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Limbaugh tasteless comment

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Here is what Rush Limbaugh said after Coretta Scott King’s funeral earlier this week.

“Here’s the little office pool we have going here. You might want to have your own version of this in your office or home today.

The end of the funeral, when it’s all over. How may women will be picked up? The next question we’re asking is how many babies will be born nine months from today?”

Is this one twisted son of gun or what?
<P ID="signature">______________
http://talkingradio.blogspot.com/</P>
 
Once again, we are seeing some selectivity in whose comments you consider tasteless (and whose you don't).

Picking up women is an activity which might more appropriately be used to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.
 
He's on the pills again, probably. How many do you think he's taking, judging from those comments?

Conjecture, just like Rush does in commentary like that. Well, he was really addicted, because, after all, he did lose his hearing as a result of his abuse of Oxy. So one can only speculate where the inspiration for these comments is derived from.



> Once again, we are seeing some selectivity in whose comments
> you consider tasteless (and whose you don't).
>
> Picking up women is an activity which might more
> appropriately be used to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.
>
 
I thought Limbaugh was OFF this week

Isn't Roger Hedgecock filling in?
 
Could it have been made up?

Since the question of Michael Savage possibly NOT having a bike accident has come up, one has to wonder...

Could the story of Rush's "tasteless comment" been fabricated - like the "embellishments" in the Oprah endorsed book "A Million Little Pieces?"
(Oprah: "... the underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me. And I know that it resonates with millions of other people who have read this book.")

[[Tongue in cheek - On]]
OK, maybe Rush did not actually say it. Maybe Rush wasn't even on that day. Maybe the guy filling in didn't say it either. In the through-the-looking-glass world of political correctness, we are concerned with a greater truth. The story depicts who Rush is. It portrays his ontological domain of being. So what, if he didn't actually say it. He would have said it if he'd been there and thought of it. We all know that.
[[Tongue in cheek - Off]]


> Isn't Roger Hedgecock filling in?
>
 
Re: Could it have been made up?

It was listed as a transcript on Rush's webpage..though I believe he's off all week in Pebble Beach.
 
> Well, he was really addicted, because, after all, he did
> lose his hearing as a result of his abuse of Oxy.

Sigh.
 
You can get away with anything if you tell people what they wanna hear. Limbaugh could pistol-whip an old lady in broad daylight and the dittoheads would just shrug and say the old liberal so-and-so had it coming...
 
BAROOSK'S REPORT IS INACCURATE

Maybe he's an incompetent reporter. Maybe he just won't let the facts get in the way of a good story. But, as with his garbled version of Randi Rhodes' claim of "victory," this report has only as passing resemblence to what happened.

The facts are:

Rush is off his radio show this week.

He did appear on Neil Cavuto's TV show on Fox News Channel.

He made a comment critical of people opposed to Bush making political statements at Coretta King's funeral. According to the show transcript:
<blockquote>
CAVUTO: You know, I was thinking of President Bush and how he must have felt yesterday at that Coretta Scott King funeral. A lot of people were dumping on him, including a couple of former presidents.

RUSH: I will tell you how he felt, happy. These people are embarrassing themselves. These people, the Democratic Party, that funeral yesterday was -- it had everything -- it had everything in it. It had a "Brokeback Mountain" moment in it, when Bishop Eddie embraced Bush, or Bush embraced him, gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then, you had a bunch of Wellstone memorial moments. I think -- do you remember the movie the "Wedding Crasher"? Two guys crash weddings to pick up dates. The Democratic Party crashes weddings -- or funerals. They are now the funeral crashers. And they are out there trying to pick up votes. And it's absurd, if they think behavior like that, disrespecting a sitting president while he is there...
</blockquote>
Who is twisted here?
 
Re: Could it have been made up?

Web...I'm starting to think that you having some difficultly responding to my post about Limbaugh's outrageous statement about the people attending Coretta Scott King's funeral. Basically El Rushbo said the people couldn't wait for the service to be over so that they could all go home and have sex. You have made three responses on the thread within the last couple of hours.

First, you call me a liar or in your words an “incompetent reporter” claiming that Rush couldn’t have made this statement because he was “off his radio show this week.” Well unless Randi Rhodes has hired someone who does a pretty good Limbaugh impression she ran the quote appears at the top of her show yesterday.

Here’s the link http://server2.whiterosesociety.org/content/rhodes/RhodesShow-(08-02-2006).mp3

Second you make some kind of weird comment about Limbaugh’s sexual accusation:

“Picking up women is an activity which might more appropriately be used to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.”

Finally, you say while Limbaugh probably did not say (what he has in fact said) but that “he would have said it if he'd been there and thought of it.”

Did you really need to put all this garbage out there.

By the way, remember I was right about Randi’s ratings victory over Hannity and you were wrong.

Deal with it.


> Since the question of Michael Savage possibly NOT having a
> bike accident has come up, one has to wonder...
>
> Could the story of Rush's "tasteless comment" been
> fabricated - like the "embellishments" in the Oprah endorsed
> book "A Million Little Pieces?"
> (Oprah: "... the underlying message of redemption in James
> Frey's memoir still resonates with me. And I know that it
> resonates with millions of other people who have read this
> book.")
>
> [[Tongue in cheek - On]]
> OK, maybe Rush did not actually say it. Maybe Rush wasn't
> even on that day. Maybe the guy filling in didn't say it
> either. In the through-the-looking-glass world of political
> correctness, we are concerned with a greater truth. The
> story depicts who Rush is. It portrays his ontological
> domain of being. So what, if he didn't actually say it. He
> would have said it if he'd been there and thought of it. We
> all know that.
> [[Tongue in cheek - Off]]
>
>
> > Isn't Roger Hedgecock filling in?
> >
>
<P ID="signature">______________
http://talkingradio.blogspot.com/</P>
 
Yes, it was made up.

I posted a section from the program transcript above, which you have chosen to ignore.

If you can't tell the difference between "liar" and "incompetent reporter," you more of a problem than I have given you credit for. Either way, your accounts are not credible.

You are not being factual when you say you were right and I was wrong about Randi and Hannity. You posted. I was not persuaded. I challenged your sloppy "reporting." Someone else posted a credible version and I accepted it.

Apparently, in this case, you did not even hear what Rush said, but you come on here anyway and tried to give the impression you actually did hear him. (That would be a lie.) From your own later description, you heard your "goddess" do a bit - you probably weren't listening very carefully, as usual - and you were gullible enough to accept whatever she said as gospel.

And, yes, there are people who do good Rush impersonations and several radio shows do hire them.

For the record, here is the program transcript of what Rush said:
<blockquote>do you remember the movie the "Wedding Crasher"? Two guys crash weddings to pick up dates. The Democratic Party crashes weddings -- or funerals. They are now the funeral crashers. And they are out there trying to pick up votes.</blockquote>
Here is what you said Rush said - with quotation marks indicating an exact quote:
<blockquote>“Here’s the little office pool we have going here. You might want to have your own version of this in your office or home today.

The end of the funeral, when it’s all over. How may women will be picked up? The next question we’re asking is how many babies will be born nine months from today?” </blockquote>
And here is your later version of what Rush said "basically:"
<blockquote>El Rushbo said the people couldn't wait for the service to be over so that they could all go home and have sex.</blockquote>

You are the one posting garbage and some has to correct it.
 
FACT CHECK

In the interests of accuracy, I have re-checked the facts and the assertions from earlier posts.

Baroosk was not listening to Rush's program. He was listening to the opening bit from Randi Rhodes' February 8th program. During the usual opening montage of sound bites, the program included a highly-edited, out-of-context, unattributed sound bite from Rush Limbaugh. Here is the version Randi aired:
<blockquote>Here’s the little office pool we have going here. You might want to have your own version of this in your office or home today. The end of the funeral, when it’s all over. How may women will be picked up? The next question we’re asking is how many babies will be born nine months from today?</blockquote>
FloridaBear later posted he thought Rush was off this week. Rush's website says he was off (attending a golf tournament) February 8th, 9th and 10th (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). He did his show Monday and Tuesday (the day of the funeral).

On Wednesday, Rush appeared on Neil Cavuto's Fox News Channel TV program. The program transcript records the follwing exchange:
<blockquote>CAVUTO: You know, I was thinking of President Bush and how he must have felt yesterday at that Coretta Scott King funeral. A lot of people were dumping on him, including a couple of former presidents.

RUSH: I will tell you how he felt, happy. These people are embarrassing themselves. These people, the Democratic Party, that funeral yesterday was -- it had everything -- it had everything in it. It had a "Brokeback Mountain" moment in it, when Bishop Eddie embraced Bush, or Bush embraced him, gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then, you had a bunch of Wellstone memorial moments. I think -- do you remember the movie the "Wedding Crasher"? Two guys crash weddings to pick up dates. The Democratic Party crashes weddings -- or funerals. They are now the funeral crashers. And they are out there trying to pick up votes. And it's absurd, if they think behavior like that, disrespecting a sitting president while he is there... </blockquote>
According to the transcript on Rush's website, Rush was on his program February 7th, which was being broadcast as the funeral was underway. Rush, apparently watching on TV in the studio, commented on the funeral in progress.
<blockquote>RUSH: We've got a little office pool going on here, folks, and I wanted to share it with you, regarding the funeral. First, when's it going to end? The other things that we're looking at -- who's in the house? You've got Bill Clinton, you've got the Reverend Jackson, and you have Teddy Kennedy, and those are just the known culprits. I'm sure that there are others who fit the mold. They're all in the House. So here's the little office pool that we have going here. Here you might want to have your own version of this in your office or your home today. The end of the funeral, when it's all over, how many women will be picked up? The next question we're asking ourselves, how many babies will be born nine months from today? I mean, you've got Bill Clinton in there; you've got Jesse Jackson and Teddy Kennedy -- and the next question we're asking, "Will a car fail to negotiate a bridge somewhere in Georgia late tonight, and if so, who will have been driving?" </blockquote>
Read in context, Rush was taking a shot at three liberal Democrats noted for their past sexual "indiscretions". It was a political shot; not a racist shot or an attempt to insult Coretta Scot King, as Randi Rhodes tried to suggest ("You pig. You disgusting, racist pig").
 
What is Rush "Scoring"

> In the interests of accuracy, I have re-checked the facts
> and the assertions from earlier posts.
>
> Baroosk was not listening to Rush's program. He was
> listening to the opening bit from Randi Rhodes' February 8th
> program. During the usual opening montage of sound bites,
> the program included a highly-edited, out-of-context,
> unattributed sound bite from Rush Limbaugh.

You mean like when Randi was accused of wanting the president dead and Drudge reported the Secret Service was investigating her? You mean like highly-edited, out-of-context sound bits from Randi Rhodes?

I left out "unattributed" because unless it wasn't Rush speaking, what is unattributed about it. Rush is pretty much the same whether he's getting wiffle balls gently handed to him by the likes of Cavuto or if he's doing his own show.

> FloridaBear later posted he thought Rush was off this week.
> Rush's website says he was off (attending a golf tournament)
> February 8th, 9th and 10th (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).
> He did his show Monday and Tuesday (the day of the
> funeral).

What hotel is he staying at? What's on the room service menu? Honestly, who cares what he's doing this week. What matters is if he said it or not, not where he said it.

> RUSH: I will tell you how he felt, happy. These people are
> embarrassing themselves. These people, the Democratic Party,
> that funeral yesterday was -- it had everything -- it had
> everything in it. It had a "Brokeback Mountain" moment in
> it, when Bishop Eddie embraced Bush, or Bush embraced him,
> gave him a kiss on the cheek.

Nobody in that audience felt embarrassed except for President Bush. The four minute standing ovations and applause made that clear. There is a reason Bush has 2% approval with African-Americans.

Rush's Brokeback Mountain joke fell down and couldn't get up.

> Two guys crash weddings to pick
> up dates. The Democratic Party crashes weddings -- or
> funerals. They are now the funeral crashers. And they are
> out there trying to pick up votes. And it's absurd, if they
> think behavior like that, disrespecting a sitting president
> while he is there...

Rush is delusional. This has become the manufactured talking point for right wing talk radio and Fox News. Apply the litmus test however - would they be complaining if the funeral was politicized with positive comments about the president's Iraq endeavors? This wasn't Bush's funeral - it was Coretta Scott King. The King family, and her specifically, vehemently opposed the president's war policies and wiretapping. There is nothing wrong with being honest with the audience about what she felt just because Bush is sitting there and Laura is giving Carter and Lowery the evil eye. The Democrats don't have to pick up votes in the African-American community. The GOP's efforts to recruit black supporters washed out to see with the debris from Katrina. Buh bye.

> RUSH: We've got a little office pool going on here, folks,
> and I wanted to share it with you, regarding the funeral.
> First, when's it going to end? The other things that we're
> looking at -- who's in the house? You've got Bill Clinton,
> you've got the Reverend Jackson, and you have Teddy Kennedy,
> and those are just the known culprits.

So it's okay for Rush to disrespect President Clinton and Rev. Jackson and Senator Kennedy, but President Carter can't speak about how the King family dealt with wiretapping by their government.

> Read in context, Rush was taking a shot at three liberal
> Democrats noted for their past sexual "indiscretions". It
> was a political shot; not a racist shot or an attempt to
> insult Coretta Scot King, as Randi Rhodes tried to suggest
> ("You pig. You disgusting, racist pig").

Actually, thank you for the full quote. It was even worse than the original purported quote. And it's still disrespectful of the funeral because just who will these three important leaders be sleeping with - why the "loose" women at the funeral of course.

So let's get this straight. It's fine for the pill popper to bring out the stale bread on Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton, but it's not okay to comment on anything related to President Bush.

That illustrates perfectly the amazing double standards coming from the morals crowd, and Rush Limbaugh, as so aptly illustrated in another thread, has no business making morality attacks after his own shameful indiscretions.

"Score" definitely means something very different for Rush Limbaugh than it does for the three Democrats he wants to criticize.
 
Do you work this hard...

...to debunk Rush's half-truths, off-the-cuff remarks and commentary?

The implication of the remark also stretched to the women in the room, who (I will hazard to guess a good majority) were black. But, to Rush's mind, women are irrelevant to this equation.

But so what. He's still the right's kept boy. And he will embarrass himself again eventually.
 
What he said...

Mega Dittoes...

> > In the interests of accuracy, I have re-checked the facts
> > and the assertions from earlier posts.
> >
> > Baroosk was not listening to Rush's program. He was
> > listening to the opening bit from Randi Rhodes' February
> 8th
> > program. During the usual opening montage of sound bites,
>
> > the program included a highly-edited, out-of-context,
> > unattributed sound bite from Rush Limbaugh.
>
> You mean like when Randi was accused of wanting the
> president dead and Drudge reported the Secret Service was
> investigating her? You mean like highly-edited,
> out-of-context sound bits from Randi Rhodes?
>
> I left out "unattributed" because unless it wasn't Rush
> speaking, what is unattributed about it. Rush is pretty
> much the same whether he's getting wiffle balls gently
> handed to him by the likes of Cavuto or if he's doing his
> own show.
>
> > FloridaBear later posted he thought Rush was off this
> week.
> > Rush's website says he was off (attending a golf
> tournament)
> > February 8th, 9th and 10th (Wednesday, Thursday and
> Friday).
> > He did his show Monday and Tuesday (the day of the
> > funeral).
>
> What hotel is he staying at? What's on the room service
> menu? Honestly, who cares what he's doing this week. What
> matters is if he said it or not, not where he said it.
>
> > RUSH: I will tell you how he felt, happy. These people are
>
> > embarrassing themselves. These people, the Democratic
> Party,
> > that funeral yesterday was -- it had everything -- it had
> > everything in it. It had a "Brokeback Mountain" moment in
> > it, when Bishop Eddie embraced Bush, or Bush embraced him,
>
> > gave him a kiss on the cheek.
>
> Nobody in that audience felt embarrassed except for
> President Bush. The four minute standing ovations and
> applause made that clear. There is a reason Bush has 2%
> approval with African-Americans.
>
> Rush's Brokeback Mountain joke fell down and couldn't get
> up.
>
> > Two guys crash weddings to pick
> > up dates. The Democratic Party crashes weddings -- or
> > funerals. They are now the funeral crashers. And they are
> > out there trying to pick up votes. And it's absurd, if
> they
> > think behavior like that, disrespecting a sitting
> president
> > while he is there...
>
> Rush is delusional. This has become the manufactured
> talking point for right wing talk radio and Fox News. Apply
> the litmus test however - would they be complaining if the
> funeral was politicized with positive comments about the
> president's Iraq endeavors? This wasn't Bush's funeral - it
> was Coretta Scott King. The King family, and her
> specifically, vehemently opposed the president's war
> policies and wiretapping. There is nothing wrong with being
> honest with the audience about what she felt just because
> Bush is sitting there and Laura is giving Carter and Lowery
> the evil eye. The Democrats don't have to pick up votes in
> the African-American community. The GOP's efforts to
> recruit black supporters washed out to see with the debris
> from Katrina. Buh bye.
>
> > RUSH: We've got a little office pool going on here, folks,
>
> > and I wanted to share it with you, regarding the funeral.
> > First, when's it going to end? The other things that we're
>
> > looking at -- who's in the house? You've got Bill Clinton,
>
> > you've got the Reverend Jackson, and you have Teddy
> Kennedy,
> > and those are just the known culprits.
>
> So it's okay for Rush to disrespect President Clinton and
> Rev. Jackson and Senator Kennedy, but President Carter can't
> speak about how the King family dealt with wiretapping by
> their government.
>
> > Read in context, Rush was taking a shot at three liberal
> > Democrats noted for their past sexual "indiscretions". It
>
> > was a political shot; not a racist shot or an attempt to
> > insult Coretta Scot King, as Randi Rhodes tried to suggest
>
> > ("You pig. You disgusting, racist pig").
>
> Actually, thank you for the full quote. It was even worse
> than the original purported quote. And it's still
> disrespectful of the funeral because just who will these
> three important leaders be sleeping with - why the "loose"
> women at the funeral of course.
>
> So let's get this straight. It's fine for the pill popper
> to bring out the stale bread on Ted Kennedy and Bill
> Clinton, but it's not okay to comment on anything related to
> President Bush.
>
> That illustrates perfectly the amazing double standards
> coming from the morals crowd, and Rush Limbaugh, as so aptly
> illustrated in another thread, has no business making
> morality attacks after his own shameful indiscretions.
>
> "Score" definitely means something very different for Rush
> Limbaugh than it does for the three Democrats he wants to
> criticize.
>
 
Re: FACT CHECK

Well, Ted Kennedy is responsible for the death of a woman, he never dove back in the water to try to save her, he just ran to his friend's party to try to save himself.

Ted Kennedy and the (BLEEP) Senator Byrd, when you have that, that's all you need for mockery.
 
Re: What is Rush "Scoring"

> There is a reason Bush has 2%
> approval with African-Americans.

Good job for doing outside research...
oh, wait... you stole that from Stephanie Miller's show prep.

And you love to bitch about conservatives getting their facts from talk radio.
 
Re: What is Rush "Scoring"

Don't all Repubs usually get horribly low numbers from African Americans? I mean, DC (60% Black) gave 3 of Mondale's 13 electoral votes in '84 (the other 10 were from his homestate). And if you look at maps, the southern blue counties are those who have a majority black population. It's not a Bush thing, its a party-platform thing...and has been for a while and will likely remain that way for a while.
 
Re: What is Rush "Scoring"

> Don't all Repubs usually get horribly low numbers from
> African Americans?

They get low numbers, but nobody does it better than George coming in at 2%. Usually the GOP comes in at low double digits, but this was ridiculous.
 
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