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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am very curious about the timing of the Rush thing.
Rush waited until the very last second of his show on Monday to make his announcement of his cancer And on Tuesday, he is up there getting a medal?
Option A is that the White House learned about it Like everybody else 3 p.m. On Monday and scrambled To contact him to see if he would come up and accept the medal.
Option b is that Rush wasn't going to make the announcement But somehow worked out a deal with the White House ahead of time that if he did make the announcement they would bring him up and give him the medal, but they wouldn't be able to do it Without the announcement.
However, it happened it sure doesn't seem spontaneous like spur-of-the-moment. My guess is that there was some kind of deal worked 4 weeks ahead of time behind the scenes where everybody knew Rush was sick And people were trying to figure out how to use it to his best advantage.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)like two weeks ago if that. From the photos, I doubt he knew then.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)May bad.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)dalton99a
(81,636 posts)where everything is prearranged
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Trumps dog and pony show was just that.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)medal before the Shit of the Union address, that's why he was there. He's not much of an actor.
2naSalit
(86,840 posts)Shit ON the Union?
Autumn
(45,120 posts)2naSalit
(86,840 posts)I do that too.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)bestowed by the Chosen One cured his cancer.
2naSalit
(86,840 posts)it would make me puke more than I already do about this crap.
rainin
(3,011 posts)What if he doesn't really have cancer? What if this whole thing is reality TV fiction. If he has a miraculous recovery, I'll have my answer. Keep in mind, we can't believe anything they do anymore. What a nightmare
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)I had that thought as well. I have a coworker whose wife supposedly had cancer. I still have my doubts.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)He vastly exaggerated his hearing problem for sympathy and ratings
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If anything, he underplayed it, because he didn't want people to know that he blew out both of his ears with his monumental oxycodone addiction.
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)They were obvious.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)demigoddess
(6,645 posts)and I listened to him in the 90s and he was classic brainwashing technique. Actually Fox News probably uses brainwashing techniques too but I am too disgusted to listen to them. But from what I see here I would say so.
mahina
(17,715 posts)They seem to work.
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)MontanaMama
(23,353 posts)A shadow of the bloviating hate spewer we know him to be.
Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)Part of me thinks his cancer announcement is a hoax to deify Limpballs among the MAGAts.
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uponit7771
(90,367 posts)wishstar
(5,272 posts)Rush will have more listeners than ever to be brainwashed into the Trump cult.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)OxyBoy is on the way out.
wishstar
(5,272 posts)Silence will be Golden
His ratings have been declining for years and sponsors have been jumping ship. He isn't picking up listeners because of this ridiculous stunt.
Crunchy Frog
(26,679 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)god is sending rush a message, but I doubt rush is even listening or paying attention to the message.
Zolorp
(1,115 posts)My bet is Limbaugh told Trump and they cooked up the idea in the ensuing month or so.
Arthur_Frain
(1,864 posts)Watching them give that medal to that racist toad, and having him faux-swoon in the stands with melania I almost hurled.
This all seems like some really bad kabuki. The SOTU was incredible just for the amount of whiplash doled out in the rethug ranks. This cult is frightening. And the rethugs know exactly how to play them. They just locked up all of his listeners for their cause in the 2020 election. Smart move, I gotta say.
hunter
(38,337 posts)I've known drug addicts to say they have cancer after they've relapsed.
Drug addictions and cancer are both deadly diseases but in our culture cancer will garner a lot more sympathy.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)to run his mouth and stoke more hatred
Even with Stage IV small cell, people can live another 18 months after diagnosis, with treatment and drugs (especially expensive drugs not covered by insurance)
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)is the why of "why now?". People do go years maybe with some symptoms but not thinking it's cancer. Happened to a relative who had an IG condition along with some leg pain. When they finally went to a doc to get the leg pain treated, the surgeon found cancer that had spread throughout the body. It was only a few months later my relative passed away after the side effects of the treatments proved just too hard on them.
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)Her cancer was discovered when her lung collapsed. She died 6 weeks later.
pstokely
(10,531 posts)how much of his own lies does he actually believe?
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VOX
(22,976 posts)All parties knew long in advance.
Trump wanted was as many own the libs moments in his almost-post-trial SOTU. Awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to one of the worst Americans suited 45s infantile sense of retribution.
IcyPeas
(21,916 posts)i'll bet there was a lot of laughing and guffaws and knee slapping between these 2 buffoons over this.
but again, I can't believe the repubs got up and clapped when it was awarded. they make me sicker and sicker every day with their support of this jerk.
ScratchCat
(2,002 posts)angle is too ridiculous even for the cult.
I don't doubt be has cancer and I'm also sure they came up with this over the past few months.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)Both are scumbags