RIP Rush.

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

I have no idea what that refers to at all.

Fox testified in Congress opposing the Bush administrations ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Note, there was no "ban" on this research; it was a ban of federal funding for it. For his testimony, advocating more funds for embryonic stem cell research, he stopped his medications to exaggerate the ravages of his Parkinson's disease. It was theater.

Almost 20 years later, has ESC research made any progress in the treatment of Parkinson's?

Presumably, the idea was that if embryonic research stopped, abortions would stop.

How's that working out?

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

Presumably, the idea was that if embryonic research stopped, abortions would stop.

ESR didn't stop. Bush stopped federal funding for it.

If you want to do embryonic stem cell research, feel free to purchase your own labs, hire your own researchers and buy your own equipment.

And no, I'm not telling you how I got Ax's login information.

AFAIK, it was restored under Obama - 13 years ago.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

I have no idea what that refers to at all.

Fox testified in Congress opposing the Bush administrations ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Note, there was no "ban" on this research; it was a ban of federal funding for it. For his testimony, advocating more funds for embryonic stem cell research, he stopped his medications to exaggerate the ravages of his Parkinson's disease. It was theater.

Almost 20 years later, has ESC research made any progress in the treatment of Parkinson's?

I'll consider this relevant as soon as we get back to the other two quotes I referenced. If they aren't relevant than neither is any of this.

[Horace]

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

I have no idea what that refers to at all.

Fox testified in Congress opposing the Bush administrations ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Note, there was no "ban" on this research; it was a ban of federal funding for it. For his testimony, advocating more funds for embryonic stem cell research, he stopped his medications to exaggerate the ravages of his Parkinson's disease. It was theater.

Almost 20 years later, has ESC research made any progress in the treatment of Parkinson's?

I'll consider this relevant as soon as we get back to the other two quotes I referenced. If they aren't relevant than neither is any of this.

What, the other two quotes including the one at the top, about how dark skinned people are worthless?

[Doctor Phibes]

Clearly, Rush said some pretty reprehensible stuff. I'm not totally clear why "conservatives" have to pretend otherwise.

I'm happy to concede that Michael Moore is a complete twat, I don't really understand why we feel the need to defend Rush, except for it possibly to be in rather poor taste to speak ill of the dead, which is why I never say anything bad about Hitler.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

Clearly, Rush said some pretty reprehensible stuff. I'm not totally clear why we have to pretend otherwise.

I'm happy to concede that Michael Moore is a complete twat, I don't really understand why we feel the need to defend Rush, except for it possibly to be in rather poor taste to speak ill of the dead, which is why I never say anything bad about Hitler.

Well Rush produced way, way more content than Michael Moore. They are both reprehensible to their other tribes, I am sure, but Rush was way better looking.

[Copper]

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

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

Without context this could go either way.

Is he rejecting racism or encouraging it?

Either way, I bet this topic stirred up a lot of listeners and sold advertising.

Yes, I know the 12% number is used in discussions of quotas.
Yes, I know the word "quota" is forbidden, it just saves time to use it here.

[Doctor Phibes]

If the kindest thing you can say about Rush is that he was better looking than Michael Moore, it might be better to just draw the curtains, pull the lever, and let the coffin roll on to its final destination.

[Jolly]

@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.

Why not?

Over the years, do you know how many people thought Larry was black?

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

@aqua-letifer said in RIP Rush.:

I have no idea what that refers to at all.

Fox testified in Congress opposing the Bush administrations ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Note, there was no "ban" on this research; it was a ban of federal funding for it. For his testimony, advocating more funds for embryonic stem cell research, he stopped his medications to exaggerate the ravages of his Parkinson's disease. It was theater.

Almost 20 years later, has ESC research made any progress in the treatment of Parkinson's?

I'll consider this relevant as soon as we get back to the other two quotes I referenced. If they aren't relevant than neither is any of this.

George asked for context. I don't think you have provided any.

Besides, the man was on the air for three hours a day, five days a week for thirty years. You want to go hunting crap to stake out a position? I'm sure you could find just about anything you wanted.

[Axtremus]

Condolences to Mr. Limbaugh’s family and loved ones.

[jon-nyc]

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

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

It became a non-issue with the development of pluripotent stem cells.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in RIP Rush.:

@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.

Why not?

Over the years, do you know how many people thought Larry was black?

Basically, Horace is calling me a racist. Not 'liberals in general'. Me. In a moderately nice way admittedly, but that's what he's doing. It's probably not what he intended, but the fact that I took issue with something Larry wrote has nothing whatsoever to do with his skin colour. Maybe we should ask why we don't take issue with questionable things that people on our own side write, rather than try to bring the American obsession with race into the discussion.

And I wasn't nasty about Larry. All I did was say he'd posted some rather nasty stuff, which I completely stand by. He took offence, I didn't intend to give it.

[Catseye3]

@horace said in RIP Rush.:

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.

Can't speak for Phibes (though I can guess), but for me that is bullshit of the purest ray serene.

As for Limbaugh: I wouldn't have wished his illness and suffering and death on him, but I'm not grieving, either. To me he was annoying.

[Doctor Phibes]

I remember at least one poster calling the late poster Whacky Iraqi a "sand nigger" before it was revealed that he was actually English, and white.

So much for the kid glove theory.

[George K]

@george-k said in RIP Rush.:

The best the NYT could find was a 25-year-old picture of fat Rush:

Also New York Times:

[George K]

More here:

[Renauda]

@catseye3 said in RIP Rush.:

@horace said in RIP Rush.:

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.

Can't speak for Phibes (though I can guess), but for me that is bullshit of the purest ray serene.

Didn't have to pull a race card with Larry, he waved his indigenous ancestry in everyone's face. Granted he was self-deprecating about it but he nevertheless did it regularly.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:

I remember at least one poster calling the late poster Whacky Iraqi a "sand nigger" before it was revealed that he was actually English, and white.

So much for the kid glove theory.

sand n-word does not mean African American.

[Horace]

@renauda said in RIP Rush.:

@catseye3 said in RIP Rush.:

@horace said in RIP Rush.:

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.

Can't speak for Phibes (though I can guess), but for me that is bullshit of the purest ray serene.

Didn't have to pull a race card with Larry, he waved his indigenous ancestry in everyone's face. Granted he was self-deprecating about it but he nevertheless did it regularly.

Nobody cares about Larry's ancestry. My point, hopefully obviously, was to illustrate that African Americans, at least within America, are considered exceptional. Any of them who manages to reach the echelons of middle class existence are so much more than welcome. I don't work with a lot of them, in fact it's extraordinary when one is hired into a technical position. When I worked at the headquarters campus, the African American people were in maintenance and reception. I don't believe this is because hiring managers were intentionally trying to not hire them into technical positions. I blame it on pop culture and how it views African Americans, the hopelessness, which is relentlessly reinforced. Telling kids that they are going to be repressed is really bad.

These sorts of ideas are not original to me, lots of smart African Americans would concur. It's just that the media doesn't tell anybody about it.