Reagan Gives Rush A Taste Of His Own Medicine
Via Slog:
Rush Limbaugh—drug addict, Viagra user—isn’t in a position to mock other people’s appearances. But that didn’t stop him from suggesting that posting a photo of Nancy Pelosi in “every cheap hotel room in America” would cut the birth rate—because, hey, no man could get it up with Pelosi’s ugly mug in the room, right? Ron Reagan Jr. bashes back:
“Limbaugh hasn’t had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he’s compensating for something? Now, I wouldn’t pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection—none of that stuff—to me, off limits until! until! Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else—once you start doing that, you’re fair game, fat boy. Absolutely, you jiggly pile of mess. You’re just fair game, and you’re going to get it, too.”
Oh my. Well, my Mom always said what goes around, comes around. Not that this will stop whining Rush from crying like a baby for days. And speaking of cry baby whiners… Glenn Beck, who apologized all over himself while face to face with the ladies of the view, is now demanding an apology from them. What was it that Whoopi called him? Oh yeah, a lying sack of dog mess. Couldn’t have said it better, and, geez, how embarrassing is it to be reduced to apologetic, wimpering mass of wuss on National TV only to pretend to grow a pair once your safely ensconsed in your studio away from those mean ladies.
Tags: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, The View
I’m sorry, but Rush has had this coming for almost 20 years. I remember when he called a 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton “the White House dog.” (And Rush wonders why women don’t like him.)
What’s this – two takedowns in one week on The View (of course one was of its own co-host). Glen Beck is a lying sack of shit and he’s mad he got called on it.
The ‘drug addict’ charge against Mr. Limbaugh is a cheap shot. Was he looking for chemical thrills (as with several members of the Kennedy Clan) or did he make a mistake in self-medication as a result of a painful medical condition?
Remember that our first wave of drug addicts came from the overuse of morphine on wounded Union Army soldiers. It was a medical rather than a criminal problem.
There may be a lesson in this.
Oh please… I’m so sick of the our drug addicts aren’t really drug addicts argument. It’s right up there with our pregnant teens aren’t bad girls like your’s.
Pathetic.
Didn’t Rush go on the radio and advocate for tougher drug laws while being a drug addict himself? Yeah, he’s a huge hypocrite. He also got caught with a suitcase full of Viagra with prescriptions written in someone else’s name.
Pandora,
Very well put. In your face Downs.
From a comprehensive Pew Research Report released today.
From 2002 to 2009, voters’ partisan identification has moved from virtual parity — 43 percent Republican and 43 percent Democratic at the height of George W. Bush’s popularity in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 — to a massive Democratic advantage today of 53 to 36, a 17 percentage point split, by far the largest difference in the past two decades.
“There is an enormous amount of material about the deterioration of the Republican Party in this survey,” Andy Kohut, who runs the Pew Research Center, told the Huffington Post. The GOP is currently 88 percent non-Hispanic white; it has grown steadily older, from an average of 45.5 years in 2000 to 48.3 years in 2009; it is increasingly dependent on self-identified white evangelicals (35 percent of today’s GOP, on Southerners (39 percent of today’s GOP), and on voters who describe themselves as conservative (66 percent of today’s Republican electorate). Those who espouse conservative views on the family, homosexuality and civil liberties — a population which was in the majority in 1987 — have fallen to the 50 percent level or below, the Pew survey found.
“The Republican Party is facing formidable demographic challenges,” Kohut wrote in a report describing the new Pew findings. “Its constituents are aging and do not reflect the growing ethnic and racial diversity of the general public.
Among poor people, Republican support, already low, has been dropping further, while among the affluent — those with incomes over $100,000, a traditionally Republican segment of the electorate — Democrats have gained parity with the GOP.
While Democrats have made substantial gains in the partisan identification of voters, the party does not have a clear mandate to move to the left across the board, the survey found. Although the Pew findings represent good news for Democrats, there are some costs to their gains. Many of the new Democratic voters are not as liberal as traditional party loyalists, so that support for such initiatives as expanded health care, progressive taxation, and a stronger safety net may face opposition from within party ranks or in party identification at a later date.
On the basic issues of the liberal-conservative divide, the Pew study found a level of polarization “never before seen” between Democrats and Republicans over the fundamental role of government on such questions as whether the government “should help more needy people, even if it means debt,” “guarantee everybody enough to eat and a place to sleep,” and should “care for those who can’t care for selves.” On each of these issues, Pew found, there is more than a 30 percentage point difference in the views of Democrats and Republicans. (and I thought the republicans were the party of moral values.)
So the bottom line is, if you don’t fall completely into the social conservative movement, you’ve left the GOP, even of you are not in complete agreement with the democratic party.
The GOP has become an exclusive club.
This is no reason to get complacent. The Dems need to keep the pressure on and produce while in charge.
Typical hatred you guys specialize in when your side screws up like Pelosi has.
Addiction is indeed an illness and so is ED. If we used rehab instead of incarceration life would be better.
Why don’t you try to counter his arguments? No, wait you know you can’t. I don’t agree with everything Limbaugh says but he has a hugely popular show for over 20 years.
Mike Protack