Devastating. There are no words to adequately reflect the sadness in this day. Our beloved Rush Limbaugh has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Wings of angels dear friend,…. on wings of angels. Let us mourn deeply!
Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.
Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show.
The radio icon learned he had Stage IV lung cancer in January 2020 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump at the State of the Union address days later. First lady Melania Trump then presented America’s highest civilian honor to Limbaugh in an emotional moment on the heels of his devastating cancer diagnosis. (more from Fox News)
WOW!!! Absolutely beautiful.
RIP Rush. 30 yrs. of listening to Rush.
“The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you’re gone.”
Don Williams Jr.
I count myself among the multitude that received such a gift from Rush.
Our lose is Heavens gain.
The saddest of days.
God Bless Rush Limbaugh
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Found in the bin…. 🙁
Thank You, Ad rem!
It was inevitable that the good Lord took Rush home. He wouldn’t want Rush to see the end of America……..a country Rush loved and cheered on daily. RIP El Rush-Bo. you will be missed and mourned by millions of ditto-heads forever.
Yes I praise God he will not have to live through this time, though I know it pained him not to stay here and guide us on.
Rush was part of my day, everyday…God, I will miss him. RIP my Brother, RIP.
Who knows what tomorrow brings to us on the radio at midday. There’s a hole in my heart.
Nothing for me. I honestly have no use for the radio anymore.
Carter, I started listening to Rush while doing P&D work in my truck in the late ’80s. The man turned me on to talk radio. I loved the “Rush is Right” bumper stickers. I won’t listen to anything else.
RIP Rush
Sad.
Utter sadness. I will miss Rush.
I shed water for Rush (reference to Dune). He taught me we do have a voice. God Speed to you.
I remember clearly the first time I heard Rush on the radio, in the car, in 1990. I couldn’t believe my ears and couldn’t wait to tell my husband, and call my mother. I gave her a subscription to the Limbaugh Letter the following Christmas. It was her favorite gift. In the years that followed, after I went back to work full-time, she would listen to Rush for both of us, and then debrief me in our frequent and extended long distance phone visits, pre cell phone era.
Thank you, Rush. God bless you for straightening me out. Your unflagging efforts made me a better citizen, a better mother, and a better high school teacher. You, with your voice of the unvarnished truth, also made me a better friend to my mother during the last years of her life because you gave us so much to talk about, so much to agree on, and so much to laugh about with your humor, your parodies, and your repeated take-downs of the political clown show. You revived in us such deep hope for our Country.
i am certain that my Mom was happy to stand in a long line today, à la Trump Rally style, to welcome you to Heaven. Mega dittos, dear and trusted Friend. You brought the Excellence n Broadcasting into our homes and into our lives. God bless you, Dedicated Servant to God and Country.
Found in the bin… 🙁
Thank you, Ad rem.
Thank you. You said it.
Exquisite.
He put forth unrelenting effort to educate and warn.
Now, we have to continue on his behalf.
Unparalleled Sadness in my Heart. I know he has gone to GOD, selfishly I wish we all had more time with him. My deepest sympathies to his wife & family. Godspeed – Rest Easy Rush, Rest Easy.
I was a long time listener and while I never got to meet him in person i was lucky enough to once talk with him on his show. I was so nervous that I spoke really fast and tripped all over my words. Right now I’m having trouble putting into words what he meant to me. He was like a friend who could help you see something that was troubling you from a different perspective and let you know it would be all right.
I teared up when I heard the news today.
Godspeed Rush. May you Rest In Peace and bask in the Glory of God. And may God Bless you, Catherine and all of your family. Thank you for everything.
(Edit) Kathryn
I had to go back and relisten just to confirm but I remembered RUSH gave a great shoutout to CTH website in the first minute of his first hour of the second to last show he ever was live, February 1, 2021.
We loved you Rush for 30 years! We will never forget you. You will be a beacon of light for conservatism at least for Trump party.
As an immigrant who came to the US in 1988 and later became a citizen in 1999, I learned about this nation, its great founders, their vision, their courage and almost everything about conservatism and politics from Rush. I discovered Rush by accident in 1990 while working in New York and now 30 years later, Rush was still the best. I am overwhelmed by sadness yet grateful that talent has returned to its rightful place beside its creator. May God Bless Kathryn and his whole extended family and his wonderful EIB family of co-workers.
We knew when my dad was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1994 that he might make it a year, and so you have a year to try and process it all and make your plans and say your goodbyes. He lasted 18 months, well beyond expectations. Nothing you can do prepares you for it, though I can say that I prefer how he chose to end over the continuation of the horrible pain he felt. He kept teaching right up to his last school day that year, and passed in late summer.
One of the greatest and most influential Americans in the past half-century has died after a valiant fight. He fought to the last day for all of us, and he will be sorely missed. I’m glad he is no longer in pain and will be able to take to the Golden EIB Microphone in the sky in peace and joy and love.
Makes you wonder about the long lives of the most corrupt and vile of politicians, like Leahy.
Go rest high on that Mountain, rest in peace Sir.
I find myself more emotional today than I expected to be. I am of an age that I have been blessed to have Rush in my life for many, many years. He showed us the path we need to be brave enough to take. RIP, El Rushbo. You are loved.
Mega Dittoes, Rush. God rest your worthy soul.
I listened to his show today which of course was one of his past, and i was overwhelmed with sobs..to think I will never hear his wisdom and words again. I loved that man and can think of not one that could take his place. For sure I will see him in the next life as he was saved..his belief in Jesus Christ as his savior was revealed in his personal testimony of salvation. I still cannot believe it!!! I will mourn for him as a close member of my family.
Rush was able to articulate small C conservatism in a way few if any ever could. The America he spoke of is the America I love. He spoke of it in a way that spoke to my soul.
R.I.P.
May our Loving Gracious God welcome Rush today with the words well done my good and faithful servant. Dear God please hold his family and friends in your arms today as they grieve the loss.
Rush is still the mayor or Realville in Heaven and he never ever felt sorry for himself to us. Godspeed Rush and peace to his family.
I am honored to be able to say I lived in a time of two of the greatest radio voices ever, Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh.
God bless you Rush for all you did. We will honor your name by continuing the fight.
In 1992 a boyfriend introduced me to Rush.
I was blown away.
He red pillled me from then on.
He will be sorely missed.
When Kathryn came on the air, I started tearing up. I knew what she was there for. And I knew this day was gonna eventually come. I just wasn’t ready for it. It still chokes me up. I haven’t felt like this since my dad died. Uuugh, this sucks.
first time I heard Rush was on his very first day in Sacramento. At that time I was registered as a Republican, but I wouldn’t be considered a conservative. It didn’t take Rush long to school me in politics and I’ve been a conservative since that time. I will dearly miss him.
The more I read here the more tears coming down. Very sad. We lost a warrior.
We all have many memories of Rush. I heard him speak in person at CPAC in February 2009. He had either a few days earlier said he hopes Obama fails or he said it first there. He had the entire CPAC audience on its feet the whole time.
You know one of my fondest memories/quotes of Rush? The day before presidential elections, he would close out his radio show with these words: “We meet tomorrow, at dawn.” I feel he is saying that now to his listeners and supporters: meet tomorrow, at dawn, and do what must be done in the days and years ahead.
God Bless you, Rush, and may he comfort Kathryn, your family and friends. Peace……
One of the great things about Rush is he was one of US and he made a LOT of money at the expense of the Libs…and we were good with that!!
I was in the Navy when Rush went national back in 1988. When I got out of the Navy in the fall of 1989 my step father recommended Rush to me. I actually didn’t like him the first time I heard him. I guess I was kind of shocked by him. I was use to listening to Focus on the Family on the radio as a Christian. I hardly ever listen to secular radio then. It took several months before I gave Rush another chance. At that time I connected.
I was mad at Rush back in the 2015-16 primary because he was trying to be fair to the other Republican candidates and holding back in supporting Trump. I was not going to listen to that. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, etc. were all dead to me. But Rush did make up for it in the last 4 years. I will miss him.
As a Christian culture (still) we believe that from death comes rebirth.
It’s time (overdue) for the death of the Republican Party.
The Pharisaical Mitch McConnell, and a few other GOPe figures are happy with the status quo. Most Republicans and independents want drastic change. The only constant is change. Let today’s death of the great Rush Limbaugh mark the day the American political landscape began to reflect the will of the people.
Rush is home and we will all see him one day soon. Until then let’s be like Rush and move forward with grace and style. Talent on loan from God was truly our gift weekly.
https://youtu.be/PANiveIKVX0
I think it is amazing that when President Trump congratulated Rush for being on the air for 30 years, he also told him he hoped he would be on for another 30 years.
Rush’s response to the President that day was something to the effect that he would be there as long as President Trump was. ‘I’ll be here as long as you are.’
I believe Rush fought cancer even harder while President Trump was still in office and while we still believed the cheating would be turned around. But I have witnessed a few times where great emotional disappointment ends not only the fight, but the battle, in a warrior.
Rush, the warrior, kept his promise to President Trump, and stayed in the fight to the end.
This morning Rush was catapulted into Paradise, and before the God Who loaned Rush his talent all these years. Bad day for us on earth, while Rush is now truly living his best life — eternally.
Beautiful, beautiful. I can’t stop crying.
I feel infinitely sad for people whose end of life was during these last 12 months of infamy, no matter what they died of. Especially old people who remember this country before it turned communist.
I went through my divorce when Rush went through his. That and his problems with pain killers and his lost of hearing also around that time help me grow to see the humanness we all share.
In 2009 a group of my friends and I went to CPAC in DC just to be able to see Rush speak. It was a great experience over all but the greatest time was to be able to hear and see Rush live on stage. We had to get to the ballroom as soon as it opened in the morning so I guess it was 8am. We had to sit there until early afternoon to keep our seats. You really couldn’t leave the ballroom without getting a bathroom pass so we waited around for 5 or 6 hours. It was all so worth it. I am so grateful to have been able to experience his presence. This feels like losing a close member of my family. He cannot be replaced. I’m not sure what I will do between 11am and 2pm each day. That’s what I have iheart radio tuned to each day at work. I may not always catch everything that happened on his show but he was my anchor each day.
I thought his time might be ending since he had been off the show for over a week and just had this sinking feeling his time was up. I will miss Rush but he will never be gone in my heart. He taught me so much, not just about politics but about appreciation and determining your own future. He is an inspiration. Never allow hate to take over your life, there is always hope in the future.
Oh no 🙁 I haven’t had the TV on today, so I’m just now hearing the news, and I’m thankful it was from the Treehouse rather than somewhere else. You know my old history, and I’ve said before how horrible I feel that I never knew what a great guy Andrew Breitbart was while he was still alive. I had been brainwashed into disliking him and others like him. Same goes for Rush. It’s only over the past few years I’ve come to realize I had been LIED to about the man. But at least I came to my senses while he was still with us. Years ago I wouldn’t have cared less about Rush, and this news wouldn’t have phased me…. but now… tears. 🙁
Love you Rush.
God has called Rush home. May you Rest In Peace, Rush in Heaven with our Lord.
I just programmed my iPhone to play ?”My City Was Gone” by The Pretenders set to go off at 12:06pm every weekday.
I went back to my dial
But that ditty was gone
Ay, oh, where’d you go, El Rushbo.
We cannot afford to lose great Americans. There are far too many anti-American global socialists who wish slavery and genocide on those who want to keep America great.
His wife’s statement was a beautiful tribute.
Talent loan paid in full – with the interest of millions.
We know this much is true: Rush is still fighting for us. He may not be here on Earth but he is where he can do even more good. He will never stop. I know our Lord greeted him: “Well done my good and faithful servant..”Eternal rest grant unto you, dear Rush, and may the perpetual light shine upon you..may your soul and the souls of all the faithfully departed rest in peace.
Dear Rush — I’ve listened to you for so long you’re like a member of the family. I will miss you so much. Thank you for all you have given to me over the years — thank you for your love of our country as founded. Thank you for educating me constantly, and from one midwesterner to another, thanks for always making me proud. Your wisdom and kindness and humor are irreplaceable. Through tears and with prayers for your family — I love you, sir! I know God welcomes you home.
He died on Ash Wednesday, I am sure that has been previously noted, but I think there is something in that.
Had lunch with some liberal friends which is where I heard the news…..was able to keep from tears until I started reading CTH and listening to the tributes. He was like a best friend who you could turn to when you could no longer stand the lunacy.
As others have noted, he died on Ash Wednesday! How Perfect and ending can one get?
His wife Kathryn did not have to do this and it took a ton of courage, but, she hit it out of the park.
We lost one of the great ones today!
#BeRushLimbaugh
#WOLVERINES
Artist Jon McNaughton (the one who drew the picture Sundance has on the OT) has drawn a sketch of Rust, “Talent on Loan – From God”
It’s a beautiful rendition.
https://jonmcnaughton.com/rush-memorial-sketch-12×12-litho-signed-and-numbered-200/
It’s been a sad day today. Miss him already.
I have been listening to Rush since 05/89 when my step dad turned him on the radio on the drive from my apartment in So Cal back to the Central Valley. Rush was uplifting and he made me feel like I could do anything if I put my mind to it. I will miss listening to him (9-12) when I am working.
I feel a lot of things ,a big sadness but I also have fear. Rush had a way of seeing right through the left and their machinations and was able to help even the slowest of us to understand. I know there are others who have the same sort of talent but may not have 30 million or whatever the number is following him . Even the left followed him hoping to catch something they could exploit.
Rest in peace my friend, I have no doubt you be on your way to heaven. It’s such a shame because I doubt I will see you there. I’ll except hell ,Ive been raising it since I was a young boy. So I’m sure there will be no surprises. it will be the same old same old to be, who knows it may be an upgrade.
Oh, Stephen Paul, it’s heaven you’ll be wanting. It will be an upgrade for all of us. God’s mercy is wider and deeper than anything. It’s for you, too. It really is.
I’ll pray a decade of the Holy Rosary just for you, so that you know.
Praying for you Stephen Paul, trust in, believe in and rely on Jesus Christ.
Stephen Paul, remember the thief on the cross. Jesus said you will be in Paradise. The same awaits you too, just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and invite him in as your heart as your personal Savior. Praying for you.