# Rush Limbaugh, you are dead to us **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143 "2021-02-17T17:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/302 "2022-02-18T23:26:03Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > He’ll outlive us all, monster that he is. His dad made it to 93. He did, however, spend the last 8 years or so with documented dementia. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/303 "2022-02-19T00:04:02Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > He did, however, spend the last 8 years or so with documented dementia. So, Trump is just starting a bit early. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/304 "2022-02-19T00:17:31Z")
What worries me is his death will be the catalyst that gets his supporters to start shooting en masse. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/305 "2022-02-19T01:12:34Z")
They’ll find some of us shoot back. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/306 "2022-02-19T01:28:20Z")
True. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/307 "2022-02-19T22:32:40Z")
Myself, I have no problem with digging up Limbaugh’s rotting corpse and using it for a pinata one year on. ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/308 "2022-02-19T23:23:42Z")
Well; his legacy, as a minimizer of the damage Covid can do, remained. As usual, other right wing radio celebrities followed his lead, what a legacy he left them. 💀 > **[In the last three months, five conservative talk show hosts have died from...](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/21/metro/dying-an-audience/)** > > No fewer than five conservative talk show hosts, whose schtick included actively discouraging listeners from getting vaccinated, have died from the virus. And then many of his and their followers suffered the same fate. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/309 "2022-02-20T15:02:39Z")
I wish he could be resurrected only to die the next day from the malignancy that originally got him. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/310 "2022-02-23T14:01:13Z")
I don’t feel at all diminished by this trend. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/311 "2022-02-28T02:35:29Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > I wish he could be resurrected only to die the next day from the malignancy that originally got him. It could be like _Groundhog Day_. He dies again every day for years and years. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/312 "2022-02-28T22:52:47Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It could be like _Groundhog Day_ . I’m thinking more like Prometheus. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/La_tortura_de_Prometeo%2C_por_Salvator_Rosa.jpg/800px-La_tortura_de_Prometeo%2C_por_Salvator_Rosa.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/La_tortura_de_Prometeo%2C_por_Salvator_Rosa.jpg/800px-La_tortura_de_Prometeo%2C_por_Salvator_Rosa.jpg) Though I don’t think it would be his **liver** being eaten by the eagle. (On the other hand, the eagle might quit its job after getting a taste.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/313 "2022-03-01T03:09:36Z")
If I sign on and the WWW has basically crashed, I’ll have a pretty good idea what happened (and I am typing this several days into the Ukraine invasion). ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/314 "2022-03-03T03:37:21Z")
Years from now when advertising penetrates our lives even further than we can now imagine, and your neighbor’s dog can be programmed to bark “Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse!” at the moon, old timers will recall that a man was once paid a a fortune to do that, and was allowed to say terrible things in between. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/315 "2022-03-03T03:48:41Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > old timers will recall that a man was once paid a a fortune to do that, and was allowed to say terrible things in between. Do you mean that smelly sweaty Alex Jones? ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/316 "2023-04-20T16:04:31Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Congratulations on a full year of sobriety, Rush! Two years and counting! Keep it up! 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/317 "2023-04-20T16:24:23Z")
The fact today is also the anniversary of Adolph Hitler’s birth is somehow appropriate. Certain forms of evil should cluster on the calendar leaving more other days pristine for the good people. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/318 "2023-04-20T22:22:56Z")
When Buddy Rich died, somebody kept calling his widow asking to speak to him, because he liked when she said, “Buddy’s dead”. May I speak to Rush, please? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/319 "2023-04-20T22:45:01Z")
nm - discourse ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/320 "2023-04-20T23:10:56Z")
Mr. Limburger has GOT to be one of the most (in)famous people to be so thoroughly and quickly forgotten after his demise. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/321 "2023-04-20T23:23:12Z")
That happens to several extreme right wingers on the radio. > **[Charles Coughlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin)** > > Charles Edward Coughlin (/ˈkɒɡlɪn/ KOG-lin; October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "The Radio Priest" and considered a leading demagogue, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 mil [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143.md?page=17)