My thoughts on the Rush Limbaugh situation. [View all]

[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.