Rush suggests Obama should "take his daughter to the airport and have a TSA grope her" (AUDIO)

[jefferson_dem]

Rush suggests Obama should "take his daughter to the airport and have a TSA grope her" to show it's safe

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

AUDIO: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201011230029

[ProSense]

1. This is why I completely agree with

Kevin Drum.

[jefferson_dem]

2. Sad to say that Limballs is only echoing what i've heard a few of my friends at DU say...

these past few days. Kind of puts things into perspective.

Turn on talk radio. Link to sludge report or free republic. They are stiring the pot like mad. And ... yet... so may "liberals" serve as such willing accomplices. Drum is right.

[Skittles]

39. I agree

it is sad and pathetic

[Fruittree]

9. Thank you for posting this perspective...

I hope they come up with a better, less invasive way and maybe people protesting will prod things in that direction but there's no sense to vilifying those who are trying to do a job meant to make passengers safer. And Rush as always just adds stupidity to the whole equation.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. we got groped during the BUSH administration several times!!!

[LaurenG]

3. Maybe he and Michelle could have it done along with every member of congress and their

SO's. And they should have to do it every time they fly.




oh and screw rush, no matter what he says he's a fu**stick.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Oh...

Right. Not like they already have to endure the most invasive violations of privacy for four years ... or anything.

But go ahead and saddle up with Limpballs and the rest of the right wing echo chamber full of scumbags if you want. Enjoy the company, eh.

[LaurenG]

12. bullshi*

you don't have the right to insult me like that but obviously you have the bad manners to do it anyway. Thank you for showing me exactly who you are, when push comes to shove you're no different then those you despise.

Lets see some support for what they say. Lets see them do it and do it the same way the rest of us have to. Besides we all know how politicians are, they're always pulling some hidden agenda out of some orifice we should be allowed to see them support what they vote for.

[jefferson_dem]

19. I stand corrected.

You mentioned that Barack and Michelle should go through security - not that their daughter should. My bad.

[Cant trust em]

4. Rush is an opportunist. He wouldn't have gone here if Bush were still president. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

15. Ya know I could actually

Believe that if Bush were still in office, and people started to complain about the TSA and their machines, his total attitude would be different. He wouldn't be saying to Bush, take your daughters to the Airport and have them groped..

Its only because a Democrat is running things that he is against this. Can you imagine Limbaugh going through Security? I bet a number of TSA would rather quit then feel him up!!!

[global1]

20. We Know Exactly What Rush Would Be Saying If This Was Under Bush......

he be saying that BushCo is doing this to protect the American people and prevent another 9/11. All the Repugs and the RW talking heads would be praising Bush for instituting such measures. Remember BushCo gave us the Patriot Act and they all rallied around that.

This is just another way to put Obama between a rock and a hard place.

It is Obama's job to keep Americans safe. Heaven forbid if we would experience another attack and these measures weren't being done - they would be saying how Obama is soft on terror.

We might not like being groped or scanned - but until they come up with a less invasive way of doing this - it's probably the best we can do.

I just hope that ObamaCo comes up with newer and better technology that is more acceptable yet still effective.

I hear the Dutch have a scan system that is actually made in the U.S. that doesn't use x-ray technology and shows everything that might be on the person being scanned on a stick figure drawing or rendering of a person versus what the RW is calling a naked photo of the person being scanned.

They should investigate that technology. That might be more acceptable to the masses.

In the interim - even though we might not like it - we have to deal with what they are doing and just suck it up - because the alternative is much, much worse.

I'm almost thinking that the way for Obama to shut Rush and the RW talking heads including Huckabee who made similar statements as Rush did about Obama and his family - Obama should take his wife, daughters and mother-in-law to an airport and let them go through both the scan and the pat-down. They should make it a photo-op. Shake hands with the TSA agents and complement them on a job well done and then he should make a statement how these measures are in place to protect the American people - which is why you elected me.

This would basically shut the RWer's like Rush, Huckabee, Drudge, et al up and put this whole controversy behind us so we can get on with the real critical things that must be done - like getting people back to work.

Hey Mr. Boehner - Where Are The Jobs?

[LisaL]

16. I think it goes both ways.

I imagine some posters who are defending it now wouldn't be defending it if Bush was the one who said it was necessary.

[treestar]

24. So true. And as usual he is an asshole.

He can't leave the kids out of it.

[tanyev]

5. Rush just loves to use the words Obama and grope in the same sentence.

[woo me with science]

7. SUBMIT!

Or you're a Rush supporter. :eyes:

[jefferson_dem]

17. Truth.

May hurt.

SUBMIT? Meh.

I would only say this: support Rush's disgusting position (on Obama's daughter) and you support Rush's disgusting position (on Obama's daughter)... Not that you are a "Rush supporter" per se.

[woo me with science]

21. Do you grasp the irony here at all?

You are offended at just the SUGGESTION that Malia and Sasha undergo this, yet you have nothing to say about everyone ELSE's thirteen-year-old daughters who are ACTUALLY having this done to them in public?

[LisaL]

22. Exactly.

Why is it o'key to do a pat down on somebody else' 13 year old daughter but not Obama's? Obama said it was necessary, thus he shouldn't have a problem with his children undergoing pat downs, should he?

[jefferson_dem]

28. You're just making stuff up. Who said his daughter should be exempt because she is his daughter?

n/t

[LisaL]

30. What do you mean by disgusting?

Do you think it is disgusting or appropriate for a 13 year old to undergo an enhanced pat down?

[jefferson_dem]

33. I think Rush's creepy fixation on Obama's daughter is absolutely disgusting.

Do you not?

[jefferson_dem]

25. It's stupidity not irony.

The "pat down" is a security measure applied to those who fly commercial and refuse to go through the airport "scanner". If POTUS's daughter was not his daugher and she flew commercial and did not go through the scanner...sure...the "pat down" would be appropriate.

Can you even fathom the level of privacy "invasive" routines these girls are ALREADY subjected to? Why are you fixated on this girl being "patted down" to prove a point when there really isn't one to be made?

[woo me with science]

29. Stupid, or "disgusting"?

You may think it would be just fine for Sasha and Malia to have their genitals handled through their clothing if they flew commercial.

I strongly disagree, both for them and other Americans whose dignity is just as important.

[jefferson_dem]

31. I'm flying tomorrow.

And will be on the lookout for any "loss of dignity" at the *hands* of the TSA ...

As of now, I'm working with the belief that this is (mostly) just the latest, greatest shiny object of poutrage. <-- My opinion only.

[woo me with science]

34. Yes, I know how you feel.

I wonder how Malia and Sasha would feel.

[nykym]

8. Maybe Rush should

go and .... Oh yea that's right he'd probably enjoy it!

[SwampG8r]

50. rush has a gulfstream i think

so no security checks at all

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[JoePhilly]

11. Rush was probably masturbating at the thought of this ... nt

[NC_Nurse]

13. He's wishing he was a TSA agent about now...

[bushisanidiot]

14. Does he kiss his mama with that mouth?

oh, and did he attack the bush twins as much as he attacked Chelsea Clinton?

Or is it just the underage children of democrats that Rush considers "fair game"?

[Kennah]

18. Ya know, Limpballs getting groped ...

... might just be the final straw which causes the TSA to rise up and object to the groping.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

27. Elton John Wrote A Song Inspired By Rush

although he hasn't let it out yet.At the wedding Elton took note of the lavish arrangements of foods on the tables ,a feast indeed and he thought, sometimes there is never enough room in the closet. That's the song.

What a Rush .

[Harry Monroe]

23. Can you provide a transcript of the radio show?

No way in hell I'm watching that piece of shit!!

[Arugula Latte]

26. And if Obama were against the TSA system Rush would call him a soft-on-terrorism wimp

Funny how that works.

[NorthCarolina]

32. What strikes me as most odd is that I would expect TSA programs such as this

to be a product OF the GOP mentality, more so than from a Democratic administration. The GOP supported illegal wire tapping, but TSA screening is a bridge too far for them? I am personally against sacrificing freedom in the name of terror, but I suspect my reasons for being against such measures are far different than Rush's.

[lynne]

35. FINALLY! Something I agree with Rush about! -

- Anyone thinking it's okay for the TSA to grope children needs to witness it being done to their own. Including Obama.

[Richard D]

54. It's a frickin sad day . . .

. . . when I agree with rush and disagree with Obama.
Damn.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

36. That's disturbing

that he's spending so much time and energy thinking about President Obama's girls getting groped? :puke:

[MadHound]

37. Wow, for once I agree with Rush,

If Obama had to watch his daughter being publicly molested, then perhaps he would get why the rest of us are pissed and change the way the TSA operates.

[jefferson_dem]

38. For once...

Uh huh...

Publicly molested? Good grief.

[MadHound]

48. Got something to say there JD?

If so, spill it, don't hint around using innuendo and strategically unfinished sentences.

[Skittles]

41. do you think for a second Rush would be saying this if bush was still "president"???

saying this about bush's daughters? really?

[LisaL]

42. Likely not.

But that is neither here nor there.

[Skittles]

44. LOL

yeah, sure :rofl:

[MadHound]

49. Does it matter?

He, along with millions of other conservatives, are against this, as they should be. Are you going to knee jerk on this one, and be against it just because conservatives support it? Well, there are millions of liberals who are against it as well. Wow, bipartisan outrage on a topic that is truly loathsome.

[Moondog]

40. I hate the fact that I actually agree with Limbaugh.

That it has come to this .....

x(

[Fruittree]

46. You agree that the Obama's daughter should be groped???

You should hate the fact that you agree with that. It's disgusting! He's an opportunist using yet another opening to attack Obama and now his daughter. He doesn't actually care about the policy and if the policy is removed and a plane blows up, he'll attack for that and I would think everyone would recognize that. Please,please let's not see people agreeing with Rush on anything. The man is evil!

[SwampG8r]

51. so its ok for my daughter to be felt up

but not his?
and we should just shut up and never even think that those who impose on our rights should experience their own policies?

[Fruittree]

53. Why is there a sexual connotation even being given to this?

It's supposed to be a way of checking people before they get on planes...My understanding is it's either this or the machine - Maybe it'll work out maybe it won't and they'll find another way and there's certainly nothing wrong with citizen's objecting or suggesting better ways.. but for Rush to bring anyone's daughter - yours or Obama's into it as he did is wrong.

[AspenRose]

45. I hope there will be a compilation of Rush's "Greatest Hits" that can be played

(or read) over and over again once he's passed away. Because people will be hard at work trying to reinvent who he was and what he stood for.

We should never, ever forget, and ensure no one else forgets, either.

[Fruittree]

47. Here's a response I found on DailyKos to the whole airport security thing...

I did a brief segment on Hardball this afternoon. And as I was waiting to go on, I listened through my earpiece to the preceding segment on the on-going TSA/pat-down controversy saga. The key is that I was mic'ed up so could only hear the audio. I wasn't able to see who Matthews was interviewing. But it was a rank introduction to the level of lurid and vulgar demagoguery a lot of conservatives are resorting to to milk this story for political gain. The guy Matthews was talking to kept referring to people's right not to be forced to have "nudie" pictures taken of them or their daughters and wives. Always with the menfolk unwilling to let their daughters and wives be 'scanned' -- but that's another story.

In any case, it's worth remembering that the idea that your daughter or whoever strikes you as your most inviolable kin is having a 'nude' picture taken of them is just nonsense. Whatever else you can say about the backscatter scans, they usually reveal about as much as you do walking around the pool in a tight bathing suit. (Note: A number of the more revealing 'backscatter' pics you find on Google are actually fakes.) Of all the issues I've seen raised in this story, the invasiveness of the backscatter imaging strikes me as by far the weakest. And a poll out today shows that the public overwhelming approves of the use of the scanners as a tool to combat airliner terrorism. The pat-downs are another matter. And I've heard enough to make me wonder about the longterm risks of repeated exposure to these scans.

Next up was a clip from Mike Huckabee in a really gutter-minded, scurrilous voice daring President Obama to take his wife and two daughters to National Airport and have them get an aggressive pat-down in full view of the public if he wants 'our' wives and daughters to submit to the same. The mix of race and sex and populist demagoguery packed into Huckabee's verbal slash was enough to bring you back to one of a hundred or a thousand rants below the Mason-Dixon line fifty or sixty or seventy years ago.

Now, let's stipulate to the obvious fact that having you or I get a pat-down in a crowded airport while most people are more concerned about getting to their planes on time or aggravated about standing in line or whatever is a rather different matter than even imagining the sort of nutso media circus that would ensue with the president having to drag his 9 and 12 year old daughters down to DCA for a pat-down that would amount to a ritual humiliation in front of the international press corps. The comment itself, the visual created, is simply disgusting, as is the whole personalizing of the situation with regards to the president.

He's president. He's ultimately responsible. But President Obama didn't come up with this idea. And bringing the air of looming sexual threat to his daughters or even his wife in cheap political hustler comments is just shameful.

There's no other way to put it.

Late Update: I found video of the segment here.

--Josh Marshall

[SwampG8r]

52. he didnt come up with it my ass

if he is in charge he is in charge
he perpetuates it through his agreement with it

[madinmaryland]

55. madinmaryland suggests Rush should STFU.

[WI_DEM]

56. Where was the outrage of airport security practices under Bush?

[Jennicut]

57. My kids had to go through a metal detector by themselves at 2 and 3

after my husband forgot to take his keys out of his pocket and the detector went off. They were crying and shaken and I really didn't want to fly after that. But it wasn't the extra security, just the lack of compassion or manners from the TSA person. The woman was a total jerk and no good with kids. This was in Orlando. The TSA in CT was fine. I am a type 1 diabetic and in the rush to get all our stuff (shoes back on the kids, strollers, etc.) I left my diabetic meter in the bin that they checked. I went and got it back from them when we got back to CT a week later. They were very polite and nice about returning the meter when I showed them my ID. No hassles there. I personally think the training for the TSA stinks in some airports and is better in others.

[political_Dem]

58. Rush is a sick, ignorant, and mean shell of a man who uses sadism to his own means.

I don't think the man understands that when he was treated with socialist healthcare in Hawaii how many forums and message boards filled up with posts that didn't wish for his well being. And after that dilemma, he still tries to use the media to inflict pain and suffering on other people.

Others would feel ashamed over such behavior, but he doesn't. That alone makes his actions even the more demonstrative of the lack of respect and empathy rising in this country. :(

[rasputin1952]

59. I think Limbaugh shopuld be scanned...

after leading away those TSA screeners blinded by the image, he could look at it himself...probably the first time in years he could actually see the viagra dependent appendage he calls a penis....:D