks like. Rush was wrong there.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                      @horace said in RIP Rush.:

                                      @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                      @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                                      he was not a nutter.

                                      "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                                      "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                      "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                                      Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

                                      Oh, do fuck off. Honestly, Larry doled out way more vitriol than anything he received from me and "all the liberals" here.

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                                      @doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

                                      @horace said in RIP Rush.:

                                      @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                      @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                                      he was not a nutter.

                                      "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                                      "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                      "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                                      Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

                                      Oh, do fuck off. Honestly, Larry doled out way more vitriol than anything he received from me and "all the liberals" here.

                                      Yes, he did. I still hope he comes back.

                                      Education is extremely important.

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                                      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                        @george-k said in RIP Rush.:

                                        @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                        "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                        Fox admitted to not taking his meds to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease in the hope of encouraging stem cell research.

                                        So yeah, Rush was right on that one, at least.

                                        https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/citing-limbaugh-fox-31-misled-michael-j-fox-stem-cell-ad

                                        I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

                                        Justify for me please the other two quotes then.

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                                        @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                        Justify for me please the other two quotes then.

                                        Won't and can't. I don't know the context, and I'm too lazy to look it up. You can form and keep your own opinions on those. I don't have any.

                                        I do, however, recall the MJF stuff.

                                        And, by the way, how did all that embryonic stem cell stuff work out, almost 20 years later?

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                          @horace said in RIP Rush.:

                                          @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                          @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                                          he was not a nutter.

                                          "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                                          "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                          "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                                          Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

                                          Oh, do fuck off. Honestly, Larry doled out way more vitriol than anything he received from me and "all the liberals" here.

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                                          @doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

                                          @horace said in RIP Rush.:

                                          @aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

                                          @jolly said in RIP Rush.:

                                          he was not a nutter.

                                          "They [black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

                                          "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

                                          "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

                                          Not sure the first paragraph is honest. The next two, well, four hours a day, and I don't know what MJF was saying at the time. We should ask Larry about the Indians but he was already driven off by the liberals who don't like him.

                                          Oh, do fuck off. Honestly, Larry doled out way more vitriol than anything he received from me and "all the liberals" here.

                                          By the way, imagine how you would have reacted if Larry was Black. Just imagine.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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