# Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443 "2020-02-03T21:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/1 "2020-02-03T21:20:15Z")
[And he says it is advanced](https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-advanced-lung-cancer). My cousin-in-law the pulmonologist says the prognosis for this is not good. He’s had a good run - 31 years, and certainly has been an influential figure in American politics. Regards, Shodan PS - I am hoping this can be treated as a breaking news story. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/2 "2020-02-03T21:23:35Z")
Thoughts and prayers. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/3 "2020-02-03T21:24:16Z")
He must have spent too much time near windmills. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/4 "2020-02-03T21:25:25Z")
Good. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/5 "2020-02-03T21:32:56Z")
Thoughts and prayers. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/6 "2020-02-03T21:33:19Z")
Are we sure this announcement isn’t a false flag operation to distract us from THE TRUTH?! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/7 "2020-02-03T21:33:35Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Good. Whether you like him or not, there is nothing ‘good’ about cancer. I’m not a fan of Nadler but I wouldn’t say good about his wife’s cancer. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/8 "2020-02-03T21:34:25Z")
Was he a long term smoker? Or is this a case of second hand smoke or environmental carcinogens? ---
**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, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/9 "2020-02-03T21:35:39Z")
He was a long term cigar smoker. I wish him all the sympathy he showed others suffering the consequences of their addictions. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/10 "2020-02-03T21:37:30Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Good. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/11 "2020-02-03T21:37:32Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Was he a long term smoker? Or is this a case of second hand smoke or environmental carcinogens? He was a [cigar aficionado](https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/rushs-judgment-6019). ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/12 "2020-02-03T21:41:06Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Whether you like him or not, there is nothing ‘good’ about cancer. I’m not a fan of Nadler but I wouldn’t say good about his wife’s cancer. Is Jerry Nadler’s wife an irredeemable piece of shit that has poisoned the world for 30 years? Because I don’t see the relevance. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/13 "2020-02-03T21:43:56Z")
I’m no fan of Limbaugh, but I don’t wish cancer on anybody. So… thoughts and prayers. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/14 "2020-02-03T21:48:16Z")
Sad. Both that he has cancer (He was a smoker; I remember him talking about his “formerly nicotine-stained fingers”) and that some people have so little love in them that they are gleeful about it. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/15 "2020-02-03T21:50:04Z")
I see him as a perpetrator of divisiveness in this country, but still I don’t think its right to wish cancer on someone. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/16 "2020-02-03T21:52:32Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Thoughts and prayers. Problem is, I’m an atheist, so I just have the thoughts, and this isn’t the Pit, so I can’t have those either. * * * Snark aside, I don’t wish a slow painful death on anyone. I simultaneously think he’s done tremendous harm to our country and helped set human rights back by decades, and hope that he can dedicate the rest of a long life to undoing the harm he’s caused. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/17 "2020-02-03T21:53:27Z")
Moderating: I’m not going to say that posts in this thread have to be positive or sympathetic but if you feel the need to rant about him that would be better suited for the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/18 "2020-02-03T21:56:22Z")
I do not think it is proper to wish death or especially cancer on anyone, but I see it as a blessing to get his filthy mouth off of the radio. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/19 "2020-02-03T21:59:53Z")
I would also like to say “Regards”. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/20 "2020-02-03T21:59:55Z")
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