Newsweek on Rush: "a childless, twice-divorced, thrice-married schlub"

[wndycty]

I am nowhere near the end of the story, but I fell off of my chair when I read this!

-snip-
But Limbaugh’s story owes more to the “Wizard of Oz” than “The Scarlet Letter.” The man behind the curtain is not the God of Family Values but a childless, twice-divorced, thrice-married schlub whose idea of a good time is to lie on his couch and watch football endlessly. When Rush Limbaugh declared to his radio audience that he was “your epitome of morality of virtue, a man you could totally trust with your wife, your daughter, and even your son in a Motel 6 overnight,” he was acting. He “regards himself as an entertainer who is very pleased that people pay attention to his political views,” says Wall Street editorial writer John Fund, who collaborated with Limbaugh on one of the radio host’s books (“The Way Things Ought to Be”).
-snip-

Damn that was cold!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979355.asp?

[blondeatlast]

1. This is precisely what I DON'T get about his audience.

He calls them DITTOHEADS to their faces; his defense is that he is an entertainer (he's fallen back on that every time he's been challenged) and they still slavishly follow him.

Sheesh.

[Junkdrawer]

4. The "entertainer" shtick was a joke he and his dittoheads shared...

When he would finish spinning the latest lie destined to the Repuke talking points list, he would end with "But what do I know, I'm just an entertainer" (wink wink, nudge nudge).

[Cat Atomic]

2. Haha.

I must admit, it'd be so much funnier if this were happening to real idealogue, like Hannity or Coulter. Rush Limbaugh is so over the top and ridiculous, he's almost performance art.

[bahrbearian]

32. performanace yes ..art No!

[neebob]

3. Well, duh

I'd immediately distrust any man who said I could trust him alone with my son in a Motel 6 overnight, because it means he's thinking about it. Did he really say that? Holy crap.

[StClone]

6. Rush said it repeatedly

In responce to Clinton being able to charm the wife, daughter and befriend the family dog.

[Cha]

7. I caught that too! I just heard yesterday at my

Library that one of the Librarians is a dittohead. And she's an uptight "Christian" lady. Another Librarian(my friend) told me that she had been coming in everyday saying .."rush wouldn't take drugs"(this was before he admitted it).

Ha! Busted!

[Mairead]

20. Honestly, it's amazing to me that any librarian can be a right-winger

Librarians are guardians of knowledge, the keepers of what Andrew Carnegie called 'the people's universities'.

People with closed minds generally avoid situations where they might have to open them.

[Cha]

25. I know...probably why most of them aren't....but this woman is

the Christian type who is easily brainwashed(evidently).

[KayLaw]

44. Don't worry

She'll be fine. I had such a friend once, and she could do amazing contortions when it came to making excuses for and forgiving a fellow winger.

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Exactly what I thought about Rick Santorum

and his man-on-dog remark. Man-on-dog had never occurred to me until Senator Santorum sullied my beautiful mind* with the concept. It makes me wonder about the companionship he seeks.

* 'beautiful mind': Babs Bush doesn't like to fill her 'beautiful mind' with thoughts of killing and war

[wndycty]

5. There is more

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His self-absorption made dating difficult. Two women who dated Limbaugh told conservative activist (and Limbaugh friend) Paul Weyrich that they couldn’t seem to get his attention. “They both said, ‘I’ll never go on a date with him again’,” Weyrich told NEWSWEEK. “They did not have a good time. He talked about himself and didn’t seem interested in them at all.”
-snip-

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979358.asp

[Junkdrawer]

10. Gee, a self-absorbed drug addict. How unusual...

/sarcasm off

[charlie]

8. 30,000 pills!!!!!

30 fucking thousand pills! If he isn't wearing a prison jumpsuit in a month, there's no God, Justice, or Santa Claus.

[Junkdrawer]

12. I'm telling you. Shake that tree and don't be surprised if some...

famous Republican power brokers start tumbling out.

[kmla]

55. We can only hope..

Jeez, I hope it happens.

[tabasco]

18. He has provided millions of dollars to criminal gangs.

With his lavish drug habit. Jail should be in his future.

[spooky3]

19. hey, Rush has supported terrorism!!!

If you believe the Repug PSAs linking illicit drug purchases to funding terrorism.

[Cha]

33. Only for poor People and Dems...

[BenDavid]

9. Ditto Heads No More..

As a new moniker is now justified and that is "Ditto Junkies"

[Cha]

11. Well, there ya go!

[Cha]

21. They should all be called "hypo heads", too, for all the

Hypocricy they exude!

[hlthe2b]

24. "Hypoditts"......................!

:evilgrin:

[Cha]

26. I like it!

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[paulk]

38. I don't know...

"Head" was sixties/seventies slang for a drug user. Seems appropriate.

[Nottingham]

13. He was a Dealer! and making money off drugs

and laughing about it!

I bet there is more to this story!

Where was the POLICE!!!

:bounce:

[donsu]

14. wonder if his current SO is addicted too?

nt

[UTUSN]

15. My Favorite Quotes

(from the other thread doubting whether he will be prosecuted: ) Here's the Newsweek story that sez not to count out prosecution of users like him. (The rest of the quotes regarding his personal inadequacies are being included just because.) Btw, Howie KURTZ scolded us today on "Reliable" Sources, saying that we have a perfect right to HAMMER LIMBOsevic on the grounds of his politics, but NOT because of his personal failings. Yeah, O.K., Howie.

******QUOTE*****
http://www.msnbc.com/news/979355.asp?0cv=CB20

.... virtually every newspaper dredged up this 1995 quote from Rush: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to ... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.” The penalty for illegally buying large quantities of prescription painkillers in Florida can be five years in jail, and contrary to some published reports, prosecutors do go after users as well as pushers—especially if they want to make an example of a celebrity. ....

(His most recent contract, signed in 2001 for eight years, was for $285 million.) But his personal life left something to be desired. Despite his fervent moralizing, he smoked a little pot and watched a little porn (as he has publicly admitted). His first two marriages failed. His second wife, Michelle, told Vanity Fair that Limbaugh’s father never quite approved of his career path, and that Rush would be depressed and deflated every time he got off the phone with his dad. ....

His self-absorption made dating difficult. Two women who dated Limbaugh told conservative activist (and Limbaugh friend) Paul Weyrich that they couldn’t seem to get his attention. “They both said, ‘I’ll never go on a date with him again’,” Weyrich told NEWSWEEK. “They did not have a good time. He talked about himself and didn’t seem interested in them at all.” ....

In 1994, Limbaugh married his current spouse, Marta Fitzgerald, a former aerobics instructor who is nine years younger (they met through a computer bulletin-board service). Shortly after they were married, a $125-a-plate audience became uneasy when Limbaugh called his wife onstage and then seemed to forget that she was there. As he ranted at Democrats, she seemed to cower and edge toward the shadows. ....
*****UNQUOTE****

[linazelle]

23. His current wife's name is Marta? I thought that was the maid's name...

I'm soooo confused...

Anyhewww this and the other stories today from Newsweek beg for a screenplay. Can't you just see a movie about this hypocrite's double life? Of course, the ending is not known yet but I'll definitely be in line to see this when it comes to the big screen.

[UTUSN]

27. No the Housekeeper/Mule Is "Wilma CLINE"

Not to be confused with Kevin KLINE - or Wilma FLINTSTONE for that matter. Keep up. (All in good fun, not "mean".)

[catzies]

29. Maid's name is Wilma Cline.

n/t

[kskiska]

39. I think Linda Chavez's maid was Marta

The one Linda was "taking care of."

[IggleDoer]

42. Is Marta Fitzgerald any relation to JenniferFitzgerald?

Poppy's honey

[peaches2003]

56. Rush was very hard up for a woman

Rush met Marta in an internet chat room. She was a married aerobics instructor in Jacksonville, FL with 2 kids. On air he called her his Jacksonville Jaguar. Left her husband and kids. Would love to know how much cash and how little sex was involved in this deal. The Enquirer published pre-plastic surgery pictures of her. He obviously needed a public wife very badly, cleaned her up, and paid her off. Do a search under Marta Limbaugh. He financed a magazine she wanted to publish- first issue never even came out because she was such a witch everyone she hired to do the magazine quit. I haven't heard him say much about her in a long time so I presume they really lead separate lives and he drags her out when needed. She didn't know about the drugs in 6 years? Give me a break. We'll see how long she stays with him now before collecting the rest of the cash and saying adios.

[mitchum]

17. I like the way the "Wizard of Oz" reference was slid in there...

Jeff Christie longtime friend of...?

[madfloridian]

22. Honorary member of Congress by GOP?? Lincoln bedroom.

..."Former president George H.W. Bush, always eager to cover his right flank, personally carried Limbaugh’s bags into the White House when Limbaugh stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom in 1992. After the Republicans won control of the House in 1994 for only the second time in 50 years, lawmakers called to personally thank Limbaugh and made him an honorary member of Congress...".

[Cha]

30. That's right! I couldn't believe that when I heard that

on the Mike Malloy Show the other night! Talk about "Sleezing up the Lincoln Bedroom"!


edit~to change white house to Lincoln Bedroom~

[wrkclskid]

36. I saw that

What exactly is an honorary member of Congress? Does he get an honorary vote? ("it doesn't count but vote so we can see what you think") an honorary staff. It seems like an incredibly silly honor to bestow on someone, especially one as partisan as him. If it were some doctor who discovered a cure or a poet or something I could see.

[Cha]

40. Sounds like a Lot of partisian, neo con, bullshit to me!

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

28. Quote: “You would find him in his dark bedroom playing with his....

"Limbaugh’s own mother remarked on his somewhat passive-aggressive reticence as a child. Little Rush was “very quiet,” his mother, Millie, told the Southeast Missourian, a newspaper. At Halloween, “he really didn’t care much for trick or treating. He would rather stay at home. I found he was upstairs and he’d have water balloons. Sometimes when the little children would leave, he would drop them down.” Limbaugh’s best friend in high school, Craig Valle, told Peter Boyer for a May 1992 Vanity Fair article, “You would find him in his dark bedroom playing with his tape recorder and radio.”"

[Cha]

31. Isn't that kind like bush "blowing up frogs with dynomite when

he was a kid"? At least, it's what it reminded me of.

"It's the quiet ones"!

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

35. Poor little bully! Nobody likes him just because he's mean to people! n/t

n/t

[diamond14]

34. quoting John Fund ???? the woman beater, another moral guy who

f*cked his wife's daughter....and beat both badly enough to hospitalize them.....

all these thugs are the 'American family value guys"...."hillbilly heroin" drug addicts, woman-beaters, alcoholics, school drop outs, adulterers....

shine the light on these cockroaches....

it's really scary that so many "dittoheads" have been listening to a "hillbilly heroin" addict and BELIEVE everything that such a delusional hallucinating deranged addict tells them....

[blitzen]

37. a bartcop classic on rush/jeff christie

http://www.bartcop.com/bs621.htm

[Cha]

41. Gross Gross Gross! I would love to have a certain "Librarian"

have knowledge of this! rush has only gotten Worse.

[bring_em_home_bush]

43. ~

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[REP]

45. Having No Children = Questionable Morals?????

Well, I'm fucked. Not only do I have no children, I'm twice-sterilized. I always thought that was the one thing that didn't suck about Limpballs. Would he be more moral if he were a drug-abusing parent?

I understand he's an antiabortnoid, and it is a little strange for those like Buchanan and Limpballs to to rail against the decline of the 'white' population when they themselves are not breeding, but really, isn't that a good thing that they're not?

[grasswire]

46. don't forget....

...that Marta was married when Rush started flirting with her on a message board. He broke up a marriage. Another hole in the family values argument.

[KayLaw]

47. Oh, Brother!

From the article:

Will the Dittoheads forgive him? Probably. Gary Bauer, president of the conservative organization American Values, drew a distinction between a crack addict and Limbaugh’s brand of addiction. “From a moral standpoint, there’s a difference between people who go out and seek a high and get addicted and the millions of Americans dealing with pain who inadvertently get addicted,” Bauer told NEWSWEEK.


THREE TIMES?

[Wapsie B]

49. Looks like Moral Relativism is alive and well

within the ranks of the pod people.

Inadvertently get addicted? Yeah I forgot. It's only the liberal scum lying in the gutter who want to get high.

[eleny]

48. More and more like the film "A Face In The Crowd"

Although not the strongest analogy, it sure seems like Rush just followed the $$$ and that's all that mattered.

[janx]

50. If this isn't the face of pathos and irony, I don't know what is.

I think there's a good chance Rush Limbaugh has been doing drugs for a lot longer than most people yet suspect.

It accounts for the rantings and ravings that have increased in number over the years--as have the ridiculous, juvenile voices. It would account for so many things mentioned in this article.

It is not surprising that he has few friends and spends a lot of time alone.

Wizard of Oz, yes indeed.

[Wapsie B]

51. He also lost a ton of weight.

Rumors abound that he was doing more than Oxy, especially during the weight loss.

[janx]

52. At this point it makes little difference. The Rush Limbaugh

that people heard on the radio for over ten years is gone. If he cleans up and comes back, it won't be the same guy (I hope), because I'm convinced now that it was "the drugs talking." If the same guy does come back, I'll be convinced that he is still using.

[janx]

53. I have a question. Has it been confirmed that he did indeed have

back surgery 5-6 years ago?

[Skittles]

54. picking on someone for being childless if f***ing low

in fact, it's none of his g.d. business.

[myomy]

57. Just how fat is a schlub anyway?

,