Am I the only one out of the two threads (and there may be more) who takes this with a lick of salt? Like the guy’s ever told more than 75% of the truth? Perhaps this belongs in GD, but does anyone else think that it’s an excuse to retire because he doesn’t have WJC anymore?
Maybe it’s just me, but something seems fishy.
stofsky, your cruel post shows that you are a hater through and through.
Is it possible that your real problem with Rush is that he has worked with a Black side-kick and sometimes has a Black economist substitute for him?
I listened to Rush Limbaugh this morning and I was surprised at how much I actually agreed with him. He was talking about Israel and saying that we should support Israel and questioning Bush’s statement regarding Israel and the vision for a Palestinian.
I never thought that I would agree with Rush.
He referred to “my rabbi” is Rush jewish?
Erek
Huh?? Where did this bile come from?
it seems to me that it is a bit ironic that someone who seems to like the sound of his own voice so much loses his hearing!
i had the misfortune to have to listen to his show one time in the car (classic with AM only!) on a long trip. what a moron! what inane stupidity! i was appalled by the lunacy of what i was hearing.
now, whenever i see a car with a “rush is right” bumpersticker, i stay WAY, CLEAR away from this vehicle, as i assume the driver is a complete and total idiot!
i just wish he lost his voice…
I don’t see how this unfortunate event is going to significantly alter his life or his career.
It’s not as if the guy ever listened to anyone but himself, anyway.
Yeah, I can see old Rush faking deafness for the rest of his life just because Clinton’s out. After all, there’s absolutely nothing else of interest going on in the news now, is there?
I’m sure Rush has friends and families and people that loves him, and on a personal level, this is a tragedy. No, he’s not making this up, and to imagine that he would is really bizarre. And incredibly heartless and cynical.
I feel really bad for him. Just like I’d feel bad if this happened to Howard Stern (or Clinton, who I REALLY don’t like.) It’s just human nature to feel bad about something like this happening to another human being. Or at least I thought it was “human nature”. I guess I don’t speak for everyone. I guess some people only can feel bad if someone whose politics they agree with is stricken with something devastating. But if it’s someone whose politics they don’t like - hey - just keep skewering him some more. Who cares, after all? It’s not like he’s a human being, with a personal life, or anything.
Boy. Did some of you do a jig when you found out Reagan had Alzheimers?
No, because with Reagan it was pretty obvious it was true.
Seriously, Limbaugh is a media whore just like Jesse Jackson and Howard Stern. I’m not going to feel happy about any of them having medical problems, but I am going to wait for corroborating reports before I believe it’s not just a publicity stunt.
Whenever I find myself getting into a lather after listening to Rush, I calm myself by remembering that he is not a spokesman for the American hoi-polloi, but merely an entertainer, hired to attract listeners so the radio can sell comercial time at a premium. Who does Rush speak for? Just listen to the commercials and you’ll get an idea of the demographics. We’re talking people who use a lot of Gold Bond powder, would honestly consider investing in heating-oil futures and have any number of health-related issues. As for his callers, they represent people who can afford to stay on hold for an hour or two in the middle of the day. We’re talking cranks, shut-ins and mouth breathers here.
Well, I listened to his show for the first time in year this morning and he seemed pretty upbeat about the whole thing, so maybe it’s just a temporary thing. I don’t want the guy to lose his hearing, and I did gain more of a respect for him this morning, because while he did spew his anti-democrat bile part of the day, he did say some really poignant comments.
Though it does make for good jokes about whether or not he ever used em anyway. He didn’t lose his voice so I don’t think there is any reason he can’t remain an announcer unless he loses the ability to control his volume. I feel sorry for the guy, I don’t wish deafness on anyone, but maybe that’s because I’m a musician and I don’t know if i would be able to take it.
Erek
Please, pray tell, why would he make this up? Why would anyone make something like this up? Don’t you think that if this were all a stunt, that someone on his staff, or someone who knows someone would leak it? And when it got leaked (and it WOULD) then he’d really be screwed. He’s lose all his supporters. Exactly why do you think a man in his position would risk everything, make up something like this, if it were not true? It doesn’t make any sense.
I don’t get why you’d imagine that he’d do this. Other than the fact that you don’t like him, and are trying to assign any negative motive you can to anything he does…is that it?
I mean, does he have a history of making up bogus tragic medical stories about himself? I don’t think so. So what is it? What specifically about this is so “fishy”?
No, but he does have a history of making up bogus stories about everyone else, and that’s going to make me suspect anything he says.
Sorry, but it’s just not my policy to unquestioningly accept everything that comes out of the mouth of a confirmed liar. It may mean that I’m unsympathetically skeptical when a real tragedy befalls him, but he’s the one who cried wolf, not me.
You know, when I read Snopes, I find that line’s the one most commonly used to support the latest ULs. It’s meaningless as an indicator of truth.
No, but I personally get the impression that Limbaugh wasn’t all that friendly to the handicapped. I think it’s tragic, but it’s hard for me to feel too sad about poetic justice.
-Ben
Wasn’t his most popular substitute hose Bob “B1” Dornan?
When was the last time a major radio or TV personality made up something like this about their health? When?
Making up a story that can be easily (and inevitably) refuted is the equivalent of career suicide. And you feel that Limbaugh is doing this to further his career? It just doesn’t wash. He’s 50 years old, he’s successful, he’s an old radio pro. He has clawed his way up to national fame - and then you think he’d risk it all for some sophomoric stunt that will most assuredly get out? (You don’t really think he can fake deafness forever, do you?) And after his fraud is exposed, he will lose all his supporters, of course. And you think he’s so stupid he’d do this? You may think he’s a liar, but do you think he wants to willfully destroy his own career too?
It just doesn’t make any sense. I think this is wishful thinking on your part, because you dislike him so intensely. There really isn’t any basis for your suspicion, just your own dislike for the guy.
Hell, I dislike Howard Stern, but I don’t think he’d do something like this. Just because someone represents something I dislike, even if I think they twist the truth on the air - it doesn’t mean they are so stupid as to ruin their whole career over a stupid stunt. I can’t imagine anyone who has made anything of themselves in the media (like Rush Limbaugh undoubtedly has) is this stupid.
Ben wrote:
It’s so nice to feel smug about someone else’s pain, isn’t it? And suppose that they somehow had it coming, or somehow it’s “ironic”, isn’t it? Just gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, doesn’t it? Being able to gloat like that. Because it’s all “poetic justice”. Like “justice” has anything to do with it.
Hell, my big sister was a real bitch to me when I was a kid. She stole my stuff, bullied me constantly, and ruined my artwork. (I was a fledgling artist, always painting and stuff.) So it sure was “poetic justice” when she lost most of her eyesight while still in her 20s. Because she was a bully and a bitch to me at times. Yeah, so why should I feel sorry for her? Why should I feel sad? It’s freaking poetic justice, right?
What a bunch of assholes. When you see someone you care about suddenly lose one of their senses, and NO ONE can seem to stop it, it isn’t funny. There’s nothing freakin’ “poetic” about it. I don’t care if the person it happens to is someone you think is an ass. There’s no “justice” in this, dammit.
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Actually, it is ironic, undeniably so. I would hope that you can think about this issue clearly enough to realize that it’s ironic, even if you find the irony to be deeply tragic.
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No, not really. I think Limbaugh is a hateful liar, and that his situation is tragic. Nonetheless, I find it hard to feel too sorry for him. Maybe it takes the loss of a sense to make him realize that there’s more to life than mocking homosexuals and African Americans.
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I don’t think the analogy is particularly apt, but I think we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Do you think I’m laughing my butt off? Baking a cake? Pouring a champagne toast? I think Limbaugh’s situation is tragic, but I also think he’s a hateful bastard. There’s poetic justice in a hateful bastard turning into one of the people he dumped on. Cruel justice, yes, but I hope it will force him to reconsider how he’s lived his life.
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Yosemitebabe, I think that maybe this issue hits a little too close too home for you, because of your sister. I’d ask you to consider sitting this one out.
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Did I say it was funny?
-Ben
Well, a lenghty series of doctor visits might explain why Rush has rarely worked a full 5-day week for the past several months. Sure, he might be hitting the links and pocketing the extra salary. But in retrospect, it fits.
Besides, if Rush would fake a handicap, would it be one as ironic as losing his ability to hear anything to his left?
Hmm. Rush loses his hearing. Paul Harvey’s vocal cords took an unexpected vacation. Next, we’ll find out Dr. Laura has breast cancer. But I guess she’d need some breasts before that happens. 
Yosemite -
This is tragic? This is a horrible tragedy? How you can compare this to Alzheimer’s is absurd. Is this a degenerative disease? Cancer? Brain Tumor?
Millions live with deafness all their lives. I think they would be insulted to know they are living a tragic life.
And if you don’t get the irony, then you must not know much about Rush.
9-11 was tragic. This is just a rough turn for one man.
How the hell does Jesse Jackson belong in that group?
Whether you like Stern or Limbaugh is besides the point. The fact is, millions of people listen to their shows and they are paid very very handsomly for it. It’s called a free market. They are not whores. They are entertainers. They are whores as much as Spielberg, Hanks, Travolta, or any other person who is in the top one percent of their field.
Jesse Jackson is a self annointed leader who gets his money by corporate shakedowns, then gets his buddies and families rich by getting contracts from the same corporations. Why else won’t he reveal his financial backing? Non Profit Rainbow Coalition my ass. It’s a tax shelter so he can ride around in his limos and stay at 5 star hotels while representing ‘oppression’.
He’s never had a job in the private sector. He didn’t work his way up through the very tough radio market or any other industry like Stern or Limbaugh.
To include him in that group was stupid. Stern and Limbaugh were successful in their own right, Jackson just extorts his money.
Limbaugh mocks homosexuals and african americans to the same degree that NOW represents the ideas and beliefs of women or the NAACP represents the views of blacks.
Chew on that.
And Limbaugh will be the last person to ever ask for sympathy from anyone.