# Rush, Rush, Rush... liberals are equivalent to murderers and rapists? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680 "2009-02-20T05:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/1 "2009-02-20T05:01:41Z")
Your desperation would be heartbreaking if you weren’t such a vile excuse for a human being. An edited sample from [this](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021909/content/01125109.guest.html) > [@](#): > > Caller: I have to say, I am so incredibly frustrated with these liberal Democrats who want to change our free market system, that same system that has made our country what it is. > > RUSH: To answer your question, “Why do so many liberal Democrats want to basically tear apart and rebuild the country?” it’s because they don’t control enough of it to satisfy them…but they are going to establish separate rules for themselves by which they live, such as they’ll be able to not pay their taxes and work in government at high levels. > > CALLER: Then they can go somewhere else. Like I don’t understand why do they have to stay here? > > RUSH: At this point, at this point, Gretchen, I don’t care about the “why.” They’re not going to leave; they’re trying to control it. At this point, the only thing is: They. Must. Be. Stopped. \*\*I don’t care why they see this country the way they see it. I don’t care why a murderer does it. I don’t care why a rapist does it. I don’t care why this Muslim guy off-ed his wife’s head. \*\* The NOW gang is out there saying (paraphrased), “Nah, that’s not domestic violence. That’s just…” What did they call it? “It’s a cultural thing, an ‘honor killing.’ This woman was going to divorce him, and that’s against the law. That’s his diversity.” You know, I don’t care. I don’t care why anymore. If I figure it out I’ll be glad to tell you because it’s interesting to know, but it doesn’t matter in terms of defeating them. I’d love to come up with some clever and scathing remark, but all I can do is shake my head and wonder how this person is possible, how people can listen, can believe, can give him the time of day. Really. It’s stunning. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/2 "2009-02-20T05:10:32Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > …can give him the time of day. Um… 😕 Why are we here? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/3 "2009-02-20T05:15:27Z")
I’m missing something here. > [@](#): > > …The NOW gang is out there saying (paraphrased), “Nah, that’s not domestic violence. That’s just…” What did they call it? "It’s a cultural thing, an 'honor killing… The National Organization for Women? He’s attacking them for supporting the “honor killings”? Theres about six different major disconnects there… ---
**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:** [February 20, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/4 "2009-02-20T05:19:47Z")
It’s fucking Rush Limbaugh. What do you expect? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/5 "2009-02-20T05:25:24Z")
I don’t expect EVER to fuck Rush Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/6 "2009-02-20T05:34:40Z")
Desperation? The exact opposite. He has a job. The job pays extremely well. The job is much easier when the opposition is in power. He’s having fun, making tons of money and upsetting you as a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/7 "2009-02-20T05:38:09Z")
Happy? Sure, he’s happy, who could be happier than a junkie who can afford all the dope he wants? ---
**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:** [February 20, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/8 "2009-02-20T05:53:15Z")
Fix the title, as to not offend fans of Geddy, Neil and Alex. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/9 "2009-02-20T05:56:58Z")
I can’t think of anyone from the left that has defended Muzzammil Hassan. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/10 "2009-02-20T06:04:27Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > I can’t think of anyone from the left that has defended Muzzammil Hassan. Doesn’t matter. Rush’s tactic is to merely SAY that the left has defended him. Then he controls the framing of the debate. Then his listeners can debate about just HOW depraved and evil the Libruls are. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/11 "2009-02-20T06:22:21Z")
Has NOW defended honor killings? He’s just making that up out of his ass, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/12 "2009-02-20T06:30:53Z")
Hell, making stuff up out of his ass has gotten him this far, why shouldn’t he keep doing it? ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/13 "2009-02-20T10:14:44Z")
If Rush went completely mental, how would his listeners ever tell the difference? That’s kind of interesting, actually, as a philosophical concept–a guy who starts off like Rush, spouts weirder and less probable bullshit, getting ever richer and more popular, until he finally is reduced to muttering incomprehensible gibberish over the air, while his hard-core fanship keeps marvelling “Did you HEAR him today, when he said 'Gnor bah ice cream Clinton Librul gah!” Wasn’t that just super?" ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/14 "2009-02-20T10:59:59Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > That’s kind of interesting, actually, as a philosophical concept–a guy who starts off like Rush, spouts weirder and less probable bullshit, getting ever richer and more popular, until he finally is reduced to muttering incomprehensible gibberish over the air, while his hard-core fanship keeps marvelling “Did you HEAR him today, when he said 'Gnor bah ice cream Clinton Librul gah!” Wasn’t that just super?" Psychological, not philosophical. It’s positive reinforcement. The farther he goes, the more positive response he gets from his dittoheads with negative response from his foes (the liberal elitists in the media) as icing on the cake. When he doen’t say things like this, those same good vibes dry up as they move to Hannity and Coulter who _always_ say nutty things. It’s probably because he wasn’t hugged enough as a child. We need a volunteer to go and hug Rush Limbaugh. 1,2,3, NOT IT! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/15 "2009-02-20T12:22:06Z")
My local talk radio station has stopped carrying Rush after 17 years because of the tremendous increase in his syndication fees. For those of you who do not know Rush signed a new contract about a year ago that increased his salary from 23 million a year to 50 million a year. They have had to put the squeeze on radio stations who want to carry him and many of the smaller ones can no longer afford him. If you can’t pay you can’t play, right Rush. Free enterprise in action, he is pricing himself out of the market. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/16 "2009-02-20T12:57:06Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I don’t expect EVER to fuck Rush Limbaugh. I wouldn’t fuck him with Hannity’s dick! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/17 "2009-02-20T13:22:44Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I don’t expect EVER to fuck Rush Limbaugh. NOBODY ever expects to fuck Rush Limbaugh. * * * The real question is: Who’s smarter? Rush or Sean? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/18 "2009-02-20T13:27:53Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > I’d love to come up with some clever and scathing remark, but all I can do is shake my head and wonder how this person is possible, how people can listen, can believe, can give him the time of day. Really. It’s stunning. So . . . where does Rush say that “liberals are equivalent to murderers and rapists”? All Rush said was that he doesn’t care why Liberals see the country the way they do, just like he doesn’t care why a murderer kills someone. He is saying that in each case, the person that wants to take some action should be stopped, and it doesn’t matter why they want to take that action because the action is inherently bad. Stoid, I knew you had a bad thread recently, so I guess this is your way of throwing meat to the dogs so they’ll think of you more kindly. You gotta do what you gotta do, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/19 "2009-02-20T13:41:56Z")
Well, gosh. I don’t care why murderers kill, why rapists rape, or why \*\*Rand Rover \*\*expresses his point of view. ---
**Author:** ![wolf11469](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf11469/32/12464_2.png) [@wolf11469](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf11469)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680/20 "2009-02-20T14:05:12Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Has NOW defended honor killings? He’s just making that up out of his ass, isn’t he? I’m thinking he took this statement from NOW protesting the beheading being described as domestic violence and … well I still can’t figure out he managed to twist it into them supporting honor killings [http://womenwopinions.typepad.com/women\_with\_opinions/2009/02/on-february-12-2009-in-orchard-park-buffalo-ny-forty-four--year-old-muzzamil-hassan-a-prominent-muslim-businessman-was.html](http://womenwopinions.typepad.com/women_with_opinions/2009/02/on-february-12-2009-in-orchard-park-buffalo-ny-forty-four--year-old-muzzamil-hassan-a-prominent-muslim-businessman-was.html) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-rush-rush-liberals-are-equivalent-to-murderers-and-rapists/486680.md?page=2)