Posted on 02/12/2021 9:40:09 AM PST by Red Badger
Rush Limbaugh's staffers said they are "praying for a remission" for his advanced lung cancer, which on Wednesday appeared to cause him to miss a taping of his eponymous radio show.
Limbaugh's producer James Golden tweeted Wednesday that Ken Matthews would fill in for the controversial conservative host "as he continues to fight the illness."
There was also a fill-in for Limbaugh's Thursday episode. A ticker on the show's official website noted that "it's treatment week and Rush will be off the air today."
Limbaugh, 70, was diagnosed with lung cancer in late January 2020, telling fans while on the air that he would miss some upcoming recordings because of either receiving or recovering from treatment.
He has said that he "first realized something was wrong" around Jan. 12 last year, with his diagnosis later confirmed the following week.
"I wish I didn't have to tell you this and I thought about not telling anybody," he said in a February episode of his show. "I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing 'cause I don't like making things about me."
Still, he said, "This has happened and my intention is to come here every day I can and to do this program as normally and as competently and as expertly as I do each and every day, because that is the source of my greatest satisfaction, professionally, personally."
In May, the infamously incendiary radio personality grew candid in discussing his third round of treatment for the cancer, which he said was "kicking my a--" and had made him "virtually worthless, virtually useless."
At the time, Limbaugh said he had just begun "week two of this third cycle," though "the impact on the tumor in these three weeks is not expected to be significant."
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infamously incendiary? They had to throw that in.
Taping? Rush has always delivered his show live.
True, but his shows are taped for history.................
These idiots know nothing. They are just blowhards who only listen to those in their bubble. They can lie and lie all day long, and it doesn’t matter. They have each other cover for them when they screw up.
In my daily rosary prayers
He did in his early years..................
Continued prayers for Rush.
-PJ
Live on the east coast, delayed in other time zones.
Those blowhards couldn't hold an audience even if they had everything scripted out for them on a half hour pre-taped show. Rush has been doing content three hours a day live for decades and has a national audience that they can only dream about.
Talentless hacks, all of them.
“People’s” mag use of adjectives slays me.
LOL.
5.56mm
“People” mag is not Rush’s friend, nor ours.
Controversial, Eponymous? Must be a 16 year old with a new Thesaurus.
As if the staffers are not really praying. Sheesh. These people are evil.
most blamed US Grant’s throat cancer on his cigar habit.
No kidding. I suppose he should have called his program "The John Doe Radio Show."
I still find his continued absence odd. We all have our different reactions to chemo. I may have required a nap once in a while. But I was never totally out of commission.
Maybe Rush doesn’t have the energy to do his show prep or do a full show but he almost certainly would be able to tape a two or three minute update about his condition. In fact, he did this at least once that I recall.
But he hasn’t been heard from for nearly two weeks now.
When last he was on, he clearly was wink-wink, when speaking about the validity of the November election. Maybe he wasn’t wink-wink enough and important stations cancelled or threatened to cancel?
ML/NJ
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