My thoughts on the Rush Limbaugh situation.

[Initech]

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I've been thinking a lot about this situation since yesterday. No matter which side you are on, one thing we can all agree on is that cancer sucks. Even if it happens to someone who's an absolute monster like Limbaugh.

Yes, you can talk all you want about his Viagra sex parties in the Caribbean, or the number of times he's cheated on his many wives, or the fact that he's a liar, bully, cheat, and hate-mongerer. You can also bring up the way he mercilessly mocked Michael J. Fox when he announced that he had Parkinson's Disease, another equally atrocious and horrible sickness. You can also talk about how he's had a huge hand in how divided we are right now.

But the simple fact is, despite all of that, I will neither be celebrating his cancer like some have, nor will I feel any remorse. Instead my hope is that he will see the error of his ways in the treatment of his victims, and right the wrongs that he has done over the many years we've been subjected to him. Because the liberal stance is to favor science and the progress of medicine, with which it is extending his life.

Yes, the damage has been done, but there is hope that the ship can change course. Limbaugh might not be the one to steer that ship, but he can at least correct the trajectory from which he steered the ship in the first place. It's wishful thinking at this point but if there is a slim possibility it could happen, I would like to see it.

[Voltaire2]

1. 'see the error of his ways'

you have got to be kidding, right?

[HubertHeaver]

14. Lee Atwater did.

[BigmanPigman]

25. Nope, I read that yesterday so I Googled him, he is a LIAR!

This is from Wikipedia...

"Ed Rollins stated in the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story:

[Atwater] was telling this story about how a Living Bible was what was giving him faith and I said to Mary [Matalin], "I really, sincerely hope that he found peace". She said, "Ed, when we were cleaning up his things afterwards, the Bible was still wrapped in the cellophane and had never been taken out of the package", which just told you everything there was. He was spinning right to the end."

[HubertHeaver]

43. My faith in Lee is restored!11!!!

[underpants]

19. Chemotherapy can result in major personality swings

I saw it with a former boss. She went from sunshine and rainbows to flat out nasty mean paranoid horrible person.

I wasn't aware of this until that happened. For some people their chemistry just changes. Some from one side of the arc to the other but some just go from the middle ground to one extreme.

[pstokely]

42. what if they are already nasty and mean like Oxyrush?

?

[Initech]

20. I said that it is wishful thinking.

It could happen, or it could not.

[womanofthehills]

40. sociopaths usually die as sociopaths

Empathy is foreign to them

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. How

will he "right the wrongs" he has done?

It cannot be done.

He is the founding father of the hate radio/TV movement.

The sooner he is gone, the better for humanity.

[Initech]

21. Yeah, 30 years of that, take your pick.

[ibegurpard]

3. You are more gracious than I

He is directly responsible for the misery of millions of people. I hope it hurts.

[DanieRains]

35. The Deaths Of Many Too

Indirectly but absolutely.

[Kurt V.]

4. i feel your sentiment. I've lost too many to cancer. but extending ones life

is not automatically a good thing. in my mom's case , it was wrong decision, hindsight being 20/20.

[ZZenith]

5. ...and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

Rush Limbaugh has fully embraced the dark side of human impulse and will not be redeemed. It’s foolish to expect otherwise.

[2naSalit]

17. ...

and monkeys might fly out of my butt

[Initech]

24. ...

[Initech]

22. No I don't think he will see the errors of his ways.

But given the way he's mocked victims of deadly diseases, maybe he could at least see the error of that one. That's a big maybe, though.

[ZZenith]

27. That's a big monkey.

I admire your charity, I just don’t share it in this case.

[lunatica]

6. I really feel nothing one way or the other

But I really think it’s naïve to expect him to suddenly grow empathy and feel for people he’s had nothing but contempt for all his life. I doubt he ever has a twinge of conscience about what he does, because he’s a true believer in what he does.

Please note that I said he believes in what he does, not that he’s a believer of what he says.

[VMA131Marine]

7. As Barb Bush might say

Why should I waste my beautiful mind thinking about Rush Limbaugh!

[mobeau69]

10. My thoughts exactly. nt

[spanone]

8. I'm not holding my breath.

I will not celebrate any death from cancer. Good people get it, bad people get it.

He will always be a bad person who got cancer.

[jberryhill]

9. He doesn't care what you think

...one way or the other.

[pamdb]

11. lumberbutt

Absolutely NO sympathy.

[Iggo]

12. Fuck Cancer and Fuck Rush Limbaugh.

My stand on neither of those items has changed.

[Initech]

23. Same.

He's an asshole, no question. But if he wants us to feel empathy, maybe he should start feeling some. If he has no empathy, then yeah, there is no hope for someone like that.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. This isn't some remake of Bill Murray in "Scrooged."

Dude can go ahead and rot slowly. 10's of thousands who do not in any way deserve such a wretched fate will suffer and die from it this year. This one does.

[Skittles]

15. while I agree with you that cancer sucks

that Trump Humping repuke whore will NEVER, EVER become a decent human being

[BigDemVoter]

16. I don't really care if he suffers or not. . .

I am mainly interested in him just being DEAD. He'll never be able to harm anybody ever again.

[trof]

18. One word: karma

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. You want to win the WAR for our Republic??

Stop being such pansies people - fuck Limpballs, I hope it is tortuous.

Roles reversed it’s exactly what the Repugs would think.

When you turn the other cheek all you do is get hit again.

[NRaleighLiberal]

28. fuck limbaugh. and hannity. and coulter. and all of em.

[HarlanPepper]

29. He's not dead yet

I’m not ready to count the chickens yet. He could hang on for years. We have no specific information about his prognosis. But I agree with your sentiment. Well said.

[RhodeIslandOne]

36. He might be faking it

He faked going deaf once.

[gopiscrap]

30. fuck him

I hope dies from a very long protracted, painful and horrible death

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. Limbaugh is still inflicting misery and suffering.

[Initech]

37. Honestly I would like to see him be a victim of the pre-existing condition system he helped create.

And he's got 3 of them - chain smoker, drug addict, and morbidly obese.

But he's got money, so file that under "things that will never happen".

[Zambero]

32. Rush deserves compassion

Even if he was loathe to demonstrate any himself. And he also deserves a death with dignity, quick and painless. Rush should check out states where assisted suicide is legal, sooner rather than later. Once a go-ahead ensues, he can put out a Go Fund Me request. I'm sure there would be no shortage of contributors.

[Jake Stern]

33. When I was an idealistic 20 year old, I might have agreed with you

However 41 year old me has been around long enough to see the destruction this bi-pedal viper has left in his wake and I feel the only appropriate penance is to spend his final days in agony and suffering.

[dalton99a]

34. He will be in a very beautiful place

[Initech]

38. Oh yeah, he will go to a special circle of hell, no question.

[Coventina]

39. Let me put it this way: I wish for him what he has wished for me. n/t

[Baked Potato]

41. He could give substantial donations to charities. We'll see.