# Just For Fun: Predict Rush's spin **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086 "2013-12-11T17:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/1 "2013-12-11T17:54:20Z")
Lamar Alexander (R)'s Chief of Staff is under investigation for allegedly having child porn on his computer. Alexander already put him on unpaid leave and issued a statement expressing his disappointment etc. The question: How will Rush spin this, and do you predict he will find a way to make this ultimately the fault of liberals/Democrats? Link to CNN: [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/11/senators-chief-of-staff-under-investigation-involving-child-porn-allegations/](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/11/senators-chief-of-staff-under-investigation-involving-child-porn-allegations/) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/2 "2013-12-11T18:18:58Z")
He ignores it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/3 "2013-12-11T18:49:58Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He ignores it. Probably this. But if he mentions it at all, it will be to decry the liberal media’s “pouncing” on this story to divert attention away from the Obamacareocalpyse, or the Uncle Obama affair, or Benghazi, or [_insert scandal here_]. And he’ll probably provide a few examples of Democrats who sinned similarly, and claim that the media ignored them. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/4 "2013-12-11T18:51:12Z")
Oh, and then he’ll go take a massive shit and wipe his ass with a roll of fresh $100 bills. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/5 "2013-12-11T19:00:12Z")
He’s not going to worry about a potential Republican pedophile when you have a dummocrat president shaking hands at funerals! Wake up sheeple. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/6 "2013-12-11T19:02:25Z")
He would ponder why Lamar Alexander hired a Democrat to be his Chief of Staff ? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/7 "2013-12-11T19:28:36Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He ignores it. That. Until Rush finds out that the guy had an uncle who was a Democrat, then all best are off. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/8 "2013-12-11T20:19:42Z")
Priests are pedobears. Pope is Catholic and Marxist. Catholic illegal alien pedophiles are swamping America with baby rapers. Writes itself, really. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/9 "2013-12-11T20:46:43Z")
He’ll just report the story and call Alexander a Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/10 "2013-12-11T20:57:19Z")
This is not really an election issue or topic. Off to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/11 "2013-12-11T20:58:59Z")
What’s the Uncle Obama affair? ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/12 "2013-12-11T21:26:45Z")
Thanks, Tomndeb, for the forum change. You’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/13 "2013-12-11T21:28:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > He’ll just report the story and call Alexander a Democrat. Isn’t that more of a Fox News prediction?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/14 "2013-12-11T22:25:16Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > What’s the Uncle Obama affair? The White House said Obama had never lived with (maybe never even met?) an uncle of his. Then Obama said he actually lived with the guy for a semester in law school. More than 6 billion people on the earth probably bought the explanation that “the White House” was speaking out of ignorance, and had neglected, somehow, to get Obama’s facts from him directly. The others probably really enjoy Rush Limbaugh’s show, and think it’s a significant conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/15 "2013-12-12T02:54:17Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Lamar Alexander (R)'s Chief of Staff is under investigation for allegedly having child porn on his computer. Alexander already put him on unpaid leave and issued a statement expressing his disappointment etc. > The question: How will Rush spin this, and do you predict he will find a way to make this ultimately the fault of liberals/Democrats? All partisanship aside, it sounds like Alexander is treating this in exactly the right way; Rush could easily praise him for doing so, the better to segue into saying that Obama _should likewise express disappointment and put staffers on unpaid leave for – well, take your pick, folks…_ ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/16 "2013-12-12T14:18:15Z")
Ooh, nice one! You might have a talent for this… ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/17 "2013-12-12T14:47:07Z")
> [@bup](#): > > The White House said Obama had never lived with (maybe never even met?) an uncle of his. Then Obama said he actually lived with the guy for a semester in law school. This is not any kind of a scandal, I agree – who cares if Obama met with, lived with for a time, or exchanged Arbor day gifts with, an uncle? But I think your explanation: “…the ‘White House’ was speaking out of ignorance, and had neglected, somehow, to get Obama’s facts from him directly,” is a bit tortured. It boggles the mind to imagine anyone saying, “Hmmm… we need to answer the question about Obama ever meeting or living with his uncle. How in the world can we find out if he did?” I think they either chose not to ask him, so they’d be able to claim they didn’t ask him, or they did ask him and then lied about his answer. Either way, who cares? The only reason they felt they had to lie is because the issue has some sort of phony pseudo-importance to it that causes Obama-haters to proclaim it the clues to a huge conspiracy and then reflexively causes Obama supporters to fashion bending-over-backwards defenses…such as yours. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/18 "2013-12-12T14:53:35Z")
Rush will probably demand to know what sort of police state has its postal service arrest people for sex crimes, and make something up about Obama’s sweeping expansion of postal service investigatory powers “in defiance of Congress”. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/19 "2013-12-12T15:09:21Z")
He’ll ignore it. If he did touch it, he would deride the permissive Hollywood liberals who promote alternative lifestyles and the feminazis who make themselves so unappealing that men have no choice but to look elsewhere for outlet. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086/20 "2013-12-12T15:31:14Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > All partisanship aside, it sounds like Alexander is treating this in exactly the right way; Rush could easily praise him for doing so, the better to segue into saying that Obama _should likewise express disappointment and put staffers on unpaid leave for – well, take your pick, folks…_ I admit that that’s much more believable than him blaming “Obamacare” and the teachers unions by stating that because of them right thinking 'mericans now have to home-school their children’s sex education. :smack: I Can Hear It Now- “Its an internet curriculum that may well soon be endorsed by such lofty institutions as The University of Phoenix…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-fun-predict-rushs-spin/676086.md?page=2)