Gingrey Begs Limbaugh For Forgiveness On-Air, Expresses ‘Very Sincere Regret’ For ‘Foot-In-Mouth Disease’
Gingrey Begs Limbaugh For Forgiveness On-Air, Expresses ‘Very Sincere Regret’ For ‘Foot-In-Mouth Disease’
Yesterday, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, complained to Politico about how Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talkers are able to “stand back and throw bricks” instead of offering “real leadership” in the middle of high-profile public policy battles. Gingrey’s brave remarks got him in hot water.
This morning — because of what he called “high volume of phone calls and correspondence” in response to his comments — Gingrey issued a retraction, declaring his loyalty to hate radio. “I see eye-to-eye with Rush Limbaugh,” he said, later adding that he, Sean Hannity, and Newt Gingrich were “the voices of the conservative movement’s conscience.”
But Gingrey’s mea culpa was not yet complete. Apparently concluding that his criticism of Limbaugh was so off-base that it merited a personal, on-air apology to Limbaugh, Gingrey made a rare guest appearance on Limbaugh’s radio show this afternoon. Addressing the hate radio host as a “conservative giant,” Gingrey apologized for what he termed his “foot-in-mouth disease“:
GINGREY: Rush, thank you so much. I thank you for the opportunity, of course this is not exactly the way to I wanted to come on. … Mainly, I want to express to you and all your listeners my very sincere regret for those comments I made yesterday to Politico. … I clearly ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments. … I regret those stupid comments.
LIMBAUGH: Well, look, I appreciate that. … I’m glad that you called.
Gingrey concluded by saying, “[T]he best possible message for this country would be for every single republican to vote against [the economy recover package].” Watch it:
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Yesterday, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, complained to Politico about how Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talkers are able to “stand back and throw bricks”
Rep. Gingrey needs to get his facts straight. I somehow doubt Rush Limbaugh is capable of hefting even ONE brick without taxing his heart to the point of cardiac arrest, let alone MULTIPLE bricks.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pmSpeaking of bending over and grabbing your ankles, Phil shows us how it’s done….
January 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pmLimbaugh is the 21st century Nazi.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:28 pmPhil Gingrey – American Hypocrite
January 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pmThe only reason he could talk on air is there was plenty of room in his mouth. Sort of surprising considering what he was doing. Not so surprising considering who he was doing it to.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pm“Gingrey Begs Limbaugh For Forgiveness On-Air, Expresses ‘Very Sincere Regret’ For ‘Foot-In-Mouth Disease’”
– - Grovel Gingrey, grovel.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pmWe might have known the Repubs would die with a lot of whining and flatulence.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pmWow, limpballs really is a reflection of the dying conservative movement. RIP.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:34 pmThe Republicans are complete idiots. The country NEEDS to have some sort of stimulus package in place SOONER rather than LATER. Obama really needs to throw down the gauntlet and trash these lying, ANTI-American morons.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:36 pmThis corpulent drug addict is an embarrassment to humanity.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:36 pm“When someone shows you who they really are, … BELIEVE THEM!”
- my favorite Randi Rhodes quote.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:37 pmI think we all saw that coming. Its the same over at Redstate.com. If you even mouth off about on of their major leaders, you become public enemy #1. And if you are an elected official, for some reason Rush has the ability to assure you dont get re-elected. so it was in his political expedience to do that.
Sad.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:37 pmha… see, like i said…
“daddy daddy, PLEASE don’t be angry with me! please, daddy!”
January 28th, 2009 at 2:38 pmRush just announced on his show (between 2:15-30pm) that he will be taking some time off and he wanted everyone to know that it wasn’t because he needs to regroup after the DCCC posted a petition on their website and his life is miserable. He wants us to know that he’s going to the ‘left coast’, but will not announce where he’s going….because well….he says he doesn’t want to be mobbed (by the angry masses? LOL). Uh ha. Yeah Rush like you’re so popular!
January 28th, 2009 at 2:39 pmChurch phone banks and war dialers. We have to catch them doing this and take away their tax free status.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pmThe next time a Repug claims they think for themselves, we can just point to this.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pmI guess this means Gingrey is a terrible congressman. This actually points to something more – the GOP is run by fat, lying, drug addict talk show host. If they get their cue from Drug Limbaugh, the GOP is not conservative. Because Drug Limbaugh isn’t conservative. The only conservative I can think of in the Republican Party is Ron Paul, and they’re always marginalizing him. It’s some racket the GOP and Limbaugh and Hannity and Coulter have – hijack the word “conservative” by calling themselves “conservative”. Definitions don’t mean anything anymore. These people are as far from “conservative” as you can get, the facts say so.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pmRush Limbaugh must have the gravitas with mindless Conservatives of that of the earlier character assassin Senator Joseph McCarthy [aka Simple J. Malarkey].
January 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pmHey Gingrey, if you go to Oz maybe the Wizard will give you some Courage.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pmWhat’s so funny about the Gingrey/Limbaugh relationship is it’s a good reflection of how the neocons (American Taliban/GOP) have operated over the last 8 years:
One guy makes the rules
Everyone follows
When one doesn’t follow and squawks the truth, he or she is pulled aside and tortured & threatened until they do agree
This is why our country got so f**ked up over the last 8 years. It was a Banana Republic.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pmDid any of you ever see this? Check this out:
http://pssht.com/biography/rush_limbaugh.html
January 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pmRemember this?
“Support the president!”
“Up or down vote!!”
“The president has a right to his appointments.”
What happened to that spirit? Is it only applicable for Republicans?
January 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pmDid Gingrey kiss Rush’s ring?
January 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pmMan, if this happened to Rachel Maddow, she’d laugh her butt off…..
January 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pmGood to know that Republican attempts to free themselves from their psycho wingnut faction continue to fail.
PALIN / WURZELBACHER 2012, y’all!
January 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pmGingrey kissed more than the ring. A complete and thorough rim job.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pmGuess what, Gingrey? You’re a politician. If you say anything to the media nowadays that criticizes a side of the argument, it will be blown up by their supporters until you apologize. Then the other wing gets to blow up at you for being two-faced.
Stick by your guns, you chicken.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pmwhy is everyone giving that fart lard so much attention? anyone as sick of anarchists as I am?
January 28th, 2009 at 2:52 pmI seem to remember an occasion when Rush mentioned this blog and a particular thread on his show and we had 5,000 dittoheads spamming the thread, spewing their hatred and moronic comments. Did he give out Gingrey’s phone number this time?
January 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pmNow that I think about it, the GOP PanderTron™ registered a similar reading a while back:
GINGREY: … “Mainly, I want to express to you and all your listeners my very sincere regret for those comments I made yesterday to Politico. … I clearly ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments. … I regret those stupid comments.”
Whittington: “My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week, We send our love and respect to them as they deal with situations that are much more serious than what we have had this week.”
This went way beyond fawning, over genuflect, past butt-sniff and redlined into bung-tonguing.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pmHey Phil! Get that man out of your mouth.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:56 pmGingrey concluded by saying, “[T]he best possible message for this country would be for every single republican to vote against [the economy recover package].”
Nero had nothing on these guys. But at least Nero had the talent to play a violin as Rome burned to the ground. Our modern GOP’s only talent seems to be as obstructionists and war mongers. Why does the GOP want to destroy this country – just as a favor to Limbaugh?
January 28th, 2009 at 2:59 pmIn my little fantasy world, politicians would be giving “we, the people” this kind of respect and making every effort to represent, support, and follow us.
But, I’m not a Republican, so I recognize that it is just a fantasy.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:59 pmThe American Rightwing never fails to entertain. Wow. What a giant pu@@y.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:01 pmReally, I hope not one Republican votes for package and is succeeds. Then they explain to their constituents how they tried to stifle the economic recovery.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:03 pmSo just what is it that the nes-plus ultra “voice of the conservative movement” represents?
National division, economic meltdown, wars without end, the demolition of the constitution and the rule of law, the further enrichment of the already wealthy at the expense of the majority, theft, deceit and death and suffering by a thousand cuts and/or one ignorant policy decision.
Super.
And what have we learned?
January 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pmThat an elected representative is accountable not to his constituents nor even his oath of office, but to a radio-show host.
If Gingray had stood by his original statement he would have
the respect of both parties.
Now he just looks like a wimp, and everyone hates a wimp.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:07 pmAll Hail R, All Hail R, All Hail R.
Oh wait, I don’t live in a train station locker.
Yet.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:08 pmWow. When I read this, I was immediately reminded of the Satanic rite of kissing the goat’s butt…
Gee. I wonder why…..
January 28th, 2009 at 3:10 pmproof positive once again the repukeliscum party has no leadership. they’re talking marching orders rfom an entertainer, and a drug addled, impotent one at that!
January 28th, 2009 at 3:22 pmDayum 5th Estate, you just summed up eight whole years in one
January 28th, 2009 at 3:22 pmsuccinct comment!
3 words: shrinking republican minority.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:22 pmRe #39…here’s a little background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Sabbath
January 28th, 2009 at 3:29 pmWill that big blimp be flying over the Super Bowl in Tampa on Sunday night? Limpballs has ballooned up again. Oprah doesn’t have anything over that big fat blimp. Maybe he’s unhappy and just will eat himself into a big ole’ fat heart attack. I’d like to see him on The Biggest Loser, only he would gain weight until he just blew up. What’s the name of that deadly sin where you eat too much? Yea, that’s what he has – gluttony.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:51 pmWhy is a member of the House of Representitives begging forgiveness from an “entertainer”?
January 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm“Forgive me Herr Limbaugh, for I have sinned”. These guys are disgusting asswipes.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:07 pmWow, the Rethuglican Party is in pretty bad shape if they have to bow at the altar of this fat f**k!
Limpballs/Bible Spice 2012!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:19 pmWhat a moral coward this man is. Did he kiss his butt too? What must it be like to be so fearful of a bully that you grovel?
January 28th, 2009 at 4:25 pmThis shows that President Obama was correct.
Does everyone now see what is going on here? There is such a leadership vacuum in the Republican Party that Rush Limbaugh has become the de facto leader of the party! These guys don’t give a crap what John Boehner or Mitch McConnell say, because Boehner and McConnell themselves are taking marching orders from Limbaugh. They will follow their fat idol to the ends of the earth, and is just where he is leading them. I hope all of America is watching this absurd spectacle.
Entertainer my a$$!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:30 pmOn second thought the only thing giant about Rush is is mouth, his ego and his desire to have people who do what this REP. did. Rush will now hold this ass kisser in contempt and rightly so. Rush must be laughing. And this guy did it in public. Now everyone including his colleagues and family know what a spineless jerk he is.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:32 pmTypical republican…he speaks the truth for once in his life, then his howling, rabid flaghumping vocal minority constituients makes him beg a drug addicted child molesting windbag for forgiveness…
January 28th, 2009 at 4:41 pmDear Rush:
I apologize. We turds couldn’t float anywhere else but in your sewer
January 28th, 2009 at 4:47 pmOMG
Fat Bastard gets an ass kissing from a repugniscum who dared to speak heresy.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:03 pmWell, I won’t believe Gingrey is truly sorry until I see him crying like Jimmy Swaggart.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:06 pmrimhotep; In Webster’s dictionary, under Hypocrite, it says Republican.
it’s TRUE. I swear. (heh, heh)
January 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pmThe mascot is calling the plays. Pretty pathetic.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:19 pmI’m upset at the amount of coverage this shit is getting- precisely what the 20%ers want so they’ll appear to have some power. Can’t these idiots be marginalized? THEY LOST.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:21 pmSign of the times . .
Republicans bend over for Limpbough . . .
Then in UNISON ALL REPUBLICANS voted NO on the Stimulaus Paln . . . GOP sure are doing THEIR part to DESTROY America . . . can’t wait to see who the RepubliKKKans deside should run the Klavran . . .
January 28th, 2009 at 6:21 pmOh wrap your open mouth around the vile, fecal, disgusting spincter of your king lardbaugh, what a fool.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:34 pmIS Lush LImpballs packing his Viagra for his west coast trip?
January 28th, 2009 at 9:51 pmSomeone needs to inform this guy that he represents fascist whacko’s.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:45 amLimbaugh has on numerous occasions quite literary poured forth his knowledge with respect to positions involving what seem be sodomite practices. Now with the fawning groveling obeisance to his mentor by Congressman Gingrey like the “butt buddy” of some jail house thug, one has to wonder which one is the “topper” and who is the “bottom” or do they play “switch”? Or would “swish” be the more appropriate verb?
Is it possible that the people of his district GA elected a testosterone deficient eunuch?
He’s such dweeb he doesn’t even rank in the the putz category. He’s a pupik and a kleiner pupik at that.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:30 pmPhil,your bunk mate has you by the balls. Just take it up the ass like the good poodle that you are. Rush runs the Rethug party. Just suck his dick and take it it like a man.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:21 pmWell!! I won’t believe Gingrey is truly sorry until I see him crying like Jimmy Swaggart…
February 19th, 2009 at 6:56 amMr. Flemball has stated he hopes the stimulous will fail. The only good thing that might occur as a result is that Rush’s home would be foreclosed because he would be without a job. THINK POSITIVE!
February 28th, 2009 at 6:51 pmOnly in the U.s. would big fat, pill-poppin’ anus with a grin cause fear in right-wingnuts. Rembember when coultergeist tried to say her rigtwing body guards are a hell of a lot tougher than any liberals body guards. God help them if in slip of the tongue they called fatboy fatboy.
Looks like the the big boys on the right have some effeminate fears when it comes to Mr. Pig.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:54 pm