General Rush Limbaugh Diagnosed w Lung Cancer

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Dick Niaz

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Rush Shares His Cancer Diagnosis

Rush Shares His Cancer Diagnosis

Feb 3, 2020

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this… This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me because I’ve known this moment was coming in the program today. Now, I’m sure that you all know by now, I really don’t like talking about myself, and I don’t like making things about me other than in the usual satirical, parodic, joking way.

I like this program to be about you and the things that matter to all of us. The one thing that I know that has happened over the 31-plus years of this program is that there has been an incredible bond that has developed between all of you and me. Now, this program’s 31 years old, and in that 31 years, there are people — you hear them call all the time — who have been listening the whole time. They’ve been listening 30 years or 25 years.

I just had somebody say they’ve been here three years. But, whatever, it is a family-type relationship to me, and I’ve mentioned to you that this program and this job is what has provided me the greatest satisfaction and happiness that I’ve ever experienced, more than I ever thought that I would experience. So I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you.



It’s a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today. I can’t escape… Even though people are telling me it’s not the way to look at it, I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with this. But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th. I first realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend, January 12th.

I wish I didn’t have to tell you this, and I thought about not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, ’cause I don’t like making things about me. But there are going to be days that I’m not gonna be able to be here because I’m undergoing treatment or I’m reacting to treatment, and I know that that would inspire all kinds of curiosity with people wondering what’s going on.

And the worst thing that can happen is when there is something going on and you try to hide it and cover it up. It’s eventually gonna leak, and then people are gonna say, “Why didn’t you just say it? Why’d you try to fool everybody? ” It’s not that I want to fool anybody. It’s just that I don’t want to burden anybody with it, and I haven’t wanted to. But it is what it is. You know me; I’m the mayor of Realville.

So this has happened, and my intention is to come here every day I can and to do this program as normally and as competently and as expertly as I do each and every day, because that is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally, personally. I’ve had so much support from family and friends during this that it’s just been tremendous. I told the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize about.

But I do, and I have been working that relationship (chuckles) tremendously, which I do regularly anyway, but I’ve been focused on it intensely for the past couple of weeks. I know there are many of you in this audience who have experienced this, who are going through it yourselves at the same time. I am, at the moment, experiencing zero symptoms other than… Look, I don’t want to get too detailed in this.

What led to shortness of breath that I thought might have been asthma or — you know, I’m 69 — it could have been my heart. My heart’s in great shape, ticking away fine, squeezing and pumping great. It was not that. It was a pulmonary problem involving malignancy. So I’m gonna be gone the next couple days as we figure out the treatment course of action and have further testing done. But as I said, I’m gonna be here as often as I can.

And as is the case with everybody who finds themselves in this circumstance, you just want to push ahead and try to keep everything as normal as you can, which is something that I’m going to try to do. But I felt that I had to tell you because that’s the kind of relationship I feel like I have with those of you in this audience. I say it every Christmas, which is what I feel more thankful than as Thanksgiving.

And I feel thankful at Thanksgiving, but Christmas it really gets to me. But over the years, a lot of people have been very nice telling me how much this program has meant to them. But whatever that is, it pales in comparison to what you all have meant to me. And I can’t describe this. But I know you’re there every day. I can see you. It’s strange how, but I know you’re there.

I know you’re there in great numbers, and I know that you understand everything I say. The rest of the world may not when they hear it expressed a different way, but I know that you do. You’ve been one of the greatest sources of confidence that I’ve had in my life. So I hope I will be talking about this as little as necessary in the coming days.

But we’ve got a great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled. We’re at full-speed ahead on this, and it’s just now a matter of implementing what we are gonna be told later this week. So I’ll be back here. I hope I’ll be back Thursday. If not, it will be as soon as I can — and know that every day I’m not here, I’ll be thinking about you and missing you. Thank you very much
 

HEATH VON DOOM

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Rush just got the Bob Marley treatment. No way this isnt a left wing hit job to take him out. If Alex Jones goes gay like the frogs we know there is a government conspiracy to take out anyone that dissents from the NWO agenda
 

B.D.

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On the one hand, motherfuck cancer in all it's various forms and guises.

On the other hand, fuck Limbaugh.

Not happy in the least, and yet not sad either.
 

MMAHAWK

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On the one hand, motherfuck cancer in all it's various forms and guises.

On the other hand, fuck Limbaugh.

Not happy in the least, and yet not sad either.
Luckily for you when he dies there won’t be a memorial at the Barstow DMV.
 

B.D.

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Luckily for you when he dies there won’t be a memorial at the Barstow DMV.
Probably not. I'd imagine short of a shrine at Fox propoganda headquarters, he won't be mourned much.

Wait, does Barstow even have it's own DMV? Inquiring minds.... Don't really give a shit. It's fucking Barstow.
 

Filthy

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i feel bad for Cancer.

its public image is going to take a hit now that it's associated with Limbaugh.
 
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Filthy

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That's, uh, that's gross.
look, it wasn't Cancer's choice.
It's got a job to do, and that's all this is...

this isn't an endorsement of Limbaugh in any way, shape, or form.
Obviously, Cancer expects and deserves the Fuck Cancer sentiment - but not at the Fuck Limbaugh level.
 

MMAHAWK

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look, it wasn't Cancer's choice.
It's got a job to do, and that's all this is...

this isn't an endorsement of Limbaugh in any way, shape, or form.
Obviously, Cancer expects and deserves the Fuck Cancer sentiment - but not at the Fuck Limbaugh level.
Hopefully he can just load up on steroids and stay relevant like Brian Ortega.
 

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Never been a huge Rush Limbaugh (The Golfer) fan but he's done so much for the Conservative/Republican movement. Sending good vibes to "El Rushbo"...
 

Dick Niaz

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look, it wasn't Cancer's choice.
It's got a job to do, and that's all this is...

this isn't an endorsement of Limbaugh in any way, shape, or form.
Obviously, Cancer expects and deserves the Fuck Cancer sentiment - but not at the Fuck Limbaugh level.
Just imagine if one of his loved ones was reading you comments. I know you are kidding, but that is just shitty on a basic human level. Putting political disagreements ahead of decency. Fucked up man. Imagine if it were one of your family members - do you want anyone talking like this? WTF.
 

Filthy

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Just imagine if one of his loved ones was reading you comments. I know you are kidding, but that is just shitty on a basic human level. Putting political disagreements ahead of decency. Fucked up man. Imagine if it were one of your family members - do you want anyone talking like this? WTF.
he's a public figure, and we're talking about his public persona. None us know the real Rush Limbaugh.

it's gallows humor. I'd hope that after what people are saying with genuine sentiment (which is seriously fucked up), that his friends/relatives/fans would read what I wrote, smirk, and mutter Fuck That Guy under their breath.

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr.2001.14.issue-1/humr.14.1.83/humr.14.1.83.xml

"The repatriated Vietnam prisoners of war are suffering almost no mental illness, and the effective use of humor seems to be one of the reasons for their health. The literature by and about prisoners of war from several recent wars indicates prisoners often found humor to be an effective coping mechanism, a way of fighting back and taking control. By defining humor as an element of communication and by thinking of resilience as a communication phenomenon, the links between humor and resilience become more apparent. This was a qualitative study that consisted of interviewing approximately 50 Vietnam POWs in unstructured interviews and 12 Vietnam POWs in a structured, topical format. Chronicling the subjective accounts of these men and framing them as communication allowed an examination of the results. Knowing that human connection contributed to the survival and resilience of these men implies that resilience is contagious, as humor seems to be. Through the creation of humor in a well-defined system of social support, these fiercely independent men learned to rely on their own power and to draw a sense of mastery from each other."
 

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RUSH:

They suppressed that report, the World Health Organization did not release it. We had access to it because we had developed fans, followers back then who were very much interested in this. They had access to it, and they showed it to us, and it was all prepared for release. And at the last minute, the United Nations (for obvious reasons) decided to shelve it because it didn’t fit with the current anti-tobacco company narrative at the time, and it didn’t fit with all the environmental wacko stuff at the time, and it didn’t fit with the anti-capitalist meme of the time.

But you don’t even need a study. Common sense! Common sense would tell you. This is not to say secondhand smoke is not uncomfortable and it’s not to say that it doesn’t stink. It’s not to say that there’s nothing beautiful about, but it’s not deadly. It never was dead. In fact, it doesn’t even make people sick. There was no documentation that people were actually made sick by it. But it was because of the secondhand smoke bogus studies that these Draconian smoking bans were in place. Now, I know nobody cares about it now. I mean, the smoking bans…

“You can’t smoke anywhere” is accepted, and nobody has a problem with it. It’s one of those little bastions of freedom that we willingly said good-bye to. You want to hear something interesting? I told you I went to an annual cigar dinner down here last week. It was at the Old Palm Golf Club, Marvin Shanken Cigar Aficionado magazine sponsored it. I love going to these things. I love meeting the cigar guys, cigar manufacturers. Do you know the cigar fad took place in the early nineties and Cigar Aficionado was born — and I, of course, began touting them on the air.
So basically the way you can look at this is if you are smoking and you’re under 44, have at it, go ahead, no problem. Continue to fund children’s health care programs by buying tobacco products and know that you can smoke safely up until age 44. Then you quit. Well, I ran the calculations. I started smoking when I was 16. I went to electronics school in Dallas at age 16. Back when I started in this business, you had to have what was called the First Class Radiotelephone Operator License. It was not a broadcasting requirement. It was nothing about broadcast skill. It was an electronics demand.

...

So I started smoking. I was 16. Let’s see, it was 1980, ’81, ’82, somewhere around there when I quit. We played flag football. I worked for the Kansas City Royals, and when the baseball season was over we played — the Royals front office played — flag football, touch football with the Chiefs front office every Thursday afternoon. One day I got a real bad case of bronchitis, almost like walking pneumonia, so I could not smoke a cigarette without coughing spasms.

So I said, “Well, I’m never gonna have a better time than now to quit when I can’t smoke.” So I quit then. So I’m safe, folks. I got out of it long before I hit 44. It’s like I never smoked, because of this research today. (interruption) Yeah, I smoke cigars, but I don’t inhale the cigars. You don’t inhale those. William F. Buckley inhaled his cigars. I kid you not. That was a real man. Mr. Buckley inhaled his cigars. Now, he didn’t smoke ’em all the time, but he was very proud of it. He’d blow smoke rings. He’d exhale smoke. He loved them.

But he inhaled the things.

I’ve never done that.

That would change the entire experience.