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Message 2069127 - Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 20:32:27 UTC - in response to Message 2069112.  
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This last comment has nothing to do with the late Rush Limbaugh.

We do not want this thread to degenerate into a flame war, incited by either "side". Let us respect the dead, pay tribute to him by all means giving the dead the honour they deserve and not use the thread for one's own political ends.

If this thread is not to contain political comments, why the hell is it on the Politics board?
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Message 2069131 - Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 21:34:17 UTC - in response to Message 2069127.  

I suggest you read the post you refer to carefully - stay within the bounds of honouring Rush's life and works, don't divert into other areas.
There is a lot in his life that can be explored, but keep to HIS politics. If you don't agree with HIS politics you are welcome to state that you don't agree with what he said, but DON'T dive into an opposing field, just state your opposition.
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Message 2069137 - Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 22:29:40 UTC - in response to Message 2069131.  

I suggest you read the post you refer to carefully - stay within the bounds of honouring Rush's life and works, don't divert into other areas.
There is a lot in his life that can be explored, but keep to HIS politics. If you don't agree with HIS politics you are welcome to state that you don't agree with what he said, but DON'T dive into an opposing field, just state your opposition.

But we are always asking for people to justify there opinions and there we have to produce the evidence, in this case it is political.
It cannot be split. So if you want a non-political thread in cannot be on the "Politics" board.

I strongly suggest it is moved, or allow political statements or close it.
Probably the third option would be the best idea.
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Message 2069144 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 0:00:33 UTC - in response to Message 2069137.  

If I recall correctly, this is a R.I.P. thread which I'm pretty sure I saw in the Café.
Some people in the limelight bring out either the best or worse in people.
One has only to remember the "Peaches" Geldof thread. That got cleaned up & then locked, which as the thread's originator, was quite pleased with.
To discuss the man's politics or whatever should have been done while alive.
So IMHO, the only option left is to lock the thread.
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Message 2069152 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 2:28:25 UTC - in response to Message 2069144.  

If I recall correctly, this is a R.I.P. thread which I'm pretty sure I saw in the Café.
Some people in the limelight bring out either the best or worse in people.
Or themselves as I'm rather sure it was the list of his life achievements that some had issue with.
As a human he deserved all that comes with that. His body is now providing a feast to other living things, the final act all of us will do, unless it is cut short by cremation.
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Message 2069153 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 3:16:30 UTC - in response to Message 2069152.  

He could have chosen composting
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Message 2069154 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 3:33:45 UTC
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Such a melange, posting tripe about a man upon his death.
May the same be said upon yours.
It's only fair, my prettys.


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Message 2069156 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 3:44:11 UTC



Iowa’s Cedar Rapids Gazette reported in 1990 that Limbaugh’s “AIDS Update,” a recurring segment in which he made jokes about a disease that had killed more than 100,000 people in the United States the previous decade, started by playing songs such as “Back in the Saddle Again,” “Kiss Him Goodbye,” “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” and “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.”

The “Aids Update” segment was short-lived. According to The New York Times, it ended after a few weeks. Limbaugh would call the segment one of “most regretful things I’ve ever done” because it was “making fun of people who were dying long, painful and excruciating deaths.”


I do give him some leeway that he pulled the segment and then publicly regretted it, but I could not find a formal apology, and really...to have ever considering broadcasting such a thing? And I am sure that he only pulled the segment due to the volume of negative feedback he received.

So, he definitely could have been worse, but I still don't think he was a person deserving of respect simply by dying while famous.
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Message 2069158 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 3:48:29 UTC
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I ain't sayin' he was a saint.
But he had a point of view that was his own.
As do I.
Saints and sinners all have theirs.

Regardless, it bodes one ill to talk trash about another upon their death.
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Message 2069160 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 3:59:00 UTC

And another fine radio voice, long gone, but remembered.
You should all remember.............Paul Harvey.
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Message 2069162 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 5:54:35 UTC - in response to Message 2069160.  

And another fine radio voice, long gone, but remembered.
You should all remember.............Paul Harvey.

That's a poor false equivalency
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Message 2069163 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 6:32:09 UTC - in response to Message 2069160.  

And another fine radio voice, long gone, but remembered.
You should all remember.............Paul Harvey.

Paul had his RIP https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=52307 Don't sully him by associating him with Rush.
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Message 2069164 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 6:59:44 UTC

No, it's not.
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Message 2069165 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 7:24:40 UTC
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You all wish.............
"He knows there is another part of the country west of the Hudson".........
And, unlike most of you, he realized that there are more important parts of life to bring light to other than your own problems.
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Message 2069166 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 7:49:42 UTC

For all of you, from where Rush is..............
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Message 2069176 - Posted: 24 Feb 2021, 13:01:11 UTC
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If I were the devil...........
Don't be a bad kitty.

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Message 2071888 - Posted: 27 Mar 2021, 0:05:16 UTC
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As if I pay attention to claims of someone being "gone".
That's right, I'm suggesting ... ummm, Rush (Limbaugh) ... is with Elvis on a distant planet in a parallel dimension, lurking in this thread. So, when Elviro-Rush reads this, R.I.P.
Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.
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