Rush Limbaugh announces he has advanced lung cancer

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157. I remember when Franken published that book

Limbaugh had a staff that used to produce SNL-like "commercials" that lampooned some of the more notable "liberals" - a favorite subject being Jessie Jackson. His show started up the year after the FCC abolished the "Fairness Doctrine", so at the time, there were still some shows with "liberal/progressive" points of view on the air. But that abolishment eventually lead to shows pairing "conservative vs liberal" (like Hannity & Colmes" and "Batchelor & Alexander" ), which became de riguer in a manner that mimicked CNN's "Crossfire", until they eventually eliminated even that format and went full-on RW loon, both live and syndicated. The deregulation of the airwaves finished liberal programming off for good when the RW bought thousands of AM radio stations and put the loon programming on them - with one group using Limbaugh as as an anchor and others using Beck or Levin as an anchor. It has been an ugly 30 years and it forced me to get a subscription back in 2007, to (then- ) XM radio, now SiriusXM, to finally hear some kind of liberal/progressive programming.

In essence, he eventually became the mouthpiece for the GOP with the insanity of Gingrich and their "revolution" mustering their troops for a full-on assault on all sensibility, subsequently leading to the teabaggers for 2010.

It is bizarre how far they have all fallen throwing their gawd Ronald Raygun under the bus.