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Author Topic: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer  (Read 4073 times)

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Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« on: February 03, 2020, 2100 UTC »
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh revealed that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. On his radio show Monday....https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-advanced-lung-cancer
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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2020, 0215 UTC »
He had some nodes removed from his vocal chords in the aughts that were thought to be related to his heavy cigar smoking and was given the all clear. As you don't normally inhale cigars, I wonder if he liked to play at the local asbestos dump as a kid?

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2020, 0230 UTC »
Like a lot of industry veterans he was a heavy smoker previously, and has hinted at this over the years.  Likely the damage was done long ago.  An old radio mentor of mine used to say that people like him 'Had a voice that comes with gargling gasoline and razor blades'.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2020, 1150 UTC »
Like a lot of industry veterans he was a heavy smoker previously, and has hinted at this over the years.  Likely the damage was done long ago.  An old radio mentor of mine used to say that people like him 'Had a voice that comes with gargling gasoline and razor blades'.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2020, 2126 UTC »
Something I did not know, Rush Limbaugh was a DJ in the Pittsburgh area in the 1970s:

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2020, 2355 UTC »
Yes, he was. His Dad got him a job with the St. Louis Cardinals in promos/advertising/ and spotting when the Pittsburgh station cut staff so the family wouldn't have to suffer the shame of an insurance man in the fold.


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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2020, 0002 UTC »
Whoops! I think that was the K.C. Royals? Limbaugh had half the guys he knew from the Royals on his show the first couple of years he was in syndication.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2020, 0202 UTC »
Like a lot of industry veterans he was a heavy smoker previously, and has hinted at this over the years.  Likely the damage was done long ago.  An old radio mentor of mine used to say that people like him 'Had a voice that comes with gargling gasoline and razor blades'.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2020, 1737 UTC »


The Medal of Freedom honor for Mr. Limbaugh last night is the third to my knowledge for strictly a radio icon.  President Bush awarded it to Paul Harvey and President Obama bestowed it upon Vin Scully.  I believe the sudden awarding speaks to the gravity of Rush's condition.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2020, 0151 UTC »
He was a customer of a former employer back in the 1990s. Actually was a pretty nice guy IRL.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2020, 2228 UTC »
He was a customer of a former employer back in the 1990s. Actually was a pretty nice guy IRL.

I don't think his more rabid fans and detractors realized that most of his on air stuff was shtick, Ticom? 

I really liked G. Gordon Liddy's show from that era. Gord was a first class nut, instructing his listeners regularly of the many way's to kill someone with a freshly sharpened No. 2 pencil.

In the wake of Ruby Ridge and Waco, Liddy told his audience re; the ATF and other three letter agencies, that came into play in these stand-offs, "Aim for their legs. They're covered in body armor from the waist up."  That got the advertisers attention. Gord wasn't long for syndication after letting that one escape his lips.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2020, 2037 UTC »
G. Gordon Liddy and his Steely Dan connection.....A Liddy-directed politically motivated drug raid on Bard College in 1969 involved, among others, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who later formed the band Steely Dan and wrote the song "My Old School" about the raid. Liddy is referred to in the lyrics as "Daddy Gee."....http://tokinwoman.blogspot.com/2016/06/when-g-gordon-liddy-raided-eminent.html
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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2020, 2051 UTC »
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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2020, 2308 UTC »
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Re: Rush Limbaugh Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2020, 2323 UTC »
What are you talking about?

That is a zipped mouth.

Chris doesn’t want this thread to get political.  It’s already headed that way somewhat, but I am zippering my mouth to comply.
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