# Rush Limbaugh is a dick of the highest order **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858 "2006-10-25T17:24:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/121 "2006-10-27T21:44:53Z")
[QUOTE=Bob55] Yes, people in the real world who don’t have time to check every little piece of information shouldn’t vote. Oh and people with IQs under 100 shouldn’t vote. In fact the entire southeast shouldn’t vote, or Texans, or those red states up in the west because they’re terribly misinformed and don’t fact-check everything they hear. [/QUOTE] Would you mind not treating every person who disagrees with you as though they’re maligning all conservatives? People aren’t disagreeing with you because you live in a red state, or because you’re Texan (if you are), they’re doing it because they think you’re wrong. If you lived in the bluest of blue states people would still be arguing with you on this. Seriously, people aren’t attacking you on this because you’re a conservative. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/122 "2006-10-27T21:53:27Z")
If you want to fact-check Dr. Laura, btw, you might do better to get a Ph.D. in Physiology, rather than psychology (since that’s what she has her Ph.D. in. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/123 "2006-10-27T21:54:41Z")
[QUOTE=Bob55] Yes, people in the real world who don’t have time to check every little piece of information shouldn’t vote. Oh and people with IQs under 100 shouldn’t vote. In fact the entire southeast shouldn’t vote, or Texans, or those red states up in the west because they’re terribly misinformed and don’t fact-check everything they hear. If I had to fact check everything I heard I wouldn’t have much time for anything else (like the real world). Please explain who was discredited by failing to report facts accurately (actually, this is the standard MO of politicians and news reporters)? **I assume you’re talking about Rush, which if this is the case I couldn’t care less because I don’t take verything he says as the truth. Again, the only reason I entered this discussion was to talk about the MJ Fox/Rush issue, and present to the community Rush’s side of things that most did not hear (I assume you want both sides to a debate?). I heard his side, and am reporting it with the facts _he_ presented, not me. So attack him please, not me in this.** I didn’t come here to defend Rush with my dying breath. Yes I listen to him from time to time if I happen to be in my car when he’s on and I do find him entertaining, but I listen to Clark Howard, Dave Ramsey, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck, Bill O’reilly, Dr. Laura, Bill Handel, and Cigar Dave too if they are on the radio. I just prefer talk to music. Should I fact-check everything Cigar Dave tells me? Or go read law journals of specific states to fact-check Bill Handel’s advice? Or assume Clark Howard is a lair in all of his consumer advice? Or believe the banks over Dave Ramsey and max out my credit cards? Or go get a degree in psychology so I can fact-check Dr. Laura? [/QUOTE] Dude, you said that YOU gave him the benefit of the doubt regarding the MO ballot initiative. How is that not taking “what he says as the truth”? Moreover, you have not presented _facts_ as offered by Rush or anyone else. Damn near everything you’ve presented as a fact in this debate (whether it came from your head or Rush’s) has been discounted by **Aholibah**. At what point do you say, “you know, this guy Limbaugh has been discredited so many times, called to the mat for reporting inaccuracies so many times, that I am just going to quit ‘giving him the benefit of the doubt.’ My reliance on others fact checking is lazy and fosters ignorance – both my own and those who I contaminate with my parroting of this gibberish.”? ---
**Author:** ![shizaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@shizaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shizaru)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/124 "2006-10-27T22:05:08Z")
[QUOTE=whole bean] At what point do you say, “you know, this guy Limbaugh has been discredited so many times, called to the mat for reporting inaccuracies so many times, that I am just going to quit ‘giving him the benefit of the doubt.’ My reliance on others fact checking is lazy and fosters ignorance – both my own and those who I contaminate with my parroting of this gibberish.”? [/QUOTE] But if people did that there would be no Ditto Heads! (Man, what a dream) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/125 "2006-10-27T22:34:56Z")
If a person is an ordinary dick, with no particular distinction among dicks, then a monumental dick is a person of great reverence, and a role model. You will never loose money betting heavily on the stupidity of the Average American. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/126 "2006-10-27T23:03:04Z")
If anyone is actually interested in what Rush Limbaugh’s arguments and stance are on this issue, and what he actually said, the actual material is available. Here is a letter to Katie Couric that he sent at her request prior to Fox’s appearance on her show. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site\_102706/content/e\_mail\_to\_katie\_couric.guest.html](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102706/content/e_mail_to_katie_couric.guest.html) Here is the transcript of his thoughts on that show: [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site\_102706/content/stem\_cell\_controversy.guest.html](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102706/content/stem_cell_controversy.guest.html) The entire archive of everything he’s said on the issue is available here: [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential3/mjf0.guest.html](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential3/mjf0.guest.html) I listened earlier this week and his position has been severely mistorted. I support what he said and think he is correct and proper in the way he made his arguments. Just in case anybody is actually curious. I’m off to DC to run the Marine Marathon, so I won’t be able to participate. Hate to post and run, but wish me luck. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/127 "2006-10-27T23:24:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bob55] Suprisingly, it has caused me to be more skeptical (despite some people here thinking I’m close-minded). Your ability to remain calm in discussions and point out things in a factual manner goes much further than someone telling me I have the intellect of a 14 year old or shouldn’t be voting. Thanks for the research. [/QUOTE] I’m very happy if my research has helped bring you to a more skeptical attitude when it comes to conservative talk radio. I understand the frustration of the people who are piling on you at the moment – it’s tough when somebody like Rush Limbaugh seems day after day to foist misinformation and bald-faced lies on his listening public and know that the vast majority of that public will never willingly expose themselves to more accurate, nuanced sources of information – but I really don’t want to alienate you or put you on the defensive. You’re here, reading what we write, evidencing willingness to at least consider the possibility that Rush is a demagogue with a shocking disregard for the truth whenever it gets in the way of his agenda or his ratings. I may check back in on the thread occasionally, but I’d like to largely bow out now with the warm feeling that I’ve done a little bit of good today. 🙂 And before I go, since the only thing I found earlier regarding Cardin’s position on stem cell research was a press release from his opponent, I did do a bit more digging and found [this](http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Benjamin_Cardin.htm): > [@Cardin's voting record](#): > > Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005) > Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003) So this recent voting record may have been enough to convince MJF that Cardin was a better candidate than Steele on the subject of embryonic stem cell research. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/128 "2006-10-27T23:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] If a person is an ordinary dick, with no particular distinction among dicks, then a monumental dick is a person of great reverence, and a role model. You will never loose money betting heavily on the stupidity of the Average American. Tris [/QUOTE] I would not call Rush a “monumental dick”. I would call him a tiny dick. A tiny, little, shrivelled up dick. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/129 "2006-10-27T23:43:17Z")
From Scylla’s link above, Rush’s website: > [@](#): > > She did not tell me that she was going to use the video that everybody else was using in a distorted manner, a misrepresentative manner to make it look like I’m mocking or making fun of Michael J. Fox. As I explained yesterday, that’s not the case. We sent the transcript out, by the way, to George Stephanopoulos and Chris Wallace, because they’re both doing shows on Sunday. I’m going to be out of town this weekend. They asked me to appear. I can’t, don’t want to, wouldn’t do it anyway, but I did send the transcript of yesterday’s program explaining all of this, as I explained it to you yesterday. Katie did not, in her e-mail, tell me she was going to use that video from the Dittocam that you’ve seen all over the Drive-By Media. The commentary that they attached to it distorts what I was doing here on the program. > > As I have mentioned, I had just finished watching the ad. I never seen Mr. Fox that way. I was shaken and stunned. I have a camera here, and I was describing it for people. This is radio. Many of us on radio act out. (As you know, I’m a mimic anyway.) I was trying to illustrate what I had seen, not in a mocking way, but an informative way for people who are watching the program and hundreds of thousands do each day on the Dittocam. (By the way, welcome to those of you who are.) So the purposeful and willful distortion of this continues, which we addressed yesterday. It’s totally understandable to me why it’s being done. Oh, man,what a load of back-pedaling crap! That video, linked in Post#54 here, shows Rush to be an adolescent boob making fun of someone. Unless he just got a sudden case of Marionette Syndrome. Bleaaachhh! Thanks to **Aholibah** and \*\*Loopydude for your informative posts here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/130 "2006-10-28T00:10:54Z")
Still, its nice to hear that the Marine Marathon has included a Senior’s Division. Heartening. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/131 "2006-10-28T01:42:01Z")
**Scylla** , Do you honestly believe your own shit or does it vary acording to what you’re eating? If the latter, might I suggest you join and contribute your amazingly bloated (or should that be “full of hot air as in a burning brain-fart”) sense of grandiosity to the following site? [Tomatoesareeviltoo](http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/132 "2006-10-28T02:00:06Z")
Funny site, though what connection to **Scylla** eludes me. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/133 "2006-10-28T08:49:21Z")
[QUOTE=whole bean] who’s going to volunteer up their embryo that they intend to keep? In other words, maybe the harvesting doesn’t kill the embryo, but realistically where is this supply of embryos that someone intends to grow into a child going to come from? Aren’t most of these embryos going to be discards from fertility clinics? To put it not so delicately, haven’t they already been slated for the bio-hazzard trash can? No one’s going to say, “Oh, before you put my future baby in me, suck some of his.her stem cells out.” Are they? Then isn’t Steele just endorsing a reasearch that will never be conducted? [/QUOTE] There’s always the [Frankenbunny option.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391265) ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/134 "2006-10-28T11:50:39Z")
He definately stepped in it this time… once he went over the top there is no way the MSM is going to let him off the hook. I’m afraid we are going to see MJF flopping all over TV until the election and it will get some sympathy votes although Dick Morris said a few days ago it would backfire because voters know when they are being manipulated. Has anyone one seen anybody interview MJF who has asked tough questions about the substance of the ad? Maybe Chris Wallace will this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/135 "2006-10-28T13:31:48Z")
Just popping in to note that [Diane Rehm](http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/) ripped Rush a new one on her show yesterday. I don’t know how it squares with journalistic integrity, but it was fun to listen to: > [@Diane Rehm](#): > > Well, Rush, I want to tell you something. I sat about three feet away from Michael J. Fox at the Parkinson’s Action Network Gala earlier this year, and I assure you that that ad was no act. You ought to get down on your knees and beg his forgiveness. What an insulting comment to someone who has suffered and given as much as Michael J. Fox has to help those with Parkinson’ s. :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/136 "2006-10-28T20:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] If anyone is actually interested in what Rush Limbaugh’s arguments and stance are on this issue, and what he actually said, the actual material is available. [/QUOTE] From your own link: > [@](#): > > Fact: I Never “Made Fun” of > Fox or Said He Was “Faking” > > Fact: The Missouri Bill is on Cloning, Not Stem Cells > > Fact: Stem Cell Research is Legal in Missouri, and Jim Talent Does Not Oppose It > > Fact: Ben Cardin (D-MD), Who Fox Did An Ad for, Voted AGAINST Stem Cell Research Every one of these statements is grossly misleading if not flatly untrue, allrelying on special technical exceptions and caveats that allow one to say things that distort reality and mislead. Heck: Rush’s defense is that “faking” is a misleading way to characterize his claim that Fox was “acting.” Riiiight. So, so much for your lazy, lame drive by. Have a fun time with your Marathon. I hope you win. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/137 "2006-10-28T21:56:04Z")
Maybe this is an intrusion into what you all have been arguing about, but I feel the need to say it: I _like_ my dick. While I can’t say I like other guy’s dicks, I have a healthy respect for them – like I do for any good tool; 😛 So – please stop denigrate dicks by associating them with Rush. At his best he is a dick of the _lowest_ order. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/138 "2006-10-28T22:59:04Z")
Bravely said, but futile. Freud had it exactly backwards, it isn’t “penis envy” its penis shame. Thats why we’re always looking for some dark place to hide it. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/139 "2006-10-29T14:21:41Z")
[QUOTE=What the … !!!] I’m afraid we are going to see MJF **flopping** all over TV until the election [/QUOTE] You’re disgusting. [QUOTE=What the … !!!] and it will get some sympathy votes although Dick Morris said a few days ago it would backfire because voters know when they are being manipulated. [/QUOTE] Dick Morris should know better. If 2000 and 2004 is any indication, no, they don’t know when they’re being manipulated. Many of them, anyway. If they’ve smartened up any, MJF will win out because he’s “manipulating” by being himself. I’m much more scared of Parkinson’s and MS and ALS and other such diseases than I am of anything the Republicans try to scare me with (except Republicans in power itself). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/140 "2006-10-29T21:52:56Z")
[QUOTE=Bob55] Suprisingly, it has caused me to be more skeptical (despite some people here thinking I’m close-minded). Your ability to remain calm in discussions and point out things in a factual manner goes much further than someone telling me I have the intellect of a 14 year old or shouldn’t be voting. Thanks for the research. [/QUOTE] Dude, it’s the **Pit.** This is our gloves-off, get-down-and-wallow-in-the-mud-and-pigshit forum. If you’d rather discuss things like this on a purely intellectual level with no flaming, there’s GD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858.md?page=8)