It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Soon after conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh announced on his Monday program that he has advanced lung cancer, leftists on social media — as we've come to expect — tore into Limbaugh with gusto.
"He, literally, has encouraged right-wing politicians to harm people, deprive healthcare, imprison innocent children, and let people die. Lives will be saved when he is gone."
"Couldn't have happened to a better person. I guess since he is a cancer to society, life is imitating art here."
"Karma."
"God works in mysterious ways."
"Such a painful disease. The suffering he will experience. The anguish of facing death after his despicable life will be a burden so heavy, it will destroy his soul."
"I'm sorry anyone has cancer. I won't be sorry to have someone who lies off the airwaves."
"'I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' Your time has come you vicious racist POS."
"Does that mean he will stop spreading hatred towards minorities from now on? Then that's OK."
"...I wish I didn't have to laugh my ass off at this."
"Good riddance."
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: Metallicus
The right has done the same with Ruth every announcement of her health.
It's a minority of each side that project vitriol in times like this, but it's what people here and use to paint with a broad brush.
Given today's partisan nature... It doesn't surprise me when you have a few from either side behaving like this... But they shouldn't be used as the voice of the whole.
originally posted by: DietWoke
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Are you referring to Ruth as in supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Big difference there my old friend.
One holds a microphone and the other holds one of the most prestigious seats of public service in the country.
It's not unwarranted to ask someone to step down from such an office when they're all but incapacitated.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: Edumakated
Look no further than ATS itself on Ruth.
I made sure to emphasize it was a minority... Just like it is here.
it's not unwarranted to ask someone to step down from such an office when they're all but incapacitated.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: DietWoke
it's not unwarranted to ask someone to step down from such an office when they're all but incapacitated.
No, but that's vastly different than celebrating it.
Again, we're talking about minorities on either side who shouldn't represent the whole.
But the thread would have us believe one side does it and the other doesn't. I've seen it from both.
let’s not forget that for years he sided with big tobacco claiming that there was no proof smoking caused cancer. That type of irony is inescapable.