Artistic value and lived impact are two different things. Artistic value to you, sure, I believe that. However, we are 100% living the impact of his work - and that is lasting - so we should not be deluded. And I say that as the daughter of one of his listeners.
I stopped listening to him 30 years ago, and can't understand how his perverted view of conservatism replaced Bill Buckley's. It was always incoherent populism at best.
Pretty mush that... Limbaugh was the original troll and shit poster that helped make fascism "cool" again. I'm glad karma came knocking at his door. Enjoy 😈, he surly deserves it!
Problem is he fomented a lot of hate with his lies. Hate that tangerine turd used to rise to power. Rush made millions of dollars lieing and the rest of us are suffering the consequences.
Hate radio, which Limbaugh pioneered, did nothing but get people all riled up and looking for scapegoats to blame. Fox News carried on this ugly tradition.
It is a terrible way to live your life by spewing hate, negativity and anger.
What's worse was his fear-mongering. This impacted the vulnerable, especially seniors who didn't have the wherewithal to check his lies. My father fell into his trap, resulting in our estrangement for years. I will always blame RL for destroying a relationship that had been so special.
Thanks. I think the stress of all this affected his health. He was so strong and vital, but got himself so riled up he began having heart and respiratory issues. He might have lived longer had it not been for RL.
When the ship you're on is sinking fast, no ones thinking about the torpedo that put a gaping hole in the hull, they're just trying to find their way out from below deck and into a lifeboat. That's where we are right now. Rush was one of the torpedoes. So was Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove.
He, and his ilk that persist today appeal to the small demographic of (white) people who are pissed off that their lives, and/or their kids’ lives didn’t turn out the way they wanted.
This blaming of “others” has always been a thing, it’s just being promoted by right wing “grievance” media.
I listened to Rush on the radio. In the beginning he was your garden variety conservative. Then his true (racist) colors revealed themselves on Monday Night Football and I stopped listening to him. This was an early step in my progression away from the GOP. By 2012, I was not voting GOP at all.
Damn interesting point. Although, I disagree, in part, that we cannot allow ourselves to forget the monstrosities pieces of shit like him support and push for. I am an atheist, but like to believe he is rotting in hell.
This is also true of Pierre Poilievre. Contributes nothing of value, just rage farms. Hasn't done one good or memorable thing in 20 years in government. #NeverVoteConservative
Rush started the brainwashing even before Fox News came about. Then 🦊 picked up the ball and gave us this zombie cult of assholes we have today. If there is ever an asshole hall of fame, I think Rush should be the first inductee.
-- at least in its metaphors (yes, including that part where he chases Hillary Clinton from the WH) except that in the meantime, the character of R. Limbaugh was replaced by DJT.
Read it. It was written 20 years ago, it was funny then... but the way it ends is so close to what's ongoing today.
Trump will be erased from history. Nothing he did was worth mentioning. Just a shit list of things you fucking don’t do. Like Hitler. Don’t be like Hitler.
I think about the people I know who listen to this angry vomit hours daily. Millions of people listening to it. The gyms blasting Fox and OAN the salons the bars.
The only time I ever mention Rush Limbaugh is to explain how I grew up, forced to listen to him every day, and how it shaped my worldview. And how it wasn't until I'd already joined the military and been deployed that I realized how stupid everything I "knew" was.
Rush radicalized a huge number of people. A hypocritical POS who perfected his propaganda locally in Sacramento before going national. His humor worked on me when I was in my Twenties and the hate and racism was all underneath. So glad I grew up and saw it was all BS
I was today thinking how he polluted the minds of many including my father in law. Luckilymy f in law is 80 now and he a lifelong republican voted for Hillary and Kamala.
Every once in awhile, I will come across someone lamenting about how they miss Rush Limbaugh's common sense. He was just an asshole with an audience of assholes. He emboldened cruelty.
I'm a Missourian, and that man was vile. When he is brought up, I'm satisfied knowing he's burning in hell. I also feel that saying that, will not be held against me when I go to the gates of heaven. 😀
While I agree that's his contribution, what he did has had enduring value. That anger, the fear, the distrust, the easy adherence to lies and conjecture for millions of Americans is very real, and very enduring. Without it, there's no modern right wing in the US.
Sadly, I think Rush has a lot to do with the current moment. His 'four corners of deceit: government, academia, science, and the media,' were very effective at discrediting the institutions we need to support strongly right now.
I worked and talk radio in the 1980s. It was all made up. We would look for the most incendiary thing we could say and find the most offensive way we could say it, and that’s what we put on air. Because angry people drive ratings, and ratings drive ad revenue. It’s all about money.
The sun was brighter the day he died, the birds and butterflies sang and danced jubilantly, women drove and or flew to dance and pee on his grave. It was beautiful! It will be the same for 💩 and Nazi sidekick. People will come from around the 🌎 to defecate on their graves.
I find joy in the fact that people keep urinating on his headstone. Apparently urine stains are hard to remove, so they are constantly replacing his headstone. Makes me smile!
His grave has given me a wonderful place to store my burgeoning “fecal sample of the week” collection. I make deposits every time I’m in St Louis. Sometimes I bring buckets of horse piss when I don’t feel like I have quality fecal material to deposit. Makes me feel so good to contribute to his
And the guy who declared himself king of everything including culture at the Kennedy center, conferred upon that sub human conspiracy theorist the Medal of Freedom, merely because he had the mind-twisted gall to flatter him.
The same way when Musk finally kicks it no one will sing his praises or list his accomplishments because he was just a greedy opportunistic windbag who has no real friends and no redeeming qualities.
Rest in hell Elon.
He used to broadcast in SW PA years ago. In the 70s in McKeesport and later in Pittsburgh. My mom has an acquaintance who wrote country music or something like that was a sort of friend and my mother couldn't stand him or her gushing about him.
You nailed it Kaylan. The gop, ESPECIALLY the current version, seems very willing to burn it all down for their own benefit. They give no thought to the future. Not even their own children's future!! They'll lay waste to the land and then find another country to go to and burn down.
I think do think about him frequently and the critical role he played in plotting the path toward fascism. A sort of St. John the Baptist to an antichrist.
Was thinking about him the other day. He made Racism acceptable with his Barack the Magic Negro. Total SOB. I had a job that involved a lot of driving all over CA. He was on every station spewing hate. You could pick him up on your teeth. (A real thing, Check it out.) May he rest in Hell.
similarly, i was just talking the other day how he radicalized a big chunk of voters essentially laying the groundwork for m4g4 to sweep in with even more fear-mongering programming #brainwashed
His ghost is everywhere. He is basically the patron saint of RW media. Many of the worst pundits like Carlson and Hannity give Limbaugh direct credit for teaching them the language of populist RW extremism. You may not hear about him, but he's the Right's Jesus.
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin wrote an obituary for him—he was extremely anti-Semitic in his early broadcasts. He also was an early proponent of encouraging ‘skepticism’ towards all sources of information outside the party. A true pioneer of GOP fascism.
My lifelong Democrat parents got sucked into Limbaugh’s version of the world. The bizarre stuff he filled their minds with was heartbreaking. Scaring elderly people was his go-to move. Hope he’s enjoying hades.
That fucking scumbag is the one that fucked up my brother and turned him into a rabid Republican.
My brother drove a taxi in NYC for a while and had too much downtime and started to listen to this fucking idiot and fell into the trap, then he became enamored of Fox News.
2/ been vandalized. I know funeral arrangements can be done years in advance, but with Rush’s money they could have buried him anywhere. Someone chose not to.
Repost: As a black midwesterner, I really think someone involved with Rush Limbaugh’s estate planning had an axe to grind with him. He’s buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, which is in a community that is over 80% black. Plus, his grave is right out in the open where anyone can get to it. It has 1/
That's says a lot that it would probably be global... and then never to be spoken about again, only as a lesson to.remember so that we don't repeat it.
Unfortunately he infected thousands of young men (mainly) who listened to him daily and were warped by his fake tirades. I know a few, sadly. If there's an afterlife, I certainly hope that he is serving his sentence.
So... How come you're not dead? I mean, if it was such a deadly whatever, why didn't it kill you? Why did it instead kill the cancer ridden pill-popper?
What I saw working across the country in ICUs was that, among other things, Covid caused clots in people's brains, hearts and lungs. These clots were often the reason people got worse and died. Nurses said they wouldn't have believed how bad it was if they didn't see it.
This should be sent to Joe Rogan and MAGAt commentators as a preview of their obit. Nothing’s more powerful than seeing your entire life’s “work” amounted to…a despicable parasite on the footnote of history.
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It is a terrible way to live your life by spewing hate, negativity and anger.
That was intended towards the fake xians like Rush L. etc.
Stole the meme from the in'ernet somewhere.
Put some color on. If you like.
Please take no offense, this is just the color all WCNs think he was.
No native speaker here......
May the lack of his memory be a blessing.
This blaming of “others” has always been a thing, it’s just being promoted by right wing “grievance” media.
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Too Often, It Is, "Minority Making The Rules".
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2. Only the good die young
3. So happy he couldn’t take his money with him
to stupid to look in a mirror of the eyes watching, knowing the stupidity of their faux existance
Let me tell you something: it was dreadfully visionary and depressingly accurate --
Read it. It was written 20 years ago, it was funny then... but the way it ends is so close to what's ongoing today.
Now said financiers got what they wanted, it seems those guys largely fell off the face of the earth.
Limbaugh spent his entire radio career making it okay to express racism against black people in public. Out loud, and proud.
He fought to normalize demonizing black leaders.
And look where we are.
He succeeded.
It sells.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2026-ohio-governor-vivek-ramaswamy-799f0c8bdb38c43cd1c2846411867711
Was awful when it hung around, but dissipated quickly and was gone.
:)
I do what I can to remind men who they used to LOVE
He passed my mind when was constipated with a big piece of shit recently
Limbaugh made $$$$ for him that is the sum total of his value, filled dummies heads with garbage but had zero positive effect on mankind.
I'm a Missourian, and that man was vile. When he is brought up, I'm satisfied knowing he's burning in hell. I also feel that saying that, will not be held against me when I go to the gates of heaven. 😀
And on top of it mtg is now in your government.
My dad was also one of the most miserable human beings to have ever walked the earth. Coincidence? I think not.
Besides, I’m pretty sure they’re on a bench together, skipping stones over a lava lake.
President Bill Clinton blamed Limburger Cheese directly.
Rest in hell Elon.
And I’m here to say,
Minorities bad
White people okay”
I will feel the same way about every member of DJT’s immediate family.
Dr. Mary Trump is a saint!
The other time I bring up Limbaugh is apologizing for Elton John playing The Wedding Singer for Rush. WTF Elton?
I love that.
The cancer grew, nurtured by Christian Nationalist.
“A new command I give you, love one another as I have loved you” - Jesus
But the legacy of hate lives on after the hater is gone. Rush did a disservice to his listeners. He hurt them and made them lesser humans.
And now we shun them.
It shaped how I saw my father as a person, for the rest of my life.
My brother drove a taxi in NYC for a while and had too much downtime and started to listen to this fucking idiot and fell into the trap, then he became enamored of Fox News.
I think there will be a global sigh of relief.
That's says a lot that it would probably be global... and then never to be spoken about again, only as a lesson to.remember so that we don't repeat it.
He died on Feb 19, 2021, the same day I got my 2nd shot.
You're welcome.