# Screw the drugs: A REAL reason to hate Rush **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792 "2006-06-30T20:05:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/1 "2006-06-30T20:05:40Z")
As if his self-righteous bile-vomiting demagoguery weren’t enough: He’s reportedly got something going with Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe of _24_). Jesus H. Fuck on a pointed stick! What a year for cultural icons of male/female attraction. First dewy ingénue Katie Holmes hitches up with sawed-off psychotic has-been Tom Cruise. Then slightly-overage girl-next door Sandra Bullock pimps out to real-life comic-book character Jesse James. Now plucky, down-to-earth, fresh-faced Mary Lynn is supposed to be giving it up for porky, balding, dissolute, cynical mass-manipulator Rush. Better dirty up your acts, fellas: the era of the Tragic Mismatch is dawning. The woman of your dreams is being conditioned to want not the man of her dreams, but a broad commercial cartoon of hypermasculinity served up by the right-leaning media machine. I myself plan to shave my head clean, cultivate my potbelly out to 48", cover myself in unattractive tattoos and pick fights in expensive restaurants. Ladies, come to papa. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/2 "2006-06-30T20:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] As if his self-righteous bile-vomiting demagoguery weren’t enough: He’s reportedly got something going with Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe of _24_). Jesus H. Fuck on a pointed stick! What a year for cultural icons of male/female attraction. First dewy ingénue Katie Holmes hitches up with sawed-off psychotic has-been Tom Cruise. Then slightly-overage girl-next door Sandra Bullock pimps out to real-life comic-book character Jesse James. Now plucky, down-to-earth, fresh-faced Mary Lynn is supposed to be giving it up for porky, balding, dissolute, cynical mass-manipulator Rush. Better dirty up your acts, fellas: the era of the Tragic Mismatch is dawning. The woman of your dreams is being conditioned to want not the man of her dreams, but a broad commercial cartoon of hypermasculinity served up by the right-leaning media machine. I myself plan to shave my head clean, cultivate my potbelly out to 48", cover myself in unattractive tattoos and pick fights in expensive restaurants. Ladies, come to papa. [/QUOTE] But … there are SO MANY great reasons to hate Rush Limbaugh! Why do we have to pick just one? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/3 "2006-06-30T20:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] But … there are SO MANY great reasons to hate Rush Limbaugh! Why do we have to pick just one? [/QUOTE] Indeed you don’t! He is a latter-day Visigoth, come to lay waste to centuries of culture, learning and civilization. It would not be going too far, I don’t think, to declare\* fatwa\* against him. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/4 "2006-06-30T20:24:31Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] I myself plan to shave my head clean, cultivate my potbelly out to 48", cover myself in unattractive tattoos and pick fights in expensive restaurants. [/QUOTE] Better get some money, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/5 "2006-06-30T20:27:42Z")
There’s only one reason to hate Rush, and that’s…_Counterparts_. (We’re talking about the band, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/6 "2006-06-30T20:28:53Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug I myself plan to shave my head clean, cultivate my potbelly out to 48", cover myself in unattractive tattoos and pick fights in expensive restaurants. Ladies, come to papa.QUOTE] Almost there. More belly , less hair and let the ass kickin’ begin 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/7 "2006-06-30T20:30:35Z")
Well, this would explain the need for Viagra… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/8 "2006-06-30T20:32:09Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Better get some money, too. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I’m comfortable. What really turns 'em on these days is a guy who makes _other_ people _un_comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/9 "2006-06-30T20:34:45Z")
Years ago, I had to have an outpatient surgical procedure done on my wrist. At the pre-surgical conference with the anestheologist, I was told they wouldn’t be giving me a general, but using a nerve block. This scared the crap out of me, because I did not want to be even slightly awake while someone was cutting on me. I arrive at the hospital at 6am. They give me the obligatory open back gown, paper slippers, a blanket and tell me to change and go into the waiting room. I do so, and enter a room full of naked blanket-covered people with dear old Rush on the TV and no way to change it. The tech calls me in for vital signs about an hour later, and remarks “the doctor may not want to do your surgery today, as your blood pressure is high.” I replied “I’ve been told that I’m going to be cut on while I’m awake, you have me sitting wearing a blanket in a room full of blanket-wearing strangers, and Rush-fucking-Limbaugh is on the fucking TV. Or course my blood pressure is high!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/10 "2006-06-30T20:39:18Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] What really turns 'em on these days is a guy who makes _other_ people _un_comfortable. [/QUOTE] In the Paleolihtic, it was the guy with the most rocks that got the women. Remember, she stands a chance of having her character whacked next season. They drop like flies on 24. Ethilrist: Thanks for pointing that out. I hate you. We _all_ hate you. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/11 "2006-06-30T20:42:23Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Better dirty up your acts, fellas: the era of the Tragic Mismatch is dawning. [/QUOTE] [It dawned at least 22 years ago.](http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/celebrity/J/Joel_Billy/Previews/Plans-12249.jpg) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/12 "2006-06-30T20:45:03Z")
Maybe she just likes the initials R.L., politics be damned. She went from [Russ Lieber](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cross) to Rush Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/13 "2006-06-30T20:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror] Maybe she just likes the initials R.L., politics be damned. She went from [Russ Lieber](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cross) to Rush Limbaugh. [/QUOTE] So, possible life-choice changes in the offing for her and Rikki Lake? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/14 "2006-06-30T20:48:41Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Indeed you don’t! He is a latter-day Visigoth, come to lay waste to centuries of culture, learning and civilization. [/QUOTE] Hey, I resent that! I’m part Visigoth on my mother’s side! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/15 "2006-06-30T20:49:42Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Better dirty up your acts, fellas: the era of the Tragic Mismatch is dawning. The woman of your dreams is being conditioned to want not the man of her dreams, but a broad commercial cartoon of hypermasculinity served up by the right-leaning media machine. [/QUOTE] I blame The King of Queens, Everbody Loves Raymond and According to Jim for this becoming widely acceptable. Damn you Kevin James. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/16 "2006-06-30T21:10:36Z")
OK, but somewhere along the line it turned from comedy to totally serious. My hypothesis is that the rightward turn in the culture, and the feeling of a nation under threat from terror (and perhaps also from within), brought the essentialist, cave-people, biological-determinist view of sex roles back into fashion, and pop culture, with its tendency to exaggerate and make archetypes, did the rest. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/17 "2006-06-30T21:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] So, possible life-choice changes in the offing for her and Rikki Lake? :dubious: [/QUOTE] She _ **must** _ know some good sources for “hillbilly heroin.” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/18 "2006-06-30T21:17:41Z")
[Gag me!](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/style/2006-06-24/1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/19 "2006-06-30T21:23:17Z")
A boot stepping on a human face. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792/20 "2006-06-30T22:28:03Z")
Watch this [Flash](http://www.ericblumrich.com/nazi.html). Doesn’t address _l’affaire Rajskub_ (if, Og forbid, there is one). But it makes me feel a teeny bit better. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-the-drugs-a-real-reason-to-hate-rush/362792.md?page=2)