He's going to get thru this with all our prayers.......
Beautifully spoken. Staying positive for all of us. There is strength in numbers. :-)
Rush is not gone and prayfully will not be so soon.
This is not the time for requiem .
Rush, you have our prayers. My wife and I treasure your friendship though we have never met. God keep and heal you, dear friend.
Rush prayers are going to be said daily to keep you strong to get healthy and continue leading the way! We all have your back!
In listening to Rush’s announcement, it was so heartwarming to hear Rush talk of his own spiritual journey. It’s so clear that God is not done with him yet....
With regard to his influence, Bill Whittle put it beautifully: Rush Limbaugh stands alone on Mount Olympus.
I’ve been listening to Rush since 1989. I once called and talked to him. I remember when he went deaf, and was concerned that his time on the radio was over.
I remember the day that the Republicans won control of Congress in the election of 1994, and Rush started his show with “I feel good” by James Brown.
This latest news saddens me. I have said a prayer for him.
I was just flipping channels and hit on Rush and within minutes I was hooked.
It was only a matter of weeks until Rush got on a week day 12-3 program, and because I was a salesman I could catch parts of his program while I drove to/from sales calls.
I've been part of Rush 24/7 from the beginning, Monthly pub, bought his books etal.
Prayers from all will occur, and the Will of God is going to happen.
I know that all FReepers feel the same and will send their prayers to their God.
I’ve been praying for Rush since the announcement yesterday, and am continuing to do so.
Joining in prayer with Fellow FReepers!
Rush is a fighter and has the money to go anywhere in the world for the best treatment available. I plan to pray for him daily and hope he achieves remission.
Bill and Hillary never left. Just sayin’.
But Rush rose through the Bush41 years before the Clintons even made the Washington scene. I remember trading emails with him on Compuserve back then.
My dear cousin was suddenly diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer about 8 years ago. She was never a smoker and seemed to never get sick. Her cancer had already spread to other organs (which will be a key factor in Rush’s prognosis). She was told there was no time for subtlety. She would have to start chemo and radiation at the same time.
She wanted to know the truth. She asked point blank. How much longer do you think I will live? Her doctor said 5% survive longer than three months.
My cousin was a woman of faith. “So you’re saying I have a chance?”
She and her husband took cruises and flew to see family (they were well off) and she had down times and then rally. She would have falls and need someone to pick her up.
She managed to last another 18 months before she passed away and we all felt blessed with God’s mercy both that she lived as long as she did and in her passing to a better beyond.
While I am prayerful and hopeful of a full recovery for Rush, I think if he goes down either the chemo or radiation paths, he’ll be too weak to do a three hour radio show very often. The energy vanishes so quickly. Perhaps, EIB should groom a substitute (like Johnny Carson had Joey Bishop all those years) or maybe have James Golden prepped and ready to take over after the first hour.
Anyway, Mark Davis is a genuinely nice guy and it is just like him to pen this. I wish him and Rush the best.
My ultra-liberal sister’s ex-husband put me on to Rush in his first year of national broadcasting. Since then, Rush has been as much a part of my life as any bone in my body. Live long and prosper, Rush!
It took me a while to start listening to Rush because I fell for the mainstream media campaign. If you didn’t listen, all you heard were the jokes and slurs. He was a Nazi gasbag, he raged at callers, he was a shock-jock, he was grotesquely obese.
Then I started to hear him accidentally on the car radio. He was on the same station as the Dodger games, and in the morning when I started the car, his show blatted at me, and I’d automatically switch away. Then one morning I heard his parody of the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann,” except it was “Bomb Iraq,” and it was funny. And I listened for a few minutes, and discovered that nothing the mainstream media said was true. Rush was punctiliously polite to every caller. He gave a hearing to every point of view, rather than instantly cutting off those who disagreed. He was FUNNY!
It was the start of my transformation of beliefs, the beginning of my discovery of the false front of the mainstream media.
First time I ever heard Rush was in the 80s, I was fishing with my brother in a small lake for crappies.
He had a small radio with that had Rush on. We caught a lot of fish that day and Rush caught one more listener.
It’s always sad to see someone you have never met and likely never would go thru what most consider a tragic demise.
I expect anything but that from Rush tho. His life is a celebration of the fact that everyone can’t ride in the cockpit but they can still guide the craft to a better place.
Hang tough, Rush. Cancer has ravaged young and old in our family for as long as I can remember... but it has never stopped us from reaching the heights we needed to see above the maddening crowds.