# The monkey shoots a fish in a barrel thread: Rush Limbaugh claims oil is "as natural as seawater". **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/21 "2010-05-27T01:13:41Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > 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. Uh, it’s not a strawman if it proves true. As it clearly has. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/22 "2010-05-27T01:16:08Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > 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. Your sister is a liar twice! That’s no girl in the photo! (and I should know since I have the entire Lancelot Link series on DVD) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/23 "2010-05-27T01:37:39Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > 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. To be fair, he probably doesn’t want to pour seawater on his breakfast cereal either. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/24 "2010-05-27T01:39:03Z")
Gamma rays are natural too. Probably more natural than seawatter - certainly more pentiful in the universe. Sack-of-shit’s point? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/25 "2010-05-27T01:48:44Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > To be fair, he probably doesn’t want to pour seawater on his breakfast cereal either. You got me on that one. Fat guy’s have to watch their sodium intake. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/26 "2010-05-27T01:55:49Z")
In a very literal sense, what Mr. Abouttoberapedbyadolphin said is true. Oil is a natural product. Mother Nature will take care of it. Unfortunately for those of us in the real world, her time frame requires decades or centuries to be involved. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/27 "2010-05-27T02:15:09Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > In a very literal sense, what Mr. Abouttoberapedbyadolphin said is true. Oil is a natural product. Mother Nature will take care of it. Unfortunately for those of us in the real world, her time frame requires decades or centuries to be involved. You are just nitpicking now. Will everyone please leave Rush alone? ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kHmvkRoEowc/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/kHmvkRoEowc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/28 "2010-05-27T02:34:27Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > (and I should know since I have the entire Lancelot Link series on DVD) Just thought you should know: Because of your post I’ve added _Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp_ to my NetFlix queue. 🙂 And **lissener** , you’re an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/29 "2010-05-27T02:47:04Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > 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. Wrong. _This Modern World_ is funny occasionally. Anne Coulter and _Mallard Fillmore_ never. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/30 "2010-05-27T02:57:25Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Wrong. _This Modern World_ is funny occasionally. Oh, go stick an oil covered seagull up your ass. My hatred of _Tom Tomorrow_ is a different thread. I just might start one, but it ain’t going to be here so shut the fuck up. Let’s figure out how we can have some hot Dolphin on Limbaugh action posted on PornHub. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/31 "2010-05-27T03:03:08Z")
If Limbaugh really believes that everything’s that natural is okay, then I want to see him back it up by eating a dog turd. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/32 "2010-05-27T03:17:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Your sister is a liar twice! That’s no girl in the photo! > > ( **and I should know since I have the entire Lancelot Link series on DVD** ) You and I really need to hang out… …he’s the agent’s call when trouble is near… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/33 "2010-05-27T03:31:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [I have a pic of the OP right here.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/monkeywithagun.jpg) That’s no monkey! That’s MWAG’s sister! She’s an ape. ---
**Author:** ![orchidcolors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e8c25b/32.png) [@orchidcolors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orchidcolors)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/34 "2010-05-27T04:05:44Z")
Suddenly I am glad…no, ecstatic…that I don’t listen to this twerp. Lots of things are natural, but they don’t belong in the Gulf of Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/35 "2010-05-27T04:07:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If Limbaugh really believes that everything’s that natural is okay, then I want to see him back it up by eating a dog turd. That would be just divine. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/36 "2010-05-27T04:12:23Z")
Deadly Nightshade? All natural. Rattlesnake venom? All natural. Plutonium? All natural. Anti-matter? All natural. Sorry leftover 60’s conservatives, Dilution is NOT the solution to Pollution. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/37 "2010-05-27T04:19:05Z")
[Tom the Dancing Bug](http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=13e6c52c095147a02c76a22a2c3af30e) ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/38 "2010-05-27T04:20:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If Limbaugh really believes that everything’s that natural is okay, then I want to see him back it up by eating a dog turd. > [@Jenaroph](#): > > That would be just divine. I saw what you did, there. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/39 "2010-05-27T04:29:58Z")
Ask him if he’s going to scrub the oil off of the Pink Flamingos. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monkey-shoots-a-fish-in-a-barrel-thread-rush-limbaugh-claims-oil-is-as-natural-as-seawater/540873/40 "2010-05-27T04:31:29Z")
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