RIP Rush.

[George K]

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.

[Copper]

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.

[Renauda]

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."

[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.

[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?"

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Horace]

@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.

[Horace]

@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.

[George K]

@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?

[Horace]

@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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

@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?

I have no idea what that refers to at all.

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in RIP Rush.:

@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 your would have reacted if Larry was Black. Just imagine.

I'd no doubt have accompanied him on the banjo-ukelele as he sang a famous rendition of 'Way down on the Suwannee River'.

Don't pull the fucking race card.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

@horace said in RIP Rush.:

@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 your would have reacted if Larry was Black. Just imagine.

I'd no doubt have accompanied him on the banjo-ukelele as he sang a famous rendition of 'Way down on the Suwannee River'.

Don't pull the fucking race card.

Please. It's obvious.

[Doctor Phibes]

What the fuck are you on about?

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

What the fuck are you on about?

A lack of self awareness. Not a lack of decency, which I fully believe you have. I think you absolutely would not have had an identical reaction to Larry if you thought he was African American. You would have donned the kid gloves.

[Doctor Phibes]

What exactly did I say to Larry that upset you so?

I honestly don't think I said anything particularly unpleasant.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

What exactly did I say to Larry that upset you so?

I honestly don't think I said anything particularly unpleasant.

I can't think of anything. I am only sad that he left.