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)

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the Umborn

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:57 (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 (audiobo...), August 22nd, 2005.

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 (nine 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 (nine years ago)

Depends diapers

joke writes itself

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

xpost that was beautiful

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

uh how long ago were you in high school

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

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