Rush Limbaugh = totally screwed

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Rush Limbaugh, unemployed for racist comments, as well as under investigation for serious drug charges.

Wow.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had my problems with this guy for years, but this really blows my mind.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

BUH-BYE, FATFUCK!

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 October 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Limbaugh is a 'conservative commentator'?
Commentator? Like McVeigh was an 'activist'?

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i know rush limbaugh is bad, but attacking him in 2003 seems a bit too hicks-like for my taste.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

that said, he is like some boil from the 90s that no surgery can remove, and it amazes me that people think they can still get away with offering "commentary" like that in this day and age.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope that Chelsea Clinton (who, when she was 12, the pill-popping Fatfuck called "the White House dog" on national TV) is having herself a good laugh at Junkie Limpblob's sorry ass.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't meant as an attack so much as personal shock-and-awe at the world of shit this man has gotten himself into. I mean, saying offensive bullshit is one thing. Saying REALLY offensive bullshit and being forced to resign while being under investigation for uber-serious drug charges, that's something else entirely.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Hearing-Impaired Unemployed Bigoted Painkiller-Addicted (and Possibly Drug-Dealing--I mean look at the volume he was trying to buy!) Idiot.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i honestly don't give a flying fuck about whatever "pain" or "embarrassment" this is causing limbaugh or his family. this man has spent the better part of 15 years slandering and lying about his political opponents, and is an enormous part of why american political discourse has become an open sewer.

fuck him with an AIDS-infected dildo.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

still, i wouldn't wish withdrawl from Oxys on anybody. isn't that supposed to be as bad or worse than junk sick?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

He's not fat anymore and who cares if he is! I'm with you nza, I don't like the guy but I gotta feel sorry for him even if he is in a hole he's dug for himself. He had a huge karmic debt to repay, but still, what a fucking bad day at the office.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

these comments are so par for the right-wing course its weird they got picked out -- seems like a quick easy media stunt for clark to try and get some liberal cred.

(not to be construed as an apology for rush, nor as a statement that his par for the course comments were anything less than super-icky)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone believe for a MOMENT that had, say, Hillary Clinton been accused of popping all these pills, that Limbaugh would have the SLIGHTEST OUNCE of compassion for her? or would refrain from making some sort of broad, blowhardish comment about how such conduct was "typical" of "liberals"?

he's getting a taste of the toxic trash that he's been shitting out onto the airwaves for well over a decade now. let him get a big fucking taste of it, and feel no compassion for him.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly though, that isn't the most racist thing he's said by a long shot (I'm in England, so I may be way off-base but post 9/11 he gets quoted here quite often). Everything I've heard of his view of the Middle East has been racist. What Limbaugh said on Sunday isn't much different from what the 'respectable' anti-afformative action crowd say.

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

tad i feel no compassion for rush limbaugh, but calling him "fat" as an insult isn't exactly mensa-level political thought.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You taste that, Rush? Yeah, it's a different kind of pie than what you're used to eating. It's called come-uppance.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I fear that for his core constituency this will all be like water off a duck's back.

I'm currently being entertained by Al Franken's 'Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them', so it's a pleasure to see this fat bastard get his comeuppance.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost etc.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

LBM - what's up with adopting the enemy's means? Limbaugh had no compassion; therefore I have none for him. That's your inner Rush winning!

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It's wrong of me to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude, but all of this news still pleases me.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah my inner bitch is chortling, but basically what enrique said.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I take that back, my inner bitch is too afraid of developing a drug habit to laugh at Rush.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

never "misunderestimate" the stupidity of the typical dittohead. or the ability of cognitive dissonance that the american right wingnut can entertain. they'll chalk it all up to "the liberal media," or bill clinton's penis, or some other bogeyman. conservatives have tons of 'em.

jess: point taken. i'll stop with the "fat" bashing.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, i feel that any bile i can spew about limbaugh is wasted. his dittohead listeners are just as hopeless as the folks who gave all that money to frauds like Jimmy Swaggart back in the eighties.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

To be fair, *I'd* be like that if one of his UK equivs went down - you feel less enraged when it's across the ocean. Let's think... Richard Littlejohn...

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush Limbaugh = totally screwed (by Bill Clinton's penis)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's time to open the can of worms about the flagrant misuse of the equals sign on ILX...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll post this on both threads...

the pills story is quite possibly meant to distract you from, among other things:
1) this,
2) this,
and
3) this

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

So you're saying that King Ditto is taking a hit for the team?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's wrong of me to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude

Uh, no it isn't.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point gabbneb; this also hits on how I've recently felt about the CIA-identity-leak scandal and it's broad coverage, that it might possibly be a means of sweeping more problematic issues under the rug. Distraction & obfuscation are very popular weapons among the political.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What? The possibility that the US government leaked the name of an agent is a cover-up for something else? You sure about that? And the Rush job is a cover-up for the fact N Korea is building nukes? Who wants to cover that up? And why?

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush isn't on the radio today.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Sullivan is filling in.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

As I recall now, though, this was planned for months--Limbaugh is scheduled to give the keynote address at the National Association of Broadcasters convention. Hoo boy is that going to be a weird room.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

question: since when is North Korea's nuclear program news?

-
Alan

― Alan Conceicao, Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Alan is OTM; how much distracting does a topic that no one is paying any attention to really need?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Seeing as Rush makes stuff up lets make up some stuff about him.

The oxycontin is for his 13 year old boys and girls, imported from the deep south and thailand for his sexual delectation.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(actually, gab, all of those items were on CNN.com yesterday alongside the Rush news.)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

damn my conscience is being pricked by my lying. Damn that, maybe one of those drugs that Rush has got is to suppress his conscience.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm curious: if Rush is a serious painkiller addict (rather than a dealer), has he been exhibiting Anna Nicole-like behavior on his radio show?

I can't really gloat at the news. I'm more like: did he really think he could away with that? What the fuck?.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

right, I'm being a little loose here. I don't necessarily believe that the pill story is an intentional distraction from all of those things (though I did mean to imply en passant that those stories are far more important than gossip about Rush, who is not an elected figure or candidate), but the Schwarzenegger thing may have a valid connection - per Mickey Kaus, the Limbaugh thing began with a story in the National Enquirer, which is edited by a personal friend of Arnold's, and which appeared just as the LA Times got set to print the goods on Arnold after finally waking up to the fact that because of the connection the tabloids were never going to go after that story first. and if you want to see how much attention the administration-friendly media is trying to give to these stories, check the front page of Fox News. i agree that no one is paying attention to north korea, but the story out today may change that somewhat - up to now the north koreans have said they were going to restart their program; today they are saying that they are building the bombs. the Bush admin would like you to ignore that because it exposes the extent to which their non-diplomacy has failed. and King Ditto may well be taking a hit for the team, but I think it's equally or more likely that the team thinks he's disposable.

and nickalicious, the CIA-leak story isn't a cover for something else. it's the first big step in an effort to expose everything else.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Do not fuck with Philly

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw on the news: Some black dudes from south Philly invited Rush over to their cribs to show him whats what.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oops. now Fox is leading with Arnold's admission/apology news conference. but five minutes ago, the lead was Limbaugh.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Arnold's admission

That whole thing was an open secret years ago -- there was at least one extensive article in Premiere about it, back when they were vaguely more journalistic. I'm surprised it took this long for that to become an issue, frankly (though I'm also annoyed it took that long, etc.).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally there's some blood in the water. I can't wait for the feeding frenzy to begin.

Administrations come and go, but the career government bureaucracy is eternal. They have an elephant's memory and do not like being fucked with. The last two presidents that screwed with the CIA left office early.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh heh heh. VERY cleverly phrased, Mr. Telecom.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbnebb, I don't think it's distracting so much as flooding the zone. if I was rightwing I'd suspect a vast left wing conspiracy (boo-fucking-hoo) but I think the reality is the left just got lucky this week. I know that sports talk radio yesterday and esp. today has been filled with people calling limbaugh an idiot (actually the phrase today is "pill-popping idiot")(the liberals finally get a presence on talk radio - thru sports!). these shows wouldn't be talking about valerie plame or the california recall otherwise, they'd be talking about that bunt of the gods laid down at 2:30 this morning. the valerie plame story ain't going anywhere, I'm surprised the arnold story is getting the whooha it is - didn't everyone know this already? what 'shocking revelation' will come next - that he used steroids? that he defended kurt waldheim? that he was in batman and robin?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No-one's ever seen Batman & Robin, so that remains speculation.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Concerning the "racist comments" color me awfully surprised (and half annoyed) at the furor: it wasn't that odd of a comment at all, the sort of suspicion that's pretty routinely leveled at successful minorities, and is really more just rude-and-shitty than virulently racist. The same sort of thinking got plastered ALL OVER the Jayson Blair fiasco (including Raines' own mea culpa!), and I don't recall anyone then loudly announcing that such thinking was racist and unacceptable. (I suppose in the world of highbrow magazine essays about the Times they felt some responsibility to actually address issues of race, badly as ever, rather than adopting the television model of squelching the whole thing before anyone gets any more offended than they already are.)

(NB: having heard plenty of Limbaugh I don't doubt that, coming from him, the comment likely did have racist undertones beyond the content itself -- the guy has always had a surprising way of pulling that off. I remember once he was talking about some study on the relative intelligence of dogs and made a lot of unfunny comments about how the European dogs were smarter than Asian and African ones.) (Then I called and pointed out that this was because Europeans were dumb and had to breed dogs to do crap like hunting for them, whereas Asians could handle all that themselves and just bred lapdogs to play with.) (I'm kidding.)

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think people who don't follow sports aren't going to understand why and how this bit rush in the ass so badly. it should be noted that generally on sportstalkradio he's been called more an idiot than a racist, though he is being called that too, more as an explanation to 'how can someone be such an idiot?'. look at how tom jackson whipped his ass in rebuttal, not by calling him a racist but by using facts and stats. if he'd said it about kordell stewart maaaaybe it wouldn't have been as big a deal, but to say it about mcnabb is beyond fucking clueless. I heard some caller today say rush's comments weren't any different than people saying jason sehorn is overrated cuz he's white and he was shot down with 'no it is different cuz jason sehorn hasn't done anything and still gets (or got) tons of good press, mcnabb has practically carried the eagles on his back to the nfc championship game two years in a row, he's stayed in games with broken legs, and the notion that it's been becuz of philly's defense is garbage cuz the miami's is just as good and they didn't even make the playoffs last year (with a much much better running game than the eagles!) and if you took jay fiedler and put them on the eagles they'd barely make the playoffs but if you took donovan mcnabb and put him on the dolphins they'd make the super bowl'.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

...just flipped past fox news; some 'expert' was opining that, since McNabb is of course great, Rush "isn't racist...he just doesn't know football!!" ...so his ignorance now gets to be useful as a shield, how nice.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

wow he can shield himself on everything now.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

He allegedly was popping 30 Oxycontin a day! No wonder he lost so much weight.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but blount it's just the jew-run media that doesn't want us to know about fiedler's failures!

and anyway, yeah, this bites rush harder than his typical schtick cuz people can see for themselves that he's wrong. his usual "black people being successful = reverse racism" bullshit is always very very general (it HAS to be!), but in this instance people see right through it cuz they watch mcnabb play every week and know he's ferreals. i thought donovan's response was perfect. so condescending and spiteful without saying anything particularly condescending and spiteful. perfect!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Insane, but his rabbit mouth WAS bound to bite him in the butt. Eventually. Amazing that he put others before himself, for once.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 2 October 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too bad Rush didn't use Kordell as an example--maybe that's because Rush is a homer for Pittsburgh or something. The Kordell experiment was and is one of the most painful exhibitions of management blunders ever. The guy is so marginal it's not even funny. Not to mention we got to watch him learn how to read defenses on the job. Sports, at least on the field, is one of the places where merit appears to be the arbiter of participation. Kordell was DISMAL with Steelers, yet they gave him chance after chance after chance.

I really don't even see where a guy like McNabb could be seen as overrated. He's a pretty good fantasy league player, if that's your measure. If he gets any play, as Blount noted, it's for his heart. Yeah, his skillz aren't too sick (his numbers are like comparable to...Griese?) and to be honest, other black slingers like Culpepper have had a much better arsenal of recievers to throw at.

(Rush did have a legitimate point about the NFL's policy of interviewing black coaches the other week--the NFL pats itself on the back for shit like that even though they know it still gives the owners a free pass to be bigoted as long as they fill out the paperwork.)

And to the inevitable Sehorn comments, that's bunk. The greater point--the one that Rush missed--is that pro sports is one of the few places where merit is probably the most important determiner of playing time. Sehorn, McNabb, etc. are out there because they've earned the spot (okay, that doesn't explain Kordell though.) I realize Rush tried to spin this as a comment on the media being PC or pro-affirmative action (uh yeah...who the hell thinks that the sports beat guys are any more conservative than the government beat guys are...) but you would think by now that Rush would know it is impossible for a conservative to make any comment at any time about race. It's like women playing football--it's just never going to be the right thing to do.

― don weiner, Friday, 3 October 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the thing with sports and especially with pro sports is that it's as close to a true meritocracy as you'll see in this world. if sehorn was or shockey is overrated their race was not the reason why (it may have been a reason why, but it's pretty far down the list), they were overrated cuz they played in new york and cuz of stuff that had nothing to do with football (sehorn being good looking and having a very good looking famous wife, shockey being very good for copy)(and, ok, shockey's play at miami is a factor too so I guess it has something to do with football)(that said I can name five TE's I'd take over him).

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 October 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.donthaveacowman.com/Simpsons/Cards/Inkworks2001/07-F.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 3 October 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Another version of the story, with a riff about Howard Cosell (didn't know about that).
Rush Limbaugh Brings Racisim to ESPN/NFL By Ed Wiley III Black Entertainment Television Tuesday 30 September 2003 Rush Limbaugh Draws Fire for Racial Remark About Black Quarterbacks Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh, now an NFL analyst for ESPN, is again in the hot seat for racially offensive statements. On Sunday, during ESPN’s televised pregame show, former NFL quarterback Steve Young questioned McNabb’s "ability to run the offense," saying that his White backup, Koy Detmer, would likely do a better job. Limbaugh chimed in. "I think the sum of what you’re all saying is that Donavan McNabb is regressing, he’s going backward," Limbaugh said. "Sorry to say this, I don’t think he’s been that good from the get-go." But Limbaugh didn’t stop there. "The media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback do well. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team." A spokesman for ESPN defended Limbaugh, saying it was an honest discussion about McNabb’s development. But this isn’t the first time that Limbaugh -- a former radio and TV talk show host, who was a finalist for the Monday Night Football analyst job a couple year ago -- has been criticized for acidic remarks against African Americans. He once told a Black caller to his radio show to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back." In another instance, he said, "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?" In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer , Phil Sheridan, a White sports columnist, took Limbaugh and his network to task. "With that record - kept by a group called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, or FAIR - ESPN gave this guy a job commenting on a league in which the majority of the players are Black. ESPN, which is essentially a corporate partner of the NFL, gave this job to Limbaugh even as the league struggles with its own notorious paucity of minority coaches and general managers." The NFL and its coaches have been under fire for many years for their failure to draft or play Black quarterbacks. One of the most tacit criticisms of Black quarterbacks is that they are "good athletes" but lack the intelligence to run complicated offenses or read defenses. In 1985, Sheridan notes, when the Eagles drafted Randall Cunningham, a journalist asked him, "What makes you think you’ll ever be able to erad NFL defenses?" Three years later, it was big news that Doug Williams, a Black quarterback, was to start in the Super Bowl for Washington that year. (He went on to win most valuable player.) In the days leading up to that game, a White sports writer asked, "How long have you been a Black quarterback?" "Fortunately for McNabb, his record speaks for itself. But so does Limbaugh’s," Sheridan said. "Unfortunately for ESPN, as long as he’s on the air, Limbaugh’s record speaks for the network, too." Limbaugh isn’t the first White football analyst to draw fire for insensitive comments. In 1988, CBS commentator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder suggested that Black athletes excelled because they were bred by slave masters to be strong. "The slave owner would breed this big Black with this big Black woman so he could have a big Black kid," Snyder told a reporter. That's where it all started." Snyder was fired shortly afterward.

In 1983, during a broadcast of Monday Night Football, veteran sports commentator Howard Cosell exclaimed, "Look at that little monkey run!" about Washington Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett, an African American. Cosell resigned two months later, following intense public outcry.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

On the radio now he's opening his show...says he's humbled by his listeners' support...

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

...he's talking about the McNabb thing so far, he's a bit more stumbly than normal. Says he still can't believe it turned into such a big deal. Oh, now he mentions the drugs but just briefly, and continutes to talk about all the email he's gotten in support....

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"The situation in Florida really is an emerging situation...I really don't know what I'm dealing with yet, folks...rest assured that when I know what's going on, I will discuss it with you." (kinda paraphrase but pretty close to exact quotes there)

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

and back to McNabb/ESPN discussion. blah blah blah.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

interesting connection with Howard Cosell, as i've always heard that Cosell's remark was his usual style, as in he called any scrambling player(of any race, of course) "a monkey". but he's retired & dead now, so oh well.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Look at that little monkey run!" is going to be my new catchphrase.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/26/review.apes/1.apes.jpg

"Look at that little monkey run!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Jason Sehorn has also recieved quite a bit of press because he is married to an some what known actress and he played in NYC. If he played for the Tennessee Titans or Arizona Cardnals do you think he would have been as well known?

Beyond the stats and wins, McNabb has also had that extra "it" that has made him popular. Other than the last couple games getting wasted by the Bucs, he always genuinely seems to be having fun while playing, which in the trashtalking, egotistical tough guy NFL is a somewhat of a rarity. Brian Urlacher has shown this similar quality.

― earlnash, Friday, 3 October 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Snopes hasn't been able to confirm or deny that Limbaugh said the "take that bone out of your nose" quote, btw.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 3 October 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Did Cosell really resign after that quote? That's not the way I remember it. I think he stayed on and the whole thing blew over. As Kingfish noted, I'm pretty sure he had said similar things about white athletes; that's just the way Cosell was. Not to mention he was a huge champion of minority athletes like Muhammad Ali and advocated for more minority involvement in ownership and management of professional sports. In covering this Limbaugh story, the use of that tossed-off MNF quote as representative of some sort "lineage" of racist sports reportage is really sort of despicable and revisionist.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What was Jimmy The Greek's quote again...? I wish I remembered the quote now, because I remember it being a HUUUGE deal when he said that, and thus ended his career.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

something about 'big black bucks' with big thighs bred through slavery. I saw a clip of ol' Jimmy last night, but I forget the direct quote.

― hstencil, Friday, 3 October 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder was ejected from the public eye in 1988 when, on Martin Luther King's birthday, he said that blacks are better at sports because of slave plantation breeding techniques. "During the slave period, the slave owner would breed his big black with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid–that's where it all started."

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it was Cosell's (frequently on-air) drunkenness and Al Michaels that got him off of MNF, although he claimed he left cuz the game was a 'bore'. He quit boxing after the Larry Holmes-Randall "Tex" Cobb fight in 82. I'm not sure when he quit baseball (he was never really suited to it), I remember NBC had MLB in the late eighties (Saturday Day Games with Vin Scully! Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?) so presumably whenever the switchover occurred.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

meanwhile, back in the jungle

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit, why can't more on-air commentators be drunk? it's never stopped Don Cherry, who's delighted at least two nations with his colorful Coach's Corner.

http://graphics.boston.com/images/daily/07/cherry.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

by delighted you mean shamed, right¿

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bruins-legends.com/coaches/images/cherry.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Charles Bronson should have played him (or vice versa). Alternately it's a younger Captain Kangaroo out for blood.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ralph Wiley weighs in

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

blah blah blah sports. Let's talk about the DRUGS! Have we mentioned that hearing loss is a possible side effect of heavy painkiller use?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the ego trip racism book goes easy on cosell coz they think it was just a stupid stupid thing to say and he wasn't actually racist.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 4 October 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This just in: Limbaugh just admitted that he is addicted to painkillers on his radio show. He will undergo 30 days in rehab, again.

― hstencil, Friday, 10 October 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

will he appear on oprah afterwards?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

somehow I doubt it.

― hstencil, Friday, 10 October 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The night of the day I posted this ABC News wasted a fuckload of airtime talking about "what this means for Rush"...meanwhile I'm reading about the ongoing ridiculously atrocious shit going on in the Congo online and thinking "jesus, even I am talking about this bullshit that really has very little baring on the actual world...ugh".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the fat fuck sings ...

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

What a douche bag. He was using Oxicotinin... which is made for cancer patients, not fat fucks with bad backs. At least he loses either way -- either the dittoheads abandon ship, or they don't and the horrible irony of critisizing people while being a lying drug addict is a spectre that never leaves him or his douche bag listeners.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"douchebag" is the lightest of terms that i'd use for limbaugh and his shitto-head listeners. they'll find someone to blame -- most likely the housekeeper (who i hope is being heavily guarded by the cops).

oh yeah, in case anyone here is candy-assed enough to have compassion for him -- straight from the horse's ass:

"There's nothing good about drug use," [Limbaugh] was saying. "We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." [...]

Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, [Limbaugh] noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do. But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.

"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

more "karma is a motherfucker" for limpblob:

“I'm disgusted by the large number of congressional Republicans who support this massive new government-run entitlement, the prescription drug bill, and I've said so in the past. The whole thing makes me mad.”

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't BELIEVE that a conservative was not able to live up to the moral standards that he tries to impose on others. Shocking.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

needless to say, limpblob the junkie is going "up the river" ... to the Betty Ford Clinic, not Rikers Island.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

there's nothing candy-assed about compassion, lil big mouth.

(i do not like rush or his listeners but i hope he gets better.)

― dan (dan), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't waste my compassion on the undeserving. and limbaugh is totally undeserving for a plethora of reasons -- for poisoning American political discourse; for being a mean-spirited loudmouth; for his hypocrisy (see the above quotes regarding his "compassion" for druggies). do you think for a minute that limbaugh would show a second's worth, or feel a thimble's full, of compassion had Hillary Clinton been caught taking all of those painkillers?

fuck him. let him get a big fucking taste of the shit that he's been slinging for 15+ years.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's high time that those of us who can't stand the Rush Limbaughs -- or others like him (the Mike Savages, the Ann Coulters, etc.) -- that we develop a killer instinct. we have this motherfucker by the balls, and i don't believe in letting yer enemy live to fight another day. i just hope that the Florida DAs feel the same way (though I'm sure Jebbie might have something to say about whether they throw the book at Rush's bloated junkie-ass).

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

WAITWAITWAIT I didn't realize that for a while he was actually DEAF!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't deafness a side-effect of OxyContin abuse?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

another example of limpblob "compassion" for junkies:

"Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless
shred of human debris..." (TV show, 4/11/94)

still feel sorry for him?

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

what limpblob had to say about jerry garcia, only a day or two after he died:

"'When you strip it all away," Rush had said of the Grateful Dead guitarist, "Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't deafness a side-effect of OxyContin abuse?

Yes! They talked about it on the news tonight.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

big mouth, what should we do now that we have him by the balls to ensure that we don't have to listen to him anymore? just calling him "limpblob" seems inadequate to the task.

― dan (dan), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

big mouth, what should we do now that we have him by the balls to ensure that we don't have to listen to him anymore? just calling him "limpblob" seems inadequate to the task.

For starters, the email address for the West Palm Beach office of the Florida Attorney General's office is:
StateAttorney@sa15.state.fl.us

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Florida Statutes
893.135 Trafficking; mandatory sentences;
(c)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 4 grams or more of oxycodone, or 4 grams or more of any mixture containing any such substance, but less than 30 kilograms of such substance or mixture, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as "trafficking in illegal drugs," punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved:
a. Is 4 grams or more, but less than 14 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000.
b. Is 14 grams or more, but less than 28 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000.
c. Is 28 grams or more, but less than 30 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25 calendar years and pay a fine of $500,000.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope no pussy-ass liberal judge cops out and challenges the mandatory minimums that the elected representatives of the people have put in place! < /conservative rant>

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The other good news is that if he's convicted of a felony than his $120 million radio contract is voided.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

???

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry... it's actually $285 million.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure you can still be a convicted felon and speak on the radio, unless that's some clause in his contract. The FCC says you can't be a convicted felon and hold the licence to broadcast on a specific frequency (in other words, the owner of a station would have his/her license taken away if he/she was convicted of a felony) but announcers are no longer licensed. Even if they were, you could get around it by having someone else push the buttons.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 11 October 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah... there's a clause in his contract.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 11 October 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

somewhere sean hannity is smiling

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 11 October 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently he's been in rehab twice before. Well, third time's the charm! Good as new in 30 days!

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and on the cover of People Magazine!
"Sorry! I Fucked Up!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure you can still be a convicted felon and speak on the radio, unless that's some clause in his contract.

It didn't stop G. Gordon Liddy

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Well precisely. But many broadcasters do have a 'morals clause' in their contract, although this is more common on TV than radio...allows them to be fired if they do anything to damage their moral reputation.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

But did he damage his moral reputation? Or was he just sick? And addicted to respectable white people drugs?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

who says you can decide what is 'respectable', kenan?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 October 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think it's kenan doing the deciding there, rjg.

― maura (maura), Sunday, 12 October 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

*sigh*!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 October 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

of course, i decide whether limbaugh is "respectable." if i did, it would've been over long ago for him.

i look forward to seeing him sharing a stage with jimmy swaggart sometime.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 October 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

why are you sighing? have you not read limbaugh's contemptible harangues against addicts who don't have the extreme privilege that he does? one hopes that this whole incident might change his attitude -- jeez, maybe even increase his compassion -- towards those people, but i for one doubt it will happen.

― maura (maura), Sunday, 12 October 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone wanna place about re: how long before Rush "finds Jesus"?

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for one, hope he find Jesus in jail.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

findS, I mean

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

No... wait. I don't want that. That was knee-jerk.

I want him to get care and treatment, and realize that other people who are addicted to drugs need care and treatment, too.

But that ain't gonna happen. So I hope he goes to jail.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

in a perfect world, he'd find Jesus in jail ... 'cept in this case, Jesus would be a 325-lb mexican gangsta (all muscle, no fat) who's just been released from a month in solitary after beating in the skull of a rival gangsta with a lead pipe.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it's evil to say it ... but rush's new nickname after a spell in the big house would be "sweet cheeks." he might as well tattoo "i'm yer bitch" on his ass right now.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Your hatred is irrational, even for Rush.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

somewhere sean hannity is smiling

I'm intrigued -- can't say I pay too much attention to either of them, but what's the story here, James?

― Ned at Martin's place (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 October 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

read the Al Franken book, and it'll make sense.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 12 October 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

just in time for his exit from rehab...tax evasion questions?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish that Indymedia would learn how to properly code a link.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I know!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

He'll be back on the air monday.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

his factchecker will be back from holiday in three weeks, no doubt.

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i read that as 'fatchecker'

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

'fatburger'

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

AP Report on CNN about this

They basically just paraphrase his brother talking to Drudge. Odd.

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 November 2003 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

and somebody tipped his hand a bit too much and said too much again, and so has to now deny & attack....

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

“What's she (Sheehan) got? A hundred stragglers have showed up down there, a hundred peaceniks, a hundred long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking FM types, essentially, are down there joining her."

Classic. "FM types"?! That sounds like something Paul Harvey would have written in 1970. Yes, Rush they are just a bunch of hooligans, simply reefer-addled beatniks! If you are 70 years old, I am talking to you!

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know what that means.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Cindy Sheehan + Johnny Fever = 2gether 4ever

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile...

This from an e-mailer: "It is being whispered at CNN/Atlanta that Daryn Kagan has been passed over for any and all promotion due to her relationship with Limbaugh. If she has a job at the end of the year at CNN it will be a miracle. Bosses are not happy with her boyfriend and his daily bashing of the network."

UPDATE: This from another e-mailer: "The truth iS that she HAS NO PROMOTION OFFERS! The RUMOR IS that she may marry Rush and her time will be devoted to "other things", i.e., less airtime."

Additional: Here's another e-mail: "Kagan does have a soft back stop with her rich boyfriend. But she is not ready to start popping out Rush babies yet. She is being gently shown the door. Too bad. She is a fixture at CNN. We will miss her here."

MORE 8/12 1:08pm ET This from another CNN'er: "Jim Walton has never been partial to Daryn and since you can see where CNN has gone under his direction, I'd say it's pretty clear that he's flat wrong about her. Daryn could be someone that helps brings us out of the current situation we're in."

Additional 8/15 Here's another observation from an e-mailer: "While some people may say outloud that dating Rush is NOT the reason, it is clear to everyone looking that in the last year Daryn Kagan has had disminished responsiblities. She never fills in in NY anymore. She gets shoved off with breaking news. She has not interviewed anyone of importance for over a year. She is a bright star at CNN and she is not being utilized at all. There is no other reason then her relationship with Limbaugh."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

This kind of talk was all over the Christian station when I was up near Green Bay on Friday (Green Bay apparently = hicks). I like listening to the Christain station. It's like listening to a broadcast from another planet. They were saying that Sheehan was a tool of the left, that her grief was being manipulated, that she was being coached. The bulk of their argument seemed to rest on the fact that she couldn't *possibly* have thought to say any those things herself, because she's not smart enough. It was utterly insulting, degrading, and lacked even a whiff of humanity.

Actually, much of the talk on that station was of the same grade. Like the pro-lifer who argued that even if it's true, which it's not, but even if it's true that pro-lifers do nothing to help their community outside of trying to save fetuses, so what? If we can save a human life, it's not our responsibility to save the world. In other words, they're not *responsible* for any of the social ills in their own cities and their own country. If they can save a fetus, that's enough. Appalling.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Paunchy why do you hate fetuses?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

They look funny.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

fetuses=fun

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fetopia.net/funandgames/crafts/puppetpattern.jpg

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think a big reason abortion flips the ultimate Moral Superiority switch in pro-lifers is that it allows them to feel good about protecting an oppressed group of people who have the decency to not actually exist or speak for themselves or otherwise complicate things. This differentiates it from other social causes in that it allows for a completely one-sided discourse - there are no niggling details or mitigating factors or circumstances, just the forceful projection of one's values onto an abstraction.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I think this is why abortion is maybe the SOLE issue that consistently trumps all other issues in terms of importance in the minds of some voters)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cdisle.ca/store/media/dayglo_fetus.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"FM Types" is great! That cracked me up.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Fetus Manglers"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hotsandwich.com/archives/rush.jpg

I thought Rush = FM Types!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

She gets shoved off with breaking news.

Hee hee. what, like bodychecked out of the camera frame?

feel good about protecting an oppressed group of people who have the decency to not actually exist or speak for themselves or otherwise complicate things.

yeah. exactly like the Terry Schiavo thing; a perfect little idealized, infantilized angel, needing protection.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

What's the name of that really conservative catholic comic strip about a fetus? "Umbert the Unborn"?

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

the Umborn

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

The only problemw ith your argument, Shakey, is that a fully-grown fetus will not regret that his mother didnt abort him.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.umberttheunborn.com/

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

"The only problemw ith your argument, Shakey, is that a fully-grown fetus will not regret that his mother didnt abort him."

I can't parse all these double negatives.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

and a thread on rush limbaugh ain't gunna get into that argument

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

is that a fully-grown fetus will not regret that his mother didnt abort him

speak for yourself Alfred

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Especially since I heard him this morning and, boy, was he rabid.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://thousandrobots.com/blog/files/palpatine_02.jpg

"Every single aborted fetus is now an enemy to the Republic."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Umbert the Unborn

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Fucking. Kidding. Me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

one can only hope he grows up to be Umbert Umbert, the Loveable Catholic Pedophile.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Fucking. Kidding. Me.

for realz, dude! there's a whole SWATH of alternately scary/hilarious religous ultraconservative comic strips. Sometimes they make it to "Awful Link of the Day" status on SA.

actually, that's where i first heard about this strip.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait to see the comic based on an invalid's life.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Besides "Garfield".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

careful what you wish for

xpost harf harf

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

do they have lawyers representing the unborn yet? i'm looking for careers in law

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, they're at a place called the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, MI.

the guy that founded Domino's Pizza started this place expressly to churn out anti-abortion-rights lawyers, as goes the local rumors...

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to take them down from within

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

"PLUS, COMING SOON, SEE AND HEAR UMBERT IN THE WOMB IN HIS ANIMATED DEBUT ON THIS UMBERT'S OWN WEBSITE!"

Someone hold me...

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

umbert has no schlong

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

and despite the fervent wishes of many ILXors (including yers truly), limpblob was most assuredly NOT totally screwed as a result of everything that happened to him in 10/03. :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

umbert has no schlong because christians don't believe in sex

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

the interesting thing is that umbert is really good, well drawing, well panelled, funny--and not really rabid.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know what that means.

-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), August 22nd, 2005.

I believe he's talking about FM radio, which WAS the underground/hippydippy radio platform in the 50's and 60's, whereas AM was mainstream Pat Boone stuff. Which makes the comment even more awesome because of how mindbendingly square it is.

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I love how a thread about Rush Limbaugh from 2003 can be revived into a thread about abortion and the recently discovered bad motives(!) of pro-lifers with not one blinking eye.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

we contain multitudes n' shit

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

but isn't Rush on FM radio? he must be in some areas....

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Possible. But that's not why it's funny...

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Umbert the Unborn": still less creepy than "Love Is..."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/servlet/com.featureserv.util.Download?file=20050823cplis-a-p.jpg&code=cplis

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Love is... two creepy naked kids.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh great. Now I have a womb to mentally place Umbert into.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

good LORD did '70s pop culture blow...

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4957154.stm

Revive!

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

Recalled to life!

you know rush and michael moore kind of look like brothers

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 29 April 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK U RUSH!!!!

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Saturday, 29 April 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

so is his market share/radio dominance really collapsing? I've seen a couple articles to this effect lately but dunno how to really evaluate their claims

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 June 2015 16:48 (ten years ago)

Evidently in California and NY.

The real problem is his demographic is now all denture cream and Depends diapers, and GSK or Kimberly-Clark aren't about to advertise with him.

― We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)

Depends diapers

joke writes itself

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

Seems to me his railing against the pope on global warming and capitalism is kinda desperate, and nagl even for him, but I dunno.

― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:04 (ten years ago)

don't think there's such a thing as a good look for limbaugh unless it is the last look a lost astronaut has of earth as he hurtles screaming and helpless away from it at great speed and completely untethered to anything that will prevent his progress into the infinite depths of darkest unknown where he will be preserved as a monument to the futility of existence for all of time

― head clowning instructor (art), Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:13 (ten years ago)

Well, yeah! I base my comment solely on the fact that my few conservative friends are also staunch Catholics. I don't think they've ever paid any attention to Rushbo tho.

― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)

xpost that was beautiful

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:52 (ten years ago)

this Salon piece reiterates the argument that it's all fallout from the Sandra Fluke thing years ago, but the aging demographic perhaps makes more sense:
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/18/rush_limbaughs_downward_spiral_continues_another_demotion_another_step_to_irrelevancy_partner/

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:56 (ten years ago)

art i am posting that in the "striking imagery" thread, that was wonderful and gave me a very positive visual in my mind

― marcos, Thursday, 18 June 2015 21:05 (ten years ago)

He did lose several sponsors after calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" and prostitute"---enough that there was room left for dead air, in TV/radio stories re the loss. A few were replaced, but things have never been the same. Maybe that just hastened the inevitable, a little. Wonder what he'll say about the Charleston church murders.
Did he not lose any for mocking Michael J. Fox's Parkinson movements, which he said were exaggerated (and/or enhanced by not taking his meds) for purposes of pimping stem-cells in a Congressional hearing? Guess you had to see RL's movements for the full effect (still on YouTube, the last time I could stand to check).
Did he not lose sponsors for saying, "If Elizabeth Edwards had done something with her mouth, besides running it," maybe she wouldn't have driven John-Boy away? Don't think it got much play, but I saw that too (he preserves it all on video).

― dow, Thursday, 18 June 2015 21:11 (ten years ago)

Didn't know about the Elizabeth Edwards line, but yeah, don't get why the Fluke thing was worse than the Fox one, which is despicable even w/o the images.

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 June 2015 21:25 (ten years ago)

he's not going anywhere for a while. Lots of old white people left for at least twenty years. Plus their kids.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 June 2015 21:32 (ten years ago)

I went to high school--in Canada!--with a kid who worshipped him. It ain't just old folks keeping him on, alas.

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 June 2015 21:35 (ten years ago)

uh how long ago were you in high school

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 June 2015 21:44 (ten years ago)

is there anyone really primed to replace him? Glenn Beck seems to have created his own niche.

― ryan, Thursday, 18 June 2015 23:26 (ten years ago)

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