Rush Limbaugh announces he has advanced lung cancer

[Hstch05]

189. I learned something from Rush...

I used to listen to him on and off back in the 90's, at first because I lived in the middle of nowhere and his show was all I could pick up, and then later because I found it important to listen to what the other side was saying. I was never a fan, never drank the Flavor-Ade, and found him to be equal parts bombastic and odious.

I can remember the last day I listened to him, and it was over 20 years ago. He started his show celebrating the death of Earth First founder Judi Bari from breast cancer. Not announcing her death, but celebrating it. Playing "Happy Days are Here Again" and "Celebrate" by Kool and the Gang in the background while cackling about her death due to breast cancer, and spreading the lie that she tried to blow herself up. It made me sick.

I thought about the kind of person I wanted to be, and I decided I didn't want to be like Limbaugh.