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 JB> Diverse reactions to Limbaugh

 JB> By PATRICK GAVIN | 12/31/09 8:13 AM EST

 JB> As news broke Wednesday night of radio show host Rush Limbaugh's
 JB> hospital visit due to chest pains, many of his political counterparts
on
 JB> the left put down their ideological swords and wished him well on
 JB> Twitter.


 JB> "All best wishes to Mr. Limbaugh tonight, for a full and speedy
 JB> recovery," wrote MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.


 JB> Mediaite's Rachel Sklar cautioned Rush's detractors: "No stooping to
 JB> wishing him ill, people! (Karma.)"


 JB> Salon's Joan Walsh: "I can't enjoy the news of Rush Limbaugh's
illness.
 JB> Is there something wrong with me? He has a family. Aren't we better
than
 JB> that?"


 JB> And radio show host Alan Colmes said that "we wish him well."

I've never seen this from "the other side."

 JB> There were others who weren't quite sure how to react. Mother Jones's
 JB> David Corn begrudgingly offered this: "Rush, you've slimed me in the
 JB> past. But, I suppose, good luck to you, too." But earlier, Corn
wrestled
 JB> with how to react to Rush's illness given Limbaugh's own reaction to
the
 JB> medical fortunes of others.

That includes Rush pretending to act like he has Parkinsons and smearing
Michael J. Fox, saying Fox was "pretending."

 JB> "Resist the snark about Rush's rush to the hospital?" asked Corn.
"Yeah.
 JB> But remember what he said about Ted Kennedy." Corn provided a link to
a
 JB> Huffington Post article that referenced a March Limbaugh show in which
 JB> "Limbaugh suggested that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) would be dead by
the
 JB> time health care reform legislation passes. 'Before it's all over,
it'll
 JB> be called the Ted Kennedy memorial health care bill.'"

Is it called that?

 JB> Wonkette chimed in with a characteristically cheeky, "RUSH LIMBAUGH is
 JB> in 'serious condition' at a Hawaii hospital, and we shall save the
Death
 JB> Jokes until he earns them the old-fashioned way."

Wonkette is more interested in Rush's sex life.
(I know, gross...)

 JB> Still, from less prominent corners of the Twitter-verse, there was a
 JB> steady drip of joy expressed at Limbaugh's misfortunes. The humor
 JB> website TheFullGinsburg.com wrote, "No one wants Rush Limbaugh to die.
 JB> But they do want his doctors to fail," and a quick thumb through
 JB> Twitter's #Rush hashtag reveals other wishes of ill health upon
 JB> Limbaugh. Republicans expressed outraged at some of the reactions.

Who wanted Obama to fail? Oh that's right, Rush did...

 JB> "Someone should build a Twitter list of all those who have expressed
 JB> hatred for Limbaugh tonight so their presence can be known," wrote
 JB> Republican strategist Patrick Ruffini. "I remain at a loss at how
 JB> politics becomes so personal that many cheer for Rush's death," said
 JB> "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough.

Joe "dead mistress in his office" Scarborough, and a strategist for a
party going over the cliff.

Get a frikkin' life, you hypocrites.

 JB> But, turning the tables, some conservatives had fun with the idea that
 JB> if only it were a liberal in the hospital...


 JB> "I'd donate a heart to keep Rush alive," wrote blogger Dan Riehl.
"Just
 JB> need a knife and a liberal close by. ; )"

We could carve a heart out of a conservative, but they don't have any...

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