Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer

[Jarhyn]

Arguably, the act of having sex with Rush Limbaugh having such consequences would itself sufficiently strip me of empathy for those so afflicted, were it something like advanced AIDS. Maybe the second or third order infected would get empathy.

Oh, I can’t possibly imagine that sex with Rush Limbaugh would in any way be consensual. I honestly can’t even contemplate the idea....

Touche. Then, the segment of the population that is dumb enough to be in any way "alone with" Rush Limbaugh is also of dubious character.

 

[Toni]

Arguably, the act of having sex with Rush Limbaugh having such consequences would itself sufficiently strip me of empathy for those so afflicted, were it something like advanced AIDS. Maybe the second or third order infected would get empathy.

Oh, I can’t possibly imagine that sex with Rush Limbaugh would in any way be consensual. I honestly can’t even contemplate the idea....

Touche. Then, the segment of the population that is dumb enough to be in any way "alone with" Rush Limbaugh is also of dubious character.

Again, I don't think that choice has figured into the matter. Surely the only way anyone would be within a meter's length of Limbaugh would involve coercion. I know that sounds snarky and cruel but it's my honest best assumption.

 

[Lion IRC]

A lot of bad karma in this thread.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Bad kharma? Rush has spent years sneering at scientists telling us smoking causes cancer, emphysema, heart disease, and smoking himself. That has come back to bite him on his butt. Just like he destroyed his hearing with Oxycontin. Kharma is a bitch, right?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/na...0200203-4ma66mowazektovzh7hg2aynhq-story.html

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Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars

“Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does,” he (Limbaugh) said. “Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it’s true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots.”



Limbaugh went on to ask why the government didn’t ban tobacco if it was so dangerous before claiming the society had vilified smokers, even though “their purchases are funding children’s health care programs.”



“I would like a medal for smoking cigars, is what I’m saying,” Limbaugh added.

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“I’ve never seen cause of death: Tobacco products. Not everybody who smokes gets cancer. The most shocking event in the world is when somebody gets lung cancer and they never smoked, and everybody says, ‘How the hell did that happen?’ Because everybody’s been so persuaded to believe that it’s automatic.”
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Ignorance can be deadly.

He deserves it.

He also deserves treatment and a chance to amend his ways.

He could be an advocate of something.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

A lot of bad karma in this thread.

We did not cause his cancer. It is extremely likely his own actions did, all the while mocking the science on it, arguing for other people to ignore the science on smoking and lung cancer.

 

[Toni]

A lot of bad karma in this thread.

It's interesting that you would bring up karma. It's a pretty un-Christian idea.

 

[southernhybrid]

If he has "advanced lung cancer", I take that to mean that it's already metastasized. That means he very likely has a very short life expectancy. He is an evil person and I don't use that word evil very often. My personal feelings about the man have absolutely no power over the course of his disease. The irony here is that he denied the science that pointed out the potential harm of smoking, but he seems to be opting for aggressive treatment of his cancer. In other words, he apparently has some "faith" that medical science might be able to extend his life, but he refused to believe what medical science told him about his habit.

But, I simply don't pretend that I care about someone who I see as very nasty, immoral and harmful. And, since we're all going to die eventually, Rush took a chance that one of his harmful habits wouldn't harm him. He was wrong, and now he must face the consequences. I'm sure those closest to him will give him the emotional support that he might need.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

As an advocate for vaping corporations and saying tobacco and vaping do not cause lung cancer, he was most probably a FACTOR in people starting up, ignoring risk, and continuing to use these products...

i.e., he was a cause of other people getting lung cancer.

What he ought to do now is apologize and make amends by becoming a voice against the shit that is killing him and others.

 

[Politesse]

As an advocate for vaping corporations and saying tobacco and vaping do not cause lung cancer, he was most probably a FACTOR in people starting up, ignoring risk, and continuing to use these products...

i.e., he was a cause of other people getting lung cancer.

What he ought to do now is apologize and make amends by becoming a voice against the shit that is killing him and others.

I'd be surprised. He's hardly become a crusader for humane treatment of opioid addicts since he was busted for that.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

As an advocate for vaping corporations and saying tobacco and vaping do not cause lung cancer, he was most probably a FACTOR in people starting up, ignoring risk, and continuing to use these products...

i.e., he was a cause of other people getting lung cancer.

What he ought to do now is apologize and make amends by becoming a voice against the shit that is killing him and others.

I'd be surprised. He's hardly become a crusader for humane treatment of opioid addicts since he was busted for that.

That's because he believes all the other addicts chose to be addicted.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I haven't listened to Rushbo since at least 2000. I started listening to him the week that Roseanne Barr sang the National Anthem, and he was entertaining when he had juicy material like that to work on. (I never, ever shared any of his views -- even on the arts -- so typical that his idea of great Christmas music was Mannheim Steamroller. Mannheim Steamroller!!) Nowadays, if I hear his voice, it's because I'm in a contractor's office and it's on the radio, or it's warm weather and his voice is coming out of some truck driver's window.
The previous posts took all my ammo -- how Rush consistently derogates science, says that second hand smoke is harmless, advises breathlessly ardent male listeners on the cigars they need to buy, to be like him.
His diagnosis is ghastly. If he goes the way I've seen family members go from this disease, the final few months will be miserable. So, no, I don't, wouldn't wish it on anyone. And with someone with a chisel-point of a mind like Rush, it won't transform his thinking or lead him to reject any of his snarling belligerence. If I were Michael J. Fox or Sandra Fluke, I wouldn't expect any hand across the aisle.

 

[Worldtraveller]

Hey. I like Mannheim Steamroller!!

Also, fuck Rush and fuck cancer. In this case, I'm cheering for it to be over quickly.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Well, it's all relative, innit? To me, M.S. is to music what Pringles are to potatoes. Beyond that, just the concept of playing music with a steamroller....

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

A lot of bad karma in this thread.

It's interesting that you would bring up karma. It's a pretty un-Christian idea.

Christians being un-christian is the norm.

Limbaugh is a drug addict, something about his brain makes him that way. And he makes a lot of money from people just like him.

 

[laughing dog]

Anything that shuts up Rush Limbaugh for goid cannot be all bad.

 

[Lion IRC]

A lot of bad karma in this thread.

It's interesting that you would bring up karma. It's a pretty un-Christian idea.

Not entirely.
Anyway, I'm amazed there are so many folks brave enough to publicly wish that another human being should suffer an early and painful death.

 

[Brian63]

Anyway, I'm amazed there are so many folks brave enough to publicly wish that another human being should suffer an early and painful death.

Why? It is part of a sense of desiring justice and vengeance and retribution to him personally for all the harm he has contributed to others. If you think such feelings and attitudes are immoral, that is one stance. If your stance is that you are amazed that such a mental phenomenon exists, I am amazed that you are amazed.

 

[Lion IRC]

Yeah...maybe 'amazed' is the wrong word.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

A lot of bad karma in this thread.

It's interesting that you would bring up karma. It's a pretty un-Christian idea.

Not entirely.
Anyway, I'm amazed there are so many folks brave enough to publicly wish that another human being should suffer an early and painful death.

This isn't "wishing", this is being at peace with the changes in life. In Buddhism, the fear of life not being permanent is a cause of suffering. So we are simply embracing the impermanence of Limbaugh's health.

I have not wished any harm to come to Rush via the actions of anyone else, despite all of the harm he has caused.