# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/81 "2020-02-04T11:04:25Z")
As huge a mean streak as I have at times, being gleeful at a case of lung cancer goes beyond the pale for me, no matter how despicable the victim. So solemnity for me, and a quick demise for him. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/82 "2020-02-04T11:22:29Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Perhaps the reason no liberal has matched his impact is because none of them was willing to lower their standards that far. The man spewed hatred and misinformation. He found an audience in angry people who wanted to blame the same people Limbaugh excoriated. The fact there’s a market for that sort of thing doesn’t reflect Limbaugh’s ability as so much as the sorry state of the world. I think it’s more the “market for that sort of thing” than “no one was willing to lower their standards”. There have been liberal attempts to replicate talk radio that failed, which isn’t to say there is absolutely no market for extremist radio from the left, just not enough to support a huge nationwide program. The best example I can think of when you combine popularity with leftism is Democracy Now, and that _at worst_ equals Fox News’s “report and distort” paradigm rather than the infotainment bluster and bullshit Rush model. While I don’t think DN is _quite_ as bad as Fox News, they’re close enough that I won’t quibble, and yet it’s leagues behind both the depths and breadth of its even worse equivalents on the right. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/83 "2020-02-04T13:48:55Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I thought you didn’t inhale as much or as deep with cigars, it was more of an oral cancer danger? There’s also secondhand smoke inhalation, which smokers are not immune to. Big cigars can take an hour or two to smoke and you can’t hold your breath all that time. According to the National Cancer Institute, cigar smoke is even more carcinogenic/toxic than cigarette smoke, which partially outweighs less frequent inhalation. I suspect there might be satisfaction among Limbaugh/Limbaughites at the glee with which some liberals are greeting the news of his impending demise, which can be exploited to “prove” how Evil the Left is. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/84 "2020-02-04T13:58:17Z")
He never voted for Reagan for president. Because he never voted until 1988 when his show went national. Radio is declining but he still makes big money. He makes over $80 mil per year. Only guy who makes more on radio is Howard Stern. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/85 "2020-02-04T14:26:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > There’s also secondhand smoke inhalation, which smokers are not immune to. Second hand smoke? Liberal nonsense! > [@](#): > > RUSH: James Delingpole writing in I don’t know what. I did not print out. But I’ve heard the name Delingpole, and I know he’s got credibility. The bottom line is that passive smoking, i.e., for those of you in Rio Linda, secondhand smoke, does not give you lung cancer. > > Now, this is something that I, El Rushbo, have known instinctively my whole life. Ever since the anti-smoking zealots got geared up, they have tried to pass off this silly idea that secondhand smoke can cause cancer as well, and it’s always been laughable. The tiniest bit of common sense will tell you it couldn’t. But there were enough people scared about it, that believed it, but there’s a new report publicized by — are you ready? — the American Cancer Institute. (gasping) Which will come as no surprise to anyone with a shred of integrity, decency, or intelligence, who’s looked into the origins of the environmental tobacco smoke crisis. Rush Limbaugh, December 9th 2013. > **[Second-Hand Smoke Proven Harmless — Again](https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/12/19/second_hand_smoke_proven_harmless_again/)** > > RUSH: James Delingpole writing in I don’t know what. I did not print out. But I’ve heard the name Delingpole, and I know he’s got credibility. The bottom line is that passive smoking, i.e., for those of you in Rio Linda, secondhand smoke, does not... ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/86 "2020-02-04T14:45:32Z")
This “feminazi” has no sympathy for anyone who does something that they know could kill them. And Rush, ain’t karma a bitch? ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/87 "2020-02-04T14:57:55Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I suspect there might be satisfaction among Limbaugh/Limbaughites at the glee with which some liberals are greeting the news of his impending demise, which can be exploited to “prove” how Evil the Left is. Let them. The Republican party is a shit party full of shit people who do shit things for the sole purpose of putting as much money in their shit pockets as possible (or caging children, they seem to like that too). As if they wouldn’t do ten times worse if one of the talking heads on CNN had a life threatening illness. If Jon Stewart got cancer, they’d probably propose a national day of celebration. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/88 "2020-02-04T15:37:34Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Winstons taste good like a cigarette should. Winstons taste good _ **AS** _ a cigarette should. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/89 "2020-02-04T16:07:18Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > My cousin-in-law the pulmonologist says the prognosis for this is not good. Couldn’t a big enough prayer chain or prayer circle fix him right up?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/90 "2020-02-04T16:08:45Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > The Republican party is a shit party full of shit people who do shit things for the sole purpose of putting as much money in their shit pockets as possible (or caging children, they seem to like that too). Well said. The honestly surprising thing about them is that chronologically they are adults. And claim to be patriots despite going against basically everything this country is supposed to stand for - first and foremost among them is the democratic process. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/91 "2020-02-04T16:10:17Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > My cousin-in-law the pulmonologist says the prognosis for this is not good. Aw…you mean he’s gonna be cured? > [@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. There is no judgment-filled afterlife. He gets his here. He is a divisive predator who fattened up his wallet by taking advantage of the ignorant through abuse of the gift of speech. Cancer’s too good for him and I hope every minute he lives is more agonizing than the last. And unless you have some kind of scoop, I’m not certain Nadler’s wife has one damned thing to do with Rush dedicating his life to farming up hate and having some of it come back on him. ---
**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 4, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/92 "2020-02-04T16:53:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Winstons taste good _ **AS** _ a cigarette should. 😃 What do you want - good grammar or good taste? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/93 "2020-02-04T17:01:59Z")
Not a lot of good taste in this thread. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/94 "2020-02-04T17:06:35Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Not a lot of good taste in this thread. > > Regards, > Shodan Given the very nature of the subject, are you surprised? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/95 "2020-02-04T17:09:29Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Not a lot of good taste in this thread. > > Regards, > Shodan Meh. I can muster up more sympathy for Alex Trebek than I can for Rush Limbaugh. I feel he will be more deeply missed when he passes. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/96 "2020-02-04T17:15:25Z")
I can’t stand Limbaugh, either, but we should hope people find wisdom before death finds them. If life’s journey is about learning and growing, then his journey was far too short. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/97 "2020-02-04T17:22:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Not a lot of good taste in this thread. > > Regards, > Shodan What did you expect? He’s naught but fat and gristle. ---
**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 4, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/98 "2020-02-04T17:23:41Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Not a lot of good taste in this thread. > > Regards, > Shodan What’s the tasteful way to respond to someone who’s clearly FAKING an illness for publicity? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/99 "2020-02-04T17:25:19Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Not a lot of good taste in this thread. You reap what you sow. Rush hasn’t exactly sown the seeds of empathy and good will towards his fellow man. Rush made his choice, he is now beset by the results of those choices, both in the disease he has and the feelings people have about him. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443/100 "2020-02-04T17:30:44Z")
But Rush was the poster child for good taste? Yeah, right. You reap what you sow. Enjoy the opiods, Limbaugh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-has-lung-cancer/847443.md?page=6)