Rush Limbaugh announces he has advanced lung cancer

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272. Don't need a book. I listened to the show for quite some time until I had had enough

I remember events such as his announcing his hearing loss (due to Rheumatoid arthritis in the ear bone joints - one of my sisters has RA) and remember when he moved out of NYC and down to Florida to a compound where he did his broadcasts... And I also remember when Poppy was first running for re-election and Limbaugh "announced" that he "wasn't" supporting him, causing all sorts of a stir in conservative land.

I remember his EIB would sue stations that bucked the syndication time slot format, where he stipulated that his show MUST air in a "noon - 3 pm" slot (and one Baltimore station refused and finally started breaking the grip).

And yes he has had all sorts of "affluenza" criminal run-ins including the pills, but not just Viagra - the biggy was Oxcontin.

I remember he used to bring on guest hosts like black conservative and anti-affirmative action nut Ward Connerly as well as pseudo-economist Thomas Sowell.

The biggy was when he summarily announced that if Obama was re-elected, then he was moving to Costa Rica.

It eventually became too much as more and more RW programming took over the airwaves... But fortunately I found Joe Madison - who originally had a graveyard show here in Philly back in the late '80s and was later fired from that... But then was back on the air here years later on another station in syndication, with his show partially overlapping Limbaugh's time (Madison's show was 10 - 1pm I think). I eventually got XM radio in 2007 when I found where Madison was also being broadcast (he had originally been broadcasting in syndication with Cathy Hughe's Radio One/Syndication One programming - on both sat radio and terrestrial radio - and then eventually went completely onto satellite radio). The SiriusXM merger brought about a couple left/liberal/progressive stations that included some of the old Air America folks including Rachel... as well as other familiar voices like Bill Press and Stephanie Miller.