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.
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."
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...
“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.
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.
“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?
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?
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."
“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."
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.
I give this one a hearty 5 guffaws!!!