# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/141 "2006-10-29T22:00:02Z")
Which is no reason we can’t conduct ourselves with civility, you stupid mouthbreathin’ hick! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/142 "2006-10-30T00:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] **Scylla** , Do you honestly believe your own shit or does it vary acording to what you’re eating? [/quote] I do. Do you dispute that my cites lead to Rush Limbaugh and his transcripts and statements and emails on the issue in question? I find it frankly dim of you to dispute me on this. > [@](#): > > 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). Ummm, yeah. ok. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/143 "2006-10-30T00:56:03Z")
I very much doubt that anyone is suggesting that you have posted a fiendisly clever set of fake links that lead to elaborately contrived false sites. No, more like a) Rush is a fart blimp who is not to be beleived and b) you, for reasons that escape us, have found a way to do just that. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/144 "2006-10-30T00:56:27Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] From Scylla’s link above, Rush’s website: 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. [/QUOTE] That is of course Rush’s objection. If you look just at that link and ignore all that he said before and after and view it completely out of context it does appear he is making fun of Fox. If you listened or watched, it was clear he was not doing so. In fact, he took pains to explain the substance of his position which was: -Fox did not appear as he had apeared on tv. -He had appeared this way in front of senate or Congress -He had stated that he had not taken medication during that appearance so the full ravages of the disease could be seen. -He speculated that he might be doing something like that again. -His facts were misleading and incorrect. -Because someone is a victim they do not have the right to speak ex cathedra and be immune from substantive criticism. I agree with Rush in these statements. I think it is stupid to attack Rush personallly. If his arguments are flawed that would seem to be the place to attack wouln’t it? You need only attack the man if his arguments are immune. I will state categorically as one who was listening for over an hour that day that Rush was not making fun of or belittling Fox. The transcript backs this up. I think that’s more powerful than a few seconds of sound bite and video taken out of context, don’t you? * * * I did good in the marathon. My wife ran with me. It was her first one. I’m tired so I prolly won’t be back tonight. take care. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/145 "2006-10-30T00:59:52Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I very much doubt that anyone is suggesting that you have posted a fiendisly clever set of fake links that lead to elaborately contrived false sites. No, more like a) Rush is a fart blimp who is not to be beleived and b) you, for reasons that escape us, have found a way to do just that. [/QUOTE] The issue here is not what he is, but what he actually said and did. The former is a matter of opinion. The latter is a matter of fact. I provided the links to these facts. I do not see what there is to dispute, or what tomatos have to do with it. Friend Redfury appears to have blown a gasket. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/146 "2006-10-30T00:59:59Z")
You can listen to Rush Limbaugh for an hour? Man, waterboarding ain’t gonna scare you none. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/147 "2006-10-30T01:16:07Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] I will state categorically as one who was listening for over an hour that day that Rush was not making fun of or belittling Fox. [/QUOTE] Perhaps you have not yet seen [the video of Rush during that broadcast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dniczRs4a1w) as he is mocking Fox. The video of Rush begins at 1:03. To claim he is doing anything less than ridiculing a man’s disabilities is disingenuous at best, and flat out denial at the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/148 "2006-10-30T01:44:54Z")
Scylla, again: those four things at the very top of your link: every single one of them was grossly misleading nonsense. Do you endorse them as being truthful? ---
**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 30, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/149 "2006-10-30T02:15:00Z")
**Scylla** , congratulations on your successful participation in the marathon, and the same to your wife. I tried to follow the steps and connect the dots from the links you posted in #126, but I just couldn’t figure out a timeline. I’m not getting a clear picture of what Rush said, when, and what people said in response to it, and when they did that. His site has every page looking pretty much like every other page. One of the things that confuses me is the link to what Limbaugh describes as [The Monologue That Started It All.](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential3/mjf0/mjf/democrats_exploit.guest.html) Right there in the first paragraph, he says, “I stand corrected.” That suggests to me that before this monologue was aired, he was getting flak from people for casting aspersions about Michael J Fox’s credibility. Where’s the link to the transcript of the monologue in which he initially does that? Why wouldn’t _that_ be “The Monologue That Started It All”? Or does it have something to do with the instances of “BREAK TRANSCRIPT” that appear periodically throughout the page? Watching what you are calling the out of context clip shown on the Olbermann segment, I hear Rush using words and phrases that don’t appear in what he is calling the transcript of “The Monologue That Started It All”. So, forgive me, but I don’t find that to be putting Rush’s behavior in the clip into any sort of context that is favorable to him. Could you possibly help me find the transcript to the monologue that includes that behavior? Because, without giving us that, anything that he posts afterward _is_ going to look like spin, damage control, and yes, back-pedalling. Regards, Your favorite LEFTWINGCUTESYSEMANTICBITCH (still haven’t choked yet 😃 ) And who is “the Breck Girl”? I don’t get that at all. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/150 "2006-10-30T02:52:22Z")
[QUOTE=Bob55] Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re stupid (I for one have a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology). [/quote] Nor did I say that it did. Accepting assertions, many of them bordering on illogical or improbable on their face does. I have no problem at all with someone who comes to a position in disagreement of my own if they do so from a position of knowing the facts. Anyone who spreads mis- or disinformation or supports those who do, especially on the topic of stem cell research goes right to the bottom of my list. I’m a bit surprised by someone with a Ph.D. in a science who thinks that things should be accepted uncritically. Especially something they heard on a talk radio show from a guy who has the track record of Rush Limbaugh. And I say this as someone with a Ph.D. in a “soft” science. How do you evaluate claims made by others in your field? How do you critically read articles? > [@](#): > > And just because they don’t have 100% of their facts in place doesn’t either - people have work, family, bills, and other things in life to worry about 99% of the time, don’t judge them to harshly for just trying to get through the day. Others of us have the free time to fact-check, learn about the issues, debate them on message boards, watch the news networks, and formulate more educated opinions. Sure. But there’s a difference between not having the time to educate oneself and simply accepting with credulity something said on the radio. > [@](#): > > Does that mean that those of us who can do this have more of a right to vote or lead or bash others? Unfortunately not. Rush Limbaugh, for example, has a right to say anything at all, and routinely avails himself of that right. You have the right to accept whatever he says on the basis that he must be right because so many people can check out what he says. I have the right to say that that is a really unintelligent practice. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/151 "2006-10-30T03:12:31Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] …And who is “the Breck Girl”? I don’t get that at all… [/QUOTE] Shampoo addict. Tragic story. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/152 "2006-10-30T03:37:28Z")
According to Republican Cubin, she threatened to slap a man in a wheelchair because: > [@](#): > > She later apologized, saying she may have been influenced by listening to too much Rush Limbaugh. Last week, Limbaugh said he would slap actor and Parkinson’s disease sufferer Michael J. Fox, “if you’d just quit bobbing your head.” Did Limbaugh actually say that? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/153 "2006-10-30T04:02:17Z")
You know, I recall a few years back, a number of notable politicians and public figures were getting sent envelopes of white powder with threatening letters. Among the recipients was former president Clinton, and Rush soon accused him of faking it just to get attention. Now, Rush accuses Fox of faking his symptoms just to get attention. I realize this proves nothing conclusive about Rush’s hearing loss, but I can’t help but be reminded of the saying “liars always think everyone else is lying.” ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/154 "2006-10-30T20:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I very much doubt that anyone is suggesting that you have posted a fiendisly clever set of fake links that lead to elaborately contrived false sites. No, more like a) Rush is a fart blimp who is not to be beleived and b) you, for reasons that escape us, have found a way to do just that. [/QUOTE] He’s just trying to live up to his “Limbaugh 4EVAR” tattoo, y’know? (He was young and drunk… 'nuff said! ;)) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/155 "2006-12-02T21:52:57Z")
Don’t know whether I should start a new thread, but [this](http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010005) certainly applies to the thread title: > [@](#): > > On the November 30 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh proclaimed: My “cat’s taught me more about women, than anything my whole life” because his pet cat “comes to me when she wants to be fed,” and “[s]he’s smart enough to know she can’t feed herself. She’s actually [a] very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn’t have to do anything for it.” Limbaugh has previously stated, on the March 1, 2005, edition of his show, that “[w]omen still live longer than men because their lives are easier”; on January 10, he suggested that some women “would love to be hired as eye candy.” The full quote: > [@](#): > > LIMBAUGH: My cat – here’s how you can get fooled. My cat comes to me when she wants to be fed. I have learned this. I accept it for what it is. Many people in my position would think my cat’s coming to me because she loves me. Well, she likes me, and she is attached, but she comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her – guess what – she’s off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She’s smart enough to know she can’t feed herself. She’s actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn’t have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat’s taught me more about women, than anything my whole life. But we put voices in their mouths. No wonder the scumbag can’t keep a wife. I feel bad enough for that cat. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858/156 "2006-12-02T22:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Don’t know whether I should start a new thread, but [this](http://mediamatters.org/items/200612010005) certainly applies to the thread title:The full quote:No wonder the scumbag can’t keep a wife. I feel bad enough for that cat. [/QUOTE] [Remember this?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=396259&highlight=limbaugh) He got 60 bucks for it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-is-a-dick-of-the-highest-order/377858.md?page=7)