MediaMatters: Limbaugh Lashes Out at MM - 'little pimple-faced kids'

[Hissyspit]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508190001

Limbaugh lashes out at Media Matters: "little pimple-faced kids that are working at wannabe websites"

Apparently stung by criticism and inundated with what he calls "far more hate mail than I usually get" over comments he made on August 15, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh lashed out, apparently at Media Matters for America, describing us on his August 18 show as "little pimple-faced kids that are working at wannabe websites." On August 16, Media Matters first reported that Limbaugh compared the actions of war critic Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, to Bill Burkett, the retired Texas Air National Guard officer who provided CBS' 60 Minutes with unauthenticated documents regarding President Bush's National Guard record. Asserting that Sheehan's "story is nothing more than forged documents," Limbaugh said, "Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett."

Limbaugh claimed on August 18 that his comments were taken "out of context" and that he simply meant that "he whole event is staged" and that "all she is is an opportunity like Bill Burkett was an opportunity, to bash Bush." But in our initial report, we provided the full August 15 Limbaugh quotation:

LIMBAUGH: I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left.

Limbaugh did not seem to think the comments were out of context when he posted a shorter version of the statement as a stand-alone quotation in the "members only" section of his own website.

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[DBoon]

1. Coming from an obese dope addict draft dodger

I'd call that a compliment

[City Lights]

2. Better to be pimple-faced than pimple-assed.

Up yours, limpballs.

He's become completely irrational and incoherent.

[chemenger]

3. "...little pimple-faced kids..."

He, with the convenient boil on his fat ass, that kept his chickenhawk ass out of Vietnam.

[underpants]

4. Rush needs to take a chill pill

:bounce:

[deutsey]

5. Fat, drugged, and stupid is no way to go through life, Rush.

(apologies, Dean Wormer!)

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. He is a festering boil on the ass of America.

A coward of the first order with a big name lawyer keeping his drug-riddled ass out of jail.

I live for the day when he takes the fall, along with the right-wing zealots he loves to promote.

Screw him.

[flakey_foont]

7. Out of context?

wow! It's not like he would ever use a quote out of context, now would he?

poor baby......evweebuddy picks on poor widdle Wush.....better call the Wahhhhhhh-mbulance,,,,

[Jade Fox]

8. Media Matters is getting to ole Limbaugh....

My hat's off to them!

For nearly two decades now this pig has reigned unchallenged in his
Right-wing hate world. The fact that he even feels the need to respond
to MM indicates that MM is having an impact.

David Brock is a hero of mine. He went from being a slimer himself to
dedicating his life to stoping the slime-machine.

[Roland99]

12. Ayup. They certainly got under his skin!

I love it!

I guess he fears ratings losses and, hence, revenue losses.


Well, tough shit, fat-ass.

[whistle]

9. Rush Limbaugh is a "pimple-assed kid"......

[Orion The Hunter]

10. Poor Rush

Rush is just mad because Media Matters just keeps pointing out what an ass-hat he is.

If it gets to painful for you Rush, just pop another Oxycotin :)

[Hissyspit]

11. What is a 'wannabe website,' anyway? And if the pimple-faced kids get

their facts right, who cares if they have acne?

Anyone who has a server and a URL is a website.

[displacedtexan]

13. Rush won my weekly "Backside Of The Bell Curve" Award...

on my blog today.

Now I have to update it to include this new crap!