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Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday morning at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.

Limbaugh's wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show. "Losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life," she said. Rush will forever be the greatest of all time."

Klyith posted:

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Three Olives posted:

Herman Cain was wrong about a lot of things, important things, he certainly harmed a lot of people, but I think for the most part didn't know what he was doing and was greedy, but greedy in a way that most people are and would be if they fell into his life.

Rush, like Trump, was cruel and evil because it entertained him, his show hasn't been a profitable enterprise in years, he was just a dying cat batting around a mouse for fun. Rush chose to spend his last moments on earth, fully knowing that they were his last moments on earth, by intentionally yammering on and on the radio, harming people instead of a yacht in Monaco being sucked off by prostitutes high as gently caress on cocaine, because being malevolent was the only real joy he was capable of.

I hope his hospice nurse was a fat, trans, black, same-sex married, woman that was mean to him in his last moments.

You Are A Elf posted:

If Rush is so mad at cancel culture, then why did he cancel living?

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But the left’s hatred of Rush was not merely the result of anything in particular he did or said, but rather the product of liberals’ generalized scorn for anyone who opposes them.

If Rush had been less caustic, the left still would have popped the champagne upon his death, just as they would have if Sean Hannity had died this week, or Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin or any other prominent conservative the left didn’t perceive as an ally of convenience.

Johnny Walker posted:

It's interesting how he says Rush is hated not for "anything in particular he did or said" because a friend of mine pointed out the other day that the people who loved Rush can't name a particular thing he said or did that they loved. He had no big memorable interviews, no famous bits to go back and laugh about later, no big philosophical argument that he'd been making all that time--nothing.

He spent decades on the radio talking to millions of people every single day, and he never said anything that mattered to anyone.

lol

Happy Hippo posted:

Shapiro is wrong about everything but doesn't seem to be a monster, while Rogan just agrees with whatever his guest is saying but, again, not a monster. Rush Limbaugh was a monster, not just wrong about everything, not just credulous, but a full-on raging monster and the world is far better without him.

Also lmao Rush Limbaugh died

Grammarchist posted:

Baby Joe Rogan was pretty insufferable on Bill Maher back in 2000. Admittedly, the whole show was insufferable, but his interjections against the socialist candidate are particularly stupid on this panel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJJpz3vLImw

Fame Douglas posted:

The suit fits fine, fashion preferences were different back then. Men wore larger suits.

Torquemada posted:

Just reminding people Rush died in agony, in case anyone is having a tough day and needs a laugh.

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Lung cancer metastatic to the liver can interfere with the liver's ability to do its job of removing toxins from the body, causing a buildup that can lead to death. This is usually painless, as people slowly become less alert.

Lung cancer can sometimes spread to the pericardium, which surrounds the heart. This may cause bleeding between this lining and the heart, resulting in compression of the organ and sudden, rapid—although painless—death.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

However, Rush was addicted to painkillers, opioids specifically IIRC, so that whatever they gave him likely had little or no ameliorating effect on his pain because he'd already built up a very strong tolerance

Bonzo posted:

I have been at the deathbed of three relatives who died. Two of cancer, one of sepsis. No matter what you have, no matter what they give you to kill the pain, dying is painful, confusing, and scary.

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