Nobody expects you to send flowers or even wish him well and a speedy recovery – if he indeed is ill. But crowing about his misfortune and publicly wishing for his demise on Facebook, Twitter, or on-line is THEIR WAY, not ours.

Conservative David Frum writes in the current Newsweek that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is a seriously unpopular figure among the voters that conservatives and Republicans need to reach. Forty-one percent of independents have an unfavourable opinion of him, according to the new Newsweek Poll. “Limbaugh is especially off-putting to women: his audience is 72 percent male, according to Pew Research. Limbaugh himself acknowledges his unpopularity among women. On his Feb. 24 broadcast, he said with a chuckle: ‘Thirty-one-point gender gaps don’t come along all that often … Given this massive gender gap in my personal approval numbers … it seems reasonable for me to convene a summit’.”

MediaMatters.org has an article about Rush Limbaugh’s show yesterday in which he complains that you cannot criticize the “little black main-child” – referring to Senator Obama.