Did Rush Limbaugh Actually Say These Things?

[Wetzelbill]

Did Rush Limbaugh Actually Say These Things?

Vanity Fair has a feature on the king of talk radio that includes a companion piece with these quotes:




1. “There is no conclusive proof that nicotine’s addictive… And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.”



2. “Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.”



3. “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act… This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”



4. “ are twelve percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”



5. “Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentlemen, a worthless shred of human debris.”



6. “Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”



7. “We are a growing country and everybody needs energy! We’re not going to stay the United States if we start reducing energy usage. Conservation is not the answer.”



8. To a black caller: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”



9. On torture at Abu Ghraib: “This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. And we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it, and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people-you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some team off?”



10. “Screw the world. Do you really think we ought to govern ourselves based on what the world thinks of us?”

http://www.alan.com/2009/03/31/did-rush-limbaugh-actually-say-these-things/

[AsahinaKimi]

1. I seem to recall he said most of that...

And I still contend he is a jerk wad.

[madeline_con]

2. Google said YES. I Googled a remark, and guess what...

Rush Limbaugh’s 10 Dumbest Remarks

http://www.bspcn.com/2009/04/15/rush-limbaughs-10-dumbest-remarks/

[CoffeeCat]

3. I used to write a column about Rush Limbaugh...

...in the early 1990's. I tried to warn everyone about this jerk, but people
dismissed him as an over-the-top entertainer. HA.

Some of those quotes ("Take the bone out of your nose...", "Feminism was created to give...") are from his earlier
years after he went national.

And yes, he said all of those things. He is scum.

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. To the best of my knowledge

I've heard some of those words right out of his mouth. In that exact order. Yep, he was saying...

[Lisa0825]

5. I never watch him, but I saw #3 replayed on other shows.

It was the mocking gyrations that were the worst part.

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. "I tell people don't kill all the liberals, leave enough around so we can have two on every campus;

"I tell people don't kill all the liberals, leave enough around so we can have two on every campus; living fossils, so we will never forget what these people stood for."
- Rush Limbaugh

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,163548,00.html


That disgusting, hypocritical thing (no offense to things anywhere) that calls himself Rush Limbaugh needs to go crawl in a hole somewhere and STFU... he's nothing but a gutless coward and a blowhard.

FUCK YOU, RUSH....

[doc03]

7. He also was talking about the Whitehouse dog

and the audience is laughing, then turns around and feigns surprise when he sees a picture of Chelsea Clinton.

[Cid_B]

8. Personally it is hard to argue with #5

nt

[niyad]

13. a clear case of "pot, meet kettle"

[Journeyman]

9. I've read 8 of the 10, so it wouldn't surprise me if he said the other 2 . . .

quite a classless act, is he not? . . .

[Kievan Rus]

10. Rush is a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic asshole

[niyad]

11. I heard him say 3, 6 and 9. myself

[rhett o rick]

12. Rush is irrelevant. Plez ignore him. nt

[niyad]

14. no, he has a great deal of influence on the mindless, hate-and-fear-filled cretins

who make up his audience. we need to know what kind of garbage he is spewing, so as not to be blindsided some day. "sunlight is the best disinfectant."

[lpbk2713]

15. He also said he wants Pres Obama to fail.

Then he denied saying it ... then he didn't know WTF to say after he realized his words were on tape.

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=34773


:rofl:


The only people dumber than this asshole are the pathetic Shittoheads who still believe in him.
And OxyRush is laughing at those losers all the way to the Dominican Republic. :rofl:

[sabrina 1]

16. He said all those things. And here's Rush on Drugs:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1159

There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods, which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

...We are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.... This country certainly appears to be tolerant, forgive and forget. I mean, you know as well as I do, you go out and commit the worst murder in the world and you just say you're sorry, people go, "Oh, OK. A little contrition."... People say, "I feel better. He said he's sorry for it." We're becoming too tolerant, folks.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (10/5/95)

These tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?

--RushLimbaugh.com (8/18/03)

:rofl: :rofl:

So, who was the Liberal Judge who gave Rush a slap on the wrist, I wonder? And those ditto heads of his are pretty tolerant of HIS drug abuse. Does that make them Liberals?

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)

I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you'll find that he's very much right…"I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that."...

What he's saying is that if there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they're weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we're going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn't. It's not our responsibility. It's up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right.

-- Rush Limbaugh TVshow (9/23/93)

It doesn't apply to Rush though. He's not like other people, he had no choice but to become an addict, because unlike everyone else, he had a REAL excuse! Poor baby is the only person in the world who ever felt pain. Of course lots of people take prescription drugs for pain, and they don't become addicted or buy and sell drugs from their house-keepers!



I have a solution for Mrs. Elders. I mean, if she wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich and let's be rid of them. Now...The problem with legalizing drugs is, it's just another abhorrent example of human behavior that we've suddenly decided, "Hey, we can't handle it. We've given up and we're going to sanction the destruction of lives. We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy, and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs--we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."...

I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say, "Hey, you know, we can't control it anymore. People are going to do drugs anyway. Let's legalize it." It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea, and those who are for it are purely, 100 percent selfish.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (12/9/93)

And he was caught dealing and using drugs, we have to understand, he was not being selfish like all thos other weaklings. And the law should not have applied to him, which is why he ran like the coward and hypocrite he is to find the most liberal lawyer he could find to save his rear-end. Then when he was given probation, he swore it was just an agreement and was not probation.

Hypocrite, drug addict and liar. And he's pretty much the leader of the Republican Party right now. They are scared to disagree with him. In a sane world, this is someone who would be confined to some place where he could not harm himself or others.

[Deja Q]

17. Re: #10: Limbaugh couldn't govern a pack of comatose dust mites, much less a country.

And I doubt he could screw a thimble, unless the thimble was 2mm thick...