Here’s another version of the song.
You’ve really given an excellent example of a false equivalence.
Franken (like Bill Maher) was a comedian. His weapon of choice was humor. When disparaging the other side, he made you laugh. Their actions and ideas were fodder for levity.
Limbaugh was a toxic pandemic of one. His stock in trade was mean-spirited scathing invective. He spent years, and made hundreds of millions, fomenting hate and dehumanizing half the country.
Yeah. Not really the same thing.
Y’know … At All.
Like fucking hell they wouldn’t be.
7 times Rush Limbaugh made jokes about other people dying.
Limbaugh says we shouldn’t feel sorry for Biden because his wife and children died.
I’m sure that if Franken or Sanders had died before Rush did, he would be joking about it.
Come on, let’s call a racist a racist. Maher is a racist and the closest thing the left has to Limbaugh.
But anyway, Rush is dead, so that’s good.
I already told you, you only show to all that you are being disingenuous. In the OP I even cited Rush’s gross ignorance by choice that he used to lead others into irresponsible and deadly behavior regarding the pandemic and even continue to seed stupid reasons for sedition after the deadly January 6 insurrection.
You are also ignoring that there are a very significant number of moderate Republicans that do wish to see more of the poisoners in the media and politics to go away. Either by retirement or what God decides.
BTW, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors our choice.
I reject this conjecture but I will admit that there will be at least one less conservative publicly celebrating the deaths of liberals.
You’re wrong. Many conservatives would be quite vocally happy about it. On top of that, neither Bernie Sanders nor Al Franken is a hateful pig who spews bigotry and hatred.
Sure he can:
He’s…”cognitively there.” He tested “positively toward negative.” He is clearly a “very stable genius”.
Stranger
Why do all conservatives hate gays and abuse women?
The country at large just got a little bit nicer with the subtraction of perhaps the most toxic blowhard in it. I’m not gonna be ashamed for feeling good about this news.
Okay, so that’s a large order of ‘both sides’. Would you like a ‘what about’ to go with that?
It’s not even “both sides”. It’s accusing all liberals of doing something that allegedly no conservative would do. That’s an “only YOUR side” accusation (and is, unsurprisingly, completely false).
Not all liberals. This one, yes, but not all liberals. Fuck Rush Limbaugh and the havoc he wrought.
Also, if Sanders and Franken died, there would be much rejoicing in conservative circles all around the country.
You need only look at many of the conservative reactions to the death of prominent atheist and former socialist Christopher Hitchens, who arguably wasn’t even a liberal by the time of his death but rather a somewhat grudgingly neoconservative war hawk. Somebody wrote a whole Master’s thesis on this phenomenon.
Yeah, tell me again how no conservative is happy about the death or suffering of somebody whose ideology they strongly disagree with.
I think this is a perfect summation.
What the hell ever happened to just being nice, or not being a dickhead? I think that’s the ultimate legacy of Limbaugh, and it explains why people are lining up to tap dance and piss on his grave. What you give, is what you get. He gave assholery, and now he’s getting it in return, albeit posthumously.
I think Limbaugh was authentic: what you see was genuinely who he was. I don’t think there was anything fake about his schtick. Everything I’ve read about his life suggests he was, like his buddy Trump, trying to impress a father figure he regarded as very archetypally nativist, nationalist, masculine, and patriarchal, which put him at odds with many of his media contemporaries in larger urban markets during the 1970s and 80s, a time when the nation was going through major social and political upheaval. Not one to back down, he took every firing and every perceived slight personally, and used that to fuel his contempt for coastal progressive “elites” in media, academia, and government.
His spat with ESPN during his short-lived tenure as an analyst illustrated this point. After his controversial Donovan McNabb comments, which were clearly intended to cause just enough controversy (presumably why he was invited to join the network in the first place) to make his presence ‘interesting’, he got fired. Rather than being humbled by the experience, however, Limbaugh seemed to dig in deeper to race baiting, particularly during the Obama years. He started drifting ever further into crazy uncle territory.
I don’t think he could have ended up any other way, though. He never at any time seemed to feel the need to change; he was always self-righteous as hell. And I think that’s the quality I find the most difficult to deal with: people can be a lot of things, but when they’re always convinced that they’re always right and never wrong, there’s no fucking talking to people like that, and this personality type is unfortunately capable of great destruction. They leave their critics no choice but to tear their asses down with brutal force. And when critics fail at achieving that goal in life, then I guess they take delight in shredding their legacy in death, which is what we’re seeing now, I guess.
There were no gloating threads in the Pit when John McCain or George H.W. Bush died. In the threads on their deaths, while people may have criticized them, many offered praise, even if grudgingly.
The reason that people are gloating over Limbaugh’s death is not because he was conservative, but because he was a hateful human being.
Surely you know McCain and GHWB were RINOs, if not crypto-Communists.
And any liberals wanting to mock McCain would have had to get in line behind all the asshole Trumpian conservatives taking their shots at him, anyway:
Evidently the Trump administration in 2018 took Biden’s statement that their decency had “hit rock bottom” as a challenge.
What a hateful little man he was.