# Rush Limbaugh announces he has advanced lung cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447 "2020-02-03T22:14:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/1 "2020-02-03T22:14:30Z")
I think that this probably belongs in this forum. > **[Rush Limbaugh announces he has lung cancer](https://www.al.com/news/2020/02/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer.html)** > > Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh announced on his show Monday that he has advanced lung cancer. > [@](#): > > Limbaugh said he was diagnosed Jan. 20, a little more than a week after his Jan. 12 birthday. I guess this sounds awful but I honestly cannot find it in myself to feel bad for him. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/2 "2020-02-03T22:39:25Z")
I can’t post anything honest in direct response that I could live with. Nobody deserves advanced cancer, and I’ll just not post the “but” postscript to that thought. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/3 "2020-02-03T22:44:00Z")
Fuck cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/4 "2020-02-03T22:54:39Z")
Duplicate thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=889501](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=889501) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/5 "2020-02-03T23:42:21Z")
There is also a thread in the pit. > **[Fuck Rush Limbaugh](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=548029)** > > All you conservatives on this board, Shodan, Starving Artist, you know who you are, come in here and defend this pompous sack of shit. Come on I dare you. Go ahead and stand up for this fat bastard. ... ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/6 "2020-02-03T23:50:54Z")
I don’t wish cancer on him or anyone else. Because fuck cancer. But I’m also not shedding any tears. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/7 "2020-02-04T00:33:30Z")
That’s terrible news, because Limbaugh was always so compassionate, understanding and empathetic about the plight of others. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/8 "2020-02-04T01:12:52Z")
Let’s wait a couple of days on this. Last time this happened it was just some addiction to pills and then he never went deaf. ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/9 "2020-02-04T01:22:18Z")
Fuck him. I hope it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/10 "2020-02-04T02:23:19Z")
I am sorry to hear he is ill. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/11 "2020-02-04T02:26:44Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Let’s wait a couple of days on this. Last time this happened it was just some addiction to pills and then he never went deaf. He did go pretty much deaf, then got a coclular \ implant. That operation destroyed part of the ear and replaced it with this device - any hearing naturally would be impossible after that. He said that if he turns it off it is dead silent. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/12 "2020-02-04T02:27:32Z")
Thought and Prayer. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/13 "2020-02-04T02:31:18Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > He did go pretty much deaf, then got a coclular \ implant. That operation destroyed part of the ear and replaced it with this device - any hearing naturally would be impossible after that. He said that if he turns it off it is dead silent. Interesting. He has looked pretty chipper on his tv appearances I have seen lately. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/14 "2020-02-04T02:37:37Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Let’s wait a couple of days on this. Last time this happened it was just some addiction to pills and then he never went deaf. I still remember when he had a scare about having a heart attack. Amused when some reports sounded like : Doctors check on Limbaugh’s heart… find nothing. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/15 "2020-02-04T02:38:17Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Interesting. He has looked pretty chipper on his tv appearances I have seen lately. The device does allow him to hear. IIRC he once bragged about being able to hear better then what is normal with the device. This was quite a while back, I’m guessing 15 years ago, so plenty of time to get over the loss and get on with life, and with that device it doesn’t appear like he lost much. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/16 "2020-02-04T03:57:12Z")
I don’t wish him a long and painful ordeal, having lost someone close to cancer myself. But at the same time, I can’t really muster much sympathy. This guy is in no small part responsible for our political discourse being in the state that it’s in. He made his living being an asshole and tearing at the fabric of the country he claimed to have loved. His legacy is having helped craft an atmosphere in which a charlatan like Donald Trump could hijack the political system, and in which his lackeys could make a mockery of our democracy. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/17 "2020-02-04T04:23:46Z")
I don’t wish cancer on anyone, especially when it’s the sort that my sister has been fighting for more than two years now. Likewise, I don’t believe in the Christian notion of an afterlife, but in this particular case I can’t help wishing that once Limbaugh does shuffle off this mortal coil, that there was some higher power he had to explain himself to. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/18 "2020-02-04T14:53:03Z")
I’d love to see a deathbed confession from him. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/19 "2020-02-04T15:21:53Z")
At least there’s one thing about him that’s advanced. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447/20 "2020-02-04T15:31:59Z")
Cancer is a bastard. That said, one might hope that Limbaugh’s new perspective on his own mortality might spark some repentance for the pain he’s caused and the damage he’s done to the country over the years, but I’m not holding my breath. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-announces-he-has-advanced-lung-cancer/847447.md?page=2)