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Rush Limbaugh has lost his hearing.
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| 1:10 PM, Monday, October 8, 2001
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 10/08/2001 10:13:58 AM PDT by SlickWillard
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To: Terrorista Nada
Mike Savage made Rush obsolete years ago anyway. The only way Michael Savage could possibly overtake Rush in influence and popularity is if Rush decides to pack it in. It will not happen otherwise.
Listen to Savage this afternoon. He won't say anything as heartless as what you said, and he would be ashamed to hear that one of his fans would say such a thing.
To: Terrorista Nada
Mike Savage made Rush obsolete years ago anyway.Mike Who?
Never heard of him.
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:06:24 PM PDT
by
wi jd
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Go to Rush's web site and download the audio from today's program.
To: KC_Conspirator
Maher apparently called and thanked Rush for his support over Maher getting attacked over what he said.
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:07:58 PM PDT
by
LS
To: phaedo
I don't respect hawks that dodged the draft.So do you respect doves that got drafted?
To: Rush-bashers
Why are people so heartless and cruel? If I knew someone that liked someone I did not, say Bill Clinton, and something bad happened to Bill Clinton, no matter how I feel about Clinton I would NEVER stoop to saying something hostile to his fan.
Have a little more respect.
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:14:21 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: ALL
Please move to
THREAD 2 This one's getting tough to load.
To: SlickWillard
Had to be a virus!
To: TomB
And actually, bro, he, like the rest of the world, says "I'm taking vacation time" and left it at that. What he DOES with it is another matter...
To: LS
Probably going to be a new thread shortly.
Wanted to say, though, that Rush is really blessed to have this happen today. Even if he cannot have his hearing restored by some kind of surgery, he will discover that by and large anything he wants to find out about will be online. I think that deaf people in Helen Keller's age WERE much, much more isolated than they have to be today. He has a loving wife, many friends worldwide, an active life that doesn't depend so much on hearing (golfer, not musician) and he's literate. I think he'll quickly learn lipreading and at least some sign language and go on pretty much as he always has. I do think that one very positive thing may come of it: Becoming disabled changes one's conservatism to something a little kinder, a little less judgmental. At times he has annoyed me with positions I don't think he'll have anymore now that he has a handicap. The world is a little different to those of us who are disabled or have disabled children, and it helps a lot to have sensible (not liberal) spokespeople who are prominent enough to get the right things done.
To: SlickWillard
To: Denver Ditdat
No current Freeper by that name. Big chas (you are the weakest link, GOODBYE......sometimes I just click on the name so I can see this message, so heartwarming.
MKM
To: Mudboy Slim
Hoping he reads this thread and Carol HuTex's thread. (The only two I've been through, so far.)
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:28:21 PM PDT
by
Budge
To: ru4liberty
Helen Keller was purported to have said that deafness was a worse handicap than blindness; said that blindness separates you from things but that deafness separates you from
people. I can vouch for that, and thank God my experience with deafness was brief. An ear infection with no fever and no pain, just a massive hearing loss. It lasted for several weeks, and to my great good fortune it responded to steroids.
But it was very frightening. The worst part was the feeling of separation. I wish this on no one. It has made me very empathetic to plight of the deaf. It is my hope that we will discover a way to cure any and all forms of deafness,
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:28:35 PM PDT
by
Pelham
To: Rush Limbaugh
Rush, in case you are reading this, I just want you to know lots of us here are praying for you. You will overcome this obstacle as long as you keep that passion. Some of us were afraid the world was going to lose you forever after those hints this morning, before we knew about your hearing. I actually breathed a sigh of relief when I heard it was not something like inoperable liver cancer.
With that said, and glad you will be living out what I pray is a long and healthy life, I (and others, I am sure) feel like your listening audience owes you our ears. We should first off thank G-d every morning for the simple but profound ability to listen to your program.
Music was such a huge part of your life; I will always listen double to music I hear from now on, hearing it for you as well as myself. I know how much the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music meant to you: I am not even Christian but promise to listen to it for you this year if you play it.
My mother was the first audiologist to rehabilitate cochlear implant patients, and though retired (age 69) would be glad to offer her knowledge of the relearning to hear process. She traveled the world, teaching others her process at many universities. She has a very spiritual, positive side to her as well, which you could truly appreciate. I can't imagine how working with her would do anything but greatly enrich your life. In her typically humble fashion, when I told her I volunteered her services to you, she said, "Oh, I am sure he would want someone who's up on all the latest computer advances," but she would be happy to help you.
And do not listen to all these fussies about the tone of your voice. You will not be able to INTERNALLY modulate your voice, but you will be able to have a modulator in front of you that will take care of most of it. You've been speaking for decades; it will NEVER be like people who've been deaf from birth. I have been listening all summer and never noticed anything unusual. I listen for the content, not the tonal quality. There are many others in radio, popular, whose voices are actively unpleasant. Yours never will be, never could be.
Please stay with us. You are a part of our day that we want to treasure as long as we can. You are arguably the most influential American, and you are on the right side!
I want to express my sorrow that some of your dreams will perhaps never come true: the TV deal, the football announcing. Who can blame you for dreaming big? Look at what you have achieved! But since your skill, drive, and talent, all on loan from G-d, have brought you to the heights, nay, orbiting ABOVE the heights, of your industry, you should be able to count your blessings loudly when a dream bubble bursts.
May G-d bless you and your family, Yaelle
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:31:44 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: workerbee
Wow. I pray he finds the strength to deal with what lies ahead. He already has.
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posted on
10/08/2001 12:32:57 PM PDT
by
Budge
To: SlickWillard
Our prayers are with you Rush!
To: SlickWillard
What the heck is going on??? Can this year get any worse? WOW :(
To: SlickWillard
Loud rock music???
To: SlickWillard
What a bummer!
God bless you, Rush.
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