# The monkey shoots a fish in a barrel thread: Rush Limbaugh claims oil is "as natural as seawater".
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 26, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873 "2010-05-26T20:52:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/1 "2010-05-26T20:52:04Z")
Holy fucking shit. I may have some conservative sympathies, and I’m a pretty good devils advocate, but there is no way in hell I can even imagine how I could possibly defend this idiotic statement:
> [@Rush Limbaugh](#):
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> The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there,. It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.
Listen you asshole. Being a conservative and caring for the environment are not mutually exclusive. It’s a matter of not shitting where you eat. Sure, fossil fuels are “natural” in that they’re the remainders of dinosaurs, but I somehow doubt that your oxycontin addicted ass wants to pour used motor oil over your morning breakfast cereal.
Great googly fucking moogly, it’s idiotic “conservatives” like you that make people discount me when I propose a non liberal - democrat solution to something. I hate that.
Fuck off Rush. I know you hate “environmentalists”, but that doesn’t mean you have to kick Mother Nature in the vagina. Even if you don’t care, have you thought about the fishing industry jobs lost? Tourism dollars? The fucking economy!!! I hope you get raped by a dolphin. Fuck off and shut the Hell up.
Regarding a link to the quote, just google “Rush Limbauh oil is natural” an you’ll find a bunch
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/2 "2010-05-26T21:43:06Z")
Hmmm.
I can’t decide if I support the OP.
Exactly how large is a dolphin penis, and will there be lube involved?
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/3 "2010-05-26T21:47:18Z")
I’m not sure about the penis size, but the lube will provided by British Petroleum.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/4 "2010-05-26T21:55:57Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> I’m not sure about the penis size, but the lube will provided by British Petroleum.
Is it really rape if the dolphin uses lube?
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/5 "2010-05-26T22:00:06Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Is it really rape if the dolphin uses lube?
Not if it squeaks “Surprise!” first.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/6 "2010-05-26T22:42:06Z")
I don’t think it is, after all, that’s what dolphins do in the wild, and who are we to impose our social construct onto interactions between two animals of the same species?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/7 "2010-05-26T22:59:45Z")
Nazi Camp Guard: Hey, Zyklon B is natural. All the ingrediants were made right here on earth. How can THAT be harmful?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/8 "2010-05-26T23:15:22Z")
[Step Six: Conservatives double down on the crazy.](http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/05/25/this_modern_world)
Once again, Tom Tomorrow nails it!
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/9 "2010-05-26T23:32:48Z")
Screw Tom Tomorrow. He’s the mirror image of Mallard Fillmore. Equally unfunny and equally biased. I prefer an intelligent view that doesn’t use straw men.
Ke-_rist_, my hatred of Tom Tomorrow should be a different thread, but if you can’t see that he uses the same type of otherside strawmen than Anne “man hands” Coulter does, then you’re an idiot.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/10 "2010-05-26T23:33:28Z")
Rush needs to [head on down to Grand Isle, and drink himself a glass](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/26/AR2010052602509.html) of slicked seawater.
That’d show us all that his words aren’t just stupid macho-grandstanding.
Let him throw a clambake on the beach for all his conservative friends, and partake of the local sealife, or is May one of those “months with an ‘r’” down on the delta?
I can’t think of any other reason he’d not jump at the chance to do that.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/11 "2010-05-26T23:37:49Z")
Six months after first encountering him, I am still laughing hard at the OP’s user name. Really, what do you expect to happen when you give a flaming nazi gasbag a microphone and a national timeslot?
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/12 "2010-05-26T23:41:06Z")
Arsenic is natural too. That doesn’t mean that a whole fucking lot of it in the wrong place is a good thing.
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/13 "2010-05-26T23:45:56Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> Six months after first encountering him, I am still laughing hard at the OP’s user name.
You’re supposed to! That was part of the reason I chose it 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/14 "2010-05-26T23:47:07Z")
I’ve been meaning to ask: is it a Hellboy reference, or is it something else I’m not familiar with?
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/15 "2010-05-27T00:00:28Z")
Eddie Izzard, maybe? [Monkey with a Gun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtX6Tj74oU)
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/16 "2010-05-27T00:04:14Z")
> [@Ogre](#):
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> I’ve been meaning to ask: is it a Hellboy reference, or is it something else I’m not familiar with?
No reference. It’s a personal joke that works, at least for me, on a couple of different levels.
1.) It’s just kind of funny
2.) A monkey with a fire arm is unpredictable, and more than a touch dangerous. But still funny, which is my posting style in the pit.
3.) More philosophically, all us humans are idiots. PETA can kiss my ass because they forget that all us hairless apes are nothing more than animals. We’re at the top of the food chain, but we are animals. Nothing more, nothing less. The entire human species is just a bunch of monkeys with guns. And I’m one of 'em.
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/17 "2010-05-27T00:08:35Z")
> [@Kolga](#):
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> Eddie Izzard, maybe? [Monkey with a Gun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtX6Tj74oU)
Wait, can I change my answer? Because, even though I’ve never seen that, I just might have been that monkey Eddie’s talking to.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/18 "2010-05-27T00:21:45Z")
[I have a pic of the OP right here.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/monkeywithagun.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/19 "2010-05-27T00:23:11Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> I hope you get raped by a dolphin.
He shouldn’t mind. Whatever you can say about rape, technically it doesn’t fit the definition of “unnatural” IMO.
So, I’d say it’s within “natural” and not something Rush could object to. 😉
Unless, of couse, the dolphin…
makes it so by using something as “unnatural” as a condom. 😛
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/20 "2010-05-27T00:28:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> [I have a pic of the OP right here.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/monkeywithagun.jpg)
Why do you have pics of my little sister? And she asked me to tell you to please stop calling her. She’s not interested.
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