# Rush Limbaugh defends rapists and murderers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-defends-rapists-and-murderers/599946 "2011-10-17T19:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-defends-rapists-and-murderers/599946/81 "2011-10-21T00:43:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I will bet that your average right-wing American Christian has no idea whatsoever what the word heterodoxy means. You don’t have to know the word to understand the concept — but it would be fair to think that most right-wing Christian Americans have never heard of the LRA, either. (A fact that Limbaugh relied on —but I don’t think he’s likely to convince much of anyone of anything by referring to an issue that they’ve never heard of and don’t care about.) And whether the LRA _is_ heterodox is irrelevant to the point of whether your mainstream American Christian would think of the LRA as heterodox (again, since people tend to understand the concept, even if they don’t understand the name.) (None of which has a damned thing to do with Qin’s “Satan-inspired” comment; I don’t think many Christians who believe in Satan would say that he never influences Christians. “Un-Christian” and “Satan-inspired” are not synonyms, so Qin was not making a no-true-Scotsman argument.) ---
**Author:** ![Da\_Mikster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Da\_Mikster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_Mikster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-defends-rapists-and-murderers/599946/82 "2011-10-21T01:27:31Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > …l. Has he ever back-tracked on anything, or does he just move on to something else? > … Closest you usually get is, “Hey, I’m just an **entertainer**!” Funny thing is, way back when he first started (Daddy Bush was in office the first time I heard him), he wasn’t quite such a shrill, obnoxious asshat. ---- Loud, a partisan hack, and often over the top, yes. But occasionally acerbically funny, too… between the GOTP taking a huge lurch to the right, competition, the painkillers, too much money, and buying into his own shtick about being smarter than everybody else, it’s been a loooooong downhill slide into irrelevance. Time was (back 16-19 years ago), I’d turn on his show and often yell at the radio arguing with him. Caught 5 minutes of a recent show and wanted to stick my foot through the radio - if only he’d feel it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-defends-rapists-and-murderers/599946.md?page=4)