# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/121 "2021-02-17T18:22:16Z")
His “fans” will struggle to remember his name, after ten years. Lets us all be dignified, & forget he ever existed, _today._ 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/122 "2021-02-17T18:24:30Z")
His suffering has ended at last: > **[I Don't Even Want To Be Alive Anymore](https://www.theonion.com/i-dont-even-want-to-be-alive-anymore-1819584611)** > > I know there are a lot of people out there who are upset about some of the things I've been saying on my radio program lately. My comments about the situation in Haiti have hurt and angered many Americans who genuinely care about the plight of the... ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/123 "2021-02-17T18:24:43Z")
… and also did real damage to individuals. I have a boyhood best friend that was lost to the right wing hate machine in large part by getting sucked into Rush’s radio show during his formative post teen years when we are all crafting our soon-to-be adult identities. Last I heard he has gone full MAGA Proud Boy. ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/124 "2021-02-17T18:27:40Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > His “fans” will struggle to remember his name, after ten years. His “fans” will struggle to remember their names after ten years. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/125 "2021-02-17T18:28:16Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I think more than any single person, Rush Limbaugh is responsible for the incredible partisanship and near-death of American government doing big things to make the country better in a bipartisan way in the last few decades. Whether he’s responsible for this “more than any single person” is perhaps arguable (Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are contenders), but he was indisputably an influential factor. What he did was essentially help to transform the US political system from a two-party system of competing ideologies to a one-party system plus a gang of unprincipled lunatics. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/126 "2021-02-17T18:32:22Z")
_De mortuis nil nisi bonum_ _Rush Limbaugh mortuus est_ _Bonum_ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/127 "2021-02-17T18:38:01Z")
**Modnote** : Do not post in non-English without translations. I sure many of us recognize the Latin but post in English. Also it isn’t a very clever dig at almost everyone in this thread. You’re being a jerk. Do not repeat. \*This is just a guidance, not a warning. \* ---
**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:** [February 17, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/128 "2021-02-17T18:39:26Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We aren’t sure…has a stake been driven through his heart? "Keep Hammering…! It’s Got to be in here somewhere… " ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/129 "2021-02-17T18:43:31Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > _De mortuis nil nisi bonum_ > > _Rush Limbaugh mortuus est_ > > _Bonum_ Even with no google help I can see it is a version of: You should only say good things about the departed. Rush is dead. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/130 "2021-02-17T18:45:55Z")
If only Christopher Hitchens had lived to see this moment. He would have the words for it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/131 "2021-02-17T18:49:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > **Modnote** : Do not post in non-English without translations. I sure many of us recognize the Latin but post in English. Also it isn’t a very clever dig at almost everyone in this thread. You’re being a jerk. Do not repeat. > > \*This is just a guidance, not a warning. \* My apologies. Here is the translation, which should make it apparent that the dig was not directed at anyone but Rush. _Of the dead, [say] nothing but good._ _Rush Limbaugh is dead._ _Good._ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/132 "2021-02-17T18:52:04Z")
Fair enough, I misinterpreted your meaning. Part of the problem with using Latin instead of English. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/133 "2021-02-17T18:53:50Z")
‘Ts cool. Also, I suppose I should have credited Dorothy Parker for the inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/134 "2021-02-17T18:56:13Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > "Keep Hammering…! It’s Got to be in here somewhere… " Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/135 "2021-02-17T19:00:31Z")
My best friend was pulled into the right-wing by Limbaugh and his buddy/protege, Jim Quinn. It has often been a struggle to maintain our friendship these past 20 years, when we had previously been as close as brothers. Several times we have stopped talking entirely, once for over two years, despairing that we can ever see eye-to-eye. We have had to acknowledge that we literally live in different worlds with different facts, and because of this, no amount of arguing or discussing can ever come to a useful resolution. Every day since he became a conservative talking head, Rush made the world a worse place. If I’m not celebrating his death, it’s only because I mourn that he was ever born. He had a public platform, and if he got it by spewing lies and fomenting hatred, then he could have at least, at some point, chosen to do good in the world, but he did not. He kept airing his show even under the shadow of his terminal diagnosis, shunning the opportunity to see the world, be with his family, and enjoying the hundreds of millions of dollars he accumulated. Bad things happen to good people all the time. I’ll not spare a moment’s sadness when it happens to someone this horrible. Hell, it made my day. His death won’t make the world a better place, but at least his direct role in making it worse is over. His family can console themselves with the huge dumpsters of money he made by dragging the country into the toilet. They’ll be fine. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/136 "2021-02-17T19:00:37Z")
I never agreed with Limbaugh’s views. There were times that he seemed to take right wing positions to satisfy his listeners expectations. He was part performer and part right wing pundit. He dealt with severe health problems for a long time. His degenerative hearing loss was a big problem. He lived with a lot of pain that got him hooked on pain killer medication. The lung cancer finished him off. I feel sorry for him. That’s a tough way for anyone to die. RIP Rush. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/137 "2021-02-17T19:03:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I always wanted to think that his schtick was all an act and that he really knew better. I guess we’ll never know if he was indeed as hateful as the message that he spread. Even monsters have families and I’m sorry for their loss, but the level of political discourse just went up by the subtraction of his bile. But isn’t knowingly having an act or a shtick spreading hateful propaganda and lies worse than being a true believer about it? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/138 "2021-02-17T19:03:42Z")
“Often progress is made only funeral by funeral.”-Max Planck ---
**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 17, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/139 "2021-02-17T19:10:11Z")
> [@solost](#): > > But isn’t knowingly having an act or a shtick spreading hateful propaganda and lies worse than being a true believer about it? Good question. It’s horrible to spew hatred whether or know you know you’re full of shit. I guess I respect intelligence more than ignorance, so I have a bit more respect for a guy who knows he’s spreading manure than one who’s so stupid that he doesn’t know he’s talking out of his ass. But either way, he was a despicable person and other than the personal pain that his loved ones are feeling, I’m quite pleased that he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-you-are-dead-to-us/933143/140 "2021-02-17T19:25:20Z")
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