Rush Limbaugh

[40bill]

Dead at the age of 70.
Rest in Peace

[Dwight Schrute]

Nah.

[TrueblueCATfan]

So Sad.....RIP Rush....a true American

[surveyor]

Talk Host Joe Walsh on Rush Limbaugh

[Dwight Schrute]

Rush Limbaugh dying isn't sad. I'm not celebrating his death because I'm not that kind of person, but he wasn't a true American. He was a lying, race baiting a-hole who spoke to other people wanting to hear racial grievances.

[surveyor]

The unfortunate thing is outside of his radio persona he seemed to be a nice guy and well-liked. Despite his early years mocking gays who died of AIDS, he and his wife invited Elton John to his perform at his wedding and paid him $1 million, which John donated some, if not all, to AIDS research. I'm not sure how someone like this can be one persona on radio and another outside of it. The video of his on-air mocking of Michael J. Fox's disability and insisting it wasn't real and an act is unfortunate and surely for ratings. I believe he later apologized for it.

[Dwight Schrute]

The unfortunate thing is outside of his radio persona he seemed to be a nice guy and well-liked. Despite his early years mocking gays who died of AIDS, he and his wife invited Elton John to his perform at his wedding and paid him $1 million, which John donated some, if not all, to AIDS research. I'm not sure how someone like this can be one persona on radio and another outside of it. The video of his on-air mocking of Michael J. Fox's disability and insisting it wasn't real and an act is unfortunate and surely for ratings. I believe he later apologized for it.

Maybe he was privately a good guy, but his public personna was that of putting toxicity into the world - it was a deliberate choice he made.

[KCKUKFan]

He made a choice to monetize hate and division.

No loss.

[Lighthouse]

When anybody dies, it's a loss. Just because someone doesn't believe like you doesn't make them bad, it just make them different and that's ok. Nowadays, the word racist is tossed around way to much, and in my life I don't see it because we all were created by the same God and in His Eyes, we're all alike and should be treated as such.

[George]

When anybody dies, it's a loss. Just because someone doesn't believe like you doesn't make them bad, it just make them different and that's ok. Nowadays, the word racist is tossed around way to much, and in my life I don't see it because we all were created by the same God and in His Eyes, we're all alike and should be treated as such.

He believed it was okay to make fun of people who died of AIDS in a weekly segment on his radio show. That isn’t “different.” It’s objectively evil.

[Spiritof96]

When anybody dies, it's a loss. Just because someone doesn't believe like you doesn't make them bad, it just make them different and that's ok. Nowadays, the word racist is tossed around way to much, and in my life I don't see it because we all were created by the same God and in His Eyes, we're all alike and should be treated as such.

You forgot that this is 2021 and hate is perfectly ok if it is directed towards “evil” no matter how loosely defined.

I didn’t care for Rush and I think his bombast and periodic intellectual dishonesty disserved conservatives. Still the hyperbole that conflates being a loud mouth, mean spirited, jerk with evil... isn’t exactly the sort of thinking that is going to repair the divisiveness that we claim to not like.

[George]

You forgot that this is 2021 and hate is perfectly ok if it is directed towards “evil” no matter how loosely defined.

Still the hyperbole that conflates being a loud mouth, mean spirited, jerk with evil... isn’t exactly the sort of thinking that is going to repair the divisiveness that we claim to not like.

Neither is your willingness to excuse divisive — and yes, evil — behavior for the sake of supporting your own beliefs.

[Joneslab]

When anybody dies, it's a loss. Just because someone doesn't believe like you doesn't make them bad, it just make them different and that's ok. Nowadays, the word racist is tossed around way to much, and in my life I don't see it because we all were created by the same God and in His Eyes, we're all alike and should be treated as such.

I was listening to Rush one day and he was talking about race, and a black man called in. Guy said he'd been a fan of the show for years but that he wasn't going to listen anymore because he'd decided Rush was racist.

I can't even remember what Rush said exactly, but IIRC he was trying to be funny and shocking and it came off as nasty and stupid.

While the guy talked Rush was totally silent. When the caller hung up Rush seemed to be shaken.

I think Rush is one of these guys who found that he could say wild, shocking, and (yes) untrue things and make tons of money. I'm not sure that's evil but I think there have been real problems in our society because of the thing Rush helped create.

[Spiritof96]

Neither is your willingness to excuse divisive — and yes, evil — behavior for the sake of supporting your own beliefs.

Who have I excused? And what are my own beliefs that are being supported?

Are you gearing up for a strawman run?

[40bill]

Limbaugh said things that many thought inexcusable.
many people do, myself included.
In my mind, the family and friends of the man, perhaps not the personality, deserve respect.
So, I reiterate...Rest in Peace.