Rush Limbaugh

[47of74]

Rush has cancer

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Rush Limbaugh, the most prominent political radio host in the United States, said Monday that he is beginning treatment for lung cancer.

Limbaugh, 69, told his radio audience Monday that he was diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease. He said the diagnosis was confirmed on January 20.

"I wish I didn't have to tell you this, and I thought about not trying to tell anybody, I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, because I don't like making things about me," Limbaugh said. But "there are going to be days that I'm not going to be able to be here, because I will be undergoing treatment, or I'm reacting to treatment."

Limbaugh has been hosting "The Rush Limbaugh Show" in national syndication for 31 years. He is a Republican party icon and a close ally of President Trump's.

Well since I can’t say anything nice I’ll just leave it at that 

[SPHASH]

5 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Rush has cancer

Well since I can’t say anything nice I’ll just leave it at that 

Allow me to speak on your behalf.  I felt sorry for Ted Kennedy and John McCain when they had cancer but I never will for Rush Limbaugh.  He is a piece of human excrement whom I hope will suffer unbearable pain in his final days.  This is the same man who accused Michael J Fox of faking his Parkinson's, called a woman a whore for testifying to Congress about how expensive birth control, openly rooted for President Obama to fail, called a teenager Chelsey Clinton a dog, used his housekeeper to score drugs, and used an anal cyst to get out of military service.  No he will not get a pass from me.

[JenniferJuniper]

I'll be happy to never have to listen to my boss listening to his show ever again.  Don't care if he's dead or what he dies from.  Don't care if his death is peaceful or pure torture for him.  I just don't want to ever have to hear his personal brand of hateful insanity ever again.

[47of74]

5 minutes ago, JenniferJuniper said:

I'll be happy to never have to listen to my boss listening to his show ever again.  Don't care if he's dead or what he dies from.  Don't care if his death is peaceful or pure torture for him.  I just don't want to ever have to hear his personal brand of hateful insanity ever again.

If I never heard his voice again it'd be too soon.  Him and the rest of the Orange Butt Plug's Fluffer Club all seem to have voices that are worse than nails on chalkboard (and I do a full body shudder just thinking of the nails on chalkboards too).

[Audrey2]

Actually, I put him right up there with Fox News in the category things that have destroyed America.

[AuntK]

Thoughts and prayers. . .

[GreyhoundFan]

FFS: "Trump says he plans to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh"

Spoiler

President Trump said Tuesday that he plans to award Rush Limbaugh a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and spoke at length about Limbaugh’s power, saying he only learned Monday that the conservative talk-show host was sick and that he’d seen him several weeks ago.

Trump told the anchors ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address that he had wanted Limbaugh to attend the speech, according to people familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Washington Post was not invited and did not attend the luncheon.

Several people during the two-hour, off-the-record lunch said the president was in a good mood and predicted a speech of about one hour and 25 minutes.

The president covered a wide range of topics during the meeting.

When he was asked about Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) saying he had learned a lesson during impeachment, the president said he’d done nothing wrong: “It was a perfect call.”

Trump said he would participate in the general election debates in the fall, after weeks of indecision within his campaign and complaints from the president himself.

He claimed his approval numbers among black voters climbed higher after he hosted rapper Kanye West at the White House in 2018. Trump also suggested that he would win by a large margin in November if numbers among black voters continued to rise.

On the 2020 Democratic race, Trump said that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was “nastier and smarter” than the other contenders and that he couldn’t quite figure out why former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg was gaining strength, attendees said. The president said he was not sure who his general-election opponent would be and that a brokered convention might be the outcome among the Democrats.

At one point, Vice President Pence, who attended the lunch, said the state of Indiana had stepped in and helped Buttigieg with an economic grant when his city was struggling and while Pence was governor, attendees said.

Trump expressed frustration with former national security adviser John Bolton, who the president said had turned on him.

Trump also mocked Bolton by saying that he always wanted to be called “ambassador,” even internally at the White House, and that his ambassadorship to the United Nations in the mid-2000s was a recess appointment.

Trump also said he wanted to block Bolton’s forthcoming book from being published, according to two people familiar with knowledge of the lunch. The White House has only said that the book has classified information and that Bolton needs to make changes to the book. Bolton is said to allege that Trump tied aid to Ukraine to politically motivated investigations of his opponents, and people familiar with the project say it is unflattering to the president.

The president told the anchors that Bolton could have written the book once Trump left office but that doing it while Trump is still in office “is not right.”

The president also touched on foreign policy. He said that he believed Iran did not seek to inflict maximum damage when it launched a strike last month on bases used by U.S. troops in Iraq but that war with Tehran was “closer than you thought.”

Among the anchors who attended the luncheon were CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier, ABC News’s David Muir and George Stephanopoulos and NBC News’s Lester Holt, the people familiar with the meeting said.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham declined to comment on the meeting. “I’m not going to comment on an off-the-record lunch because I actually have ethics,” she said.

 

[47of74]

55 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

FFS: "Trump says he plans to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh"

  Reveal hidden contents

President Trump said Tuesday that he plans to award Rush Limbaugh a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and spoke at length about Limbaugh’s power, saying he only learned Monday that the conservative talk-show host was sick and that he’d seen him several weeks ago.

Trump told the anchors ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address that he had wanted Limbaugh to attend the speech, according to people familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Washington Post was not invited and did not attend the luncheon.

Several people during the two-hour, off-the-record lunch said the president was in a good mood and predicted a speech of about one hour and 25 minutes.

The president covered a wide range of topics during the meeting.

When he was asked about Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) saying he had learned a lesson during impeachment, the president said he’d done nothing wrong: “It was a perfect call.”

Trump said he would participate in the general election debates in the fall, after weeks of indecision within his campaign and complaints from the president himself.

He claimed his approval numbers among black voters climbed higher after he hosted rapper Kanye West at the White House in 2018. Trump also suggested that he would win by a large margin in November if numbers among black voters continued to rise.

On the 2020 Democratic race, Trump said that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was “nastier and smarter” than the other contenders and that he couldn’t quite figure out why former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg was gaining strength, attendees said. The president said he was not sure who his general-election opponent would be and that a brokered convention might be the outcome among the Democrats.

At one point, Vice President Pence, who attended the lunch, said the state of Indiana had stepped in and helped Buttigieg with an economic grant when his city was struggling and while Pence was governor, attendees said.

Trump expressed frustration with former national security adviser John Bolton, who the president said had turned on him.

Trump also mocked Bolton by saying that he always wanted to be called “ambassador,” even internally at the White House, and that his ambassadorship to the United Nations in the mid-2000s was a recess appointment.

Trump also said he wanted to block Bolton’s forthcoming book from being published, according to two people familiar with knowledge of the lunch. The White House has only said that the book has classified information and that Bolton needs to make changes to the book. Bolton is said to allege that Trump tied aid to Ukraine to politically motivated investigations of his opponents, and people familiar with the project say it is unflattering to the president.

The president told the anchors that Bolton could have written the book once Trump left office but that doing it while Trump is still in office “is not right.”

The president also touched on foreign policy. He said that he believed Iran did not seek to inflict maximum damage when it launched a strike last month on bases used by U.S. troops in Iraq but that war with Tehran was “closer than you thought.”

Among the anchors who attended the luncheon were CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier, ABC News’s David Muir and George Stephanopoulos and NBC News’s Lester Holt, the people familiar with the meeting said.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham declined to comment on the meeting. “I’m not going to comment on an off-the-record lunch because I actually have ethics,” she said.

 

Any sympathy I had for Limpdick just went away.  Fuck him.  And fuck Fuck face too.  Both of them shit and piss all over everything that was ever good and decent about this country.

Edited February 5, 2020 by 47of74

[Glasgowghirl]

I have never heard any of his shows, thank god but people like him and the ones we have like him in the UK are people I find it hard to sympathise with. They spout crap about other people daily and their propaganda has put made Trump president, made Brexit happen and given Boris Johnson a landslide victory. While I'd never wish cancer on anyone, I also won't be sending him get well soon wishes either. 

[Walking Cat Bed]

I hope he receives care and kindness equivalent to that which he gave others.

[JMarie]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham declined to comment on the meeting. “I’m not going to comment on an off-the-record lunch because I actually have ethics,” she said.

When did this happen?

[thoughtful]

58 minutes ago, JMarie said:

When did this happen?

I think she killed someone and stole them.

[Giraffe]

WTF did he do to “earn” the presidential medal of freedom?!? The man is a horrible human being! The orange toddler is making a mockery of so many things! And now he’s awarded him! I just want to scream! 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[nokidsmom]

15 hours ago, Glasgowghirl said:

I have never heard any of his shows, thank god but people like him and the ones we have like him in the UK are people I find it hard to sympathise with. They spout crap about other people daily and their propaganda has put made Trump president, made Brexit happen and given Boris Johnson a landslide victory. While I'd never wish cancer on anyone, I also won't be sending him get well soon wishes either. 

I never listened to his show namely because what I heard second hand was bad enough, it was so vile.    And I agree that the crap that he and his ilk spouted have contributed greatly to the state of political (and personal) affairs today,   It was listening to him that  set Mr. No's father in particular into "Dittohead" land (from which he has never emerged) straining an already difficult relationship with his son.   

I take no pleasure in someone's sickness and misfortune, and it is an unfortunate thing to happen to someone no matter who you are.   But I too, have difficulty in extending well wishes in this case.  

[GreyhoundFan]

Good grief: "Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: ‘The common cold’ that’s being ‘weaponized’ against Trump"

Spoiler

Just hours after World Health Organization officials said they are preparing for a “potential pandemic” as coronavirus cases increase worldwide, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Monday that he would try to put the concerning news about the novel virus “in perspective” for them.

“It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump,” Limbaugh said during his Monday show. “Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

In a roughly 10-minute segment, Limbaugh criticized the media for overhyping the virus in “an effort to get Trump,” repeated a debunked fringe theory linking the outbreak to Chinese biological weapons research and found time to attack Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Critics accused the recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient of “spreading bad information” about coronavirus to the millions who tune into his show, calling the remarks “wildly irresponsible” in light of the potential pandemic. Though more than 80 percent of current coronavirus cases are mild, the new strain that originated in Wuhan, China, in late December has since sickened 77,658 people with a cumulative death toll of 2,663, according to the most recent official figures Tuesday.

“Stunningly reckless,” tweeted Charlie Sykes, founder of the Bulwark, a conservative news site.

On Monday, Limbaugh kicked off his coronavirus monologue by attacking media coverage of the outbreak.

“It’s really being hyped as a deadly Andromeda strain or Ebola pandemic that, ‘Oh, my God, is going to wipe out the nation. It’s going to wipe out the population of the world,’ ” the host said.

“The survival rate of this is 98 percent,” he continued. “You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2 percent of the people get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu, folks.”

The estimated death rate of the new virus that causes the disease covid-19 is about 2 in 100 confirmed infections, The Washington Post recently reported. But researchers have expressed concern about containing the rapidly spreading disease, which does not yet have a vaccine.

While Limbaugh stressed to listeners that he wasn’t “trying to get you to let your guard down,” the host argued that panicking about coronavirus is unwarranted.

“There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus. In fact, coronavirus is not something new,” he said, later adding, “We’re not talking about something here that’s gonna wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there.”

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which infected more than 8,000 people in 2003, according to the WHO. The coronavirus at the center of the ongoing outbreak is a new strain that had not been identified in humans until cases started cropping up in Wuhan last year, the WHO reported.

Limbaugh went on to reference the fringe theory that the virus originated from a Chinese laboratory in the city where the outbreak began — an idea that has been widely dismissed by experts.

“Based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus,” Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Post’s Adam Taylor.

In another interview with The Post, Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the suggestion that a lab accident caused the outbreak was “highly unlikely,” citing a lack of evidence.

“It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” said Narang, a political science professor with a background in chemical engineering.

Still, Limbaugh appeared convinced Monday that the virus was probably “a Chicom laboratory experiment.”

“I’m telling you, the Chicoms are trying to weaponize this thing,” Limbaugh said, using a slang term to refer to Chinese Communists. He later added, “Well, every nation is working on things like this, and the Chicoms obviously in their lab are doing something here with the coronavirus — and it got out.”

But then Limbaugh suggested that the virus was being “weaponized” another way: by the media to target Trump.

Limbaugh, a staunch ally of the president, claimed that media coverage was scaring investors and people in business to cash out of the stock market as part of a larger effort to suggest that “Trump and capitalism are destroying America and destroying the world.”

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 1,000 points for its largest drop in two years, prompting Trump to tweet that “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” adding, “CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

To conclude his remarks, Limbaugh sought to remind his listeners of the virus’s origin.

“It came from a country that Bernie Sanders wants to turn the United States into a mirror image of, Communist China,” he said, attacking the self-described democratic socialist who has taken a commanding lead among Democrats vying for the presidential nomination. “That’s where it came from. It didn’t come from an American lab. It didn’t escape from an American research lab. It hasn’t been spread by Americans. It starts out in a communist country.”

Social media erupted with a flurry of reactions Monday as transcriptions of Limbaugh’s comments went viral.

Parker Molloy, an editor-at-large for the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America, fact-checked Limbaugh’s “common cold” comparison.

Others tore into the host, slamming Monday’s segment as “so irresponsible” and “dangerous.”

“Rush Limbaugh is telling his listeners not to worry about the coronavirus covid-19 because ‘it’s just the common cold’ and ‘there’s a 98% survival rate,’” one person tweeted. “If he has an audience of, say, 10 million listeners and they all caught it, 98% survival rate means 200,000 dead listeners.”

 

[JMarie]

6 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Good grief: "Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: ‘The common cold’ that’s being ‘weaponized’ against Trump"

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Just hours after World Health Organization officials said they are preparing for a “potential pandemic” as coronavirus cases increase worldwide, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Monday that he would try to put the concerning news about the novel virus “in perspective” for them.

“It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump,” Limbaugh said during his Monday show. “Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

In a roughly 10-minute segment, Limbaugh criticized the media for overhyping the virus in “an effort to get Trump,” repeated a debunked fringe theory linking the outbreak to Chinese biological weapons research and found time to attack Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Critics accused the recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient of “spreading bad information” about coronavirus to the millions who tune into his show, calling the remarks “wildly irresponsible” in light of the potential pandemic. Though more than 80 percent of current coronavirus cases are mild, the new strain that originated in Wuhan, China, in late December has since sickened 77,658 people with a cumulative death toll of 2,663, according to the most recent official figures Tuesday.

“Stunningly reckless,” tweeted Charlie Sykes, founder of the Bulwark, a conservative news site.

On Monday, Limbaugh kicked off his coronavirus monologue by attacking media coverage of the outbreak.

“It’s really being hyped as a deadly Andromeda strain or Ebola pandemic that, ‘Oh, my God, is going to wipe out the nation. It’s going to wipe out the population of the world,’ ” the host said.

“The survival rate of this is 98 percent,” he continued. “You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2 percent of the people get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu, folks.”

The estimated death rate of the new virus that causes the disease covid-19 is about 2 in 100 confirmed infections, The Washington Post recently reported. But researchers have expressed concern about containing the rapidly spreading disease, which does not yet have a vaccine.

While Limbaugh stressed to listeners that he wasn’t “trying to get you to let your guard down,” the host argued that panicking about coronavirus is unwarranted.

“There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus. In fact, coronavirus is not something new,” he said, later adding, “We’re not talking about something here that’s gonna wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there.”

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which infected more than 8,000 people in 2003, according to the WHO. The coronavirus at the center of the ongoing outbreak is a new strain that had not been identified in humans until cases started cropping up in Wuhan last year, the WHO reported.

Limbaugh went on to reference the fringe theory that the virus originated from a Chinese laboratory in the city where the outbreak began — an idea that has been widely dismissed by experts.

“Based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus,” Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Post’s Adam Taylor.

In another interview with The Post, Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the suggestion that a lab accident caused the outbreak was “highly unlikely,” citing a lack of evidence.

“It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” said Narang, a political science professor with a background in chemical engineering.

Still, Limbaugh appeared convinced Monday that the virus was probably “a Chicom laboratory experiment.”

“I’m telling you, the Chicoms are trying to weaponize this thing,” Limbaugh said, using a slang term to refer to Chinese Communists. He later added, “Well, every nation is working on things like this, and the Chicoms obviously in their lab are doing something here with the coronavirus — and it got out.”

But then Limbaugh suggested that the virus was being “weaponized” another way: by the media to target Trump.

Limbaugh, a staunch ally of the president, claimed that media coverage was scaring investors and people in business to cash out of the stock market as part of a larger effort to suggest that “Trump and capitalism are destroying America and destroying the world.”

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 1,000 points for its largest drop in two years, prompting Trump to tweet that “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” adding, “CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

To conclude his remarks, Limbaugh sought to remind his listeners of the virus’s origin.

“It came from a country that Bernie Sanders wants to turn the United States into a mirror image of, Communist China,” he said, attacking the self-described democratic socialist who has taken a commanding lead among Democrats vying for the presidential nomination. “That’s where it came from. It didn’t come from an American lab. It didn’t escape from an American research lab. It hasn’t been spread by Americans. It starts out in a communist country.”

Social media erupted with a flurry of reactions Monday as transcriptions of Limbaugh’s comments went viral.

Parker Molloy, an editor-at-large for the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America, fact-checked Limbaugh’s “common cold” comparison.

Others tore into the host, slamming Monday’s segment as “so irresponsible” and “dangerous.”

“Rush Limbaugh is telling his listeners not to worry about the coronavirus covid-19 because ‘it’s just the common cold’ and ‘there’s a 98% survival rate,’” one person tweeted. “If he has an audience of, say, 10 million listeners and they all caught it, 98% survival rate means 200,000 dead listeners.”

 

If he's receiving chemo for his advanced lung cancer, he better pray the coronavirus isn't anywhere near him.

[Xan]

8 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Good grief: "Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: ‘The common cold’ that’s being ‘weaponized’ against Trump"

  Reveal hidden contents

Just hours after World Health Organization officials said they are preparing for a “potential pandemic” as coronavirus cases increase worldwide, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Monday that he would try to put the concerning news about the novel virus “in perspective” for them.

“It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump,” Limbaugh said during his Monday show. “Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

In a roughly 10-minute segment, Limbaugh criticized the media for overhyping the virus in “an effort to get Trump,” repeated a debunked fringe theory linking the outbreak to Chinese biological weapons research and found time to attack Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Critics accused the recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient of “spreading bad information” about coronavirus to the millions who tune into his show, calling the remarks “wildly irresponsible” in light of the potential pandemic. Though more than 80 percent of current coronavirus cases are mild, the new strain that originated in Wuhan, China, in late December has since sickened 77,658 people with a cumulative death toll of 2,663, according to the most recent official figures Tuesday.

“Stunningly reckless,” tweeted Charlie Sykes, founder of the Bulwark, a conservative news site.

On Monday, Limbaugh kicked off his coronavirus monologue by attacking media coverage of the outbreak.

“It’s really being hyped as a deadly Andromeda strain or Ebola pandemic that, ‘Oh, my God, is going to wipe out the nation. It’s going to wipe out the population of the world,’ ” the host said.

“The survival rate of this is 98 percent,” he continued. “You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2 percent of the people get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu, folks.”

The estimated death rate of the new virus that causes the disease covid-19 is about 2 in 100 confirmed infections, The Washington Post recently reported. But researchers have expressed concern about containing the rapidly spreading disease, which does not yet have a vaccine.

While Limbaugh stressed to listeners that he wasn’t “trying to get you to let your guard down,” the host argued that panicking about coronavirus is unwarranted.

“There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus. In fact, coronavirus is not something new,” he said, later adding, “We’re not talking about something here that’s gonna wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there.”

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which infected more than 8,000 people in 2003, according to the WHO. The coronavirus at the center of the ongoing outbreak is a new strain that had not been identified in humans until cases started cropping up in Wuhan last year, the WHO reported.

Limbaugh went on to reference the fringe theory that the virus originated from a Chinese laboratory in the city where the outbreak began — an idea that has been widely dismissed by experts.

“Based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus,” Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Post’s Adam Taylor.

In another interview with The Post, Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the suggestion that a lab accident caused the outbreak was “highly unlikely,” citing a lack of evidence.

“It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” said Narang, a political science professor with a background in chemical engineering.

Still, Limbaugh appeared convinced Monday that the virus was probably “a Chicom laboratory experiment.”

“I’m telling you, the Chicoms are trying to weaponize this thing,” Limbaugh said, using a slang term to refer to Chinese Communists. He later added, “Well, every nation is working on things like this, and the Chicoms obviously in their lab are doing something here with the coronavirus — and it got out.”

But then Limbaugh suggested that the virus was being “weaponized” another way: by the media to target Trump.

Limbaugh, a staunch ally of the president, claimed that media coverage was scaring investors and people in business to cash out of the stock market as part of a larger effort to suggest that “Trump and capitalism are destroying America and destroying the world.”

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 1,000 points for its largest drop in two years, prompting Trump to tweet that “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” adding, “CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

To conclude his remarks, Limbaugh sought to remind his listeners of the virus’s origin.

“It came from a country that Bernie Sanders wants to turn the United States into a mirror image of, Communist China,” he said, attacking the self-described democratic socialist who has taken a commanding lead among Democrats vying for the presidential nomination. “That’s where it came from. It didn’t come from an American lab. It didn’t escape from an American research lab. It hasn’t been spread by Americans. It starts out in a communist country.”

Social media erupted with a flurry of reactions Monday as transcriptions of Limbaugh’s comments went viral.

Parker Molloy, an editor-at-large for the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America, fact-checked Limbaugh’s “common cold” comparison.

Others tore into the host, slamming Monday’s segment as “so irresponsible” and “dangerous.”

“Rush Limbaugh is telling his listeners not to worry about the coronavirus covid-19 because ‘it’s just the common cold’ and ‘there’s a 98% survival rate,’” one person tweeted. “If he has an audience of, say, 10 million listeners and they all caught it, 98% survival rate means 200,000 dead listeners.”

 

One of my kids remarked, "The old fart is dying and he's just wanting everyone else to die along with him."

[Audrey2]

12 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Good grief: "Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: ‘The common cold’ that’s being ‘weaponized’ against Trump"

  Reveal hidden contents

Just hours after World Health Organization officials said they are preparing for a “potential pandemic” as coronavirus cases increase worldwide, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Monday that he would try to put the concerning news about the novel virus “in perspective” for them.

“It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump,” Limbaugh said during his Monday show. “Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

In a roughly 10-minute segment, Limbaugh criticized the media for overhyping the virus in “an effort to get Trump,” repeated a debunked fringe theory linking the outbreak to Chinese biological weapons research and found time to attack Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Critics accused the recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient of “spreading bad information” about coronavirus to the millions who tune into his show, calling the remarks “wildly irresponsible” in light of the potential pandemic. Though more than 80 percent of current coronavirus cases are mild, the new strain that originated in Wuhan, China, in late December has since sickened 77,658 people with a cumulative death toll of 2,663, according to the most recent official figures Tuesday.

“Stunningly reckless,” tweeted Charlie Sykes, founder of the Bulwark, a conservative news site.

On Monday, Limbaugh kicked off his coronavirus monologue by attacking media coverage of the outbreak.

“It’s really being hyped as a deadly Andromeda strain or Ebola pandemic that, ‘Oh, my God, is going to wipe out the nation. It’s going to wipe out the population of the world,’ ” the host said.

“The survival rate of this is 98 percent,” he continued. “You have to read very deeply to find that number, that 2 percent of the people get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu, folks.”

The estimated death rate of the new virus that causes the disease covid-19 is about 2 in 100 confirmed infections, The Washington Post recently reported. But researchers have expressed concern about containing the rapidly spreading disease, which does not yet have a vaccine.

While Limbaugh stressed to listeners that he wasn’t “trying to get you to let your guard down,” the host argued that panicking about coronavirus is unwarranted.

“There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus. In fact, coronavirus is not something new,” he said, later adding, “We’re not talking about something here that’s gonna wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there.”

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which infected more than 8,000 people in 2003, according to the WHO. The coronavirus at the center of the ongoing outbreak is a new strain that had not been identified in humans until cases started cropping up in Wuhan last year, the WHO reported.

Limbaugh went on to reference the fringe theory that the virus originated from a Chinese laboratory in the city where the outbreak began — an idea that has been widely dismissed by experts.

“Based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus,” Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Post’s Adam Taylor.

In another interview with The Post, Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the suggestion that a lab accident caused the outbreak was “highly unlikely,” citing a lack of evidence.

“It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” said Narang, a political science professor with a background in chemical engineering.

Still, Limbaugh appeared convinced Monday that the virus was probably “a Chicom laboratory experiment.”

“I’m telling you, the Chicoms are trying to weaponize this thing,” Limbaugh said, using a slang term to refer to Chinese Communists. He later added, “Well, every nation is working on things like this, and the Chicoms obviously in their lab are doing something here with the coronavirus — and it got out.”

But then Limbaugh suggested that the virus was being “weaponized” another way: by the media to target Trump.

Limbaugh, a staunch ally of the president, claimed that media coverage was scaring investors and people in business to cash out of the stock market as part of a larger effort to suggest that “Trump and capitalism are destroying America and destroying the world.”

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 1,000 points for its largest drop in two years, prompting Trump to tweet that “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” adding, “CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

To conclude his remarks, Limbaugh sought to remind his listeners of the virus’s origin.

“It came from a country that Bernie Sanders wants to turn the United States into a mirror image of, Communist China,” he said, attacking the self-described democratic socialist who has taken a commanding lead among Democrats vying for the presidential nomination. “That’s where it came from. It didn’t come from an American lab. It didn’t escape from an American research lab. It hasn’t been spread by Americans. It starts out in a communist country.”

Social media erupted with a flurry of reactions Monday as transcriptions of Limbaugh’s comments went viral.

Parker Molloy, an editor-at-large for the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America, fact-checked Limbaugh’s “common cold” comparison.

Others tore into the host, slamming Monday’s segment as “so irresponsible” and “dangerous.”

“Rush Limbaugh is telling his listeners not to worry about the coronavirus covid-19 because ‘it’s just the common cold’ and ‘there’s a 98% survival rate,’” one person tweeted. “If he has an audience of, say, 10 million listeners and they all caught it, 98% survival rate means 200,000 dead listeners.”

 

Rush, I know that you have cancer, but since Coronavirus is no big deal, why don't you go and spend time in China to report on the Virus. Maybe you should hang out there until you get it so you can get it and then possibly heal from it and tell us about it. (Knowing that he may not survive it.)

[Marmion]

 Or something like that .  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/01/09/cuba-has-lung-cancer-vaccine-many-u-s-patients-cant-get-without-breaking-law/1019093001/ 

[Cartmann99]

 

 

 

[JMarie]

16 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

 

 

 

I don't think it's the president's duty to "spread" rumors that he may or may not believe, just to "throw gasoline on the fire, having fun watching the flames." If that were the case, he'd be bringing up 9/11 being an inside job and chemtrails, in addition to all those fun Fox News buzzwords (Steel dossier, Hillary, Ukraine, FISA, and all the others we all know and love).

[SPHASH]

Rush's cancer is now terminal.  I hope he lives long enough to see Biden elected.  

[Becky]

Lung cancer is not a pretty way to go. I am having a wee bit of trouble mustering up much in the way of sympathy, though. I wonder if he regrets, at all, the vitriol and hate he has peddled all these years. 

[Maggie Mae]

Has he apologized yet for denying the reality that smoking causes lung cancer?