Limbaugh: John and Elizabeth Edwards "turned to ... politics" instead of God after cancer news

[marmar]

How low can this dung beetle go?


from Media Matters:


Limbaugh: John and Elizabeth Edwards "turned to ... politics" instead of God after cancer news

On the March 23 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh told listeners that former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and his wife Elizabeth are "political people (who) are different than you and I." Referring to the couple's March 22 announcement that Elizabeth Edwards has Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, Limbaugh said: "ost people, when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God. The Edwards turned to the campaign. Their religion is politics and the quest for the White House." Limbaugh later asked: "If you're Barack Obama (D-IL) or Hillary Clinton (D-NY), how do you now attack John Edwards?" Limbaugh added: "Not a problem for Hillary, the Clinton (inaudible) will find a way. But Barack, it's going to be a challenge."

As Media Matters for America noted, on the March 22 broadcast of his show, Limbaugh suggested that the Edwards presidential campaign intentionally "leak" false information -- that Edwards would "suspend" his campaign because his wife's cancer had recurred -- to Politico reporter Ben Smith in order "to jump-start the campaign."

On the March 22 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann designated Limbaugh, the "Worst Person in The World" for, according to Olbermann, "suggesting in the hours immediately following the announcement, that Elizabeth Edwards has again been diagnosed with cancer, that her husband's presidential campaign will continue or end based on whether or not he gets a, quote, 'bump ,' unquote, in the polls because of her illness." Olbermann added: "Do you suppose, sir, you could summon the decency to delay injecting your cynical venom into this woman's illness until just the day after? I mean, maybe that decency comes in pill form."

From the March 23 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: Here now is Chris Matthews. And he's on Hardball last night talking to David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register. Matthews said, "Is this going to be one further bit of shielding for Edwards against attack by another candidate?
....snip.....

LIMBAUGH: Interesting point. Now, let me say something else that might be accused of cynicism: What is their religion? I don't doubt they're religious people, but, we talked about this. Political people are different than you and I. And, you know, most people when told a family member's been diagnosed with the kind of cancer Elizabeth Edwards has, they turn to God. The Edwards turned to the campaign.

Their religion is politics and the quest for the White House. And that's -- it's not just with them, I mean, it's part and parcel of political people -- undergo all this stuff, the media anal all over their private life being made public even by the candidates themselves -- it's all part of the drill.

But here, again, Matthews and David Yepsen making the point that I made yesterday. I said it yesterday, folks. If you're Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, how do you now attack John Edwards? Not a problem for Hillary, the Clinton will find a way. But Barack, it's going to be a challenge. ......

The complete piece is at: http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230015

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Please don't post anything else about him

unless it is to inform us that he's dead. Thanks.

[President Kerry]

3. Seconded

[Lerkfish]

12. thirded

[Shakespeare]

8. Agreed.

And I'll keep impatiently awaiting that day.

[SaveAmerica]

18. All in favor? Say aye...

AYE!!

What really happened is that the Edwards returned to their country in spite of cancer. Is he tapping into their prayer line to God?

[TahitiNut]

33. Aye!

:puke:

[yardwork]

29. LOL!

[Canuckistanian]

32. Fourthed

I'm outta here.

[Little Wing]

2. And Rush leaned into to an upturned 15 year old sex slave's behind

during one of his frequent sex trips after discovering that prosecutors were after him for doctor shopping.

What's his point?

[Bluzmann57]

4. Oh for goodness sakes

That is the statement of a total idiot who cannot think of anything else to attack Mrs. Edwards for. I say good luck to Elizabeth Edwards as well as Tony Snow. Does limbaugh? It's doubtful.

[Cha]

5. limpbaugh the hatemonger turns to

Drugs and should keep his GOD DAMN nose out of intelligent, hardworking Americans' business.

[Perky]

6. SOme folks turn to Gof some to oxycotin

[EstimatedProphet]

7. And Rush Limbaugh turned into a large pile of shit instead of an adult

[rodeodance]

9. take a walk rush-----------in bog country!

[Charlie Brown]

10. so did Rush turn "to God" to help with his pill fetish?

It appears that he continued harping on the airwaves throughout the whole ordeal (before he was caught), all the while throwing stones at individuals who lead much better personal lives than he has.

I'm more disappointed in Rush's listeners than I am with him, as it takes an extremely vile personality to cheer crap like this.

It ain't particularly "Christian," either.

[Eric J in MN]

27. Yeah, that was my reaction.

If Rush Limbaugh loves God, so much, then why didn't he leave his show when he got his addiction to pills, instead of waiting until he got caught to take a break from it?

[JanMichael]

11. Fuck him, he's a pill popper

ignore him

[rasputin1952]

13. It seems to me, they turned to the Medical Team, as they should have

This reprehensible, orally flatulent slob should have the decency and brains to figure out that God gave us brains so we could combat this kind of stuff...after all, he turned to a rehab center, not a church, a synagogue or a mosque for help w/his health issues he was forced to deal with after he got caught purchasing massive quantities of narcotics.

I have to wonder, as he sat/laid on his fat ass, sweating bullets, feeling the pain of withdrawal, and the hunger for the narcs if he turned to God, or if he turned to the staff at the rehab facility?
Perhaps he did both, one or the other...but he had human intervention to aid him in his course, why would he demonize someone with a life threatening incident?...He has no soul, no empathy, no compassion, no heart.

Talk about someone who plays politics....where is God's fire from the sky when you need it?

[liberal N proud]

14. He is so sick that he thinks this is appropriate

He is a worthless human being and the Edwards have more class than limballs will ever dream of having.

SICK, SICK, SICK!:puke:

[Zenlitened]

15. Rush Limbaugh should be beaten sensless with a whiffle-ball bat.

Seriously.

:eyes:

[SemperEadem]

16. How would he know unless he was superglued to their sides

over the last week?

He knows nothing.

[madrchsod]

17. who cares

let him lose more listeners...there are a lot of ditto head women who know women or their friends have/had breast cancer....go ahead rush shoot your fat mouth about breast cancer!

[hang a left]

20. how many does he even have left??

He is so inconsequential.

Loser! of the highest order.

[Bitwit1234]

19. We have to slap this guy down and

the only way to do it is to start a letter writing campaign. Pick a sponsor and bombard them with letters. Emails don't work to well but letters will. We have to show his sponsors that they have got to pull their ads. That we are not listening to him and they are wasting their money. Someone give us a sponsor to target and the address.

[Nimrod2005]

21. Someone tell the fat bastard that GOD REALLY REALLY HATES HIM!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. Let him rot in his own venom. He should be broadcasting from hell.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. And, Rush turned to show the draft board his anal cysts.

No doubt doing some heavy praying that they'd defer him.

[SoCalDem]

24. They turned to REAL LIFE..not magic..n/t

[Ilsa]

25. And OxyRush turned to abusing pills when the going got rough for him. nt

[Berry Cool]

26. I guess the one good thing about him saying all this is

that people are seeing his true colors.

He can't even work up a good head of compassion for people on the other side of his beliefs who have been struck by tragedy. He continues to see the world through the horrible distorted lens of his politics.

It gets to the point where you have to think of him like the boy Kay in that fairy tale The Snow Queen. Remember how the story started out with a tale about a devil hobgoblin who created a mirror that distorted everything beautiful and made it look ugly...and then it broke?

And now it caused more trouble than it did before it was broken, because some of the fragments were smaller than a grain of sand and these went flying throughout the wide world. Once they got in people's eyes they would stay there. These bits of glass distorted everything the people saw, and made them see only the bad side of things, for every little bit of glass kept the same power that the whole mirror had possessed.

A few people even got a glass splinter in their hearts, and that was a terrible thing, for it turned their hearts into lumps of ice.

That's Rush. He's got the glass splinter of that mirror in his heart...and it will never come out. So does Ann Coulter. So do many other people whose behavior can be explained no other way. Don't know how it got there, but at some point or other, these people began seeing the whole world through the lens of their own emotional ugliness, and they have never stopped.

[yardwork]

28. The right-wing shills are all over my local TV website boards with this....

The fax machines must have been humming while the Edwards's were giving the press conference.

[Skidmore]

30. Well, something leads to be lieve that KO wil be inviting

Rush to join BillO outside the human species on Monday.

[spanone]

31. fuck limbaugh threads, no offense but i instantly hide them

[bluedawg12]

34. Oops- he means turned to Oxy and Viagra? n/t