# Rush Limbaugh brags about police escort; gets top cop in trouble! :smack: **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 8, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798 "2018-05-08T03:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/1 "2018-05-08T03:51:53Z")
[:smack:](https://apnews.com/6753d5da0c87460aa9ee6f0e35d9a208/Agency's-top-cop-retires-amid-Limbaugh-police-escort-probe) > [@](#): > > The top law enforcement official at the agency that runs New York’s airports and bridges has retired amid an investigation after radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners he received a police escort. > > The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Monday Michael Fedorko will step down immediately. > > Limbaugh said on-air last month he’d received an escort from Newark Liberty International Airport to New York City, where he was appearing at a Marine Corps law enforcement gala. > > Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole said recently an internal inquiry was active. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/2 "2018-05-08T15:27:34Z")
‘Gala’ The homosexual and transvestite clergy of Inanna, aka Ishtar, circa 2300 BC. You folks throw a big old gala, ok? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/3 "2018-05-08T15:55:43Z")
Looking forward to hearing from Rush about the time Hillary received a police escort. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/4 "2018-05-08T17:05:38Z")
Not seeing the problem, really. He is a recognizable and controversial figure. And someone I might enjoy punching. Is a cop car following him to an event inconceivable? Have any other controversial figures been given escorts? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/5 "2018-05-08T17:09:03Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Not seeing the problem, really. He is a recognizable and controversial figure. And someone I might enjoy punching. > > Is a cop car following him to an event inconceivable? Have any other controversial figures been given escorts? Wasn’t just any cop car but one occupied by Superintendent Fedorko himself. [linky](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/top-cop-at-port-authority-retires-rush-limbaugh-police-escort-revealed.html) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/6 "2018-05-08T17:11:53Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Not seeing the problem, really. He is a recognizable and controversial figure. And someone I might enjoy punching. > > Is a cop car following him to an event inconceivable? Have any other controversial figures been given escorts? A police escort clears the way of traffic so his pwecious fat ass can get wherever he’s going without inconvenience. He’s a nobody. He can pay for his own damned security and sit in traffic like the rest of us. If he gets upset, he could always take some pain pills. I’m sure he has plenty. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/7 "2018-05-08T17:12:38Z")
Plus there’s the whole lights and sirens thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/8 "2018-05-08T17:13:51Z")
Also [ETA: as the previous posters have pointed out], although the OP doesn’t seem to have provided a link, the police escort in question seems to have been not just a security detail but [a lights-and-sirens escort to get Limbaugh through the traffic](https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/port-authority-big-retires-soon-after-rush-limbaughs-police-escort-claim/): > [@](#): > > Superintendent Michael Fedorko’s departure was announced in a press release that made no mention of the alleged April 12 rush-hour escort — which the conservative icon bragged about on air the next day. > > “So they sent the superintendent of the Port Authority to Newark to meet me for lights and sirens into Manhattan to make sure I got there in time,” Limbaugh boasted. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/9 "2018-05-08T17:28:43Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Not seeing the problem, really. He is a recognizable and controversial figure. And someone I might enjoy punching. Unless there is an immediate and credible threat, it’s not appropriate for public resources to be spent (and people inconvenienced) on a motorcade for a private citizen. He can pay for his own security detail if he wants. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/10 "2018-05-08T21:01:11Z")
Perhaps now we can talk about why college football coaches need state police escorting them everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/11 "2018-05-08T21:02:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Perhaps now we can talk about why college football coaches need state police escorting them everywhere. People kill over football. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/12 "2018-05-08T21:06:39Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Not seeing the problem, really. He is a recognizable and controversial figure. And someone I might enjoy punching. > > Is a cop car following him to an event inconceivable? Have any other controversial figures been given escorts? Will the escort allow you to punch him? How big would the fine be for that? Can we afford the fine, or should we GoFundMe for it first? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/13 "2018-05-08T21:38:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > People kill over football. 😃 Great post/username combo, there! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/14 "2018-05-08T22:23:25Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Will the escort allow you to punch him? How big would the fine be for that? Can we afford the fine, or should we GoFundMe for it first? 😃 Reminds me of a sign I saw at a gun range “There is a $5 charge if you break a light”. The joke that I keep to myself (because they probably hear it at least once a day) but always think is to ask the guy if I can prepay ten or fifteen dollars so that I can take out a few of the lights for fun. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/15 "2018-05-08T23:46:59Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Wasn’t just any cop car but one occupied by Superintendent Fedorko himself. Wouldn’t that make him basically Dennis Franz in _Die Hard 2_? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/16 "2018-05-09T09:49:00Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Reminds me of a sign I saw at a gun range “There is a $5 charge if you break a light”. The joke that I keep to myself (because they probably hear it at least once a day) but always think is to ask the guy if I can prepay ten or fifteen dollars so that I can take out a few of the lights for fun. I went to an event where, at the start, they had a site safety briefing for everyone which included: "After last year, anyone setting off a fire extinguisher without a good reason will have to pay to have it refilled. It cost us £50 because someone messed with one last time. If you split that 5 ways though, it’s only £10 each, and the foam ones are great fun! Just take it outside please, and if you could ask first, that’d be great." 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/17 "2018-06-04T11:53:19Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Unless there is an immediate and credible threat, it’s not appropriate for public resources to be spent (and people inconvenienced) on a motorcade for a private citizen. He can pay for his own security detail if he wants. I thought that he and his followers despised such kinds of wasteful spending of tax dollars. Plus what about all the keep the government out of my life blathering they do? Pure hypocrisy on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/18 "2018-06-04T16:42:17Z")
And here I was thinking Michael Fedorko was moonlighting as a hooker doing policeman cosplay. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/19 "2018-06-04T17:17:07Z")
Does anyone recall he is a criminal, an illegal drug trafficker, actively participating in the roots of the opioid crisis no occurring, on top of his blatant encouragement of the domestic terrorist Tim McVeigh? There is far more to revile him for than his simple alt-right bloviating. Any law enforcement officer who associates with him should be investigated and the use of public resources to aid a criminal in this manner should result in termination of their job for cause, not simply allowing them to retire and collect a pension at public expense. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-brags-about-police-escort-gets-top-cop-in-trouble-smack/813798/20 "2018-06-13T03:23:57Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Does anyone recall he is a criminal, an illegal drug trafficker, actively participating in the roots of the opioid crisis no occurring, on top of his blatant encouragement of the domestic terrorist Tim McVeigh? There is far more to revile him for than his simple alt-right bloviating. > > Any law enforcement officer who associates with him should be investigated and the use of public resources to aid a criminal in this manner should result in termination of their job for cause, not simply allowing them to retire and collect a pension at public expense. I keep hoping the fat greasy fuck will have a heart attack. Or be eaten by rats and mice. > **[Revenge of the Rats! The Legend of Hatto](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/revenge-of-the-rats-the-legend-of-hatto/)** > > Sometime in the tenth century, so the story goes, a great famine hit the Rhine valley. The summer and fall seasons had been so wet that the grain rotted in the fields before the farmers could harve…