Media Matters notes that on his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh told a caller that “Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say have your way with me” to African-Americans and gays:
CALLER: Hello. I want to know how the Republicans don’t need Christians and conservatives, and they think we’re 30 percent. Twelve percent black people in the population. Ten percent — they claim — homosexuals in the population. Rush, honey, when did 30 percent get to be a small number?
LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I think it’s actually larger than 30 percent. But let me see if I can get your question right. You want to know why the Republicans are willing to say, “Screw you,” to 30 percent or more of their voters and yet Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, “Have your way with me,” for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population?
CALLER: Delicately, yes.
Limbaugh said “these kooks — and I’m not talking about just the blacks — I’m talking about a whole kook-fringe base” have influence because they have money. But, he added, “in addition to the money aspect of this,” there is the “anti-war kook fringe. And it is huge. From MoveOn.org to Think Progress to My Base Book — whatever these things, these things — well, maybe not MySpace or Face, whatever it is.”
Limbaugh complained that these “kooks” have too much influence on the left. All this coming from the far right’s preeminent smear artist, a man who is — as John McCain says — “a voice that is respected by a lot of people who are in our [Republican] party.”

And what would this lard assed, drug addled, gas bag do for the Bush Crime Family? These guys are unreal.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pmRepublicans do know a lot about bending over and having their way with each other.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pmI take a great deal of pride in knowing that I’m exactly the sort of person that Rush hates. If he approved of me, I’d have to rethink my life.
PEACE
June 24th, 2008 at 11:17 pmI didn’t even read this before saying what the…
June 24th, 2008 at 11:20 pmPlease can we have some freaks show up to argue on behalf of this
The way chimpy grabbed his ankles and let the bin Ladens have their way with three thousand Americans? The way cowboy Ronnie grabbed his ankles and let the Ayatollah have his weapons trade? The way this maggot-ridden anal cyst grabs his ankles for anyone willing to flip him an oxycontin? My kingdom for the person who rams that cigar up his and then makes him smoke it.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:21 pmProject much, gasbag?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:22 pmWow! Marlow, you got the four letter a word past the TP censors! Way to go!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:23 pmCan anyyone say “irrelevant?”
June 24th, 2008 at 11:23 pmHoly shit. Marlow Rules!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:26 pmSo now we know what gasbaggy does on his trips to the Carribean.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:26 pmI just tried ” anole eyes”. I am awaiting moderation
June 24th, 2008 at 11:27 pmI wish Daryll were awake to comment on this, but the combination of meth and cheetoes is a powerful sedative.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:29 pmBay Knoll is a no go
June 24th, 2008 at 11:31 pmI wonder if Rush will ever realize within his lifetime that he and his followers are the kooks?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:31 pmIf he never gets it, then he’ll be back to try again.
My guess is he’ll come back as a genetically engineered anaerobic bacterium.
People still listen to that druggie windbag?
“He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.” - George Eliot
June 24th, 2008 at 11:32 pmI didn’t think that would work
June 24th, 2008 at 11:34 pmI don’t recall any of the “kook fringe base” flitting off to foreign countries with politicians and a truckload of sexual aid drugs to get with children ; do you , Fat Fu(k Limpballs ?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:34 pmWho are his show’s sponsors? This man is a garbage spewer.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:35 pmanaerobics: exercises which discourage the flow of oxygen.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:35 pmThanks, guys, but I was as surprised as anyone when it said my post was held up for review….
June 24th, 2008 at 11:36 pmwhy can I say sodomy but not anole eyes?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:37 pmListen here
June 24th, 2008 at 11:39 pmWhat, are you nuts?
3 out of 4 ain’t bad.
(Wow. “ain’t” doesn’t even trip the spell check… and we can’t use a simple, and common, base word in our elucidations.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:40 pmSad…..)
Of course, republicans never bend over and grab their ankles for Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Wall Street - because they need their hands free for the political reach-around.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:42 pmI really think that if TP will not offer up a list of no no words we will have to build a grassroots list on our own. Sometimes D-bag works it seems
June 24th, 2008 at 11:45 pm“Kook”, from a turd like Lush Rimjob, is high flattery.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:50 pmFunny, so Rush will only appeal to a single group because he can’t do math…
June 24th, 2008 at 11:57 pm“for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population?”
No, no, no… unless you believe every gay person is black, the total is
= 10% + (10% + 12%*(100-10)%) (100-10 takes out the overlap between the two)
= 10% + 12%*90%
= 10% + 10.8%
= 20.8%
“Is 30% such a small number?”
June 24th, 2008 at 11:58 pmIt’s a lot less than 70%.
Allow us to demonstrate…
It blows my mind that there are people who will listen to this disgusting moron, and agree with whatever filth comes out of his pie hole.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:01 amlove how he uses the sexual imagery to scare his Dittohead base…
guy’s so racist and homophobic that he doesn’t even know it comes out…
June 25th, 2008 at 12:08 amDoes anyone expect a narcotics junkie is getting paid $24MM/year to tell the truth?
Delivering 5MM ignorant voters to the Republican Party….now that’s a great ROI.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:09 amI wonder how much it hurts Jeff Christie to spew this kind of homophobic crap.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:09 amThe RECUHWING is getting so desparate.Tonight the other Rush Wannabe pussy, mark levin actually wa lamenting because he was not able to drive his car at 80MPH. It was classic bizrro-world fcuknut.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:13 amI would like to ram that cigar down douchbag’s throat lit side first.
That Rush, he’s got such interesting sexual imagery.
I guess we know now there is nobody this moron hates more than gays and black people.
Although I have to agree this is probably one person who is respected by a lot in the Republican party. Homophobic and racist; how could he not be respected with those credentials?
June 25th, 2008 at 12:19 amLimbaugh said “these kooks — and I’m not talking about just the blacks — I’m talking about a whole kook-fringe base” have influence because they have money.
Am I the only one who is amazed by this statement? Suddenly, blacks and kooks have enough money to influence the Democrats? We got rich?
Not to mention the irony of a Republican complaining that wealth is influencing politics.
And, finally, since when did the Republican party turn its back on conservatives and Christians? WTF? That’s all they’ve got left!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:21 amThis is for those who don’t know this true story about Rush. I figure there’s got to be a few.
Whenever Rush blows his stink around and starts to get to me, I think back on the day he subbed for Pat Sajak, back when Pat was on late nite. Rush subbed for Pat one night thinking it would be a great opportunity for him to break into the mainstream. In other words, expand his audience beyond “ditto heads.” Some of the mainstream audience began to heckle him for all the outrageous bullshit he had said on his radio show. I tell ya gang, they were out for blood. The network [CBS I think] went to 1 . . then 2 commercial breaks, because things were getting pretty nasty. Now get this, after the second commercial they went back to Rush and the gang, only there was no gang [audience]. Things had gotten so out of hand that CBS completely cleared the audience out of the studio. Rush was playing to an empty house and was desperately trying to salvage the spectacle by trying to look fair and open-minded. He lamented that the audience didn’t get to know him. Damn, it was beautiful! On that night poor old Rush learned that there’s a lot of people that can’t stand him. He’s been surrounded by “ditto-headed” toadies ever since. Go to Youtube and type “A Bully Gets Bullied.”
June 25th, 2008 at 12:24 amDemocrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, “Have your way with me,” for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population
Funny, this is sort of like the way the Bush administration bent over, grabbed its collective ankles, and said “have your way with me” to the lobbyists in the K Street project headed by Abramoff and Scanlon. I believe that would be even less that 2% of the US population.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:26 amWho was bending over in all the Jeff Gannon visits to the Bush Crime Family headquarters?
June 25th, 2008 at 12:29 amMusk,
Fantastic. :-D
June 25th, 2008 at 12:30 amReich-wingers will bend over and grab their ankles in airport bathrooms.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:48 am.
That BIGOT Limbaugh should be OFF THE AIR.
He is ten times worse than Imus.
He’s brainwashed far too many people in this Nation.
He is NOT an entertainer when his freedom to express himself crosses over in the public’s eye as informative and insightful intellectualism… IT IS NOT!
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June 25th, 2008 at 12:51 amThanx for the link, Musk. I recall hearing about it, but, had not seen it.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:00 am.
Musk,
You mean THIS episode … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK4byQkn7w
Talk about a potato head…
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June 25th, 2008 at 1:00 amRush, you are so sexy. Grab your ankles, I want to own every square inch of your glistening backside. Those kooky blacks and gays have to settle for democrats, but I’ll take nothing less than your oily bacon. Pie in the sky, Rush!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:04 ammcbush/limbaugh ‘08.
the start something really kookie
and the end of the republican party.
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kool
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June 25th, 2008 at 1:04 amWhat an unbelievable desperate little man. Once the Baby Boomers die off, there will be no place in a world of human beings for this type of pig . . . a pig that needs to be, well, whatever it is that is done with pigs.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:09 amscytherius, as a baby boomer I resemble that remark. Maybe you meant baby bombers.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:11 amOff topic.
According to local radio, McCain’s lead in his home state of Arizona is within the margin of error in the latest poll.
Ouch!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:12 amRush, you are a farce to be reckoned with.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:13 amUm. I think that Lush’s demographic is a little older than most baby boomers. Though there’s plenty of idiots from all age groups.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:15 amSometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes it’s a megadildo, Rush.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:17 amHussein McCain Says:
June 25th, 2008 at 1:21 amJune 25th, 2008 at 1:04 am
DUUUUDE! You bravely go where NO ONE follows. Don’t forget the clorox.
Limbaugh is understandably upset: He is repulsed by the idea of men bending over for other men outside the privacy of their own international airport bathroom stall.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:21 amMarlow, some might call me brave. Some might just call me a rolex hunter.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:55 amLimp-paw’a ratings must really be in the tank.
Le Rushbo is entering Imus territory.
You notice Beck, Rush, Hannity, Borts, O Rielly and the likes are all screaming for attention. By saying anything and everything?
Not sure if it is a good move for them. I know I amnot interested in investing time or money into them.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:03 amGeorge Carlin was just here a minute ago…
but this buffoon continues to hang around and stink up the place. What a world.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:12 amLimbaugh has always been worse than Imus. Remember, he told one black caller to take the bone out of his nose.
70% oppose this war. That is not a “fringe”.
I also resemble and resent the boomer remark.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:27 amPete,
+/- 1 ?
LOL
June 25th, 2008 at 2:30 amouch!
McCain’s campaign lists Arizona as a swing state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ dawn-teo/ mccain-up-a-mere-five-poi_b_106337.html
June 25th, 2008 at 2:40 amRush has been on his knees for years sucking that big R
June 25th, 2008 at 3:02 am.
Originally posted on June 24, 2008
FISA votes come tomorrow in the Senate
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June 25th, 2008 at 3:57 amOops,
Glenn Greenwald’s article http://www.salon.com/ opinion/ greenwald/ 2008/ 06/ 24/ hoyer/ index.html
Progressive Magazine article http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx0602408
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June 25th, 2008 at 4:01 am(Limbaugh)”…a man who is — as John McCain says — “a voice that is respected by a lot of people who are in our [Republican] party.””
Perhaps there is a position Rush can assume in Pork Chop’s clos… oops, I mean cabinet…
June 25th, 2008 at 7:14 amRush is out of the closet. We now know what he thinks about. I always wondered about that big cigar.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:20 amA guy that takes 24 Viagra pills on a golf vacation with 3 “buddies” should never take about grabbing your ankles.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:34 amKarl Rove and Rush Limbaugh are responsible for poisoning political dialogue and debate in the U.S.. They are a far greater threat to the United States than any cave dwelling terrorist. Poetic justice would have them sharing a prison cell. Which one would be bending over and grabbing their ankles in this scenario?
June 25th, 2008 at 7:36 amAnd so Imus’s statement gets more press than Rush? WTF?
June 25th, 2008 at 7:37 amIs the rusher the ‘official spokesperson for the 23%ers’ now?
Must make you proud, Limpballs!
June 25th, 2008 at 7:55 amIf this is the man that McCain says Republics respect, then that explains why these “Rusholinis” are so stupid and ill informed.
And btw, Rush knows a lot about “bending over and taking”.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:00 amWhile I don’t think I would ever have described political pandering quite the way Rush has, I am rather amazed at his chutzpah.
It’s true that African-Americans tend to vote for Democrats more than Republicans, and gay Americans probably also vote for the Dems in larger numbers (Log Cabin Reps notwithstanding). But what has the Democratic Party really done for these groups lately? The best they can say is that they aren’t actively screwing them over, as the GOP does, which is why they can still count on their votes.
The Republican Party, on the other hand, has danced to the tune of the evangelicals to the point where it has affected Supreme Court decisions. How can Limbaugh even suggest that the GOP has abandoned the Christian right with a straight face?
I suspect that part of the perception is that abortion, prayer in schools, gay marriage, affirmative action, and other issues critical to these groups haven’t really made it to the list this election cycle — they’ve been pushed aside by the economy, our various wars, the health care crisis, and even global warming. But I look for some of these to be used as wedge issues by the right between now and November.
The only real “bending over and taking” that I’m seeing is from BOTH parties when it comes to Israel. But that’s another thread.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:18 amOh, those kooky blacks! I bet they’re just being black to annoy good upstanding citizens like Rush.
And those kooky gays! and kooky libruls! And those gay black libruls…. them’s the kookiest of all!
June 25th, 2008 at 8:19 amWOW!
Hey, maybe Rushboy didn’t need help after all on vacation. It seems he only needed one Viagra tablet to help the young boy from the Dominican Republic lessen his refractory time.
Oh, and where’s Parodyll???
June 25th, 2008 at 8:20 amAfter watching the youtube, I can understand why Rush in on the radio and not in front of a live audience. He can’t handle the truth.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:23 amDRxJ Says:
Oh, and where’s Parodyll???
He will be along shortly. He is listening to the rusher’s broadcast for the 18th time, has him mesmerized.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:24 amDaryll Sez…
“Bend over Libs, and raise your Ass in Praise to the Prince of Putridity! Repent, for the Grabbing of Ankles is At Hand!
June 25th, 2008 at 8:29 amGo forth and Proclaim the Word of Rush, for He is the Staff which Comforts Me!
Regrettably this man proves Lincoln right. You can, indeed, fool some of the people all of the time (23% anyone?). There is none so blind as he who will not see.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:41 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Well, in Rush’s own words, just harmless frat pranks.
-GSD
June 25th, 2008 at 8:48 amRush is saying its good that the GOP says screw you?
Lmao, the echo chamber is shattered.
SO?
June 25th, 2008 at 8:55 amWhat part of “elected representative” does Lush not understand?
June 25th, 2008 at 8:57 amA GOPer will get you drunk, wait till you fall asleep and then molest you.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:01 amits much better when corporations and the religious right are c0rnh0ling you instead.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:39 amRush is the man. He’s always RIGHT!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:50 amHe’s a touch of P.T. Barnum
June 25th, 2008 at 10:50 amWith a Mussolini twist
John Kerry Says:
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Rush is the man. He’s always RI
Work hard on that one?
June 25th, 2008 at 11:08 amI recall something a person I worked for 55 years ago told me when I was ticked off at her and pointed a finger in her direction. It certainly applies to this disgusting gasbag of manure. She said “Remember, when you point a finger at someone else there are three fingers pointing back at you.” (try it you will see it is true)So Russy what you are saying applies three times over to you. Your back is out of joint because you are bent over more often than not. Not even a pig would wallow in the crap that you and your listeners, who are dumber than you, swim in constantly.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:30 amMedia Matters are such whiners. Always complaining about some nonsense. Who cares what Rush says on his own show. He’s always been this way, 20 years now. He obviously isn’t going anywhere. Don’t like it? Don’t listen. Simple. Its not for you or MMFA to decide what should or shouldn’t be said on the radio. Free speech will never be controlled by mini stalinist commissars at MMFA.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:14 pmAs opposed to kooks ascribing world disasters to Gay Pride parades ?
June 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pmSo, MNG, racism is perfectly ok as long as it’s Rush?
I see.
Well, not really, but I guess it works if you’re stupid.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pmAnnie, I’m not sure that you understand what racism is. Even if it were racist, which it obviously isn’t, racism is not illegal. I don’t condone racism of course, but the point is that you have a choice to not listen if you think it is racist or in bad taste, whatever. However, you don’t (nor does MMFA) have the right to silence speech that you disagree with. That’s the whole point of the 1st amendment.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:06 pmIf Rush Limbaugh didn’t have a company of bodyguards, he’d be hanging from a telephone pole.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:23 pmSo, repuclianSScareme you’re physically threatening Rush? Are you really sure you want to do that? because you should know that making threats is illegal and you could be held accountable. Is this the sort of tolerance we can expect from “the left” or would others want to disavow such a comment?
June 25th, 2008 at 4:41 pm“Limbaugh complained that these “kooks” have too much influence on the left.”
As opposed to the “kooks” on the right: Halliburton, BlackWater, Exxon/Mobil, the telecoms…
June 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pmJ-
June 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pmYea I must admit that was a weird case. Jose did have his due process, though delayed indeed. I don’t agree with the Govt on that one although I’d like to think that they held him because they suspected there were other dirty-bomb plots that he knew about. Clearly it wasn’t a perfect situation but in the end he was tried and convicted. Iirc, that was the case where the court actually affirmed that the President could indeed legally declare US citizens enemy combatants provided that they could challenge that status. Weird case though. I’m not sure who won there. Seems like everyone lost.
whoops wrong forum. :/
June 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pmIs this the sort of tolerance we can expect from “the left” or would others want to disavow such a comment?
Like Rush would says, its simply for entertainment purposes. Your fake outrage is funny.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pmI would just like to remind people that the tough talk of Rush Limbaugh from behind the microphone. Is the whimpering half a man that cried, “I have an oowee on my butt” to get out of serving his country’s military during a time of need.
Face to face, without his drugs, not leaving his gated community without body guards, not even viagra could make his right hand believe he is a man.
This is your Rush, the conservative super hero….
Flies private airways with four other men to an island known for boy prostitution. Is busted with bottle of viagra. What does four males do together on vacation on an island with only themselves and viagra?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:35 amRush Limbaugh is a pimp. Period
June 26th, 2008 at 2:39 amLimbaugh is a funny guy who speaks a lot of truth. He doesn’t like McCain at all thouh, and i disagree with that. McCain is the best candidate for president no doubt. But Rush always talks bad about him, so i do disagree with Rush sometimes. But most of the time, he speaks the truth. Go Rush, keep it coming!
June 26th, 2008 at 2:41 am