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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Breaking News: Rush Limbaugh Is Dead

Breaking News: Rush Limbaugh Is Dead

by Adam L Silverman|  February 17, 202112:29 pm| 217 Comments

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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70 https://t.co/ZDNNQR9Iul

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 17, 2021

That’s it.

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  1. 1.

    zzyzx

    February 17, 2021 at 12:30 pm

    Let’s take a moment to mourn Rush Limbaugh’s death…

     

     

    …mainly that it didn’t come at the hand of any of the horrible policies that he helped create. So many ways he could have had an ironic death. The 2021 writers are failing us.

  2. 2.

    Poe Larity

    February 17, 2021 at 12:30 pm

    I’d just like to mention that I’ve got nothing to say.

  3. 3.

    PsiFighter37

    February 17, 2021 at 12:30 pm

    Is 12:30pm on a Wednesday too early to drink champagne?

  4. 4.

    VeniceRiley

    February 17, 2021 at 12:31 pm

    So glad we had a change of government so we won’t have him lying in state or anything like that.

  5. 5.

    Fraud Guy

    February 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    Further affiant sayeth naught.

  6. 6.

    hitchhiker

    February 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    Well, that’s one of the obituaries I’ve been looking forward to reading.

  7. 7.

    guachi

    February 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    He’s been a cancer on the body politic so long I’m surprised he was only 70 when he died.

  8. 8.

    The Moar You Know

    February 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    Is 12:30pm on a Wednesday too early to drink champagne?

    @PsiFighter37: 930 am on the Pacific Coast and the answer is no.  It’s not too early.

  9. 9.

    Geo Wilcox

    February 17, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    And there was much rejoicing… sorry but it is true. This creature poisoned the minds of millions of people and I for one am very glad he is dead. If that makes me a bad person, so be it. I will wear that badge with honor.

  10. 10.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    February 17, 2021 at 12:33 pm

    The world is a better place

  11. 11.

    Chat Noir

    February 17, 2021 at 12:33 pm

    @PsiFighter37:  It’s never to early to drink champagne, especially if you add some pomegranate juice to it.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 12:34 pm

    “Any man’s death diminishes me.”

    So does removing a wart.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    February 17, 2021 at 12:34 pm

    I’ll give this to Biden: he’s good.

  14. 14.

    Spanky

    February 17, 2021 at 12:34 pm

    So he’s taking another sick day, then? Slacker.

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    LOL.  On the same day they’re imploding trump’s Atlantic City casino.

    Laughing.

    And looked up how to spell Hallelujah.

  16. 16.

    TaMara (HFG)

    February 17, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    …

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    February 17, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    This is why God invented the bottomless mimosa.

  18. 18.

    LurkerNoLonger

    February 17, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    I think it was Bill Maher who said, after Jerry Fallwell died, that sometimes death isn’t sad. That’s how I feel.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Colette

    February 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    Entirely fuck that guy. He stole my brother – poured poison into his ears for decades, calling it “entertainment,” dehumanizing liberals and women and POC and basically anyone who wasn’t a white asshole like himself. I can’t drink champagne during this Zoom meeting but I sure as hell will later.

    Fuck him.

  20. 20.

    SalterWobchak

    February 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    He was a cancer on the country, and it is somehow fitting that he died from it.

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    @PsiFighter37:   Hardly!  I am popping a bottle of cava in the fridge for tonight, as we speak.  (Would join you in imbibing now, but have some errands and a long walk to accomplish.)

  22. 22.

    Soprano2

    February 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    Things seem a little bit lighter, don’t they? I don’t mourn that asshole, he certainly wouldn’t mourn my death. Being dead doesn’t make people better than they were in life.

  23. 23.

    piratedan

    February 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    good.

  24. 24.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    February 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    Can’t say I’m broken up over this.

  25. 25.

    Gravenstone

    February 17, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    Just saw the banner on CNN and my first thought was “well hot damn!”

    I’ll stick with that sentiment…

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    This is better than our, uh, difficult day losing Andrew Breitbart (ha!) because Breitbart at least had numerous humanizing characteristics.

    Rush?  No.  Is Satanspeed a word??  It is now.

  27. 27.

    laura

    February 17, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    I heartily approve of his exit.
    Psy – popping champagne corks was my immediate thought. It’s not too early and I’ve got the dregs of the bottle of Inagural champers – maybe a wee mimosa is called for

    Also, what Colette said!

  28. 28.

    GoBlueInOak

    February 17, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    May he receive the reward in the afterlife that he so well and fully deserves.

  29. 29.

    sab

    February 17, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Woo!Hoo!

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    February 17, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    I’m having Subway for lunch.

    And, I think round steak with gravy for dinner.

    With red velvet cake for dessert.

  31. 31.

    Cheryl Rofer

    February 17, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Also –

    Just now: Former President Trump’s Atlantic City hotel is demolished.

    Once a Boardwalk staple, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has been closed since 2014. pic.twitter.com/DM7eBB3gEY

    — The Recount (@therecount) February 17, 2021

  32. 32.

    TaMara (HFG)

    February 17, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    @trollhattan: You win. We can shut down this thread now.

  33. 33.

    donnah

    February 17, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Limbaugh dead?

    Yay!

     

    That’s it.

  34. 34.

    Poe Larity

    February 17, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Since this news really isn’t important, I’ll just open thread this as former DoE Secretary Perry has weighed in since that last thread:

    In a blog posted on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s website, Perry is quoted responding to the claim that “those watching on the left may see the situation in Texas as an opportunity to expand their top-down, radical proposals.”

    “Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry is quoted as saying. “Try not to let whatever the crisis of the day is take your eye off of having a resilient grid that keeps America safe personally, economically, and strategically.”

    “If wind and solar is where we’re headed, the last 48 hours ought to give everybody a real pause and go wait a minute,” Perry said. “We need to have a baseload. And the only way you can get a baseload in this country is [with] natural gas, coal, and nuclea

    Never misunderestimate Texans.

  35. 35.

    Zelma

    February 17, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    Ding, dong and all that….

  36. 36.

    sab

    February 17, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    @trollhattan: Lol!

  37. 37.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    February 17, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    @zzyzx: It’s a death we needed, not the death he deserved.  On the other hand what were the 2021 writers going to do, drown Rush in a tub of bleach?

  38. 38.

    sab

    February 17, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    Woo! Hoo!

  39. 39.

    mali muso

    February 17, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    2021 just gets better and better.  I am not ashamed to say that I let out a loud cheer.

  40. 40.

    dmsilev

    February 17, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    @Poe Larity: The really frightening thing about Perry is that he was among the least-awful of T****’s Cabinet members.

  41. 41.

    Roger Moore

    February 17, 2021 at 12:43 pm

    I would say the normal things about feeling sorry for his loved ones, but I doubt he has any.

  42. 42.

    Z. Mulls

    February 17, 2021 at 12:43 pm

    @Comrade Colette:   He stole my father too.   Dad listened to him every day and I could no longer talk politics with him.

  43. 43.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    February 17, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    @Poe Larity:“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry is quoted as saying.

    I assume by “Texan” Perry means;  white, male, Republican, age 55+ and makes over 150K a year?

  44. 44.

    ThresherK

    February 17, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    Also “say(ing) nothing at all” here. Read into that what you will.

  45. 45.

    Dave L

    February 17, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    Nil.

  46. 46.

    MisterForkbeard

    February 17, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    @Comrade Colette: My wife says similar. He’s responsible for the radicalization of her father. There were other dominoes, but Limbaugh is the one most responsible for her dad’s outlook today.

  47. 47.

    Poe Larity

    February 17, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    @trollhattan: Yeah, what did all of Hillary’s Black Helicopters ever accomplish?

  48. 48.

    UncleEbeneezer

    February 17, 2021 at 12:45 pm

    (dancing gif)

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 17, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    @Gravenstone:

    via GIPHY

  50. 50.

    MisterForkbeard

    February 17, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    @laura: I thought about making myself an irish coffee over this. Still might, though the alcohol will kill my diet.

    Some things are worth the hit, though.

    @Adam L Silverman: Candidate for the most appropriate gif ever on this blog.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    Glut of Oxycontin on the market begins in 3…2…1….

  52. 52.

    Jinchi

    February 17, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    Normally I don’t speak ill of the dead, but he was an awful man who, on learning he was seriously ill, decided to spend his final months inciting bigotry and hatred.

  53. 53.

    opiejeanne

    February 17, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    He made the world a better place…

     

    by leaving it.

  54. 54.

    satby

    February 17, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    @mali muso: 2021 just gets better and better.

    It does indeed. Ok universe, now do Alex Jones!

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 17, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    If Larry Flynt were still with us, I’m sure he’d offer a million dollars for a hot mike moment of the fourth Mrs Limbaugh saying, under her breath and behind the veil that hides the smile she can’t suppress: “about fucking time”

    I’ll say this for him, in spite of his four wives, there was never a fourth Rusty

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 17, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    @zzyzx:

    So many ways he could have had an ironic death. The 2021 writers are failing us. 

    The writers were mentally exhausted from 2020!

  57. 57.

    West of the Rockies

    February 17, 2021 at 12:48 pm

    “He has assumed room temperature.”

    Limbaugh derisively said that when someone he disliked passed.   Right back at ya,  buddy.

  58. 58.

    Cacti

    February 17, 2021 at 12:48 pm

    You could make a reverse version of the story “It’s a Wonderful Life” about Rush Limbaugh…

    Where Clarence the demon, tasked with taking Rusty’s soul to hell showed him scenes of all the people who might not have suffered had Rush never lived.

    “You truly did lead a terrible life, Rush.”

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 17, 2021 at 12:48 pm

    @Poe Larity: Never misunderestimate a man who got a C in Meats while pursuing a bachelors in agriculture.

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:48 pm

    We are ALL giving up Rush Limbaugh for Lent.  And forever.  Allah be praised.

    He tore so many families apart.  I really hope that some of his dittoheads might wake up and smell the coffee, rather than fill their heads with sewage from another source.  It could happen, for some of them.

  61. 61.

    scav

    February 17, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    And the sun just came out here.  Even nature is smiling.

    (seriously, at least 4 good news events in 2 hours? I’m giddy.)

  62. 62.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    @West of the Rockies:

    “[Rush] has assumed room temperature.”

    On the way to transitioning to eternal flames and hellfire.  I see him in an eternal Hieronymous Bosch hellscape.

    I suspect some of his ex-wives may be breaking out the bubbly too.  They already got paid.

  63. 63.

    Ksmiami

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    @zzyzx: He was here and now he’s gone. That’s all I can say…

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: I’ve been saving it for a special occasion.

  65. 65.

    Uninvited Guest

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    )chef’s kiss(

  66. 66.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    Nature is healing.

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    @scav:    I just looked in.  What are the other 3 good events?

    Have been offline this morning.

  68. 68.

    Mike in NC

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    Just added a bottle of Champagne to the shopping list.

  69. 69.

    Hungry Joe

    February 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    Christopher Hitchens’ quip about Fallwell’s death seems appropriate: “If they gave him an enema they could bury him in a matchbox.”

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 17, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    I think this is the first time in a long time I’ve wished Olbermann were still on TeeVee

  71. 71.

    msb

    February 17, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    I hope he encounters more love and mercy than he showed to others

    Watching the trump hazard come down in Atlantic City is pretty cool, especially as it raised money for charity.

  72. 72.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 17, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Is Satanspeed a word??  It is now. 

    Nominated.

  73. 73.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    One of the final shows Rush Limbaugh put on the air. Presented without commentary. https://t.co/0FjIlEQRxm— clint diamond (@diamond_clint) February 17, 2021

    Limbaugh: “There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence…I am glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way.”pic.twitter.com/Sr3Pw68YeV— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) January 7, 2021

  74. 74.

    GregMulka

    February 17, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    Trump’s hotel being imploded and Limbaugh dead? On my birthday? The universe is being very kind to me. Time to buy the powerball ticket and push my luck.

  75. 75.

    Suzanne

    February 17, 2021 at 12:52 pm

    I’m smirking so hard.

    ETA: Smirking like a Young Republican.

  76. 76.

    James E Powell

    February 17, 2021 at 12:52 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Remember when Rick Perry was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination but then he said something about immigrants being human beings and his campaign was over?

  77. 77.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    Who is looking in at Red State?  And perhaps Parler is lit too.

  78. 78.

    Ksmiami

    February 17, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Eh Texans will start eating eachother (red meat and all) that reminds me of the old restaurant prank. Put in your name in as Donner party of 5 but when you’re called to the hostess stand just say eh we are 3 now, 2 of us didn’t make it

  79. 79.

    Baud

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    I’m upset that the Clintons are too classy to respond in a way I’d like them to.

  80. 80.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Is Satanspeed a word?? It is now.

    This is why I come to this place.

  81. 81.

    Splitting Image

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    Riddance good to rubbish bad.

    Next up: Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney.

  82. 82.

    Martin

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: It was a ‘D’, actually.

  83. 83.

    Uninvited Guest

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    @msb:

    I hope he encounters more love and mercy than he showed to others

    Why?

  84. 84.

    Redshift

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    I have never wished for any man’s death (at least not out loud), but this is an obituary I will read with the greatest enthusiasm.

  85. 85.

    Baud

    February 17, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    @GregMulka: Happy birthday!

  86. 86.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 12:56 pm

    "I am in Congress today because of Rush Limbaugh."

    – Rep. Mike Pence, October 16, 2001 pic.twitter.com/tsWiVFYrto

    — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

  87. 87.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 12:56 pm

    I’m teaching the “political question” part of con law right now.  I wonder if a President can rescind a prior President’s award of the Presidential medal?  Sounds like a good final exam question.

  88. 88.

    West of the Cascades

    February 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    The electricity is back on in Portland, and Rush Limbaugh is dead, and it’s not even 10 am yet. Gonna be a good day.

    ETA: power is back on in my neighborhood at least, after about 30 hours without – a lot of rural customers in Oregon still without power (about 100,000), nothing on the magnitude of what Texas is suffering.

  89. 89.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    February 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    That’s a shame.

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    @Poe Larity: Same assclown who wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy.

  91. 91.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    @Ksmiami: The Donner joke is mine. Specifically, I’m going to open a  themed restaurant called Donner’s Family Style Dining. Smith party of 10, your table for 6 is ready…

  92. 92.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm

    @Redshift: I read my favorite new version of this from a Rabbi:

    I celebrate no man’s death.  But I do not weep for them all.

  93. 93.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    February 17, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    “The evil that men do lives after them.”

    –Willie Shakes

  94. 94.

    sab

    February 17, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    @VeniceRiley: I will be curious if the rich people up the hill from me find the key to their flagpole that they couldn’t find when RBG died.1

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 17, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    @Martin: I was feeling generous and commented on the curve.

  96. 96.

    scav

    February 17, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    @Elizabelle: Well, mom got her first ouchie and it absolutely went smooth as silk for a total procedure (Jefferson Health Care!), and then there’s the sparkly fizzle of the casino collapse, that US power outage map is a joy (inner geographer breaks through) and a few other minor things that I’m seriously too giddy to remember quickly.

  97. 97.

    sab

    February 17, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    @Immanentize:WAAH you are.

  98. 98.

    leeleeFL

    February 17, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    @Hungry Joe: Thank You!  I knew it was about burying him in a matchbox, could NOT remember the rest!

  99. 99.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Donner’s Family Style: Cold cuts are our specialty!

  100. 100.

    p.a.

    February 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    Addition by subtraction. ?

  101. 101.

    Just One More Canuck

    February 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    I’ll steal Bette Davis’ line when she heard about Joan Crawford’s death – “You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Rush Limbaugh is dead. Good.”

  102. 102.

    laura

    February 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: I informed spouse that Rush was hurtling to hell and his immediate response was “I’ll drink to that.” It seems there’s a concurrance across the country.

  103. 103.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    @Comrade Colette:

    @Z. Mulls:

    My younger brother is yet another of Limbaugh’s innumerable … I don’t like to say “victims,” because they all have (or had) agency. But he fell under the Dittohead spell and went completely round the bend.

  104. 104.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Dying does not remove the evil one does in life

    — Some jackal?

  105. 105.

    counterfactual

    February 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    I am hoping for a lengthy scandal-headline fight over the estate, finally revealing that he spent it all and left nothing.

  106. 106.

    sab

    February 17, 2021 at 1:01 pm

    @Splitting Image: Henry Kissinger will outlive all of us, even Goku.

  107. 107.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:01 pm

    @p.a.: nice!

  108. 108.

    Redshift

    February 17, 2021 at 1:02 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: I am so glad my parents weren’t TV watchers and never listened to talk radio. My dad picked up a little bit of it from Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for a while, but fortunately it wasn’t enough to stick.

  109. 109.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 1:02 pm

    Celebrate Ass Endsday.

  110. 110.

    prostratedragon

    February 17, 2021 at 1:03 pm

    @VeniceRiley:  Oh! You’re damn right!

  111. 111.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 17, 2021 at 1:03 pm

    @Jinchi:

    Normally I don’t speak ill of the dead, but he was an awful man who, on learning he was seriously ill, decided to spend his final months continuing inciting bigotry and hatred.

    Fixed.

  112. 112.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:03 pm

    How they’re describing this human hellmouth in headlines: the euphemisms are out in full:

    WaPost:
    Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural phenomenon, dies at 70
    NY Times:

    NY Times:  Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70

    A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump.

    LA Times:  Rush Limbaugh, highly influential conservative radio host, dies at 70

    Rush Limbaugh had huge influence in the political sphere, setting the stage for the rise of conservative talk radio with ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show.’

  113. 113.

    Shakti

    February 17, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    When I heard the news, I golf clapped at my desk and then did a little spite cardio dancing, bhangra x twerking x cancan style.

    I take my small victories when I find them.

  114. 114.

    feebog

    February 17, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    This is shaping up to be a pretty good Wednesday.

  115. 115.

    Redshift

    February 17, 2021 at 1:05 pm

    “Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,”

    Texas Democratic campaign slogan?

    “If you don’t agree with Rick Perry that sticking it to the feds is more important than keeping the heat on in winter, vote for me!”

  116. 116.

    GregMulka

    February 17, 2021 at 1:05 pm

    @Baud: Thanks Baud!

  117. 117.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:07 pm

    @scav:  Yea about scav’s mom!  I will drink to all of your good news at cava o’clock, in a few short hours.

    Biden saying at last night’s CNN Town Hall that we would all have access to vaccines by August; that was marvelous news.  I am guessing he left himself some wiggle room in announcing that prospective deadline, having seen all the hay made over “You can keep your doctor.”

  118. 118.

    prostratedragon

    February 17, 2021 at 1:08 pm

    @mali muso:  Sometimes you just can’t catch them.

  119. 119.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:08 pm

    So sad about Rush Limbaugh, Confederate flags everywhere are being lowered to half mast.— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 17, 2021

  120. 120.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    @mali muso: How are the dreams?  Getting less awful?  Mine are!

  121. 121.

    Betty Cracker

    February 17, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    My mom died when she was 68 years old, and every time some terrible person dies who made it past 68 (one of the Koch bros, Adelson and now Limbaugh), it pisses me off just a little extra. It’s not like I expect life to be fair, but that seems especially unfair.

    Oh well. With Limbaugh gone, Florida’s share of famous resident assholes dipped ever so slightly, but now that we have the entire shitgibbon klan, one hardly notices…

  122. 122.

    Ruckus

    February 17, 2021 at 1:10 pm

    Never achieved peace in connection with anyone’s death before…….

  123. 123.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:10 pm

    @GregMulka: Happy Birthday.  Excellent ending for your trip around our friend, the sun! ?

  124. 124.

    Delk

    February 17, 2021 at 1:10 pm

    I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I’m sure…

  125. 125.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 1:12 pm

    @GregMulka

    Have a happy day!

    (It’s Mom’s, too.)

  126. 126.

    scav

    February 17, 2021 at 1:12 pm

    @Redshift: Wouldn’t Real Texans be whole-throatedly against sucking the Federal Socialist teat by allowing Federal military bases on their holy soil?

  127. 127.

    Jeffro

    February 17, 2021 at 1:13 pm

    @Chat Noir: that almost sounds healthy!

    Hmmmm

    no, I’ll be good until 4pm Eastern and then all bets are off

  128. 128.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:13 pm

    @sab: Kissinger was replaced by a flatulent AI android with limited vocabulary in 1981 by Donald Trump at Studio 54.  Everyone knows that!

    /S/ Q.

  129. 129.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    No reader comments allowed on the WaPost story.  Imagine that!

  130. 130.

    dww44

    February 17, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    @VeniceRiley: I hadn’t thought about that.  But, you are so right,  it WOULD have happened.

  131. 131.

    Ruckus

    February 17, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    @SalterWobchak:

    Don’t diminish the horribleness of cancer by association with him.

  132. 132.

    laura

    February 17, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    • @Immanentize: I’m so IRAC’ing that question right now even though my heart says simply No.
  133. 133.

    catclub

    February 17, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    @Splitting Image: Kissinger must be pushing 100

  134. 134.

    guachi

    February 17, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    The irony of a cancer on the body politic dying of cancer. And a bigot dying during Black History Month.

  135. 135.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    @Shakti:

    a little spite cardio dancing, bhangra x twerking x cancan style.

    Video,, or it didn’t happen!

  136. 136.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:16 pm

    Rupert Murdoch is watching this and may realize that people will be celebrating on at least three continents when he bites it.

    So much of the ugliness and effects of climate change today:  flow from those two monsters.

  137. 137.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:16 pm

    @Betty Cracker: only the good die young!

  138. 138.

    Salty Sam

    February 17, 2021 at 1:16 pm

    I was taught to only say good things about someone who has died.  OK:

    Rush Limbaugh is dead.

  139. 139.

    Citizen Alan

    February 17, 2021 at 1:17 pm

    @Elizabelle: ​
     

    This is better than our, uh, difficult day losing Andrew Breitbart (ha!) because Breitbart at least had numerous humanizing characteristics.

    Name three.

  140. 140.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @NotMax: Happy Mom Day!  I guess Ash Wednesday is not a joyless moment after all.  Please give her my best.

  141. 141.

    prostratedragon

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:  And casino,  for those last minute adjustments?

  142. 142.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @scav: Jade Helm, man.

  143. 143.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    He could have died of respiratory failure from COVID within days of having a maskless dinner party with Rupert Murdoch and the Mercers. That would have been a much better plot twist.

  144. 144.

    Ruckus

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @Jinchi:

    Then really no difference than the rest of his adult life.

  145. 145.

    Redshift

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @scav: Wouldn’t Real Texans be whole-throatedly against sucking the Federal Socialist teat by allowing Federal military bases on their holy soil?

    And Abbot should be shunned for begging for super-socialist federal disaster relief, right?

  146. 146.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    Would it be in bad taste to post a little musical accompaniment to the topic?

    (Nope, contains nary a ding or dong.)

    ;)

  147. 147.

    Anotherlurker

    February 17, 2021 at 1:19 pm

  148. 148.

    Ruckus

    February 17, 2021 at 1:20 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    I didn’t write that because I knew someone would beat me to it.

  149. 149.

    raven

    February 17, 2021 at 1:20 pm

    Xin Loi asshole.

  150. 150.

    Starboard Tack

    February 17, 2021 at 1:21 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Fire and brimstone’s too good for him. I hope he spends an eternity in a UU discussion group, without the power of speech.

  151. 151.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:21 pm

    @laura: I love that I can inspire IRAC-trained brains to fire from afar!

    My question for my students today was: Trump moved the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  Could Biden open a US Embassy to Palestine in East Jerusalem?  Political question or no?

  152. 152.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:22 pm

    @Citizen Alan:   Breitbart helped found Huffington Post, FWIW.

    He had an occasional sense of humor; I am not speaking of all the punching down he did.

    His father in law was Orson Bean, who was a cool old guy who was hit by a car at a very old age while on his way to the theatre.  (OK, that’s human by association.)

    I was not sorry to hear that Breitbart kicked it, and even less sorry to see Limbaugh’s demise.  The great tragedy is that Rush was granted such a long life.  He injected way too much poison into the system.

  153. 153.

    Starboard Tack

    February 17, 2021 at 1:23 pm

    @Redshift:

    Socialism is when other people get government money.

  154. 154.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:23 pm

    @Starboard Tack:   Remind me what UU is?  Is it the Universal Unitarian church?  (Home of the mitten tree, if I remember …)

  155. 155.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:24 pm

    @Anotherlurker:   We hear you!

  156. 156.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:24 pm

    @Starboard Tack: I do not want to go to the hell you would fashion for me!

  157. 157.

    Ruckus

    February 17, 2021 at 1:24 pm

    @Hungry Joe:

    Now that is a great send off for someone as great as this.

  158. 158.

    catclub

    February 17, 2021 at 1:26 pm

    @scav: ​ 

    Wouldn’t Real Texans be whole-throatedly against sucking the Federal Socialist teat by allowing Federal military bases on their holy soil?

    It should be noted that, unlike most of the useless red states that get more money from the federal government than they contribute, Texas does contribute more than it gets back. … MUCH more prosperous businesses. Also lots of oil.​

  159. 159.

    Dan B

    February 17, 2021 at 1:26 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: I love the cheers from the crowd as the casino hotel disappears into the cloud of dust!

    Too bad Rush missed a ‘Slim Pickens”* opportunity.

     

    * Dr. Strangelove finale.  But riding the flame out of Rush’s greatest achievement – The Grand Turnip!  con.  The great American success story – snatching bankruptcy from the jaws of victory a major inheritance.

  160. 160.

    catclub

    February 17, 2021 at 1:28 pm

    @Elizabelle: ​
     Unitarian Universalist.

  161. 161.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 17, 2021 at 1:28 pm

    @NotMax:

    Happy birthday to NotMom!

  162. 162.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 1:30 pm

    “Controversial” and “firebrand” going to do a lot of heavy lifting for “racist” and “misogynist” today.

    — Schooley (@Rschooley) February 17, 2021

  163. 163.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 1:30 pm

    @Immanentize

    A legation, almost surely. An embassy would be another matter as (IMHO) that would constitute official recognition as an independent nation, a rather sticky wicket.

  164. 164.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 1:31 pm

    In his first interview post-presidency, Trump honors the life of conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh but also says Limbaugh thought he won the election and he says that he thinks he still won “substantially.” Trump did not win the election.

    — Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) February 17, 2021

  165. 165.

    Doc Sardonic

    February 17, 2021 at 1:32 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I think the unbridled joy from having the Shitgibbons as his new neighbors might be what sent him off.

  166. 166.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 1:33 pm

    Response to the NYT obituary:

    Not to play the race card or anything, but do you really believe a famous drug addict of color could die and be arrested for prescription fraud (or even a white lefty, come to think of it), and it would never be mentioned in the entire article?https://t.co/eHM6fTf7qN

    — Allison Burnett (@Allison_Burnett) February 17, 2021

  167. 167.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:33 pm

    @catclub: not really accurate.  Of course it depends what you count:

    38. Texas

    • Net federal funding: $304 per resident

    • Total revenue from fed. gov.: $269.0 billion (2nd most)

    • SNAP benefit recipiency: 12.0 percent (tied – 23rd highest)

    • Median household income: $59,206 (23rd highest)

  168. 168.

    Aziz, light!

    February 17, 2021 at 1:34 pm

    Roast in hell, motherfucker.

    Too soon?

  169. 169.

    Starboard Tack

    February 17, 2021 at 1:35 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    That’s it. A joke is that if a Universalist Unitarian had a choice between Heaven, and a discussion about Heaven, they’d go to the discussion.

  170. 170.

    AnotherBruce

    February 17, 2021 at 1:36 pm

    Im beginning to like 2021!

  171. 171.

    Captain C

    February 17, 2021 at 1:36 pm

    @NotMax: ​
      I’m stealing this.

  172. 172.

    Immanentize

    February 17, 2021 at 1:37 pm

    @Immanentize: versus:

    50. Connecticut

    • Net federal funding: -$4,000 per resident

    • Total revenue from fed. gov.: $41.1 billion (22nd least)

    • SNAP benefit recipiency: 12.0 percent (tied – 23rd highest)

    • Median household income: $74,168 (5th highest)

    Linky

  173. 173.

    Starboard Tack

    February 17, 2021 at 1:39 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    You may be thinking of the UCC, the United Church of Christ, which was the merger of the Evangelical & Reform, and Congregationalist churches. I remember the mitten tree from when I was a kid.

  174. 174.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm

    Response to the Washington Post obituary:

    The description of Rush Limbaugh as "a lifelong deficit hawk" in this WPost obit, and omission of the word "racism," really exemplifies the DC/media tendency to pretend purveyors of hate fit into familiar political categories. https://t.co/84qzdTAd4z

    — Mark Schmitt (@mschmitt9) February 17, 2021

  175. 175.

    opiejeanne

    February 17, 2021 at 1:43 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: My dad, as well. Fuck Rush for that.

  176. 176.

    Chief Oshkosh

    February 17, 2021 at 1:44 pm

    @Splitting Image: And I’ll raise you one Ruport Murdoch.

  177. 177.

    Citizen Alan

    February 17, 2021 at 1:46 pm

    @Poe Larity: ​
     

    So the same political party that told older Texans that they should be willing to die of Covid in order to preserve the economy for their children is now telling all Texans that they should be willing to freeze to death in their homes just so that Republicans can have some feeble talking point to use against windmills and solar power? If Texas doesn’t go blue after this, they’re a lost cause.

  178. 178.

    trollhattan

    February 17, 2021 at 1:47 pm

    @germy:

    “Deficit hawk” was lost to the vernacular once folks applauded Bush II’s tax cuts that erased our surplus.

  179. 179.

    PaulWartenberg

    February 17, 2021 at 1:49 pm

    My first tweet about Rush’s passing:

    https://twitter.com/PaulWartenberg/status/1362097286654922757

    Rush Limbaugh is dead.

    I know if you can’t say anything nice about a person you shouldn’t say anything. But in Rush’s case given all the bullshit and rage he shouted about everyone else, he deserves every last bit of that rage back in kind. #BurnInHellRushLimbaugh

  180. 180.

    PaulWartenberg

    February 17, 2021 at 1:51 pm

    @Starboard Tack:

    Even the Unitarians would shun Rush.

  181. 181.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 17, 2021 at 1:51 pm

    Mike Hixenbaugh @Mike_Hixenbaugh 3h
    Last night, after we’d lost power & my pipes burst, my toddler choked on a peanut in our dark house. We rushed him across town on icy roads for emergency surgery at a hospital that does not have enough water pressure to flush toilets. Texas is a disaster.

  182. 182.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 1:52 pm

    @Starboard Tack:   Thank you.

    I was remembering a column by the late Michael Kelly, which mentioned the mitten tree.  It was a good one.  (He was The Atlantic Monthly editor who was killed on a trip to Iraq.)  Didn’t care for Kelly’s neocon takes, but the mitten tree column about working across religious differences was a good one.

  183. 183.

    PaulWartenberg

    February 17, 2021 at 1:57 pm

    @Comrade Colette:

    My dad is – was, now – a fervent follower of Rush’s radio show and diatribes. There were times when dad said to me “Paul, you should consider getting into radio and using your time to repeat what Rush says every day!” And I would tell Dad “for starters, that’s plagiarism and I’d get sued if all I did was parrot another person’s radio show. Secondly, I don’t want to repeat the evil shit Rush says about other people.”

    I’ve tried to get my dad to read/follow more reasonable conservative figures who weren’t rabid rage merchants – Frum at the least – but no, my dad got toxified by Rush and O’Reilly and Hannity and nowadays Tucker. I’ve given up on trying to save my parents from that and just try to save myself from that level of rage.

  184. 184.

    Bex

    February 17, 2021 at 2:04 pm

    Is Clarence Thomas doing the funeral?  Didn’t he marry Rush once?  Also, will Himself attend?

  185. 185.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 2:06 pm

    @Bex: Is Clarence Thomas doing the funeral?  Didn’t he marry Rush once?  Also, will Himself attend?

    Most likely.  Yes.  Most likely.

  186. 186.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 2:09 pm

    @Bex

    Didn’t he marry Rush once?

    Shh. Don’t tell Ginni.

  187. 187.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 2:10 pm

    How nice for those who have lived such exemplary lives that they can express glee when others have their lives ruined by a mistake, real or perceived.— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) February 17, 2021

    Limbaugh’s good friend Sajak. Who tweeted “better luck next time” the morning after HRC lost to Trump.

  188. 188.

    Miss Bianca

    February 17, 2021 at 2:11 pm

    Our county attorney interrupted a county commissioner meeting to issue what were, to him, and obviously expected to be for everyone there, very sad tidings.

    I was glad I was muted on a conference call, so that no one heard *my* reaction to that.

  189. 189.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 17, 2021 at 2:15 pm

    On the occasion of Rush Limbaugh’s passing, I think it’s appropriate to repeat Rush’s comments when Jerry Garcia died:

    “Just another dead doper. And a dirt bag.”

  190. 190.

    Comrade Colette

    February 17, 2021 at 2:16 pm

    @germy:

    have their lives ruined by a mistake, real or perceived

    “a” mistake? Well, I guess if you consider Limbaugh’s entire life a mistake, that’s accurate.

    I have never paid the slightest attention to Sajak so I was unaware that he’s a dittohead fuckwad.

  191. 191.

    Bex

    February 17, 2021 at 2:16 pm

    @NotMax: Like she’d notice?

  192. 192.

    Another Scott

    February 17, 2021 at 2:18 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  He’s got a YouTube channel where he still does the ranty thing that he’s very good at – https://www.youtube.com/c/worstperson

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  193. 193.

    Brachiator

    February 17, 2021 at 2:19 pm

    Just tuned in to media and the Internets, and am seeing the news about Rush.

    2021 may be a pretty good year. A few things keep getting better and better.

    And if we get the pandemic licked, they will be able to have a long line of people waiting to piss on Rush’s grave without the need for a lot of social distancing.

    I hope the cemetery provides sufficiently for runoff.

  194. 194.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 2:20 pm

    It’s beginning: A county Republican chairman in Kentucky is calling on Mitch McConnell to step down as Senate Minority Leader over his statement that Trump bears responsibility for the Capitol attack.

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 17, 2021

    I’m gonna get popcorn and enjoy watching the Kentucky Republican Party that Mitch built swallow him whole. https://t.co/FsFG9Ig4pp

    — Rex Chapman (@RexChapman) February 17, 2021

  195. 195.

    Sasha

    February 17, 2021 at 2:22 pm

    May his memory be a warning.

  196. 196.

    NotMax

    February 17, 2021 at 2:25 pm

    @Brachiator

    I hope the cemetery provides sufficiently for runoff.

    Enough to spin a turbine to provide power for the whole place.

    ;)

  197. 197.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 2:38 pm

    @zzyzx: 

    I will mourn that he didn’t die sooner.
    It really still amazes me that there are actually people who make the world better by leaving it…

  198. 198.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    February 17, 2021 at 2:41 pm

    @germy: <Mr. Burns>Excellent.</Mr. Burns>

    I did wonder why he took that position. The Turtle never does anything without careful calculation, so I assume he judged this was the likeliest path to survival and that he was going to outlast the pro-Trump wing of the party.I’d like to see them eat him and THEN implode. A sort of ourobouros thing.​​
    Or perhaps a better analogy is this.​

  199. 199.

    cwmoss

    February 17, 2021 at 2:44 pm

    Erik Loomis has the reference standard for Rush obit.
    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/the-gasbag-of-fascism

  200. 200.

    different-church-lady

    February 17, 2021 at 2:47 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  One could probably make a pretty good obituary for Limbaugh from just quoting nasty things he said upon the deaths of others.

  201. 201.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 2:47 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Yeah. The only Texans who’d gladly be without power for 3 more days are the kind that ain’t doing without now.

  202. 202.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 2:51 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Hell, did you see those pics of Cornyn’s barbecue???

  203. 203.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Second.

  204. 204.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 2:53 pm

    @GregMulka: Happy birthday!

  205. 205.

    TheTruffle

    February 17, 2021 at 2:56 pm

    I’ve been listening to various versions of “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” since I heard the news.

  206. 206.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 2:57 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:   Jerry Garcia had more talent (and decency) in his one missing finger than …

  207. 207.

    cain

    February 17, 2021 at 2:59 pm

    If there is one thing we should all be grateful for – that Dems are in charge of the federal govt – otherwise this asshole will be lying in state in the capitol building while Republicans circle jerk around his corpse waxing eloquence while their noses are firmly buried in his putrid and decomposing asshole.​
     
    What? Too soon?

  208. 208.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 3:03 pm

    @catclub: Also worth mentioning that, ironically enough, the ones who most loudly feel that way tend to have spent some time in those military bases…

  209. 209.

    Elizabelle

    February 17, 2021 at 3:06 pm

    Interesting.  The FTF NY Times changed their website front page headline and blurb about RL’s death.

    They originally had (and it’s still what you see when you click on the story):

    Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70

    A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump.

    Now, it is:

    Rush Limbaugh, Who Built Talk Radio Into Right-Wing Attack Machine, Dies

    Mr. Limbaugh, 70, who helped transform the G.O.P., pushed talk radio to the right with misogynistic and racist language and conspiracy theories.

    The Times seems to be having a culture war within its ranks, for real. Good. They need it.

  210. 210.

    Subsole

    February 17, 2021 at 3:08 pm

    @Citizen Alan:

    No, if we don’t go blue after this it’s because we still haven’t recovered from a decade’s worth of rampant voter suppression measures. Which they’re ratcheting up. Georgia has them SCARED.

  211. 211.

    LurkerNoLonger

    February 17, 2021 at 3:09 pm

    @germy: Sajak can shut his pumpkin head.

  212. 212.

    germy

    February 17, 2021 at 3:15 pm

    @LurkerNoLonger:

    Reagan gave them a philosophical framework to justify cruelty.

    Then Rush Limbaugh normalized it.

    Then Trump made them proud of it.

    — Michael Gerber (@mgerber937) February 17, 2021

  213. 213.

    randal m sexton

    February 17, 2021 at 3:31 pm

    Him and Sheldon Adelson are now circle-mates with Roger Ailes.  maybe Rupert can join them soon.

  214. 214.

    Jinchi

    February 17, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    @germy: A county Republican chairman in Kentucky is calling on Mitch McConnell to step down as Senate Minority Leader over his statement that Trump bears responsibility for the Capitol attack.

    It seems to me that the Republicans could shut this nonsense down real fast if any of them reacted to the party censure with, ‘Okay, you don’t want me in the party. I’ll just start caucusing with the Democrats’.

    Obviously that wouldn’t work for Mitch, but pretty much any of the 7 Senate Republican outcasts could make the jump if they had a mind to.

  215. 215.

    Brachiator

    February 17, 2021 at 4:07 pm

    @germy:

    It’s beginning: A county Republican chairman in Kentucky is calling on Mitch McConnell to step down as Senate Minority Leader over his statement that Trump bears responsibility for the Capitol attack.

    This is Death Cult Supreme.

    Trump was never really a Republican, or not much of anything. He saw that the GOP fit his resentments and was ripe for his grift.

    But now the GOP goobers love Trump even more than they loved Reagan.

    This is insane.

    The chaos can’t last, but it is fun to watch them battle each other for now.

  216. 216.

    Gravenstone

    February 17, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    @germy: A mistake? Singular? That fucking syphilitic chancre’s whole existence was a mistake!

  217. 217.

    Just Chuck

    February 17, 2021 at 4:40 pm

    @germy: Boy oh boy it’d sure be a shame if the wingnuts started pulling all their campaign donations from Turtle’s warchest to spend on internecine conflict.  It really would pwn this lib and make him cry I tell ya.

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