LIBERADIO(!)

Serr8D over at TennesseeFree jumps on the Andrew Klavan LA Times article bandwagon and accuses liberals who have a healthy disdain for Rush Limbaugh of not listening to his show:

Liberals who hate Rush Limbaugh – why don’t you actually listen to his show before bashing him?

If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration’s recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That’s the likelihood; here’s the certainty: You’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh.

Oh no, you haven’t. [Oh yes, we have.] Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”

Serr8D agrees. Liberals don’t listen directly to the harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, he writes, rather what we’ve likely heard “is the snarling spittle-flecked responses from Rush’s detractors…and similar left-wingers who’ve taken their talking points from media voices…and the latest lefty darling, that bimbo Meghan McCain.”

[By the way, I'm sure Serr8D is aware of the hypocrisy of his excoriating "Libruls" for not being tolerant of a wide range of views while labeling someone he disagrees with a "bimbo," i.e. "an attractive but stupid young woman, esp. one with loose morals." Or maybe not...]

Doing his part to keep the world safe for those who are “having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have,” Klavan writes that what we do is typically take a “Rushian piece of outrageous hilarity completely out of context” to feed our “Liberal Outrage.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – Rush is just an entertainer! “Outrageous hilarity? Gag. Ack. Barf.

To answer Klavan, who apparently listens to Limbaugh “every chance I get, and I have never heard the man utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word,” here are just a few of his most outrageous pieces of “hilarity” (which I’m sure I’m just taking out of context).

Racist

“Hey, Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry. “As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry’s support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,” Obama said. He didn’t say it, but — anyway, there are those out there — greetings.” –Rush Limbaugh [1/24/07]

“I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.” –Rush Limbaugh (101 People who are REALLY Screwing Up America (2006) by Jack Huberman)

“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” –“Hey Rush, when it comes to sports … shhh!” by Mike Freeman at CBS SportsLine (1/27/07)

Hateful

“Now, this is Michael J. Fox. He’s got Parkinson’s disease. And in this commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking. And it’s purely an act. This is the only time I have ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has. I know he’s got it and he’s raising money for it, but when I’ve seen him in public, I’ve never seen him betray any of the symptoms. But this commercial, he — he’s just all over the place. He can barely control himself. He can control himself enough to stay in the frame of the picture, and he can control himself enough to keep his eyes right on the lens, the teleprompter. But his head and shoulders are moving all over the place, and he is acting like his disease is deteriorating because Jim Talent opposes research that would help him, Michael J. Fox, get cured.” –Rush Limbaugh

A French journalist has been kidnapped in Iraq, but I don’t believe it. I think the guy surrendered. –Rush Limbaugh [4/13/04]

“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed. –Rush Limbaugh (101 People who are REALLY Screwing Up America (2006) by Jack Huberman)

Stupid

“Too many whites are getting away with drug use…Too many whites are getting away with drug sales…The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.” –Rush Limbaugh

“You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.” –Rush Limbaugh

“A little interesting story, folks, this out of Boston. [Reading from AP story] “The new police chiefs in four of the nation’s largest cities — Boston, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Detroit — share some credentials. All boast more than two decades of [cop] experience. All have worked their way up the ranks. And all are women.” [Gasping.] Yes, my friends. Some say it’s just coincidence that four women within six months have been named to the top [cop] position in four major cities, a natural evolution two decades after consent decrees and affirmative action cases forced departments to hire more women…Women still make up an average of only 13 percent of police officers…” They’re never happy. And I don’t mean women. I’m talking about the activists. Don’t lose your cookies out there. This is according to the National Center for Women and Policing, which is a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation of American, which is the feminazis. So here we’ve got progress. This is exactly what I’m talking about. Here we’ve got four new police chiefs are women, again, San Francisco, Boston, Milwaukee, Detroit, and the feminazis find the bad news. “Well, there’s still only 13% of women on the forces of the general police population, so…” This is exactly what I’m talking about. So what’s the reaction to this? Well, here’s my reaction, in the typical Rush fashion: If we’ve got four new female police chiefs out there, then I guess we can watch out for some naked pyramids among prisoners in these new jailhouses that these women ran, because we had a woman running the prison in Abu [Algore pronunciation] Grab. That’s how you do it.” –Rush Limbaugh [4/27/04]

An Outrageous “Entertainer”

“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.” –Rush Limbaugh

“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?” –Rush Limbaugh (File this one under “racist,” too).

Sexist

“I think a lot of the American culture is being feminized. I think the reaction to the stupid torture is an example of the feminization of this country.” –Rush Limbaugh [4/06/04]

Some of these babes, I’m telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd. They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes. –Rush Limbaugh [4/26/04]

Today’s morning update, for those of you who missed it, let me share it with you. Angry Democrats and radical femi-Nazis are demanding an apology from Karen Hughes, presidential adviser, over some remarks that she made on CNN. Now, since very few people watch CNN any more, let me tell you what she said. While the femi-Nazis’ pro-abortion march was taking place in Washington on Sunday, Karen Hughes, on CNN, was asked how the issue of abortion would play in the elections. –Rush Limbaugh [4/29/04]

“You know, the feminazis forgot one thing. Well, one of the objectives of the feminazis over the last 20, 25 years has been to dominate the public education system so as to remove the competitive nature of boys. You know, there’s a crisis of young man-boy education in the schools. And they did this on purpose, to eliminate male competition in the work force. This is part of feminazi grand plan. They forgot affirmative action for black guys. And because of that, every bit of their plan has gone up in smoke now, because they — if — they had to come out in favor of affirmative action for black guys, and that’s — see, this is one of the things that really irritates the women. And there are women all over this country fit to be tied — trust me on this. And it’s — one of the things is affirmative action is exactly — it’s, you know, liberals eventually are going to be devoured by their own policies. And it has happened here. Because Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate. There’s no question, the way he is being treated by the drive-bys and so forth and so on. The way he’s been puffed up here with the magical, messiah-type message with no criticism allowed. So, it’s just — they just forgot that one thing: affirmative action for black guys. And if they had remembered to oppose that, then they wouldn’t face the situation they face today.” –Rush Limbaugh [5/27/08]

Bonus*

Remember the time he said that service members who wanted the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq were “phony soldiers,” and then he edited the audio from his show to make it sound like he didn’t say that? Good times.

And when he mistakenly used an essay by a 10th grader to attack then-candidate Barack Obama? Ah, karma.

I need a shower.