“Wonder what his “short illness” was.”
There is a liberal strain of “Mad Cow” going around. It makes people emotional, irrational and spout nonsense prior to their death, usually of a Darwinian nature.
Stay clear of these people as it is infectious and they usually work around children in order to spread their disease.
Cancer.
FOX had their Eulogy on within in minutes of the announcement this morning so they knew his death was imminent from that "short illness."