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Rest in peace, and Godspeed, Rush.
Good. A terrible human being.
Aren’t you a sweetheart.
Anyone who cheers for a person’s death is a pathetic troll. I personally did not care too much for Rush but respected some of his opinions which I certainly see as more truthful than what typically comes from the other side and I definitely respect the fact that he is a human being. RIP to him.
Ditto John M. and Michael Q, Randy S. How many people will celebrate your death when you die? If you can think of even one, you ought to spend time looking in a mirror as to why….and if you can’t think of any, your post about Rush Limbaugh’s passing indicates not many people know you very well.
Sad when anyone loses a cancer fight, but Limbaugh was a champion of dis-information and led millions down the Qanon rabbit hole.
He was a champion of the truth, apparently something you are adverse to
What John M. said, Tom…but at least you have the decency to not celebrate Rush’s death, as will many. I’ll give you that.
“…echoed the president’s baseless allegations of voter fraud”? Why don’t you keep th the facts and quit trying to insert your bias in your articles. There is all kinds of evidence of voter fraud, you just care to ignore it.
What is the date now for Trump to resume the presidency? Has Q announced a new date yet?
No bias, no voter fraud, only baseless allegations.
You would expect anything less from The Washington Post, John M? (Wasn’t it Rush who coined the phrase “The Washington COMPost” to describe the newspaper? So true…)
Tom W: kindly supply some documentation linking Rush to Q-anon…but don’t worry, I’ll not hold my breath!
It is a fact. Republicans have been yelling about voter fraud for decades and can’t ever come up with anything substantial to support it. Sorry your guy lost in GOP states that have some of the strictest voter ID and registration laws in the country.
WaPo = Pathetic Journalism
March 4, the early traditional date for Presidential Inauguration. As for voter fraud, let’s see the evidence. More than 60 cases were filed with no attempt to present evidence of fraud, because to have attempted to do so would not only have resulted in dismissal of the suit, but suspension and possible revocation of licenses to practice law for attempting to commit fraud on the court. In fact, appears the best case of fraud may be against the Georgia lawyer who had already decamped to South Carolina before voting in Georgia.
As for Rush Limbaugh being the voice of American Conservatism, that would actually be George Will, or Michael Novak. Limbaugh would be the voice of Nativism, or Confederate wannabes. or others of the far right traitor groups. But of Conservatism? No. The actual philosophy of Conservatism would have been too intellectually rigorous for him or his followers.
Spend two hours watching Mike Lindell’s documentary on the election before throwing those darts, Tim…assuming you’d like to see evidence you asked for. I doubt it. People believe what they want to believe, don’t they? It’s so much easier to trust “the government” in all things than to consider the reality that everyone in “government” is as fallible as you and me (well, at least me).
Before MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s documentary aired on the One America News Network, a disclaimer rolled slowly across the screen:
“The statements and claims expressed in this program are presented at this time as opinions only and are not intended to be taken or interpreted by the viewer as established facts.”
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindells-film-is-not-intended-to-be-taken-as-fact/
The Trump team never was given opportunity to present any evidence to the courts.
That’s possibly the dumbest thing I’ve heard since the last time Todd Rokita opened his mouth.
Trump’s lawyers had plenty of opportunity in their numerous cases to back up their claims on the record in a court of law with their evidence. But they also know that their law licenses would be in jeopardy if they presented courts with what they had, which was nonsense.
There’s a reason they lost all those cases … there was no fraud. Here’s the thing – if there was evidence to support what you are saying, journalists would be fighting over it so they could be the next Woodward and Bernstein and be set for life. You don’t think Fox News wants the prestige of having that story? Cmon.
Rush Limbaugh profited off propaganda that has torn this country in half, and then in half again on the Republican side. The world is a little brighter moving forward.
YAWN…but to be expected.
Completely unworthy of Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yeah, well, consider all the numb-nuts Obama graced with the medal…
In general, The Washington Post’s snide-enhanced report of Rush’s demise is about what one would expect from a media outlet so heavily invested in maintaining the DC swamp’s warmth.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. And if they were just out to slander him, why include this line?
“Although his Democratic critics derided Limbaugh listeners as uneducated and easily led, a study by the Pew Research Center found that Dittoheads were on average better informed than listeners of NPR and were more likely than public radio or C-SPAN audiences to have a college degree.”
I listened to Limbaugh every day in high school and read his first two books. I eventually realized it was an act – he wanted to be loved per his own admission, found that people loved him if he told them what they wanted to hear, and was well compensated for it. He definitely inspired a host of clones and variations on the theme (Mike Pence among them) but he was unrivaled in the 90’s.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every so often, Joe B.
You are aghast that Rush Limbaugh was not perfect and had a large ego? How different is that from Barack Obama’s ego…or most other would-be luminaries, for that matter?
Aghast is a little melodramatic. I’d put it more as not worthy of any special regard and the whole thing was the first thing he did in his life that a) was successful and b) made people like him.
And, recall, I was in high school. So when you discover the guy who spent all his time railing against the failings of Bill Clinton (and boy, would that fill three hours) has his own failings … kind of helps kick the legs out of thinking Republicans are the party of personal responsibility and higher morals than Democrats. And, IMO, he told his audience what they wanted to hear more so than having an innate sense of morals or conservative compass. He didn’t go from saying “Trump is not a conservative” to becoming his biggest cheerleader just because he saw the light, he did it because that’s where the money was, on the Trump Train.
And I have no idea how anyone listened after he blew his hearing out with his drug problems. His voice was a sliver of what it was before, even after he got the implants.
Rush was….’not worthy of any special regard,” Joe B? I beg to differ. For all his imperfections, he was the first to give meaningful voice to the unheard in television and radio. Period.
He wasn’t Jesus or Gandhi or MLK or Walter Cronkite.
Limbaugh was in the right place at the right time as the Fairness Doctrine went away. He found an audience and figured out how to monetize it on radio (even he didn’t like his TV show) but his influence waned as Roger Ailes built Fox News speaking to the same audience.
As far as speaking to an unheard audience, I suspect they were unheard because folks like William F Buckley had told them they weren’t welcome in the Republican Party in the 1960’s and banished them to the shadows. Some ideas and people are unheard for a reason and society has not benefited from them having a “voice”.
Wow, spare no opportunity to demonstrate that liberal hate and arrogance is alive and well in the party of the “big tent”, right?
I would never wish cancer on anyone and am sorry for his family’s loss. I am not sorry that he’s no longer spreading propoganda on the airwaves.