Mother of god, Roy, did you have this already written, waiting to the turd to croak? You couldn't have written all this just since Limbaugh died (many, many decades too late).
Anyway.
"'Even dead Rush is better on the mic...'"
Back in the 90s, I worked in an office where my employer would generally stop what he was doing to listen to Limbaugh and Bob Grant. And I gotta say, Limbaugh, specially in comparison to Grant, was awful as a user of the medium. Least of his sins, of course...
“Never got the respect he deserved from the people he despised” is like the conservative anthem, the GOP party platform, and the only *correct* description of what they refer to as cancel culture all rolled into one. Bravo.
Atop their many dis-accomplishments, Trump and Limbaugh reducing the Medal of Freedom to Most Worthless Waste of Space Award will resonate through history.
I remember him best jumping up and down in an enormous MuMu getting the rubes riled up
At CPAC. (Rubes are made to be riled, eh? ) Iworried for a moment that the stage might collapse. Then I laughed.
Took a few years. He died at home. In total comfort with the best buzz money can buy. Would have been better if he froze to death in his car in some DFW ditch he when he ran off the road on a trip to buy some Oxy.
OK ok - what if Rush got stranded in Houston because of the snow and while they were checking in to the Trump Hotel there his Guatemalan maid or whoever traveled with him got picked up by ICE who mistook her for the Housekeeping staff at the Hotel. Rush lay around his hotel room like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now for two days going through withdrawal. He finally begged the concierge for a connection. The concierge set up a meeting with friends of his who planned on beating and robbing him. They never got a chance.Rush hadn't driven in years. He had people who did that.He drove like shit.He wasn't two blocks from the hotel when he wrecked in a ditch and froze to death..
I had one of those summer concert venues open about 5 miles from the house a few years back. The acts tend to be more Air Supply reunion tour and Pink Floyd tribute band but now and then something good shows up. We saw David Byrne a few years back and Counting Crows. Their first season they announced their acts and I was stoked because I got great seats for Merle Haggard the day they went on sale. Guess who died the week before. So last year I see the list of acts and I thought "Lookit that shit - Merle Haggard dies but that asshole Charlie Daniels is out on tour. They canceled the season- Covid. Charlie got really canceled .
So anyway, this year I was driving by their giant sign and who should I see , coming In June - Super asshole Ted Nugent. ..
With the possible exception of the Dalai Lama, we've all been assholes at one time or another. But imagine if, at your funeral it could honestly be said about you, as it can about Limbaugh, "He never did a positive thing in his life. He was a voice of negativity and hate in his personal and public life, and the world is a better place without him." If you knew that would be the case, wouldn't you want to do something, anything to disrupt the consistent pattern of assholery that is your life? Buy an employee a fucking turkey? Spend the money you accumulated from others' labor on building libraries? I think of people like Limbaugh and Trump and I think, "Jesus wept."
Prior to the first time he voted at the age of 32 perhaps it could argued his non-participation in politics was a good thing. A thing he refrained from doing, for no good reason, however.
The irony of him criticizing AIDS patients and Michael J, Fox's Parkinson diagnosis, among others, while intentionally putting Giant Cancer Sticks in his mouth.
As was (supposedly) said at a party on the Upper West Side, when it was announced that Roy Cohn had died, "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."
As bad as it surely is in DC, spare a kind thought for those of us who live and (try to) breathe in Florida. Even the occasional long-term friend (i.e. we've known each other since high school in Miami) has surprised me in recent months, posting laudatory nonsense about Rush. As though he never said all the vile things he said.
Her: "Well, Deborah, he apologized for that--it was just radio talk. He's going to God soon, and he has made amends. Maybe you should learn to forgive--it's good for the soul."
Me: "When? Where? Please show me where he has ever apologized or made amends. One link."
Mother of god, Roy, did you have this already written, waiting to the turd to croak? You couldn't have written all this just since Limbaugh died (many, many decades too late).
Anyway.
"'Even dead Rush is better on the mic...'"
Back in the 90s, I worked in an office where my employer would generally stop what he was doing to listen to Limbaugh and Bob Grant. And I gotta say, Limbaugh, specially in comparison to Grant, was awful as a user of the medium. Least of his sins, of course...
May Rush Limbaugh be as unknown to all as Bob Grant is to me.
Grant was a proto-Limbaugh. Eventually, IIRC, Grant became Limbaugh’s lead in.
Dunno whether Grant ever went national or was just in NYC — nor am I interested in taking any time to check.
But, sure, you’re missing nothing. Mazel tov that you’re aware of at least one vile piece of shit.
“Never got the respect he deserved from the people he despised” is like the conservative anthem, the GOP party platform, and the only *correct* description of what they refer to as cancel culture all rolled into one. Bravo.
once again roy looks into his crystal ball and sees the future. 'the best. is yet. to come !!!' even if Giuliani can't.
You beat me to it!
THE BEST IS STILL YET TO COOOOOMMME!!!!
https://donaldjtrump2024.com
Atop their many dis-accomplishments, Trump and Limbaugh reducing the Medal of Freedom to Most Worthless Waste of Space Award will resonate through history.
I remember him best jumping up and down in an enormous MuMu getting the rubes riled up
At CPAC. (Rubes are made to be riled, eh? ) Iworried for a moment that the stage might collapse. Then I laughed.
Took a few years. He died at home. In total comfort with the best buzz money can buy. Would have been better if he froze to death in his car in some DFW ditch he when he ran off the road on a trip to buy some Oxy.
I like the karmic justness of this
I assume he had people to buy his oxy for him. Plausible deniability used to be a thing, back when they had shame, or at least a fear of prison
Yes, remember when his Guatemalan housekeeper (I think it was) got nabbed for getting his drugs for him?
yes, I should have said he still had people to buy his oxy for him
OK ok - what if Rush got stranded in Houston because of the snow and while they were checking in to the Trump Hotel there his Guatemalan maid or whoever traveled with him got picked up by ICE who mistook her for the Housekeeping staff at the Hotel. Rush lay around his hotel room like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now for two days going through withdrawal. He finally begged the concierge for a connection. The concierge set up a meeting with friends of his who planned on beating and robbing him. They never got a chance.Rush hadn't driven in years. He had people who did that.He drove like shit.He wasn't two blocks from the hotel when he wrecked in a ditch and froze to death..
“never got the respect he deserved from the people he despised" -- MUSICAL!! This line is fucking Miltonic.
Mr. Roso, ever tried your hand at poetry? Or advertising?
A fitting tribute to a Medal of Freedom winner like Limbaugh.
“Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his wife Kimberly Guilfoyle.”
Ew, the visual. I assume that Junior dumped her for Lauren Boebert?
I dunno. Got the slightest tingle reading that line.
Scalia actually died ON my birthday a few years back - best present I got that year. But this works too. Hopefully the start of a trend.
Can I have Newt next year?
What a terrific birthday gift!
I had one of those summer concert venues open about 5 miles from the house a few years back. The acts tend to be more Air Supply reunion tour and Pink Floyd tribute band but now and then something good shows up. We saw David Byrne a few years back and Counting Crows. Their first season they announced their acts and I was stoked because I got great seats for Merle Haggard the day they went on sale. Guess who died the week before. So last year I see the list of acts and I thought "Lookit that shit - Merle Haggard dies but that asshole Charlie Daniels is out on tour. They canceled the season- Covid. Charlie got really canceled .
So anyway, this year I was driving by their giant sign and who should I see , coming In June - Super asshole Ted Nugent. ..
June could be special.
I'd want the entire party including the base.
Feels less like satire and more like prophecy.
With the possible exception of the Dalai Lama, we've all been assholes at one time or another. But imagine if, at your funeral it could honestly be said about you, as it can about Limbaugh, "He never did a positive thing in his life. He was a voice of negativity and hate in his personal and public life, and the world is a better place without him." If you knew that would be the case, wouldn't you want to do something, anything to disrupt the consistent pattern of assholery that is your life? Buy an employee a fucking turkey? Spend the money you accumulated from others' labor on building libraries? I think of people like Limbaugh and Trump and I think, "Jesus wept."
I keep coming back to the fact the man *knew* he was dying, and he STILL kept doing …. *gestures with disgust at entire Limbaugh oeuvre* …. THAT.
Indeed. Atwater at least made a pretense of having a soul before he died. Limbaugh couldn’t even manage that.
Much. much too late to matter.
They either never repent or they do far too little far too late. No big difference either way.
Limbaugh did far more than his fair share ensuring that the GOP's long term goal of turning the US into a shithole failed state could be achieved.
Prior to the first time he voted at the age of 32 perhaps it could argued his non-participation in politics was a good thing. A thing he refrained from doing, for no good reason, however.
“the new Republican Party slogan, ‘GOP: Suck On This’”
So in the future Tom Friedman has a political consulting gig?
For those needing an appropriate obituary, definitely check out the dual remembrances of Rush at Defector.com
The irony of him criticizing AIDS patients and Michael J, Fox's Parkinson diagnosis, among others, while intentionally putting Giant Cancer Sticks in his mouth.
As was (supposedly) said at a party on the Upper West Side, when it was announced that Roy Cohn had died, "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."
A complete shit, a turd in full.
As bad as it surely is in DC, spare a kind thought for those of us who live and (try to) breathe in Florida. Even the occasional long-term friend (i.e. we've known each other since high school in Miami) has surprised me in recent months, posting laudatory nonsense about Rush. As though he never said all the vile things he said.
Her: "Well, Deborah, he apologized for that--it was just radio talk. He's going to God soon, and he has made amends. Maybe you should learn to forgive--it's good for the soul."
Me: "When? Where? Please show me where he has ever apologized or made amends. One link."
:::silence:::
They live in a parallel reality, they really do.
Plus, you have Governor De'athSentence. I hope your county hasn't criticized him too much to get vaccines/
I give this one a hearty 5 guffaws!!!
Ditto