Rush Limbaugh: "We're shutting down our country because of the -- the cold virus"

[TomCADem]

So, according to RW media, the Corona virus is a Chinese bioweapon that is no more serious than the common cold. No wonder Trump has been holding out trying to use the crisis as an opportunity to pass more tax cuts to the rich.

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-were-shutting-down-our-country-because-cold-virus

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): We're shutting down our country because of the — the cold virus, which is what coronaviruses are. This is COVID-19, the 19th version of the coronavirus. We're shutting it — can you imagine our enemies watching this? You think the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over how easy this has been? And it continues. This has been easy.

Can you imagine — Vladimir Putin's sitting over there, “Look, I tried to ruin Donald Trump with this stupid story about he and I colluding to steal the election from Hillary. And I worked with the FBI and I was working with the CIA and I was planting all kinds of stuff, and that went nowhere. And the Chi-Coms run this scam on some sort of virus, and the Americans do this?!”

[malaise]

1. Hey Rush

STFU and croak - that is all

[sheshe2]

29. That was going to be my response.

Hell? that is where he is going.

[customerserviceguy]

35. There's a reasonable

excuse for a holiday!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

36. Oh, my dear Malaise --

You read my mind !!

[malaise]

44. This time it was easy for all of us

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Maybe the cv will get him before the cancer does.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. Limpblob: Please go hug tRump. Longly. eom

[Ilsa]

39. Pathogen transmission resulting in an acute

Respiratory event would hasten the Stage 4 final prognosis.

Is he Cheyne-Stoking on the radio, yet?

[tanyev]

4. Uh, Rush, the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over any aspect of this.

[sop]

18. Sure, the Chinese totally devastated their own economy just to hurt the US

Rushbo probably never heard the old economic aphorism, "When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.”

[LisaL]

5. Says the guy with lung cancer.

Does he really think he has a good chance of surviving covid?

[AZ8theist]

30. Lol!!!!

Great point!!
I always hated that pig. He was the Reichs champion Liar in Chief before Doturd came along...

[JohnnyLib2]

6. The Mouthy Menace prepared the way for Trump,

helped elect him and props him up personally and on the air. What a helluva legacy he'll have.

[Jacoby365]

7. The 19 is not the 19th version,

It means 2019. Limbaugh is an idiot.

[misanthrope]

38. Beat me to it

He's an asshole.

[rzemanfl]

8. It must be really easy to be a complete asshole when you know you will die soon. n/t

[Ohiogal]

9. Can the next Democratic President

Make this asshole give his medal back? What a disgrace.

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. ...or just tell us where to dig?

[Jacoby365]

10. 2nd Santa Clara County death just reported.

Colds don't kill people.

[KentuckyWoman]

11. Dear Rush. How dare you question the President

He thinks this is serious enough to conjure up $50 Billion to help out his golf buddies heavily invested in health insurance stocks.

Rushbo. Why do you hate Amurika?


Snort

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Hey Rush! Lung Cancer Stage IV + COVID19

People who live in glass houses . . . . . . .

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. +69 years old.

If the bug gets him he's toast. So sad.

[RockRaven]

13. Put your money where your mouth is, you turd.

Go acquire the infection on purpose, and if you survive we can talk about your clinical course.

[Ilsa]

40. Well, he was at Mara-Conta-gion recently.

The virus may have already arrived and was waiting for him, especially with mf45's predilection for hiring cheap foreign labor. Or maybe that Chinese woman spy brought it.

[malaise]

45. Mara-Conta-gion

Perfect

[Croney]

14. I'm sure he knows that the 19 stands for 2019.

He just likes making shit up.

[Jacoby365]

19. Perhaps. But he's still an idiot.

[Blues Heron]

16. Rush is having his 19th nervous breakdown

[Blue Owl]

17. What a friend we have in Limbaugh...

[Flaleftist]

20. What will they say when this thing kills far more people than the flu?

The numbers are low compared to the flu now because it is just beginning to spread. Once it is everywhere, they will be higher.

[tulipsandroses]

21. I would love to see Rush test out his theory. Prove it to your followers

Go hang out with someone with Covid 19. I dare ya! C'mon Rush. Prove it to all your loyal listeners that this is nothing more than a cold.

[rickyhall]

22. All I can say is, in his condition if he gets the virus he's a dead man, finally.

[Initech]

23. Am I a bad person for hoping that he gets it?

[Skittles]

32. I am not hoping he gets it

but I would not feel ANY sympathy if he did

[Initech]

41. Same. I felt no remorse during his cancer diagnosis.

I will feel the same way for this.

[Walleye]

24. About him and me! Ack! Jeeze, can none of these people speak English?

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. Pretty funny, coming from Dead Man Squawking.

Actually, I think he is faking his 'illness'

[Mystery sage]

28. Now that would be a shame.

Sorry not sorry

[Grokenstein]

31. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

Fakes lung cancer; killed by respiratory virus.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. Rush ain't circulating in public.

He just spouts the Republican-Evangelical-Xenophobic-Stupid* vote on the radio.





*Note, labeling overlaps.

[ibegurpard]

33. Isn't he dying?

What's taking so long?

[AJT]

34. Could someone with a mild reaction to COVID-19 please go lick his face....

[budkin]

37. Can't wait until he dies

I am going to celebrate.

[smirkymonkey]

42. Oh, FFS! Just hurry up an die already.

You worthless, evil POS.

[Totally Tunsie]

43. Karma, are you listening?

Go get him!