Posted on 02/03/2020 1:50:02 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Talk Radio would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh. That’s a plain and simple fact, and talk radio has been a vital tool for maintaining freedom and prosperity in this country since Rush’s program began airing nationally more than 31 years ago. He has been that important to the conservative political movement for the last three decades, far more important than any other individual over that period of time.
Rush has played the vital role of the conservative Happy Warrior, a role the country needed someone to step into as the great Ronald Reagan – or, as Rush loves to call him, Ronaldus Magnus – was winding down his presidency. With 95% of the nation’s news media slanted irrevocably and increasingly leftwards and becoming ever more corrupt by the day, American conservatives needed a prominent voice to stand up and shout the truth.
William F. Buckley famously once said that one of the roles for American conservatism was to be the lonely warrior who stands athwart history shouting “stop!”
For 31 years, Rush Limbaugh has stood athwart the passing scene shouting “stop!” with a smile on his face, a gleam in his eye, and joy in his heart. This has been no easy job.
Of all Americans of the 21st Century, no one, not even candidate and President Donald Trump, has been defamed, besmirched, libeled and slandered as often or as viciously as has Rush Limbaugh. His personal foibles – his divorces and addiction to prescription drugs and the cigar smoking that likely brought on his lung cancer – have become the fodder for unfunny late night talk show hosts and untalented talking heads on cable television.
He has been the target of too many opportunistic, flailing politicians to catalog, including American presidents. He was actually blamed by the despicable Bill Clinton for the Oklahoma City bombing. Barack Obama called him a danger to our society. For three decades he has served as the favorite boogeyman of the American left.
That’s because for three decades he has been right about them, and for three decades he has made himself and his voice relevant, an indispensable part of the fabric of our society. After all, if he weren’t right or so utterly relevant, they’d just ignore him. The fact that they cannot ignore him tells you how powerful his voice became.
One of his radio talk show colleagues – I forget which one now – once referred to Rush as the Babe Ruth of talk radio, and that is an appropriate analogy on several levels. Just as Ruth became a legendary, larger-than-life figure who turned his profession into a national pastime, Rush is a legendary, larger-than-life figure who saved AM talk radio and turned it into a massive media industry that dominates the airwaves.
But, more poignantly, Babe Ruth also habitually smoked cigars, and he also contracted lung cancer.
Our medical industry has advanced by light years since the 1940s, and everyone living today probably knows someone who has fought cancer and won their battle. We can be sure that Rush will fight this cancer with every fiber of his being, and that he will have access to the best medical care available.
I first discovered the Rush Limbaugh show one Sunday afternoon while listening to my pocket radio while mowing my lawn in 1988. Dallas AM station WBAP 820 at the time aired 3 hours of Rush’s show on the weekends – it wasn’t available on a daily basis until at least a year later. I’ve been a loyal listener of the show ever since that day more than 31 years ago.
All I and Rush’s many millions of other listeners can do now is hope and pray for his recovery. In closing his show on Monday, he said “Every day I’m not here, I’ll be thinking of you and missing you.”
I and many millions of other Americans will be missing thinking of and missing you, too, Rush. Godspeed.
So then you know that he was in a “considered risk group”? How do you know that?
For all the copd folks here, research singlet oxygen therapy. There’s a very small tabletop device made by germans called SOE MAC that you just turn on when you go to sleep, and that’s it. Gives you energized oxygen that helps copd sufferers breathe easier and get more oxygen at night. This translates into a better more restful sleep.
I really believe people have the lung cancer gene. My step-father died 2 years ago at 82. He stopped smoking at 42. So 40 years never smoked anything. Diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and refused treatment and died 2 months later.
I just couldn’t wrap my head around that. He smoked off and on since he was 18. A few years of not smoking, starting up, quitting etc.
They say your lungs start healing from the moment you stop smoking. 40 years of not smoking and still died of lung cancer.
I just briefly scanned through comments on DU. I never go there and won’t go again, because it greatly erodes my opinion of the human race and makes me sick to think that these are allegedly my countrymen.
My first response is I hope they all roast in hell, but I’ll back away and let God decide that. I do hope they experience more than their share of hell in this life, and their torments come from the knowledge that Rush Limbaugh’s work, no matter what his fate, will endure. It’s like the old song says: “and when I die and when I’m gone, there’ll be one child born into this world to carry on.” Rush Limbaugh has had such a huge impact on such a huge number of people, that we can be confident that his work will be carried on.
So suffer, DU scum!
I’ve heard that too Engedi......and like Andy Kaufman and Christopher Reeves widow.....non smokers and both died of lung cancer....it must be a gene mutation or something.
I have a Oxygen machine that delivers oxygen to me while I sleep. I helps. When I’m resting or sitting down my oxygen level is 95 0r 96.. Have trouble doing things though.. Oxygen level drops to the 70’s.. I still take showers by myself and grocery shop.. Have a portable puffer that helps.. Take one day at a time..
A high risk group is anyone who has smoked for a good part of their life......And if I'm not mistaken, he used to smoke cigarettes and currently smokes cigars......If I'm wrong, please advise.
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Got hooked on them in Iraq. Our company Fire Support Officer’s father sent him boxes when we were deployed, and he’d hand ‘em out. Terrific cigar.
I just recently got some 5 Vegas Series "A"...and some La Perla Habana Black Pearl Oro's ...
If it gets a bit warmer...I'll burn one.
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