Rush Limbaugh
Early on the morning of New Year's Eve, Wikipedia posted a premature and presumptuous obituary: "Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, born January 12, 1951, died December 30, 2009) is an American radio host and conservative political commentator.
He is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.
It airs throughout the U.
S.
on Premiere Radio.
" That product of wishful thinking on the part of the editors of the free online encyclopedia, which has a distinct liberal slant in its approach to information, was not atypical of leftist sentiment.
After a few days in a Honolulu hospital, Limbaugh emerged hale and hearty, announced he merely had had phantom chest pains, thanked his fans for their good wishes and prayers, and was back to work lambasting liberals and leftists as soon as his vacation was over.
His brief hospital stay is not the story, however.
Most people, even some of his detractors, wished him well when his condition was uncertain and no one knew whether he would succumb to a heart attack.
Most people.
Those akin to black comedienne Wanda Sykes who tickled Barack Obama's fancy with her riotously sick "joke" last May weren't quite as gracious.
You may remember Wanda's funnies at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when she quipped that Limbaugh was the 20th highjacker on 9/11 but missed his flight because he "was strung out on oxycontin.
" She added that he was also guilty of treason.
It was her quickwitted comment that, "I hope his kidneys fail" that brought the White House down and had Obama rolling in the White House aisles.
Hey, if one can't make 9/11, treason, and failed kidneys into jokes, what can one laugh at? Politico.
com reported in "Diverse Reactions to Limbaugh," that there was great diversity on the Left with regard to Limbaugh's health and well-being.
Lefties just love diversity of all kinds but "diverse reactions" on whether any man lives or dies? That should be a new low for libs if not for the fact Sykes had already plumbed that depth.
To be sure, Rachael Maddow, Joan Walsh, and Alan Colmes did express kind wishes for Rush, although Rachel Sklar chipped in with this gem: "No stooping to wishing him ill, people! (Karma.
)" Sklar's cautioning that it would be bad Karma for her compatriots to hope Rush dies isn't exactly demonstrative of Christian charity since she feared that to do so could mean fate turning around and biting them on their arses.
The Sykes' twisted wing of liberalism was reflected in the thoughts of other observers.
.
Mother Jones's David Corn whined: "Rush, you've slimed me in the past.
But, I suppose, good luck to you...
[However,] 'resist the snark about Rush's rush to the hospital?' " after "Limbaugh suggested that Sen.
Ted Kennedy would be dead by the time health care reform legislation passes?" .
Wonkette: "RUSH LIMBAUGH is in 'serious condition' at a Hawaii hospital, and we shall save the Death Jokes until he earns them the old-fashioned way.
" .
TheFullGinsburg.
com wrote, "No one wants Rush Limbaugh to die.
But they do want his doctors to fail.
" .
Also see assorted leftist twits twittering on Twitter: http://bit.
ly/7ka7Jh My 2010 New Year's wish for "America's Truth Detector" was that he have a speedy recovery and a quick return to the golden EIB microphone.
That wish was fulfilled and no doubt Rush enjoyed one conservative blogger's presumably jesting offer that "I'd donate a heart to keep Rush alive.
Just need a knife and a liberal close by.
" Still, it would have been nice had leftist haters at least stifled their hate until Rush assumed room temperature.
He is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.
It airs throughout the U.
S.
on Premiere Radio.
" That product of wishful thinking on the part of the editors of the free online encyclopedia, which has a distinct liberal slant in its approach to information, was not atypical of leftist sentiment.
After a few days in a Honolulu hospital, Limbaugh emerged hale and hearty, announced he merely had had phantom chest pains, thanked his fans for their good wishes and prayers, and was back to work lambasting liberals and leftists as soon as his vacation was over.
His brief hospital stay is not the story, however.
Most people, even some of his detractors, wished him well when his condition was uncertain and no one knew whether he would succumb to a heart attack.
Most people.
Those akin to black comedienne Wanda Sykes who tickled Barack Obama's fancy with her riotously sick "joke" last May weren't quite as gracious.
You may remember Wanda's funnies at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when she quipped that Limbaugh was the 20th highjacker on 9/11 but missed his flight because he "was strung out on oxycontin.
" She added that he was also guilty of treason.
It was her quickwitted comment that, "I hope his kidneys fail" that brought the White House down and had Obama rolling in the White House aisles.
Hey, if one can't make 9/11, treason, and failed kidneys into jokes, what can one laugh at? Politico.
com reported in "Diverse Reactions to Limbaugh," that there was great diversity on the Left with regard to Limbaugh's health and well-being.
Lefties just love diversity of all kinds but "diverse reactions" on whether any man lives or dies? That should be a new low for libs if not for the fact Sykes had already plumbed that depth.
To be sure, Rachael Maddow, Joan Walsh, and Alan Colmes did express kind wishes for Rush, although Rachel Sklar chipped in with this gem: "No stooping to wishing him ill, people! (Karma.
)" Sklar's cautioning that it would be bad Karma for her compatriots to hope Rush dies isn't exactly demonstrative of Christian charity since she feared that to do so could mean fate turning around and biting them on their arses.
The Sykes' twisted wing of liberalism was reflected in the thoughts of other observers.
.
Mother Jones's David Corn whined: "Rush, you've slimed me in the past.
But, I suppose, good luck to you...
[However,] 'resist the snark about Rush's rush to the hospital?' " after "Limbaugh suggested that Sen.
Ted Kennedy would be dead by the time health care reform legislation passes?" .
Wonkette: "RUSH LIMBAUGH is in 'serious condition' at a Hawaii hospital, and we shall save the Death Jokes until he earns them the old-fashioned way.
" .
TheFullGinsburg.
com wrote, "No one wants Rush Limbaugh to die.
But they do want his doctors to fail.
" .
Also see assorted leftist twits twittering on Twitter: http://bit.
ly/7ka7Jh My 2010 New Year's wish for "America's Truth Detector" was that he have a speedy recovery and a quick return to the golden EIB microphone.
That wish was fulfilled and no doubt Rush enjoyed one conservative blogger's presumably jesting offer that "I'd donate a heart to keep Rush alive.
Just need a knife and a liberal close by.
" Still, it would have been nice had leftist haters at least stifled their hate until Rush assumed room temperature.