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SouthBayDem

(32,064 posts)
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 11:12 PM Aug 2021

Nashville radio host Phil Valentine dies at 61 after battling COVID-19

Source: The Tennessean

Outspoken vaccine skeptic Phil Valentine has died a month after his COVID-19 diagnosis captured national attention and led to his public change of heart on vaccines.

"We are saddened to report that our host and friend Phil Valentine has passed away," Super Talk 99.7, who employed the popular conservative talk radio host, wrote on Twitter on Saturday. "Please keep the Valentine family in your thoughts and prayers."

Valentine, 61, announced on Facebook on July 11 he had COVID-19 and predicted he would survive. Days later, Valentine's relatives said he was very sick, and he wanted listeners to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

(...)

Valentine, a radio personality since he was 20, became a popular conservative Nashville talk show host in 2001 by railing against a state income tax proposed then by Republican Gov. Don Sundquist.

Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2021/08/21/phil-valentine-dies-covid-19-diagnosis/5416955001/

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Nashville radio host Phil Valentine dies at 61 after battling COVID-19 (Original Post) SouthBayDem Aug 2021 OP
Phil Valentine: September 9, 1959 - August 21, 2021 jstephenj Aug 2021 #1
It appears so.. so Ironic or bizarre that Cha Aug 2021 #7
Not only did he discourage getting the vaccines or wearing masks. Farmer-Rick Aug 2021 #21
I will shed just one tear; on second thought screw him and horse in rode in on, good riddance. olegramps Aug 2021 #25
Pearly Gates or River Styx? Kittycatkat Aug 2021 #2
Hope he suffered. dalton99a Aug 2021 #3
I am now at the point where I hope they die quickly rpannier Aug 2021 #10
I'm to the point of denying ICU beds to asshats like him Bengus81 Aug 2021 #22
He died hard. Fucker circled the drain DenaliDemocrat Aug 2021 #27
thoughts and prayers... for the people he misled. Eugene Aug 2021 #4
Not smart to ignore all the reality news Cha Aug 2021 #5
The promoters of anti-mask, vaccine and bullying Democrats.... FarPoint Aug 2021 #14
Jesus is wearing a mask at the Pearly Gates Zorro Aug 2021 #6
Bet the devil isn't. Cha Aug 2021 #8
Not where Phil is headed... ZonkerHarris Aug 2021 #12
*** Herman Cain Freedom Award Winner *** speak easy Aug 2021 #9
His timeline mirrors Herman Cain's ... SarcasticSatyr Aug 2021 #11
Didn't Herm post after death though? BradAllison Aug 2021 #13
What does it feel like knowing you'll be dead in minutes Submariner Aug 2021 #15
Who could've seen that coming? chwaliszewski Aug 2021 #16
If he had any family that loved him I express my condolences to them but only to them as cstanleytech Aug 2021 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author cstanleytech Aug 2021 #18
How many families and friends did he rip apart because of his 1/2 baked right wing nonsense? Botany Aug 2021 #19
Awwww Shucks Phil!!! Tots and Pears!!! Bengus81 Aug 2021 #20
Death Turbineguy Aug 2021 #23
The perfect sentiment DjNzx Aug 2021 #24
Tots and pears BlueWavePsych Aug 2021 #26

Cha

(297,774 posts)
7. It appears so.. so Ironic or bizarre that
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 11:43 PM
Aug 2021
"owning the libs" would come down to such a deadly game.

Farmer-Rick

(10,216 posts)
21. Not only did he discourage getting the vaccines or wearing masks.
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 09:16 AM
Aug 2021

He denied there was even a pandemic until Trump caught it, or there abouts.

Killed by virus he didn't even believe in. But Covid-19 believed in him.

rpannier

(24,341 posts)
10. I am now at the point where I hope they die quickly
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 11:48 PM
Aug 2021

Opens up beds for those who need (and deserve) them

Bengus81

(6,936 posts)
22. I'm to the point of denying ICU beds to asshats like him
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 09:56 AM
Aug 2021

And the rest of those republican idiots who refuse to get vaccinated. Let em DIE at home.

Cha

(297,774 posts)
5. Not smart to ignore all the reality news
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 11:40 PM
Aug 2021

on COVID just 'cause faux "news" brainwashes.

As is known it can be deadly.

FarPoint

(12,454 posts)
14. The promoters of anti-mask, vaccine and bullying Democrats....
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:08 AM
Aug 2021

These folks do not have any of my empathy....they are all intelligent enough to know that what they say has power and influence...people listened to his pounding of faux covid, no need for a mask no vaccine...."Reap what you sow"...is a fair statement.... Others have died...suffered as a direct result of such media pulpit misinformation because they made profit off it...

SarcasticSatyr

(1,183 posts)
11. His timeline mirrors Herman Cain's ...
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 11:57 PM
Aug 2021

No 1: Covid is a hoax.

No 2: Covid is real, but it's no worse than the flu.

No 3: Forcing me to wear a mask is communism.

No 4: Trump is a genus for inventing a vaccine.

No 5: I'm not taking any vaccine because I don't trust Dr. Fauci, and
forcing me to take a vaccine is communism.

No 6: I don't need any vaccine, I have an immune system

No 7: Contracts Covid.

No 8: Dies.

Submariner

(12,511 posts)
15. What does it feel like knowing you'll be dead in minutes
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 02:43 AM
Aug 2021

and if only I got the vaccine I could have lived another 20 years. I bet he kicked his own ass with that last thought.

cstanleytech

(26,332 posts)
17. If he had any family that loved him I express my condolences to them but only to them as
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 04:16 AM
Aug 2021

its hard to lose someone you love.

Response to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Botany

(70,597 posts)
19. How many families and friends did he rip apart because of his 1/2 baked right wing nonsense?
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 05:22 AM
Aug 2021

Last edited Sun Aug 22, 2021, 10:53 AM - Edit history (1)

And how many people have the C-19 disease because of the crap he spewed?

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