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Limbaugh on Hispanic mayor of LA: I thought he was either a ’shoe shine guy or a Secret Service agent.’

Today, Rush Limbaugh appeared on Fox News to discuss to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) joke that he has a crush on her. Limbaugh responded with a story about how President Bill Clinton once allegedly tried to hit on his date. He said that Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was with Clinton, distracted him, because he wasn’t sure if Villaraigosa was a “shoe shine guy” or a “Secret Service agent”:

I understand now why Bill Clinton hit on my date about a year ago at the Kobe Club in New York. I was minding my own business and Clinton came in. And the short version is he used the mayor of Los Angeles to distract me, while hitting on my date. [...]

He came over three or four times, had Ron Burkle with him and the mayor of Los Angeles, who I thought was either the shoe shine guy or a Secret Service agent.

Watch it:

[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/rushavla.320.240.flv]

More here on Limbaugh’s knowledge of the “Spanish” people.

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44 Responses to “Limbaugh on Hispanic mayor of LA: I thought he was either a ’shoe shine guy or a Secret Service agent.’”

  1. Keith says:

    I dont believe it! Rush Limbaugh had a date?


  2. Max-1 says:

    .

    So,
    The President and Vice President of the USA are war criminals and this is what we get as news? Trivial tabloid trash?

    .


  3. StratRat says:

    If you are a Limbaugh viewer, you are a racist and a bigot. Pure and simple. He specializes in making fun of people to the delight of his low knowledge viewship. Think about it: They look up to Limbaugh as sort of a svengali or mentor. just how craven is the right side?


  4. oldtree says:

    Rush, you can’t bring children into a nightclub? And just because you like to have sex with children, Mr. Clinton has proven that he likes both girls and adults.
    It is a little hard to believe what you are saying as a result of your known habits with drugs, huge cigars and sex vacations to little countries where you can purchase little children for your use.


  5. tom says:

    Wasn’t it Limpballs who used to say that Bill Clinton only hit on “trailer trash”?

    Now he’s claiming that Clinton is hitting on his girlfriend. Wonder how he’ll explain the logical conclusion of that syllogism to her.

    Somehow, I am not surprised. After all, Limpballs has been divorced three times and takes sex tourism trips to Latin America with Viagra but never has a chance to use it. Any woman who would “date” him has to be an absolute dog and brain-dead to boot.


  6. old_hack says:

    if we had the right to make laws we could fine rush limbaugh and have him taken off the air for insighting violence and disrespecting the victims of 911 and the war in Iraq and Guantonimo Bay. Im sure everyone remembers his commercial about the “Vacation spot for terrorists”

    but we have to have national initiatives to do that

    and that means turning loose the crazies

    or does it?

    direct democracy/mob rule


  7. MCMetal says:

    Keith Says:
    ——————————————————————————–

    I dont believe it! Rush Limbaugh had a date?

    May 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Yeah ……..A convenient one with his right hand ; he didn’t even need to get dressed up for it.


  8. Keith says:

    Pretty bad when your income is over $25 million per year and you have to go to the Dominican Republic for a “date”.


  9. tom says:

    Please, please, old_hack. The word is “inciting”.

    Using the words “Rush Limbaugh” and “insight” in the same sentence is an oxymoron (or is that an “oxycontin-moron”?).


  10. L. Hussein Annie says:

    Oh, for the love of God. What a despicable racist asshat -!


  11. tom says:

    Pretty bad when your income is over $25 million per year and you have to go to the Dominican Republic for a “date”.

    Even worse — he goes to the Dominican Republic with a wad of cash and a bottle if Viagra and he still can’t get laid.


  12. misshusseinmolly says:

    Rush just continues to showcase his ignorance and spread it like a virus to his listeners. Does he realize that “Spanish” people are from Spain? And that not all people who speak Spanish are “Spanish” people? Many are Mexican, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Bolivian, Colombian, Argentinian, Chilean, Venezuelan, El Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, etc. etc. — and more than a few are Americans.

    This makes about as much sense as calling me “English” because that’s the language I communicate best in. I’m actually an American.


  13. L. Hussein Annie says:

    Hmmm. When I saw Rush, I thought he was the latest child molesting sex offender from the Megan’s Law website….

    Ooops. My bad.


  14. Keith says:

    leftright, he also called him ‘the shoeshine guy’. I thought we got past that forty years ago.


  15. Keith says:

    If you click on leftright’s name, there is a picture of Obama with big ears. How elementary school!


  16. mary says:

    Rush is as stupid as his listeners. He said he understands, “now WHY Bill Clinton hit on my date” and then goes on to explain HOW Clinto hit on his date.

    He’d be laughable if he wasn’t so poisonous.


  17. Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre says:

    Limbaugh: what a worthless lying racist fascist thug…


  18. Keith says:

    Back on topic leftright:
    Is it all right to call the mayor of LA “a shoeshine boy”?


  19. PatrioticLiberalChristian says:

    leftright, please allow me to assist you in learning English with the following corrections:

    He said what?? This is an outrage!! we (We – capitalize the first word of a sentence)need to boycott his show. Rush is a Racists (racist – only one and no capitalization), how (. How – a new sentence)dare he call a (an)Hispanic a secret service agent. Just because he (is) Hispanic (,) one automatically assumes he’s a secret service agent?
    Stop making your bigoted remarks your
    (. You’re) offending Progressives.

    Good luck on your continuing effort to learn English and become an American citizen.


  20. tom says:

    Here you go, leftright. Link this!


  21. dbadass says:

    Leftright:
    You might want to rethink that thread about the English language


  22. MCMetal says:

    leftright Says:
    ——————————————————————————–

    He said what?? This is an outrage!! we need to boycott his show. Rush is a Racists, how dare he call a Hispanic a secret service agent. Just because he Hispanic one automatically assumes he’s a secret service agent?
    Stop making your bigoted remarks your offending Progressives.

    May 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Some fat , ugly , drug addicted piece of shit calls the Mayor of LA a “shoeshine guy” because of his ethnicity ; he also lies about being there with a date.

    That’s who you attempt to defend.

    Birds of a feather and all………………….


  23. tom says:

    Here you go, leftright. Link this!


  24. Shayne says:

    What can you say about a troll that shows up to defend the inane rants of a big fat asshat. I suppose we should just consider leftright must be extremely “challenged” and ignore him.


  25. tom says:

    . . . or <a href=”“>this.


  26. Keith says:

    Antonio Villaraigosa—paralyzed with tumor on spine in high school, BA in History from UCLA

    Rush Limbaugh—-dropped out of SouthEast Missouri State after one year, cyst on butt kept him out of Nam.


  27. Zimzone says:

    Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. -Al Franken

    This is the same piece of shit calling for riots in Denver.
    Doing so is a felony.
    Do you think he’ll get charged?..Right. About the same odds as impeachment on the table again, Nancy.

    Enough is enough. Frog march him to a cell; he can broadcast from there.


  28. Keith says:

    Leftright, Bush has really increased the guest-worker program, hasn’t he? Are you trying to sound stupid as humor, or are you really that dumb?


  29. StratRat says:

    anymouse19 Says:

    For those of you who don’t know, Rush Limbaugh’s reference to a “secret service agent or a shoe shine guy” is a reference back to this story about secret service agents keeping a shoe shine guy away from Barack Obama.

    How convenient it must be for Limbaugh. Everytime he does or says something stoopid and wrong, he has all these people jumping up to help him explain why what he did was not so wrong or stoopid. I am just wondering if Limbaugh asked anyone to defend him?

    Limbaugh is an unAmerican bigot and a drug addicted misfit who found a home in the far right side wingnutsphere. The fact that he can make a still living is a testament to the knuckle dragging viewership he can muster. IQ’s in the mid 30’s I would say.


  30. gummitch says:

    Why are any of you responding to the troll? It’s the same troll that has been posting here under a series of pseudonyms for weeks and is just begging for attention. Do you seriously think you’re going to engage it in a conversation?


  31. MCMetal says:

    Zimzone Says:
    ——————————————————————————–

    Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. -Al Franken

    This is the same piece of shit calling for riots in Denver.
    Doing so is a felony.
    Do you think he’ll get charged?..Right. About the same odds as impeachment on the table again, Nancy.

    Enough is enough. Frog march him to a cell; he can broadcast from there.

    May 5th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Based upon his obvious grotesque size and appearance , wouldn’t the more appropriate term be whale march ?


  32. DRxJ says:

    I’m going to have to call bull$hit on this story.
    As if Rush would have a date that slick Willie would find of interest. PFFFFFT!!!!!
    And to think she was sooooooo hot that Bill had to send a Hispanic dude over that totally confused OxyContin breath.
    Again…PFFFFT!!!

    Non story, Mr. I travel to poor Caribbean Islands with Viagra.
    But, you enlightened us to your racism while fabricating a story of our ex President flirting with your date.
    PFFFFTTT!!!


  33. Sinfonian says:

    Actually, I imagine Rush was just having a bad day. He probably just learned about the introduction of abuse-resistant Oxy-contin.

    Poor addled drug-addicted stupid blowhard Rush …


  34. The Shadow says:

    Several points on this whopper by Rush. First this is par for the course with Rush (the racist, bigot, diot, Republican waterboy). Second, this is precisely why hispanics are fools for voting Republican. I’ve never met a Republican that wasn’t at minimum a bigot, and most are flat out racist. I suppose the prejudice people in America have to be in one party or another besides the Nazi and Skinhead movements. Third if it weren’t for shoe shine boys Rush’s shoes would never be clean or shiny, because his gut it too big for him to bend over.

    You notice the media isn’t asking McCain to explain Rush’s comments or denounce him for saying such a openly racist thing. And they aren’t going to because they are all in the tank for grandpa McCain. And finally, the only thing about Rush’s statement that doesn’t bother me is the part about President Clinton. I for one believe it and that’s exactly why Hillary shouldn’t be elected. If she can’t control her husband, how can she be the leader of the free world? All we need is another Monica incident and an administration under ceige because they are answering questions about his behavior. Wake up people you can’t put this guy back in the White House without a job, just look at what happened when the had one.


  35. DieNowForPeace says:

    Well, he did get a military deferment for his anal polyp, or was it a hemorrhoid?

    Either way, he’s just a big pain in the a$$.


  36. cmac says:

    Ish. Who would date Rush Limbaugh? He’s all doughy and stupid.


  37. hussein toasterhead says:

    leftright Says:

    He said what?? This is an outrage!! we need to boycott his show. Rush is a Racists

    May 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Why don’t you whine to your Latin King buddies about it, Trajan?


  38. sectionop92 says:

    Let me get this straight…was the girl high or did Limbaugh sign over a paycheck to get a girl on his arm for three hours? I can’t imagine any girl, woman or user of any kind being able to put up with that filthy lardass without some sort of considerable compensation. That’s a huge blow to a lovely woman’s reputation, even if it is sullied beyond repair. Even when your own GOP crotch hounds find you to be a face and personality made to be heard and not seen, that’s when you gotta start thinking “am I that damned ugly…really?”.


  39. ralph the wonder llama says:

    I too call bullshit on Rushbo. If Clinton really wanted to hit on a woman who was with Limbaugh, that woman would have left with Bill.

    Rush can’t even progress beyond high school in his fantasies.


  40. SP Biloxi says:

    A waste of time trying to decipher pill popper Limpballs’ comments. Blame it on the pain killer pills that he is taken.


  41. Exit Stage Left says:

    tom Says:
    Using the words “Rush Limbaugh” and “insight” in the same sentence is an oxymoron (or is that an “oxycontin-moron”?).

    That is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. Thanks for the laugh.


  42. zuch says:

    #1: Keith:

    I dont believe it! Rush Limbaugh had a date?

    Anybody with millions of bucks can buy as much Viagra and as many women/boys/girls (or whatever he wants) as his flatulence can handle in the Dominican Republic … or elsewhere.

    Hope Marta took him to the cleaners.

    Cheers,


  43. HighPlainsJoker says:

    So, how does the Secret Service feel about this comment? George W. Custer is protected by shoe shiners? If only….


  44. HighPlainsJoker says:

    Wow, I missed #48.
    What we need is a definition of hate, it appears. I personally think the comments about Rushie are assinine and have very little value other than some copy-cat response to Rush himself, or for self satisfaction, such as that may be. But, hatered? How do you expect normal people, say Los Angelinos, to respond to Rush’s obvious hatefu comment that their Mayor is a shoe shine guy. FIrst, he trashes shoe shine people, who work for a living, then Secret Service agents as if they were the shoe shine guys he has already has denigrated.

    Your problem is that you have been lisstening to RL so long that hate only goes one what with you, as it does with Rushbo. Listening 16 years says a lot about you. When I started listening to him, it took me two months to decide what he was, and I have changed to the Democratic party partly because of what he stands for, what he is. Even as entertainment, I cannot listen to him anymore. Try it, you’ll feel better.



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