# Limbaugh and the "Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill". **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 6, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597 "2009-03-06T23:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/1 "2009-03-06T23:27:05Z")
Keep talking Rush. Keep it up, please, please, please. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap\_on\_go\_co/limbaugh\_kennedy\_2](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_go_co/limbaugh_kennedy_2) Just keep stomping on your microscopic dick. Now may I suggest that the “War on Drugs” be renamed the “War on Druggies, like Rush Limbaugh”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/2 "2009-03-07T00:11:34Z")
If Limbaugh isn’t an atheist, he should definitely consider the advantages. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/3 "2009-03-07T00:17:37Z")
I don’t want Rush to fail. I just want his liver to fail. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/4 "2009-03-07T19:36:08Z")
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/senate-lion-kennedy-roars-national-healthcare/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/senate-lion-kennedy-roars-national-healthcare/) > [@](#): > > A spokeswoman for one of the architects of a national health care bill said that any legislation that emerges would be named after Kennedy. > > “He wouldn’t name it for himself, but the majority of the body working on the legislation would say he’s devoted his life to it,” said Jude McCartin, a spokeswoman for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., a member of Kennedy’s committee. “Now that we’re on the verge of doing something major, the naming of the legislation should reflect his longstanding involvement.” Rush wins again. Thank you all for making yourselves look lazy, careless, stupid, and malicious. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/5 "2009-03-07T21:29:19Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/senate-lion-kennedy-roars-national-healthcare/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/senate-lion-kennedy-roars-national-healthcare/) > > Rush wins again. Thank you all for making yourselves look lazy, careless, stupid, and malicious. You’re as clueless and insensitive as he is. There is a lot of legislation that is known by the author(s) or primary sponsor(s) name. “Memorial” is for someone who is dead. Ted Kennedy is battling brain cancer but he is still alive and working. We know where Rush gets his audience. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/6 "2009-03-07T21:42:58Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/senate-lion-kennedy-roars-national-healthcare/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/senate-lion-kennedy-roars-national-healthcare/) > > Rush wins again. Thank you all for making yourselves look lazy, careless, stupid, and malicious. What **Spartydog** said. Lots of bills are named after their authors. It’s the “memorial” part that’s objectionable. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/7 "2009-03-07T23:31:50Z")
> [@Spartydog](#): > > You’re as clueless and insensitive as he is. There is a lot of legislation that is known by the author(s) or primary sponsor(s) name. “Memorial” is for someone who is dead. Ted Kennedy is battling brain cancer but he is still alive and working. > > We know where Rush gets his audience. Yes, but by the time any plan reaches fruitation, he’ll probably have lost his battle with brain cancer. It was an insensitive remark, no doubt, but it has a decent shot at being prophetic too. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/8 "2009-03-07T23:57:52Z")
Prophetic? Kennedy might die, but I guarantee the bill won’t have the word “memorial” in it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/9 "2009-03-08T00:10:55Z")
Oh, don’t underestimate the Senatorial love for mawkish and empty sentimentality. After the Pubbies fight this tooth and nail, and do everything in their power to water it down to inanity, if it still passes and Teddy is gone, they’ll stand there and flow the tears crocodilian in honor of that great, great American, Teddy. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/10 "2009-03-08T00:12:49Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Yes, but by the time any plan reaches fruitation, he’ll probably have lost his battle with brain cancer. It was an insensitive remark, no doubt, but it has a decent shot at being prophetic too. Just like the watermelons and monkeys and other BS that the 'Pubs have thrown out there. “Hey, don’t be so sensitive. Have a sense of humor. Blah, blah, blah . . .” Fact is, it’s rude, insensitive and clueless. Hey, I hear you mom has inoperable cancer. Think your brother will get home from Iraq before she croaks? But then, maybe he’ll get killed first. Ha, ha, ha! Isn’t that a knee-slapper? Cummon, laugh a little. Don’t be so touchy. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/11 "2009-03-08T03:46:42Z")
> [@Spartydog](#): > > Now may I suggest that the “War on Drugs” be renamed the “War on Druggies, like Rush Limbaugh”. A question. Limbaugh had a mild addiction to a prescription drug. He openly admitted it, sought treatment for it and kicked the habit. Ted Kennedy is a drunk who murdered a young woman and got away with it. He has never admitted it, sought treatment for it or kicked the habit. Why, then, do you continually refer to Rush’s problem and not Kennedy’s? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/12 "2009-03-08T04:04:55Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > A question. Limbaugh had a mild addiction to a prescription drug. He openly admitted it, sought treatment for it and kicked the habit. > > Ted Kennedy is a drunk who murdered a young woman and got away with it. He has never admitted it, sought treatment for it or kicked the habit. > > Why, then, do you continually refer to Rush’s problem and not Kennedy’s? Chappaquiddick was in 1969. When was Rushes long drug habit revealed? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/13 "2009-03-08T04:39:11Z")
Oooh, I know! I know! Its because liberals and lefties are, like, total hypocrites! Where’s my cookie? And I’ll just pass on your self-serving definition of a “mild” addiction and your unique understanding of what constitutes murder. You already know that’s crap, and if you aren’t already embarrassed by it, nothing I’m gonna say is likely to make much difference. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/14 "2009-03-08T06:49:17Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > When was Rushes [sic] long drug habit revealed? I believe it was just a little bit after he said, “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.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/15 "2009-03-08T07:28:23Z")
Yeah, but its different. That’s not hypocrisy, that’s post-modernist irony. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/16 "2009-03-08T07:44:30Z")
> [@Spartydog](#): > > Just keep stomping on your microscopic dick. I’m, um, I’m having trouble, er, picturing this. If someone can stomp on his own dick, one of two things is going on: 1. The guy is cirque-du-soleil flexible, or 2. the guy has an absolutely elephantine dick. Assuming (based on a general survey of his physical stature) that Rush isn’t particularly flexible, we’ve got a contradiction here. How can an auto-stompable dick be microscopic? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/17 "2009-03-08T08:12:34Z")
> [@Spartydog](#): > > You’re as clueless and insensitive as he is. There is a lot of legislation that is known by the author(s) or primary sponsor(s) name. “Memorial” is for someone who is dead. Ted Kennedy is battling brain cancer but he is still alive and working. > > We know where Rush gets his audience. In your memory, I add “hair-splitting” to my first post. And FTR, I don’t listen to Rush. But if Obama feels the need to target him specifically, Rush is saying things that threaten Obama. And maybe it’d be worth my while to find out exactly what Rush is saying. Of course, that goes double for all the dishonest people who criticize him WITHOUT EVEN FUCKING LISTENING TO HIM AND DEPEND ON THE INTENTIONALLY INACCURATE REPORTS OF OTHERS. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/18 "2009-03-08T08:56:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Oooh, I know! I know! Its because liberals and lefties are, like, total hypocrites! Where’s my cookie? > > And I’ll just pass on your self-serving definition of a “mild” addiction and your unique understanding of what constitutes murder. You already know that’s crap, and if you aren’t already embarrassed by it, nothing I’m gonna say is likely to make much difference. Ted Kennedy is an awful human being by any reasonable standard. I’m ashamed and embarrassed that his name will be on the most important piece of legislation of my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/19 "2009-03-08T11:50:42Z")
Well, with any luck Congress will have the opportunity to pass the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Bill to Remove Ted Kennedy’s Name from Legislation” as soon as possible. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limbaugh-and-the-ted-kennedy-memorial-health-care-bill/488597/20 "2009-03-08T13:11:48Z")
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