Schwarzenegger Calls Rush Limbaugh Irrelevant

[RamboLiberal]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/politicalmuscle/2007/03/schwarzenegger__5.html

"All irrelevant. Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant. I am not his servant." - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning on the "Today Show," speaking to Campbell Brown.

During the one-on-one interview, the Republican-registered California governor was asked about criticism from Limbaugh and other conservatives that he has become a Democrat in disguise for supporting stem-cell research, mandatory curbs on carbon dioxide emissions and universal health care. Schwarzenegger said he is "the people's servant of California. What they call me - Democrat or Republican or in the center, this and that - that is not my bottom line. This is for them to talk about."

In recent weeks, Limbaugh has complained that Schwarzenegger's views on global warming are "no different than what Greenpeace would say." When the governor called a proposed $12 billion levy on hospitals, doctors and health plans a "loan, because it ... goes back to health care," Limbaugh couldn't stop laughing on the air. He said Schwarzenegger's rhetorical spin was no different than former President Bill Clinton calling tax increases "investments."

Limbaugh, it should be noted, has always been cautious about Schwarzenegger. In August 2003, during the recall election, Limbaugh told his listeners: "Hear me now and believe me later, my friends. All these conservative orgasms over Arnold Schwarzenegger are ... fake."

Limbaugh said Schwarzenegger was a closet liberal who supported abortion, gay adoption and gun control, and recoiled at comparisons to former President Ronald Reagan. "This guy may be the next actor elected governor of California, but that's where the similarity between him and Reagan ends."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Well...

The Gropinator shows some steel in his spine. That's what? One in a row?

[Orrex]

2. I suspect that Limbaugh is well acquainted with fake orgasms

Even if he doesn't realize it.

Gee whiz. Morally upstanding Conservatives sure do like to sexualize their rhetoric at every opportunity, don't they? Whether it's a complaint about homosexuals "ramming their agenda down our throats" or wanting to "do OBL in the ass," they just can't keep their minds out of the gutter.

How did they get hold of the "morality" banner, again?

[tanyev]

3. And Rush has seen plenty of fake orgasms, so he should know.

:rofl:

[shain from kane]

4. Steroids, meet Oxycontin.

And they used to criticize the hippies for drugs.

[madison]

5. Schwarzenegger is an ass. Anyone who has 20 million ...

loyal listeners, as Rush Limbaugh does, is never "irrelevant."

[Bucky]

8. "20 million loyal listeners"

Nice myth. It sure helps Rush stay able to bully others. But he's a known exaggerator.

[verse18]

6. Maybe Rush will get the freepers to boycott California.

[Sapere aude]

9. Yeah maybe he can get rim job to leave Fresno.

[Bucky]

7. If Schwarzenegger wants to be relevant in California he must be liberal on some issues. Otherwise...

Otherwise, he's useless to the energy companies that own him.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. I'm luvin' It! No Schwanzengoober fan, but...

this is the kind of "straight talk" everybody's been looking for, isn't it?

"the people's servant of California"

That's what it's all about, isn't it? We can quibble and bitch about how good a servent he is, but he's not kissing ass on the left or right, just doing what he thinks is the job.

Talking heads, ideologues and gasbags, left or right, need not apply...